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Environmental Health: Food Safety
(2016-09-26)
Cadmium
(2016-08-26)
Cadmium is a soft and malleable metal which has several properties that allow it to be used in many ways. Manufacturing workers who are exposed to cadmium have higher rates of lung and prostate cancers. There is a weak ...
Malathion
(2016-09-26)
Impact of Muscle Material Properties on the Hypertrophic Response of Aged Women to Resistance Exercise
(East Carolina University, 2016-07-21)
All of the reports that comprise this dissertation center around the overarching hypothesis that the attenuated response to resistance exercise observed in older adults is caused by an impaired ability of the muscle to ...
Potential for sublethal insecticide exposure to impact vector competence of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) for dengue and Zika viruses
(2016-09-26)
Dengue and Zika viruses (DENV and ZIKV, Family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus) are arboviruses that cause human epidemics. Due to lack of vaccines for many mosquito borne diseases, there is a need for mosquito control. In ...
Effects of Blood Meal Source on Aedes albopictus Life Table Characteristics and Vector Competence for Dengue Virus
(2016-09-26)
Commercially available blood can be
used as an alternative to live animals to
feed mosquitoes; however, the extent to
which alternative blood sources affect
mosquito vector competence for dengue
virus (DENV, ...
Environmental Health: Air Quality
(2016-09-26)
Importance of Air Quality
•2-3% of all deaths in the U.S. each year are attributed to air pollution-induced respiratory or cardiovascular disease.
•Lung cancer, respiratory disease, and heart ailments linked to poor air quality
Effects of resveratrol and contractile activity in human skeletal muscle myotubes from severely obese individuals
(East Carolina University, 2016-07-25)
The prevalence of obesity is exponentially increasing worldwide. Although strategies such as exercise, nutritional intervention, and pharmaceutical therapies including resveratrol have been extensively studied in lean or ...
Perchloroethylene
(2016-09-26)
Behind the stripes: female football officials’ experiences
(2016-11)
This study focused on the work-related experiences of eight female
American football officials. The purpose was to gain a holistic perspective of
women’s experiences working in the male-dominated career of sport
officiating. ...