Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Purpose of undergraduate rehabilitation education: Implications for Curriculum Development
(2008-08-15)
The goal of this study was to determine the commonalities and differences of registered and non-registered undergraduate rehabilitation education programs existent in the United States and to identify curriculum commonalities ...
Factors that correlate with Employment for People who are Blind in Alabama
(2008-08-15)
This non-experimental retrospective study examined case records from the state of Alabama’s vocational rehabilitation agencies competitive closure rates for blind consumers to determine relationships and to identify the ...
Disability Documentation Criteria for Students with Learning Disabilities in Higher Education
(2008-08-15)
Students with disabilities are one of the most unemployed and underemployed groups in America today. Postsecondary education is becoming increasingly more important in the workforce. More and more careers are requiring at ...
The Role of Dopamine Receptor Subtypes in Reinforced Variability
(2008-08-15)
Variability in behavior can be measured and reinforced. However, the underlying neurological mechanisms of such variability are unknown. Dopamine is associated with reinforcement but its role in reinforced variability is ...
Essentialist Beliefs About Homosexuality: Structure and Implications for Prejudice - A Replication of Haslam and Levy, 2006
(2008-08-15)
Past studies have indicated that essentialist beliefs are associated with prejudicial attitudes. In this study, 300 Auburn University undergraduates responded to measures assessing the degree to which participants ascribed ...
The opportunity for alternative reinforcement shortens bout length in BALB/c C57BL/6 mice
(2008-08-15)
A recent mathematical model has been suggested to partition response rate into two independent components that are estimated through a log survivor analysis of inter-response times. One component is thought to tap motivational ...
Neurobehavioral Consequences of Aging and Chronic Methylmercury Exposure: Interactions with Dietary Selenium
(2008-08-15)
Methylmercury (MeHg), although a well-described toxicant to the adult and developing nervous system, is inadequately understood in adult onset, low-level chronic exposure. Among the known effects are somatosensory deficits ...
Physiological Effects of Suppression of Neutral and Traumatic Thoughts in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(2008-08-15)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is characterized by oscillation of cognitive intrusions and avoidance. Recent research findings suggest that thought suppression may lead to increased intrusive thoughts for trauma ...
The Conceptualization of Personality Disorders: Categories Versus Dimensions
(2008-08-15)
The classification of mental disorders is organized as a categorical system, such that each disorder is a separate entity defined by an exclusive list of symptoms. Research has revealed many problems with the categorical ...
A Cluster-Analytically Derived Typology of Juvenile Sex Offenders
(2008-08-15)
Juvenile sex offenders are part of a heterogeneous population and appear to differ on numerous variables such as offense and victim type, family background, sexual offending characteristics, and psychopathology. Several ...
Direct Instruction Reading: Effects of the Reading Mastery Plus - Level K Program on Preschool Children with Developmental Delays
(2008-08-15)
Despite the success of Direct Instruction (DI) programs in teaching a variety of individuals how to read, there has been little research on the use of DI for young children with developmental delays. The purpose of the ...
Providing Personalized Feedback Regarding Alcohol Use in a Group Format to College Freshmen
(2008-08-15)
College student alcohol use has become an increasing public health concern in recent years. In particular, risky alcohol use behaviors such as binge drinking episodes and methods in which to intervene have become areas ...
Stigma based on race and mental illness: A diagnostic double whammy
(2008-08-15)
Negative stereotypes of African Americans and individuals with mental illness persist in our society. Discrimination and prejudice are not as overt as in the past, but they continue to exist in subtler forms. The covert ...
The Effect of Gelatin and Dietary Crude Protein Level on Broilers Vaccinated for Coccidiosis
(2008-08-15)
Vaccinating for coccidiosis has been shown to adversely affect live performance of broilers compared to those given a dietary anticoccidial. Feeding diets with higher crude protein alleviates negative response to vaccination, ...
Vacuum Magnetic Flux Surface Measurements Made on the Compact Toroidal Hybrid
(2008-08-15)
Understanding the behavior of plasmas in magnetic confinement fusion devices typically requires accurate knowledge of the magnetic field structure. In stellarator-type confinement devices, the helical magnetic field is ...
Theoretical Study of Thermal Properties and Thermal Conductivities of Crystals
(2008-08-15)
Standard first-principles total energy and force calculations were extended to the calculations of harmonic force constant matrices and third order lattice anharmonicity tensors with an efficient super-cell finite-difference ...
Many-Body Dipole Interactions
(2008-08-15)
This dissertation presents the study of controllable but strong long-range interaction between dipoles. In particular, we investigate the excitation and interaction between atoms in a cold gas where the collisional time ...
A Comparison of Dispensing Error Detection Methods for the Department of Defense
(2008-08-15)
Medication error rates in pharmacies range from 0.2% to 10% and there are
several detection methods in which these rates are determined. The observation and self
report methods for detecting medication errors are described ...
Inclusion Complexation of Gefitinib with Cyclodextrins
(2008-08-15)
Gefitinib, a very slightly soluble new drug, is used in the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients who have previously received chemotherapy. This study examined the ...
Prenatal Nicotine Exposure and Molecular Mechanisms of Memory Impairment
(2008-08-15)
Prenatal nicotine exposure in the form of active maternal smoking is a major risk factor for several harmful effects in the children. These effects include reduced motor skills, poor IQ scores and most importantly learning ...