Browsing Master's Theses by Issue Date
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The Infamous Convict Museum Ship Success : an Archaeological Investigation of Material Culture and Identity Formation Processes
(East Carolina University, 2014)This thesis examines the relationship between material culture and the formation of cultural identity through an analysis of the artifact assemblage from the former traveling museum ship, Success. Before sinking near Port ... -
"There Never Was a Good War or a Bad Peace" : Benjamin Franklin's diplomacy and the 1783 Treaty of Paris
(East Carolina University, 2014)This thesis is an analysis of Benjamin Franklin's actions and motivations as he negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris on behalf of the newly created United States. It examines three distinct phases beginning with Franklin's ... -
Archaeological and Historical Investigations at Foscue Plantation : Identifying the Structure in the Vault Field
(East Carolina University, 2014)During the 2007 Craven Community College archaeological field school, a dense concentration of brick was discovered at the Vault Field site (31JN112**) on Foscue Plantation in eastern North Carolina. This feature was ... -
Corsairs in Drain Pipes : An Examination of the Submariner Folk Group in the United States Navy During the Second World War
(East Carolina University, 2014)During the Second World War, United States submariners were isolated from the rest of the Navy. Submariners faced a higher level and different type of danger than the rest of the Navy. They developed their own way of ... -
Intratracheal instillation of silver nanoparticles exacerbates cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury in male sprague-dawley rats
(East Carolina University, 2014)The uses of engineered nanomaterials have expanded in biomedical technology and consumer manufacturing. Exposure to particulate matter has been demonstrated to negatively influence cardiovascular health and expand myocardial ... -
Geometry and Progressive Development of a Shallow Crustal Intrusive Complex, Mount Hillers, Henry Mountains, Utah
(East Carolina University, 2014)The Henry Mountains of southeastern Utah are five topographic domes, each of which is a separate mid-Tertiary shallow crustal intrusive complex comprised of a cluster of component igneous intrusions. The intrusions were ... -
The Relationship between Gait Biomechanics and Body Mass Index
(East Carolina University, 2014)Walking gait is one of the basic components of human movements. With the rising obesity epidemic and implied health complications, it is pertinent to examine the relationship between body mass index and the joint torques ... -
THE EFFECTS OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHM ON INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE AND CYTOKINE LEVELS IN HEPATIC MACROPHAGES
(East Carolina University, 2014)In mammals, many aspects of daily behavior and physiology such as the sleep-wake cycle, body temperature, and liver metabolism are regulated by endogenous circadian mechanisms. Despite tissue-specific physiological ... -
Law, History, and Literature as Narrative in The Sense of an Ending
(East Carolina University, 2014)This thesis explores how Tony Webster constructs personal narrative in The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. Using the work of Hayden White, J. Christopher Rideout, and Frank Kermode as a critical foundation, the paper ... -
Teachers Use Of Own Languages (TUOOLS) : Exploring the Use of African American Rhetorical Strategies in the Composition Classroom
(East Carolina University, 2014)This thesis explores how different African American Rhetorical Strategies are used by African American teachers in a first year college composition classroom. This thesis shows how these different strategies present in ... -
Usage Error in Technical Communication
(East Carolina University, 2014)College students who seek careers as technical communicators must master technical writing and editing skills to succeed in the workplace. Effective technical communication stems from the communicator's ability to perceive ... -
A Record of Holocene Climate Change from the Sunda Shelf, South China Sea
(East Carolina University, 2014)Variations in the East Asian Monsoon (EAM) control weather and regional climate conditions in the heavily populated, agriculturally dependent regions of eastern and southeast Asia. The South China Sea (SCS), especially the ... -
The Need for Educating Technical Communicators on the Changing Face of Copyright and its Impact on the Public Domain and Fair Use
(East Carolina University, 2014)This thesis presents a framework for understanding the historical basis of copyright in the United States and the impact that recent events have had upon the public domain and fair use. The necessity of technical communicators ... -
ASSESSMENT OF DEBRIS-FLOW HAZARDS, NORTH MOUNTAIN, PHOENIX, AZ
(East Carolina University, 2014)Population increases in many western cities have led to urban sprawl, which has been a constant issue in metropolitan Phoenix, AZ. The Metropolitan Phoenix Area (MPA) has sprawled exponentially since its initial development ... -
Relationships Among Measures of Strength and Power and Health Outcomes in Youth
(East Carolina University, 2014)The interest in musculoskeletal fitness and its overall impact on health has been increasing in the last decade. The Institute of Medicine (2012) report called for the addition of several muscular fitness tests to national ... -
PERFORMANCE FOR ETHNOGRAPHY, DIALOGUE, AND INTERVENTION : USING ACTIVATING THEATRE TO EXPLORE THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ISSUES FACING KENYAN ADOLESCENT GIRLS
(East Carolina University, 2014)This thesis explores the utility of using performance, specifically activating theatre, both as a reproductive health intervention and as an ethnographic tool for exploring the reproductive health worldview of 17 adolescent ... -
Fesselin, an intrinsically disordered smooth muscle protein, organizes and stabilizes actin-myosin and myosin
(East Carolina University, 2014)Fesselin is an intrinsically disordered protein that is known to bind a large variety of cytoskeletal proteins. The proteins fesselin is known to bind include: actin (Leinweber et al. 1999), [alpha]-actinin (Pham et al. ... -
Mosquito Control in North Carolina : Funding Issues and Emergency Management
(East Carolina University, 2014)Natural disasters such as hurricanes may cause increases in mosquito abundance and, consequently, arbovirus transmission risk. In 2011, flooding from Hurricane Irene in eastern North Carolina (NC) resulted in increased ... -
SALINITY DISTRIBUTION IN A CHANNELIZED WETLAND AT EMILY AND RICHARDSON PREYER BUCKRIDGE COASTAL RESERVE, TYRRELL COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
(East Carolina University, 2014)The Emily and Richardson Preyer Buckridge Coastal Reserve is a low-lying, peatland-dominated freshwater wetland located in the southern Albemarle Estuarine System. The construction of an extensive canal network that ... -
MOHSIN HAMID AND THE NOVEL OF GLOBALIZATION
(East Carolina University, 2014)With the rise of globalization, people and cultures are interconnected economically, culturally, and socially like never before. Where nationalism defined much of the modern period, defining how people formed social bonds ...