Scuba divers are at risk of developing decompression sickness (DCS). This study aims to understand how different gases breathed during the dive (notably helium vs nitrogen) can influence that risk by quantifying bubbles that form during and after diving and other inflammatory markers, both shown to relate to DCS risk.
The research seek to understand if there are barriers to obtaining confirmatory tests once a child is identified by newborn screening as being at risk for cystic fibrosis.
A multiple case study to determine the impact of Peaceful Schools' Restorative Justice initiatives on relationship building in K-12 schools.
To learn how participants of past research studies are doing 1-5 years after completing the T-STEP program
The purpose of this study is to understand how saltwater intrusion affected farmer's use of their cropland, and the quantities and quality of the crops harvested on croplands that have been suffering from saltwater intrusion. We also plan to understand what are the strategies people usually deal with saltwater intrusion.
This survey study aims to identify barriers and facilitators to enhancing behavioral health content within geriatric fellowships through surveying geriatric fellowship program directors.
This research will study the relationship between Wikipedia, searchability, and visibility of prominent academics, who may benefit from additional visibility in order to learn more about how they view the risks and benefits of visibility.
Vietnamese Americans in North Carolina have vibrant diversity in origin stories - in pursuit of political freedom (Dang 2008), access to higher quality education (Ngo 2007), and religious freedom (Phan 2023) among many others. As such, the purpose of the study is to identify unique immigration stories from the Vietnamese American diaspora in North Carolina. The discussions of food will be utilized to investigate personal immigration stories; ultimately, the study will observe the generational effects of immigration and the impact of food on their relationship with their community.
Since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, students in North Carolina and throughout the world have suffered learning lags particularly in mathematics. Declines in overall proficiency scores of most student subgroups have been reported nationwide. Local efforts to recover learning have yielded minimal gains over the past three years, and this study seeks to uncover the secret to successful supplemental education program models that help to increase academic gains for underachieving student subgroups in mathematics.
The aim of the current study is to evaluate the effects of ziltivekimab on heart failure symptoms and physical function in participants with mildly reduced or preserved heart function and evidence of inflammation.