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A "Black Body Electric" - African American Rhetoric(s) and the Hip-Hop Aesthetic: Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Beyonce Knowles' Lemonade, and Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-23)This work examines the formalistic shifts in contemporary African American literature through a hip-hop lens. No longer following the status quo regarding genre or voice, these texts manage to reposition Black writing by ... -
A Biopsychosocial Examination of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Health Outcomes
(East Carolina University, 2015)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the world accounting for 17.3 million deaths annually. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was developed 13 years ago to treat people suffering from ... -
A Brief Intervention to Reduce Sugar Consumption on College Campuses
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-26)Background: Research suggests that high sugar consumption is linked to a variety of health complications, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Previous research also suggests that adolescents and young adults ... -
A Candidate Gene Study: Finding Associations between Recurrent Stroke and Genetic Variants of Five Folate-Mediated One Carbon Metabolism Pathway Genes
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-25)Stroke is the second leading cause of death in the world and fifth in the United States. Both in the United States and worldwide, stroke is the leading cause of disability. Stroke is a cerebrovascular event which results ... -
A Carbohydrate/Lipid Research Project for Organic and Analytical CURE Laboratories: Reactions and Recordkeeping
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-06)Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (or CUREs) are able to teach students laboratory skills while engaging them in novel research. The first part of this thesis aims to demonstrate the development of a feasible ... -
A Case Study of Six Montefortino Helmets from the Battle of the Egadi Islands (241 B.C.)
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Montefortino helmets quickly became the dominant form of head gear throughout Europe and the Mediterranean once introduced by the Celts. During the First Punic War, it was the helmet in use by much of the Roman forces, ... -
A Catalytic Approach to Cyclopentenones: Unexpected Challenges in Synthesizing Pent-2,4-dienals
(East Carolina University, 2023-05-04)Transition metal catalysis has long been utilized to facilitate a number of chemical reactions outside the scope of traditional organic chemistry. Because of this, there has been a growing interest in the community in ... -
A Classification System for Instruments Frequently Found in Textbooks Used in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Education
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-15)The dissertation describes the rationale and development of a classification system for instruments frequently found in textbooks used in vocational rehabilitation counseling education. Such a classification system does ... -
A CLINICAL DECISION SYSTEM WITH AN INTERACTIVE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH AND COST OPTIMIZATION
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-22)Clinical decision support systems aim to improve access to relevant and practical clinical data to assist medical practitioners in diagnosis and treatment. However, the usefulness of such systems is limited due to the lack ... -
A Collective: Working Towards a Better Place
This body of work, A Collective: Working Towards a Better Place, is comprised of points along my timeline that embody the way I have come to connect with people face to face. I realized these connections are important for ... -
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF A POTENTIAL TAVERN SITE IN JACKSON, NORTH CAROLINA
(East Carolina University, 1/13/16)Residents of Jackson, North Carolina have found what they believe to be an 18th century tavern site. This thesis assesses this claim by comparing those artifacts to the artifacts at Wetherburn’s Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Mortuary and Domestic Artifacts from Petra’s North Ridge
(East Carolina University, 2023-08-03)Interpreting the use of material culture in mortuary contexts provides an intimate view of the social identity of both the deceased and the mourners in ancient societies. However, the material remains of mortuary practices ... -
A Comparative Study on MFCC, GFCC, BFCC, and CQCC Spectral Speech Feature Performance in X-Vector Clustering
(East Carolina University, 2023-07-25)Speaker diarization plays a crucial role in accurately identifying speakers in audio or video streams with multiple speakers. However, the use of Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) as the default speaker feature ...