Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Relationship between absentee landownership and quality of life in Alabama
(2011-08-15)
This study examines the relationship between absentee land ownership of farm and forestland and quality of life in Alabama. Quality of life is measured with a set of variables including per capita income, educational ...
A Comparison of Quality Attributes in ‘AU Golden Dragon’, ‘AU Golden Sunshine’, and ‘Hort 16A’ Kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis) During Storage
(2011-08-15)
This research focused on the effects of fruit size and cultivar on fruit quality and postharvest storage life of three cultivars of Actinidia chinensis. In the first experiment, the fruit quality attributes of ‘AU Golden ...
Gravity and Magnetic Modeling of Basement Beneath Alabama Gulf Coastal Plain
(2011-08-15)
The southeastern United States has experienced two complete successions of Wilson cycles: (1) the assembly and break up of Rodinia and the opening of the Iapetus ocean; and (2) the closing of Iapetus ocean, the assembly ...
An Examination of Personality Type Preferences of Male and Female Juvenile Delinquents
(2011-08-15)
Each year, over two million youth are adjudicated through American juvenile courts (Snyder, 2006). Delinquency is a problem that has a negative impact on families, communities, and society. Annual juvenile delinquency ...
Petrofacies and Paleotectonic Evolution of Permo-Carboniferous Gondwanan Sequences of the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh
(2011-08-11)
The Indian subcontinent, along with Australia and Antarctica, constituted Eastern Gondwananland. Permo-Carboniferous Gondwanan sequences have been reported from several isolated basins of the Peninsular India. These ...
Characterization of the Behavior of High Volume Fly Ash Concrete
(2011-08-11)
Fly ash is commonly used as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) in the production of portland cement concrete. Concrete produced with high fly ash replacement levels is considered high volume fly ash (HVFA) concrete. ...
Thick Film Packaging Techniques for 300°C Operation
(2011-08-11)
Geothermal well logging and instrumentation applications require electronics capable of 300°C operation. SiC device technology enables the design and fabrication of analog circuits that can operate at these temperatures. ...
Correlates of Change in Adolescent Psychopathic Traits
(2011-08-10)
Modeled after conceptualizations of adult psychopathy, adolescent psychopathy has been defined as a serious personality disorder characterized by a distinctive constellation of interpersonal, affective, and behavioral ...
Individual Differences as Predictors of Leader Emergence
(2011-08-09)
Virtual teams are fast becoming a normal part of organizational operations. In an effort to obtain a clearer understanding of how virtual teams differ from traditional face-to-face teams, researchers have begun to examine ...
Evaluation of Transmission of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) Between Persistently Infected and Naïve Cattle by the Horn Fly (Haematobia irritans)
(2011-08-09)
Identifying transmission routes and reservoirs for bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) are important in developing adequate prevention and control programs. The aim of our study was to evaluate BVDV transmission by the ...
The Effects of Lactational Exposure to Soy Isoflavones on Testicular Function in the Rat
(2011-08-09)
Testosterone, the male androgen responsible for maintaining the male phenotype, is produced by testicular Leydig cells. Leydig cells express estrogen receptors and are therefore regulated by estrogen. Soybeans predominantly ...
Exploring Student Ownership and Responsibility Through Student-Led Conferences: A Case Study of One elementary School
(2011-08-09)
This case study explored the effective implementation of student-led conferences with the goal of enhancing students’ self-efficacy, ownership, and responsibility in progress and learning. This study also identified ...
Are All Substance Users Created Equal? Factors that Influence Stigma toward Individuals with Substance Use Disorders
(2011-08-09)
Social stigma has been defined as a collection of negative attitudes, beliefs, thoughts or behaviors that influence an individual or group to fear, avoid, or discriminate against people with particular characteristics. ...
Behavior of a Damaged Prestressed Concrete Bridge Repaired with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement
(2011-08-08)
After the construction of elevated portions of I-565 in Huntsville, Alabama, cracks were discovered in numerous prestressed concrete bulb-tee bridge girders that were constructed to exhibit continuous behavior in response ...
DNA fingerprinting of Castanea species in USA
(2011-08-08)
Two Castanea species (C. dentata, the American chestnut, and C. pumila, var. pumila, the Allegheny chinkapin, and var. ozarkensis, the Ozark chinkapin) are native to the USA. It has been difficult to differentiate the ...
Acute Effects of Whole Body Vibration on Central and Peripheral Hemodynamics and Oxygen Consumption in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
(2011-08-08)
A substantial body of evidence suggests spinal cord injury (SCI) increases cardiovascular disease and mortality risk in aging individuals with SCI. Based on retrospective assessments, excess mortality after SCI has been ...
The Attentional Blink Effect in Spider Phobia
(2011-08-08)
Extant research suggests that individuals with spider phobia relative to non-anxious controls display a shorter attentional blink (AB) in response to spider-related target words. Common methodological limitations of such ...
Investigation of Kinetic Physics of Magnetic Reconnection under a Finite Guide Field
(2011-08-08)
Magnetic reconnection, the process by which the magnetic energy is converted into heat and flow energy, is believed to
be a very important process in space and laboratory plasmas. Among various reconnection models, the ...
The Psychophysiological Impact of Burnout in Special and General Education Teachers
(2011-08-05)
Teaching is considered to be a stressful occupation. Many teachers experience ongoing stress from a variety of sources, which eventually leads to burnout, and ultimately is reflected in what has become an alarming rate ...
An Exploratory Study: Higher Education’s Response to a Death Among Community Members
(2011-08-05)
The purpose of the current study was to conduct an exploratory assessment of how colleges and universities address a death among their community including existing practices, programs and training efforts. The Campus Death ...