Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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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 ...
Investigation of Contributing Factors of Wrong-Way Driving Crashes on Partially/ Uncontrolled-Access Divided Highways
(2017-04-21)
Wrong-way driving (WWD) crashes are more likely to pose fatal and serious injuries than other types of highway accidents. This study focuses on differentiating the confounding factors that contribute to WWD crashes from ...
Single Camera 3D Measurement of a Shock Wave-Turbulent Boundary Layer Interaction
(2017-04-21)
This paper explores the 3D structure of an unswept fin generated shock wave-turbulent boundary layer interaction (SBLI). A Mach 2 flow encounters an unswept fin at an angle of attack of 15 degrees which causes an inviscid, ...
Genetic Diversity and Connectivity of Black Bears (Ursus americanus) in Alabama.
(2017-04-21)
One of the major concerns in conservation today is the loss of genetic diversity which is a frequent consequence of population isolation and small population sizes. Fragmentation of populations and persecution of carnivores ...
Minnows and molecules: resolving the broad and fine-scale evolutionary patterns of Cypriniformes
(2017-04-21)
Cypriniformes (minnows, carps, loaches, and suckers) is the largest group of freshwater fishes in the world. Despite much attention, previous attempts to elucidate relationships using molecular and morphological characters ...
The Effect of the Family Structure on Child Physical Activity within a Fitness Intervention: A Theoretical Approach
(2017-04-21)
Overweight or obese children are five times more likely to become obese adults, and obesity-related conditions (i.e. heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancers) are now the leading causes of preventable ...
Investigation of Deflection Basins to Identify Structural Distresses within Flexible Pavements
(2017-04-21)
Cracking in pavements is often considered a random phenomenon that is difficult to predict and diagnose. It would be beneficial to pavement managers to identify pavements that are likely to have cracking in the near future ...
Exploring actinide chemistry: uranyl detection and thorium catalysis
(2017-04-21)
In a world where there is a strong need to improve our means of producing energy to sustain our ever expanding population with low green-house emissions, nuclear power offers sustainability and low greenhouse emissions, ...