Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Effects of Modified Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction on African American Boys’ Oral Reading Fluency and Attitudes toward Reading
(2008-08-15)
Reading achievement among boys has been a subject of interest in educational research for several years. Not until the 1990s did the issue of educating boys become nationally and internationally acknowledged as an existing ...
An Examination of the Role of Meaning in Posttraumatic Growth Following Bereavement
(2008-08-15)
A growing body of research indicates that some individuals who experience a traumatic event are able to experience posttraumatic growth, that is, experience positive changes as a result of surviving and coping with the ...
Cognitive Processing Themes for Smoking among Lesbians
(2008-08-15)
This study explored perceptions of motivation for smoking among lesbians. A convenience sample of 20 participants completed an online survey with 18 open-ended, reflection questions about their perceptions of the relationships ...
The Impact of Classroom Exposure to Sustainability, Course Content, and Ecological Footprint Analysis on Student Attitudes and Projected Behaviors
(2008-08-15)
The importance of sustainability will continue to grow as world population and
the demand for finite resources increase. It is important to educate college students on
the changing world around them, and how to live ...
A Study of the Success and Failure of Apparel Entrepreneurs
(2008-08-15)
Anyone can be an entrepreneur, but to run a successful venture within the apparel industry may be more complex than one would believe. Planning every aspect of a business from finances to employees, down to having an exit ...
Multi Initiator Connected Dominating Set Construction for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(2008-08-15)
Connected dominating set (CDS) has been extensively used for routing and broadcast in mobile ad hoc networks. While existing CDS protocols are successful in constructing CDS of competitive size with localized information, ...
Bandwidth-Aware Routing Tree (BART) for Underwater 3-D Geographic Routing
(2008-08-15)
The limited bandwidth and power resources in underwater sensor networks have made geographic routing a favorite choice. While many detouring strategies in geographic routing do not work for 3-D underwater network topology, ...
Multiple UAV Simulation with Multiresolution Multistage Models and Decision Support
(2008-08-15)
Multi UAV simulation is a dynamic multi-simulation of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) activities in the battlefield with multiresolution multistage models. Decision support is implemented under this simulation. It ...
Clustering and Predictive Modeling: An Ensemble Approach
(2008-08-15)
Today’s data storage and collection abilities have allowed the accumulation of enormous amounts of data. Data mining can be a useful tool in transforming these large amounts of raw data into useful information. Predictive ...
Energy-Efficient Traffic-Aware Routing in Underwater
(2008-08-15)
Underwater acoustic networks are a special type of wireless sensor networks deployed in a harsh oceanic environment for mission critical tasks. In this unique sensor network, energy efficiency is the most critical problem. ...
Improving System Performance for Wireless Networks
(2008-08-15)
In this dissertation, we solve two problems in wireless networks: Transmission Control Protocol
(TCP) enhancement and cluster node sleep scheduling.
When TCP is deployed in a wireless mesh network, it encounters several ...
Humanizing the Gangster: An Examination into the Character from Hawks’ to DePalma’s Scarface
(2008-08-15)
This thesis determines why the film gangster gained acceptance in American society through an examination of both the 1932 and 1983 versions of Scarface. The gangster depicted in the earlier film was characterized as a ...
It's a Man's World: Representations of Gender and Competing Ideologies in 'Shaun of the Dead'
(2008-08-15)
This thesis utilizes a gender media studies approach to analyze the 2004 British film Shaun of the Dead. Blending several film genres, Shaun of the Dead is counted among a small but growing sub-subgenre of film known as ...
How Does Perez Do It?: Evaluating Tabloid News Transparency and Credibility in the Blogosphere
(2008-08-15)
The effect that blogger transparency has upon credibility evaluations of a weblog and Web blogger were tested. Two hundred and sixty-five university students were surveyed regarding their credibility evaluations of celebrity ...
Seeking MRNA Methylation Inhibitors as Antiviral Agents
(2008-08-15)
Aristeromycin and neplanocin A are two examples of potent S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase inhibitors. As a consequence, they show significant broad-spectrum antiviral activity, however, their clinical potential is limited ...
Probing the Reaction Mechanism of Methyl Coenzyme M Reductase
(2008-08-15)
Methyl coenzyme M reductase (MCR) is the key enzyme in both microbial methane production and anaerobic methane oxidation. MCR catalyzes the reaction of methyl-coenzyme M (CH3SCoM) and coenzyme B (HSCoB) to methane and the ...
Reaction Analysis of Templated Polymer Systems
(2008-08-15)
Templated polymer systems have unique 'trained' binding characteristics that make them of high interest within chromatography, sensors, diagnostic devices, and drug delivery carriers. In this work, a typical highly ...
Biohybrid and Biomimetic Platforms for Programmable Therapeutic Delivery
(2008-08-15)
Drug and gene delivery carriers such as hydrogels and metallic nanoparticles have shown remarkable promise as programmable platforms in the targeted delivery of their payload. In this work, the fundamental principles of ...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Radiation-Induced Thymic Atrophy as a Model for Pathologic Changes in Acute Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
(2008-08-15)
The thymus is a primary lymphoid organ responsible for the production of a diverse repertoire of immunocompetent and self-tolerant T lymphocytes (T cells), vital for proper immune function. T lymphocyte differentiation, ...
Functional characterization and pharmacological rescue of the human and porcine neural melanocortin receptors
(2008-08-15)
During the past decade, numerous studies showed that both melanocortin-3 and -4 receptors (MC3R and MC4R) are critically involved in regulation of mammalian energy balance. The MC4R plays a vital role in regulation of food ...