Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Longitudinal Studies of Escherichia coli, Campylobacter jejuni, and Salmonella Ssp. in Broiler Chickens Using Automated Ribotyping
(2005-12-15)
The prevalence, distribution and characteristics of Escherichia coli, Campylobacter jejuni, and Salmonella spp. through an integrated broiler chicken operation from the day of hatch through processing were examined. Two ...
Using Genetic Programming to Quantify the Effectiveness of Similar User Cluster History as a Personalized Search Metric
(2005-12-15)
Online search is the service that pushes the Internet. One must only look at the success of a company such as Google, an idea from a 1998 graduate research paper that has in 2005 not only become a wildly successful company, ...
Rising Health Care Costs and the Two Price Market: The Impact of Third-Party Payers
(2007-12-15)
Martin Feldstein wrote several important papers in the 1970s concerning the reciprocal growth of health care inflation and insurance levels. This paper attempts to develop a new theoretical model based on a two-price ...
The Ethanol Market: An Econometric Inquiry into the Market for E85
(2007-12-15)
This study analyzes the ethanol market in order to determine if E85 can replace gasoline as the United States primary fuel. After presenting the history of the ethanol market, past literature on ethanol, and legislation ...
Gains in Achievement with Access to Three Types of Scripted Activities on Elaboration in a Freshman Composition Class
(2007-12-15)
This study investigated associations between pair and group scripted revision activities and the outcome variables of holistic scores and elaboration criterion scores on a high-stakes community college writing exam. The ...
English Seventeenth Century Colonial Expansion as a Form of Rent-Seeking
(2007-12-15)
The central purpose of this dissertation is to apply a rent-seeking analysis to seventeenth century colonial policies in England. The dissertation is an extension of the rent-seeking model which Robert Ekelund and Robert ...
An Exploratory Study of the Possible Alignment Between the Beliefs and Teaching Practices of Secondary Mathematics Pre-Service Teachers and Their Cooperating Teachers and Its Effects on the Pre-service Teachers' Growth Towards Becoming Reform Based Mathematics Teachers
(2007-12-15)
For the mathematics reform movement to continue, cooperating teachers as well as pre-service teachers must be well equipped to carry out the Standards set forth by The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). ...
A Study of the Use of Wordmapping in Ninth-Grade Remedial English Classes
(2007-12-15)
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of using wordmapping with struggling learners between the ages of 13 and 15. An experimental group (the wordmapping group) and a treated control group (the vocabulary ...
Perceived Competence and Attitudes of Counseling Psychology Graduate Students Regarding People with Disabilities
(2007-12-15)
Historically, people with disabilities (PWD) have been stigmatized and discriminated against by society as a whole. People with disabilities constitute the largest minority group within the United States. Hence, counseling ...
Dynamic Clustering Protocol based on Relative Speed in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks For Intelligent Vehicles
(2007-12-15)
A knowledge of real time traffic density on different roads has many applications such as real time navigation for driver, designing efficient vehicular routing protocol and building fully autonomous vehicles. Forming ...
An Exploratory Study of Men’s Interpretation and Choices of Male Looks
(2007-12-15)
Men’s shifting self-identities and masculinities result in changes in men’s clothing and shopping behavior. In fashion diffusion process, the fashion opinion leader plays a crucial role in approving or disapproving any new ...
Demographics of Adware and Spyware
(2007-12-15)
The World Wide Web is the most popular use of the Internet. Information can be accessed from this network of web pages. Unknown to users, web pages can access their personal information and, sometimes, also provide information ...
A Flexible Model for Multi-agent Based Simulation of Software Development Process
(2007-12-15)
Inadequate use of project management techniques in software development can be traced to the lack of efficient education strategies for managers. Software development processes are complex and therefore it is hard to predict ...
Symbiotic Adaptive Multisimulation
(2007-12-15)
Systems characterized by non-linear interactions among diverse agents often exhibit emergent behavior that may be very different from what the initial conditions of these systems would suggest. Traditional simulation ...
Automated Source Code Measurement Environment For Software Quality
(2007-12-15)
Measuring how well software component can be reused and maintained helps programmers not only write reusable and maintainable software, but also identifies reusable or maintainable components. We develop an automated ...
Finite Element Modeling of Skewed Reinforced Concrete Bridges and the Bond-slip Relationship Between Concrete and Reinforcement
(2007-12-15)
A bridge deck on US 331 near Montgomery, AL developed transverse and longitudinal cracking a few months after construction was completed. A refined finite element model of this continuous, skewed, composite bridge was ...
Relationships Between Laboratory Measured Characteristics of HMA and Field Compactability
(2007-12-15)
Compactability of HMA mixtures is often used to describe how easy or difficult a mixture is to compact on a roadway. Several asphalt researchers have proposed laboratory measured parameters of mixtures and/or their ...
A Sensitivity Analysis of the Mobility-Related Benefits of the Alabama Service and Assistance Patrol
(2007-12-15)
The Alabama Service and Assistance Patrol (ASAP) was developed by the Alabama Department of Transportation in an attempt to reduce non-recurring congestion in the Birmingham region of Alabama. This Freeway Service Patrol ...
Analytical Solutions for Sequentially Coupled Multi-Species Reactive Transport Problems
(2007-12-15)
Multi-species reactive transport equations coupled through sorption and sequential first-order reactions are commonly used to model sites contaminated with radioactive wastes, chlorinated solvents and nitrogenous species. ...
Evaluation of the Use of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement in Stone Matrix Asphalt Mixtures
(2007-12-15)
Mixtures that contain reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) can typically perform as well or better than conventional HMA mixes. However, use of RAP has generally not been extended to stone matrix asphalt (SMA) production. This ...