Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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A Chemiresistor Sensor Array for Insect Infestation Detection
(2012-05-03)
Plants emit volatile organic compounds as a defensive mechanism to protect themselves from insects and pathogens. These volatile organic chemicals, also known as phytochemicals, are given off during the early stages of ...
Social Comparison and Help Seeking Attitudes: Evaluation of the Impact of Subjective and Objective Social Comparison Data on Help Seeking Attitudes
(2012-05-03)
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Festinger's (1954) theory of social comparison. Specifically, this study focused on the impact of subjective and objective data on help seeking ...
Intra-individual systemic shifts: Linkages between relationship quality and depressed affect in a diverse sample of relationally distressed Couple and Relationship Education (CRE) participants
(2012-05-01)
The negative association between depression and marital satisfaction has been clearly documented, with theoretical approaches describing the direction of effects as depression leading to marital dissatisfaction (Stress ...
Statistical Human Body Form Classification: Methodology Development and Application
(2012-05-01)
The focus of this exploratory study was statistical human body form classification. Prior studies have explored human body size and shape but few have explored human body form. The actual human body is a three-dimensional ...
Simple Techniques for Detecting Decomposability or Indecomposability of Generalized Inverse Limits
(2012-05-01)
A continuum X is said to be decomposable if it can be written as a union of two proper subcontinua; otherwise, X is said to be indecomposable. For years, topologists have used inverse limits with continuous bonding functions ...
The Application of a Particle Filter to Urban Ground Target Localization, Tracking, and Intercept
(2012-05-01)
Ground vehicle localization is a problem of significance in an urban setting given the recent global conflicts, security interests, and rapid growth of sensor networks. This task is often difficult due to the lack of ...
Platinum nanoparticle-polyoxometalate based bimetallic catalyst for proton exchange membrane fuel cell and bipolar electrodeposition based combinatorial material library applied in sensors and energy systems
(2012-05-01)
The first part of chapter 1 summarizes the reports on the improved oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) kinetics on Pt-bimetallic catalysts used in proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). An account on the significance of ...
Video over Cognitive Radio Networks: A Cross-Layer Optimization Approach
(2012-05-01)
Cognitive radios (CR) are intelligent radio devices that can sense the radio environment and adapt to changes in the radio environment. CR represents a new paradigm of wireless communications and networking by efficiently ...
Molecular Epidemiology and Genetic Analysis of Staphylococcus species in Companion Animal Medicine
(2012-05-01)
In human medicine, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the leading causes of bacterial infections in the United States (191). In veterinary medicine, an increased number of multidrug-resistant ...
Synthesis, Processing and Characterization of Nanostructured Conducting Materials
(2012-05-01)
Several novel synthesis approaches target to precisely control the nano-structures of electric organic polymers have been studied and these methods can afford to yield nanostructured electric organic polymers, (i) conducting ...
Behavioral Effects of Calcium Channel Blockers: Acute Exposures and Neuroprotection Against Methylmercury Neurotoxicity
(2012-05-01)
The maintenance of intracellular calcium homeostasis is among the most important homeostatic functions of the nervous system as it allows the calcium ion to function as a chemical messenger. Often damage to the central ...
Imprinting Community College Computer Science Education with Software Engineering Principles
(2012-05-01)
Although the two-year curriculum guide includes coverage of all eight software engineering core topics, the computer science courses taught in Alabama community colleges limit student exposure to the programming, or coding, ...
The Extension Program Development Model: A Look At Commitment and Engagement
(2012-05-01)
This study examines program evaluation in Cooperative Extension by investigating staff commitment to systematic evaluation, commitment to the Extension Program Development Model, barriers and supports that impact engagement ...
Physiological effects of chytridiomycosis, a cause of amphibian population declines
(2012-05-01)
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of wildlife can have devastating impacts on biodiversity. The fungal disease, chytridiomycosis, caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is implicated with amphibian population ...
Iggression: an examination of the role of digital technologies in the 2011 Arab Awakening
(2012-04-30)
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are rapidly proliferating to cultures all over the world. The invention of Internet and its exponential diffusion created a new niche for studying social change within ...
The Utopian Aestheticism of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Gertrude Stein's Three Lives
(2012-04-30)
This study reads Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, 1891) and Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives (written 1905, published 1909) through Paul Cézanne’s radical aesthetics of surface, and is grounded in H. G. Wells’ ...
Capabilities of Primary Students Participating in a Sport Education Physical Education Unit
(2012-04-30)
Research has supported the use of Sport Education in physical education. The majority of studies have focused on its use in elementary, secondary, and higher education. Little research has been completed in regards to the ...
An Initial Validation of a Two Dimensional Theory of Motivational Interviewing
(2012-04-30)
Patient non-adherence to treatment regimen is a major cause for increased healthcare utilization costs associated with emergency room visits, outpatient services and hospitalizations. The need to improve patient adherence ...
Effects of Supplemental Feeding of Plum Juice Concentrate on Fecal Microbial Shedding and Pork Quality
(2012-04-30)
Purebred Yorkshire pigs (n=32) were fed at the Auburn University Swine Research and Education Center to determine the influence of supplementation of plum juice concentrate (PJC) on microbial shedding, growth, carcass, and ...
Adaptive Image Acquisition with Consideration of Camera Optics
(2012-04-30)
This dissertation addresses two common problems in image acquisition. We first introduce an adaptive image acquisition methodology by replacing the traditional birefringent filter with slight out-of-focus blur generated ...