Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Alabama Community College Students: An Examination of the Association Between the Barriers to Graduation and the Motivating Factors
(2015-12-14)
This study identified motivating factors that address specific barriers to success for students attending Alabama community colleges. The motivating factors identified in the research included academic support/tutoring ...
A novel CPU P-State driver for better thermal control with improved power/performance trade-off
(2015-12-14)
Power consumption and thermal emergencies in multi-core processors are now a major bottleneck due to increased heat dissipation caused by running intensive programs on densely integrated systems. High temperatures lead to ...
Comparative Study of Sentiment Detection Techniques for Business Analytics
(2015-12-14)
As the amount of data proliferates, businesses are faced with a plethora of decision support opportunities and often times lack a prescribed set of techniques to speed up or even handle analysis opportunities. The primary ...
Parametric Development of Wire 3D Printing
(2015-12-11)
Currently commercialized additive manufacturing techniques offer great detail in small, difficult to produce parts. They are also slow, limited in scale, and expensive. An additive technique that can rapidly produce large ...
Preschool Life Skills Training Using the Response to Intervention Model with Preschoolers with Developmental Disabilities
(2015-12-11)
Previous research has examined a variety of methods for teaching young children important social skills in preschool to increase prosocial behavior and reduce classroom behavior problems. Preschool life skills (PLS) ...
Detection, isolation, and characterization of avian influenza viruses from waterfowl in wildlife refuges in the southeastern United States (2006-2011).
(2015-12-11)
Avian influenza (AI) is an infectious disease of birds caused by type A influenza viruses. These AI viruses (AIV) commonly infect poultry and wild birds; however, some AIV strains have infected and caused mortality in a ...
Exploring the Influence of Residential Status of Stepparents on Program Effects of Couple and Relationship Education
(2015-12-11)
While the research on CRE programs has expanded significantly in the past decade, only a handful of studies have considered family structure and its influence on the program experience or explored the specific experiences ...
Quasi-static poroelastic equations as a symmetric positive system and its numerical approximation
(2015-12-11)
This dissertation is concerned with the equations of linear poroelasticity and numerical simulation in the framework of symmetric positive systems. Physical systems arising in geomechanics, hydrology, soil mechanics, ...
Impacts of Native and Non-native plants on Urban Insect Communities: Are Native Plants Better than Non-natives?
(2015-12-11)
With continued suburban expansion in the southeastern United States, it is increasingly important to understand urbanization and its impacts on sustainability and natural ecosystems. Expansion of suburbia is often coupled ...
A Feature-based Solution for Kidnapped Robot Problem
(2015-12-11)
The Kidnapped Robot problem in robotics commonly refers to a situation where an autonomous robot can’t locate itself against the map. It can be caused by external force when a robot is carried to an arbitrary place, or ...
Design, Processing, and Failure Analysis of Open-Architecture Composite Structures
(2015-12-11)
The Open-Architecture Composite Structures (O-ACS) are composed of tow-pregs and cord-pregs. This research conducts a full spectrum analysis from tow-preg to cord-preg and O-ACS. The final goal is to propose an integrated ...
Assessing the Reliability of Water Test Kits for Use in Small-Scale Aquaculture
(2015-12-11)
Water analysis kits are useful for practical aquaculture only if they give results as accurate as those obtained by standard water analysis methods. This study used weighted Cohen’s Kappa statistic to compare management ...
The use of Bacillus subtilis as a direct-fed microbial and its effects on production and colonization of Salmonella Enteritidis and Clostridium perfringens in production broilers
(2015-12-11)
The growing emergence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria has given rise to consumer fear that the use antibiotics in the meat industry can lead to more antimicrobial resistant strains. Because of this fear, the poultry ...
Demography of the corkscrew sea anemone Bartholomea annulata in the Florida Keys and in laboratory culture: a giant sea anemone under pressure.
(2015-12-11)
The successful management of species requires information on their patterns of distribution, abundance, and population dynamics. Demographic studies are important for gauging how environmental conditions impact populations; ...
A Comparison of High School Students’ Development of Statistical Reasoning Outcomes in High and Low Statistical Reasoning Learning Environments
(2015-12-11)
The purpose of this study was to study the impact of conformity to Statistical Reasoning Learning Environment (SRLE) principles on students’ statistical reasoning in Advanced Placement statistics courses. The study encompassed ...
Ecomorphological analysis of cyprinds in the Mobile Bay Basin
(2015-12-10)
Ecomorphology is the study of variations in morphology and how it relates to organisms’ various life histories or ecologies. Phenetic packing/dispersal studies analyzes morphologies of community members and sees how the ...
Reconsidering Jessie Pope: The Writer Before "A Certain Poetess"
(2015-12-10)
In four chapters, I present a case study of Jessie Pope’s early career, focusing on her use of women in her writing for adults. Her women are smart, and their situations are orchestrated by Pope in ways that lay bare ...
Three Essays on Non-Market Valuation Applications
(2015-12-10)
This dissertation is organized into three topics using nonmarket valuation applications. The first topic examines the demand behavior of recreational participants to the coastal counties in Alabama and Mississippi and ...
An Examination of the Student Engagement and Deep Learning Experiences of High-Profile Student-Athletes, Low-Profile Student-Athletes, and the General Student Population
(2015-12-10)
Within the landscape of collegiate athletics, the personal development and engaging experiences of student-athletes, particularly those in high-profile sports, have often come into question. This study examined National ...
Characterization of the HCA2 Receptor in a Murine and a Feline Model of Human Obesity
(2015-12-10)
Background. There is mounting evidence that the hydroxycarboxyilic acid 2 (HCA2) receptor, which is present on both adipocytes and immune cells, plays an important role in modulating cross-talk between metabolic and immune ...