Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Ecoimmunological Investigations of the Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
(2011-08-04)
Despite the benefits gained from studying the immune system of non-traditional model organisms, including the discovery of key components of the human immune system, squamates remain the most poorly-understood major ...
Human Glutaminase Interacting Protein (GIP): a Potential Candidate for Anti-Cancer Drug Design
(2011-08-04)
PDZ domains are one of the most ubiquitous protein-protein interaction modules found in living systems. The glutaminase interacting protein (GIP), also known as the Tax interacting protein 1 (TIP-1), is a PDZ domain ...
A Cross Section of America’s World War II Prison Camps: The Lives of Axis Prisoners of War in Alabama, Their Memory, and Their Place on the Historical Landscape
(2011-08-04)
The experience of nearly half a million Axis prisoners of war held by the United States on American soil, their impact on this nation, and their legacy has been largely forgotten and neglected. The state of Alabama held a ...
Spectrum Educational Consulting - CSCW Tool for Pre-service Teacher Training
(2011-08-04)
Classroom Teaching is a very challenging process. Teachers go through a rigorous training process to ensure their mastery of the content material and as a part of teacher training preparation they are given instruction and ...
The Effectiveness of the Lee vs. Macon Consent Decree of 2003 with African Americans and Special Needs Students in Alabama’s Schools
(2011-08-04)
The idea of an inclusive setting is far from being a new theory in education. Various provisos with a great deal of narrations include integration, least restrictive environment, mainstreaming, deinstitutionalization, ...
Are Student Veterans a Traditional, Nontraditional, or Special Population? A Study of Veterans on the Auburn University Campus
(2011-08-03)
This non-experimental study used, with the Educational Testing Service’s permission, an updated 1946 Student Opinion Questionnaire (originally designed to compare WWII veterans and nonveterans) to collect data regarding ...
Economic Impacts of Gold Production in South Africa
(2011-08-03)
The causes of rising demand pull inflation in South Africa are examined with an eye on the international price of gold given the importance of gold mining in the country. Effects of the money supply, exchange rate, foreign ...
The Effects of Positive Behavior Supports on Academic Achievement in Alabama
(2011-08-03)
This dissertation examined the potential effects of Positive Behavior Supports (PBS) on academic achievement in the State of Alabama as measured by the scores of the Alabama Reading and Math Test (ARMT) for fourth graders. ...
Same/Different Reversal Learning in Pigeons (Columba livia)
(2011-08-03)
Reversal learning is a common procedure for studying discrimination learning, but has yet to be studied in a same/different abstract-concept learning task. In the present study, the ability to learn a same/different task ...
Negative Water Imagery in the Rimas of Juan de Moncayo y Gurrea
(2011-08-02)
Juan de Moncayo y Gurrea’s (1614-1657) collection of poems, Rimas (1652), is replete with imagery, water being one of the most prevalent images. In the appearance of water throughout the poems, Moncayo consistently uses ...
Relationships Among PTSD, Preventive and Risky Behaviors, and Health Outcomes
(2011-08-02)
Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to demonstrate increases in self-reported physical health complaints, objective markers of poor health, health care utilization, and mortality. Although ...
Preliminary Design Optimization of an Amphibious Aircraft
(2011-08-02)
An amphibious aircraft combines the speed and range benefits of a conventional aircraft with the ability to land and takeoff on open water. There are other appealing factors to operating an amphibious aircraft including ...
Angular Correlation of Electrons Emitted by Double Auger Decay of K-Shell Ionized Neon
(2011-08-02)
We have investigated in detail the $4$-body continuum state produced when core-ionized neon undergoes Double-Auger (\textsc{da}) decay, using COLd Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy (\textsc{coltrims}). We conducted ...
Home Range, Activity Patterns, and Habitat Selection of the Coyote (Canis latrans) Along an Urban-Rural Gradient
(2011-08-02)
Throughout the past several decades, coyotes (Canis latrans) have become common inhabitants of urban areas in the southeastern United States. Because their southward expansion is recent, there is a lack of information on ...
Investment in Carnivory in Drosera capillaris: Effects of Varying Light Levels on Trichome Density
(2011-08-01)
In this study I examined Drosera capillaris, which is a plant common in the southeastern Gulf Coastal Plain’s pitcher plant bogs. Investment in carnivory has been examined in other groups of carnivorous plants but very ...
Examination of an Attachment Training for Mentoring Effectiveness
(2011-08-01)
Youth mentoring can be defined as a unique relationship between an adult and child or adolescent that is characterized by mutual respect, reciprocity, transmission of knowledge from mentor to mentee, and social-emotional ...
Construction of Orthonormal Multivariate Wavelets
(2011-08-01)
The purpose of this paper is to explain the construction of orthonormal multivariate wavelets associated with a multiresolution analysis. This paper primarily uses the work of R. A. Zalik [10], where he outlines a method ...
Evaluation of Manufactured Organic Soil Amendments for Consumer Use
(2011-08-01)
Commercial substrate blending companies and fertilizer companies are now producing manufactured substrates and fertilizers that are marketed as “organic.” Homeowners care about the aesthetics of their landscape, thus the ...
Defining the Porcine Colostral Proteome: Changes in the Array of Proteins from Colostrum to Mature Milk
(2011-08-01)
The importance of colostrum (first milk) for immunological and nutritional support of newborn mammals is well established. Many bioactive peptides are present in milk at higher concentrations than in maternal circulation. ...
Physical Activity and Body Composition during the First Two Years of College
(2011-08-01)
Objective: The effects of vigorous and moderate aerobic and resistance physical activity on changes in body weight, body mass index, body fat %, fat mass, and fat-free mass were examined in two cohorts of males and females ...