Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Effects of Early Adverse Risks on Middle Childhood Behavior Development, Adolescent Physical and Mental Health, and First Juvenile Arrest for Low-Income Youth
(2015-07-23)
The current dissertation investigates the effects of early adverse risks on middle childhood behavior development, adolescent physical and mental health, and first juvenile arrest in a high-risk national Longitudinal Studies ...
Hotel Guest Complaint Behaviors and Their Relationship to Motives, Personality Traits, and Emotional Intelligence
(2015-07-23)
Since a service provider’s response to failures can either reinforce customer relationships or exacerbate the negative effects of the failure, it is imperative to understand how to respond customers’ complaints based on ...
Examination of Learning Styles and Technology Perceptions among Higher Education Students
(2015-07-23)
Today, adoption of innovative technology is an important subject for research and work. Recent research discussed the importance of integrating modern technology into teaching and learning environments in higher education ...
Macro-propagation of native cane (Arundinaria spp.) in central Kentucky and restoration out-plantings in western Tennessee and southern Alabama.
(2015-07-23)
Canebrakes, monodominant stands of native bamboo (Arundinaria spp.; hereafter cane), are a critically endangered ecosystem in the Southeastern United States. Canebrakes have declined to <2% of their former range from ...
Data Center Specific Thermal and Energy Saving Techniques
(2015-07-23)
Data centers are ever increasing as we become more reliant on web based transactions. The benefits of such massive computing are obvious by the speed and ease we can get most media or information. A challenge is that new ...
Linking Peer Victimization with Sleep in Early Adolescence
(2015-07-23)
The present study examined the association between peer victimization and sleep quality in early adolescence. Negative emotional arousal in the context of peer stress was examined as a possible mediator, and both sex and ...
A Multi-Technique Perspective for the Calibration of Metal Dispersion and Oxygen Chemisorption on AgTiO2 Supported Adsorbents
(2015-07-23)
Absorption studies were performed in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the discrepancies that exist between the previously reported average crystallite sizes for silver titania adsorbents using oxygen chemisorption ...
Examining Teacher Qualifications, Characteristics, and Practices Related to English Learners in the State of Alabama: An Exploratory Study on Teacher Quality
(2015-07-23)
The purpose of this study was to explore how general classroom teachers report their qualifications, characteristics, and practices related to teaching English learners (ELs) academic language. It was also the purpose of ...
3D Surface Reconstruction Based On Plenoptic Image
(2015-07-23)
Light- field cameras, also known as plenoptic cameras, have recently become available
to the consumer market. Plenoptic cameras can collect the 4D light field information and
represent it in a single photograph. This ...
Investigating Uses for Industrial Sweetpotato in Addition to Ethanol Production to Establish Industrial Sweetpotato as a Sustainable Crop in the Southeastern United States.
(2015-07-23)
Field studies were conducted evaluating the effect of nitrogen fertilizer on yield, crude protein (CP), total digestible nutrients (TDN), and acid detergent fiber (ADF) of industrial sweetpotato tuberous roots (Ipomea ...
High Strain Rate Elastic and Fracture Characterization of Isotropic and Orthotropic Materials with and without Nano Fillers
(2015-07-22)
A long-bar apparatus for subjecting relatively small samples to mode-I stress-wave loading has been devised for failure characterization. A methodology based on digital image correlation (DIC) used in conjunction with ...
Credit Delivery Analyses and Climate Impact Issues: The Case of Ghana and Southeastern US
(2015-07-22)
The first paper examines the impact of the microfinance sector on small/ micro enterprises in Ghana. The study uses 2007 BEEPS data and employs the financing constraints approach to study if the presence of microfinance ...
Net Exchanges of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere in Tropical Asia during 1901–2010
(2015-07-22)
Terrestrial ecosystems act as important sources of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), which cause climate warming. Therefore, understanding and quantification ...
Energetic tradeoffs between reproduction and longevity in the house mouse (Mus musculus)
(2015-07-21)
Energy investment in reproduction comes at the cost of other life history traits, including future reproductive output and ultimately, lifespan. The disposable soma theory suggests that there is a negative relationship ...
Evaluation of Bacterial Amendments for Improving Water Quality in Alabama Catfish Ponds
(2015-07-21)
Four sets of experiments were conducted to evaluate the potential efficacy of bacterial amendments for improving water quality in channel catfish ponds. First, the effects of 12 bacterial amendments from eight companies ...
Exploiting Boundary Scan functions of FPGA on ATE
(2015-07-21)
With the increase of integration density at chip level, the controllability and observability of defects become complicated, resulting in limited physical probe access to I/O pins. It is impractical to apply test stimulus ...
The Relationships between Economic Hardship, Financial Distress, Relational Aggression, and Marital Quality as Experienced by Mid-Life Married Couples during and following the Recent Economic Recession
(2015-07-21)
Using data from the Flourishing Families Project, the current dissertation is composed of two studies examining how 335 mid-life married couples experienced economic hardship and financial distress during the recent economic ...
Young Adults’ Perception of Fathering and the Father-Child Relationship in the Context of Marital Violence
(2015-07-21)
The current study utilized a qualitative research design, combining grounded theory and thematic analysis, to examine fathering by maritally violent men from the perspective of their young adult children. Semi-structured ...
Bounded Complete Embedding Graphs
(2015-07-21)
In the study of graph embeddings, there is particular interest in small embeddings and in bounds on the minimum number of vertices that must be added in order to achieve an embedding of a particular design. We introduce ...
Corticosterone as a Predictor of Long-term Outcomes of Fear Attenuation Treatment
(2015-07-21)
Blunted adrenal corticosteroid levels and dysregulation of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) Axis are known risk factors for developing PTSD (Delahanty et al., 2000; McFarlane et al., 1997). Although other risk ...