Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Silicon Carbide/Aluminum Oxide Field-Effect Transistors
(2020-07-22)
4H-Silicon Carbide is a wide band gap semiconductor with attractive physical properties for high power, high-frequency devices, and electronics that operate under harsh environments that are not accessible to conventional ...
When Physical Appearance (Dis)connects to Moral Character: Examining the Potential Fusion of Christian and Secular Beliefs about the Ideal Body
(2020-07-22)
Although religion, specifically Christianity, plays an important role in life for many women and impacts their views of the self and the world, little quantitative research has explored how Christian doctrine—particularly ...
Understanding the Experiences of Student Parents in Master's Counseling Graduate Progams
(2020-07-22)
The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the experiences that student
parents have in master’s counseling graduate programs and fill the gap of student parent research
that exists (Trepal et al., ...
The Identification and Implementation of Key Characteristics of Exemplary Career and Technical Education Programs in Rural Areas
(2020-07-22)
The increased demand for a skilled workforce has placed new challenges on rural school districts. Students are provided the opportunity to obtain the skills required to fill the workforce needs through exemplary career and ...
An Examination of the Relationship Between Online Course Design Standards and Student Educational Experiences
(2020-07-22)
This study investigated the perception of student learning experiences in Quality Matters (QM) certified courses. The purpose of this study was to determine what impact, if any, online course design training had on instructor ...
Hopfield Neural Lattice Models
(2020-07-22)
Hopfield neural network model is a continuous deterministic model proposed by John J.
Hopfield in the early 1980’s. The model was proposed in an attempt to produced an artificial
neural network architecture that mimic ...
Development of the Contact Models to Determine Electrical Contact Resistance Including a Coupled Electro-thermo-mechanical Analysis Considering Temperature-Dependent Material Properties
(2020-07-22)
Reliability of the electrical contact or interface is one of the major concerns in many applications such as batteries, solar cells, electrical connectors, MEMS based sensors for hybrid and electric vehicles, electronic ...
Fatigue Behavior and Modeling of Polyether Ether Ketone under Variable Amplitude and Multiaxial Loading
(2020-07-22)
Experimental and analytical roadmap to thoroughly understand and establish benchmark material properties for unfilled polyether ether ketone (PEEK) under monotonic tension and compression, as well as uniaxial and multiaxial ...
Beyond the timberline: Assessment of Supplemental Income Opportunities, Forest Management Practices, and Attributes of Southern Pine Straw Types
(2020-07-22)
Of Alabama’s 23 million acres of timberland, over 13 million acres of it is owned by family forest landowners. Therefore, they play a pivotal role in the future of Alabama’s forest. Due to a combination of shift in ownership ...
Guideline for Applying Neo Confucianism thought in Product Design
(2020-07-22)
This study aims to summarize the design principles in Neo-Confucianism and use them to develop a guideline for product design. This study provides new design opportunities under Neo-Confucianism thought by analyzing the ...
A Phenomenological Study Exploring the Lived Experiences of Compassion Satisfaction in Early Career Mental Health Counselors
(2020-07-22)
This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of compassion satisfaction in eight early career mental health counselors. Through in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the researcher sought to capture the nuances ...
Robust Bayesian Methods for Semi-parametric Models
(2020-07-21)
Nonparametric rank-based approaches in many situations provide more flexible modeling speci cations and robustness when the distribution of data diff ers from the assumed distribution. This dissertation is mainly concerned ...
Women, the Family, and the "Search for Stability" in Thermidorian France
(2020-07-21)
The Revolutionary Tribunal trials of Jean-Baptiste Carrier and Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville played a central role in the Thermidorian government’s “search for stability”. In these trials, the Thermidorians sought to ...
Development and Calibration of Safety Performance Functions for Intersections on Rural Divided Highways in Alabama
(2020-07-21)
Although median separated highways provide apparent benefits over undivided highways, sometimes median openings on rural divided highways (RDHs) provide some of the greatest opportunities for frequent and severe crashes ...
Mental Health Labels and Their Effects on Public Stigma among College Students
(2020-07-21)
This study examined the relationship between labels used to refer to mental health, whether or not participants were asked to reflect on their preconceived notions around these labels, and endorsement of mental health ...
Effects of Lithographic Parameters and Geometric Exposure Method for Corner Rounding Correction in Massively-Parallel Electron-Beam Systems for the Mask Pattern Development
(2020-07-21)
The ability of electron-beam (e-beam) lithography to transfer fine features onto a substrate
is essential in many applications where high-resolution devices need to be fabricated. However,
its low throughput has been the ...
Elucidation of the mechanism of learning and memory deficits in adolescent offspring due to prenatal cannabinoid exposure
(2020-07-21)
Cannabis is now one of the most commonly used illicit substances among pregnant and lactating women. This is particularly concerning given that developmental exposure to cannabinoids has been demonstrated to induce enduring ...
Hardy space associated with flag-type singular integrals of three parameters
(2020-07-21)
The main purpose of this thesis is to establish a Hardy space theory associated with the flag-type singular integrals on Euclidean space. This theory is a continuation of those the classical one parameter, product setting ...
Semiparametric Estimation for Integral Projection Models
(2020-07-21)
Understanding the connection between variation in climate and population dynamics of plants and animals is important for predicting the impacts of future climate change. A popular approach for studying population dynamics ...
Improving Parameter Estimation for Integral Projection Models in Fluctuating Environments
(2020-07-21)
The matrix projection model (MPM) is one of the mainstream approaches for population
and environmental dynamics in biological and ecological sciences. MPM is very popular in
modern biological sciences mainly due to its ...