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Self-Reported Changes in Organizational Commitment : The Relationship between Present Organizational Commitment and its Perceived Changes over Time
(East Carolina University, 2014)
A sample of 188 university employees was surveyed about present levels of organizational commitment and beliefs about changes in commitment over time. Both present levels of commitment and self-reported increases in each ...
An Exploration of Marital Health and Stress Among Military Couples
(East Carolina University, 2013)
There are approximately 1.5 million active duty service members in today's military (Department of Defense [DoD], 2010) and approximately 726,000 (56.4%) of these individuals are married (DoD, 2010). Although the military ...
Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and the Story of the Catawba Nation
(East Carolina University, 2012)
The Catawba Indians, in order to maintain their own identity as an "other" culture, utilized a course of acceptance and collaboration with the Euro-American majority that came to surround them, while ultimately developing ...
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 ...
Assessing Methodological Contamination in Organic Residue Analysis using FT-IR Spectroscopy
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Organic residue analysis (ORA) has become a mainstay in modern archaeological and conservation research. Organic residues recovered from archaeological and conservation contexts represent an accumulation of materials by ...
Restorative Erotica : "Let the Friend, and the Lover Be Handsomely Mixed"
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu expected the people of Imperial Britain to respect her choices and her true identity, but because they didn't she was forced into the arms of another country, and furthermore women of other ...
New Gnostic Gospels
(East Carolina University, 2013)
Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick's quest for God becomes a binding theme in many of his works, including VALIS and The Divine Invasion, two of his final three novels. Together, these two novels, combined with his ...
The Role of Technology in the 21st Century Art Room
(East Carolina University, 2013)
How are art teachers today utilizing computer technology in the classroom and what role do they feel it should serve in art education? The purpose of this study was to explore how elementary art educators in North Carolina ...
Holocene Climate and Carbon Sequestration via Black Carbon Burial in Sediments
(East Carolina University, 2011)
Fire, a global process that depends on climate, volcanic activity, vegetation and human practices is not constant through time and varies at decadal, centennial and millennial time-scales. Wildfires that result in burning ...
Prioritization of Carolina Bays as Mitigation Projects from a Herpetofaunal Perspective
(East Carolina University, 2011)
Carolina bays are landform features of the southeastern United States that contain isolated depressional wetlands. These unique ecosystems are particularly valuable for herpetofauna and are at risk of being extirpated from ...