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An ethnographic exploration of a student subculture of sustained civic engagement
(2011-09)
The purpose of this study is to describe how students understand their own participation in civic engagement activities, particularly as members of a supportive community. Research questions include: How do students ...
STAKEHOLDERS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN COASTAL COMMUNITIES
(East Carolina University, 2011)
As North Carolina's coastal communities face challenges in maintaining the quality of the natural and cultural resources that drive their tourism economy the need for sustainable actions in tourism development is made ...
Legislative Perceptions of Sustainable Tourism : The Case of the North Carolina General Assembly
(East Carolina University, 2011)
The tourism industry is the second largest contributor to North Carolina's economy. The traditional thrust behind many national and state tourism policies has focused on the industry's employment potential and opportunities ...
HIV screening and awareness survey for pregnant women in a remote area in Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region of China
(2011-11-30)
The number of people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in China has increased in recent years. HIV screening for pregnant women was performed in a remote area in Xinjiang, as an effort to promote universal ...
PP1 forms an active complex with TLRR (lrrc67), a putative PP1 regulatory subunit, during the early stages of spermiogenesis in mice
(2011-06)
Mammalian spermatogenesis is a highly regulated developmental pathway that demands dramatic rearrangement of the cytoskeleton of the male germ cell. We have described previously a leucine rich repeat protein, TLRR (also ...
Single incision laparoscopic ventral hernia repair
(2011)
Background and Objectives:
Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair (LVH) requires several skin incisions for trocar placement. We have developed a single incision approach to LVH repair. The technique was introduced in clinical ...
Cooperative effects of Akt-1 and Raf-1 on the induction of cellular senescence in doxorubicin or tamoxifen treated breast cancer cells
(2011-08-30)
Escape from cellular senescence induction is a potent mechanism for chemoresistance. Cellular senescence can be induced in breast cancer cell lines by the removal of estrogen signaling with tamoxifen or by the accumulation ...
Diet-induced muscle insulin resistance is associated with extracellular matrix remodeling and interaction with integrin α<inf>2</inf>β <inf>1</inf>in mice
(2011)
OBJECTIVE:
The hypothesis that high-fat (HF) feeding causes skeletal muscle extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling in C57BL/6J mice and that this remodeling contributes to diet-induced muscle insulin resistance (IR) through ...
Coronary artery ligation and intramyocardial injection in a murine model of infarction
(2011-06-07)
Mouse models are a valuable tool for studying acute injury and chronic remodeling of the myocardium in vivo . With the advent of genetic modifications to the whole organism or the myocardium and an array of biological ...
Diabetic muscle infarction: A rare complication of long-standing and poorly controlled diabetes mellitus
(2011-10-09)
Objective. To report a case of diabetic muscle infarction (DMI), a rare complication of long-standing poorly controlled diabetes mellitus. Methods. We describe a case of a 45-year-old male with an approximately 8-year ...