Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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An Examination of Factors Influencing Differences in Academic Performance among Active Duty Military Students and Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Scholarship Students in a University Setting
(2006-08-15)
Naval Science Departments at universities across the country have two groups of students: Active duty and non-active duty students. These two types of students seem to have parity with regard to requisite academic ability, ...
Prediction of Nursing Student Performance in First Year Coursework
(2006-08-15)
The nursing shortage affects nurses in clinical practice and those who educate students in nursing education programs. An influx of students seeking admission into nursing programs in combination with the shortage of nursing ...
An Empirical and Existential Examination of Narcissistic Functioning
(2006-08-15)
The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) and its factors have been shown to simultaneously predict both psychological adjustment and lack thereof. Results from a host of empirical studies suggest that although one ...
Assessment of Health-Promoting Factors in College Students' Lifestyles
(2006-08-15)
The purposes of this study were designed to determine the degree to which college students engage in health-promoting lifestyles, identify differences in health-promoting lifestyles between undergraduate and graduate ...
The Efficacy of No-Suicide Contracts with Clients in Counseling on an Outpatient Basis
(2006-08-15)
Clients at two outpatient facilities who self-identified as having expressed suicidal thoughts or engaged in suicidal behaviors during some point in their counseling treatment were invited to participate in a survey to ...
Body Image Perceptions and Clothing Behavior Issues for Adolescent Daughters and Their Mothers
(2006-08-15)
The purpose of this study was to explore tween girls (ages 9-14) and their mothers in relation to clothing behavior issues, body image, and body satisfaction. The purposive sample consisted of 41 mother-daughter pairs ...
Sensory Enabling Technology Acceptance Model (SE-TAM): The Usage of Sensory Enabling Technologies for Online Apparel Shopping
(2006-08-15)
This study investigates online shoppers’ adoption of visual sensory enabling technologies showing that these sensory experience enablers provide a dual role in enhancing online apparel shopping by (a) reducing perceived ...
Investigation of EtherYatri’s Compatibility with IPV6
(2006-08-15)
Internet Protocol version six (IPv6) enjoys only a scant existence today. Many universities, companies and other organizations are building protocol stacks, hardware and applications to support IPv6, awaiting its full-fledged ...
Performance Evaluation of Biased Queue Management
(2006-08-15)
Congestion is an important issue which researchers focus on in the
Transmission Control Protocol (\textit{TCP}) network environment. To
keep the stability of the whole network, congestion control
algorithms have been ...
CSSE Document Management System: Implementation and Usability Evaluation
(2006-08-15)
The design and implementation of an application like CSSE Document Management System (CSSEDMS) involves many considerations. Among all these considerations, usability is the key for success. “If you could build a system ...
SimBuilder Science: An Approach to Enhancing Reading Literacy Through Visual Programming
(2006-08-15)
Reading literacy has been a major problem for American students for the past several years. Educators have struggled to find a solution to this problem that will help students while at the same time maintain their interest ...
Fagidaboudit: The American Dream and Italian-American Gangster Movies
(2005-08-15)
This thesis answers the question, how have both aspects of the American Dream myth been presented in the gangster films and how has the American Dream in gangster films changed in recent years? As Italians immigrated to ...
Optimization of Hull Shapes for Water-skiing and Wakeboarding
(2005-12-15)
This study attempts to define an optimal hull shape for a boat towing either a skier or a wakeboarder. Two methods for determining a free surface deformation (both hull and wake shape) given an applied pressure disturbance ...
Transcript Analysis and Teacher Study Group: Improving Comprehension Instruction
(2005-12-15)
The purpose of this study was to determine if teachers’ participation in a teacher study group and transcript analysis would have an effect on the reading comprehension scores of their students. The 6 teacher participants ...
The Effect of Risk Level and Group Size on Student Phonemic Awareness Achievement
(2005-12-15)
The purpose of the study was to determine if small group phonemic awareness intervention results in equal or greater phonemic awareness achievement than one-to-one tutoring dependent on a students risk level for reading ...
Effect of Acacia Gum on Bare Root Nursery Crops and in Cutting Propagation
(2006-08-15)
The effects of acacia gum on bare root ‘Karl Sax forsythia’ (Forsythia × intermedia ‘Karl Sax’) and ‘Merrill’ magnolia (Magnolia stellata ‘Merrill’) were examined, along with the effects of acacia gum on ‘Merlot’ Virginia ...
Determining a Maturity Index and the Effect of Chilling Requirments, and Cytokinin Applications on Three New Kiwi Cultivars
(2006-08-15)
The kiwi industry in Alabama is small but has potential for strong growth. Alabama’s climate shares many similarities to several large production regions around the world, including China and New Zealand. But in order for ...
Liverwort Control in Container-grown Nursery Crops
(2006-08-15)
The objective of this study was to evaluate preemergence and postemergence liverwort control in container-grown nursery crops.
In Chapter II, experiments were to evaluate effectiveness of selected chemicals for postemergence ...
Echoes That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1956 - 1983
(2006-08-15)
Using a contextual, inside-outsider perspective, this dissertation addresses a gap in the history of American military space technology. Shortly after the inception of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, ...
Pre-service teachers and student responses to a culturally relevant curriculum
(2006-08-15)
Teacher candidates may not be receiving the appropriate training needed to succeed in today's culturally diverse schools. This research placed teacher candidates into a lab setting consisting of culturally diverse students ...