Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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A Predictive Model of Disordered Eating: The Role of Negative Appearance-Based Commentary in Familial and Romantic Relationships
(2014-07-24)
A multitude of interpersonal factors have previously been identified within the literature as contributing to the development of disordered eating. However, current literature suggests negative interaction patterns and ...
Exploring the Effects of Reality Television on Body Image: Does Feminist Identification Matter?
(2014-07-24)
Research has demonstrated that sociocultural factors exert tremendous influence on the
development and maintenance of body dissatisfaction (Thompson et al., 1999). The mass media
generally, and reality television in ...
Formation and Passivation of Sub-Nanoliter Droplets for High Throughput Biological Assay Platforms
(2014-07-24)
In Vitro Compartmentalization (IVC) is a technique that utilizes water-in-oil emulsion droplets of fL – nL volume to compartmentalize and perform biological reactions and assays in parallel. At its highest capacity it has ...
The Effect of Political Knowledge on Political Tolerance
(2014-07-24)
Traditional democratic theory holds that an educated electorate, capable of making informed decisions regarding government policy, is required to maintain a healthy relationship between the government and the governed ...
3-Cycle Systems and Structure within Graph Decompositions
(2014-07-24)
An $H$-decomposition of a graph $G$ is a partition of the edge set $E(G)$ such that each element of the partition induces a subgraph isomorphic to $H$. A packing or cover of $\lambda K_n$ (with triples) is an ordered pair ...
Optimization Of Plant Based Diets For Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)
(2014-07-24)
Supplies of marine ingredients are finite and their prices are high, fluctuating and the price is expected to continue to rise. The aquaculture industry has long recognized that the viable utilization of plant feedstuffs ...
Attitudes of Elementary-Level and Secondary-Level Teachers toward Students with Disabilities
(2014-07-24)
The purpose of the study was to explore teachers’ attitudes toward students with disabilities in the southeastern United States. Variables such as gender, age, years of experience, grade level taught, extent of contact ...
Effect of Ammonia Nitrogen on Production and Haemolymph of Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) Cultured in Low Salinity Ponds in Greene County, Alabama
(2014-07-24)
Water temperature, pH, and concentration of total ammonia nitrogen were measured on 12 sampling date in summer 2013 in eight shrimp ponds on an inland, low-salinity shrimp farm in Alabama. Shrimp haemolymph samples also ...
Development of an Inhibitor Resistant Genomic Assay for Environmental Samples
(2014-07-24)
Rapid identification and quantification of bacteria is beneficial for the environmental monitoring, such as water quality and site clean-up. However, existing bacteria quantification methods, such as colony counting or ...
The Economic Impact of Supervised Agricultural Experiences in Agricultural Education from a National Perspective
(2014-07-24)
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine, on a national level, the economic impact of the agricultural education students supervised agricultural experience programs (SAE), and determine whether certain ...
Symbiosis and Nitrogen Cycling: Physiological Effects of Anemone Shrimps on Host Sea Anemones in the Caribbean Sea
(2014-07-24)
Symbioses are characteristic of coral reef communities and can involve networks of species interactions as well as specialized adaptations to reef conditions. Because coral reefs are surrounded by nutrient-poor water, ...
Educational Leadership, Sustainability and Independent Schools
(2014-07-24)
Green schools are healthy, high performing schools that address ecological, economic,
and equity concerns. Independent schools are institutions that “consistently aspire to instill in
graduates such qualities as good ...
Literacy, Literature, and Pedagogy in Two Nineteenth-Century Alabama Normal Schools
(2014-07-24)
Six of Alabama’s eleven state universities began as normal schools during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Florence State Normal School and Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School created empowerment for individual ...
Person-Job Fit: Do Job Characteristics Moderate the Relationship of Personality with Burnout, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment?
(2014-07-24)
Decades-long research on personality-situation interaction's influence on behavior provided the underlying theory for the present study. Applied to the workplace, the underlying theory appears in the form of person-job and ...
2D NMR Characterization of Cellobiose Sulfate Hydrolyzed from Cellulose Nanocrystals
(2014-07-24)
There has been growing interest in the study of Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and the development of CNC-based new materials due to its renewable nature, unique aspect ratio and high elastic moduli. Characterization of CNC ...
Stockpiled 'Tifton 85' Bermudagrass for Cow-Calf Production as Influenced by Nitrogen Fertilization
(2014-07-24)
A 2-yr grazing study was conducted to determine effects of rate of N fertilization on productivity and nutritive value of stockpiled 'Tifton 85' bermudagrass for lactating-cow and calf performance. On October 31, 2012 (Yr ...
Are Adolescent Sex Offenders' Peer Relationships related to Attachment to Parents? Does Adaptive and Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Mediate that Relationship?
(2014-07-24)
Adolescents who have sexually offended commonly report offending someone within their peer network. However, little research has investigated factors that may contribute to poor quality of peer interactions. The purpose ...
Characterizing the Geological and Geochemical Properties of Selected Gas Shales and their Thermal Maturation in the Black Warrior Basin, Alabama
(2014-07-22)
This study will focus on selected gas shale’s, geological and geochemical properties in Alabama’s Black Warrior Basin, which contains Cambrian through Mississippian shales; these gas-shales that may potentially produce ...
High-Dimensional Classification Methods for Sparse Signals and Their Applications in Text and Data Mining
(2014-07-22)
Classification using high-dimensional features arises frequently in many contemporary
statistical studies such as tumor classification using microarray or other high-throughput
data. In this dissertation we conduct a ...
Self-Efficacy among Counselors Trained in Animal-Assisted Play Therapy
(2014-07-22)
The purpose of this study was to examine the participant’s level of self-reported counseling self-efficacy when conducting an animal assisted play therapy (AAPT) session. The results indicated that participants had a ...