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Characterization of the glucose transport mechanism responsible for mechanical overload- and acute injury-stimulated skeletal muscle glucose uptake
(East Carolina University, 2022-06-24)Skeletal muscle is a highly adaptable tissue. In response to stimuli such as resistance exercise training or trauma/injury, muscle glucose uptake is stimulated to fuel the energetic and biosynthetic demands of growth, ... -
Characterization of the glucose transporters responsible for mechanical overloadstimulated glucose uptake in mouse skeletal muscle
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)Resistance exercise training is a recommended form of physical activity for people with type 2 diabetes due to its ability to increase skeletal muscle glucose uptake. Understanding how resistance training controls muscle ... -
Child Development Knowledge and Human Factors in Toy Design : An Exploratory Study of Popular Children's Products
(East Carolina University, 2012)Play reflects how children understand the world, and it also provides them with opportunities to learn and refine their social, emotional, motor, and problem-solving skills. Before designing a product such as a children's ... -
Child Life in Alternative Settings
(2014)The Child Life Council Mission statement highlights the role of a child life specialist as supporting children in stressful or traumatic life situations. Child life specialists are professionals who have an important role ... -
Child Life Specialists in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit : Are They Prepared to Work with This Unique Population?
(East Carolina University, 2011)Certified child life specialists (CCLS) are one of many healthcare professionals who work with premature infants hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The current study investigates the role of CCLS and ... -
Children's Perceptions of Friendliness Based on Physical Appearance in Humans and Canines
(East Carolina University, 2011)Physical appearance serves as a window to one's character. More specifically, faces give us clues to an individual's emotional state, personality, and behavior. The present study aims to draw parallels between what ... -
Children's use of transitional objects in pediatric healthcare settings: policies and practices
(East Carolina University, 2016-11-16)Children experience medical interventions and hospitalizations every day. These settings are often characterized as strange and unfamiliar for children, may require some separations from established attachment figures, ... -
Chronic low-frequency rTMS of primary motor cortex diminishes exercise training-induced gains in maximal voluntary force in humans
(East Carolina University, 2009)Although there is consensus that the central nervous system mediates the increases in maximal voluntary force (maximal voluntary contraction, MVC) produced by resistance exercise, the involvement of the primary motor cortex ... -
Cleaved Caspase-3 Response to Acute Resistance Exercise in Young and Old Men and Women : Relationship to Muscle Glycogen Content and 5'-AMP-Activated Protein Kinase (AMPK) Activity
(East Carolina University, 2011)In addition to suppressing protein synthesis and activating protein degradation in skeletal muscle and other cell types, 5'-AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is known to stimulate nuclear apoptosis in non-muscle cells ... -
The Clinical, Operational, and Financial Worlds of Neonatal Palliative Care : An Ethnographic Investigation
(East Carolina University, 2011)In this focused ethnography the researcher sought to gain a multidisciplinary perspective on the cultural context of neonatal palliative care, including Peek's three world view of clinical, operational, and financial ... -
Co-teaching Health 3010
(2014)As one of the options in 2013 for the Senior Honors Project, co-teaching offers students a glimpse into the life of a professor. Students who choose this project are to choose a mentor and a class with which to assist. For ... -
Coach Created Motivational Climate and Self-Efficacy in the Coach-Athlete Relationship: The Role of Relational Efficacy Beliefs
(East Carolina University, 2020-12-14)The motivational climate athletes perceive is crucial for many psychological aspects such as motivation, effort and enjoyment. The motivational climate also influences self-efficacy in competitive athletes. Since the ... -
College Student Participation in Risky Behaviors: Hazardous Drinking, Sleeping while Driving, and Low Sleep Quality
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)College students have a high tendency to participate in risky behaviors, such as hazardous drinking and sleeping while driving, which could result from low sleep quality. Therefore, the purpose of the current study is to ... -
COLLEGE STUDENTS AND HEALTH CARE SERVICES: EXPLORATION OF STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES AND SATISFACTION WITH MEDICAL PROVIDER COMMUNICATION
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)The theory of emerging adulthood and ecological approach are used in the current study to investigate emerging adults' health related behaviors and communication with health care providers on college campus. College students ... -
COLLEGE STUDENTS ATTITUDES ABOUT DEATH: AN 85-YEAR COMPARISON
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-06)Participants were 216 college students who attended a large university in the South Eastern United States. The present study replicated a survey first administered by Middleton (1936). Snowball sampling was used to increase ...