Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Distinguishing Behavioral and Cognitive Dimensions of Parental Social Coaching: A Focused Examination of Parents' Social and Psychological Influence During Early Adolescence
(2015-05-08)
As peer stress and internalizing problems rise around the transition to adolescence, parents often want to intervene to promote positive peer experiences and psychological well-being. However, there is a paucity of empirical ...
Retrieval Blocking Supports the Testing Effect with All-of-the-Above Questions on a Multiple-Choice Test
(2015-05-08)
Poorly constructed multiple-choice-questions (MCQ) can have dire consequences on students' exam performance (e.g. negative testing effect). For example, either increasing the answer options (Roediger & Marsh, 2005) or ...
Effect of maternally-derived immunity in the development of humoral immune responses to vaccination and subsequent challenge with BVDV
(2015-05-08)
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a viral pathogen of cattle that can present with different clinical syndromes including reproductive failure, immunosuppression, respiratory disease, and gastrointestinal disease. ...
Evaluation of AIMS-II and Micro-Deval for Friction Characteristics of Aggregates
(2015-05-08)
There is a need for a rapid quantitative way to evaluate the quality of aggregate friction properties for use in an asphalt surface (wearing) course. Aggregates that are resistant to polishing and capable of retaining their ...
Determining the Effect of Felling Method and Season of Year on Coppice Regeneration
(2015-05-08)
There is increasing interest in plantations with the objective of producing biomass for energy and fuel. These types of plantations are called Short Rotation Woody Crops (SRWC). Popular SRWC species are Eucalypt (Eucalyptus ...
Asymptotic Dynamics of Competition Systems with Immigration and/or Time Periodic Dependence
(2015-05-08)
This dissertation is devoted to the study of the asymptotic dynamics, in particular, coexistence states and convergence of nonnegative solutions to the competition systems with immigration and time periodic dependence. ...
Efficient Reliability Verification Testing in Open Source Software Using Priority Prediction
(2015-05-08)
Open source software is becoming a strong alternative to private development for a wide market of applications. There is a stigma against using open source software in the private sector because of licensing restrictions ...
The Mental Universe of the English Nonjurors
(2015-05-08)
The Glorious Revolution of 1688, which pushed James II from the throne of England, was not glorious for everyone; in fact, for many, it was a great disaster. Those who had already taken an oath of allegiance to James II ...
Chronic Dietary Quercetin Enrichment and Cardiac Pathology in Mdx and Mdx-Utrn +/-Mice
(2015-05-08)
BACKGROUND: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy causes declines in cardiac health resulting in mortality in up to 40% patients due to fibrosis and cardiopathology. Quercetin is a polyphenol possessing inherent anti-inflammatory ...
Integration of Nutrition in the Post-Secondary Culinary Curriculum: Designing a Model
(2015-05-08)
The present study investigates current nutritional curriculum competencies taught in post-secondary culinary programs and identifies barriers that exist teaching nutrition in post-secondary culinary curriculum. This research ...
How can I explore and represent the atmosphere in landscape architecture by 3Ds Max software?
(2015-05-08)
In landscape architecture, representing in graphic is a way to communicate the vision, the performance of the design. While objects and performance is popular standard to navigate graphic and design, the atmosphere which ...
Approaches to Improve Production and Performance of Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) Female x Blue Catfish (I. furcatus) Male Hybrid Catfish
(2015-05-08)
Xenogenesis was studied as a method for the production of hybrid catfish fry via mating xenogeneic males with normal channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus females. Spermatogonial type A cells were isolated from blue catfish ...
GPS Multipath Detection and Mitigation Timing Bias Techniques
(2015-05-08)
In this thesis, timing-based methods of multipath mitigation and detection are developed.
GPS pseudorange measurements are used to calculate a receiver's position and timing
bias, which is a measurement of the di erence ...
Private Paths to Protecting Places: The Creation of a Conservation Infrastructure in the American South Since 1889
(2015-05-08)
This dissertation investigates changes in the ways individuals protected private land in the twentieth century American South. In contrast with iconic parks like Yellowstone or the heavily industrialized lands of the ...
“For Youth for Life” An Online Education System Usability and Security Improvement
(2015-05-08)
The FYFL (For Youth For Life) application is used to perform website functions which helps learning among communities across many content areas, supports the 4-H badge management system and creates users of different levels. ...
Data Driven Decision Making for School Improvement Planning: Toward a Model and Process for Distributive Leadership and Shared Decision Making
(2015-05-08)
Many school leaders may not have adequate decision-making tools or skills to respond to the reporting requirements of accountability mandates such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race To the Top (RTTT) (Flowers & ...
Economic Value of the Tournament Black Bass Fishery on Lake Guntersville, Alabama
(2015-05-08)
Lake Guntersville is one of the most renown black bass fisheries in the United States and as such attracts many tournaments of various sizes and competition levels. This study attempted to quantify the economic impact of ...
Real-Time Vehicle License Plate Detection and Tracking Using Multilayer Back-Propagation Neural Networks with and without Hough Transform
(2015-05-08)
There are many applications of vehicle tag detection systems using image properties, which include image density, corner detection and blob analysis but using neural networks in real time for both detection and tracking ...
User-Based Recommendation Algorithm on Hadoop Cluster
(2015-05-08)
Recommender systems apply knowledge discovery techniques to the problem of making
personalized product recommendations using customers usage pattern. Systems like the k-
nearest neighbors and neighborhood-based collaborative ...
Enhancing Image Resolvability in Obscured Environments Using 3D Deconvolution and a Plenoptic Camera
(2015-05-08)
Light field imaging with a plenoptic camera is an emerging flow diagnostic technique capable of capturing three dimensional information about a given volume or flow from a single plenoptic image. Translucent occlusions ...