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Vitamin A Insufficiency in Current and Former Smokers and Lung Cancer Risk: A Case-Control Approach
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-20)
Background: Adequate dietary intakes of vitamin A are protective against lung cancer, but little is known about the risk of lung cancer when intakes of the vitamin are below minimum physiological requirements. Further ...
The Immunotoxicity of Two Novel Perfluoroether Acids Found in North Carolina’s Cape Fear River
(East Carolina University, 2021-08-02)
Novel perfluoroether acids (PFEAs) have been identified in surface waters of North Carolina and in the blood of some North Carolina residents. As some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are presumed immune hazards ...
SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZED ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBRANE (ECM) FOR 1,4-DIOXANE REMOVAL FROM DRINKING WATER
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-19)
1,4-Dioxane is an emerging water contaminant linked with liver and kidney damage and increased cancer risk. We developed several nano-modified electrically conductive membranes (Nano-ECMs) and assessed their 1,4-Dioxane ...
“STICK-TO-ITTY”: USING ORAL LIFE HISTORIES IN PRINCEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, UNDERSTANDING PERCEPTIONS OF PRIDE, EMOTIONS, AND RESILIENCE IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANES FLOYD AND MATTHEW
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-27)
This thesis uses oral life histories conducted in Princeville, North Carolina, the oldest town chartered by Freed Blacks in the United States, to discuss community-engaged research and outreach, as well as resilience, in ...
How are Mentees’ Goals and Demographic Characteristics Associated with their Mentoring Experiences, Preferences and Perceived Benefits?
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-22)
Mentoring plays a key role in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) because it increases the likelihood that students persist in a program and successfully move into their chosen career. Mentoring ...
Evaluating a Predator-Induced Phenotype in a Mixed Species Context
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-22)
Phenotypic plasticity, a single genotype producing multiple phenotypes in response to environmental change, is crucical to our understanding ecological and evolutionary processes. Adaptive plasticity describes phenotypic ...
EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF OFFLINE PARADIGMS AND FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES ON PERFORMANCE OF MOTOR IMAGERY BASED BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-15)
Motor Imagery (MI) Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) has become a popular way of allowing disabled and healthy individuals to use brain signals to communicate with their environment. However, despite its potential, MI-based ...
AN HMM-BASED OCR FRAMEWORK FOR TELUGU USING A TRANSFER LEARNING APPROACH
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-14)
Optical character recognition (OCR) for complex scripts such as Telugu has gained much attention over the past decade due to the significant advancements made in this area of research. The Telugu OCR framework in this work ...
Genome wide identification of ARF transcription factor gene family and their expression analysis in sweet potato
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-15)
Auxin response factors (ARFs) are a family of transcription factors that play an important role of auxin regulation through their binding with auxin response elements. ARF genes are represented by a large multigene family ...
A Handbook of the Mythological and Biblical Allusions in Lamb's Essays of Elia
(1935)
The study is divided into two parts: the first
deals with The Essays of Elia, and the second, with
the Last Essays of Elia. The explanations are given in the order of the allusions in the essays. Those
essays in ...