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Una adelfa en tierras extrañas emblemática y misoginia en la "Comedia famosa de los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canaria
(2017)In his play Los guanches de Tenerife Lope de Vega resorts to one of the emblems included in his friend Hernando de Soto’s Emblemas moralizadas (1599) to dramatize the encounter between Guanches and Spaniards and to represent ... -
Understanding COVID-19 Situation in Nepal and Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Management
(2022-06-07)Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) present one of the greatest challenges to public health in the 21st century. An emerging virus, depending on its potential to spread among humans, may cause individual or sporadic cases, ... -
Understanding Racial Disparities in Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution: Considering the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Population Distribution
(2020-02-01)This study investigates the effect of spatiotemporal distributions of racial groups on disparities in exposure to traffic-related air pollution by considering people’s daily movement patterns. Due to human mobility, a ... -
Understanding the Loss of Maternal Care in Avian Brood Parasites Using Preoptic Area Transcriptome Comparisons in Brood Parasitic and Non-parasitic Blackbirds
(2019-02-13)Parental care is critical for offspring survival in many species. However, parental behaviors have been lost in roughly 1% of avian species known as the obligate brood parasites. To shed light on molecular and neurobiological ... -
Understanding undergraduate students’ eHealth usage and views of the patient-provider relationship
(2022-04-14)eHealth has grown exponentially alongside technology and has become widely accessed by some populations, but little is documented about how undergraduate students use eHealth or perceive their eHealth literacy. As access ... -
Unity in defence: honeybee workers exhibit conserved molecular responses to diverse pathogens
(2017-03-02)Background: Organisms typically face infection by diverse pathogens, and hosts are thought to have developed specific responses to each type of pathogen they encounter. The advent of transcriptomics now makes it possible ... -
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the Academic Library: A Methodology for Mapping Multiple Means of Representation in Library Tutorials
(2015)Librarians designed a biology tutorial not only to address an assignment, but also to make tutorials more accessible to students with various learning styles. The Science Librarian created the content by using aspects of ... -
The Unplugged Office Space and the Role of Sustainable Design in Higher Education
(East Carolina University, 2008)This article looks at sustainability in higher education and office environments, specifically proposing a green redesign of the Greenville, NC V.O.A. site. -
Uptake of and resistance to the antibiotic berberine by individual dormant, germinating and outgrowing bacillus spores as monitored by laser tweezers raman spectroscopy
(2015-12-04)Berberine, an alkaloid originally extracted from the plant Coptis chinensis and other herb plants, has been used as a pharmacological substance for many years. The therapeutic effect of berberine has been attributed to ... -
Use of Multifactorial Treatments to Address the Challenge of Translating Experimental Myocardial Infarct Reduction Strategies
(2019-03-15)Myocardial tissue damage that occurs during an ischemic event leads to a spiraling deterioration of cardiac muscle structural and functional integrity. Reperfusion is the only known efficacious strategy and is the most ... -
The use of non-uniform drowning terminology: a follow-up study
(2017-07)Background: In 2002, the World Congress on Drowning developed a uniform definition for drowning. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of “non-uniform drowning terminology” (NUDT) and “non-uniform drowning ... -
Use of Short Messaging Service to Improve Follow-Up for Abnormal Pap Test Results in Minority and Medically Underserved Women in North Carolina: Questionnaire on Attitudes and Acceptability
(2019-06-08)Background: An estimated one in eight cervical cancer cases are due to a lack of follow-up care for abnormal Pap test results. Low rates of completion of follow-up care particularly affect low-income minority women. The ... -
The Use of Teledentistry in Clinical Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Practice: An Institutional Experience
(2023-07-20)Background: Although there has been a slight increase in dental professionals since 2011, 98 of North Carolina's 100 counties are designated as Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas by the Heath Resources and Service ... -
The Use of Trace Eyeblink Classical Conditioning to Assess Hippocampal Dysfunction in a Rat Model of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
(2017-08-05)Neonatal rats were administered a relatively high concentration of ethyl alcohol (11.9% v/v) during postnatal days 4-9, a time when the fetal brain undergoes rapid organizational change and is similar to accelerated brain ... -
User centric metrics for a realistic assessment of broadband services
(2023-10-11)Past broadband adoption initiatives underscored common wisdom: “We cannot manage what we cannot accurately measure”, “Trust but verify”. Self-reported Federal Communications Commission data has been notoriously unreliable ... -
Using Gamification and Social Incentives to Increase Physical Activity and Related Social Cognition among Undergraduate Students in Shanghai, China
(2019-03-08)Gamification and social incentives are promising strategies to increase the effectiveness of web-based physical activity (PA) interventions by improving engagement. In this study, we designed a PA intervention integrating ... -
Using geometry to select one dimensional exponential families that are monotone likelihood ratio in the sample space, are weakly unimodal and can be parametrized by a measure of central tendency
(2014-07-18)One dimensional exponential families on finite sample spaces are studied using the geometry of the simplex Δn°-1 and that of a transformation Vn-1 of its interior. This transformation is the natural parameter space ... -
Using Recycled Concrete Aggregate in Non-Structural Concrete on NCDOT Projects in Eastern NC
(2016-04)These items are part of a grant project between Dr. Wang, Department of Construction Management, East Carolina University, and The North Carolina Department of Transportation. The grant project will run from August 1, ...