Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Counseling Native Americans: Clinician’s Perceptions of Counseling Competencies and Characteristics Essential to Working with Native American Clients
(2008-05-15)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the competencies of knowledge, skill and awareness perceived by mental health clinicians as essential in providing mental health services to Native Americans, Alaskan Natives ...
Assessment of Spirituality in Counseling: The Relationship Between Spirituality and Mental Health
(2008-05-15)
The purpose of this research study was to investigate the possible relationship between two spirituality variables (religious coping styles and spiritual well-being) and two psychological variables (anxiety and depression). ...
An Exploration of the Relationships Among Depression, Womanist and Racial Identity in African American Collegiate Women
(2008-05-15)
Available evidence suggests that women face an increased vulnerability to depression because of economic instability, isolation, and constricting forces associated with traditional beliefs about the roles of women (Graveline, ...
Dynamic Task Scheduling onto Heterogeneous Machines Using Support Vector Machine
(2008-05-15)
Distributed computing has been used to overcome the limitations of single computer use. However, the benefit of parallelizing computations may substantially reduce, if there is no well constructed mechanism to coordinate ...
Applications of GUI Usage Analysis
(2008-05-15)
In the realm of computer security, a masquerade attack is a form of attack wherein the attacker deceives the victim, causing them to believe they are someone other than who they are. One particularly dangerous form of ...
Neural Enhancement for Multiobjective Optimization
(2008-05-15)
In this work, a neural network approach is applied to multiobjective optimization problems in order to expand the set of optimal solutions. The network is trained using results obtained from existing evolutionary multiobjective ...
Telehealth Applications for Assessment and Treatment Procedures in Speech-Language Pathology: A Modified Narrative Review
(2008-05-15)
The use of telehealth in the field of speech language pathology has steadily increased in recent years and a number of researchers have published articles detailing research findings of the practice. This document is a ...
A Systematic Review of Assessment Protocols for the Discrimination between Mild Cognitive Impairment and Normal Cognitive Ability in the Aging Population
(2008-05-15)
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a concept that an aging individual has reached a point of cognitive decline that is not yet severe enough to be termed dementia, but is not considered normal. Subtle declines in cognitive ...
Automated Screening Tool for the Stability of Highway Bridges Subject to Scour
(2008-05-15)
Most bridges in Alabama that are over shallow bodies of water, including small creeks, wetlands, and marshes, were designed so that the bridge superstructure is supported on pile bents. During major flood events, excessive ...
Determination of Hurricane Surge Wave Forces on Bridge Superstructures and Design/retrofit Options to Mitigate or Sustain These Forces
(2008-05-15)
An increasingly common occurrence when strong hurricanes come ashore along the Gulf of Mexico is that the hurricane surge/surface waves lift and push the superstructures of coastline bridges from their support bents into ...
Evaluation of Soil Effects on Soil Erosion on Off-Road Vehicle Trails using WEPP
(2008-05-15)
Erosion and sediment loss from the use of off-road vehicles (ORV) is an escalating problem on national forest lands. The increasing number of ORV riders coupled with decreasing riding areas has caused the United States ...
Shear Strengths of End Regions of Prestressed Self-Consolidating Concrete Beams
(2008-05-15)
Understanding of the shear and bond performance of self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is vital to fully implement SCC usage in structures. State highway structures are a potential application for prestressed SCC systems ...
Physical and Numerical Modeling of Buoyant Groundwater Plumes
(2008-05-15)
In coastal states, the injection of treated, relatively fresh, wastewater into deep saline aquifers offers a disposal alternative to ocean outfalls and discharge directly into local waterways. The density contrast causes ...
Assesment of Equipment Performance Variables for Improved Management during Tillage Operations
(2008-05-15)
Deep tillage operations required to alleviate compaction layers in soils found especially in the southeast region of the United States remain to be one of the largest areas of energy and fuel expense for agricultural ...
Visualization of Chlorella Algal Cells at Bubble Surfaces
(2008-05-15)
This thesis examines flotation as a method for harvesting the green algae chlorella for its use as a feedstock for biofuel. Lipids extracted from algae can be converted to biodiesel for use as an alternative renewable ...
A Methodology for Integrating Process Design Elements with Laboratory Experiments
(2008-05-15)
This dissertation is the result of a joint project between industry and academia. The research was originally conceived as an industrial process development project based on the manufacture of industrial products from the ...
Alkaline Pretreatment of Biomass for Ethanol Production and Understanding the Factors Influencing the Cellulose Hydrolysis
(2008-05-15)
Alkaline pretreatments were investigated in connection with bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass into ethanol. Corn stover and two different batches of hybrid poplar (High Lignin (HL) and Low Lignin (LL)) were the ...
Use of oseltamivir in canine parvoviral enteritis
(2008-05-15)
Despite the availability of an effective vaccine and an acceptable survival rate with intensive medical management, canine parvovirus remains a significant cause of disease morbidity and mortality of young dogs. Financial ...
Growth Machine Meets Conservation: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Black Warrior and Cahaba River Watersheds
(2005-08-15)
Results from a stakeholder analysis of two central-Alabama watersheds—-the Black Warrior River watershed and Cahaba River watershed—-are presented in this thesis. Stakeholder opinions, perspectives, concerns, interests ...
Fractional Domination, Fractional Packings, and Fractional Isomorphisms of Graphs
(2005-05-15)
The fractional analogues of domination and packing in a graph form an interesting pair of dual linear programs, in that the feasible vectors for both LPs have interpretations as functions from the vertices of the graph to ...