Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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An Experimental Examination Of Children's Sleep Quality And Improvements Resulting From A Parent Education Intervention
(2007-08-15)
The role of sleep in neurobehavioral functioning has been extensively studied. Empirical evidence has shown that functions of learning, memory, and emotional regulation can be influenced by sleep. A large number of children ...
An Investigation of Psychological Factors Associated with Religious Involvement
(2007-08-15)
Research suggests that a relationship exists between church attendance and mental health, although the parameters of the relationship are unclear. The present study has focused on the relationship between religious involvement ...
A Model for Building Trustworthiness in Online Stores
(2007-08-15)
More and more research is being done everyday in the world of e-commerce as consumers and merchants alike realize how powerful a selling tool the internet has become. Research shows that trust is key to the success of ...
Genetic and Evolutionary Protocols for Solving Distributed Asymmetric Constraint Satisfaction Problems
(2007-08-15)
Processor speed has been growing at an exponential rate over the past 50 years. Computers are getting smaller, cheaper and faster. Over the past 30 years, with the growth of the internet, new forms of decentralized ...
On Secure Media Streaming with Path Diversity in MANETs
(2007-08-15)
To provide reliable and secure media streaming is quite challenging in the
environment of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) in which wireless signals are
exposed in air and the quality of media streaming is degraded by ...
Questioning the Role of Evolution in Understanding Ourselves: A Critical Discourse Analytic Study of Scientific Articles in TIME Magazine
(2007-08-15)
This study is a critical analysis of language-use in scientific cover stories in TIME magazine over the course of the past 15 years. It focuses specifically on articles that apply concepts of evolution to aspects of human ...
Hong Kong New Wave Wuxia Pian Films and their Contribution to Hong Kong's National Agency During the 1980s and Early 1990s
(2007-08-15)
This thesis uses a national agency approach to analyze seminal Hong Kong New Wave wuxia pian films from directors Tsui Hark and Cheng Xiaodong. Martial arts films are a popular genre of films in Hong Kong, and wuxia pian ...
Immobilization of Mercury Using Iron Sulfide Minerals
(2007-08-15)
Mercury is a pervasive pollutant that has caused environmental and health problems throughout the world. Numerous industries including coal-fired power plants and chlor-alkali plants have discharged mercury into the ...
Evaluating Water Quality Impacts of Alternative Management Practices through Development of a BMP Database
(2007-08-15)
Agriculture and forestry are two important industries in the State of Alabama, and each is historically known to cause nonpoint source (NPS) pollution problems. Currently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) ...
Potential Negative Effects of Adding Phosphate-Based Fertilizers to Lead In Metal-Contaminated Soils
(2007-08-15)
The potential negative effects of adding phosphate amendments for lead (Pb) remediation in Pb-contaminated soils were studied using column and batch experiments. Soils contaminated with high levels of lead as well as ...
Evaluation of Erosion and Sediment Control Best Management Practices: Use of Silt Fence Tieback Systems and Anionic Polyacrylamide on Highway Construction Sites
(2007-08-15)
Every year the construction process exposes millions of acres of earth to the elements of wind, rain, and snow. This greatly increases the potential for erosion; therefore, the need for efficient erosion and sediment ...
The Utilization of Alternative Fuels in the Production of Portland Cement
(2007-08-15)
The production of portland cement converts many different raw materials into clinker, in the presence of temperatures on the order of 1,500 degrees Celsius. Historically, nonrenewable fossil fuels have been used to maintain ...
Development of a Biennial Review Procedure for Updating Liquidated Damage Rates Used in Construction Contracts
(2007-08-15)
This research effort sought to develop statistically justifiable means for developing a schedule of liquidated damage (LD) rates to be adopted by the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT). The procedure outlined ...
Synthesis and Characterization of New Lanthanide Chalcogenides
(2007-08-15)
A large number of new ternary and quaternary lanthanide chalcogenides have been synthesized through solid-state reactions of corresponding elements with the aid of alkali metal halides and Sb2Q3 (Q = S, Se) fluxes. Molten ...
Isoprenoid synthesis: New roles for iron sulfur clusters
(2007-08-15)
Spectroscopic investigations of the GcpE and LytB enzymes involved in the last two steps of the DOXP pathway for isoprene synthesis have been described. YfgB, one of the accessory proteins has also been characterized.
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Feathers at a fine scale
(2005-08-15)
In 1668, Antoine von Leeuwenhoek improved the crude microscopes that were being produced in Europe to better study small biological objects (Madigan et al. 1997). Although von Leeuwenhoek 's microscope revolutionized ...
An Investigation of Student Conjectures in Static and Dynamic Geometry Environments
(2005-05-15)
This study was designed to investigate the mathematical conjectures formed by high school geometry students when given identical geometric figures in two different types of geometric environments. Student conjectures ...
Comparison of Broiler Litter, Broiler Litter Ash with Reagent Grade Materials as Sources of Plant Nutrients
(2005-12-15)
Broiler chicken production is a major agricultural industry in the southeastern United States that produces large amounts of waste in the form of broiler litter (manure and bedding). Broiler litter is often used as a ...
A Molecular Approach to Determine the Origin of Fecal Bacteria in the Catoma Creek Watershed
(2005-12-15)
High concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria are the most common cause of surface-water impairment in Alabama. A 37 km segment of Catoma Creek in Montgomery Country has been included on Alabama 303(d) List of impaired ...
Characterization of Poultry Litter for Storage and Process Design
(2007-08-15)
Concern over the world’s dependence on nonrenewable fossil fuels as the primary source of energy is continually increasing. This has led researchers, industry officials and government agencies to begin to aggressively ...