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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. ...
Principal Preparation Program-Service Leadership Projects at East Carolina University
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-20)
Preparing future principals for their roles within school systems has changed throughout the years. Universities have devised varying techniques in which they accomplish this monumental task. East Carolina University (ECU) ...
Examining the Base Rates of Atrial Fibrillation in Eastern North Carolina: Community Screening, Associated Risk Factors, and Psychological Correlates of Disease
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-12)
Background: Eastern North Carolina has historically high prevalence rates of cardiovascular disease. Novel solutions such as mobile screening technology may aid in reaching this region’s vulnerable health population to ...
A Brief Intervention to Reduce Sugar Consumption on College Campuses
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-26)
Background: Research suggests that high sugar consumption is linked to a variety of health complications, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Previous research also suggests that adolescents and young adults ...
Development of Green Subcritical Water Separation Technology
(East Carolina University, 2019-08-19)
Theoretically speaking, water under temperature and pressure conditions below its critical point is called subcritical water. However, the term “subcritical water” normally refers to hot water up to 374 C and pressure up ...
MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF THE CYTOTOXIC AND IMMUNOSTIMULATORY ACTIVITY OF 15 DEOXY PROSTAMIDE J2: INVESTIGATION OF CHOP10 AND NFĸB SIGNALING IN COLON CANCER
(East Carolina University, 2019-08-13)
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress pathway is a prominent regulator of cancer cell death and as a result, ER stress inducers are being exploited pharmacologically. Cytotoxic ER stress is typically regulated by the ...
WOMEN’S OBESITY AND SEXUAL QUALITY: A DYADIC STUDY ON WOMEN AND THEIR MALE PARTNERS
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-04)
Research supports a relationship between people with obesity and decreases in psychosocial functioning as it relates to their sexual health. While sexual health problems are more commonly found in women with obesity than ...
Knowledge of Sickle Cell Trait and Disease among African-American College Students
(East Carolina University, 2011)
The term sickle cell disease (SCD) refers to a collection of hemoglobinopathies (inherited blood disorders) characterized by abnormal hemoglobin and produced through the homozygous inheritance of a sickle cell allele. ...
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 ...