Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Effect of Demographic Variables on Therapy Alliance in Couple Therapy Controlling for Relationship Adjustment and Symptom Distress
(2008-08-15)
Therapy alliance is a central concern in couple therapy as alliance has been consistently shown to predict therapy outcome. However, little is known about the factors that affect alliance formation. The purpose of this ...
Malleability in Gender Role Attitudes During the Transition to Divorce and Remarriage: A Longitudinal Study of Marital Experiences
(2008-08-15)
Gender roles affect many aspects of individual development and daily life including career goals, one’s decision to parent, familial contact, and relationships, yet most of the research on gender roles and related gender ...
A Third Option: Imperial Air Defense and the Pacific Dominions, 1918-1939
(2008-08-15)
The air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period demonstrates the difficulty of applying changing military technology to the defense of the global empire and provides insight into the nature of the ...
Production and characterization of Bt Cry1Ac resistance in bollworm, Helicoverpa zea (Boddie)
(2008-08-15)
Laboratory-selected Bt-resistant colonies are important tools for elucidating Bt resistance mechanisms and helping to determine appropriate resistance management strategies for Bt crops. Here, two laboratory populations ...
'In Some Respects Peculiar': Representations of Citizenship in the British and Anglophone Novel
(2008-08-15)
This dissertation analyzes representations of citizenship in five British novels that were written over a period of 260 years. Read together, these novels chart the ways in which citizenship has been coveted, accepted, ...
Online In-Situ Estimation of Network Parameters Under Intermittent Excitation Conditions
(2008-08-15)
Online in-situ estimation of network parameters is potential tool to evaluate electrical network and conductor health. The integration of the physics-based models with stochastic models can provide important diagnostic ...
Breakdown studies of helium and nitrogen in partial vacuum subject to non-uniform, unipolar fields in the 20-220 kHz range
(2008-08-15)
Partial discharges and corona are considered as unwanted processes in electrical power systems since they are constant source of power loss and electrical noise (EMI). These effects can further develop into a major problem ...
Implications and Perceptions of Students and Teachers Participating in Two Ninth Grade Success Academies During the Year of Implementation
(2008-08-15)
This study is a comparative case study of two Ninth Grade Success Academies at two school sites in south Alabama. Ninth Grade Success Academies use school within a school modelthat isolates freshman from upperclassmen while ...
Determinants of Rural Non-Farm Employment and Income in Paraguay
(2008-08-15)
During the last decades considerable research has been carried out on non-farm rural employment and income of farm households. The thesis examines the factors influencing non-farm employment and income among rural individuals ...
Effects of Modified Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction on African American Boys’ Oral Reading Fluency and Attitudes toward Reading
(2008-08-15)
Reading achievement among boys has been a subject of interest in educational research for several years. Not until the 1990s did the issue of educating boys become nationally and internationally acknowledged as an existing ...
An Examination of the Role of Meaning in Posttraumatic Growth Following Bereavement
(2008-08-15)
A growing body of research indicates that some individuals who experience a traumatic event are able to experience posttraumatic growth, that is, experience positive changes as a result of surviving and coping with the ...
Cognitive Processing Themes for Smoking among Lesbians
(2008-08-15)
This study explored perceptions of motivation for smoking among lesbians. A convenience sample of 20 participants completed an online survey with 18 open-ended, reflection questions about their perceptions of the relationships ...
The Impact of Classroom Exposure to Sustainability, Course Content, and Ecological Footprint Analysis on Student Attitudes and Projected Behaviors
(2008-08-15)
The importance of sustainability will continue to grow as world population and
the demand for finite resources increase. It is important to educate college students on
the changing world around them, and how to live ...
A Study of the Success and Failure of Apparel Entrepreneurs
(2008-08-15)
Anyone can be an entrepreneur, but to run a successful venture within the apparel industry may be more complex than one would believe. Planning every aspect of a business from finances to employees, down to having an exit ...
Multi Initiator Connected Dominating Set Construction for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(2008-08-15)
Connected dominating set (CDS) has been extensively used for routing and broadcast in mobile ad hoc networks. While existing CDS protocols are successful in constructing CDS of competitive size with localized information, ...
Bandwidth-Aware Routing Tree (BART) for Underwater 3-D Geographic Routing
(2008-08-15)
The limited bandwidth and power resources in underwater sensor networks have made geographic routing a favorite choice. While many detouring strategies in geographic routing do not work for 3-D underwater network topology, ...
Multiple UAV Simulation with Multiresolution Multistage Models and Decision Support
(2008-08-15)
Multi UAV simulation is a dynamic multi-simulation of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) activities in the battlefield with multiresolution multistage models. Decision support is implemented under this simulation. It ...
Clustering and Predictive Modeling: An Ensemble Approach
(2008-08-15)
Today’s data storage and collection abilities have allowed the accumulation of enormous amounts of data. Data mining can be a useful tool in transforming these large amounts of raw data into useful information. Predictive ...
Energy-Efficient Traffic-Aware Routing in Underwater
(2008-08-15)
Underwater acoustic networks are a special type of wireless sensor networks deployed in a harsh oceanic environment for mission critical tasks. In this unique sensor network, energy efficiency is the most critical problem. ...
Improving System Performance for Wireless Networks
(2008-08-15)
In this dissertation, we solve two problems in wireless networks: Transmission Control Protocol
(TCP) enhancement and cluster node sleep scheduling.
When TCP is deployed in a wireless mesh network, it encounters several ...