Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Third Place Impact on Students' Creativity and a Comparison between Measurement Tools: An Experimental and Comparative Study
(2017-04-20)
Learning spaces play an important role in the learning process, as the surrounding
environment helps to shape human behavior. Specifically, researchers have suggested that, as a
social species, humans interacting in ...
Right to Farm Laws: A Thematic Analysis
(2017-04-20)
Sociological research has devoted scant attention to the state-specific laws and their impact on agriculture and rural communities in the United States. This proposal analyzes Right- to-Farm laws, statutes that exist in ...
Robust Simultaneous Inference for Functional Data
(2017-04-20)
Advancements in modern technology have enabled the collection of complex, high- dimensional data sets, such as curves, 2D or 3D images, and other objects living in a functional space, thus boosting the investigation of ...
Interactive Effects of Climate Change and Grazing on Ecosystem Productivity and Greenhouse Gas Balance at Multiple Scales from Landscape to Global
(2017-04-20)
The Anthropocene is facing several critical challenges in the 21st century due to increasing impacts of human activities such as deforestation, urbanization, agriculture and fossil fuel burning. Human activities alter ...
Cooperative Map-Building for Autonomous Mobile Robots
(2017-04-20)
A novel algorithm for multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping is investigated through simulation. Although cooperative-SLAM has been studied by other researchers, the algorithm presented here offers a simpler, ...
“It’s Not My History:” The White Counter-Narrative of Selma, Alabama, 1965-2015
(2017-04-20)
Almost immediately after the dust had settled behind the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March, forces within Selma began competing for control of the march’s historical legacy. After the successful passage of the 1965 ...
Post-Secondary Instructors’ Approaches to the Assessment of Online Discussions: Influential Factors, Obstacles, and Solutions to the Challenges
(2017-04-20)
This study examines the factors, challenges, and solutions to the challenges to assessing online discussions. Online learning continues to become more and more prevalent. Entire degrees are now being offered online. One ...
Effects on Water Quality of Additional Mechanical Aeration in the Waste-Treatment Cells in Split-Pond Aquaculture Systems for Hybrid Catfish Production
(2017-04-20)
Split-pond aquaculture is a new, innovative system for intensification of pond aquaculture in the southeastern USA. Split ponds have a fish cell and a waste cell, approximately 20% water surface area and 80% water surface ...
Effect of Increasing Intra-Abdominal Pressures on Hemodynamic Variables and Biomarkers of Ischemia and Acute Inflammation in the Horse
(2017-04-20)
Intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) is defined as increased pressure within the confines of the abdominal cavity. As pressure rises, ischemia of the splanchnic organs will result from direct compression of the organs and ...
Investigation and Characterization of Antibacterial Proteins from the Eastern Subterranean Termites Reticulitermes flavipes in Response to Multidrug Resistant Bacteria
(2017-04-20)
Immune system of insects has been of great interest for discovering novel compounds against microbes. Subterranean termites (Blattodea: Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae), especially the Reticulitermes species, have a wide ...
Interface Design Guidelines to Improve Usability of Websites for Teenagers
(2017-04-20)
Although most teenagers (aged 13-17) use the Internet daily, very little human-computer interaction (HCI) research exists on design of websites for teens. Several authors have published web usability guidelines and “cool” ...
Crossing Over: Interactions with(in) the Permeable Screen
(2017-04-20)
Within American culture, the television is arguably one of the more common modes of social discourse and entertainment. However, there are a number of literary responses to the medium (as well as other screen devices) that ...
Compactifications of indecomposable topological spaces
(2017-04-20)
A continuum is a compact and connected topological space. A continuum that is not the union of any two of its proper subcontinua is said to be indecomposable. We examine topological spaces which are closely related to ...
Trading Strategies and Risk Management for Wind Power in the Electricity Market
(2017-04-19)
The use of wind energy, one of the main renewable energy sources, has rapidly expanded around the world in past decades. However, the uncertainty and unpredictability of wind power lead to a number of challenges for both ...
Determination of Safe Guidelines for One-Hand Lifting
(2017-04-19)
The broad aim of this research is to better understand the effect asymmetric lifting has on the low back and trunk muscles. Collecting anthropometric, muscle and lever arm information at the L-3 region of the back, muscle ...
A Study of the Professional Role Identities of Experienced University Instructors of English for Speakers of Other Languages
(2017-04-19)
Little is known about how experienced university instructors of ESOL in the United States construct their identities as teachers. Due to their administrative tasks and their de facto positions as a service provider to ...
From Rolling Bungalows to Mobile Mansions: The Origins of America’s Obsession with the Recreational Vehicle
(2017-04-19)
This dissertation studies the rise of the recreational vehicle technology in America. It argues that recreational automobility required the achievement of mass automobility and long distance roads to become a viable travel ...
Investigating the transmission of epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) among white-tailed deer in Alabama
(2017-04-19)
Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) is an arbovirus that mostly cycles between white-tailed deer and biting midges of the genus Culicoides. EHDV infections can be fatal for white-tailed deer and occasionally cause ...
Faction before Blood: Family Communication Patterns and Gender in the Dystopian Teen Drama Film Divergent (2014)
(2017-04-18)
This study examines the family communication and gender messages communicated in the dystopian teen drama Divergent (2014). Through application of family communication patterns theory and a family feminist perspective, the ...
Colonization Sites of Salmonella Enteritidis and Heidelberg in Broilers when Exposed Continuously in Feed or Day of Hatch
(2017-04-18)
Salmonella is the most common bacterial pathogen to cause foodborne illness in the United States with poultry acting as a main vector. In order to control this pathogen prior to the processing plant, consideration must be ...