Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Middle and Junior High School Choral Repertoire: Directors' Criteria for Selection, Quality, and Appropriateness
(2009-07-28)
The purpose of this study was to determine criteria used by middle school and junior high school choral directors when selecting choral repertoire. A 72-item questionnaire was designed to collect middle school and junior ...
A New Approach to Voting: An Accessible Voter Verifiable Paper Ballot
(2009-07-28)
The 2000 U.S. Presidential Election brought national attention to electronic voting
when an estimated 50,000 ballots were discarded and not counted. The body of research
presented in this thesis will describe a method ...
The Interplay of Positive Parenting and Positive Social Information Processing in the Prediction Of Children’s Social and Behavioral Adjustment
(2009-07-28)
There is a well documented literature establishing the relationship of parenting behaviors with child positive (i.e. social skills) and negative (i.e. aggressive problems) adjustment outcomes. However, relatively fewer ...
Staging and Upstaging Revolt: The Maternal Function in Twentieth Century Drama
(2009-07-24)
This dissertation explores the maternal role in subject formation and surveys varying depictions of this role in twentieth-century drama. While sifting through the genealogy of psychoanalytic theory, this project investigates ...
The Role of Product Brand Image and Online Store Image on Perceived Risks and Online Purchase Intentions
(2009-07-24)
Purchase intentions for fashion apparel and accessories involve both hedonic and aesthetic considerations that result higher requirements for triability and tangibility prior to purchase, suggesting that product brand image ...
The Assessment of Preference for Qualitatively Different Reinforcers in Persons with Developmental and Learning Disabilities: A Comparison of Value Using Behavioral Economic and Standard Preference Assessment Procedures
(2009-07-23)
Standard preference assessment results may have limited generality when schedule requirements are increased, which may compromise treatment efficacy. While standard procedures can provide reliable preference ranks and ...
Burke's Rhetoric of Reorientation in Hank Williams' Honky-Tonk Performance
(2009-07-23)
Music can be a powerful form of constitutive rhetoric. Country music has garnered little attention from rhetoricians despite being a highly adaptive folk-form through the first half of the 20th century. In particular, the ...
The Effects Of Training Parents In Teaching Phonemic Awareness On The Phonemic Awareness And Early Reading Of Struggling Readers
(2009-07-22)
This study was designed to research the difference in parental training in phonemic awareness on the achievements of their children who had been identified as struggling readers. Subjects were from federally subsidized ...
Identification of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes Using FAME Analysis
(2009-07-22)
For several years, chromatographic analysis of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) has been used to identify bacteria more quickly than traditional methods. The objective of this study was to determine the applicability of ...
Polyketide Synthase Pathway Discovery from Soil Metagenomic Libraries
(2009-07-21)
Polyketides are structurally diverse bacterial secondary metabolites, many of which have antibiotic or anti-cancer activity. Modular polyketide synthase (PKS) enzymatic complexes contain conserved ketoacyl synthase (KS) ...
Recalibration of the Asphalt Layer Coefficient
(2009-07-21)
The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) currently uses the 1993 DARWin version of the 1986 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Guide for the Design of Pavement Structures ...
Geology of the Farmville Metagranite and Associated Units as Exposed at the Notasulga Quarry, Notasulga, Alabama
(2009-07-21)
Predicting the locations and thicknesses of aggregate-affable lithologies (ore units), interburden (non-ore material between ore-units), and overburden (overlying soil/saprolite) on a local level is critical for developing ...
Relationship of Thought Suppression and Emotion Suppression to Lesbians’ and Gay Men’s Levels of Outness: Investigating the Effects of Chronic Suppression
(2009-07-21)
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine emotion regulation, thought suppression and outness in relation to the lesbian and gay communities. Also, the relationship of level of outness and reported psychological ...
The Willingness of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners to Supply Wood Biomass for a Prospective Wood-Based Bioenergy Industry: A Case Study from Lee County, Alabama
(2009-07-21)
A key factor determining the potential for development of bioenergy industries is the availability of feedstock. Despite the abundant presence of wood biomass in highly forested regions such as the U. S. South, the ...
A Software and Hardware System for the Autonomous Control and Navigation of a Trained Canine
(2009-07-20)
This dissertation demonstrates the autonomous command and navigation of a trained
canine to multiple waypoints. A system is described consisting of a canine that can be
guided autonomously to a number of waypoints by an ...
Impact of Charge Collection Mechanisms on Single Event Effects in SiGe HBT Circuits
(2009-07-17)
Investigations into single event effect (SEE)
induced charge collection in
Silicon Germanium (SiGe) heterojunction
bipolar transistors (HBT)
are made through three-dimensional (3-D) device simulation.
The transistor ...
Using Parent-Child Interaction Therapy to Develop a Pre-Parent Education Module
(2009-07-17)
Ineffective parenting skills, poor knowledge of child development, rigidity, and harsh physical punishment have been identified as risk factors for abuse and child disruptive behavior. Due to the long-term negative ...
Recurrent phenotypic selection for increased winter productivity in annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.)
(2009-07-17)
In the Southeastern USA, dry matter distribution of cool season annual and perennial grasses is concentrated more in spring months with relatively less production in late autumn and early winter. Annual cool season grasses ...
Guidelines for the development of products from post-consumer glass
(2009-07-17)
A design process for creating products using post-consumer glass
Microhabitat Associations of Wintering Birds in a Southeastern Bottomland Forest within the Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain of Florida
(2009-07-16)
I examined microhabitat characteristics affecting the occupancy of wintering birds in a southeastern bottomland forest with repeated point counts at 186 sites. Models were derived a priori based on published literature and ...