Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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A Middle School's Use of Systems Thinking To Make Decisions
(2017-04-13)
Flair Middle School is a middle school that is located in the suburbs of a major Midwestern city in the United States. It houses grades six through eight, along with more than seven hundred students. Flair Middle School ...
Number Fields
(2017-04-13)
This paper focuses on number fields and the number rings associated with a particular number field. This topic falls under the study of algebra, and in particular algebraic number theory. The motivation of this paper is ...
Learning Systems for Nonlinear Mapping
(2017-04-13)
The many complex problems facing researchers and engineers demand innovative solutions.
Machine learning techniques are growing in popularity due to their versatility and power.
However, challenges remain. Popular machine ...
Socialization of Female and Male Assistant Principals
(2017-04-13)
Assistant principals have one of the hardest jobs in the school, if not the hardest. Their role in a school generally consists of discipline, buses, textbooks, working with angry parents, and many more. Their hours are ...
Progress on the Marcus-de Oliveira Determinantal Conjecture
(2017-04-12)
We discuss the well known conjecture of Marcus and de Oliveira of the determinant of the sum of normal matrices. We present the motivation of this conjecture, along with detailed history of its origin. Then we compile ...
Neurofunctional Correlates of Geometry and Feature Use in a Virtual Environment Across the Lifespan
(2017-04-12)
There are mixed results regarding the differentiation of neurofunctional correlates of spatial abilities. To help elucidate the existing mixed findings, three experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, college-aged ...
A Fine Line Between Dispersion and Retention: Oil-Sediment Interactions in Nearshore Marine Environments
(2017-04-12)
When crude oil that is spilled in a marine environment approaches the shoreline, it can interact with suspended sediment to form either microscopic oil-mineral aggregates (OMAs), or macroscopic surface residual balls (SRBs) ...
Adapting to Academic Life: Junior Pharmacy Practice Faculty’s Preparation for Academia and Their Intent to Leave
(2017-04-12)
Pharmacy education has experienced significant changes in the last 20 years. The Doctor of Pharmacy degree became the sole professional degree requiring the addition of a large number of practice faculty. In addition, ...
Comparisons Among Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus, Blue Catfish I. furcatus, Channel ♀ × Blue ♂ Hybrid Catfish and Transgenic Channel Catfish for Growth, Cold and Salinity Tolerance
(2017-04-12)
Two studies were performed related to salinity tolerance and the potential effect of climate change on genetic choices for catfish farming. The first study examined the growth rate and survival rate among channel catfish ...
Acquired Velopharyngeal Dysfunction Assessment: Speech-Language Pathologists' Perceived Competence and Proposed Clinical Guideline.
(2017-03-31)
Purpose: An on-line survey was completed to investigate SLP self-efficacy and knowledge for assessment of acquired velopharyngeal dysfunction (AVPD). It was hypothesized that participants would report limited training and ...
Female Assistant Superintendents in Middle Space Leadership: A Multiple Case Study
(2017-03-31)
This qualitative study explored the experiences of female assistant superintendents in obtaining and sustaining their positions as middle space leaders. There is little research on female assistant superintendents or middle ...
Conversion of Carbon Dioxide and Biomass for Fuels and Chemicals Precursor through Gasification: Experimental and Modeling Approach
(2017-03-13)
Recycling carbon dioxide is of prime importance due to the harmful effects on the atmosphere. Using CO2 for gasification serves a dual purpose i.e. reducing pollution and generating syngas and is beneficial both environmentally ...
Application of genome-wide association studies in channel catfish to identify QTL associated with hypoxia tolerance
(2017-03-07)
Catfish is the dominant aquaculture species in the United States. The production of the domestic catfish industry rapidly increased in the last two decades. However, as imported catfish from Southeast Asia have kept ...
Why do Growing Cracks Branch? An Optical Investigation of Brittle Monolithic and Bilayer Transparencies Under Stress Wave Loading
(2017-02-28)
Understanding the fracture mechanics of materials due to stress wave (or impact) loading under combined tensile and shear (mixed-mode) conditions is important for two opposing reasons: (a) for creating impact resistant ...
Stable Colloidal Dispersions of Highly Concentrated Thermo-efficient Nanomaterials
(2017-02-08)
Phase change materials (PCM) were utilized as solvents to synthesize small particles and stabilize them in those media in order to determine time independent thermal properties of nanostructure-enhanced phase change materials ...
Adoption of Soil Conservation Practices and Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Soil Testing in Northern Haiti
(2017-01-27)
This dissertation is organized in three chapters that deal with issues on agricultural development in Haiti. The first chapter presents results from adoption of soil conservation practices in Northern Haiti. Using data ...
An Analysis of Distance Education Adoption Barriers within Colleges and Programs of Agriculture
(2017-01-27)
Distance Education (DE) provides a means for which people, who are unable to attend on-campus courses for any of various reasons, to receive a college education. While there are many benefits cited for DE and many students ...
Survival of Adult White-tailed Deer and Movement Relative to Temporal Patterns of Predation Risk
(2017-01-20)
Estimates of survival and cause-specific mortality are important tools for guiding management decisions of game species. Concerning the management of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), region-specific information ...
Challenges in Resting State Functional Connectivity Analysis: Removal of Head Motion Artifacts and Machine Learning-based Disease Classification
(2017-01-11)
In recent years, the use of resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rs-fMRI) for examining the brain function in healthy and clinical populations has increased drastically. Simultaneous modulations in neural ...
The Effects of Polyethylene and Cereal Rye Mulch, Tillage, and Herbicides on Tomato and Watermelon Yield and Weed Control
(2017-01-11)
Cereal rye, polyethylene mulching, and tillage all have an impact on the yield and growth of weeds. Herbicides have been used to control weed growth for decades. Using these in conjunction can possibly demonstrate ways to ...