Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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A Study of the Differences Between the Expressive Writing Approach and a Writer's Workshop Approach for Writing Instruction for Secondary School Students with Disabilities
(2007-12-15)
A comprehensive review of research of instructional approaches investigated
descriptive and intervention writing studies, both short-term and longitudinal, that has
been conducted to examine the writing skills of students ...
The Sensation Seeker Attention Scale (SSAS): A Measure of Sensation Seeking by Adolescents
(2007-12-15)
The purpose of the present study was to construct a Sensation Seeking Attention Scale (SSAS) as a predictive measure of negative sensation seeking by adolescents. Four hundred and thirty-five high school students completed ...
Brief Alcohol Intervention with College Students using BASICS: Face-to-Face versus Computerized Feedback
(2007-12-15)
Research suggests that brief motivational models of intervention for alcohol use among college students are effective in decreasing risky drinking (Baer, Marlatt, Kivlhan, Fromme, Larimer, & Williams, 1992; Emrick 1975). ...
Self-Esteem and Narcissism in Juvenile Sex Offenders
(2007-12-15)
The present study sought to examine the relationship between self-esteem, adaptive, and maladaptive narcissism in juvenile sex offenders, and how these constructs relate to personality characteristics, psychopathology, and ...
Assessing the Relationship Between Problematic Eating and Alcohol Use Behaviors Among National Eating Disorders Screening Program Participants
(2007-12-15)
Research has shown that college students have elevated rates of alcohol use and problematic eating behaviors. These behaviors show high rates of comorbidity. Further, research suggests that individuals with bulimia and ...
Electrochemical/Electrospray-Mass Spectrometric Studies of the Oxidation of Iodide and Cyanide at Gold and Platinum Electrodes as well as Gas Phase Multiply-Charged Fullerene C60 Anions.
(2005-08-15)
In this dissertation, we introduce a new spherical thin-layer flow cell to interface
electrochemistry with electrospray mass spectrometry. The successful applications of
the electrochemistry with electrospray mass ...
Contriving Establishing Operations: Responses of Individuals With Developmental Disabilities During Learning Task
(2005-12-15)
The field of applied behavior analysis has utilized the ability to capture and contrive establishing operations in treating aberrant behavior in individuals with developmental disabilities. However, research on the use of ...
Calibration of Fatigue Transfer Functions for Mechanistic-Empirical Flexible Pavement Design
(2005-12-15)
As agencies continue to adopt mechanistic-empirical (M-E) pavement design, the need for locally calibrated transfer functions will continue to increase. Transfer functions are the critical link from mechanical pavement ...
Perceptions of Parental Emotional Availability and Students’ Adjustment to College
(2007-05-15)
The purpose of the current study was to examine the possible relationship between an individual’s perceptions of emotional availability from their parents and their adjustment to college. Differences in parental roles and ...
An Approach to Bis(amino Acid)s Utilizing Dimethyl 2,4-bis(diazo)-3-oxoglutarate and Studies of Tris(2,6-dihydroxyphenyl)e, E = B, P.
(2005-12-15)
When treated with a diazo transfer agent, dimethyl 3-oxoglutarate afforded a high yield of the bis(diazo) compound dimethyl 2,4-bis(diazo)-3-oxoglutarate, 33. The bis(diazo) compound, catalyzed by Rh2(OAc)4, reacted with ...
Exploring Apparel Relationships and Body Image of Tween Girls and Their Mothers Through Qualitative Analysis of Segmented Focus Groups
(2007-05-15)
Tweens are individuals who are no longer a children, but are not quite teenagers. This study defines tweens as girls between the ages of 9 and 14 years. The U.S. female tween population is estimated to be 10.4 million (U. ...
Scalable, Self-Healing, and Real-Time Network Services for Directed Diffusion
(2007-05-15)
Directed diffusion is a data-centric publish-subscribe routing protocol for sensor networks. We have designed, implemented, and evaluated three network services which build on the strengths of directed diffusion and lessen ...
QueueAdmin: The Effects of an Advance Queue Management System on Barbershop Administration
(2007-05-15)
Queue Management has been a problem for many years in many domains including the Financial, Health Care, Public and Retail Sectors. In this age of technology it is not only important to organize the existing queue, but to ...
A Meta-Parallel Evolutionary System for Solving Optimization Problems
(2007-05-15)
The purpose of the Meta-Parallel Evolutionary System (MPES) is to develop fast,
efficient parallel evolutionary systems for function optimization. Given an optimization
problem and a set number of nodes available for the ...
Voice Interactive System: A Usability Study of the Voice Survey Creator
(2007-05-15)
The voice user interface survey is aimed at providing an easier and more efficient way of creating surveys that is conducive to the entire population. This system allows a person to call and create a survey solely over ...
Evaluation of Load Tests for Driven Piles for the Alabama Department of Transportation
(2007-05-15)
A study was carried out to evaluate load testing methods for driven piles for the Alabama Department of Transportation. Dynamic and static load test data were assembled to form the database used in this study. The field ...
Bond Behavior of Prestressed Reinforcement in Beams Constructed with Self-Consolidating Concrete
(2007-05-15)
Accurate behavioral characteristics of self-consolidating concrete (SCC) should be
established prior to its widespread implementation in prestressed members. This thesis
describes an investigation of bond behavior of ...
Integration of GIS into Pavement Management Systems for Low Volume County Roads
(2007-05-15)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have often been used for highway pavement management (PM), but rarely for low volume county roadway systems. Methods for implementing GIS as a useful tool for county engineers in ...
Early-age cracking of mass concrete structures
(2007-05-15)
Early-age cracking is a recurring problem in many mass concrete structures. Currently agencies tend only to limit the maximum temperature difference that may develop in a mass concrete structure in an attempt to mitigate ...
Finite-Element Modeling of a Damaged Prestressed Concrete Bridge
(2007-05-15)
Spans 10 and 11 of the Interstate Highway 565 bridge structure in Huntsville, Alabama were noticed to be cracked shortly after their construction. Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) employees investigated and ...