Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Post-transplant Irrigation Scheduling of Native Deciduous Shrub Taxa
(2009-08-03)
The effect of irrigation scheduling treatments on root and shoot growth and photosynthesis of Hydrangea quercifolia Bart. ‘Alice’ (‘Alice’ oakleaf hydrangea), Rhododendron austrinum Rehd. (florida flame azalea), and Itea ...
Poetry Centers for the Purpose of Lowering Inhibitions of English Language Learners in the Constructivist English Language Arts Classroom
(2009-08-03)
The purpose of this study was to examine what happened in terms of lowering ELL students’ affective filters when a particular teacher of English language learners introduced her poetry activities, centered on aesthetic ...
The Things They Carried: Conceptions of Writing Transfer in Composition Studies
(2009-08-03)
This thesis will look at a body of scholarship that dominates both short and long-term case studies of writing and will attempt to understand and identify assumptions that underlie how they are enacted. Through this ...
Kisspeptin, a Novel Hypothalamic Regulator of the Somatotropic and Gonadotropic Axes in Ruminants
(2009-07-31)
Reproductive inefficiency in dairy cows is a worldwide problem. Factors that improve reproductive performance even slightly could have large impacts on the efficiency of food animal production. The neuropeptide kisspeptin ...
Gender Bias Against Sarah Palin: A Content Analysis of National Newspapers
(2009-07-31)
A content analysis was conducted to examine whether a gender bias existed in national newspaper coverage of the 2008 presidential election. This presidential race proved to be historical in many aspects. Not only was the ...
Toward a Breathable Fabric for Protection Against Airborne Toxic Chemicals, and an Olefin-Forming Cascade Reaction En Route to 2,2’-Bi(glycerol)
(2009-07-31)
Part I. Several compounds that were envisioned to interact strongly with airborne chemical warfare agents, principally organophosphorus nerve agents, were synthesized. This was part of a multi-site, multi-investigator ...
"Souls in the Treetops:" Cherokee War, Masculinity, and Community, 1760-1820
(2009-07-31)
This dissertation focuses upon the rapid changes Cherokees underwent during the early national period in American history. They dealt with challenges that presented in a variety of ways but did not always agree upon ...
Indecomposable and Chainable Continua
(2009-07-31)
This thesis covers topics in continuum theory related to indecomposable continua and
chainable continua. Theorems are presented to characterize indecomposable continua and
then chainability is explored in its connection ...
Virtual Academic Community: Online Education Instructors’ Social Presence in Association with Freshman Composition Students’ Critical Thinking and Argumentation
(2009-07-31)
There is much literature addressing challenges face-to-face freshman composition instructors encounter in developing college courses that foster critical thinking skills crucial to developing written argument. Composition ...
Evaluating Consumer Satisfaction with the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Service Provision at the Anniston Army Depot
(2009-07-30)
This research reports on efforts to gain a better understanding of service quality, satisfaction and how these link to future behavioral intentions. Against this background, the overriding goal of the study is to develop ...
Classifying Speakers Using Voice Biometrics In a Multimodal World
(2009-07-30)
The following dissertation document is a research study conducted to determine whether
a classi cation for a person is obtainable by using the person's voice. The intent of this
work was to investigate a collection of ...
Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform: Effects on the Death Rate, a 2004 Cross-Sectional Analysis
(2009-07-30)
This thesis scrutinizes the effects that tort reform, health expenditures per capita, and the median malpractice payment per state has on the age-adjusted death rate. The data is from 2004 and was collected for each state. ...
Novel Packaging Designs for Improvements in Air Filter Performance
(2009-07-29)
Adsorbent entrapped media, such as microfibrous materials engineered at Auburn University, provide a novel method to effectively remove harmful airborne contaminants such as volatile organic compounds and particulate matter ...
Education Technology Impact on Department of Defense Financial Manager Continuing Education Programs
(2009-07-28)
This dissertation uses action research to examine, within the Department of Defense financial manager (DOD FM) community, how the rapid pace of information technology innovations may affect continuing professional education ...
High Dielectric Constant 0-3 Ceramic-Polymer Composites
(2009-07-28)
0-3 ceramic-polymer composites using both nano-size and micro-size CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramic particles were studied. The micro-size ceramic particles were prepared from the CaCu3Ti4O12 pellets by milling. The CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramics ...
Reconstruction of Parametric Image Maps in Single- and Multiple-Coil Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(2009-07-28)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a standard tool to measure the hemodynamic response which is related to activation patterns in the human and animal brain. In conventional anatomical MRI, the decay and ...
An Examination of Factors Influencing African-American Students' Choice to Attend Predominately White Institutions
(2009-07-28)
The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influence African American college students’ decisions to attend an HBCU or a PWI 4-year institution. Differences among African Americans in factors influencing the ...
Main Idea Identification with Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities / Specific Learning Disabilities: A Comparison Between an Explicit and a Basal Instructional Approach
(2009-07-28)
With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 children with mild intellectual disabilities / specific learning disabilities have increasingly been integrated into most facets of the general education curriculum. ...
Intersection problem for the class of Reed-Muller codes.
(2009-07-28)
The intersection problem for Coding Theory can be stated as follows: given a family or class of
families of codes, find the spectrum of intersection numbers. The general strategy to attack
this kind of problem begins ...
Misbehaving Mothers: Textuality, Motherhood, and Legitimacy in Early Puritan America
(2009-07-28)
Single mothers, widowed mothers, abandoned mothers, impoverished mothers, and criminal mothers are just some examples of women who lived outside the normative societal standards that prevailed in colonial New England. And ...