Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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A Survey of Alabama School Principals’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of the National Board Certification Process
(2006-05-15)
The National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is a voluntary documentation and demonstration process of an accomplished teacher’s excellence in his or her discipline measured against rigorous standards and ...
A Reexamination of the Structure of Scientific Revolution and Application: The Rise of Mathematical Economics
(2006-05-15)
I propose to reexamine the works of History of Science writers, especially Thomas S. Kuhn. Kuhn's theory is susceptible to contradiction when applied to itself. Is ""The Structure of Scientific Revolution"" nothing more ...
Third Country Effects of the European Union on the Monetary Model of Exchange Rate News
(2006-05-15)
This thesis investigates third country effects in the monetary model of exchange rate news. The goal of this thesis is to determine whether the country chosen as the third country makes a difference. US variables as the ...
Writing Conference Interaction and Scaffolding: The Possible and the Actual
(2006-05-15)
Writing conferences during the freshman composition course are characterized by role-based, dyadic interactions between a teacher and his or her students that have implications for students’ development in academic writing. ...
Differences between high and low level preservice teachers' instructional conversations with elementary school students: A grounded theory study
(2006-05-15)
This grounded theory study attempted to explain differences observed in preservice teachers’ instructional conversations with elementary school students using an instructional framework and explicit conversational scaffold. ...
The Relationship Between Training and Retention in a Volunteer Organization
(2006-05-15)
The purpose of the study was to provide information that would lead to a better understanding of retention and thereby improve the retention rate of Civil Air Patrol cadets. The research problem of the study was to identify ...
Acculturation and Achievement in English among Chinese Immigrant Adolescents: A Comparison of Two Populations Which Vary in the Density of Speakers of Chinese
(2006-05-15)
The present study was conducted for the purposes of addressing how differential L1-speaking population density affects the acculturation status of two cohorts of ethnic Chinese adolescent respondents with ages at testing ...
The Use of Media by African American Women to Acquire Mental Health Knowledge
(2006-05-15)
The study investigated the use of media by African American women to acquire knowledge to “help with life problems.” Participants self-reported their use of television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet in ...
Location-Scale Bivariate Weibull Distributions For Bivariate
(2005-12-15)
Much research has been conducted over the last thirty years in the development
and characterization of bivariate survival distributions. Typically, the multivariate
distribution is derived assuming that the marginal ...
An Improvement on Maximum Residual Energy Routing of Sensor Networks
(2005-08-15)
When Maximum Residual Energy Routing is adopted in actual battery-powered sensor networks, how to further improve the energy consumption in this protocol and prolong the system lifetime becomes a critical problem. In sensor ...
Field Studies and Monitoring of Mosquito Populations (Diptera:Culicidae) in Urban Envrionments
(2005-12-15)
In 2004 and 2005 field work was conducted to survey and monitor larval and adult mosquito populations in urban habitats with, primary interest in Aedes albopictus, the Asian tiger mosquito.
In 2004 and 2005 a state-wide ...
The potential effects of red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) on arthropod abundance and Cucumber mosaic virus
(2005-12-15)
Mutualisms involving ants and honeydew-producing insects such as aphids, scales, and whiteflies may dramatically affect the population dynamics of these herbivorous insects. Furthermore, changes in the population size of ...
Phenology, Natural Enemies, and Management of Lepidopteran Pests of Cole Crops in Alabama
(2006-05-15)
This thesis first looks at the seasonal abundance of the three key pests of cole crops, Plutella xylostella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), diamondback moth; Trichoplusia ni (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), cabbage ...
Consequences of Mutualisms Between Aphids and an Invasive Ant to Arthropod Communities and Their Host Plants
(2006-05-15)
Mutualisms between ants and honeydew-producing Hemipteran insects (e.g., aphids) are abundant and widespread in arthropod food webs, yet their ecological consequences are very poorly known. Previous work in several ...
'Not so much written as dreamed': Quaker Dream-work in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly
(2006-05-15)
The religious element of Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker (1799), and, specifically, the novel’s relationship with Quakerism, is often misunderstood, understated, or simply ignored by ...
Hands's Own Tamar: Sources, Coding, and Psychology
(2006-05-15)
Elizabeth Hands published by subscription in 1789 her lone volume of poetry, The Death of Amnon. The title poem of this volume is a biblical verse paraphrase, a genre Hands used to validate herself as a poet as well as ...
Multigenre Rhetoric: Where Genre Theory and Feminist Composition Theory Meet
(2006-05-15)
My purpose is to argue that multigenre rhetoric could be used as a pedagogical supplement to expository writing, which is taught as the norm in freshman composition. The history and development of genre theory and feminist ...
Usurping Authors: A Case Study of Authority Displacement in Richard II
(2006-05-15)
When a text is published, the author loses authority and the authorial message can be easily displaced and replaced by various interpreters. Playwrights have the difficulty of adding directors, actors, and audiences who ...
Long Strange Trip: Mapping Popular Culture in Composition
(2006-05-15)
Popular culture has been a continuing research and teaching interest for compositionists since the 1950s, but the focus, tone, and quality of popular culture scholarship and pedagogy have been far from consistent. In the ...
Design, Testing, and Simulation of a Low-Cost, Light-Weight, Low-g IMU for the Navigation of an Indoor Blimp
(2006-05-15)
In this thesis we develop an IMU for the purpose of navigating an autonomous indoor blimp. Due to the unique system properties of an indoor blimp, the developed IMU is light-weight and is capable of measuring slow rotational ...