Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Management of Ultra Narrow Row Cotton
(2006-08-15)
Ultra Narrow Row cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) production systems may have the potential to increase lint yields, decrease risks to losses from water stress, and allow the use of conservation systems which could contribute ...
Management and Landscape Influences on Soil Organic Carbon in the Southern Piedmont and Coastal Plain
(2006-08-15)
Southern Piedmont and Coastal Plain soils have undergone severe degradation, which is reflected in low soil organic carbon (SOC) contents. Restoration of SOC would improve soil quality and C sequestration, leading to a ...
Three Essays in Applied Economics: (1) School Funding and Student Performance in Alabama, (2) News and Volatility of Food Prices, and (3) The Impact of NAFTA on Labor in the US
(2006-08-15)
This dissertation consists of three essays in economics on education, time series econometrics, and international economics. The first essay attempts to evaluate the impact of state funding on student performance in Alabama ...
An Analysis of Strain and Substance Use Among Youth
(2006-05-15)
General Strain Theory has been used to test relationships between delinquency and the various types of strains felt by individuals. Although this theory is relatively new, it has been empirically tested in many studies. ...
Xi-Chi as Root Metaphor in Taiwanese Weddings
(2006-05-15)
Anthropologists have always been interested in implications of each societal unit in different cultures. However, they are also aware of drastic changes in these units in many cultures due to migration, technologies, gay ...
A Statewide Survey of Public Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors' Perceptions of Consumers With Autism
(2006-05-15)
Autism is a lifelong neurological developmental disability that results (to varying degrees) in social, communication, and behavior impairments. Autism is primarily diagnosed in childhood, therefore, a preponderance of ...
A Preliminary Study of Faculty and Graduates Perceptions of Vocational Evaluation Competencies in the Educational Curriculum
(2006-05-15)
This study investigated faculty and graduates' perceptions of vocational evaluation competencies in the curriculum. The study surveyed 55 faculty and practitioners in regards to 51 competencies found credible by the Newman ...
Relationship between Demographic Characteristics and Current Level of Job Satisfaction among North Carolina State Agency Rehabilitation Counselors
(2006-05-15)
This study examined factors perceived to contribute to job satisfaction (amount of pay, having good benefits, having job security, autonomy and other various factors that one may perceive as advantageous to go to work) and ...
Further Validation of a Parental Tolerance Measure
(2006-05-15)
Tolerance for child misbehavior is defined as the amount of annoyance experienced when a child misbehaves. This construct has received relatively little attention in the field of child psychology and most of this research ...
An Examination of Teachers’ and Students with Disabilities’ Perspectives and the Efficacy of Co-Teaching
(2006-05-15)
Co-teaching has been developed as an instructional approach to support students with disabilities in general education classrooms. The purpose of the present study was to identify (a) teachers’ and students’ perspectives ...
In Vitro Survival of Campylobacter jejuni And Campylobacter coli at Low pH
(2006-05-15)
A series of experiments were performed to investigate the effect of pre-exposure to acidic conditions of early exponential and stationary-phase cells of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli. The sublethal acid exposure to ...
Antisocial Personality Disorder vs. Psychopathy: An analysis of the literature
(2006-05-15)
Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy are disorders related by their
associations with criminal behavior. Antisocial Personality Disorder is a pervasive
pattern of disregard for the rights of others beginning ...
Permeation of Vapors Through Porous Membranes
(2006-05-15)
Three types of microporous membranes have been investigated regarding their porsity and permeability for vapors. Permeation tests were carried out on membranes made from polypropylene and mixed polyethylene and polypropylene ...
The Institutionalization of Military Base Closing
(2006-05-15)
The reason the theory of institutionalization is so important is that it provides the basis for optimum efficiency and effectiveness, two pillars of public administration, within government organizations. Administrative ...
A Narrative Look at the Regional Voice of Political Columnist Molly Ivins
(2005-08-15)
Mass communication research that focuses on analyzing the opinion writing of prominent columnists is nearly non-existent. The columns of Austin, Texas-based nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins are studied, looking ...
An Analysis of the Punctuated Equilibrium Model Applied to Congressional Approval of Passenger Facility Charges
(2006-05-15)
In 1972, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that airports could charge passengers using their facilities a Passenger Facility Charge (PFC), which was commonly called a “head tax.” The imposing of PFCs by airports ...
On-line Estimation of Implement Dynamics for Adaptive Steering Control of Farm Tractors
(2005-12-15)
An adaptive control technique for the control of a farm tractor during low levels of excitation and at low velocities is presented. Results of a set of system identification experiments are compared to previous tractor ...
Cooperative Robotics Using Wireless Communication
(2005-12-15)
Cooperative Robotics has to do with the use of multiple robotic agents assisting each other to perform a task that is either too difficult or impossible for one robot to perform alone. It is a multi-disciplinary field ...
Heterogeneity-Aware Approaches to Optimizing Performance of Computing and Communication Tasks
(2005-12-15)
As the domain of computing and communication systems grows, heterogeneity among computers and subnetworks employed for a task also increases. It is important to understand how heterogeneity affects performance of computing ...
iTech: An Interactive Technical Assistant
(2006-08-15)
This dissertation concentrates on the problem of designing and developing a conversational technical assistant. The main focus is to identify and address issues related to producing a system that allows for conversational ...