Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Using the Multiple-Choice Procedure to Measure Video Game Playing
(2016-07-25)
Video gaming shares many similarities with substance use and gambling including neural mechanisms, motivations, and negative consequences. Behavioral economic models have been used to inform conceptual models of addictive ...
Prescribed Fire Interval and Economic Tradeoffs on Forage and Nutrient Availability During Stress Periods for White-tailed Deer
(2016-07-25)
Prescribed fire is an effective habitat management tool that enhances the production of quality forage for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), but its effectiveness is largely dependent upon return interval. We ...
Consequences of Decreased Water Temperature Caused by Aerator-Induced Evaporation on Growth of Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei in Ponds
(2016-07-25)
Two studies were performed related to water temperature in aquaculture ponds. The first study evaluated the influence of aeration on evaporation and water temperature in ponds, and compared the effects of daytime and ...
Wrong-Way Driving: Crash Data Analysis and Safety Countermeasures
(2016-07-25)
Wrong-way driving (WWD) on controlled-access highways has been a consistent issue since the introduction of Interstate systems in the 1950s. Despite all the efforts to overcome the issue, there is still much to learn. This ...
The Effects of Different De-feathering Methods on Salmonella Attachment to Chicken Skin and Antimicrobial Efficacy
(2016-07-22)
Chickens usually arrive at processing facilities with high populations of microorganisms. Salmonella is a major concern in poultry and poultry products in regards to food safety. During the initial steps of slaughter (i.e., ...
Controlling Foodborne Microorganisms in Alfalfa Sprouts
(2016-07-22)
Raw sprouts are consistently found as the source of produce related foodborne illness outbreaks. Research and past experiences illustrate that intervention methods currently used in the sprout industry are occasionally ...
Forming Therapeutic Alliances across the Milieu: Clinical Implications and Challenges of Working with Adjudicated Adolescent Males in Residential Treatment
(2016-07-22)
Forming a positive and collaborative relationship with a therapist is perceived to be one of the key change agents in the psychotherapeutic process (Bordin, 1979). While a limited number of studies have examined the factors ...
Evaluation of the Aberdeen and Forwarder knots in large gauge suture
(2016-07-22)
Methods: Forwarder, Aberdeen, surgeon’s and square knots were tested using large gauge suture under linear tension on a universal testing machine, recording knot holding capacity (KHC). Relative knot security (RKS) was ...
Embodiment and the African Diaspora in the Fiction of Paule Marshall
(2016-07-22)
Paule Marshall’s fiction is characterized by narration of the body in relation to African diasporic identity. My dissertation project, "Embodiment and the African Diaspora in the Fiction of Paule Marshall," seeks to examine ...
The Effect of Ankle Bracing on Lower Extremity Coordination, Coordination Variability, and Neuromuscular Activity in Individuals with and without Chronic Ankle Instability
(2016-07-22)
Ankle sprain injuries and ankle bracing act as constraints that can influence natural coordination pattern dynamics. Recently, researchers studying the progression of chronic ankle instability (CAI) have used measures of ...
The Effects of Direct Instruction on Reading Comprehension for Individuals with Autism or Intellectual Disability
(2016-07-22)
This study investigated the effects of a Direct Instruction (DI) reading comprehension program on the reading comprehension skills of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder or intellectual disability. Although the ...
Derivations of subalgebras of the Lie algebra of block upper triangular matrices
(2016-07-22)
This dissertation studies the derivations of some subalgebras of the Lie algebra of block
upper triangular matrices. Specifically, we study the derivations of the Lie algebra of strictly
block upper triangular matrices ...
Brain Connectivity Modeling in Soldiers with Mild-Traumatic Brain Injury and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(2016-07-21)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been increasingly used for understanding cognitive processes in both healthy and clinical populations. In this work, we employed various computational approaches in studying ...
Attachment Dimensions of Closeness, Anxiety, and Dependence and Parent and Peer Relationships in a Population of Adolescents who have Sexually Offended: Are These Associations Mediated by Emotion Regulation?
(2016-07-20)
Adolescent males who sexually offend are at great risk for continuing difficulties
in managing emotional arousal, their relationships, and their futures. The purpose of this
study is to examine the relationship between ...
Stability and Performance of Emerging Wireless Networks
(2016-07-20)
In this work, we analysis the application of emerging wireless communications on the stability of computing and transmission queues of mobile devices. Firstly, we present a Lyapunov optimization-based scheme for cloud ...
Gyrokinetic Electron and Fully Kinetic Ion Particle Simulation on Current Sheet Instabilities
(2016-07-20)
Linear eigenmode stability properties of three-dimensional instabilities in a Harris current sheet with a finite guide magnetic field are systematically studied employing the gyrokinetic electron and fully kinetic ion ...
Habitat Use by Telemetered Alabama Shad during the Spawning Migration in the Lower Flint River, Georgia
(2016-07-20)
The Alabama Shad Alosa alabamae is an anadromous fish which lives in the northern Gulf of Mexico and ascends freshwater rivers in during springtime to spawn. Populations have experienced substantial range-wide declines ...
Effective Teaching Characteristics in Vocational Education.
(2016-07-20)
This study explored the students’ and instructors’ perception of effective teaching characteristics as well as investigating the distinction between them as perceived by 137 students and six instructors in a Community ...
Impacts of diving tourists on coral reef community structure and herbivorous reef fish foraging behavior
(2016-07-20)
Increasing contact between humans and nature can disturb essential processes
within ecosystems. Chronic anthropogenic disturbances on coral reefs may shift benthic
community composition leading to loss of reef growth and ...
Health Belief Model and Fatalism related to Breast Cancer Screening in Working Women
(2016-07-20)
Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in women, with the exception of cancers of the skin, and is responsible for thousands of deaths each year. The American Cancer Society indicates that breast cancer death rates and ...