Browsing Master's Theses by Title
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Baby Boomer Adoption of Healthcare Apps
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)In 2015, approximately 500 million smart phone users were estimated to use some type of health-related app. These apps are developed intending to promote health and wellness behavior in users. However, the simple availability ... -
Baby Monitor
(East Carolina University, 2011)Baby Monitor consists of twelve essays and nine journal entries about my new experience of motherhood and the first year and half of my first child, Benjamin's life. The essays and journal entries range from a mother's ... -
Back-Barrier Sediment and Hydrodynamic Processes: Insights from Rodanthe, NC
(East Carolina University, 2016-07-20)Barrier islands are found around the world, and their geomorphic evolution is related to ocean and estuarine processes. Processes including sediment mobilization and shoreline evolution on both the ocean and estuarine side ... -
Back-Projective Priming: Toward Efficient 3d Model-based Object Recognition via Preemptive Top-down Constraints
(East Carolina University, 2016-07-25)This thesis introduces back-projective priming, a computer vision technique that synergistically fuses object recognition and pose estimation by augmenting 3D models with geometric constraints. It also enables the use of ... -
Balancing Acts : Public Access And Archaeology In The Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck District
(East Carolina University, 2015)During the American Civil War, Wilmington, North Carolina, served as an important blockade running center for the Confederacy. The Cape Fear region's high traffic and dangerous shoals resulted in the largest concentration ... -
BARRIERS TO SUSTAINABILITY: A CROSS-CASE ANALYSIS OF SMALL TOURISM ACCOMMODATION ENTERPRISES (STAEs) IN DARE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-05)Small tourism accommodation enterprises (STAEs) are a continually growing segment of the hospitality industry, with considerable influence on the adoption of sustainability. Incorporating sustainability can present challenges, ... -
Barriers to Weight Loss in a Stepped-Care Approach to Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-06)Over two-thirds of the United States' adult population are overweight or obese, and these numbers continue to grow (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). Obesity is a disease that is a common comorbidity with other serious ... -
A Bayesian Approach to Investigating Age-at-Death of Subadults in a Forensic Context
(East Carolina University, 2014)Estimating age at death is among the first steps in the identification of an unknown individual. For subadults, dental formation stage remains the most accurate aging indicator due to minimal environmental impact. Even the ... -
Be Nice or Pay the Price : Added Value of Interpersonal Skills Training on Analogue Consultation Outcomes
(East Carolina University, 2011)School psychologists are trained in various models of problem solving and interviewing, however the interpersonal skills that play an integral role in consultation are not uniformly taught to trainees. The primary objective ... -
'Because You Got to Have Heat' : Energy Poverty and Weatherization in Eastern North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2010)Energy poverty is the condition in which a household is unable to maintain its indoor temperature at a level that allows for a healthy or comfortable lifestyle. Much energy poverty literature has examined the problem ... -
Beliefs, Perceptions, and Knowledge Regarding the Benefits of Nut Intake
(East Carolina University, 2012)The objective of this study was to assess knowledge regarding the health effects and nutrient content of nuts and perceptions regarding benefits and barriers of nut intake among individuals over the age of 40 years. One ... -
Bermuda: A Case Study on the Impact of Maritime Introduced Contagions and the Yellow Fever Epidemics of the Nineteenth Century
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-01)Contagion is an unfortunate consequence of conflict and trade. Bermuda's isolation and rich history of maritime commercial and naval activities provides an excellent case study to review the impact of trade on the introduction ... -
Bessie and the Manigaults: Reconstructing a Plantation Boat and Antebellum Boating Culture in South Carolina Rice Country
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Bessie is a plantation boat originally constructed and owned by the Manigault family of South Carolina. It was built and used on a mid-nineteenth century rice plantation, and is now a permanent exhibit in the Charleston ... -
Between the Lines
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-27)This serial television script has a pilot episode and a follow-up episode. The series follows a group of African American college friends in their adult lives. Each member of the group has a secret they need to keep hidden ... -
Beyond Historic Bath : Archaeological Investigation of Handy's Point, Bath, North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2013)This thesis examines the Handy's Point site in Bath, North Carolina, to assess its chronological position, fill a void in our past knowledge, and concludes it is not the former location of the village of Secotan. Artifacts ... -
Beyond Just Hours Worked : Further Validation of the Workaholism Analysis Questionnaire
(East Carolina University, 2011)The purpose of this study was to validate a new measure of workaholism, the Workaholism Analysis Questionnaire (WAQ), which was developed to address the methodological flaws of existing measures. The WAQ is a unidimensional ... -
Beyond Their Control : The Disempowerment of Women in Middle Eastern and African Literature
(East Carolina University, 2012)The disempowerment of women involves factors that influence every aspect of their lives, birthing deep oppression, victimization, and sometimes violence. Fadia Faqir's Pillars of Salt explores two Muslim women whose ... -
Bioenergetics and Trophic Impacts of Invasive Indo-Pacific Lionfish
(East Carolina University, 2010)Indo-Pacific lionfish, Pterois volitans and Pterois miles, are non-native marine fish with established populations in the western North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Rapid population growth threatens native fish ... -
Biogeographic Characterization of Fishes from Intertidal Sandflats in Pamlico River, North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2012)The spatial and temporal changes in fish community structure in Pamlico River, North Carolina were analyzed. Salinity and temperature are important water quality parameters influencing fish community structure in estuaries. ... -
BIPARENTAL CARE AND THE EVOLUTION OF MONOGAMY IN A PERUVIAN POISON FROG (RANITOMEYA IMITATOR: DENDROBATIDAE)
(East Carolina University, 2012)Selection for biparental care is considered to be an important factor in the evolution of monogamy if the value of exclusive cooperation in care for mutual offspring outweighs the benefits of polygamy for either sex. ...