Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Bad Rap: Examining the Role of African American Males in Popular Music
(2010-12-02)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the claims made by popular media and public figures regarding rap music and its potential to adversely socialize Americans—particularly young adults and children—and show that ...
Balancing the Benefits and Challenges of AI: Understanding its Impact on Employee Work Engagement and Burnout
(2025-07-15)
This thesis explored how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts work engagement and
burnout, using the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model to examine AI as both a job resource
and demand. Key AI factors included Perceived ...
Ballistic Limit Velocity For Continuous Fiber Polymeric Composite Materials and Polymers Through Experimental and Numerical Methods
(2015-05-06)
Composite materials are often subject to harsh operating environments which may include impact from errant projectiles of various geometries traveling at specific velocities and trajectories. Experimentalists seek to ...
Band Engineering of Perovskite Ferrite Epitaxial Thin Films for OER Catalysis
(2022-07-28)
Reliable energy from renewable sources via oxidation of water requires an efficient electrocatalyst. The high cost, low abundance, and poor stability of the current noble metal based electrocatalyst are a primary obstacle ...
Bandwidth-Aware Routing Tree (BART) for Underwater 3-D Geographic Routing
(2008-08-15)
The limited bandwidth and power resources in underwater sensor networks have made geographic routing a favorite choice. While many detouring strategies in geographic routing do not work for 3-D underwater network topology, ...
Bank Expansion, Fintech Disruption, and Capital Market Choices: Understanding Financial Institutions and Investment Decisions
(2025-05-06)
In the first study, we examine the impact of geographic expansion of intrastate Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) on their funding costs following changes in intrastate branching restrictions in the U.S. Unlike intrastate BHCs, ...
Banking Efficiency Analysis for Two Special Years during Recent Financial Crisis
(2016-12-09)
This paper covered almost thirty thousand groups of commercial banks’ quarterly data in 2007 and 2011 to analyze the influence of 2008 financial crisis on banking performance, and investigate if there is any difference of ...
The Baptist Frontier: Isaac McCoy, Indian Missions, and the Making of a Denomination
(2017-10-30)
This dissertation explains how the missions to Native American tribes run by Isaac McCoy in the Old Northwest (Indiana and Michigan Territory) shaped the development of the Baptist denomination in the early American republic ...
Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War
(2008-12-15)
Historians thus far have largely portrayed Baptists in the South as uniformly supportive of the Confederacy and Civil War, other than in regional pockets which exhibited widespread Union sympathy. This study focuses on ...
Bargain Theater: A Dramaturgical Analysis of a Flea Market
(2008-08-15)
More than five thousand flea markets are conducted each year in the United States alone
(Karch, Andriola and Berman 2002). Of those five thousand plus, little is known of their
visitors, their vendors, their management, ...
Barriers Facing Undergraduate Atmospheric Science Education and Southeast US Oyster Farmers
(2025-05-07)
The goal of this dissertation research is to provide understanding to the growing body of literature related to barriers in both undergraduate atmospheric science education and Southeast US oyster farming industry through ...
Barriers Obtaining Alternative Certification in Online Career and Technical Teacher Education Programs in Alabama
(2015-07-17)
This research study sought to identify perceived barriers in online career and technical alternative certification and specialty area certification in the state of Alabama. The study was further conducted to determine why ...
Barriers to Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture Practices in the South: Change Agents Perpectives
(2005-12-15)
Current conventional agriculture systems of production lead to environmental degradation, economic problems, and even social problems. The efficacy of sustainable agriculture systems in guaranteeing economic, environmental, ...
Barriers, Motivators, and Perceived Abilities Related to Completion of the Doctoral Degree
(2016-01-06)
Student retention has been a well-researched topic in higher education for decades (Austin, Cameron, Glass, Kosko, Marsh, Abdelmagid, & Burge, 2009; Ericson & Gardner, 1992; Lau, 2002; Pang, 2009; Thompson, 2007; Wetzel, ...
Batty Landscapes: Rethinking Urban Pests.
(2015-05-04)
As a species we humans dominate the lands in which we live. Because of this we have started to lose respect for other species and often quickly dismiss them. This thesis looks to address this issue and change the way in ...
Bayesian Inference for Longitudinal Data with Envelope Models
(2025-12-12)
Longitudinal studies play a crucial role in biomedical research, such as monitoring chronic
diseases like osteoarthritis. Repeated measures over time enable the tracking of disease pro-
gression and treatment effects. ...
Beam Collimation and Intensity Uniformization of Laser Diode Array Using Lenslets
(2013-01-09)
With the advent of the laser, its applications have been extended to many areas including material processing, such as welding, cutting and drilling; and medical procedures, such as eye surgery and cosmetic skin treatments; ...
"Beauty and the Booze": Prohibition-Era Female Bootleggers and the Making of the Modern Woman
(2026-04-27)
While prohibition endures in memory as a period of partying, bootleggers, and
gangsters, seldom do we exclusively examine the women who engaged in these activities. By
focusing on female bootleggers, this investigation ...
Becoming Acquainted with the Faces of Words: Fostering Vocabulary Development in Kindergarten Students through Storybook Readings
(2006-12-15)
The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of storybook readings with explicit instruction of target words on the vocabulary acquisition of primary grade students. The secondary focus of the research sought to ...
Beef cattle performance, forage productivity and quality from a mixed small-grain/ryegrass and warm-season annuals grazing system
(2010-04-05)
A two-phase grazing experiment was conducted to evaluate the feasibility and productivity of a cool-season/warm-season annuals grazing system for growing-finishing beef cattle. Eighteen Angus × Simmental steers grazed ...