Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Therapeutic Liposomes for Prostate Cancer Targeted by Phage Fusion Coat Proteins
(2009-12-15)
Cancer diagnosis and treatment is complicated by the molecular similarity of the malignant cells to normal cells. This creates a constant need for the development of probes accurately distinguishing between diseased and ...
Evaluation of Weed Management Practices in White Lupin (Lupinus albus L.)
(2009-12-15)
Worldwide, 450 lupin species can be found with 4 species currently grown. The cultivated species consist of three old world species white lupin (Lupinus albus L.), yellow lupin (L. luteus L.) and blue lupin (L. angustifolius ...
Administrator Job Satisfaction in Higher Education
(2009-12-15)
The purpose of the study was to investigate the job satisfaction of men and women administrators in higher education in four-year public institutions in Alabama. In addition, the study examined whether there was a ...
Technology Acceptance and Organizational Change: An Integration of Theory
(2009-12-15)
This dissertation uses a sequential mixed method research design to examine a new model of change readiness that focuses on change initiatives involving technology. The model is called the model of technological change. ...
A Consumer Participation Approach to the Design of Functional Collector Toys by Incorporating Designer Toy Subculture
(2009-12-15)
Designer toys have become one of the emerging toy markets since the late 1990’s. Designer toys were designed by artist especially targeted at first to underground art collectors and until now it has been targeted to toy ...
Impact of the Dialysis Industry on Kidney Transplants
(2009-12-15)
The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of the kidney dialysis industry on the kidney transplants, both cadaveric and living. This particular topic has not been addressed in formal research dealing with the organ ...
An Examination of Information Technology and its Perceived Quality Issues in Single System Hospitals in the United States
(2009-12-15)
The safety and quality of healthcare is of great concern in the United States. The positive effects of information technology reported in past research, especially case studies, has encouraged expectations that information ...
Risk Style, Regulatory Focus, and the Situation in Risky Choice Decision Making
(2009-12-15)
The present study investigated how two individual differences (risk style and regulatory focus) and three situational manipulations (order of problem context, order of frame, and order of chance) influenced participant ...
Parent Involvement in Transition Planning for Students with Learning Disabilities
(2009-12-14)
Post-secondary education is a path that many individuals take after high school. For students with learning disabilities, post-secondary education is an attainable goal regardless of the academic difficulties they may face. ...
Use of Cellulose Filters to Isolate Naturally Occurring Campylobacter spp. from Contaminated Retail Broiler Meat and Survival of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in Retail Broiler Meat
(2009-12-14)
Campylobacter spp. are indicated as the most common cause of bacteria-related food-borne illness. Campylobacter is present at all steps of the food cycle (i.e. poultry farm, processing plant, retail store, and consumer ...
Synthesis, Structure-Bioactivity Relationship, and Application of Antimicrobial Materials
(2009-12-14)
Antimicrobial N-halamine compounds were designed, synthesized and applied onto various materials to investigate and develop several properties of the N-halamine-based technologies. There are five projects covered in the ...
Evaluation of Semi-Adiabatic Calorimetry to Quantify Concrete Setting
(2009-12-14)
Although setting is routinely measured in practice, current methods for determining concrete setting have been criticized for being impractical, arbitrary, and lacking correlation to field data. In recent years attempts ...
Thermal Field Mapping Technique for Friction Stir Process
(2009-12-14)
Friction Stir Welding is a solid state “green” welding method developed by The Welding Institute (UK). An internal thermal mapping instrument has been developed which allows for symmetrical mapping of the thermal fields ...
Participatory Design of Warning Symbols Using Distributed Interactive Evolutionary Computation
(2009-12-14)
Safety warnings play an important role in communicating risk via product labels and environmental signs. With the diversification of cultures and languages in the United States, and with the increasing globalization of ...
Effects of Short Interval Cyclic Flooding on Growth and Physiology of Selected Native Shrubs
(2009-12-14)
Clethra alnifolia L. ‘Ruby Spice’ (‘Ruby Spice’ summersweet), Ilex glabra ‘Shamrock’ (L.) A. Gray. (‘Shamrock’ inkberry holly), Itea virginica L. ‘Henry’s Garnet’ (‘Henry’s Garnet’ sweetspire), and Viburnum nudum L. ...
The Nature of Cucumber Mosaic Virus-Induced Symptoms in Bell Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)
(2009-12-14)
We determine phenotypic and cytological effects on pepper plant growth and development in response to systemic invasion by CMV and evaluate a CMV strain, mutated in the gene silencing suppressor gene, 2b, for its ability ...
Legacy Sediments in Southeastern United States Coastal Plain Streams
(2009-12-14)
Soil erosion and sedimentation are natural processes that occur throughout the landscape. However, athropogenic disturbances may result in an increase in either of these processes, or both. Many studies reported the extensive ...
The Application of Precision Forestry Technologies in Logging Operations
(2009-12-14)
This study analyzed the use of precision technologies in logging operations, more specifically the use of machine monitoring systems, global positioning system (GPS), and geographic information systems (GIS) to monitor and ...
A Design Guideline for Applying Taiwanese Opera Costume Aesthetics to Modern Chair Design
(2009-12-14)
The Western society is using an increasing amount of oriental elements to design products, especially furniture. One example of this influence is famous Denmark designer Hans J. Wagner’s, whose concept the “Y-Chair” designed ...
Hydraulic Management of SDI Wastewater Dispersal in an Alabama Black Belt Soil
(2009-12-11)
Approximately 52% of the 14000 km2 Alabama Black Belt region is unsuitable for conventional onsite wastewater treatment systems because of low hydraulic permeability, high water table, or other restrictive soil properties. ...