Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Arbitress of Passion and of Contract: Eliza Haywood and the Legality of Love
(2006-12-15)
My dissertation is a cultural studies exploration of how the eighteenth-century British author Eliza Haywood legitimizes women’s presence in the legal landscape through illustrations of women’s experiences with contract, ...
Becoming Acquainted with the Faces of Words: Fostering Vocabulary Development in Kindergarten Students through Storybook Readings
(2006-12-15)
The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of storybook readings with explicit instruction of target words on the vocabulary acquisition of primary grade students. The secondary focus of the research sought to ...
Comprehension Strategy Instruction with Teacher Read Alouds for First Graders
(2006-12-15)
The purpose of this experimental study was to examine the effectiveness of comprehension strategies instruction delivered through teacher read alouds on the reading comprehension abilities of first grade students. ...
Lying in Psychotherapy: Results of an Exploratory Study
(2006-12-15)
Although the topic of lying in psychotherapy has been addressed in philosophical and theoretical discussion, it has received scant attention in research endeavors. In order to gather data on lying in psychotherapy, the ...
A Preliminary Examination of Religion in the Perception of Therapists' Helpfulness
(2006-12-15)
The current study aimed to assess religious clients’ evaluation of therapists’ helpfulness in psychotherapy. Participants (N = 35) were undergraduate and graduate students from 11 public institutions of higher learning ...
Assessment of the effects of soil amendments on the leaching of lead and arsenic from contaminated soil
(2006-12-15)
Lead has a long history in the life of human beings. Unfortunately, only recently did people start to realize that lead is a toxin. Because of increasing human activity, soil lead pollution has become a serious environmental ...
The Synthesis and Practical Applications of Novel N-Halamine Biocides
(2006-12-15)
A novel set of N-halamine siloxane precursors were synthesized for the purpose of coating various substrates to determine the factors, which are the most dominant influences of the overall stability of the newly modified ...
Elucidating the flavin reductase mechanism in the alkanesulfonate monooxygenase system from Escherichia coli
(2006-12-15)
The two-component alkanesulfonate monooxygenase system from Escherichia coli is comprised of an FMN reductase (SsuE) and a monooxygenase enzyme (SsuD) that together catalyze the oxidation of alkanesulfonate to the corresponding ...
Predicting Objective Measures of Performance
(2005-08-15)
In todays competitive job market, many organizations use various selection procedures in order to hire the best possible employees. Most selection tools such as structured interviews, mental ability tests, and personality ...
An Examination of the Factors Influencing the Decisions of United States Army Aviation Officers to Leave the Army
(2005-08-15)
This research examined the following questions: (1) What factors cause some aviators to leave the Army? (2) Are private sector employment opportunities perceived differently between aviators who leave and those who stay ...
Commitment to Change In Pharmacy Schools: Does Leadership Matter?
(2005-08-15)
The challenges of achieving the new vision in pharmacy education have been cited as an important reason for advocating transformational leadership as the kind of educational leadership that is required to assist the pharmacy ...
Finite Element Analysis and Life Estimation of a Permanent Cylindrical Mold with ANSYS and Coffin-Manson Approach
(2005-08-15)
Thermal fatigue is the most severe problem encountered by a permanent mold, leading to heat checking and cracking which affects the dimensional stability of the mold. Developing a methodology to determine the optimal ...
Therapeutic Alliance as a Mediating Factor Between Couple Attachment and Therapeutic Outcome
(2005-08-15)
The purpose of this thesis was to examine how the therapeutic alliance mediates
the relationship between the anxiety and avoidance dimensions on a couple attachment
measure and subsequent relationship satisfaction scores. ...
Shakespeare and the Cultural Impressment of Ireland
(2005-08-15)
Using a combined lens of cultural materialist and postcolonial studies to read the early modern inclusion of Irish in the culture of the British empire, this study explores --Y΄cultural impressment‘ as a descriptor for ...
Building Resilience Skills in Hispanic Middle School Girls: An Outcomes Based Research Study
(2005-08-15)
A review of literature showed clearly the problems faced by the Hispanic population in general and the problems of Hispanic females in specific terms as related to resilience, academic success and self concept. The purpose ...
The Effects of Peer Tutoring and Group Counseling on Academic Achievement and Behavior of At-Risk Junior High Males
(2005-08-15)
This study investigated academic achievement and behavior of 8th and 9th grade male students by examining their grade average and frequency of discipline office referrals before and after the peer tutoring and group ...
An Evaluation of the Use of Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC) for Drilled Shaft Applications
(2005-08-15)
In drilled shaft construction, the recent development of sophisticated techniques for integrity and load testing has lead to the ability to assess the quality of drilled shaft foundations in terms of integrity and load ...
Effect of Process Parameters on Methanol to Olefins Reactions over SAPO Catalysts
(2005-08-15)
Acidic catalysts such as silicoaluminophosphate oxides (SAPO) have been known to play an essential role in olefins synthesis reactions. Because of their unique selectivity towards light olefins, these SAPO catalysts offer ...
Low Temperature Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide Using Microfibrous Entrapped Catalysts for Fire Escape Mask Application
(2005-08-15)
The prime reason for life casualties in fire is not the fire itself but poisoning caused by presence of carbon monoxide. It has been reported by American Medical Association that CO causes about 2100 deaths per year and ...
Molecular Bonding in Product Engineering
(2005-08-15)
Molecular Bonding plays an important role in the performance of product and chemical processes. Various types of bonds are: ionic bond, covalent bond, co-ordinate bond, metallic bond, van der Waal’s bond and hydrogen bond. ...