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Equity and Advanced Placement: Examining a School-Based Initiative to Remove Enrollment Barriers for African American Students
(East Carolina University, 2022-08-18)
The ongoing underrepresentation of African American (AA) students in Advanced Placement (AP) courses is a well-documented phenomenon. In order to provide a meaningful contribution to this area of research, the focus of ...
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 ...
IMPACTS OF A BRIEF SELF-COMPASSION INTERVENTION FOR WOMEN WITH OBESITY AND INTERNALIZED WEIGHT BIAS: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM A PILOT RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-25)
Internalization of weight bias occurs when one believes negative weight-related stereotypes to be true of themselves, such as believing that one is deserving of disrespect, or unworthy of partnership due to weight status ...
A Wzx-Wzy-like Polysaccharide Biosynthetic Pathway Contributes to Virulence in Brucella abortus 2308 through an Unknown Mechanism
(East Carolina University, 2022-08-05)
Brucella abortus is an intracellular pathogen that causes spontaneous abortion in cattle and undulant fever in humans. As a member of the a-proteobacteria, B. abortus is closely related to the bacterial species Caulobacter ...
IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE RESTORATIVE PRACTICES IN A K-12 SCHOOL
(East Carolina University, 2022-08-19)
The purpose of this research is to describe how sustainable restorative practices focused on the intention of using inclusive school leadership, curriculum, wrap around supports, transformative community engagement, high ...
LONG-LASTING EFFECTS OF MTBI ON OCULOMOTOR ABILITY AND NEUROMUSCULAR CONTROL
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-22)
Concussions result in short-lived to long-lasting neurological function impairment and disturbances, typically undetectable by standard neuroimaging protocols, which can persist for several months post-trauma. Eye-tracking ...
Examining the therapeutic potential of the investigational agent, 15dPMJ2, in mismatch repair proficient colon cancer
(East Carolina University, 2022-08-15)
Despite the success of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy in many cancers, colon cancer with low microsatellite instability (MSI-L), also known as proficient mismatch repair (pMMR), does not respond to these agents. ...
Skeletal Muscle Purine Nucleotide Degradation and Atrophy: Cause or Consequence of Increased Uric Acid Production
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-26)
Elevated serum uric acid is a risk factor for mortality in diseases and critical illnesses associated with skeletal muscle atrophy. Uric acid is generated by xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) and XOR inhibitors can partially ...
ENCOURAGING PREVENTIVE ACTION BY EMPLOYING EFFECTIVE RHETORIC IN PUBLIC COMMUNICATION OF THE ZIKA HAZARD AND ASSOCIATED RISKS
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-26)
Threats from Zika and other emergent arboviruses (arthropod-borne viruses) often receive little scholarly attention across most disciplines thanks in no small part to the traditional view that most emergent disease discourse ...
INVESTIGATING MECHANISMS REGULATING MAMMALIAN SPERMATOGONIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND MEIOTIC INITIATION
(East Carolina University, 2022-06-27)
Spermatogonia differentiation and meiotic initiation are complex processes essential for male fertility. Despite knowing for nearly 60 years that retinoic acid (RA) is instrumental for successful production of functional ...