Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Building a Black Belt Empire: Charles H. Miller in Marengo County, Alabama, 1870-1917
(2016-05-06)
The life of planter, merchant, and politician Charles Houston Miller of Miller, Marengo County, Alabama exemplified the powerful elites who ruled the Black Belt in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through ...
Robot Navigation for RFID-based Inventory Counting
(2016-05-06)
A mathematical model for a robot navigation system searching for RFID tags in a retail store is constructed. It is based on the Traveling Salesman Problem optimization algorithm. A software simulation is performed in MATLAB. ...
Immigrant Labor in the Forest Industry: The Impacts of H-2B Employment on Local Livelihoods
(2016-05-05)
The production of timber requires labor, with peak labor demands coming during reforestation. Much of the labor used in tree planting in the United States (US) is provided by migrant workers. The overall purpose of this ...
"The Newspapers Will Invade Their Firesides": Politics, the Press, and the End of Reconstruction in Alabama
(2016-05-05)
In 1874, Alabama Democrats exploited racial tensions to animate disaffected whites, producing the highest voter turnout in Reconstruction and the end of Republican rule. Throughout the campaign, newspaper editors and ...
Deception of Phishing: Studying the Techniques of Social Engineering by Analyzing Modern-day Phishing Attacks on Universities.
(2016-05-05)
Techniques applying manipulation, persuasion, and influence have been used for centuries to conduct malicious acts of crime against others. Social engineering is the act of using various manipulation techniques to get other ...
Testing Reprodutive Tradeoffs and Fitness Measures in Female Columbian ground squirrels (Urocitellus columbianus)
(2016-05-05)
Life history theory is a branch of ecology whose goal is to understand how animals optimize their survival and reproductive success. Under natural conditions, resources are finite and life history traits are subject to ...
Blood Glucose Concentrations Are Not Increased by Chronic IP Glucagon Administration in Leptin-Treated Type 1 Diabetic Rats
(2016-05-05)
The overall objective of this research is to increase our understanding of how central leptin administration normalizes blood glucose concentrations independent of insulin in type 1 diabetic rats. This research may lead ...
Graduate Preparation and Professional Development of Speech Language Pathology Students: A Grounded Theory Study
(2016-05-05)
This study describes a hierarchical model developed using grounded theory analysis of
clinical development of speech-language pathology graduate students. Eight female students attending Auburn University’s speech-language ...
Effect of Diet Complexity, Multi-enzyme Complexes, Essential Oils, and Benzoic Acid on Weanling Pigs
(2016-05-05)
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of supplementing a simple corn-soybean meal (SBM) diet with multi-enzyme complexes, essential oils, and benzoic acid on growth performance, serum metabolite profile, ...
Exploring Index and Query Optimization Techniques for Database Applications
(2016-05-05)
Database index can be regarded as a data structure that speed up the data retrieval operations on a database table. The cost of indexing in database is additional writes and storage space to maintain the data structure. ...
Population dynamics and viability of the federally listed population of Steller's Eiders
(2016-05-05)
For many species, uncertainty may intervene in accurately estimating population size, trend, and demographic parameters. Bayesian state-space models provide a convenient framework to account for multiple sources of uncertainty ...
Jim Thorpe, Indian or Athlete? Sport Performance and Mediated Accounts of Racial Identity.
(2016-05-05)
This study allows us to understand how the media coverage of Native American athletes shapes and naturalizes racial stereotypes. Sport is a site where racial formations are constantly and publicly negotiated. Therefore, ...
Design and Simulation of a Circulating Tumor Cell Detector
(2016-05-05)
Recent advances in magnetic cell selection have enhanced the possibility of isolating cells of interest. The detection of fetal cells in maternal blood, circulating stem cells and circulating tumor cells will soon be a ...
Creating university/K-12 partnerships for the enhancement of educational leadership preparation and increasing student achievement: Sustainability factors, barriers, and benefits.
(2016-05-05)
Over ten years ago, universities and colleges were mandated to form partnership with their surrounding k-12 school districts as part of the redesign of educational leadership preparation programs for the purpose of ...
Essays on Macroeconomic and Financial Stability
(2016-05-05)
“Assessing and Forecasting Financial Vulnerability in the U.S.: A Factor Model Approach,”
This paper presents a factor-based forecasting model for the financial market vulnerability in the U.S. We estimate latent common ...
Temporal Features of Voice in Connected Speech: Bioenergetic Implications
(2016-05-05)
Purpose: Translating exercise science methodology for determination of muscle bioenergetics, it was hypothesized that the temporal voice use patterns for classroom and music teachers would indicate a reliance on the immediate ...
Optimization of feed management for Pacific White shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)
(2016-05-05)
Manufactured feed is one of the important components of commercial shrimp aquaculture, providing nutritional balance for farmed shrimp. However, it is also the primary source causing problems related to water quality. ...
Relationship between Educational Outcomes and Mental Health of Turkish-American Adolescents
(2016-05-05)
The purpose of the present study is: (a) to identify the effects of internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and total problems (as measured by the of the Youth Self Report [YSR] and the parent-reported Child Behavior ...
Three Essays on the Chinese Housing Market: Amenities, Environment, and Policies
(2016-05-05)
This dissertation includes three essays that address economic impacts of amenities, environmental change, and development policy on the Chinese housing market. Chapter 1 examines the impact of the city water system improvement ...
Instructional Coaches as Teacher Leaders: Roles, Challenges, and Facilitative Factors
(2016-05-05)
Teacher leaders represent change agents within a school and they have formal and informal roles to improve teaching and learning. This study focuses on one of the formal roles of teacher leadership which is instructional ...