Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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An Examination of the Relationship Between a Realistic Job Preview and Job Applicants' Psychological Contract Perceptions
(2007-12-15)
Psychological contracts have generated considerable interest from organizational scholars and practitioners for the past several decades, largely due to the negative organizational outcomes that arise when these contracts ...
Attributions and Depression Across Cultures
(2005-12-15)
There is evidence that culture and depression can both affect the pattern of explanations that people give for events. To date, research on attributions has considered only culture or depression with respect to attributions, ...
Evaluation of Self-Consolidating Concrete for Use in Prestressed Girder Applications
(2005-12-15)
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is a highly flowable, yet cohesive, concrete that is able to fill formwork and completely encapsulate any reinforcement without the need for external vibration. The use of SCC may help ...
A Statistical Analysis of Georgia's HMA Quality Assurance Proccess
(2005-12-15)
In the recent years, there has been a push towards allowing contractors to use their own test results in the quality assurance process of Departments of Transportation (DOTs). While this movement saves the states money ...
Preliminary Study of Tribology: Uniform Control of the Density Control of the Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles on a Modified Silicon Surface
(2007-05-15)
Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) are important in diverse fields such as BioMEMS, optical MEMS, and radio frequency MEMS. The low cost, small device size and high reliability are contributing to successful commercialization ...
A Property Based Approach to Integrated Process and Molecular Design
(2007-05-15)
In this work, a new simple yet effective, systematic method to synthesize and design molecules is presented. Visualization of the problem is achieved by employing an annex to the recently developed property clustering ...
Synthesis, Fractionation, and Thin Film Processing of Nanoparticles Using the Tunable Solvent Properties of Carbon Dioxide Gas Expanded Liquids
(2007-05-15)
Materials built from nanoparticles possess unique chemical, physical, mechanical and optical properties. Due to these properties, they hold potential in application areas such as catalysts, sensors, semiconductors and ...
Particle Bubble Interactions in Flotation Systems
(2007-05-15)
Flotation separation is an important process in mineral processing and paper recycling. Flotation is a separation process used to remove particles from a liquid stream. Bubbles are introduced into the liquid stream, and, ...
Cutaneous Wound Healing in the Cat: A Macroscopic and Histologic Description and Comparison with Cutaneous Wound Healing in the Dog
(2007-05-15)
Wound healing has been studied in a variety of animal and human models, and until fairly recently, the prevailing viewpoint has been that the basic processes of wound healing are the same between species. Our combined ...
In vivo Endothelial Cell Infection by Anaplasma marginale
(2007-05-15)
Anaplasmosis is an arthropod-borne hemoparasitic disease of cattle and other ruminants. The causative agent is the gram negative bacterium, Anaplasma marginale. Infection of bovine erythrocytes by A. marginale has been ...
Influence of Bait on Assessment of Biodiversity of Small Mammals
(2007-05-15)
Two experiments were designed to test effectiveness of bait packs containing peanut butter and rolled oats (peanut butter bait packs) compared to empty bait packs in traps used to capture small mammals. In experiment A, ...
Mowing and nitrogen source effects on ammonia volatilization from fertilizers applied to turfgrass
(2007-05-15)
Although ammonia (NH3) volatilization can be a pathway of nitrogen (N) loss from turfgrass systems, the magnitude of this loss has not been well quantified, especially from N sources other than urea. The objective of this ...
Heir Property: Legal and Cultural Dimensions of Collective Landownership in Alabama's Black Belt
(2007-05-15)
When a landowner dies without a will, his or her descendents inherit the property as a communal interest. Heir property, as it is often called, is a common form of landownership among African Americans in the rural South. ...
Mineralization in Soils Amended With Manure as Affected by Environmental Conditions
(2007-05-15)
Concerns for environmental quality have prompted interest in recent years to develop agricultural practices that mitigate nutrient loss to the environment. It is imperative that management practices are developed that ...
Property Value Impacts and Risks Perceptions: A Hedonic Analysis of Anniston, Alabama
(2007-05-15)
The city of Anniston, and to a larger extent Calhoun County, Alabama, has been affected by two major types of environmental disamenities: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) released into the soils and waterways, and the ...
Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Racial Divide: Community Development Through Art in Alabama's Black Belt
(2007-05-15)
In a changing economy, rural communities must seek new economic strategies to remain viable. This is especially true in Alabama’s Black Belt, a region of persistent poverty, rural isolation, and racial segregation. This ...
Linking Rural Vendors with Urban Public Markets: Institutional Constraints and Possibilities in the Evolution of Urban Food Systems
(2007-05-15)
Public Markets are a new food retailing phenomena located in major urban centers throughout North America, presenting a means for more directly linking urban consumers and rural food producers. However, the new vision of ...
Evaluating Access Barriers To Primary Health Care Services For Hispanic Residents in Toombs County, Georgia
(2007-05-15)
Latinos are no longer concentrated in “traditional” cities and states, like Los Angeles, Florida, and Texas, and the rural Latino population is rapidly increasing in number throughout many regions of the nation, mostly in ...
Design Tool Development for Liquid Propellant Missile Systems
(2007-05-15)
The use of computer programs driven by genetic algorithms (GA’s) has become an increasingly popular method of optimizing engineering designs. This thesis focuses on the modeling and optimization of liquid rocket engine ...
Detached Eddy Simulations of a Simplified Tractor-Trailer Geometry
(2007-05-15)
This thesis presents a comparison of the results from the Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) turbulence model used for modeling flow over a {1/8}$^{th}$ scale simplified model of a tractor-trailer geometry (or the Ground ...