Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Re-Envisioning the Giants: A Longitudinal Case Study of One ESL Learner
(2009-04-16)
With the continued focus on building L2 writers’ abilities within the context of school, scholarship dealing with what kinds of abilities these writers bring to the classroom has been slower to emerge, leaving us with ...
Effect of Two Bandage Protocols on Equine Fetlock Kinematics
(2009-04-16)
The purpose of this study was to assess the kinematic effects of the Sports Medicine Boot II® and the Twenty X™ Polo Wrap in the forelimbs of horses while trotting. This study provides valuable kinematic data for use in ...
A Scalable Approach For Deciphering Core Rationales as the Foundation of New Product Devleopment
(2009-04-15)
Strategic plans are usually based on traditional statistical research and market segmentations like age, gender, zip code. Those segmentations do not reflect what people think about when they make decisions to buy a product ...
An Approach to Design a Stimulating Restaurant Environment And Experience that Informs and Inspires Its Patrons about Nature, the Environment, and Sustainability
(2009-04-15)
In today’s society, there is a lack of environmental knowledge and a lack of environmental stewardship. Studies conducted by the National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) have proven that these two ...
Cultivation Practices for Astragalus membranaceus in the Southeastern United States
(2009-04-15)
Astragalus membranaceus is a traditional Chinese medicinal herb and has been used for thousands of years. Information on its cultivation in Southeastern United States is lacking. In September 2006, three field experiments ...
“That Girl of Yours, She's Pretty Hard-Boiled”: Film Noir and the Claiming and Performance of Gender in Veronica Mars
(2009-04-15)
Veronica Mars, a television series aired on the WB and CW networks from 2004-2007, presents a world in which violence and conspiracy abound. The series starts off with the conspiracy that has most closely touched Veronica’s ...
A Study of Regularity and Normality
(2009-04-15)
This paper is a broad overview of the separation axioms, commonly known as the Hausdorff, Regular, and Normal axioms. After a review of basic definitions and lemmas, we proceed to certain examples and theorems dealing ...
Identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Mutants Unable to Convert Ricinoleic Acid into 7,10,12-Trihydroxy-8(e)-Octadecenoic Acid (TOD) and a Survey of the Biological Activity Of TOD
(2009-04-15)
Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe grisea, is a devastating problem in all rice producing areas of the world and is extremely difficult to prevent and/or to control. Therefore, it is critical to develop new methods to ...
Aerification Tine Effects on Tifway Bermudagrass Athletic Fields
(2009-04-15)
Although commonly practiced, there is little research examining the effect of aerification tine type (hollow or solid) and length on athletic fields. The objective of this research was to evaluate different aerification ...
Managing Relationships: A Content Analysis of Nonprofit Organization Websites
(2009-04-15)
This thesis utilizes a content analysis to explore how relationships are managed by nonprofit organizations with their publics via their Websites. It finds that while most nonprofit organizations are in fact engaging in ...
"Getting Things 'Alt' Enough": A Rhetorical Analysis of Composition Scholars' Use of Hybrid Academic Discourse
(2009-04-15)
Much writing studies research addresses the benefits of undergraduates’ application of hybrid academic discourse in the composition classroom, but there has not been research on scholars’ use of it. This thesis analyzed ...
Registration and Tracking of Objects with Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles
(2009-04-15)
For this research, an autonomous leader-follower vehicle caravan is being designed using computer vision. The focus of this research is to investigate computer vision methods of identifying objects detected by the leader ...
Quality in Family Child Care: The Voice of the Family Child Care Provider
(2009-04-14)
The primary purposes of this study are to explore the provider perspective on quality in family child care (FCC) and patterns of relationship between the provider perspective and the research-based perspective on quality ...
We All Fall Down
(2009-04-14)
On a general level, We All Fall Down is a collection of stories that is unified by the theme of personal connections between family, friends, and significant others. Often, their driving force is exploring what happens ...
Writing, Religion, and Women's Identity in Civil War Alabama
(2009-04-14)
This dissertation deals with middle and upper class, literate, Protestant, white Alabama women during the Civil War and their construction of personal identity through their religious beliefs. How did women cope with the ...
Zoo Ecology of a Primate Species: Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
(2009-04-14)
Understanding how captivity affects the behavioral and development traits of a species is important for management and conservation in zoos. The ecology of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sp.) may be different in captivity than ...
Host Specificity and Regional Endemicity in Symbiotic Dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta) Associated with Sea Anemones in the Genus Aiptasia
(2009-04-13)
Recent investigations of coral reef biology have focused on the global biogeography and host specificity of Symbiodinium, a diverse group of dinoflagellates that symbiotically associate with many marine organisms, including ...
Cardiovascular autonomic modulation following maximal exercise: Its relationship to race, VO2max, and resting heart rate variability
(2009-04-13)
The purpose of this dissertation was to provide a better understanding of post maximal exercise cardiovascular autonomic function and its relationship to race, VO2max and resting heart rate variability. Heart rate variability ...
Regulation of Potassium Channel in Ventricular Myocytes of Rat Following Volume Overload
(2009-04-13)
Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of death in the US. Among the deaths of
patients with HF, up to 50% are sudden and unexpected. The sudden deaths have been
related to the lethal ventricular arrhythmias such as ...
Flip Chip and Heat Spreader Attachment Development
(2009-04-09)
Flip chip packages offer many advantages over traditional wire bonding based packages. Flip chip packages have high input/output (I/O) handling capability, better electrical performance and smaller size. Proper package ...