Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Designing an Instrument for Measuring Motivational Interviewing Skills Acquisition in Healthcare Professional Trainees
(2011-04-28)
Motivational interviewing (MI), as a counseling approach, has been used and evaluated extensively in the last decade. This approach has a significant impact on addiction management, change in lifestyle, and adherence to ...
Contemporary Status of Religion and Spirituality in Counselor Education
(2011-04-28)
The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the integration of spirituality in CACREP-accredited counselor training programs, particularly the overall percentage of curricula that addressed religion and ...
Culture Based Computing For Adult Learners (C-CAL)
(2011-04-28)
This dissertation presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the novel Cultural based Computing for Adult Learners (C-CAL) system, a self-directed online learning application utilizing culture to support adult ...
Investigation Into The Effect Of Substrate On Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 Films
(2011-04-28)
During the past several decades, PZT (Pb(Zr,Ti)O3) thin films were given
extensive attention for their potential as sensors and actuators in microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS) due to their excellent piezoelectric ...
Evaluation of reproductive behavior in white-tailed deer through genetic parentage analysis
(2011-04-28)
Few studies have utilized genetic technology to examine reproductive behavior in white-tailed deer through parentage analysis, resulting in gaps in knowledge of reproductive behavior in white-tailed deer. This study examined ...
Strategies for Efficient and Effective Scan Delay Testing
(2011-04-27)
Aggressive timing requirements in today’s high-speed designs have introduced the need to test for small delay defects and distributed timing faults caused by statistical process variations. Faster-than-rated clock delay ...
How and in What Ways Does Homogeneous Small Group Instruction in Reading Influence Struggling Middle School Readers and Their Attitudes toward Reading
(2011-04-27)
The study of how homogeneous small group instruction influences struggling middle school readers and their attitudes toward reading was a twelve-week mixed ANOVA study that examined the affects small group instruction for ...
Prevalence and Epidemiology of the Vocal Problems of Music Teachers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee
(2011-04-27)
A cross-sectional survey was designed to determine the prevalence, psychosocial impact, and contributory factors of voice disorders in general music teachers, choral directors, band directors, and orchestra directors in ...
Three-Dimensional Hybrid Simulation Of Dayside Magnetic Reconnection
(2011-04-27)
With a three dimensional (3-D) global hybrid simulation model, we
investigate magnetopause reconnection and the energy spectra of cusp precipitating ions under different IMF conditions.
First, the magnetic configuration ...
The Metamorphosis of 2-fold Triple Systems into Maximum Packings of 2Kn with 4-cycles
(2011-04-27)
The graph is called a hinge. A hinge system of order n is a pair (X, H) where H is a collection of edge disjoint hinges which partition the edge set of 2Kn with vertex set X. Let (X, H) be a hinge system and D the collection ...
Extended Release of Macromolecular Comfort Agents from Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lenses
(2011-04-26)
Contact lens induced dry eye (CLIDE) affects approximately 80% of contact lens wearers. Extrapolating to the world wide population of 300 million contact lens wearers, there are approximately 200 million wearers who express ...
Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of High Power Connectors for Hybrid Vehicles
(2011-04-26)
Hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) are the next evolutionary step of the automobile which substantially increases fuel economy and reduces emissions. They are comprised of many new technologies so there is limited information ...
"Until the Thousand and First Generation": Generational Consciousness in the Contemporary Novel
(2011-04-26)
Generations, by their nature, stand at the crossroads of broad, collective experience (dividing national history into distinct decades) and personal experience (separating an entire lifespan into life phases). More than ...
An Investigation of General and Descriptive Praise in Teaching Language to Children with Autism
(2011-04-26)
Research has shown that traditional operant behavioral procedures have been effective in enhancing language performance (Lovaas, 1987). In addition, the use of descriptive praise has been widely recommended in the area of ...
Zinc Nanoparticle Enhancement of the Olfactory Neuron Response to Odorants Associated with Explosives
(2011-04-25)
Many odorants related to manufacturing explosives have low volatilities and have no detectable odor. We found that zinc metal nanoparticles in picomolar concentrations strongly enhanced olfactory receptor neuron responses ...
Use of Gas-eXpanded Liquids as Tunable Solvents for the Preparation of Well-Defined Nanomaterials
(2011-04-22)
This dissertation presents the research performed to study the precipitation and fractionation of noble metal nanoparticles using gas-expanded liquids. The unique and novel properties of nanoparticles are often found to ...
Popular Music and the Myth of Englishness in British Poetry
(2011-04-21)
This dissertation deconstructs the myth of Englishness through a comparative analysis of intersections between popular music and the poetry of the British Isles. In particular, my project explores intersections where popular ...
An Operating Model and Economic Analysis for Integrating Wind Electric Power in Manufacturing
(2011-04-21)
Among the renewable sources of generating electricity, wind power costs less to produce and produces fewer CO2 emissions. In addition, the Department of Energy (DOE) has stated that wind power should provide 20% of U.S. ...
Evaluation of EPTC as a Preplant Soil Treatment in Warm-Season Sod Production
(2011-04-21)
Field research was conducted at Auburn University Turfgrass Research Unit (AUTRU) Auburn AL, during 2008 to 2010 and Gulf Coast Research and Extension Center (GCREC) Fairhope AL in 2009, to evaluate EPTC as a preplant soil ...
Experimental and Modeling Investigation of Arsenate adsorption on Synthetic Iron-coated sand
(2011-04-21)
Arsenic is an environmental contaminant of worldwide concern due its high toxicity and presence in groundwater aquifers. Adsorption of arsenic onto metal-oxides is an important phenomenon that locally controls the transport ...