Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Neural Correlates of Abstract Rule use within the Rostro-Caudal Axis of the Frontal Lobes
(2015-05-05)
This paper presents 2 experiments aimed to address key limitations in the understanding
of how abstract rules (i.e., matching, non-matching) are subserved by regions of the prefrontal
cortex (PFC) and frontal lobes of ...
For Youth For Life: 4-H Digital Badges: A Collaborative Tool to Support Informal Learning
(2015-05-05)
The intent of FYFL (For Youth For Life) application is to provide an easy to use, cost effective and scalable collaborative system in order to facilitate learning and sharing best practices across communities and institution ...
Three Essays on Agricultural Prices, Markets, and Trade
(2015-05-05)
This dissertation includes three essays to address price analysis, market response as well as trade effects of the agricultural commodities, in both China and U.S. The first chapter examines the demand impacts following a ...
A Review of Self-Identified Critical Incidents among Counseling Supervisors-in-Training
(2015-05-05)
Supervision-specific training programs have become the norm for individuals interested in becoming a counseling supervisor because formal training has focused on incorporating the principles from general development models ...
Fabrication and characterization of AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor
(2015-05-05)
As primary material for semiconductor fabrication field, Gallium nitride has attracted lots of interest of scientists and developers due to its unique and exceptional electrical properties such as high thermal conductivity, ...
Estrangement
(2015-05-05)
In abandoned rural landscapes, impressions of culture are overtaken by the steadiness of living things. The familiar succumbs to the wild, resulting in physical environments that arouse curiosity because of their uncanny ...
Novel Ecology, Novel Activity
(2015-05-05)
Ecosystems are complex, dynamic, and unpredictable to change, evolve, and behave. Change is a normal part of life, and through adaptive and flexible design, we can respond to this complexity. Dynamic ecosystem and novel ...
The Mother Culture: Dirty Creativity in the Urban Margin
(2015-05-05)
Our cities are made up of many landscape typologies. As human social structure has evolved over time, shared values have taken physical form in the urban condition. Urban marginalized space is formed by the backs of buildings ...
Transport Modeling and Response Characteristics of Commercial Catalytic Bead Sensors
(2015-05-05)
Concerns have been raised about contamination events in the bleed air supply of commercial airplanes. Reliable sensors to detect the presence of gases due to the contamination are therefore being considered. Catalytic bead ...
The Influence of a New Student Orientation Program on Freshman Student Academic Performance and Retention at a Comprehensive Two-Year Community College
(2015-05-04)
This study examined the differences in first-year students at a selected community
college who participated in a new student orientation program. The study compared academic
success, attrition, and retention of new ...
Digital Reverse Time Chaos and Matched Filter Decoding
(2015-05-04)
The use of reverse time chaos allows the realization of hardware chaotic systems that can operate at speeds equivalent to existing state of the art while requiring significantly less complex circuitry. Unlike traditional ...
Transgressive Design: the creation of latent experiences on landfills in the social injustice realm
(2015-05-04)
The designers of the past sought out the sites where the land would be easy to reclaim without too much hassle of what can and can’t be accomplished in their designs. Therefore I am seeking to go against the Landscape ...
Shut it Down: Nineteenth-Century Southern Fictions of Reproduction
(2015-05-04)
The dissertation analyzes how the establishment of professionalized—and masculinized—medicine during the nineteenth century controlled female sexuality by policing reproductive rights and rates. Focusing specifically on ...
Efficient Storage Design and Query Scheduling for Improving Big Data Retrieval and Analytics
(2015-05-04)
With the perpetually increasing requirement and generation of digital data, the human being has been stepping into the Big Data era. To efficiently manage, retrieve and exploit such gigantic amount of data continuously ...
Factors that Successful and Unsuccessful Community College Students Perceive as Fostering and Hindering their Success in Online Learning
(2015-05-04)
The purpose of this study was to determine perceptions of community college students at a rural community college in Southeast Alabama, to identify the barriers they faced in being successful, and the strategies they ...
Proactive Reuse
(2015-05-04)
In this thesis I explored how as a designer I could approach site design proactively where one use transitions into the next. These times of transition are points that are not respected in our society. Current trends offer ...
the formless: a designer's dialogue with process
(2015-05-04)
The idea of formlessness in landscape architecture is defined as dynamic processes, such as wind blowing and plant growth. These are not things you associate with a given form, but a fluid and dynamic process. Specifically, ...
Femininity and the Unnamed Women of the New Testament
(2015-05-04)
Gender and sex are often considered to be synonymous, suggesting that males are designed to be biologically and psychologically a certain way while females are designed to be biologically and psychologically opposite and ...
The Role of Personality in Career Preference of Speech-Language Pathology Students
(2015-05-04)
The purpose of this study was to obtain a personality profile, as measured by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (Tellegan, 2003), of undergraduate and graduate speech-language pathology (SLP) students and to ...
Perceptions about Bullying of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Survey of School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists
(2015-05-04)
The purpose of the current investigation was to examine speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs’) knowledge and perceptions of bullying, with an emphasis on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A 46-item, web-based, nationally-distributed ...