Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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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 ...
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 ...