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The Relation Between Child Behavior, School Engagement, And Perceived Barriers And Parent Involvement
(East Carolina University, 2015)
There are positive outcomes for children whose parents are involved in school. Factors such as socioeconomic status (SES), child externalizing behaviors, parent perceptions on school engagement, and perceived barriers can ...
The Bay Of Storms And Tavern Of The Seas : Risk In The Maritime Cultural Landscape Of The Harbor At Cape Town, South Africa
(East Carolina University, 2015)
South Africa's connection with the sea is most prevalent in its founding harbor at Cape Town. Until the opening of the Suez Canal, the passage around the Cape of Good Hope via Table Bay represented the most important oceanic ...
The Other Underground Railroad : Hidden Histories Of Slavery And Freedom Across The Porous Frontiers Of Nineteenth-Century United States, Mexico, And The Caribbean
(East Carolina University, 2015)
This thesis unveils a hidden part of nineteenth-century Atlantic World History: the transnational exchanges in African slaves that occurred along the Mexico-US border, and across the territorial and coastal boundaries of ...
Effects Of Nutrient Availability And Disturbance On The Composition And Diversity Of Soil Microorganisms
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Determining how factors such as disturbance and nutrient availability affect species diversity in a community has been a major goal of community ecology. The purpose of this study was to look at how species diversity and ...
Which Resources Matter? : Resources And The Impact Of North Carolina Environmental Organizations
(East Carolina University, 2015)
This paper focuses on the role that resources have in predicting the impact of an environmental organizations. This study contributes to an emerging stream of research literature on social movements that explicitly uses ...
The Effects Of Environmental Variation On Individual Variation
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Despite general consensus among ecologists that variation is ubiquitous and important in nature, ecological experiments have historically focused on changes in mean response assuming a constant environment and interchangeable ...
Examining Coastal Marsh Sedimentation In Northeastern North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Coastal marshes are critical environments that are ephemeral on geologic timescales. Understanding the dynamics that naturally maintain these systems is becoming increasingly important in the face of accelerated sea-level ...
Tadpole Begging Behavior And Parent-Offspring Interactions In The Mimic Poison Frog
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Studies on offspring begging behavior have focused on whether the behavior communicates offspring need and guides parental food provisioning in the context of honest signaling theory. However, despite the plethora of ...
Analysis of Infrastructure Damage After Superstorm Sandy : A Case Study of Long Beach, NY
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Although much is known about the geomorphology of barrier islands and how barrier islands respond to storm events, no research has considered the implications of dense development on storm damage patterns. This research ...
The Contentnea Creek Granite : Constraints On Late Paleozoic Magmatism And Deformation, Eastern Piedmont Fault System, North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2015)
The Alleghanian orogeny is manifested in eastern North Carolina by dextral transpressional faulting on the Eastern Piedmont Fault system and spatially associated granitic magmatism. The Contentnea Creek granite in Wilson ...