Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Roles of Touching and Massage Among Occupational Therapists and Teachers in Early Intervention Programs
(2008-12-15)
The purpose of this study was to determine what occupational therapists and teachers in early intervention programs know about touching and massage; their personal attitudes about touching and being touched; and their ...
A Systematic Evaluation of Variables Underlying Response Effort Manipulations
(2008-12-15)
A number of studies have investigated the effects of manipulating the physical effort required for an individual to emit a response. This research overwhelmingly shows that as force requirements increase, response rates ...
Evaluation of Subtyping Methods for the Characterization of Campylobacter Strains from Different Geographical Areas
(2008-12-15)
Bacterial foodborne diseases are a common cause of lost productivity for industrially developed nations. In developing nations, these illnesses can be deadly for the young, elderly, and immunocompromised. The ability to ...
Writing as a coping mediator between psychological and physical health
(2008-12-15)
Individuals who have survived a traumatic event demonstrate vast and numerous resulting psychological and physiological symptoms. After a trauma, the individual utilizes some type of coping technique to deal with the ...
Geotextile Antenna Design for Mobile Phone Cooperative Communication Relay Node
(2008-12-15)
The geotextile is widely applied in civil construction where textile materials can offer a distinct advantage. It can be electrified by weaving conductive strips into the textile structure. This could give the geotextile ...
To Succeed or Not to Succeed: How Do Political Influences, Culture, And Demographics of a State Affect the Passing of Physician Assisted Suicide Initiatives?
(2008-12-15)
Today, many physicians are concerned with how to properly care for patients with terminal illnesses and unbearable pain. In deciding the best care possible, ethical and moral concerns have become an issue. Many feel ...
An Examination of State Level Homeland Security Organizations
(2008-12-15)
The requirement for homeland security within the United States became apparent following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Prior to the attacks, neither the federal nor state governments were organized or ...
Budgeting in Times of Fiscal Stress: Explaining Strategies for Reducing Agency Expenditures
(2008-12-15)
This research compared budget coping strategies of state administrative heads in public state agencies focusing on the influences of executive administrator characteristics, and organizational characteristics. Budget theory ...
Alternative Growth and Interface Passivation Techniques for SiO2 on 4H-SiC
(2008-12-15)
Silicon Carbide is a novel wide band gap semiconductor material with excellent thermal, chemical and electrical properties. It also shares its natural oxide SiO2 with Si, which has been widely studied and optimized for ...
Storage Stability of Tagatose in Buffer Solutions of Various Composition
(2008-12-15)
Tagatose, an epimer of fructose, is a minimally absorbed monosaccharide that has been shown to function as a prebiotic in the human body. For this prebiotic effect to be achieved, tagatose in food and beverage products ...
Food Safety Improvements by Recombinant Protein Technologies
(2008-12-15)
Food safety is a scientific term to describe proper handling, preparation and storage of foods to prevent the spread of potential hazards. Health hazards associated with foods are usually categorized as biological, chemical, ...
Hydraulic Solenoid Valve Reliability and Modeling Study
(2008-12-15)
The current work has studied the reliability of a solenoid valve (SV) used in automobile transmissions through a joint theoretical and experimental approach. Based on an extensive literature search, the most common failures ...
Surface Separation and Contact Resistance Considering Sinusoidal Elastic-Plastic Multiscale Rough Surface Contact
(2008-12-15)
This thesis considers the multiscale nature of surface roughness in a new model that predicts the real area of contact and surface separation as functions of load. This work is based upon a previous rough surface multiscale ...
Modeling and Analysis of PZT Micropower Generator
(2008-12-15)
The goal of this research is to theoretically and experimentally investigate behaviors of a power harvesting system that was constructed with a bimorph cantilever made of Lead Zirconate Titanate (Pb[ZrxTi1-x]O3) and a ...
Time Dependent Queuing Systems
(2008-12-15)
Using elementary probability theory, we establish limiting probabilities for the queue length of a queuing system whose arrivals follow a nonhomogeneous Poisson process and are served by a single server whose services also ...
The QR Algorithm for Eigenvalue Estimation: Theory and Experiments
(2008-12-15)
In this thesis, we explore one of the most important numerical algorithms ever invented,
the QR algorithm for computing matrix eigenvalues. First, we describe out notations and
mathematical symbols used throughout the ...
Inverse Limit Spaces
(2008-12-15)
This paper is a vast survey of inverse limit spaces. After defining an inverse limit on continuous bonding functions, we prove important theorems about inverse limits, provide examples, and explore various generalizations ...
Factorwise Rigidity Involving Hereditarily Indecomposable Spaces
(2008-12-15)
The Cartesian product of two spaces is called factorwise rigid if any self homeomorphism is a product homeomorphism. In 1983, D. Bellamy and J. Lysko proved that the Cartesian product of two pseudo-arcs is factorwise rigid. ...
Novel Nano-Liter Scale Microfluidic Platform for Protein Kinetics
(2008-12-15)
In the mid-1970s, integrated circuits exploited miniaturized transistors to bring a revolution in the field of computation. This marked the foundation of computers and information technology. In this century, we are on the ...
Phage-Based Magnetoelastic Sensor for the Detection of Salmonella typhimurium
(2008-12-15)
In recent years, food-borne illness have garnered the attention of mainstream America with calls now coming from the media for more inspections to ensure the safety of our food supply. Food borne illness from the ingestion ...