Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Use of Ultrasonic Telemetry to Estimate Residency, Movement Patterns, and Mortality of Red Snapper, Lutjanus campechanus
(2009-07-07)
Site fidelity, emigration, and mortality were estimated from telemetry for large (500 – 860 mm TL) red snapper Lutjanus campechanus (N = 87) from four artificial and one natural reef in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. ...
Thermal Stability of Tagatose
(2009-07-06)
Tagatose is a minimally absorbed monosaccharide that has prebiotic properties. To achieve this prebiotic benefit, tagatose in foods and beverages must not be lost during processing. However, data on the thermal stability ...
Future Orientation, Impulsivity, and Deviance: Longitudinal Relationships and Multilevel Processes
(2009-07-06)
Using a sample of over 14,000 adolescents from 145 schools of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), the current work tested the longitudinal relationship between future orientation and deviance ...
Developing Methods for Detecting Cotton Fiber Identity Theft
(2009-07-06)
This study focused on determining ways to detect identity theft of cotton fibers through developing identification tests from fibers to end products. Cotton types examined in this study include: Extra-Long Staple cotton ...
Robust Methods for Functional Data Analysis
(2009-07-06)
Functional data consist of observed functions or curves at a finite subset of an interval. Each functional observation is a realization from a stochastic process. This thesis aims to develop suitable statistical methodologies ...
Towards the Understanding of Complex Biochemical Systems: the Significance of Global Protein Structure and Thorough Parametric Analysis
(2009-07-06)
Enzymes are a highly diverse set of macromolecules, and, given their size and biocatalytic significance, each is an extremely complex system to study. As such, many assumptions must be made to simplify these systems to a ...
Applicability of Mitochondrial Genome Data to Annelid Phylogeny and the Evolution of Group II Introns
(2009-07-02)
Annelida is a very diverse group of segmented worms with over 16,500 described
species. They play an important role in both terrestrial and aquatic environments. Despite
this, their phylogenetic and evolutionary relationships ...
The Roles of Acoustic and Visual Signals in the Reproductive Behavior of the Federally Threatened Pygmy Sculpin, Cottus paulus, (Cottidae)
(2009-07-02)
Animals use many modes of communication (i.e. tactile, visual, acoustic and chemical) for territory defense, resource defense, and/or courtship. These communication systems can be used singularly or combined together, such ...
Industrial Sweetpotato: A viable biofuel crop for Alabama.
(2009-07-02)
Field studies were conducted evaluating selected sweetpotato (Ipomea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivars for viability as a biofuel crop in Alabama. Industrial sweetpotato cultivars evaluated were: ‘X-1617’, ‘W-328’, and ‘Markham’ ...
Home brewing and serious leisure: An empirical evaluation
(2009-07-02)
This study examines the serious leisure experience through the perspectives of cognition and affect for the home brewer of craft beers. This research offers evidence that brewing beer at home fulfills the established ...
The Effects of Relationship Quality on Affect Expressed in Dyadic Interactions of Preschool-Aged Children
(2009-07-02)
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of relationship quality on expressed affect in the dyadic interactions of preschool-aged children. The effects of six different types of relationship quality ...
Counseling Competency with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients: Perceptions of Counseling Graduate Students
(2009-07-02)
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine graduate counseling students’
self-perceived counseling competency with lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) clients
using the Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale ...
The Differential Outcome Effect with Typical Adult Humans
(2009-07-02)
A mechanism that affects nonhuman animal learning is expectation, as explored with experiments that produce the differential outcome effect (DOE). To obtain the DOE, animals are trained using a differential outcomes procedure ...
Discrete sets, free sequences and cardinal properties of topological spaces
(2009-07-01)
We study the influence of discrete sets and free sequences on cardinal properties of topological spaces. We focus mainly on the minimum number of discrete sets needed to cover a space X (denoted by dis(X)) and on reflection ...
Effects of Food Safety Regulatory Standards on Seafood Exports to US, EU and Japan
(2009-07-01)
This thesis examines the effects of the enhanced food safety standards imposed in developed countries on seafood exports to these country markets. New impositions of food safety regulations in three major markets are ...
The Refinement of a Multidimensional Computer Based Implicit Association Test as a Measurement of Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities
(2009-07-01)
Currently, persons with disabilities (PWDs) account for approximately one-fifth of the adult US population (Steinmetz, 2006). Legislation has been passed to help protect PWDs (e.g., the Americans with Disabilities Act). ...
Phylogeography and population structure of Antarctic ophiuroids: effects of life history, oceanography and paleoclimatology
(2009-07-01)
The Antarctic landmass and surrounding continental shelf have been isolated for over 24 million years. Geographic and thermal isolation have resulted in a highly endemic, diverse benthic marine fauna. This fauna has been ...
Regulation of the p62 promoter by oxidative damage in neurodegenerative disease and aging
(2009-06-30)
Oxidative stress is regarded as the damage to a biological system caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) when the prooxidant overwhelms the antioxidant defense and repair ability. Growing evidence reveals that oxidative ...
How School Psychologists Consider and Accommodate for Factors Thought to Influence Children’s Performance
(2009-06-29)
School psychologists’ professional responsibilities include administration and interpretation of a great many psychological and educational tests for numerous purposes. These tests are most frequently used to assess students ...
Impacts of Kinematic Links with a Granular Material
(2009-06-26)
The impact of kinematic links into a granular material is studied. In the impact process through the granular material defined as a conglomeration of discrete solids, the most important force governing the motion of a body ...