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PERSPECTIVES ON WATER MANAGEMENT FROM LOCAL WATER DECISION MAKERS IN A COASTAL REGION
(East Carolina University, 2023-01-05)The effects of climate change are already apparent in eastern North Carolina. Higher than average global temperatures have been implicated in more extreme weather events, with more frequent and intense storms and prolonged ... -
Perturbation of Circadian Neuronal Oscillators with Low-Intensity Magnetic Stimulation
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-23)Circadian neuronal oscillatory dynamics are perturbed substantially in numerous neuropsychiatric diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and depression. Moreover, desynchronization of neuronal oscillators complicates ... -
A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF FIVE HBCU CHANCELLORS IN ONE SOUTHEASTERN STATE
(East Carolina University, 2014)Founded out of necessity due to overt racism that kept Blacks out of higher education, HBCUs today find themselves in precarious positions to stay relevant in an academic field where PWIs compete for Black students. There ... -
Physical Activity and Sleep in Pediatric Cardiology Patients: Understanding the Patterns and Interactions Between the Behaviors
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-16)Physical activity level and subsequent sleep patterns are of high importance to pediatric cardiology patients attempting to minimize the effects of disease. Existing research in pediatric samples have had inconsistent ... -
Physiologic Determinants of Ischemic Skeletal Muscle Pathophysiology
(East Carolina University, 2018-11-29)Lower limb peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAD) has major impacts on patient quality of life and, in its most severe form, carries a significant risk of mortality. The canonical approach to PAD research has been ... -
The Physiological and Pathological Role of Mitochondrial Calcium in the Diabetic Heart
(East Carolina University, 2011)Diabetic patients are more susceptible to ischemia/reperfusion injury and cardiac dysfunction likely due alterations in mitochondrial calcium handling. The purpose of this work was to determine if redox-dependent changes ... -
A Pilot Study: The Effect of Healing Touch on Anxiety, Stress, Pain, Pain Medication Usage, and Physiological Measures in Hospitalized Sickle Cell Disease Adults Experiencing a Vaso-occlusive Pain Episode.
(East Carolina University, 2010)Sickle cell disease (SCD), a common genetic blood disorder affecting primarily African-Americans (Edwards, Scales, Loughlin, Bennett, Harris-Peterson, et al., 2005) causes a vaso-occlusive pain episode (VOPE) affecting ... -
PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING A GLOBAL CURRICULUM : A CASE STUDY OF ONE NORTH CAROLINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
(East Carolina University, 2012)Today the world is more interconnected than ever (Stewart, 2012). Students in the 21st century need competent teachers who use technology as a routine way of learning, and who coach student learning that is authentic and ... -
PLAY IS LEARNING: A PEDAGOGY FOR BUILDING TEACHER CAPACITY INTEGRATING PLAY IN MATH INSTRUCTION
(East Carolina University, 2023-11-27)The purpose of this participatory action research (PAR) project was to support teachers to integrate play as a primary pedagogy in the math program. The theory of action was: If teachers develop a mathematical program ... -
Poison frog warning signals: From the rainforest to the genome and back again
(East Carolina University, 2018-06-18)Signal communication is pervasive in nature and is used to convey information to both conspecifics and heterospecifics. Aposematic species use warning signals (e.g. bright coloration) to alert predators to the presence of ... -
POLICY DEVELOPMENT FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP REFORM IN NORTHEASTERN, NORTH CAROLINA
(East Carolina University, 2018-01-09)The purpose of this study was to develop policies to support school leadership reform efforts in poverty dense northeastern, North Carolina. There are many northeastern, North Carolina schools that are in need of school ... -
PORTRAITS OF LEADERSHIP: THE EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS
(East Carolina University, 2017-11-29)The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the experiences of African American women administrators working in executive leadership positions that exist within the presidential pipeline at predominately White ... -
Portraits of Relentless Progressives: Equity Work in Complex Educational Organizations
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-20)This study used portraiture to examine relentless progressives: three administrators who work for complex educational organizations. Portraiture is an ethnographic, qualitative study method that blends art and science, in ... -
POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS AND SUPPORTS AT A NC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: A PROGRAM EVALUATION
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-16)AB STRACT Chris Meadows, POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS AND SUPPORTS AT A NC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: A PROGRAM EVALUATION (Under the direction of Dr. Marjorie Ringler). Department of Educational Leadership, December ... -
POST-OPERATIVE VENTILATION PATTERNS AND THE EFFECTS OF NON-INVASIVE POSITIVE PRESSURE THERAPY ON VENTILATORY CHANGES AS MEASURED BY A NON-INVASIVE IMPEDANCE DEVICE IN PATIENTS WITH OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-26)Patients undergoing general anesthesia who have or are suspected of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may be at increased risk for ventilatory complications, including respiratory depression, airway obstructions, and apnea ... -
Post-Transcriptional Regulation of mRNA Metabolism during Differentiation of 3T3-L1 Cells: Role of HuR
(East Carolina University, 2010)Our studies address early control points in the differentiation process that are necessary for expression as well as the maintenance of the adipocyte phenotype. We have focused on the post-transcriptional regulation of ... -
Potential Mechanisms for Amelioration of Type 2 Diabetes Following Bariatric Surgery
(East Carolina University, 2011)Severe obesity and Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM) are worldwide health concerns reaching epidemic proportions. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) has been shown to elicit a rapid and durable improvement and/or remission of T2DM in ... -
Power and Place : A Case Study Approach to Rethinking Crisis Communication
(East Carolina University, 2010)This dissertation examines a 2003 explosion at a pharmaceutical plant in Kinston, North Carolina against the framework of both crisis communication theory and critical discourse analysis theory. In the wake of the explosion, ... -
The Poxvirus A35 Protein Promotes Virulence by Regulating the Host Adaptive Immune Response
(East Carolina University, 2010)Poxviruses are large double-stranded DNA viruses with a broad host range and worldwide distribution. The most infamous poxvirus is Variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, which caused over 500 million deaths in ... -
PPP1R2 COORDINATES KINASE AND PHOSPHATASE ACTIVITY TO REGULATE THE CENTROSOME AND MIDBODY
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-21)Centrosomes are the primary microtubule organizing centers of the cell and prepare the cell for division by establishing the bipolar spindle during mitosis. A balance of kinase and phosphatase activity regulates centrosome ...