Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Physiological effects of chytridiomycosis, a cause of amphibian population declines
(2012-05-01)
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of wildlife can have devastating impacts on biodiversity. The fungal disease, chytridiomycosis, caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is implicated with amphibian population ...
Iggression: an examination of the role of digital technologies in the 2011 Arab Awakening
(2012-04-30)
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are rapidly proliferating to cultures all over the world. The invention of Internet and its exponential diffusion created a new niche for studying social change within ...
The Utopian Aestheticism of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Gertrude Stein's Three Lives
(2012-04-30)
This study reads Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, 1891) and Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives (written 1905, published 1909) through Paul Cézanne’s radical aesthetics of surface, and is grounded in H. G. Wells’ ...
Capabilities of Primary Students Participating in a Sport Education Physical Education Unit
(2012-04-30)
Research has supported the use of Sport Education in physical education. The majority of studies have focused on its use in elementary, secondary, and higher education. Little research has been completed in regards to the ...
An Initial Validation of a Two Dimensional Theory of Motivational Interviewing
(2012-04-30)
Patient non-adherence to treatment regimen is a major cause for increased healthcare utilization costs associated with emergency room visits, outpatient services and hospitalizations. The need to improve patient adherence ...
Effects of Supplemental Feeding of Plum Juice Concentrate on Fecal Microbial Shedding and Pork Quality
(2012-04-30)
Purebred Yorkshire pigs (n=32) were fed at the Auburn University Swine Research and Education Center to determine the influence of supplementation of plum juice concentrate (PJC) on microbial shedding, growth, carcass, and ...
Adaptive Image Acquisition with Consideration of Camera Optics
(2012-04-30)
This dissertation addresses two common problems in image acquisition. We first introduce an adaptive image acquisition methodology by replacing the traditional birefringent filter with slight out-of-focus blur generated ...
Influence of a Marching Snare Drum System on Joint Kinematics, Electromyography, and Contact Pressure
(2012-04-27)
Each year thousands of students participate in marching band. Many participate by carrying a flag, baton, woodwind or brass instrument, or drum. The drumline is of particular interest due to the unique and restricting ...
Survival and Growth of Black Willow (Salix nigra), Silky Willow (Salix sericea), Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum), and Virginia Sweetspire (Itea virginica) Live Stakes
(2012-04-27)
Live stakes are a simple and inexpensive bioengineering solution to establishing riparian vegetation. Studies were conducted on the native species black willow (Salix nigra), silky willow (Salix sericea), silky dogwood ...
Assessing Capacity and Control of Visual Working Memory
(2012-04-27)
This paper develops 3 experiments to answer fundamental questions about the independence of storage and control processes in visual working memory (VWM). Results from Experiment 1 showed that executive control processes ...
Effects of Diet Type and Ingredient Composition on Rate of Passage and Use of In Vitro Assays to Predict Amino Acid Digestibility of Animal Protein Meals in Broilers
(2012-04-27)
Ileal amino acid digestibility (IAAD) is used to characterize amino acid (AA) quality of animal protein meals (APM) for poultry, and IAAD assays utilize semi-purified (SP) diets. Nutrient utilization is influenced by rate ...
Early Childhood Education Today: Kindergarten Teachers’ Beliefs, Practices, and Influences
(2012-04-27)
The purpose of the study was to gain insight into the face of early childhood education in today's world of education. The study examined kindergarten teachers’ perspectives on (a) how young children should be taught, (b) ...
Design of a Hybrid Memory System for General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units
(2012-04-27)
Addressing a limited power budget is a prerequisite for maintaining the growth of computer system performance into and beyond the exascale. Two technologies with the potential to help solve this problem include general-purpose ...
Measurements and Modification of Sheared Flows and Stability on the Compact Toroidal Hybrid Stellarator
(2012-04-25)
Sheared flows arising from spatially inhomogeneous, transverse electric fields are common phenomena found in space, laboratory, and fusion plasmas. These flows are a source of free energy that can drive or suppress ...
Essays on South Africa: Exchange Rates, Bilateral Trade and Inflation
(2012-04-20)
South Africa shows how natural resources can be harnessed to build a successful economy. This success gives rise to peculiar macroeconomic issues that warrant analysis. Chapter one of this dissertation investigates the ...
Perceptions of supervisory relationship influences on cognitive complexity development during practicum supervision: A qualitative study
(2012-04-20)
The purpose of this study was to conduct an exploration of the potential impact of the supervisory relationship on the development of cognitive complexity of master’s students in a counseling practicum course. A priori ...
Application of the Level Set Method to Solid Rocket Motor Simulation
(2012-04-19)
The body of work encompassed in this thesis merges two advanced concepts for developing
flow solutions with level sets to develop an accurate and e cient method for simulating solid rocket motor grain regression. The ...
Carcass and Growth Characteristics and Consumer Acceptance of Grain vs. Forage Finishing of Standard and Miniature Cattle of the Same Age
(2012-04-19)
Crossbred standard cattle (STD, n=7) and crossbred miniature cattle (MINI, n=7) were raised on grain and forage finishing systems to determine the differences in growth performance, carcass characteristics, and retail yield ...
Volunteer Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Control in Glyphosate/Glufosinate Resistant Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
(2012-04-19)
The increase in conservation tillage along with the use of herbicide-resistant crops has changed the dynamics of weed populations and control methods with volunteer plants from the previous crop contributing to the weed ...
Alabama Rhinotermitidae: Nomenclature, Identification, Survey, and Phenology
(2012-04-19)
Nomenclature, identification, distribution, and phenology of the subterranean termites (Rhinotermitidae) of Alabama were studied. Arguments are proposed for suppressing the names of four R. flavipes subspecies with reported ...