Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Orthorexia Nervosa: Validation of the Teruel Orthorexia Scale and Relationship to Health Anxiety
(2020-07-27)
The instruments most commonly used to assess orthorexia in the extant literature have been shown to have significant psychometric limitations. A promising new measure of orthorexia called the Teruel Orthorexia Scale (TOS) ...
Android Malware Detection Using Data Mining Techniques on Process Control Block Information
(2020-07-24)
Because smartphones are increasingly becoming the mobile computing device of choice, we are experiencing an increase in the number and sophistication of mobile-computing-based malware attacks. A lot of these attacks target ...
The swimming performance of Freshwater Drum (Aplodinotus grunniens) below Claiborne Lock and Dam and in various temperature and dissolved oxygen treatments
(2020-07-24)
Alterations to temperature and dissolved oxygen regimes in the tailwaters below dams can cause harmful stress to fish. Although Freshwater Drum Aplodinotus grunniens are widespread in rivers across North America, this ...
Hispanic, African American, and White ministers: The Intersection Between Spiritual and Mental Health Counseling.
(2020-07-24)
If talk therapy is to “shape the way people think and behave” (Minuchin & Fishman, 1981, pg. 2), then the vast majority of relational and mental health therapy is done outside of therapy clinics. It is conducted by friends, ...
Dynamics of Chemotherapy Models with Variable Infusion and Time Delays
(2020-07-23)
Chemotherapy is a fundamental and commonly used form of cancer treatment, usually done with the application of a chemotherapy agent to the infected individual. The chemotherapy agent targets fast-growing cells including ...
The Cause Archived: Thomas Owen, the Alabama Archives, and the Shaping of Civil War History and Memory
(2020-07-23)
Thomas M. Owen's foundation and directorship of the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH), lasting from 1901 until 1920, overlapped with and reinforced the development of a southern, scholarly defense of the ...
Fundamental and Novel Applications of Electrocaloric Effect
(2020-07-23)
The discovery of materials with a giant electrocaloric (EC) coefficient in the last decade triggered the research community to explore the materials with high pyroelectric and electrocaloric coefficient that revived the ...
Synthesis and Characterization of Photopolymerizable Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
(2020-07-22)
Hydrogels are polymeric materials widely used in medicine due to their similarity with the biological components of the body. These biocompatible materials have the potential to promote cell proliferation and tissue support ...
Silicon Carbide/Aluminum Oxide Field-Effect Transistors
(2020-07-22)
4H-Silicon Carbide is a wide band gap semiconductor with attractive physical properties for high power, high-frequency devices, and electronics that operate under harsh environments that are not accessible to conventional ...
When Physical Appearance (Dis)connects to Moral Character: Examining the Potential Fusion of Christian and Secular Beliefs about the Ideal Body
(2020-07-22)
Although religion, specifically Christianity, plays an important role in life for many women and impacts their views of the self and the world, little quantitative research has explored how Christian doctrine—particularly ...
Understanding the Experiences of Student Parents in Master's Counseling Graduate Progams
(2020-07-22)
The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the experiences that student
parents have in master’s counseling graduate programs and fill the gap of student parent research
that exists (Trepal et al., ...
The Identification and Implementation of Key Characteristics of Exemplary Career and Technical Education Programs in Rural Areas
(2020-07-22)
The increased demand for a skilled workforce has placed new challenges on rural school districts. Students are provided the opportunity to obtain the skills required to fill the workforce needs through exemplary career and ...
An Examination of the Relationship Between Online Course Design Standards and Student Educational Experiences
(2020-07-22)
This study investigated the perception of student learning experiences in Quality Matters (QM) certified courses. The purpose of this study was to determine what impact, if any, online course design training had on instructor ...
Hopfield Neural Lattice Models
(2020-07-22)
Hopfield neural network model is a continuous deterministic model proposed by John J.
Hopfield in the early 1980’s. The model was proposed in an attempt to produced an artificial
neural network architecture that mimic ...
Development of the Contact Models to Determine Electrical Contact Resistance Including a Coupled Electro-thermo-mechanical Analysis Considering Temperature-Dependent Material Properties
(2020-07-22)
Reliability of the electrical contact or interface is one of the major concerns in many applications such as batteries, solar cells, electrical connectors, MEMS based sensors for hybrid and electric vehicles, electronic ...
Fatigue Behavior and Modeling of Polyether Ether Ketone under Variable Amplitude and Multiaxial Loading
(2020-07-22)
Experimental and analytical roadmap to thoroughly understand and establish benchmark material properties for unfilled polyether ether ketone (PEEK) under monotonic tension and compression, as well as uniaxial and multiaxial ...
Beyond the timberline: Assessment of Supplemental Income Opportunities, Forest Management Practices, and Attributes of Southern Pine Straw Types
(2020-07-22)
Of Alabama’s 23 million acres of timberland, over 13 million acres of it is owned by family forest landowners. Therefore, they play a pivotal role in the future of Alabama’s forest. Due to a combination of shift in ownership ...
Guideline for Applying Neo Confucianism thought in Product Design
(2020-07-22)
This study aims to summarize the design principles in Neo-Confucianism and use them to develop a guideline for product design. This study provides new design opportunities under Neo-Confucianism thought by analyzing the ...
A Phenomenological Study Exploring the Lived Experiences of Compassion Satisfaction in Early Career Mental Health Counselors
(2020-07-22)
This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of compassion satisfaction in eight early career mental health counselors. Through in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the researcher sought to capture the nuances ...
Robust Bayesian Methods for Semi-parametric Models
(2020-07-21)
Nonparametric rank-based approaches in many situations provide more flexible modeling speci cations and robustness when the distribution of data diff ers from the assumed distribution. This dissertation is mainly concerned ...