Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Alcohol Use and Social Anxiety in a College Student Population
(2006-12-15)
The results of epidemiological studies using clinical and community samples have shown a strong link between social anxiety and alcohol use. However, the results of studies that use a college student population to investigate ...
Measuring change blindness in specific phobia: A replication
(2006-12-15)
People often fail to notice changes in visual scenes, a phenomenon know as --Y΄change blindness.‘ At least some change blindness results because relevant changes in scenes occur during eye movements. The flicker paradigm ...
Mass Spectral and Chromatographic Studies on a Series Of Regioisomers and Isobaric Derivatives Related to Methylenedioxymethamphetamines
(2006-12-15)
The popular drug of abuse 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) has regioisomeric and isobaric substances of mass equivalence, which have similar analytical properties and thus the potential for misidentification. Direct ...
Hospitality Internships as a Career Development Tool: Stakeholder Perceptions and Expectations
(2006-12-15)
The purpose of the study is to investigate hospitality internships so that: 1) the internship experience can be strengthened and improved in such a way that students and industry professionals are both receiving benefit, ...
Feasibility Study of Ultrasound Measurements on the Human Lumbar Spine
(2006-12-15)
This study is a part of a research project that aims to measure the variation in the intervertebral distance of patients that are subjected to lumbar flexion-distraction chiropractic manipulation. The purpose of this ...
Numerical simulation and mechanical properties of free-standing silver thin films
(2006-12-15)
Membrane deflection test is well studied to investigate the mechanical properties for polycrystalline metal thin films. Numerical simulations by ANSYS software of membranes with different bottom window sizes show the ...
Examining Strategic Fit for the Interorganizational Network: An Empirical Investigation of the Health Care Integrated Delivery System
(2006-12-15)
In response to the calls for IT research at the interorganizational network level of analysis, this study examined the phenomenon of strategic fit at this level. Health care integrated delivery systems (IDS) were chosen ...
Parameters to Facilitate the Creation of Initial Response Capsules for Survivors of Prodigious Disasters
(2006-12-15)
The psychological and physiological effect that a catastrophic event has on a person is staggering. Soon after a disaster, many survivors become unruly, hysterical, and in the worse cases even suicidal. After tragedy ...
Bottleneck Detection and Mitigation in Serial Production Systems
(2006-12-15)
A variety of analytical models have been proposed to model and analyze serial manufacturing systems. Most analytical models, however, make simplifying assumptions in order to remain mathematically tractable. These analytical ...
The Effects of Behavior-based Safety Techniques on Behavior Variation, Targeted and Non-Targeted Safe Behaviors, and Productivity and Quality in Manufacturing Facilities
(2006-12-15)
In the field of occupational safety and health, worker behavior is often associated
with the immediate cause of workplace accidents and injuries. As a result an
understanding of worker behavior is a major area of concern ...
Assessment of larval fish entrainment at Plant Barry Steam Electric Generating Facility on the Mobile River, Alabama
(2006-12-15)
This study examined larval fish entrainment at Plant Barry Steam Electric Generating Facility near Mobile, Alabama with both short-term intensive (17-21 May 2004) sampling and a long-term (September 2004June 2005) collection ...
The Arbitress of Passion and of Contract: Eliza Haywood and the Legality of Love
(2006-12-15)
My dissertation is a cultural studies exploration of how the eighteenth-century British author Eliza Haywood legitimizes women’s presence in the legal landscape through illustrations of women’s experiences with contract, ...
Becoming Acquainted with the Faces of Words: Fostering Vocabulary Development in Kindergarten Students through Storybook Readings
(2006-12-15)
The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of storybook readings with explicit instruction of target words on the vocabulary acquisition of primary grade students. The secondary focus of the research sought to ...
Comprehension Strategy Instruction with Teacher Read Alouds for First Graders
(2006-12-15)
The purpose of this experimental study was to examine the effectiveness of comprehension strategies instruction delivered through teacher read alouds on the reading comprehension abilities of first grade students. ...
Lying in Psychotherapy: Results of an Exploratory Study
(2006-12-15)
Although the topic of lying in psychotherapy has been addressed in philosophical and theoretical discussion, it has received scant attention in research endeavors. In order to gather data on lying in psychotherapy, the ...
A Preliminary Examination of Religion in the Perception of Therapists' Helpfulness
(2006-12-15)
The current study aimed to assess religious clients’ evaluation of therapists’ helpfulness in psychotherapy. Participants (N = 35) were undergraduate and graduate students from 11 public institutions of higher learning ...
Assessment of the effects of soil amendments on the leaching of lead and arsenic from contaminated soil
(2006-12-15)
Lead has a long history in the life of human beings. Unfortunately, only recently did people start to realize that lead is a toxin. Because of increasing human activity, soil lead pollution has become a serious environmental ...
The Synthesis and Practical Applications of Novel N-Halamine Biocides
(2006-12-15)
A novel set of N-halamine siloxane precursors were synthesized for the purpose of coating various substrates to determine the factors, which are the most dominant influences of the overall stability of the newly modified ...
Elucidating the flavin reductase mechanism in the alkanesulfonate monooxygenase system from Escherichia coli
(2006-12-15)
The two-component alkanesulfonate monooxygenase system from Escherichia coli is comprised of an FMN reductase (SsuE) and a monooxygenase enzyme (SsuD) that together catalyze the oxidation of alkanesulfonate to the corresponding ...
Predicting Objective Measures of Performance
(2005-08-15)
In todays competitive job market, many organizations use various selection procedures in order to hire the best possible employees. Most selection tools such as structured interviews, mental ability tests, and personality ...