Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Examining Management's Impact on Institutional Performance in Higher Education
(2019-12-09)
Extensively studied in several public policy contexts, O'Toole and Meier's (OTM) (1999) framework modeling public management's impact has shown that managerial, structural, and environmental influences matter for performance. ...
Study of the Use of Employee Perception to Assess Lean Adoption Based on the Toyota Production System and Toyota Way Model in the Chinese Automobile Industry
(2019-12-09)
In the 1980’s, the world began to notice the Toyota Motor Corporation as a leader in the automotive manufacturing industry. The Toyota Production System has been researched and emulated for its business success in cost ...
Measuring Reliable Elastic Modulus on Brittle Materials by Indentation
(2019-12-09)
Mechanical properties such as elastic modulus can be tested and acquired by using various methods for materials. Nanoindentation is a reliable and robust tool to extract material properties in recent years. It is challenging ...
Investigation of Probe-Induced Dust Voids in a Weakly Magnetized Dusty Plasma
(2019-12-06)
Dust voids, or regions free of dust grains surrounded by dusty plasmas, have been observed in
a wide array of experimental configurations, from microgravity systems, to 3-dimensional dust
clouds, to 2-dimensional monolayers. ...
Improving Dispersion Energy Calculations
(2019-12-06)
Various approaches were investigated and developed to improve dispersion energy
calculations. The highest levels of ab initio electronic structure theory available were
applied to study nine characteristic points on the ...
Adiponectin alters hippocampal synaptic function: a mechanism for amelioration of synaptic deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
(2019-12-06)
The hormone adiponectin, the most abundant adipokine, is an important regulator of metabolic function, and recent evidence suggests that adiponectin plays an essential role in the cross-talk between adipose tissue and brain ...
Enhancing the robustness of Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4 for butanol production through metabolic engineering and cell immobilization strategies
(2019-12-06)
n-Butanol (butanol hereafter) has many advantages over ethanol to be used as a biofuel. However, one of the significant drawbacks in bacterial production of butanol is the low productivity and titer due to the low butanol ...
Sleep and Educational Environment: How do Children in Public/Private School, and Homeschool Settings Differ in Sleep, Subjective Well-Being, and Emotional Intelligence?
(2019-12-06)
The study explored sleep, subjective well-being, and emotional intelligence among children ages 8 - 12 enrolled in either public/private school or homeschool. Previous research indicated educational environment relates to ...
Moisture Effects and Viscoelasticity in Polymers Used for Microelectronic Packaging
(2019-12-06)
In the microelectronics packaging industry, polymer based materials are used widely. Reliable, consistent and comprehensive material property data are required for mechanical design, process optimization, and reliability ...
Movement, Migration, and the Material History of the AIDS Closet
(2019-12-06)
This thesis explores the choices that people living with HIV and AIDS in the United States made to embody various identity constructions as a strategy for survival. While ‘coming out’ is often seen as a social goal, for ...
The Outcomes of an Adapted Tennis Program in Children and Adults with Developmental Disabilities
(2019-12-06)
Individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities (e.g., Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, Intellectual Disability, etc.) exhibit difficulties performing motor skills and show lower physical activities ...
Repurposing FDA Approved Drugs to Antagonize Pregnane X Receptor Mediated Chemoresistance
(2019-12-05)
Human pregnane X receptor (hPXR) is an orphan nuclear receptor that regulates key drug metabolism enzymes (DMEs) and drug-transport proteins (DTPs), including Cytochrome p450 3A4 (CYP3A4) and multidrug resistance protein ...
Probabilistic schemes for semi-linear nonlocal diffusion equations with application in predicting runaway electron dynamics
(2019-12-05)
In this work, we focus on developing and analyzing novel probabilistic numerical approaches for solving several types of semi-linear nonlocal diffusion equations in both unbounded and bounded high dimensional spaces. First, ...
Transatlantic Nationalisms and Parallel Performances: Afterlife Texts of the Revolutionary Era
(2019-12-05)
This dissertation traces the rise to public prominence of Major John André, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, and Mary Robinson during the American Revolution, and it examines the ways in which they each inspire an afterlife ...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Inland Waters in the Conterminous United States: a Process-based Modeling Study
(2019-12-05)
The growing awareness of global warming promotes great interest in investigating the magnitude, spatial, and temporal patterns of the major greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, and N2O) emissions in the earth systems. The Greenhous ...
Qualifying the Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity and Corresponding Infiltration Processes
(2019-12-05)
Many engineering systems such as the hydraulic barriers and infiltration practices are designed based on the understanding of water infiltration through the subsurface. Among the soil hydraulic properties, the saturated ...
Early Characterization and Performance of a Flexible Thick Lift Pavement
(2019-12-05)
The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) has recently been experimenting with thick lift paving to increase construction speed and facilitate faster access to traffic. However, there has been limited research ...
Generalized LASSO Problem with Equality and Inequality Constraints Using ADMM
(2019-12-05)
With the development of technology, the volume of the data has gradually become much larger and attracting much more attention in data science. Statisticians nowadays need to consider the case when the dataset is extremely ...
Leptin's Potential Interactions with Counter-Regulatory Hormones and Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling in Type 1 Diabetic Rats
(2019-12-05)
Diabetes is a global epidemic and the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. One of the characteristics of diabetes is hyperglycemia. Untreated diabetes can lead to ketoacidosis, which may lead to coma or ...
The Effects of Comorbid Asthma and Long-term Use of Corticosteroids on Clinical Outcomes of Prostate Cancer Patients
(2019-12-05)
Objectives: This study 1) examined burden of asthma among prostate cancer patients, asthma and prostate cancer treatment patterns, and factors associated with concurrent asthma, 2) assessed the associations between comorbid ...