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Scurry
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-01)
There has been a shift in the politics in America with many voters moving into a post-truth society. Where debates, laws and policies are framed by appealing to emotions, rather than facts. This political movement, also ...
Early 18th Century Hand Grenades on the North American Atlantic Coast: An Experimental Archaeology Study
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-02)
In the first half of the eighteenth century, standardization of weapons appears in cannon, shot, and small arms. No comparative study has been conducted to determine if grenades follow this pattern. In this study, three ...
Is there a solution to climate change?
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-01)
This document supports my Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition consisting of two digital prints, ten lithographs, vinyl text corresponding to each print and 5 stickers with listed references, in the SOAD gallery. The ...
The rhetoric of climate change: Using Latour to compose a nonmodern approach to our modern climate crisis
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-23)
Climate change is the greatest threat facing humanity in the 21st century. Scientists from a variety of specialized fields, from biology and chemistry, to climatology and geology, are currently conducting research to ...
Nontraditional Pathways to the University Presidency: The Lived Experiences of Contemporary Chancellors in the University of North Carolina System
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-16)
Over the last decade, American higher education has been negatively impacted by crisis after crisis. Events such as The Great Recession of 2008 have forced institutions of higher education to do more with less. Due to these ...
As The Sun Sets, We Remain: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Gause Cemetery at Seaside
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-02)
In 2014, USA Today reported that the search for family roots was the second most popular hobby in the U.S.. The concomitant recognition by the general public of the forensic and bioarchaeological value of human skeletal ...
Development of a Proton Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) Material Analysis System
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-07)
A material analysis system using particle-induced x-ray emission (PIXE) analysis has been developed to measure trace element composition in a wide range of samples. The system was constructed in the particle accelerator ...
Sustainability and OHS Global Reporting in Petrochemical Industries: The GRI Reporting Standard and Corporate Social Responsibility
(East Carolina University, 2019-06-14)
Sustainability reporting, an aspect of corporate social responsibility (i.e., CSR), is the practice of measuring, disclosing, and being accountable to internal and external stakeholders for organizational performance and ...
Relationship of N-glycans to Neuronal Dysfunction
(East Carolina University, 2019-06-07)
N-glycosylation is important in regulating protein activity and serves several vital roles contributing to protein folding, protein assembly, stability, and interactions. Changes in branching of N-glycans are linked to ...
A Smad3/FoxO3 Transcriptional Relationship in the Regulation of Vascular Growth
(East Carolina University, 2019-06-05)
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a multi-faceted pathological condition that continually ranks as the number one cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and worldwide. Unfortunately, despite extensive basic ...