Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Relationship of Affective Training Climate of Doctoral Counseling and Clinical Psychology Training Programs to Student Psychotherapist Affect and Professional Development
(2008-08-15)
There is a substantial literature demonstrating that organizational climate is significantly related to various employee outcomes, including employee affect and job satisfaction. The professional literature is lacking, ...
The Relationship Between Alexithymia and Functional Somatization in College Students in the US
(2008-08-15)
The study of functional somatization brings out the struggle of the Western scientific world, which rests of Decartian dualist grounds, to understand the body-mind relations. Individuals who experience functional somatic ...
Antecedents of Older Consumers' Internet Shopping for Apparel Products: Perceived Risk and Benefits and Shopping Orientation
(2008-08-15)
Despite the growth of the Internet, one segment which marketers have overlooked is older consumers. With the rapid growth of the older consumer population and the potential the Internet holds for them, it is a subject worth ...
Relationship Between Level of Acculturation and Clothing Preferences of Asian-Indian Females
(2008-08-15)
Because of the rise in the U.S. population of Asian-Indians and possible new market segments for the apparel industry, looking at how they acculturate into their new culture will help distinguish if they prefer to wear ...
College Consumers' Apparel Brand Knowledge: An Exploratory Study of Brand Awareness and Perceived Brand Category Structures
(2008-08-15)
Consumers’ brand knowledge is composed of two constructs - brand awareness and brand image. Brand awareness can be demonstrated in the forms of brand recall and brand recognition. If a consumer is able to recall a brand ...
Improving Throughput of Video Streaming in Wireless Sensor Networks
(2008-08-15)
Wireless sensor networks are originally distributed event-based systems that differ from traditional communication networks in several ways. These networks typically have nodes with severe energy constraints, variable ...
Scalable, Self-Healing, and Real-Time Network Services for Directed Diffusion
(2008-08-15)
Directed diffusion is a data-centric publish-subscribe routing protocol for sensor networks. We have proposed three network services which increase the capabilities of directed diffusion. Our protocols build on the inherent ...
Energy-Efficient Resource Management for High-performance Computing Platforms
(2008-08-15)
In the past decade, high-performance computing (HPC) platforms like clusters and computational grids have been widely used to solve challenging and rigorous engineering tasks in industry and scientific applications. Due ...
High Performance Rate Adaptation on IEEE 802.11 Networks
(2008-08-15)
IEEE 802.11 standard has evolved from the basic transmission rates in early days to multiple
rates today with advanced encoding and antenna techniques. The performance of IEEE 802.11
wireless networks is supposed to ...
Using a Helio Based Protocol in a Battlefield Sensor Network with Directional Antennas and Enhanced Security
(2008-08-15)
The problem is that current battlefield sensors are deployed close to each other, are draining
batteries at a fast pace, are using protocols that result in late and coarse grain information, and
put the human operator ...
Help, Is There a Doctor in the Forum?: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of the Student Doctor Network Forums
(2008-08-15)
This thesis uses an applied methodology based on Bormann's (1972b) fantasy theme analysis to study the Internet communication in the Student Doctor Network (SDN) Forums. The Internet posts of several thousands of pre-medical ...
The Effectiveness of Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC) for Drilled Shaft Construction
(2008-08-15)
Due to increasing design requirements and the advancement in technology, deep foundations have become larger and more congested over the years. Reinforcement congestion required to resist high lateral forces, has lead to ...
Mechanistic Characterization of Resilient Moduli for Unbound Pavement Layer Materials
(2008-08-15)
In recent years, there has been an industry shift in pavement design methodology from purely empirically based methods (e.g. The AASHTO Guide for the Design of Pavement Structures) to design methods that combine both ...
A Benefit/Cost Analysis of Paved Shoulder Installation on High Priority Road Segments on Two-Lane Rural Highways in Alabama
(2008-08-15)
There are currently more than 40,000 deaths a year that occur as the result of motor vehicle traffic accidents, which have been ranked among the leading causes of death for Americans. In addition, a reported 55% of all ...
Methods for Scaling and Comparing Adsorption Datasets
(2008-08-15)
The presence of reactive groundwater contaminants are a great concern to many government agencies and private entities. The fate and transport of these contaminants is determined by their interactions with subsurface ...
Structural Performance of Self-Consolidating Concrete in AASHTO Type I Prestressed Girders
(2008-08-15)
As part of a larger investigation sponsored by the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) into the use of self-consolidating concrete (SCC) in bridge girders, this thesis documents a structural investigation of SCC ...
Creep Behavior of Self-Consolidating Concrete
(2008-08-15)
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is a highly flowable material that has the ability to improve the quality and durability of structures; however, much is still unknown about the hardened properties of this material, ...
Surface Plasmon Assisted Spectroscopies and Their Application in Trace Element Analysis, the Study of Biomolecular Interactions, and Chemical Sensing
(2008-08-15)
The main objective of this dissertation is to apply the fundamental principles of surface plasmon assisted spectroscopies such as surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy in the trace ...
Crossroads and Terminations in Transuranium Chemistry
(2008-08-15)
The focus of this dissertation is published results from my doctoral research at Auburn University, the scope of which is multifaceted. The first topic covers recent research devoted to developing a better understanding ...
Catalytic Mechanism of a Flavin-Dependent Alkanesulfonate Monoxygenase from Escherichia coli
(2008-08-15)
The flavin-dependent alkanesulfonate monooxygenase (SsuD) catalyzes the
oxidation of alkanesulfonate to aldehyde and sulfite in the presence of O2 and FMNH2
provided by an FMN reductase (SsuE). The goal of these studies ...