Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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DNA fingerprinting of Castanea species in USA
(2011-08-08)
Two Castanea species (C. dentata, the American chestnut, and C. pumila, var. pumila, the Allegheny chinkapin, and var. ozarkensis, the Ozark chinkapin) are native to the USA. It has been difficult to differentiate the ...
Acute Effects of Whole Body Vibration on Central and Peripheral Hemodynamics and Oxygen Consumption in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
(2011-08-08)
A substantial body of evidence suggests spinal cord injury (SCI) increases cardiovascular disease and mortality risk in aging individuals with SCI. Based on retrospective assessments, excess mortality after SCI has been ...
The Attentional Blink Effect in Spider Phobia
(2011-08-08)
Extant research suggests that individuals with spider phobia relative to non-anxious controls display a shorter attentional blink (AB) in response to spider-related target words. Common methodological limitations of such ...
Investigation of Kinetic Physics of Magnetic Reconnection under a Finite Guide Field
(2011-08-08)
Magnetic reconnection, the process by which the magnetic energy is converted into heat and flow energy, is believed to
be a very important process in space and laboratory plasmas. Among various reconnection models, the ...
The Psychophysiological Impact of Burnout in Special and General Education Teachers
(2011-08-05)
Teaching is considered to be a stressful occupation. Many teachers experience ongoing stress from a variety of sources, which eventually leads to burnout, and ultimately is reflected in what has become an alarming rate ...
An Exploratory Study: Higher Education’s Response to a Death Among Community Members
(2011-08-05)
The purpose of the current study was to conduct an exploratory assessment of how colleges and universities address a death among their community including existing practices, programs and training efforts. The Campus Death ...
Avian Influenza Adenovirus-Vectored in Ovo Vaccination: Combination with Marek's Disease Vaccine
(2011-08-05)
Protective immunity against avian influenza (AI) can be elicited in chickens in a single-dose regimen by in ovo vaccination with a replication competent adenovirus (RCA)-free human adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad)-vector encoding ...
The Relation of School and Campus Violence to Students’ Perceptions of Safety and Precautionary Behaviors
(2011-08-05)
The purpose of this dissertation was to conduct an examination of the relations between exposure to high school and college campus violence to post-secondary students’ perceptions of safety and precautionary behaviors. The ...
The impact of Freshman Year Learning Community Participation on Students' Self-reportedacademic self-efficacy, sense or meaning in life and commitment to academic major at the beginning of the second acae
(2011-08-05)
Student retention is one of the most studied areas in higher education. Much of the focus has been on providing services to aid in retention efforts from the first to the second academic year. Freshman seminar classes as ...
Biodiversity of Metazoan Parasites Infecting Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus), and C×B Hybrid Catfish (Female Ictalurus punctatus × Male Ictalurus furcatus) in Earthen Pond Aquaculture
(2011-08-04)
This 1-year in-pond study documents the metazoan parasite biodiversity in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus), and C×B hybrid catfish (female Ictalurus punctatus × male Ictalurus furcatus) ...
Enhancing Flash Lifetime in Secondary Storage
(2011-08-04)
This research addresses the limited usable life of NAND flash-based storage systems. Unlike a magnetic disk drive, a NAND flash suffers from limited number of write cycles ranging from 10-100K depending on the specific ...
Pre-service Teachers’ Computational Knowledge, Efficacy, and Number Sense Skills
(2011-08-04)
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum Focal Points (2006) suggested heavy emphasis on instruction in whole numbers for young elementary students. Any intervention curriculum for students who ...
Enhanced Secondary Bus Microarchitecture
(2011-08-04)
In spite of advances to improving cache efficiency, memory access bottlenecks still prevent processors from executing at full speed. This research evaluates a fundamentally new concept of using a secondary bus, connecting ...
Cyanobacterial Blooms in the Southeast: Understanding Their Distribution and Management
(2011-08-04)
Water is vital for life. The increased demand for freshwater resources dictates that current water practices must ensure access to and availability of high-quality water for future generations. Phytoplankton community ...
Therapist Effectiveness, the Therapeutic Alliance, and Change in Couples Therapy: An Exploratory Study
(2011-08-04)
The purpose of this thesis was to take an exploratory approach in examining how therapist effectiveness influences the therapeutic alliance and outcomes in couple therapy. Sample for this study was composed of couples ...
The Captain America Conundrum: Issues of Patriotism, Race, and Gender in Captain America Comic Books, 1941-2001
(2011-08-04)
“The Captain America Conundrum: Issues of Patriotism, Race, and Gender in
Captain America Comic Books, 1941-2001” represents a comprehensive examination of
Captain America comic books as a primary source for the study ...
Use of Etonogestrel Implants to Suppress Estrous Beahvior in Mares
(2011-08-04)
The objective of this study is to evaluate a synthetic progestin (etonogestrel) as a reliable method to suppress behavioral estrus in mares.
Healthy mares between the ages of 6 and 20 years with normal estrous cycles were ...
Today's "Modern Family": A Textual Analysis of Gender in the Domestic Sitcom
(2011-08-04)
This thesis utilizes a textual analysis with an emphasis on gender to analyze the Emmy award-winning sitcom, Modern Family. The program’s overwhelming popularity among television audiences and media critics alike gives ...
The Effects of Days on Feed and Ractopamine HCL Administration on Growth and Carcass Traits of Yearling Heifers
(2011-08-04)
Heifers comprise 30% of the total beef animals slaughtered in the United States yearly.
However, heifers are less efficient and have lighter HCW than steers which affects the profitability of heifers. Beta adrenergic ...
Add It Up: FYFL A Financial Literacy Tool for K-12 Eduation
(2011-08-04)
There are different ways used to engage learners through online learning environments. Especially for kids the online learning environment must be more interactive, fun, colorful, and must have good usability techniques ...