Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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‘The Best of Friends and Neighbors’: USIA and American Public Diplomacy Strategy in Cuba, 1953-1962
(2016-05-06)
This dissertation examines the United States Information Agency’s (USIA) public diplomacy strategy in Cuba from 1953 to 1962 through both the agency’s United States Information Service (USIS) field office on the island and ...
Self-Localization of Target nodes using Opportunistic communication with reference nodes, Statistical Time-Of-Arrival, Grid Method, Linear Matrix Inequality and Center-Of-Gravity
(2016-05-06)
Self-localization of mobile nodes is an important problem because many useful mobile applications will become feasible once accurate position information is available. Generally, existing methods for obtaining accurate ...
Does Variability Training Facilitate Learning in Two Genetically Divergent Mouse Strains?
(2016-05-06)
Variability is an operant dimension of behavior so the degree of variability observed depends upon the reinforcement contingency. One approach to reinforcing variations is the threshold procedure, in which a particular ...
Jim Crow in the City: Spatial Segregation in Columbus, Georgia, 1890-1944
(2016-05-06)
Between 1890 and 1944 thousands of African Americans moved to Columbus in search of greater economic and social opportunities. Despite Jim Crow laws and the threat of violence, African Americans built a thriving black ...
Low Speed Orthogonal Hot Machining With a Virtual Quick Stop Device
(2016-05-06)
Cocquilhat first documented (1851) how heat in a tool shortens the life of the tool. Research since his time has generally concluded that the tool gives up a relatively higher percentage of its “cold hardness and toughness” ...
Evaluation of a fluorescent dye assay to assess glochidial health
(2016-05-06)
Unionid mussels have the greatest diversity in North America but have suffered high extinction and imperilment rates due to habitat loss, fragmentation, and deterioration. Unionid mussels have a parasitic larval stage ...
In the Shadow of the Presidency: Presidential Management and the Influence of Cabinet Secretaries
(2016-05-06)
Scholars today recognize weaknesses in the president’s ability to pass significant legislation. I ask how presidents can increase their overall influence. They must look internally at their management style and the ...
Thermal Management and Data Archiving in Data Centers
(2016-05-06)
This dissertation is focused on thermal and resource management of data centers. Recognizing that there is the lack of comprehensive benchmarks for thermal management in the context of cluster computing in data centers, ...
Emotion Regulation Strategy Use: Factor Structure and Differential Associations with PTSD Symptom Clusters
(2016-05-06)
Emotion regulation (ER) strategies are theorized to play a prominent role in the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although a link has been established between several ER strategies and ...
University Educational Leadership Program Coordinators' Perceptions of University-School District Partnership Development
(2016-05-06)
This qualitative case study investigated the role of the university educational leadership coordinator in partnership development, the facilitating and hindering factors of partnership development, and the positive and ...
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Regional Socioeconomic Factors, Agglomeration and Performance of Non-Profit Social Enterprises
(2016-05-06)
Nonprofit Social Enterprises (NPSEs) are nonprofit organizations that adopt commercial strategies to sustain their missions. Since nonprofit organizations have traditionally relied on philanthropy and have been known to ...
Experimental Study of Sea Salt Particles (SSP) Filtration Performance for On-Board SOFCs
(2016-05-06)
This work described in the dissertation mainly focuses on the filtration of sea salt particles (SSP), which flow into the cathode side of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) on the ships. Currently, SOFCs are being considered ...
Gothic Travel: Captivity, Monstrosity, and Emotion in Transatlantic Eighteenth-Century Literature
(2016-05-06)
In this dissertation, I explore the relationship between captivity narratives and the Gothic in eighteenth-century transatlantic literature. I move from examining traditional captivity narratives of Mary Rowlandson and ...
Testing the comparative effectiveness of three procedures aimed at facilitating newcomer orientation
(2016-05-06)
Realistic Job Previews (RJP’s) have grown into a common practice for organizations who are focused on facilitating newcomer adjustment and reducing the risk of early-tenure turnover. Despite their shortcomings, over the ...
A Clothing Journal Study: Decision-Making Factors in Clothing Choice
(2016-05-06)
This qualitative study addresses how social environments affect clothing choice in millennial college-aged sorority women at Auburn University. Millennials have been determined to be an important demographic to study due ...
Development of Biomimetic Materials for Enhanced Maturation of Engineered Cardiac Tissue
(2016-05-06)
The creation of cardiac tissue constructs holds potential in the development of clinical and diagnostic platforms, including the creation of novel treatments for patients with heart disease and cost-effective platforms for ...
Application of Simulation and Optimization Approaches in Supply-Constrained Innovation Diffusion
(2016-05-06)
When introducing a new product, firms face a hierarchy of decisions at the strategic and operational levels including capacity sizing, time to market or starting sales, initial inventory required by the product's release ...
Building a Black Belt Empire: Charles H. Miller in Marengo County, Alabama, 1870-1917
(2016-05-06)
The life of planter, merchant, and politician Charles Houston Miller of Miller, Marengo County, Alabama exemplified the powerful elites who ruled the Black Belt in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through ...
Robot Navigation for RFID-based Inventory Counting
(2016-05-06)
A mathematical model for a robot navigation system searching for RFID tags in a retail store is constructed. It is based on the Traveling Salesman Problem optimization algorithm. A software simulation is performed in MATLAB. ...
Immigrant Labor in the Forest Industry: The Impacts of H-2B Employment on Local Livelihoods
(2016-05-05)
The production of timber requires labor, with peak labor demands coming during reforestation. Much of the labor used in tree planting in the United States (US) is provided by migrant workers. The overall purpose of this ...