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Nature-Based and Engineered Strategies for the Remediation of Nutrients and Emerging Contaminants in Stormwater Runoff
(2025-07-30)
Stormwater runoff is a primary pathway for transporting pollutants into aquatic environments, including excess nutrients and pollutants of emerging concern (PECs) such as 6-PPD-quinone (6-PPDq), a toxic transformation ...
Navigating (In)security and Belonging: Refugee Experiences in Ferrara
(2025-04-03)
This dissertation explores the dynamics between refugees and cities through three papers that examine refugees’ precarious journey toward establishing a home and the challenges of accountability within the refugee reception ...
Navigating the Complexities of Disease Prevention, Alternative Treatments, and Multi-Drug Resistant Rhodococcus equi Mitigation Strategies
(2023-07-28)
The opportunistic pathogen, Rhodococcus equi, is a robust soil saprophyte present in the environment of horse-breeding farms and an important cause of pulmonary disease in foals at endemic farms. As an effort to prevent ...
Navigating the Read 180 Literacy Program with English Language Learners: A Teacher Inquiry Lens
(2025-04-30)
This research study used teacher inquiry to examine the ways one White, monolingual teacher navigated a prescribed literacy program with English Language Learners (ELLs). The purpose of this study was to explore ways in ...
Near infrared spectroscopy to assess the onset of increased metabolism and muscle tissue oxygenation during muscle contractions
(2012-11-15)
The aims of the present study were to 1) Determine whether there is a time delay (TD) in VO2 at the onset of contractions by comparing the NIRS responses during blood perfusion versus hemoglobin (Hb)-free buffer perfusion; ...
Near Infrared study of comet C/2022 E3(ZTF) using iSHELL spectrograph at NASA-IRTF
(2025-07-31)
We present a comprehensive analysis of the chemical composition of the Oort Cloud Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), in the near-infrared (near-IR) wavelength regime. Observations were conducted using the iSHELL high-resolution ...
Near-Field Shock Structure of Underexpanded Coflowing Jets and a Gas-Kinetic Framework for Multiscale Jet Flows
(2026-08-04)
A propulsive nozzle operating in flight during take-off is surrounded by a freestream flow, referred to as coflow. For a choked convergent nozzle exhausting an underexpanded jet in high subsonic flight, the literature lacks ...
Near-Surface Mounted, Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Strips for Negative-Moment Strengthening of Concrete Bridges—Design Methodology
(2009-05-12)
A bridge near Letohatchee, Alabama, was found to be deficient for certain types of truck loadings. Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) strips were selected to use in the strengthening scheme. Various models and code recommendations ...
Near-Surface-Mounted Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Strips for Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Girders
(2012-01-09)
The AL 97 bridge over I-65 near Letohatchee, Alabama, has been found to have deficient negative-moment capacity under current loading standards. A near-surface-mounted fiber-reinforced polymer (NSM FRP) strengthening system ...
NEED A NERD – Adapting PCSE (Practitioner Centered Software Engineering) to develop a Web Application
(2012-08-14)
Practitioner Centered Software Engineering (PCSE) is the most recent incarnation of Auburn University’s personal self-improvement process for helping software engineers control, manage, and improve the way they work. It ...
Needs Assessment and Practical Solutions for the Aquaponics Industry
(2021-04-06)
This research serves as a needs assessment for the aquaponic industry, encapsulating the challenges, knowledge levels, information resource usage, production practices, and production scales of hobbyists, producers, and ...
Negative adult romantic relationship experiences and working models of self and other
(2005-08-15)
Internalized working models of self and other are blueprints of relationships that affect how people think about themselves and others in social relationships. The model of self is associated with an underlying anxiety ...
Negative Family Food Experiences, Ethnic Identity, and Disordered Eating in African-American Women: Measuring Relevant Risk and Protective Factors
(2013-07-10)
Research with Caucasian women supports that negative family food (NFF) experiences may be a risk factor for disordered eating. To date, the examination of risk factors for disordered eating in African American (AA) women ...
Negative Water Imagery in the Rimas of Juan de Moncayo y Gurrea
(2011-08-02)
Juan de Moncayo y Gurrea’s (1614-1657) collection of poems, Rimas (1652), is replete with imagery, water being one of the most prevalent images. In the appearance of water throughout the poems, Moncayo consistently uses ...
Neighborhood regeneration - Through New Patterns of Urban Public Space
(2013-03-18)
Like many other decayed downtown areas in the U.S, the one in Montgomery, AL
has a pedestrian framework which was provided for walking at the beginning of its
settlement. However, most of the downtown neighborhood streets ...
Nematode Community Structure and Effects on Peanut Production Systems
(2010-08-03)
Understanding the total nematode community in agronomic systems and its impact on crop health may provide insight into more sustainable management strategies. In this study the focus was on management of the peanut root-knot ...
Neoliberal Rhetoric in Higher Education
(2016-11-09)
The volatile political and economic environment that surrounds US higher education at this time calls for a nuanced understanding of the greater issues impacting programs, missions, and governance in post-secondary ...
Neonatal Exposure to Estrogen and Estrogen Receptor Agonists and Antagonists: Effects on the Adult Endometrial Proteome and Morphoregulatory Gene Expression in the Neonatal Uterus
(2010-01-06)
Development of the porcine uterus begins prenatally but is completed postnatally. In mammals, the uterus provides an embryotrophic environment for conceptus development and integrates maternal and conceptus signals needed ...
"The Nerds Are in Charge Here...:" The Fan Convention Celebrity Encounter
(2018-04-23)
This paper is an ethnographic examination of the fan-celebrity dynamic at a particular fan convention, Wizard World New Orleans (2018). Although fan motivations for attending a convention may vary, one of the main draws ...
Nest survival, nesting behavior, and bioenergetics of redbreast sunfish on the Tallapoosa River, Alabama
(2008-12-15)
Adaptive management has been implemented in the Tallapoosa River, Alabama; one objective of the process is to determine how discharge and temperature affect redbreast sunfish reproductive success. Nesting male redbreast ...