Browsing Master's Theses by Title
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"...And all the men knew the colors of the sea..." : historical and archaeological investigation of the SS Commodore, Ponce Inlet, Florida
(East Carolina University, 2005)This study focuses on a single question: Are the wreck site remains held under joint title by the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse Association and Norman Serbousek those of the SS Commodore, sunk on January 1, 1897? The answer to ... -
The Angel in the Garden : Recovering Elizabeth von Arnim's The Pastor's Wife
(East Carolina University, 2012)This thesis aims to examine Elizabeth von Arnim's The Pastor's Wife for two major purposes: 1) to work toward recovering von Arnim's work, which I believe to be important and worthy of critical attention, and 2) to examine ... -
Anti-Cancer Activity of Cucurbitacin IIa
(East Carolina University, 2012)Cancer is a debilitating disease resulting from uncontrolled proliferation. One major treatment strategy for cancer is the application of chemotherapeutic drugs which kill cancer cells. Cucurbitacins are a new family ... -
Antiseptic Humor : Using Comedy To Confront Realities And Refute Stereotypes In The Works Of Sherman Alexie
(East Carolina University, 2015)Sherman Alexie, a Native American author of poems, novels, plays, and film uses humor to expose and to explore lingering cultural stereotypes affecting people of Native American ancestry. These stereotypes often conflict ... -
Anxiety and College Students: The Benefits of Mindfulness Based Mediation
(East Carolina University, 2018-04-24)Approximately 62% of college students report experiencing anxiety during the past 12 months (American College Health Association [ACHA], 2016). Of those students, approximately 27% stated that their anxiety had taken a ... -
ANXIETY AND FEAR IN RELATION TO SLEEP AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY IN A SAMPLE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-12)Long-term poor sleep contributes to the development and maintenance of chronic disease and physical and mental health challenges. Researchers have sought to understand the myriad of factors that influence sleep behavior, ... -
Anything is Possible
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-26)Love is like an Ironman Triathlon - filled with highs and lows, way longer and tougher than a marathon and a hundred and fourteen times more worth it. Henry and Allison clicked from the moment they met in the TV newsroom ... -
An Appetite for Metaphor : Food Imagery and Cultural Identity in Indian Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2011)Postmodern culture has been greatly influenced by food images and the usage of food as metaphor. Recent interest in food studies has opened doors in literary studies to examine how the use of food imagery and metaphor ... -
Applications of Stochastic Processes to Cancer Research
(East Carolina University, 2013)The purpose of this thesis is to implement stochastic models that are currently used to analyze the impact of different drug treatments on cancer and to model drug resistance by cancer cells. Mathematical models are used ... -
Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity in Spam Filtering and Malware Detection
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-17)Machine learning is one of the fastest-growing fields and its application to cybersecurity is increasing. In order to protect people from malicious attacks, several machine learning algorithms have been used to predict the ... -
Applying GIS to Locate the USS Louisiana: A Study of the Fort Fisher Civil War Battlefield
(East Carolina University, 2013)Historical Geographic Information Science (GIS) is an innovative field within geography and this work encompasses critical and historical cartographic analysis within a GIS framework to find the missing Civil War shipwreck ... -
Applying Mutable Object Snapshots to a High-level Object-Oriented Language
(East Carolina University, 2018-11-30)Software Engineers are familiar with mutable and immutable object state. Mutable objects shared across modules may lead to unexpected results as changes to the object in one module are visible to other modules sharing the ...