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Self-contained In-The-Ear device to deliver altered auditory feedback: applications for stuttering
(East Carolina University, 2003)The design and operating characteristics of the first self-contained in-the-ear device to deliver altered auditory feedback is described for applications with those who stutter. The device incorporates a microdigital signal ... -
Short-term, high-fat diet accelerates disuse atrophy and protein degradation in a muscle-specific manner in mice
(2015-11-04)Background: A short-term high-fat diet impairs mitochondrial function and the ability of skeletal muscle to respond to growth stimuli, but it is unknown whether such a diet alters the ability to respond to atrophy signals. ... -
Sickly Sweet: The Development of a Standardized Method for Testing Lactose and Fructose Intolerance and Malabsorption
(2013)Lactose intolerance has been a known cause of gastrointestinal distress for many years. Recently, it has come to attention that fructose intolerance elicits many of the same symptoms as lactose intolerance. The consumption ... -
Sisserou Talks about Health and Nutrition
(East Carolina University, 2009)This booklet was used in a training program for community health aides in the Commonwealth of Dominica. -
Social communication between intellectually disabled, severe middle school students who use augmentative and alternative communication and their typically developing peers
(East Carolina University, 2013)Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices are often used as a mode of communication for people who cannot use spoken language to meet all of their communication needs. Current research is limited regarding ... -
Social relatedness disturbances and facial expression recognition deficits in children with reactive attachment disorder
(East Carolina University, 2010)The purpose of this study was to explore and examine the relationship between social relatedness disturbances and facial expression recognition among an outpatient clinic sample (N = 34) of children (aged 6 - 19 years) ... -
Speech in noise ability, outer hair cell function, and working memory for trained flute players.
(East Carolina University, 2015)The process of auditory speech recognition requires verbal ability, working memory, recall, and adequate auditory abilities to recognize speech. There is a well-known positive effect of musical training and experience on ... -
Speech Production Analyses: Characterizing Typical Development versus Childhood Apraxia of Speech
(East Carolina University, 2010)Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a controversial diagnosis that is frequently based on clinical perceptions, with treatment success based on the same perceptual measures. Because additional, less abstract diagnostic ... -
Spontaneous Discharge Patterns in Cochlear Spiral Ganglion Cells Prior to the Onset of Hearing in Cats
(East Carolina University, 2007-10)Spontaneous neural activity has been recorded in the auditory nerve of cats as early as 2 days postnatal (P2 ), yet individual auditory neurons do not respond to ambient sound levels below 90–100 dB SPL until about P10. ... -
Stability of conversational language samples from children in kindergarten: the effects of time, sample length, and topic
(East Carolina University, 2010)The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability of measures from conversational language samples in the school-aged population. Two 10-minute conversational language samples were collected from 20 at-risk kindergarten ... -
Stair falls: caregiver’s “missed step� as a source of childhood fractures
(2014-01)Background The purpose of this study was to describe fractures sustained by children and to analyze the associated costs when a caretaker falls down stairs while holding a child. Materials and methods Between 2004 ... -
Stereotypes of Stutterers and Nonstutterers in Three Rural Communities in Newfoundland
(East Carolina University, 1993-12)The existence of a negative stereotype of stutterers among residents of three Small, rural communities in Newfoundland, Canada was investigated. Members of these communities (n=106) completed a 25 item semantic differential ... -
Structural aging of the utricular macula in mice
(East Carolina University, 2012)CBA/CaJ is a mouse strain that has no known genetic mutations affecting the inner ear, thereby serving as a control model for auditory and vestibular aging. C57BL/6J and CE/J mouse strains carry the genetic mutation ... -
Subcellular fractionation method to study endosomal trafficking of Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
(2016-01-15)Background: Virus entry involves multiple steps and is a highly orchestrated process on which successful infection collectively depends. Entry processes are commonly analyzed by monitoring internalized virus particles ... -
Subjective and objective screening measures for dysphonia pre-thyroidectomy
(East Carolina University, 2013)There has been a link established between post-surgical dysphonia and thyroidectomy procedures and various studies identify that a large percentage of these patients have dysphonia after surgery. Most of these incidences ... -
Systemic Nutrition: What's YOUR Gut Reaction?
(East Carolina University, 2008)Presentation accompanying lecture for receiving the Lenna Frances Cooper Award at the 2008 Food and Nutrition Conference and Exhibition of the American Dietetic Association -
Systems, Methods and Products for Diagnostic hearing assessments distributed via the use of a computer network
(2012-10-16)The systems, methods and associated devices performing diagnostic hearing tests which use a computer network to allow interaction between a test administration site and one or a plurality of remote patient sites. The test ... -
Systems, methods and products for diagnostic hearing assessments distributed via the use of a computer network
(2005-07-12)The systems, methods and associated devices performing diagnostic hearing tests which use a computer network to allow interaction between a test administration site and one or a plurality of remote patient sites. The test ... -
TAG - YOU'RE IT! Conflict Management Skills
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“Take Off 4-Health”: Nutrition Education Curriculum for a Healthy Lifestyle Camp for Overweight Youth
(East Carolina University, 2010)There is evidence that residential summer weight loss camps can be effective to initiate or support the small change approach to address childhood obesity. This report describes the development and evaluation of nutrition ...