Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Shut it Down: Nineteenth-Century Southern Fictions of Reproduction
(2015-05-04)
The dissertation analyzes how the establishment of professionalized—and masculinized—medicine during the nineteenth century controlled female sexuality by policing reproductive rights and rates. Focusing specifically on ...
Efficient Storage Design and Query Scheduling for Improving Big Data Retrieval and Analytics
(2015-05-04)
With the perpetually increasing requirement and generation of digital data, the human being has been stepping into the Big Data era. To efficiently manage, retrieve and exploit such gigantic amount of data continuously ...
Factors that Successful and Unsuccessful Community College Students Perceive as Fostering and Hindering their Success in Online Learning
(2015-05-04)
The purpose of this study was to determine perceptions of community college students at a rural community college in Southeast Alabama, to identify the barriers they faced in being successful, and the strategies they ...
Proactive Reuse
(2015-05-04)
In this thesis I explored how as a designer I could approach site design proactively where one use transitions into the next. These times of transition are points that are not respected in our society. Current trends offer ...
the formless: a designer's dialogue with process
(2015-05-04)
The idea of formlessness in landscape architecture is defined as dynamic processes, such as wind blowing and plant growth. These are not things you associate with a given form, but a fluid and dynamic process. Specifically, ...
Femininity and the Unnamed Women of the New Testament
(2015-05-04)
Gender and sex are often considered to be synonymous, suggesting that males are designed to be biologically and psychologically a certain way while females are designed to be biologically and psychologically opposite and ...
The Role of Personality in Career Preference of Speech-Language Pathology Students
(2015-05-04)
The purpose of this study was to obtain a personality profile, as measured by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (Tellegan, 2003), of undergraduate and graduate speech-language pathology (SLP) students and to ...
Perceptions about Bullying of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Survey of School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists
(2015-05-04)
The purpose of the current investigation was to examine speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs’) knowledge and perceptions of bullying, with an emphasis on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A 46-item, web-based, nationally-distributed ...
Investigating Brain Function using Functional MRI-based Meta-analysis and Diffusion Tensor Imaging
(2015-05-04)
The investigation of structure and function in biological systems, specifically the brain, is paramount given the close relationship that they share with each other. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and Diffusion ...
An Examination of Mental and Physical Health in College
(2015-05-04)
The transitional years of college that a traditional student faces are full of change and adaptation; these years of emerging adulthood require learning how to balance new responsibilities. Although this new independence ...
Feral Towns : Alabama's Shrinking Towns
(2015-05-04)
The 21st century has created a feral condition in many small towns in Alabama. This feral condition has resulted in social, ecological, and spatial changes that require new forms of civic spaces, and understanding.
Playful landscapes build a resilient city
(2015-05-04)
There are lots of ways to build a resilient city in the world. With different situations, cities should have different ways to build resilient cities, like the case building resilient city in New Orleans is different from ...
Batty Landscapes: Rethinking Urban Pests.
(2015-05-04)
As a species we humans dominate the lands in which we live. Because of this we have started to lose respect for other species and often quickly dismiss them. This thesis looks to address this issue and change the way in ...
Implementation of Fork-Merge Parsing in OpenRefactory/C
(2015-05-04)
C preprocessor directives are extensively used in C programs. Due to this, performing advanced program transformations on C programs is difficult. To obtain correct transformations, all possible configurations have to be ...
Multi-robot SLAM and map merging
(2015-05-04)
Although it is a very useful technique for a robot to detect an unknown environment and plot the map, mapping is a classic problem in robotics. The mapping task can be sped up by multi-robot cooperation. Each robot in a ...
Examining the Role of Personal Problems in Determining Income
(2015-05-04)
The goal of this dissertation is to both theoretically and empirically examine how various personal problems affect income. The analysis will specifically examine the effects of divorce, alcohol use, misuse of legal drugs, ...
Modeling the Effects of Projected Sea Level Rise on Water Quality in Coastal Bangladesh
(2015-05-04)
Climate models show that Bangladesh will experience high rates of change in temperature, precipitation, runoff, and local sea level rise rates by 2100. Sea level rise will result in the degradation of groundwater quality ...
Gantt Resource Management System Applied to Construction
(2015-05-04)
The current scheduling techniques such as the Critical Path Method (CPM) do not directly take resources (i.e. material, equipment, manpower) into consideration when producing schedules. As a result resource requirements ...
Determinants of National Policy on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Selected Countries: A Comparative Study
(2015-04-30)
Embryonic stem cells have remained a polarizing issue around the globe. The plethora of potential applications and technologies are unfamiliar to most of society. Politicians and policy analysts continually work to pass ...
Transition Fronts in Time Heterogeneous Bistable Equations with Nonlocal Dispersal: Existence, Regularity, Stability and Uniqueness
(2015-04-30)
This dissertation is devoted to the existence, regularity, stability and uniqueness of transition fronts in nonlocal bistable equations in time heterogeneous media.
Instead of existence, we start our study with ...