Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Student-Led Individualized Education Program Meetings: A Study of Special Education Teachers’ Self-Perceptions and Practices
(2017-04-25)
The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the self-perceptions and practices of credentialed, practicing full-time special education teachers towards student-led IEPs. The problem for this study was the lack of ...
Exploring Socialization Processes in Mothers’ Styling of their African American Millennial Daughters’ Hair
(2017-04-25)
In many cultures, hair has been a long-standing representation of beauty (Bankhead & Johnson, 2014). For African Americans, notions about hair have been passed down from teachings perpetuated during slavery. These teachings ...
Development of real-time, quantitative free fatty acid uptake assays for adipose tissue explants using fluorescence and microfluidics
(2017-04-25)
Free fatty acid (FFA) uptake by adipocytes in response to nutritional or hormonal stimuli is a key process in the complex metabolic cascade leading to diabetes and obesity. The work presented in this thesis is focused on ...
Justice You Shall Pursue: Jewish American Pragmatism
(2017-04-25)
Pragmatist thinkers like Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, and John Dewey advocated for greater inclusivity in our democracy, urging Americans to an understanding of democracy as process. Nevertheless, pragmatist philosophy has ...
Changes in in vitro fermentative capacity of equine feces due to alteration of forage diet
(2017-04-25)
In vitro digestibility methods require a microbial inoculum source. In hindgut fermenters like equids, cannulation of the cecum is a high-risk procedure and can be avoided by using feces as a microbial inoculum source. The ...
GPS Carrier Phase Tracking in Difficult Environments Using Vector Tracking For Precise Positioning and Vehicle Attitude Estimation
(2017-04-25)
In this dissertation, two approaches are developed to improve the carrier phase tracking performance of a software-defined GPS receiver. The first approach combines a non-coherent vector tracking architecture with a local ...
The Examination of Outcomes of Fatherhood Program Participants in Rural and Non-Rural Communities
(2017-04-25)
Fatherhood programs focus on enhancing parenting behaviors, couple and co-parenting relationships, and economic security for families and their children. While there is a growing literature on evaluation of fatherhood ...
Attachment Style, Tinder Use, and Permissive Sexual Attitude
(2017-04-24)
Research has demonstrated that attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance plays a significant role in the development, maintenance, and satisfaction of adult romantic relationships (Hazan & Shaver, 1994). Technology has ...
Irrigation and Certificate of Use Compliance in the Wiregrass Region of Alabama
(2017-04-24)
Alabama passed the Water Resources Act of 1993 that included a Certificate of Use (CoU) program for users that have the capacity to withdraw 100,000 gallons per day or more. However, there is concern that some irrigation ...
High School Students’ Attitudes Toward Competitive Marching Band: A Comparative Analysis Based Upon Contest Rankings
(2017-04-24)
The purpose of this quantitative study was (a) to determine the extent to which secondary school students find educational and musical value in competitive marching band programs, and (b) to discover how contest rankings ...
Guidance to Support Vulnerable Road Users in the State of Alabama
(2017-04-21)
Over the past decade, communities across Alabama and the United States experienced significant increases in multi-modal traffic. While this growth has been shown to promote sustainable and livable communities, reduce ...
Radar Probabilistic Data Association Filter with GPS Aiding for Target Selection and Relative Position Determination
(2017-04-21)
In this thesis, Global Positioning System (GPS) and radar measurements are utilized in a multi-sensor architecture to achieve a confident relative positioning solution between two vehicles. A GPS solution providing a ...
Bioremediation of Arsenic Contaminated Groundwater in Northwest Florida: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Microbiology Changes
(2017-04-21)
This research demonstrates that the stimulation of natural sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in groundwater can precipitate biogenic pyrite nanoparticles that play an active role in sequestering dissolved arsenic from ...
Disparities in the Courtroom: Exploring the Influence of Race/Ethnicity and Offense Category on Charge Reductions during Judicial Disposition Making
(2017-04-21)
African American males comprise the most overrepresented group in the juvenile justice system. This disparity has been attributed, in part, to implicit biases. Moreover, family structure and prior court referrals also ...
Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury and Cardioprotection: Novel Roles of Frataxin and Uridine Triphosphate
(2017-04-21)
Ischemia reperfusion (IR) injury in cardiac myocytes is well known to provoke membrane damage that is mediated by oxygen free radicals and that is associated with iron accumulation, energy dysregulation and opening of the ...
Particle Size Affects Physical and Chemical Properties of 100% Pine Bark Horticultural Substrate
(2017-04-21)
Pine bark is the most commonly used substrate component for container plant production in the southeastern United States, with some growers using 100% pine bark. Substrate physical and chemical properties directly affect ...
Characterization and Quantification of Magnetic Particles and Magnetically Labeled Cells by Magnetic Cytometry
(2017-04-21)
Characterization of magnetic particles and labeled cells is in high demand in both medical research and clinical applications. A HyperfluxTM Velocimeter is utilized to directly measure the magnetophoretic mobility, size ...
The Effects of the Masou Salmon Delta5-Desaturase Transgene on N-3 Fatty Acid Production in F1 Transgenic Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) and Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
(2017-04-21)
The objectives of this study were determine the effectiveness of the Masou salmon delta5-desaturase transgene driven by a beta-actin promoter for improving n-3 fatty acid production in F1 transgenic common carp, Cyprinus ...
The Odor of Things: Deodorant, Gender and Olfaction in the United States
(2017-04-21)
My dissertation examines the history and technology of scented deodorants and antiperspirants and discusses how certain scents became tightly connected to ideas about gender. The history of deodorant illuminates the complex ...
Dedekind Domains and the P-rank of Ext
(2017-04-21)
We address what can be said of torsion-free finite rank modules $A$ and $B$ over a Dedekind domain $R$ when their Ext's are isomorphic, extending an answer to Fuchs' Problem 43 and its dual by Goeters. We obtain a result ...