Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Product Redesign on the Basis of Fundamental Human Needs by Application of Contrary Thinking
(2014-07-09)
It is a thesis about developing an approach of applying contrary thinking into product redesign based on fundamental human needs.
Evaluating the Effects of an Emotions Education Training on the Emotion-Related Beliefs of Preservice Preschool Educators
(2014-07-09)
Evidence suggests that emotion-related beliefs have important implications for adult interactions with children, which, in turn, influence children’s emotional competence. Among early childhood educators, recommendations ...
Situational and Dispositional Determinants of College Men’s Perception of Women’s Sexual Wantedness and Sexual Consent: A Factorial Vignette Analysis
(2014-07-09)
The presence of sexual consent is pivotal to the determination of the legality and morality of a given sexual interaction. As such, the conceptualization of sexual consent is of particular importance within the study of ...
Black, White, or Mixed: Identity Formation and Choice Among Black-White Biracial Individuals
(2014-07-09)
Identity is a term that is difficult to define, yet every human being has one. It is a strong indicator of how people will act and defines them in an important way and is a reflection of one’s self and self-understanding. ...
Bony Abnormalities in Feline Models of GM2 Gangliosidosis
(2014-07-09)
This study seeks to explore and quantify bony deformities in feline models affected with GM2 gangliosidosis with emphasis on long bones and cervical vertebrae, based on previous diagnostics exhibiting cervical spinal cord ...
The Meta Marriage: Links between Older Couples' Narratives and Marital Satisfaction
(2014-07-09)
The current study was designed to explore the associations between older spouses’ interactions during a relationship narrative task and their self-reported levels of marital satisfaction. We gathered data from 62 older ...
A Low-Effort Animated Data Structure Visualization Creation System
(2014-07-09)
Algorithm animations and high level data structure visualizations are not widely used, in part because producing them is difficult and time consuming. Algorithm animation and data structure visualization systems attempt ...
Building Blocks of a Functional Classroom Community: A Case Study of the Challenges to Construct a Successful Environment of Learning
(2014-07-09)
The purpose of this study was to examine a classroom’s dynamics to investigate how one teacher describes students’ disruptive behavior and the strategies used to maintain classroom integrity for a more conducive environment ...
Unruly Teachers: Florida's Political Culture During the 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike
(2014-07-09)
On February 19, 1968 over 27,000 teachers in Florida resigned from their positions as educators. In doing so, these teachers created the country’s first and only statewide teachers’ strike. The teachers who went on strike ...
What is Child-Directed Interaction? Evaluating the use of Jeopardy to Increase Child-Directed Interaction Knowledge Retention
(2014-07-09)
In recent years Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) has continued to grow and evolve as an empirically supported treatment for children with disruptive behavior disorders. As a result of this growth, PCIT International ...
Compressive Strength and Modulus of Elasticity Relationships for Alabama Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders
(2014-07-09)
The state of Alabama constructs many of its bridges using precast, prestressed concrete bridge girders. There is a desire to more accurately predict girder cambers through the time of deck placement. Proper understanding ...
The developmental environment and metabolism in the house mouse (Mus musculus)
(2014-07-09)
The environment under which an individual develops plays an important role in
determining its physiological phenotype. Maternal diet is one of several variables that can have
lasting impacts on offspring phenotype. ...
The Relationship Among Character Strengths, Moral Potency, and Individual Performance
(2014-07-09)
Ethical decision making is a critical component of successful leadership. Many individuals struggle with the ability to move from deciding what is ethical to taking ethical action. The so-called decision-action gap causes ...
Early Adolescents’ Attitudes about Engaging in Risky Relationship Behaviors: The Influence of Support, Control, and Self-esteem
(2014-07-03)
The current study examined the influence of adolescents’ self-esteem, and support and control in their relationships with parents and best friends on attitudes about risky sexual behavior and dating violence. Participants ...
Predictors of Dissemination Success of STEM Learning Innovations: An Empirical Investigation
(2014-07-03)
Although a great deal of work has been done to develop new educational innovations, in the field of engineering, few innovations have found widespread acceptance in the classroom. Therefore, frameworks that conceptualize ...
Single and Multi-Phase Synchronous Buck Converter Voltage Control with Modeling, PID Controller Design, and Digital Implementation
(2014-07-03)
This paper covers the modeling and design of a digital controller for a single and multi-phase synchronous buck converter. First, a general overview of the power switching point-of-load (POL) converters will be presented. ...
An Investigation into the Benefits of Design Science Research for the Development of Wicked Educational Information Systems: A Case Study
(2014-07-03)
Wicked educational information systems (IS) address problems with unstable educational requirements, in educational environments that are ill-defined, where complex interactions among subcomponents of the problem and its ...
Effect of the chain on thermal conductivity and thermal boundary conductance of long chain n-alkanes using molecular dynamics and transient plane source techniques
(2014-07-02)
The effect of the length of the long chain n-alkane molecules on the nanoscale thermal transport within various phases of n-alkanes is investigated. The thermal conductivity of the n-alkanes is determined using both molecular ...
Novel experimental technique to confirm fish hosts for “large river mussels”
(2014-07-02)
Unionid mussels are declining in North America. The larval stage (glochidium) represents a life-history bottleneck because glochidia are parasitic and require an appropriate fish host. However, appropriate fish host species ...
RTAH: Resource and Thermal Aware Hadoop
(2014-07-02)
The amount of unstructured data, also known as Big Data in Internet is growing every
day. Because the Big data is unstructured, a large-scale distributed batch processing infrastructure
like Hadoop is used instead of ...