Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Guidelines for Developing an Integrated Converged Digital System
(2014-05-02)
The digital landscape is currently fractured due to a variety of reasons. This
fractured nature often effects the purchasers of digital devices, as they are forced to continually purchase products within a specific zone ...
Impact of urbanization on biogeochemical cycling in western Florida
(2014-05-02)
Many city residents may benefit from the ecosystem services that urban forests provide. An important supporting process to ecosystem services is nutrient cycling. Very few studies examining the impacts of urbanization ...
Potential of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) as a biological control agent against warm-season turfgrass pests
(2014-05-02)
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are non-pathogenic, beneficial bacteria that colonize seeds and roots of plants to enhance plant growth. Despite work in agronomic crops, there has been little emphasis on ...
Contextualizing Relationship Education Effects on Adolescent Attitude toward Sexual Behavior Delay: Considering Class Social Climate
(2014-05-02)
Using data from a statewide relationship education (RE) program targeting youth, this study used a more complex theory-driven and empirically-based model to explore the influence of the program on adolescent attitudes about ...
Examination of the writing skills of incarcerated male youth
(2014-05-02)
Over the past 20 years, punitive approaches and policies similar to those of the criminal justice system have become prominent in our schools (Gonsoulin, Zablocki, Leone, 2012). These local, state, and federal education ...
Examining the Effectiveness of Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s Youth Financial Education Program: Behavioral Changes of Program Participants
(2014-05-02)
The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s Youth Reality Check financial education program. This study identified intended changes in financial behaviors; changes ...
A Place in the Curriculum: Superintendents' Perceptions of Fine Arts Programs
(2014-05-02)
The decisions regarding school curriculum are based on mandates from state and local policies and funding from local, state, and federal government funding. In most K–12 public school systems, decisions regarding funding ...
"What's It Supposed to Be?" ... "Cooked." The Communication of Information-Seeking Tactics on Hell's Kitchen
(2014-05-02)
Previous research has argued reality television provides life strategies for viewers and offers them ways to understand, navigate, and respond to certain situations and contexts within their own realities. Because reality ...
Integration of Grid Fins for the Optimal Design of Missile Systems
(2014-05-02)
Grid fins are unconventional missile control and stabilization devices that produce unique aerodynamic characteristics that are vastly different from that of the conventional planar fin. History has shown that grid fins ...
The Stone-Čech Compactification and the Number of Pairwise Nonhomeomorphic Subcontinua of β[0,∞)\[0,∞)
(2014-05-02)
An introduction to the Stone-Čech compactification $\beta X$ of a normal topological space $X$ is given. The method of invariantly embedding linear orders into ultrapowers is used to find $2^{\mathfrak{c}}$ pairwise ...
Deadland: A Cemetery Design in Columbus Georgia
(2014-05-02)
Cemeteries are sacred spaces that have the ability to evoke awareness, fear, awe, reverence,
memory and other high emotions that transcend the spatial. When one thinks about a cemetery,
it is often a mystifying space ...
Hydrogen Production from Renewable Bio-Based Sources
(2014-05-02)
Efficient means of power generation is the key to coping with increasing energy demands due to population expansion. Non-renewable sources like fossil fuels, coal, and methane contribute to the carbon footprint, resulting ...
Transcriptional Adaptations to Low Salinity in Euryhaline Crustaceans
(2014-05-02)
The transfer of euryhaline crustaceans from full-strength seawater to low salinity is
known to induce a myriad of physiology changes corresponding with active ion uptake across the
posterior gill pairs. The goal of this ...
Memory Recall in Horses Tranquilized with Acepromazine Maleate
(2014-05-02)
Acepromazine maleate (Ace) is a common tranquilizer employed by horse handlers as a “training aid” because it allows handlers more control of fractious horses in training situations. Tranquilizing horses with Ace is ...
Immersive Constructed Wetlands
(2014-05-02)
Urban stormwater runoff has historically been managed through engineered
systems designed to move stormwater out of the urban environment and into the outlying
stream and river systems. This had a negative impact on ...
Novel Bio-Hybrid Nanoscale Carriers Engineered for High Therapeutic Payload and Controllable Extended Release Using Nucleic Acid Aptamers
(2014-05-02)
Controlled delivery of therapeutics to target tissues constitutes a great challenge of modern medicine, especially in the field of cancer treatment where malignant cells have to be killed without damaging the surrounding ...
Exploring how institutional structure, capital assets, and motivations influence landowner participation in conservation incentive programs: A mixed methods approach
(2014-05-01)
Conservation incentive programs have become a common means of promoting preservation and best use practices for private landowners. Both non-government organizations and government agencies offer these programs to encourage ...
Profile Analysis of Intercultural Sensitivity
(2014-05-01)
Bennett (1986) theorized that preferences for specific worldviews about cultural difference (ranging from ethnocentric to ethno-relative) influence the degree to which trainees benefit from or resist cross-cultural training. ...
The Advising Behaviors Checklist: A Study of the Preferred Qualities and Behaviors of Academic Advisors
(2014-05-01)
The purpose of this study was to determine what qualities/behaviors undergraduate students value in their academic advisors versus those qualities/behaviors valued by academic advisors. More specifically, this is a study ...
Essays on Using Experimental Agronomic Data to Solve Practical Cropping Decision Problems
(2014-05-01)
Across the United States, agronomic research is being conducted that provides agricultural producers with new cropping options; however, without having insight into the profitability or risk associated with the options, ...