Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Assessing Teacher Practices Related to Precision Agriculture in Secondary Agriculture Education
(2018-04-18)
Agricultural education was designed to reflect the agriculture industry, and since the recent
increase in technology use in the industry, little research has been done to investigate what
agricultural technologies are ...
Soybean Root Growth and Yield Response to Variable Rate Irrigation
(2018-04-18)
A changing climate and an increasing world population result in a greater need of food. Water secures and increases yield. However, water use and irrigation timing need to be optimized to limit negative effects on natural ...
“She Can Never Be Happy Without All or Some of the Family with Her”: Women’s Lives on the Early National Frontier
(2018-04-18)
When it comes to the early American frontier, a great deal is known about the men who moved to form the first permanent settlements. Much less has been told about the women they brought with them, the fundamental role these ...
Deep Learning Methods Using Levenberg-Marquardt with Weight Compression and Discrete Cosine Transform Spectral Pooling
(2018-04-18)
State-of-the-Art Machine Learning methods achieve powerful results on practical problems in all data-driven industries. As these methods are improved, the hardware and training time necessary to implement them have grown ...
A Garden for the Living and a Gallery for the Dead: Consuming Animal and Preserved Specimen Exhibitions in Nineteenth-Century London
(2018-04-18)
Throughout the nineteenth century, a diverse array of wildlife arrived in London, the center of both a nation and a global empire. Once in Britain, live animals were exhibited for adoring, middle- and upper-class audiences ...
An Eye-Tracking Study of Attentional Biases for Uncertainty and Generalized Anxiety Symptoms
(2018-04-17)
Intolerance of uncertainty (IU), a dispositional characteristic reflecting negative beliefs about the potential threat of uncertainty (Koerner & Dugas, 2007), is related to information-processing biases (e.g., interpretation ...
Emotional Reactions to a Middle Warning Message: A Physiological Approach
(2018-04-17)
Socially desirable responding or faking has posed a serious threat to the validity and utility of personality tests used as selection tools for organizations. There have been numerous attempts to circumvent this issue. A ...
Electronic characterization of technologically relevant interfaces on beta Gallium Oxide and 4H-SiC wide bandgap semiconductors
(2018-04-17)
Conventional silicon power device technologies are rapidly approaching their performance
limits in power devices. Therefore, exploration of novel materials for next-generation power
electronics is necessary. In this ...
A Finite Element Study of an Elastic- Plastic Axisymmetric Sinusoidal Surface Asperity in Contact Against a Rigid Flat with Strain Hardening
(2018-04-17)
With the advancement in science and the introduction of new technology, computational modelling of contact between rough surfaces has attracted a great deal of attention. Researchers have developed many rough surface contact ...
Canine and Feline Differences in the Cytochrome P450 Transcriptome and Drug Metabolism
(2018-04-17)
Cytochrome P450 (CYP) is an important enzyme superfamily, estimated to metabolize 70-90% of pharmaceuticals. Use of pharmaceuticals with at least 30% metabolism by CYP in humans require phenotyping to determine the CYP ...
Disability Identity: The Impact of Disability Type for Individuals with Disabilities
(2018-04-17)
Disability identity development is a fairly recent and unique phenomenon in the academic literature that shapes an individual’s way of seeing him or herself, their bodies, their ways of interacting with the world and the ...
MBI-3X Bio-Nematicide Plant Health Effects on Root Crops
(2018-04-17)
MBI-3X is a new nematicide formulated from fermented and killed microbial broth. The broth contains large amounts of dead cells and an array of secondary metabolites in the fermentation supernatant with a corresponding ...
Chemokine Receptor CXCR7 in Vascular Biology and Disease
(2018-04-16)
Initially CXCR4 was thought to be the exclusive receptor for SDF-1. However, the discovery of a new SDF-1 receptor CXCR7, made the picture more complex. Whether CXCR7 is a “scavenger” receptor or not is still in debate. ...
A Phenomenological Study: Self-Care and Work-Life Balance among Pre-tenure Counselor Educators
(2018-04-16)
Self-care is vital to ongoing wellness and can be any activity or engagement that one participates in emotionally, mentally, or spiritually to prevent burnout (McGarrigle & Walsh, 2011). According to Bradley, Whisenhunt, ...
Examining the Lived Experiences of Acculturation Among Haitian Immigrants Living in the United States: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2018-04-16)
The United States has the largest immigrant population compared to other countries around the world (Thaker, 2013). As the United States experiences unprecedented migration by foreign-born individuals, Haitian immigrants ...
Cogent: A Coherence-Driven Cognitive Agent Modeling and Simulation Framework
(2018-04-16)
Agent based modeling is an effective methodology for understanding complex cognitive systems through generative mechanisms that explain emergent behavior. However, most agent modeling languages use general-purpose imperative ...
Work-Life Boundary Management: Measurement, Validation, and Longitudinal Mediation
(2018-04-16)
Employees constantly transition from work to home roles, crossing boundaries between these roles. Drawing on boundary and border theory, work-life boundary management (WLBM) consists of behaviors that help create and ...
Development of New Composite Materials for Secure Storage Units to Increase Burglary Resistance
(2018-04-13)
The aim of this research is it to find and develop new materials for secure storage systems with increased physical burglary resistance. The tests and evaluation of the materials takes place on the basis of the fulfilment ...
Nomological Network of a Challenge and Hindrance Workplace Stressors Scale: A Meta-Analysis
(2018-04-13)
This research presents a meta-analysis that aims to assess the reliability and nomological network of the Cavanaugh, Boswell, Roehling, and Boudreau (2000) measure of challenge and hindrance workplace stressors, specifically, ...
The Effects of Founders’ Competence, Integrity, and Demographic Characteristics on Equity-based Crowdfunders’ Investment Decision
(2018-04-13)
Scholars are increasingly exploring crowdfunding, a novel and rapidly growing source of new venture financing. A key part of this research has sought to explain what factors are important to the crowdfunding investment ...