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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 ... -
Fishing For The Evolutionary Bases Of Female Ornamentation
(East Carolina University, 2015)Sexual dimorphism, or phenotypic differentiation of the sexes, is widespread amongst animals. It is understood mainly in the context of sexual selection, i.e. selection on mating success, with such selection typically ... -
Fits and Starts: One Elementary School's Journey toward Trauma-Informed Leadership
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-25)Across the country, passionate educators strive to meet the needs of diverse students within welcoming and inclusive community schools. It is no easy feat. For schools disproportionately impacted by the disenfranchising ... -
Four-Dimensional In Vivo Dosimetry By Dose Reconstruction Using Continuous Epid Images And Phase Sorting Method
(East Carolina University, 2015)In vivo dosimetry is widely used for patient specific dose evaluation and treatment verification in external beam radiation therapy (EBRT). There is a growing interest in using an electronic portal imaging device (EPID) ... -
From Dunes to Shelf Deposits: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Coastal Sand Management in North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-02)Coastlines around the world are environmentally and economically crucial to society but are being threatened by storms, sea-level rise and erosion. Beach nourishment is a widely used shoreline stabilization strategy that ... -
FROM PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO PROFESSIONAL LEARNING: A PERSONALIZED APPROACH FOR TEACHERS
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)Improvement of teacher quality has been identified as a strong factor for improving student learning and increasing student achievement. Developing teacher knowledge and pedagogy is traditionally cultivated in schools ... -
From Treatment to Recovery: Family, Health, and Sociocultural Implications of Anorexia Nervosa
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-21)Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a life-threatening biopsychosocial-spiritual illness that crosses all social locations (i.e., ages, gender identities, sexual orientation, races, ethnicities, socioeconomic status, and body sizes), ... -
Function and regulation of the polysaccharide utilization locus, don, in the gut symbiont bacteroides fragilis
(East Carolina University, 2014)Bacteroides fragilis is the most common anaerobe isolated from clinical infections and in this report we demonstrate a novel feature of the species that is critical to their success as an opportunistic pathogen. Among the ... -
FUNCTION OF DISINTEGRIN-LIKE DOMAIN OF KSHV gB IN REGULATING VIRUS INFECTION
(East Carolina University, 2015-12-10)KSHV, also referred to as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8), is the eighth and latest identified human herpesvirus. It is the causative agent for a variety of malignancies namely Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma ... -
Functional Aging of the Inner Ear Sensory Systems in Mouse Models of Age-Related Hearing Loss
(East Carolina University, 2009)Age related structural and functional change in the cochlea have been well described and predisposing factors including genetic background, gender, and environmental factors have been identified. To date, nine genetic loci ... -
Functions of claudin-7 in human lung cancer
(East Carolina University, 2012)Lung cancer is the second most common cancer and the most common cause of cancer-related death in both men and women in the United States with a very poor overall 5-year survival rate. Nearly 95% of the lung cancer originates ... -
FUNCTIONS OF CLAUDIN-7 IN THE SELF-RENEWAL OF INTESTINAL EPITHELIUM
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)Tight junctions (TJ) are located at the most apical region of the junctional complex and contain many integral membrane proteins. Claudin 7 (Cldn7) is a TJ membrane protein located at the apical TJ and basolateral side of ... -
Fundamental and Applied Studies on Chromatographic Separation of Cold Drugs and Skincare Creams and Extraction of Salvia miltiorrhiza using Subcritical Water
(East Carolina University, 2014)Subcritical water chromatography (SBWC) and subcritical water extraction (SBWE) are two green techniques that use subcritical water as the sole solvent for separations, thus eliminating the use of toxic and expensive organic ... -
GENDER AND RACIAL IDENTITY, NORMATIVE PERCEPTIONS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG COLLEGE-AGED AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-08)African American women have a compounded risk for chronic disease development, poorer disease-related quality of life, and chronic disease mortality. While regular engagement in physical activity can reduce these risks, ... -
Generation of Pseudo-CT using Two Sets of MRI Scans for MRI-only Radiation Therapy
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-16)WWith increasing interests in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-only radiation therapy (RT) and the emergence of MRI system integrated with the linear accelerator, a method substituting the computed tomography (CT) in ... -
Generators of mammalian vestibular surface responses to head motion
(East Carolina University, 2012)The linear vestibular sensory evoked potential (VsEP) is thought to be the compound electrical response of peripheral macular neurons and central neural relays, and as such used to directly assess macular function. The ... -
Genetic regulation of maize floral development - insights from the transcriptome and translatome
(East Carolina University, 2022-06-24)Flowers are produced by floral meristems, groups of stem cells that give rise to floral organs. In grasses, including the major cereal crops, flowers (florets) are contained in spikelets, which contain one to many florets, ... -
Genetic regulation of maize floral development - insights from the transcriptome and translatome
(East Carolina University, 2022-06-24)Flowers are produced by floral meristems, groups of stem cells that give rise to floral organs. In grasses, including the major cereal crops, flowers (florets) are contained in spikelets, which contain one to many florets, ... -
GENRE FLUIDITY AND WRITING IDENTITY: ACTIVIST WRITERS, QUEER FEMINIST RHETORICS, WORKING FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)My dissertation proffers genre fluidity as a term to describe the rhetorical acts of shifting across and moving among genre conventions by blending and/or transgressing genre boundaries. Genre fluidity is defined as two ... -
GETTING INTO GOOD TROUBLE: BUILDING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING PRACTICES FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT SUCCESS IN MATHEMATICS
(East Carolina University, 2023-11-21)ABSTRACT Carin Denise Geathers, GETTING INTO GOOD TROUBLE: BUILDING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING PRACTICES FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT SUCCESS IN MATHEMATICS (Under the direction of Dr. Matthew Militello). Department ...