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WEAPEMEOC SHORES : THE LOSS OF TRADITIONAL MARITIME CULTURE AMONG THE WEAPEMEOC INDIANS
(East Carolina University, 2014)The Weapemeoc were an Indian group of the Late Woodland Period through the Early Colonial Period (1400 A.D.-1780 A.D.) that went through significant cultural change as they were displaced from their traditional maritime ... -
WEATHER ON THE GO: AN ASSESSMENT OF SMARTPHONE MOBILE WEATHER APPLICATIONS USE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-05)Millions of people in the United States regularly acquire essential information from weather forecasts for a wide variety of reasons. A myriad of sources exists for obtaining daily weather information, and the rapid growth ... -
The Weeping Monument : A Pre and Post Depositional Site Formation Study of the USS Arizona
(East Carolina University, 2012)Since its loss on December 7, 1941, the USS Arizona has been slowly leaking over 9 liters of oil per day. This issue has brought about conversations regarding the stability of the wreck, and the possibility of defueling ... -
WEIGHT STIGMA AND MEDIA: AN EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECT OF ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS ON WEIGHT STIGMA, INTERNALIZED WEIGHT BIAS, BODY IMAGE, SELF-ESTEEM, AND AFFECT
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-08)The terms weight stigma and weight bias have been used interchangeably to refer to the negative beliefs, attitudes, and stereotypes about someone due to their weight status, and these beliefs may be internalized when ... -
WEIGHTED BLANKET EFFICACY FOR REDUCING ANXIETY AND ANGER IN ADULT PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-21)Restraint and seclusion continue to be used to manage aggressive and self-injurious behaviors in psychiatric patients on the inpatient psychiatric unit. This intervention can cause both physiological and psychological ... -
Welcome to the Fun Box
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-18)As my focus in English is creative writing, my intent for my thesis is fiction work. To be specific, I have written three short stories and three flash fiction stories that I feel especially align to a certain theme, and ... -
Wharves : The Keystone of Plantation Wealth? Case Studies
(East Carolina University, 2012)The Bowling Farm Site (001CSR), a multi-component site comprising Native American and European artifact assemblages, a wharf structure, and a shipwreck, represents a unique clue to early North Carolina history. Located on ... -
What does it mean to want it all? : The effect of gender role orientation on work-life conflict and employee health
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-22)The extant work-life conflict literature focuses on differences in conflict related to differences between men and women based on biological sex even though work and life domain salience has become increasingly similar ... -
“What if all those people came together?” : Fostering Children’s Self-Efficacy for Environmental Action, Interest, and Content Knowledge Through Participation in a Water Quality Citizen Science Project
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-13)Citizen science is the involvement of the public in scientific research through collaboration with scientists. These projects create ways for the public to be exposed to new information, spark new interests, and change ... -
What Is Good Nursing Care? The Lived Meaning of Quality Nursing Care for Practicing Nurses
(East Carolina University, 2008-04-11)Healthcare quality in the United States of America (USA) is the subject of intense criticism. Although quality nursing care is vital to patient outcomes and safety, meaningful quality improvements have been disturbingly ... -
WHAT IS RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION? : EXAMINING RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION AMONG MARRIED INDIVIDUALS USING CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS
(East Carolina University, 2015)Marital satisfaction has been linked to numerous, important individual and couple outcomes including physical health, mental health, treatment of both physical and mental health disorders, work productivity, divorce rates, ... -
WHAT LIES BENEATH AT THE PINE STREET BARGE CANAL BREAKWATER SHIP GRAVEYARD: SITE FORMATION PROCESSES AS A DOCUMENT OF CHANGE IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT (C. 1830-1960)
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-14)The Pine Street Barge Canal Breakwater Ship Graveyard in the waterfront of Burlington, Vermont contains a small assemblage of abandoned vessels along the shores of Lake Champlain. Representing a span of time dating from ... -
What's In a Name? : An Artistic Deconstruction of Our Public Monuments
(East Carolina University, 2010)A monument not only brings forward into the present the values of the subject it is commemorating, but also the values of those who decided to have the structure built/named. If we choose to make available only the positive ... -
What's Wrong with a Rumor? Workplace Undermining and Customer-Oriented Outcomes
(East Carolina University, 2023-12-05)The purpose of this study was to examine the customer-oriented outcomes of supervisor and co-worker undermining, specifically, examining the differential impact of supervisor and co-worker undermining on customer- and ... -
WHAT’S CULTURE GOT TO DO WITH IT?: A SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING PROGRAM IN AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-27)Social emotional skills are a necessary component of student learning in both the cognitive and affective domains of learning. International schools are particularly complex environments for incorporating social emotional ... -
Wheelchair Basketball Athletes: Motives for Participation
(East Carolina University, 2016-07-25)The purpose of this study was to examine the differences between demographic and individual player characteristics (i.e., gender, wheelchair basketball division, and individual athlete classification) and motives for ... -
When Death Gave Birth to a Writer : A Collection of Essays and Poems
(East Carolina University, 2012)This personal collection of creative nonfiction sheds light on issues of abandonment, victimization, and dysfunctional relationships. It is accompanied by poems that serve as prefaces to each individual story, as well as ...