Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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"The Old First is With the South:" The Civil War, Reconstruction, and Memory in the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky
(2009-04-29)
This dissertation examines the secession crisis and the Civil War as a watershed moment in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky. In 1819, following the acquisition of land from the Chickasaw, the Purchase became the ...
Stream-breeding amphibian responses to land use distrubances
(2009-04-29)
Conversion of land from an undeveloped state into agricultural or urban areas is widespread. Urban areas in particular are growing both in size and number globally. Such land use changes can potentially have negative ...
Heat stress and ischemia/reperfusion cause oxidative stress via NADPH oxidase in hypothalamic neurons
(2009-04-29)
Ischemia/reperfusion-related injuries are associated with a wide range of diverse disorders including but not limited to aging, heat stroke, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Ischemia/reperfusion is known to cause oxidative ...
Common Cause: B. C. Goodpasture, the Gospel Advocate, and Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century
(2009-04-29)
From 1939 to 1977, Benton Cordell Goodpasture (1895-1977) edited the Gospel Advocate. Founded in 1855 and published weekly in Nashville, the paper was a crucial center of influence for Churches of Christ, a loose-knit group ...
A Comparison of a Sociocultural and a Chronological Approach to Music Appreciation in Face-to-Face and Online Instructional Formats
(2009-04-29)
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether differences exist with regard to music achievement, music self-concept, or student course satisfaction among students enrolled in four different sections of an undergraduate ...
A Comparision of Faculty Perceptions of Campus Climate at a Predominately White Institution
(2009-04-28)
Research indicates the learning process among others things are influenced by have a diverse faculty. While the population of students in college across the United States is significantly more diverse than ever, diversity ...
Examination of Case Law (2007-2008) Regarding Autism Spectrum Disorder and Violations of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(2009-04-28)
Ninety-nine court cases from the LexisNexis database regarding students, ages 3-21, with various forms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) were examined for the years 2007-2008. Procedural and substantive violations to the ...
Entry into Nursing Practice: A Four State Comparative Study
(2009-04-28)
There is little doubt that the new administration will be forced to deal with the looming health care crisis in this country. But the political obstacles remain daunting, the least of which is the opposition by health care ...
The Evolution of the South: Eliza Frances Andrews, General William T. Sherman, and Green Interpretations of the Civil War
(2009-04-28)
This essay examines representations of nature in the journal written by Eliza Frances Andrews during the last year of the Civil War. Andrews utilizes an evolutionary metaphor to justify the Old South, explain the Civil ...
Graduate Students, Negative Perfectionism, Perceived Stress, and Disordered Eating Behaviors
(2009-04-28)
Much of the literature on Disordered Eating Behaviors has examined their relationship with different risk factors. Among those factors examined have been perfectionism and stress. One form of perfectionism, Negative ...
A Study of the Viability of RF MEMS for the Implementation of a Single-Chip Programmable RF Front End for Software Defined Radio Femto Cells
(2009-04-28)
The RF front end circuitry makes up over 60% of the cost of a base transceiver station (BTS, also referred as Node B in 3G networks). Included in this cost is that of the Power Amplifier unit, RF filters, and the GPS unit ...
An Evaluation of the Effects of Two Natural Surfaces on the Kinematics of the Canine Sprint Start
(2009-04-28)
The purposes of this investigation were to evaluate the kinematic influence of two different natural ground surfaces on the canine sprint start and to determine which surface was safer for movement initiation. The hypothesis ...
Living in the Global Village: The Value and Development of Global Citizenship among Youth
(2009-04-28)
Globalization in the 21st century is imposing new complex sociopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges that point to the need for global citizenship (Arnett, 2002; Korten, 1996). Given the demands on young people ...
Enclosings of Small Cycle Systems
(2009-04-28)
In 2003 Hurd and others considered the problem of enclosing a triple system TS(v; lambda)
in a triple system TS(v + s; lambda + m), focusing on smallest possible enclosings. In
the second chapter, their result is generalized ...
The Intersection Problem for Latin Squares with Holes of Size 2 and 3
(2009-04-28)
In this dissertation we give complete solutions for the intersection problem of latin
squares with holes of size 2 and 3. For a pair of 2n x 2n latin squares with holes of size 2
to have k entries in common outside of ...
Systematics and evolutionary history of sea catfishes (Siluriformes: Ariidae)
(2009-04-28)
Ariids or sea catfishes are one of the two otophysan fish families (out of 67 families in four orders) that inhabit primarily marine and brackish waters, although some ariid species occur strictly in fresh waters. The ...
Ambassadors of Community: The History and Complicity of the Family Community in Midnight’s Children and the God of Small Things
(2009-04-27)
This thesis seeks to explore the usefulness of the family as a theoretical construct that serves to provide stability to characters in postcolonial literature in the absence of a stable national community. Benedict Anderson‟s ...
Analysis and Improvement of Virtex-4 Block RAM Built-In Self-Test and Introduction to Virtex-5 Block RAM Built-In Self-Test
(2009-04-27)
A reliable method for testing embedded memories within Virtex-4 and Virtex-5 Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is needed by the current FPGA community. A method for testing the Virtex-4 embedded Block Random Access ...
An Examination of Perceptions, Attitudes, and Levels of Job Satisfaction of Faculty Teaching in a Distance Education Environment
(2009-04-24)
Distance education programs have been encumbered with numerous issues concerning the quality of the delivery of distance education. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions, attitudes, and levels of job ...
Studio-Based Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
(2009-04-23)
The field of computing is experiencing a significant decline in incoming majors. According to the latest reports, the main reasons for this decline are (a) computing is too often related to programming, and (b) introductory ...