Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Spend, Tax, and Save: The Impact of Public Enterprises on Local Finances in Georgia
(2011-12-01)
Although public owned enterprises have rarely received the attention of the American public, their presence across the nation is heavy and their role in governance fundamental. Public enterprises have existed since the ...
Eighteenth-Century Losers: Anxious Performances of Masculinity in Long Eighteenth- Century England
(2011-12-01)
My dissertation investigates how a group of male comedic figures (cuckolds, impotent men, and old bachelors) relate to an ongoing debate in the eighteenth century about the marriage problem. Largely ignored by scholars as ...
An Intelligent and Interactive Simulation and Tutoring Environment for Exploring and Learning Simple Machines
(2011-12-01)
Students in middle school science classes have difficulty mastering physics concepts such as energy and work, taught in the context of simple machines. Moreover, students' naive conceptions of physics often remain unchanged ...
The effects of dietary and skeletal calcium availability on reproductive performance of mammals
(2011-12-01)
Investment in offspring production often requires the mobilization of endogenous resources, a strategy which may negatively impact maternal condition. In mammals, skeletal ossification in growing offspring requires ...
A Universally Usable and Anonymous Approach to Voter Write-Ins Using Multimodal Interaction and Prediction Techniques
(2011-11-30)
The primary objective of the research in this dissertation is to develop a system in which any person, regardless of ability or disability, can efficiently, anonymously, and independently write-in a candidate’s name during ...
The Influence of Gender Views, Behaviors and Their Consistency on African American Marital Quality
(2011-11-30)
Prior research findings have repeatedly supported the link between egalitarianism and high marital quality among married Americans overall. However, findings linking egalitarianism to marital quality for African American ...
Essays on Applied Resource Economics Using Bioeconomic Optimization Models
(2011-11-30)
With rising demographic growth, there is increasing interest in analytical studies that
assess alternative policies to provide an optimal allocation of scarce natural resources while
ensuring environmental sustainability. ...
Measuring Motivation and Tendencies Towards Self-directedness Within Information Technology in an Academic Workplace
(2011-11-30)
Advances in industry have placed a high demand on the workforce to maintain constant
training. Some of the concerns that face administrators and supervisors are the best methods to
keep current with new technology, how ...
Molecular phylogenetic characterization of microbial community dynamics associated with freshwater stream environmental organic matter sources
(2011-11-30)
The effects of various biotic and abiotic factors on microbial community dynamics during leaf breakdown were assessed through a series of in situ leaf breakdown studies within the Fort Benning Military Installation (FBMI), ...
Designing a Landscape Based on Childhood Play
(2011-11-30)
Children have the right to play. Throughout history we have recordings of children playing in all cultures. PLAY is a basic need along with nutrition, health, shelter and education. It is vital to the development of all ...
Urban Floodplain Design: Utilizing the Regenerative Disturbance of Flooding to Create Form and Habitat Within the Urban Landscape
(2011-11-30)
Village Creek watered the industrial machine that became Birmingham, AL. Once seen as the lifeblood of the city, attitudes towards Village Creek have deteriorated due to a century of poor development decisions. By creating ...
Landscape Disturbance: Using Initial Conditions to Establish Urban Terrain as an Ongoing Negotiation
(2011-11-30)
Rethinking the traditional urban design function of a master plan has become increasingly important in recent years. Not only is there now a recognized need to design in order to accommodate change over time, but there is ...
Eating the Landscape You Live In: How Can Contemporary Communities Be Incorporated into the Agricultural Landscape?
(2011-11-30)
This thesis explores the idea of creating settlements that function aesthetically, as well as economically, by designing and incorporating human living conditions into productive agrarian landscapes. The project designs a ...
Sensorial Ecology: The Hapticity of Site
(2011-11-30)
This project intends to expose the intense rapport between self and the environment via the experiential nature of the haptic realm. The theoretical objective behind the research, and its accompanying explorations, explores ...
Conservation Design: Linking Development to the Land
(2011-11-30)
Alabama contains well over 500 abandoned mines across the northern part of the state and while some mining zones continue to degrade the landscape over time, others have been reclaimed naturally and left in an ambiguous ...
Changing the Channel on T.V.
(2011-11-30)
Changing the channel on ‘TV’ is a landscape architecture research project which interrogates the concept of terrain vague through the practises of the formless, a theory developed by Georges Bataille in the late 1920’s. ...
Productive Public Space: Wetland Waterfront Reconnecting to the City in Mobile, AL
(2011-11-30)
Mobile is a port city on the Gulf of Mexico, and is the oldest city in the State of Alabama as well. The convenient location and land-river transportation link gave the city great strategic importance, which fostered it ...
A Woodland Landscape: A Woodland Experience
(2011-11-30)
This project follows the design process of a woodland landscape in Columbus, Georgia. Woodlands provide ecological and aesthetic values to urban environments, which makes them necessary for a healthy city. The center point ...
Emergent Design in Landscape Architecture: The Application of the Theory of Emergence to the Craft of Creating Public Urban Spaces
(2011-11-30)
As scientific philosophies and theories have evolved, so has their application to the craft of landscape architecture. The theory of emergence, which was developed in the 1970s, is currently finding applications in the ...
Hydrological link between the Amazon River Basin and the eastern Guiana Shield on the Neotropical ichthyofauna
(2011-11-30)
The seasonal inundation of the Rupununi savannas in south central Guyana allows for
potential faunal exchange between the Takutu and Rupununi Rivers and ultimately between the
Essequibo and Amazon Rivers. This hydrological ...