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An Examination of Cuban Migrant Craft: Rafts, Chugs, and Boats
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-24)
Cuban Migrant Craft, known colloquially as Chugs, is a unique type of vessel that needs study. Made famous by the media, this type of vessel is barely studied. By studying vessels and the demographics, this thesis is one ...
Emotions, Subjectivity, and the Environment: A Study of Environmental Involvement in a Campus Community
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-24)
Awareness of environmental issues and the necessity for more sustainable solutions are common topics, particularly in the academia and on university campuses. Researchers and public figures have stressed multiple times the ...
Mechanisms of germ cell development in Drosophila oogenesis.
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-17)
Germ cell development requires interplay between factors that control cell fate and division. Early in their development, germ cells are an interconnected group of mitotically dividing cells. Key regulatory events then ...
Why Won't You Leave?: An Evaluation of Employees' Willingness to Take Time Off
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-17)
Presently, there is little empirical research that considers why some employees are more inclined than others to take advantage of their organization's leave benefits. This study aimed to explore employees' willingness ...
Entheseal Changes as a Reflection of Activity Patterns at 1st Century BC/AD Petra, Jordan
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-24)
Over the past thirty years, biological anthropologists have attempted to reconstruct human behavioral patterns by analyzing entheseal attachments, the areas where tendons and ligaments attach to the bone. Many researchers ...
Passive micromixers for DNA analysis using CFD modelling
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-17)
Mixing efficiency is an important issue in the design of micromixers, since effective mixing is required between Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sample and restriction enzyme for a fast digestion process. Mixing is improved ...
College Spillover Effects; Reassessing Whites' Racial Beliefs and Policy Attitudes
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-23)
College educated people hold distinct racial beliefs and policy attitudes from people who did not attend college. The current study examines "College Spillover Effects." Specifically, does the effect of a college education ...
Using Fluorescence and Infrared Spectroscopy to Analyze the Interaction of Disaccharides with Lipid Bilayers
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-24)
It is well known that sugars, such as trehalose, dehydrate lipid membranes based upon the Water Replacement Hypothesis. Here, we have investigated the interaction between different sugars (sucralose, sucrose, and trehalose) ...
STICKLEBACK COLOR FLUCTUATION OVER THE BREEDING SEASON: AN IN DEPTH FIELD STUDY
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-17)
The coloration of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is well studied in the field of evolution, mainly with regard to the role of sexual selection (Ostlund-Nilsson et al., 2006; Foster et al., 2008; Hendry ...
Identifying a cross-correlation between heart rate variability and skin conductance using pain intensity on healthy college students
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-18)
Chronic pain affects approximately 100 million Americans annually. Heart rate variability and skin conductance have been used separately as measures of pain intensity. Current methods of assessing pain intensity have some ...