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Comparing Methodologies for Documenting Commingled and Fragmentary Human Remains
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-28)
Commingled and fragmentary human remains are a common occurrence in archaeological and forensic contexts, but only a few methods have been developed to record these complex assemblages. Conventional inventory methods, such ...
Automatic SQL query generation
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-19)
Automatic generation of questions for learning assessment has been an area of research interest for long. The advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as the goal of providing immediate contextualized feedback ...
Thoughts on Temporal Perception's Relativity in Grisey's Vortex Temporum and Voss's Perspectives
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-21)
This thesis centers around a comparative analysis between an instrumental work, Vortex Temporum (1995), by Gérard Grisey (1946-98), and a mixed media work by Emerson Voss (b. 1991), Perspectives (2017). This essay articulates ...
The University of California Pay-It-Forward Open Access Publishing Research Project: An Interview with MacKenzie Smith
(2017-08-18)
In 2014, University of California- Davis University Library and the California Digital Library collaborated on an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded project to explore costs associated with moving scholarly journal ...
"Visual Culture and the 'Alice' Books" by Erin Clark Frost
(2017)
This presentation asserts that John Tenniel’s illustrations were and are integral to the Alice books and that those illustrations changed text-image relationships in history. First, we note that Tenniel’s illustrations ...
The Past is Prologue: Telling our Stories about Textbook Affordability Programs
(2017-11-09)
Conversations about textbook affordability and open educational resources are gaining traction and visibility across the nation with advocacy by student groups, state legislators, and leaders in higher education. Responding ...
They Really Like Us!: Move From Outputs to Outcomes with Your Library's Research Consultations
(2017-10-18)
Learn how librarians at East Carolina took an evidence-based approach to those academic library standbys: one-on-one research consultations. This poster presentation will share our experiences developing a post-meeting ...
TGF-β1-directed Smad3 stimulates proliferation and alters morphology of rat primary vascular smooth muscle cells
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-05)
With cardiovascular disease (CVD) being the leading cause of morbidity and death in the United States and worldwide (2, 28), studying the mechanisms of these pathologies is imperative. Recent studies have shown that a ...
Do female Eastern Bluebirds trade-off egg size with clutch size?
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-09)
Egg size and clutch size are traits that show a fundamental trade-off in life history theory. Producing a larger number of offspring can come at the cost of being able to invest in those offspring. The degree of maternal ...
The Fundulus diaphanus Species Complex: A Case Study of Convergent Evolution?
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-09)
The Fundulus diaphanus (banded killifish) species complex of Eastern North Carolina streams and Carolina bays provides a possible case study of convergent evolution with important conservation implications. It was originally ...