Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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The Relationships between Economic Hardship, Financial Distress, Relational Aggression, and Marital Quality as Experienced by Mid-Life Married Couples during and following the Recent Economic Recession
(2015-07-21)
Using data from the Flourishing Families Project, the current dissertation is composed of two studies examining how 335 mid-life married couples experienced economic hardship and financial distress during the recent economic ...
Young Adults’ Perception of Fathering and the Father-Child Relationship in the Context of Marital Violence
(2015-07-21)
The current study utilized a qualitative research design, combining grounded theory and thematic analysis, to examine fathering by maritally violent men from the perspective of their young adult children. Semi-structured ...
Bounded Complete Embedding Graphs
(2015-07-21)
In the study of graph embeddings, there is particular interest in small embeddings and in bounds on the minimum number of vertices that must be added in order to achieve an embedding of a particular design. We introduce ...
Corticosterone as a Predictor of Long-term Outcomes of Fear Attenuation Treatment
(2015-07-21)
Blunted adrenal corticosteroid levels and dysregulation of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) Axis are known risk factors for developing PTSD (Delahanty et al., 2000; McFarlane et al., 1997). Although other risk ...
Olfactory Responses and Odor Coding of Culex quinquefasciatus to Human Odorants
(2015-07-21)
The southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae), transmits a number of potentially fatal diseases, including West Nile virus (WNV). From 1999 to 2013, WNV caused 39,557 cases of human infection and ...
Exploring Participants’ Variation in Relational Outcomes based on Couple Relationship Education Curriculum
(2015-07-21)
The purpose of this study was to advance explorations of content of two different Couple Relationship Education (CRE) curricula, ELEVATE and a Mindfulness-Based CRE (MBCRE), and how each of two program experiences influenced ...
Common Law and Aesthetic Dissent: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon
(2015-07-21)
This dissertation investigates Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s dissents that instantiate his evolutionary view of the common-law system. The style and rhetoric of his dissents drew attention to his legal propositions that ...
Analyzing the Benefits of Graphics Processing Units for Computation-Intensive Applications on Hadoop
(2015-07-21)
Due to the ever expanding amount of data that is being generated in the “Big Data era” there is an ever increasing challenge of processing this data. This work aims to tackle the challenge of improving the performance of ...
Evaluation of Driver Assistive Truck Platooning on Traffic Flow
(2015-07-21)
Interest in driver assistive truck platooning (DATP) through the application of coordinated adaptive cruise control in the freight trucking industry is on the rise due to its expected benefits on the roadway. To investigate ...
Liquid Jet Impingement with Spent Flow Management for Power Electronics Cooling
(2015-07-21)
The high levels of heat generated by power electronics, on board electric and hybrid-electric vehicles, require the use of aggressive liquid cooling techniques. Incorporating the electronics cooling into the radiator flow ...
Phylogenetic treatment and taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) within the United States
(2015-07-21)
This systematic study documents the taxonomy, diversity, and distribution of the tarantula spider genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 within the United States. Aphonopelma is a group wherein traditional morphological characters ...
Experimental analysis of the wear of rubber against harder materials in reciprocating motion
(2015-07-21)
This work investigated the wear performance of rubber when contacted against harder composite materials through experimental analysis. The focus of this thesis was to find the optimal type of rubber and the composite ...
Demons into Dandies: Comic Villains and Urban Economics in Victorian Literature
(2015-07-21)
This dissertation traces the evolution of comic villains through their antagonistic rapport with the most serious of Victorian enterprises: the economy. In particular, the development of villains is situated as a metaphoric ...
Mitigating GPU Memory Divergence for Data-Intensive Applications
(2015-07-21)
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have proven as a viable technology for a wide variety of general purpose applications to exploit the massive computing capability and high computation efficiency. In GPUs, threads are ...
Outcomes of Treatment Modifications of Antihypertensive Regimens
(2015-07-17)
Antihypertensive treatment modifications (TMs)—addition, uptitration, switching, and downtitration–often are necessary to address issues such as unattained blood pressure (BP) goals, adverse drug events, drug cost, or ...
Inequalities Involving Generalized Matrix Functions
(2015-07-17)
Given a set \(F\) of functions that have their domain and codomain in common, if the codomain is ordered we may partially order \(F\) by choosing a subset \(S\) of their domain and saying that for \(f,g \in F\), \(f \leq ...
Barriers Obtaining Alternative Certification in Online Career and Technical Teacher Education Programs in Alabama
(2015-07-17)
This research study sought to identify perceived barriers in online career and technical alternative certification and specialty area certification in the state of Alabama. The study was further conducted to determine why ...
Synthesis and Gas-Expanded Liquid (GXL) Processing of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles: Fundamentals and Application
(2015-07-14)
This dissertation involves a detailed discussion into the design of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles along with associated gas-expanded liquid (GXL) processing technologies for use in various industrially relevant ...
Studies on the Epidemiology, Vaccination, Susceptibility, and Treatment of Columnaris Disease in Fishes
(2015-07-07)
In this dissertation, I explored the intraspecies genetic heterogeneity within Flavobacterium columnare isolates collected during particularly severe columnaris outbreaks observed at the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center, Aquatic ...
Operational and Investment Solutions for Dynamic Line Switching and Rating in Electrical Grid
(2015-07-07)
The electricity generation industry is one of the most expensive infrastructures and one of the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions among other industries. A great deal of short-term and long-term decisions have been ...