Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Livable Neighborhood Factors Affecting Mode Choices in a Medium Sized University Community
(2015-12-04)
Communities across the United States are striving to increase walking, biking, and riding transit among their residents and thus become more livable. In order for these communities to become more livable, city planners ...
Grazing Evaluation of Cool-Season Grasses with and without Legumes
(2015-12-04)
Reducing the length of time that cattle must be sustained on stored forages during the winter by extending the grazing season is a growing interest of cattle producers in the Southeast. This project was conducted to evaluate ...
Chemical composition and pollution potential of fish and shrimp feeds
(2015-12-04)
The objectives of this research were to assess the resources use for producing aquaculture feeds and to determine the waste loads of nutrients to the culture system (system loads), along with the solution to reduce nutrient ...
Secure Design Considerations for Embedded Systems
(2015-12-04)
A guide is presented for embedded system designers that details secure design considerations for modern embedded systems. The guide focuses on adapting traditional software design practices to include adapted methodologies ...
Updating Soil Hydraulic Properties under Changing Land Use/Cover for Improved Hydrologic Predictions
(2015-12-04)
Land use/cover (LULC) change, especially forest to urban transition, can alter the soil hydraulic properties, including soil hydraulic conductivity, even though the soil texture and series may remain the same. Soil hydraulic ...
“What was her name?”: Pre-Nineteenth Century Slave Women’s Fragmented Narratives
(2015-12-04)
Accessing the narratives of enslaved women before the nineteenth century is challenging but necessary because of the limited ways we understand their experiences. The archive we primarily depend on does not provide ...
Classic and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Latent Profile Analysis
(2015-12-04)
Some trauma survivors, especially those exposed to chronic interpersonal trauma, exhibit a wide range of psychological sequelae beyond the classic symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Foremost among these are ...
Swimming Performance of Coastal and Inland Largemouth Bass at Varying Salinities
(2015-12-04)
Coastal estuaries represent an interface between marine and fresh waters, and, as such, they are exposed to seasonal and annual fluctuations in salinity. All of the organisms that live in estuaries must emigrate or endure ...
Sequential graft-Interpenetrating polymer networks based on polyurethane and acrylic/ester copolymers
(2015-12-04)
Highly transparent and tough graft-interpenetrating polymer networks (graft-IPNs) were synthesized using an elastomeric polyurethane phase (PU) and a highly stiff acrylate-base copolymer phase. The grafting points between ...
Investigation of Several Factors Affecting Total Alkalinity Concentration and Its Measurement
(2015-12-04)
The optimal endpoint pH for total alkalinity titrations decreased from 5.0 at 10 mg/L alkalinity to 4.2 for 300 mg/L alkalinity or more. The appropriate color changes for bromocresol green-methyl red (BG-MR) and methyl ...
The Relationship Between Creativity and Learning Style Preference, Age, and Educational Achievement
(2015-12-04)
This study investigated the relationship between creativity and learning style preference, age, and educational achievement. One hundred adult graduate students from the departments of Adult Education and Higher Education ...
Student Perspectives of Supporting and Hindering Factors in School Integration and the Role of Racial Identity in the Process
(2015-12-04)
May 17, 1954 would be an important historic day and would influence education in the lives of African American students in the United States with the unanimous verdict of Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas that ...
Digital Implementation of Current-Mode Control for Power Factor Correction
(2015-12-03)
Presented in this dissertation is the implementation of power factor correction (PFC) preregulators controlled by a single microcontroller. Two microcontroller-based PFC preregulator systems, with input voltage sensing ...
Risk Assessment in Software Release Practice in Public Organization Information Management Systems
(2015-12-03)
The purpose of this paper is to document the United States Air Force’s (USAF) approach to risk assessment of software during the release phase of development and to provide material to support improvement recommendations ...
Sexual Dimorphism, the Big-Mother Hypothesis, and Analyses of Hormones, Minerals, and Stable Isotopes to Determine Reproductive Events in Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus)
(2015-12-03)
Baleen from bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) provided an opportunity to study reproduction and sexual dimorphism via analyses of hormones, minerals, and stable-isotopes. Concentration of progesterone in baleen was ...
An Examination of the Relationship between Helicopter Parenting and College Adjustment and the Effects of Emotional Intelligence
(2015-12-03)
The term, helicopter parenting, was coined to describe how the parents of the children born in the millennium generation are involved in every aspect of their children’s lives in developmentally inappropriate ways, especially ...
Elucidating the Role of Integrin Linked Kinase Pathway in Moderate Drinking Prenatal Alcohol Exposed Rat Model
(2015-11-18)
Alcohol and nicotine are well known teratogen which has been reported to have large scale effect on developing fetus. Prenatal alcohol cause many deleterious effect during fetal development which either persist throughout ...
Mapping Stream Channel Head Locations in the State of Alabama
(2015-11-18)
This study focuses on assessing the utility of the slope-area method for predicting channel head locations in forested areas in Alabama under different physiographic regions, improving this method by evaluating the other ...
Decadencia, desigualdad y degeneración: El Madrid médico-social en La prostituta de López Bago
(2015-11-18)
La Prostituta (1884) es una novela médico social de Eduardo López Bago que nos presenta, sin tapujos, el Madrid de finales del siglo XIX. Los males de la época son introducidos a través de la crítica anticlerical y por ...
Examining the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction among Elementary Education Educators
(2015-11-17)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and teacher job satisfaction for teachers within elementary schools in southeast Alabama. Individuals involved in educational policy ...