Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Relationships between benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages and the physical environment in sandy SE streams, with emphasis on stream geomorphology, hydrology and watershed disturbance
(2016-05-05)
Biodiversity is predicted to decline over the next 100 years, and stream ecosystems are
predicted to be impacted by landuse change. This predicted decline highlights the need to
understand sand-bed streams and biotic ...
A Study on the Electromechanical/Dielectric Response of Poly(ethylene oxide)-Nanocrystalline-Cellulose Composites and Polyvinylidene Fluoride Electroactive Polymers
(2016-05-05)
The study of electroactive polymers (EAPs) has garnered a lot of attention over the past two decades for their ability to generate large electromechanical actuation responses without the need for any moving parts, external ...
Assessment of Science Teachers’ Vocabulary Strategies with English Language Learners and Self-Efficacy Levels
(2016-05-05)
The purpose of this study was to examine science teachers’ self-efficacy with teaching science and their self-efficacy level for teaching ELL students while also examining the types of vocabulary instructional strategies ...
Optimization of a Turboramjet Hot Section with an Interstage Turbine Burner
(2016-05-05)
A turbine based combined cycle engine (TBCC) is currently in development for use in the SR-72 reconnaissance aircraft, the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird. With a proposed operating range of Mach 0-6, there is a need for ...
Assessment of Multiple Ingest Strategies for Accumulo Key-Value Store
(2016-05-05)
In recent years, the emergence of heterogeneous data, especially of the unstructured type, has been extremely rapid. The data growth happens concurrently in 3 dimensions: volume (size), velocity (growth rate) and variety ...
Examining Influences on the Beliefs and Practices of Secondary Social Studies Teachers in their Early Careers: A Multiple-Case Study
(2016-05-05)
This study examined the enduring effects of a pre-service teacher preparation program rooted in problem-based historical inquiry on the beliefs and practices of five program graduates in their early careers. Interviews ...
Photo-assisted Adsorptive Desulfurization of Hydrocarbon Fuels over TiO2 and Ag-TiO2
(2016-05-05)
Organic sulfur compounds are one of the most common impurities in crude oil which is widely used as transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuels. Sulfur in liquid hydrocarbon fuels is also considered as one ...
Exploring English Language Learners’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Language Learning Strategies and Goal Orientation
(2016-05-05)
The purpose of this study was to examine self-efficacy beliefs, learning strategy, and goal orientation of college-level English Language Learners (ELLs) enrolled in English as a Second Language (ESL) program. This study ...
Diversification of plant-feeding insects: using informatics to explore the effects of natural enemy interactions
(2016-05-05)
The aim of my thesis research was to gain a deeper understanding of the species diversity of plant-feeding insects. I pursued that aim with two complementary projects. In the first, I developed a web application to manage ...
Prediction of Sensory Texture Characteristics of Deli Meat Using Instrumental Analysis
(2016-05-05)
The objective of Experiment 1 was to develop a method that has the ability to measure multiple readings on the same deli meat sample and have those readings be highly correlated with descriptive sensory data. Texture profile ...
Versatile and Potentially Scalable Method for Synthesis of Janus Nanoparticles
(2016-05-04)
Researchers are constantly working toward developing “smarter” materials that can be designed or programed to do a certain task. Examples of such tasks would be self-assembling into an organized structure or targeting a ...
Job Satisfaction Factors Influencing Mentorship of Faculty in Academia
(2016-05-04)
Faculty have the role of educators, researchers, community service advocates, and mentors to name a few. The recruitment and promotion of a diverse faculty is critical for higher education. Mentoring has been identified ...
Building Occupant Evacuation Response to Multiple Perceived False Fire Alarms
(2016-05-04)
There is a lack of information on the relationship between nuisance alarms and occupant attitudes toward evacuation of a building due to a fire alarm. This research study compared attitudes based on gender, faculty/staff, ...
Examination of Faculty Members’ Multicultural Teaching Competencies at a Four-Year Institution
(2016-05-04)
The demographic diversification of the student body and the cultural mismatch between the students and their educators have impacted both the academic achievement of the students and the faculty and graduate-level educators ...
Effects of Bold Key Terms on Judgments of Learning and Reading Comprehension
(2016-05-04)
People often use different types of available information as cues to make inferences about memory (Koriat, 1997). When these cues are unreliable predictors of memory (like font size), metacognitive illusions can ensue ...
Identifying the Role of His293 in Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1 and Characterization of Agonists for Peroxisomal Proliferator Activating Receptors
(2016-05-04)
This thesis presents two proteins of interest: (1) protein arginine methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) and (2) peroxisome proliferator activated receptors (PPARs). The purpose of this thesis is to assess the intermolecular ...
Establishment and validation of molecular predictive models for understanding survival and susceptibility of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in seafood stored at low temperature
(2016-05-04)
Vibrio parahaemolyticus has been a leading cause of pathogenic diseases to human health after consumption of contaminated seafood. Microbial predictive models have been very important parts in quantitative microbiological ...
Three Essays in Labor Economics
(2016-05-04)
The three present essays approach education, human capital signaling, and wage theories, and as such, fit squarely in the field of labor economics. Labor, as one of the three factors of production, has unique and important ...
Essays on Exploring the Value of Business Analytics in Health Care
(2016-05-04)
Although researchers and practitioners across various disciplines, including computer science, healthcare informatics, and clinical medicine have advocated that business analytics have tremendous benefits for healthcare ...
Evaluating the Contribution of Asphalt Binder from Recycled Asphalt Shingles in Asphalt Concrete
(2016-05-04)
The use of Recycled Asphalt Shingles (RAS) to replace a portion of the virgin asphalt binder in asphalt mixtures has been increasing over the past several years due to environmental and economic motivations. Yet, since ...