Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Three Essays on Applied Economics
(2011-04-29)
This dissertation consists of three essays in housing, trade, and time series econometrics. The first essay empirically investigates cointegrating relation between housing prices and economic fundamental variables in the ...
Synthesis and Modeling of Poly(L-lysine) Based Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine
(2011-04-29)
The need for tissue engineered scaffolds is growing due to the shortage in organ donation, the immunoreactions to allotransplants, and the high cost associated with transplantation. This work focuses on the material selection ...
Red Imported Fire Ant Influences on White Grub Populations and Soil Foraging Characteristics in Managed Turfgrass
(2011-04-29)
White grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) are a significant pest of managed turfgrass throughout the United States and are difficult to monitor because of their subterranean habitat. Recent reports have stated that white ...
A Multi-level Analysis of the Interactions between Vectors, Hosts, and Habitats of EEEV
(2011-04-29)
Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) is a rare and dangerous mosquito-borne
pathogen with an elusive pattern of occurrence across its range in North America. The primary
basis of our understanding of its transmission ...
'Fellowship of sense with all that breathes': Eighteenth-Century Women Writers, War, and the Environment
(2011-04-29)
In “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” environmental historian William Cronon writes that in order to live responsibly with nature, we must learn to recognize nature in our own backyards. ...
Three Essays on the Valuation of Natural Resources in Recreation and Tourism
(2011-04-29)
This dissertation examines the demand behavior of recreational participants, their preference for resource attributes and their valuations of nature-based outdoor activities and related natural resources. The results are ...
Spontaneous Electromagnetic Emission from a Strongly Localized Plasma Flow
(2011-04-29)
The laboratory experiments described in this dissertation establish that strongly localized DC electric fields perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field can behave as a radiation source for electromagnetic ion cyclotron ...
A Modified Genetic Algorithm for Design Peak Pulse Power in Nonlinear Transmission Lines
(2011-04-29)
Non-linear transmission lines (NLTL) have become increasingly popular as a way to develop very high frequency, wide band waveforms that offer extremely fast rise times usually unobtainable by any other method. The applications ...
Development of a Direct Density Measurement Technique for Aero-Optic Analysis of a High-Velocity, Compressible Flow Field
(2011-04-28)
A direct density measurement technique was developed for high-velocity, compressible flow fields using acetone planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF). Motivation for this work was mainly aero-optics. A 4” x 4” transonic ...
The Influence of Family Routines on the Resilience of Low-Income Preschoolers
(2011-04-28)
Using data from the Birth to Three Phase (1996-2001) of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, I investigated whether family routines play a role in the development of young children’s social competence and ...
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 ...