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Maternal Experience of Family-Centered Care and Parenting Their Child with Down syndrome and Congenital Heart Defect
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-10)
Approximately half of children with Down syndrome are born with a congenital heart defect (CHD). There is limited empirical research exploring parental perspective or experience of children with both Down syndrome and CHD ...
Enhanced Sensorimotor Kinematics of the Baseball Swing in Elite Batters During a Known Pitch Type
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-10)
The interceptive task of hitting a baseball requires temporal and spatial precision through effective pitch tracking strategies and swing mechanics to achieve success. Overall, these factors dictate the quality of the ...
Characterizing the geographic variability of opioid mortality in North Carolina, 2014-2016
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-10)
The opioid crisis has proven to be one of the most devastating drug epidemics experienced in the United States. While many studies have associated the rise in opioid mortality rates to overprescribing of opioid painkillers, ...
Platinum Catalyzed Synthesis of Alpha-Ketoester via C-H Functionalization
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-16)
Alpha-ketoesters have proven to be useful in a variety of fields. They have found wide spread applications in pharmaceuticals, photochemistry, and biology. Additionally, they are of great interest in synthetic chemistry ...
Intrusion detection using machine learning algorithms
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-27)
With the growing rate of cyber-attacks, there is a significant need for intrusion detection systems (IDS) in networked environments. As intrusion tactics become more sophisticated and more challenging to detect, this ...
Recollection
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-27)
The purpose of this written report of my thesis is to discuss the visual installation presented in partial fulfillment of my Master of Fine Arts degree. The components of the visual work explore the role and impact of ...
Y’all Call it Technical and Professional Communication, We Call it #ForTheCulture: The Use of Amplification Rhetorics in Black Communities and their Implications for Technical and Professional Communication Studies
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-23)
This project seeks to define and identify the use of Amplification Rhetorics (AR) in the social movement organization TRAP Karaoke and at three Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In highlighting the AR ...
Power in Belief: A Folkloric Study of the Female Psychic Community & Access to Power
(East Carolina University, 2019-08-14)
The ways in which women are denied access to power by societal and religious organizations serves as a significant focal point in academic research. Entities that seem to evade patriarchal influence offer females the best ...
Neurovascular Mechanisms of Erectile Dysfunction Following Androgen Deprivation Therapy
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-20)
For nearly eight decades, androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has been a common prostate cancer treatment. Although ADT increases the prostate cancer survival rate, urogenital side effects such as erectile dysfunction (ED) ...
"You Have Herpes. Now What?": Stigma in Healthcare Systems and Disclosure Rhetorics
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-12)
Cultural beliefs about sexually transmitted infections, and herpes specifically, are rhetorically constructed and, crucially, the medical realities of such conditions do not often align with the socially constructed ones. ...