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The Figure in Fine Art and Commercialism
(East Carolina University, 2011)This body of sculpture is an exploration of the human figure through personal, public, and commercial works. The following thesis report will explore these various categories and how they play a role in the sculpture's ... -
FILLING THE VOID: BUILDING AND SUSTAINING COHESIVE AND CONSISTENT INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-21)The focus of practice for the study was to build and sustain a cohesive and consistent instructional leadership team by supporting the growth and development of assistant principals as instructional leaders. This study ... -
The Final Ambush : An Adapted Battlefield Analysis of the U-576 Attack Upon Allied Convoy KS-520 off Cape Hatteras During the Second World War
(East Carolina University, 2012)The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest, largest, and most complex military action of the Second World War. The battle involved Allied, Axis, and neutral nations, resulting in both military and civilian casualties. At ... -
The Financial Behavior of Emerging Adults : A Family Financial Socialization Approach
(East Carolina University, 2013)The present study examined the role of attachment insecurity, locus of control, and parental financial communication in the financial behavior of emerging adults from a family financial socialization theory perspective. ... -
Financial Market Analysis Using a Kinetics Model
(East Carolina University, 2013)Over the past several decades physicists have used models and techniques that were developed in the sciences in order to analyze the price and volume behavior of financial markets. These models and techniques ... -
Finding Displacement through Incest in Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath her Feet and Fury
(East Carolina University, 2014)Incest is a widespread theme in literature that continues to grow in frequency (Barnes 3). It is rarely addressed amongst scholars due to being a taboo topic, but in this thesis I aim to address it and analyze it thoroughly ... -
Finding Home : I've Been This Girl All Along
(East Carolina University, 2012)Where is home if you have no definitive place to call home, such as a house you grew up in and someone in your family still lives there? My early life was spent living on Seymour Johnson and For Walton Beach Air Force ... -
FINDING LEADERSHIP 정 (BELONGING): A CRITICAL RACE ETHNOGRAPHY OF ASIAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-11)In a racialized America, Asian Americans are forced to be a model minority and remain perpetually foreign in one body (Kawai, 2005; Kim et al., 2011; Kim, 1999, Kim, 2011; Wu, 2014). This is a unique experience that is ... -
Fine-mapping a novel locus on Chromosome 1 for associations with recurrent stroke
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-18)INTRODUCTION: Stroke is a complex, multifactorial cerebrovascular disease that afflicts millions of individuals both nationally and globally. Of the annual 795,000 stroke incidents, approximately 185,000 are recurrent ... -
Fire in the Hold : Construction and Use of the 1628 Swedish Warship Vasa's Galley
(East Carolina University, 2010)The galley of the 17th century Swedish warship Vasa is currently the only large 17th century naval galley available for study. It was surveyed by the author in 2008. While the galley's wooden structure remains largely ... -
First Order Definition of Rings Using Group of Units
(East Carolina University, 2023-05-03)We discuss the technical background and relevant research regarding the undecidability of $O_{\mathbb{Q}^{\text{ab}}}$. Given an algebraic extension $K/\mathbb{Q}$, we consider the subring defined by $$R_K=\{x\in O_K\,|\,\forall ... -
First Year Composition: The Effects of Race and Gender on Graduate Teaching Assistants
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-18)Based on current literature there is a lack of discussion surrounding the identity of English Graduate Teaching Assistants and how embodied experiences influence teaching approaches throughout a First Year Composition ... -
Fish assemblage and habitat use in North Carolina and Virginia waters during the annual Cooperative Winter Tagging Cruise, 1988-2013
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-10)Long-term ecological research can be valuable in understanding ecosystem function and species requirements, allowing managers to better regulate and enforce strategies for continued use of the resource, commercially and ... -
Fish Dreams
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-27)In my family, when women dream of fish, it symbolizes that a family member or close friend is pregnant. Based on our cultural background as African Americans, our interpretation of our dreams is how we share and pass down ... -
Fish in Waterfowl Habitat: Managing National Wildlife Refuges for Multiple Purposes using Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge as a Model
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)Anadromous river herring (including Blueback Herring Alosa aestivalis and Alewife Alosa pseudoharengus) spend most of their lives at sea but migrate to freshwater systems during the spring to spawn. The spawning success ... -
Fish oil disrupts B cell plasma membrane lateral organization and immunological synapse formation
(East Carolina University, 2012)Fish oil has immunosuppressive properties that could provide treatment for numerous inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. The primary bioactive components of fish oil, which are the n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) ... -
Fishers’ Perceptions of Ciguatoxin Fish Poisoning and Modeling Biomagnification of Ciguatoxin in the Trophic Dynamics of Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems
(East Carolina University, 2021-01-15)Ciguatoxin fish poisoning (CFP) is caused by the consumption of tropical and subtropical fishes and other marine species with high levels of ciguatoxin (CTX) in their tissues. CTX is a polycyclic neurotoxin produced by ...