Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Food Safety Scandals and Scares: Media Presentation of Local Beef
(2019-07-23)
This study is part of a long-term project examining the attitudes of Southern beef consumers towards red meat food safety associated with Alternative Food Networks (AFNs). Previous work focused on locally produced beef and ...
Incorporating Patient Input into Value-based Community Fall Prevention for Older Adults: Evaluating Patient Preferences and Willingness to Pay
(2019-07-23)
Background:
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death and non-fatal injuries in US older adults, including hip fracture and traumatic brain injury. Current evidence-based fall prevention programs exist in ...
Effects of uncertainty on conservation decisions and ecological inference
(2019-07-23)
Uncertainty is pervasive in ecology and conservation. Ecological systems are dynamic, and therefore inference from observations and subsequent decision-making can be hampered due to observation and process error. Assessing ...
Leading Through Culture Crisis: The Full Range - Adaptive Mixed Leadership Model
(2019-07-23)
The primary problem examined in this research project is that two popular leadership models in public administration and business management do not adequately account for the foundational aspect of properly defining problems ...
An Intentional Love: How Incarcerated Women Experience Maternal-Infant Bonding
(2019-07-23)
The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of how incarcerated women experience pregnancy, child birth, and separation from their children. Issues and challenges experienced by pregnant inmates highlight the ...
Innovation and Integration and Technology in the Classroom by Career and Technical Educators
(2019-07-23)
In addition to content knowledge experts, educators must embrace the importance of technology in the classroom, have the skills and intention to use technology, and have the knowledge to teach students how to use technology ...
Graduate Students of Color at PWIs: School Belonging, Ethnic Identity and Mental Health
(2019-07-23)
This study sought to explore the perceived sense of belonging of graduate Students of Color who attend Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). Utilizing Baumeister & Leary’s, (1995) belongingness hypothesis as a foundation, ...
Edge-Regular Graphs with Lambda=2
(2019-07-23)
A graph G is edge-regular with parameters n, d, and λ if V(G)=n, the degree of every vertex of G is d, and for any pair of adjacent vertices u and v, N_G(u)∩N_G(v)=λ. We say such graphs are in ER(n,d,λ). In this dissertation ...
Modeling the Risk of Wrong-Way Driving at Freeway Exit Ramp Terminals
(2019-07-23)
Wrong-way driving (WWD) crashes are a critical safety issue on freeways. Although these crashes are rare in nature, they often result in severe injuries and/or fatalities. Typically, exit ramp terminals are the initial ...
Biomechanical Responses to Synthetic and Natural Turf during Locomotion
(2019-07-23)
The ability of athletes to adapt their movement patterns appropriately to varying constraints imposed by the playing environment is crucial for performance as well as musculoskeletal health. For outdoor athletes, playing ...
A Study of the Relationships Among and Between Factors Within the Workplace, Emotional Exhaustion and Turnover Intention in Professional Counselors
(2019-07-23)
The purpose of the current study was to gain an understanding of the relationships among and between factors within the workplace, emotional exhaustion, and turnover intention; specifically in mental health counseling ...
How does the major histocompatibility complex influence reproductive success in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)?
(2019-07-23)
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) gene products can influence sexual selection through their impact on the vertebrate immune system. Individuals with greater MHC diversity are generally believed to have more effective ...
Three Essays on Applied Economics
(2019-07-23)
This dissertation is composed of three chapters examining the wage inequality in developing countries, and the effect of insurance subsidy on land use allocation.
Chapter 1 is about the distributional decomposition of ...
Species Diversity of Hickory-feeding Phylloxerans (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae) in the U.S.
(2019-07-23)
During the spring months, hickories throughout the Eastern U.S. become adorned with abnormal growths or galls on the leaf or stem tissue. Many of these galls are caused by phylloxerans (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae: Phylloxera ...
Coping, Meaning in Life, and Posttraumatic Growth in Incarcerated Women
(2019-07-23)
The purpose of this study was to examine treatment results for incarcerated women in a southern-US women’s prison system who have participated in Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey for Women (BT). Research indicates that ...
Development of Global Social Vulnerability Model for Earthquakes
(2019-07-23)
Although earthquakes are one of the most devastating natural hazards that affect humanity, very few attempts have been made to consider the human elements that put populations at risk. Most researchers focus on the assessment ...
The Effects of Exercise on LINE-1 Regulation
(2019-07-23)
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA and constitute approximately half of the human genome. LINE-1 (L1) is the only active autonomous TE in the mammalian genome and has been implicated, either directly or indirectly, ...
Structure-function relationship of human melanocortin-4 receptor and characterization of fish neural melanocortin receptors
(2019-07-19)
The neural melanocortin receptors, including melanocortin-3 and -4 receptors (MC3R and MC4R), are two important factors in regulation of energy homeostasis. MC3R primarily regulates feed efficiency and nutrient partitioning, ...
An Inclusive Design Guideline for Designing Elderly Friendly Smart Home Control Device
(2019-07-19)
Concerns related to age and aging of older people has been lingering around many people’s minds, especially for the older adults who are about to enter their young-old stage of life or already experiencing the physical and ...
Electron Propagator Theory: Fourth Order Diagrams, Composite Approach and Application to Anions, Superhalides and Double–Rydberg Anions
(2019-07-19)
The Electron Propagator Theory is useful for calculating vertical electron detachment energies and Dyson orbitals of neutral molecules and anions. The Electron Propagator Theory is a second quantization method that can be ...