Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Enhanced Secondary Bus Microarchitecture
(2011-08-04)
In spite of advances to improving cache efficiency, memory access bottlenecks still prevent processors from executing at full speed. This research evaluates a fundamentally new concept of using a secondary bus, connecting ...
Cyanobacterial Blooms in the Southeast: Understanding Their Distribution and Management
(2011-08-04)
Water is vital for life. The increased demand for freshwater resources dictates that current water practices must ensure access to and availability of high-quality water for future generations. Phytoplankton community ...
Therapist Effectiveness, the Therapeutic Alliance, and Change in Couples Therapy: An Exploratory Study
(2011-08-04)
The purpose of this thesis was to take an exploratory approach in examining how therapist effectiveness influences the therapeutic alliance and outcomes in couple therapy. Sample for this study was composed of couples ...
The Captain America Conundrum: Issues of Patriotism, Race, and Gender in Captain America Comic Books, 1941-2001
(2011-08-04)
“The Captain America Conundrum: Issues of Patriotism, Race, and Gender in
Captain America Comic Books, 1941-2001” represents a comprehensive examination of
Captain America comic books as a primary source for the study ...
Use of Etonogestrel Implants to Suppress Estrous Beahvior in Mares
(2011-08-04)
The objective of this study is to evaluate a synthetic progestin (etonogestrel) as a reliable method to suppress behavioral estrus in mares.
Healthy mares between the ages of 6 and 20 years with normal estrous cycles were ...
Today's "Modern Family": A Textual Analysis of Gender in the Domestic Sitcom
(2011-08-04)
This thesis utilizes a textual analysis with an emphasis on gender to analyze the Emmy award-winning sitcom, Modern Family. The program’s overwhelming popularity among television audiences and media critics alike gives ...
The Effects of Days on Feed and Ractopamine HCL Administration on Growth and Carcass Traits of Yearling Heifers
(2011-08-04)
Heifers comprise 30% of the total beef animals slaughtered in the United States yearly.
However, heifers are less efficient and have lighter HCW than steers which affects the profitability of heifers. Beta adrenergic ...
Add It Up: FYFL A Financial Literacy Tool for K-12 Eduation
(2011-08-04)
There are different ways used to engage learners through online learning environments. Especially for kids the online learning environment must be more interactive, fun, colorful, and must have good usability techniques ...
Ecoimmunological Investigations of the Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
(2011-08-04)
Despite the benefits gained from studying the immune system of non-traditional model organisms, including the discovery of key components of the human immune system, squamates remain the most poorly-understood major ...
Human Glutaminase Interacting Protein (GIP): a Potential Candidate for Anti-Cancer Drug Design
(2011-08-04)
PDZ domains are one of the most ubiquitous protein-protein interaction modules found in living systems. The glutaminase interacting protein (GIP), also known as the Tax interacting protein 1 (TIP-1), is a PDZ domain ...
A Cross Section of America’s World War II Prison Camps: The Lives of Axis Prisoners of War in Alabama, Their Memory, and Their Place on the Historical Landscape
(2011-08-04)
The experience of nearly half a million Axis prisoners of war held by the United States on American soil, their impact on this nation, and their legacy has been largely forgotten and neglected. The state of Alabama held a ...
Spectrum Educational Consulting - CSCW Tool for Pre-service Teacher Training
(2011-08-04)
Classroom Teaching is a very challenging process. Teachers go through a rigorous training process to ensure their mastery of the content material and as a part of teacher training preparation they are given instruction and ...
The Effectiveness of the Lee vs. Macon Consent Decree of 2003 with African Americans and Special Needs Students in Alabama’s Schools
(2011-08-04)
The idea of an inclusive setting is far from being a new theory in education. Various provisos with a great deal of narrations include integration, least restrictive environment, mainstreaming, deinstitutionalization, ...
Are Student Veterans a Traditional, Nontraditional, or Special Population? A Study of Veterans on the Auburn University Campus
(2011-08-03)
This non-experimental study used, with the Educational Testing Service’s permission, an updated 1946 Student Opinion Questionnaire (originally designed to compare WWII veterans and nonveterans) to collect data regarding ...
Economic Impacts of Gold Production in South Africa
(2011-08-03)
The causes of rising demand pull inflation in South Africa are examined with an eye on the international price of gold given the importance of gold mining in the country. Effects of the money supply, exchange rate, foreign ...
The Effects of Positive Behavior Supports on Academic Achievement in Alabama
(2011-08-03)
This dissertation examined the potential effects of Positive Behavior Supports (PBS) on academic achievement in the State of Alabama as measured by the scores of the Alabama Reading and Math Test (ARMT) for fourth graders. ...
Same/Different Reversal Learning in Pigeons (Columba livia)
(2011-08-03)
Reversal learning is a common procedure for studying discrimination learning, but has yet to be studied in a same/different abstract-concept learning task. In the present study, the ability to learn a same/different task ...
Negative Water Imagery in the Rimas of Juan de Moncayo y Gurrea
(2011-08-02)
Juan de Moncayo y Gurrea’s (1614-1657) collection of poems, Rimas (1652), is replete with imagery, water being one of the most prevalent images. In the appearance of water throughout the poems, Moncayo consistently uses ...
Relationships Among PTSD, Preventive and Risky Behaviors, and Health Outcomes
(2011-08-02)
Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to demonstrate increases in self-reported physical health complaints, objective markers of poor health, health care utilization, and mortality. Although ...
Preliminary Design Optimization of an Amphibious Aircraft
(2011-08-02)
An amphibious aircraft combines the speed and range benefits of a conventional aircraft with the ability to land and takeoff on open water. There are other appealing factors to operating an amphibious aircraft including ...