Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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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 ...
Three Essays on Silvopasture in the Southeastern U.S.: Landowner and Community Assets, Natural Resource Professionals’ Perceptions, and Landowner Engagement
(2016-05-05)
Today’s natural resource professionals (NRP) support landowners in pursuit of multiple
objectives, including recreation, income, long-term value creation, and responsibly managing
natural resources for future generations. ...
An Examination of Stream Fishes at 3 Levels: Species-Area and Environmental Interactive Influences on Fish Species Richness, Stream Type Influences on Assemblage Membership, and Variation in Weight-Length Parameters by Stream Type & Fish Trait
(2016-05-05)
Obtaining an understanding of the multi-scale influences on species richness is of concern not only to theoretical development but to building an understanding of potential mechanisms of rapid species loss. To address ...
High Quality CT Image Reconstruction from Limited Projections Obtained from MiSpinner
(2016-05-05)
Computed tomography (CT) technology is widely used in the medical and industrial fields. However, a traditional CT machine costs too much for many researchers to afford it and prevents them from doing related research. To ...
The Effects of Two Approaches to Rhythm Study on the Sight-Reading Proficiency of Secondary Wind Instrumentalists
(2016-05-05)
Music educators strive diligently to develop musically literate student musicians. Sight-reading new music is one way of displaying music literacy because musicians must simultaneously synthesize an understanding of music ...
Methylmercury Exposure in Adolescence: Effects on Delay Discounting and Sensitivity to d-Amphetamine in Mice
(2016-05-05)
Methylmercury (MeHg) is an environmental neurotoxicant that can be used to study how cortical damage during early development affects behavior later in life. The consequences of MeHg exposure in adolescence, a developmental ...
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Fitness Costs Associated with Information Preservation May Explain Longevity Differences between Species
(2016-05-05)
The aging process in most organisms is enormously complex, involving a multitude of integrated molecular pathways that define and modulate the gradual cellular, tissue and system-level changes that evoke the aging phenotype. ...
Development Toward a Bovine Salmonella Model and a Bacteriophage Treatment Cocktail to Reduce Salmonella Peripheral Lymph Node Carriage in Calves
(2016-05-05)
Non-typhoidal salmonellosis is the leading bacterial cause of human foodborne disease in the United States and is responsible for numerous hospitalizations and deaths each year. Although several strategies have been ...
The Development of a Decision Algorithm to Aid in the Selection of Pipe Material for Cross-Drainage Application
(2016-05-05)
The Code of Federal Regulations effectively limited allowable culvert materials to reinforced concrete pipe and corrugated steel pipe on Federal-aided projects. Angered by the exclusion, the plastics industry lobbied ...
Understanding Unsteady Flow Dynamics, Temperature, and Dye Distributions of Density Currents in a River-Reservoir System under Different Upstream Releases and Meteorological Scenarios
(2016-05-05)
Three dimensional hydrodynamic Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) model was applied to simulate flow, temperature and dye distributions in the river-reservoir system. The study is in a river-reservoir system (124.2 ...
Adolescent artistic caricatures and the sharing of art
(2016-05-05)
The assumptions and stereotypes that form the basis of adolescent social groups include caricatures of artists and artistic peers. This exploratory qualitative study is a bricolage in educational psychology with elements ...
Alabama Workforce Development – Evaluating the Efficiency of the Alabama Local Workforce Investment Board Structure
(2016-05-05)
This study provided an assessment of the Alabama Workforce Investment Board structure by surveying board members of each of Alabama’s three local workforce investment boards. The survey instrument was inspired by a similarly ...
Differences in Participant Recall and Preference Based on Patient Medication Information Format
(2016-05-05)
Patient medication information (PMI) is currently not meeting patients’ needs, especially those with low health literacy. Studies suggest that adding relevant images to otherwise textual PMI as well as video presentation ...
Effects of desiccation practices and ploidy on Vibrio spp. abundances of cultured oysters, Crassostrea virginica
(2016-05-05)
The expansion of off-bottom aquaculture of the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, to the Gulf of Mexico accompanied by high temperatures, which are correlated with Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus, has ...
Roadside Features in Crash Prediction Models: Data Collection and Evaluation
(2016-05-05)
A roadway departure (RwD) crash, comprising run-off-road (ROR) and cross median/cross centerline head-on collisions, is defined as a crash in which a vehicle crosses an edge line, a centerline, or otherwise leaves the ...