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Determining the role of the steroid hormone ecdysone in critical stages of Drosophila melanogaster early oogenesis
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-27)Reproductive function in many organisms, including Drosophila melanogaster, is controlled by steroid hormones. The main steroid hormone in Drosophila is ecdysone, which is structurally and functionally similar to estrogen. ... -
Developing a Behavioral Health Intervention Team for Moore County Schools
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-17)Student mental health has been a concern for school districts across the state of North Carolina as well as the nation. The purpose of this study was to improve the mental health, safety and welfare of students in Moore ... -
DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM FOR ENGLISH LEARNER INSTRUCTION AT THE INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL LEVEL: A CHALLENGE IN SAMPSON COUNTY SCHOOLS
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-17)This study utilized Professional Learning Communities (PLC) of English Learner (EL) teachers in a collaborative process in the Union sub-district of Sampson County Schools to develop an EL Plan of Instruction. This group ... -
Developing a Latino-Adapted Parenting Program for Primary Care: A Delphi Study
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-19)Latino children suffer from many health disparities compared to their non-Latino peers. One way to minimize these health disparities is by empowering Latino parents through parenting support programs. Primary care agencies, ... -
DEVELOPING A PRINCIPAL INDUCTION PROGRAM FOR CRAVEN COUNTY SCHOOLS
(East Carolina University, 2015-04-28)The demands of principals have increased drastically over the years and principals are overwhelmed as they accept the responsibility for an entire school. With an emphasis on performance and accountability and realizing ... -
DEVELOPING A PROGRAM TO IMPROVE READING INSTRUCTION AND ACHIEVEMENT AT J. GLENN EDWARDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-17)ABSTRACT Natalie P. Kelly, DEVELOPING A PROGRAM TO IMPROVE READING INSTRUCTION AND ACHIEVEMENT AT J. GLENN EDWARDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Under the direction of Dr. William A. Rouse). Department of Educational Leadership, ... -
DEVELOPING A RUBRIC FOR THE EVALUATION OF READING PROGRAMS FOR JOHNSTON COUNTY SCHOOLS
(East Carolina University, 2015-04-24)The Superintendent of Johnston County Schools requested a program evaluation rubric for the selection of core reading programs. This final reading evaluation rubric allows users to measure the six key components of an ... -
DEVELOPING AN ECOLOGY OF CO-TEACHING: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF A CO-TEACHING PARTNERSHIP
(East Carolina University, 2023-11-27)In this qualitative ethnographic and autoethnographic study, I examined a co-teaching partnership between a general education teacher and special education teacher in an international school. The school inclusion policy, ... -
Developing Novel Chemotherapeutics: A Structure-Activity Study of Anandamide Analogs and their Cytotoxic Profiles
(East Carolina University, 2020-01-06)Many epithelial cancers have been shown to overexpress the enzyme cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), an enzyme responsible for both the metabolism of arachidonic acid (AA) to prostaglandins and arachidonoyl ethanolamine (AEA) to ... -
DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATION SKILLS THROUGH VIRTUAL ROLE PLAY ACTIVITIES
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-23)Employers have reported difficulty in finding employees who possess the skills needed to be successful. Surprisingly, the skills to which employers are referring are not the technical skills one would assume; instead, the ... -
Development and Validation of a Universal Sleep Screener for College Students
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-25)Sleep problems are highly prevalent in adolescents, especially for college students. Students with poor sleep quantity and quality are at-risk for various academic, behavioral, and medical problems. Universal sleep hygiene ... -
Development and Validation of a Universal Sleep Screener for College Students
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-25)Sleep problems are highly prevalent in adolescents, especially for college students. Students with poor sleep quantity and quality are at-risk for various academic, behavioral, and medical problems. Universal sleep hygiene ... -
Development of a Diffraction Imaging Flow Cytometer for Study of Biological Cells
(East Carolina University, 2010)Visible light interacts with biological cells primarily through elastic scattering. With coherent excitation the scattered light is coherent as well and contains much information about the cells morphology but with the ... -
Development of a multi-purpose proton microbeam system: irradiation of tumor cells by energetic protons at the Bragg peak
(East Carolina University, 2021-08-11)Employing ionization radiation to serve our communities has various applications in agricultural, industrial, and medical fields. The application of physics to medicine deals mainly with ionizing radiation in diagnosis and ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHOD FOR FULL CHARACTERIZATION OF TURBIDITY
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-21)Characterization of turbid materials by determining their inherent optical properties have attracted strong research interest for potentially wide applications in fields such as material analysis and biomedical optics. The ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHOD FOR FULL CHARACTERIZATION OF TURBIDITY
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-21)Characterization of turbid materials by determining their inherent optical properties have attracted strong research interest for potentially wide applications in fields such as material analysis and biomedical optics. The ... -
Development of an Instrument for Spatially Resolved, Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dosimetry of Cobble Surfaces
(East Carolina University, 2023-07-18)Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dosimetry is a method used to determine the amount of energy stored within a crystalline insulator due to ionizing radiation. At its most fundamental, OSL dosimetry requires optical ... -
Development of An Instrument to Assess Decision Making Among Persons With and Without Traumatic Brain Injuries
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-17)This dissertation discusses existing tools for the assessment of decision making in adolescents and young adults who have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and limitations of these tools. To address these limitations, ... -
Development of Computational Tools and Resources for Cotton microRNA Analysis
(East Carolina University, 2014)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an extensive class of small regulatory RNAs which regulate gene expression at the posttranscriptional levels. miRNAs target genes for mRNA cleavage or translation inhibition based on the complementary ...