Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Assessing Urban Trees and Urban Forests Management
(2010-12-06)
Urban green space and forest play a special role in building a livable community. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the preferences for and attitudes towards urban trees regarding not only the biophysical ...
Volunteer-Child Interaction Training: Exploring the Effects of a Modified Child-Directed Interaction with Volunteers
(2010-12-06)
Community service and the involvement of volunteers are prevalent in a variety of contexts. Community service programs requiring interactions with youth typically do not emphasize particular therapeutic skills related to ...
Carcass, Sensory, Quality and Instrumental Color Characteristics of Serially Harvested Forage-Fed Beef
(2010-12-06)
Striploins were used in two successive studies to evaluate the effects of serially harvested forage-finished steers and forage vs. grain-finished beef. The first study included six groups of steers that were serially ...
Mating Tactics and Reproductive Success in Male Columbian Ground Squirrels (Urocitellus columbianus)
(2010-12-06)
The widespread discovery of multiple mating tactics, particularly among males, highlights the diverse ways sexual selection may operate within a population. In polygynandrous populations, multiple paternity may arise from ...
Roots: From Crop Duster to Airline; The Origins of Delta Air Lines to World War II
(2010-12-06)
Delta Air Lines (Delta) is one of the great surviving legacy airlines of the first
century of flight. In the annals of American aviation history its origins are unique. Delta’s
beginning can be traced to the arrival of ...
The Effect of Varying Work Order Sequences on Physiological Responses in Combined Manual Material Handling
(2010-12-06)
Despite technological advances in the workplace that reduces the physical requirements of the worker, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) continue to be a concern. This is particularly the case in the manual material handling ...
A PCSE (Practice Centered Software Engineering) tool for Eclipse Environment
(2010-12-03)
Practice Centered Software Engineering (PCSE) is the most recent incarnation of Auburn University’s personal self-improvement process for helping software engineers control, manage, and improve the way they work. It helps ...
Reevaluating Sexual Satisfaction through an Expectancy Lens: Validation of the Sexual Activity Frequency and Expectation Scale
(2010-12-03)
The method by which sexual satisfaction is conceptualized and measured varies widely across settings (e.g., research settings vs. clinical settings). However, consistent across settings is the use of inherently subjective ...
Nanoparticle-Based Surface Modifications for Microtribology Control and Superhydrophobicity
(2010-12-03)
The emergence of miniaturization techniques for consumer electronics has brought forth the relatively new and exciting field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). However, due to the inherent forces that exist between ...
Improving Redclaw Crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) Aquaculture: Assessment of Invasive Impacts and Production of All-male Broods
(2010-12-03)
The Australian redclaw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) was first considered for aquaculture in the United States in 1990 and is quickly becoming an important species for aquaculture worldwide. Redclaw are valued as both ...
A Systematic Property Based Approach for Molecular Synthesis Using Higher Order Molecular Groups and Molecular Descriptors
(2010-12-03)
In this work, algorithms have been developed for the design of molecules corresponding to the optimum performance of a process. The concept of property clustering has been extended into molecular design based on second and ...
Effects of Disturbance and Land Management on Water, Carbon, and Nitrogen Dynamics in the Terrestrial Ecosystems of the Southern United States
(2010-12-02)
Although the climate in the Southern United States (SUS) is warm and wet, with mild winters and high humidity, the terrestrial ecosystems in this region have been greatly disturbed. These disturbances include hurricanes, ...
A Maximum Effort Control System for the Tracking and Control of a Guided Canine
(2010-12-02)
This dissertation presents an approach for autonomously controlling a canine using an embedded command module with vibration and tone generation capabilities and an embedded control suite comprised of a microprocessor, ...
Bad Rap: Examining the Role of African American Males in Popular Music
(2010-12-02)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the claims made by popular media and public figures regarding rap music and its potential to adversely socialize Americans—particularly young adults and children—and show that ...
Moving High School Juniors Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay Through Teacher-Modeling
(2010-12-01)
The goal of this study was to assess the differences in high school juniors’ overall essay writing scores when given a method of instruction (coping model, mastery model, and neither). After reading two articles that ...
Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices Based on Diphenylamine End-group Polymers
(2010-12-01)
This work mainly focuses on making a series of organic diodes and photovoltaic devices based on electroconducting polymers with diphenylamine end-groups for their monomers. Most of them are with structural motif of R-X-R. ...
Protection or Provocation: Does Hosting a U.S. Military Base Increase the Incidence of Terrorist Attack in a Country?
(2010-12-01)
Historically, and particularly since the end of World War II, United States military installations overseas have served to protect the U.S. and the nation hosting the installations against prevailing international threat. ...
Relationships Among Adult Attachment, Social Support, and PTSD Symptoms in Trauma-Exposed College Students.
(2010-12-01)
Although many people are exposed to trauma, substantially fewer develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Given this, studies have examined risk and protective factors for developing PTSD. This literature has established ...
Examining a Contractionary Monetary Policy Shock over Two Regimes
(2010-12-01)
The goal of this thesis is to improve on the work done by Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, and Charles Evans in the 1996 article “The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks: Evidence from the Flow of Funds”. In order ...
Legal Issues in Music Education: An Analysis of Court Cases Involving Music Educators
(2010-11-30)
Although all educators are susceptible to legal challenges, music educators, as a result of
their professional responsibilities, have an increased risk of becoming involved in litigation.
Reasons for this increased risk ...