Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Effect of Weight in the Non-Throwing Hand on the Baseball Pitching Motion
(2019-07-02)
Baseball is a sport which includes various sequential motions that utilize the entire kinetic chain. When considering the baseball pitching motion, the sports medicine community often refers to the kinetic chain as the ...
Association analysis of intraspecific ESC resistance QTL and identification of landscape of promoters in catfish on the genome-wide level
(2019-07-02)
Catfish is the most important aquaculture species, accounting for over 50% of aquaculture production in the US. However, disease problems threaten the survival of the catfish industry. Bacterial diseases are a major issue ...
Three Essays on Corporate Finance and Institutional Investors
(2019-07-02)
In chapter 1, we investigate the effects of activist investors on firms’ mergers and acquisitions. Using a comprehensive data set, we find that 138 out of 1,301 acquirers have activist investors comprising both hedge fund ...
Towards Unclonable System Design for Resource-Constrained Application
(2019-07-01)
As we forge ahead to achieve the targeted connectivity among devices in this Internet of Things (IoT) era, reliability and security of individual device have become a matter of paramount importance. Cloned electronic ...
Comparative Genomic Analysis and Evaluation of Control Strategies for Hypervirulent Aeromonas hydrophila in Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
(2019-07-01)
This dissertation is a reflection of the insight gained through the genetic analyses of a hypervirulent pathotype of the Gram-negative pathogen, Aeromonas hydrophila, (vAh) in the context of enzymatic, challenge, growth, ...
Irrigation and Water Use Reporting in the Tennessee Valley Region of Alabama
(2019-06-27)
Irrigation is the largest consumptive use of water in the United States. Accurate monitoring of water use for irrigation is critical for a state to sustainably manage its water resources. Federal programs provide valuable ...
Braking Forces in Highway Bridge Substructures
(2019-06-24)
Under the Load-and-Resistance Factor Design Specification, the longitudinal braking force that must be designed for was increased when compared to a bridge designed according to the previous code, the Standard Specification. ...
Amylin and pramlintide modulate γ-secretase activity and APP processing in lipid rafts
(2019-06-24)
The misfolded amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide is generated in higher amounts in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), making this peptide a clinical hallmark for AD. A major site to produce Aβ is the lipid rafts, which are integral part of the ...
Pre-Service Teachers’ Use of Instructional Strategies when Comprehending and Instructing using Contextually Challenging Text
(2019-06-20)
This qualitative case study explores the processes that occurred when pre-service teachers in an undergraduate elementary education literacy methods course were asked to interact with contextually challenging texts in a ...
Biomimetic Antenna Design for an Atmospheric Probe
(2019-06-18)
This dissertation discusses the design and implementation of a biomimetic, flexible antenna system for an airborne atmospheric probe. The antenna is designed for an airborne sensor system known as the GlobalSense eMote. ...
Understanding of Road-Bioretention Strip Design and Improvement from Hydraulic Perspective
(2019-06-17)
This study is to understand and quantify the hydraulic and hydrological performance of road bioretention facilities as well as the basic problems in urban drainage and road bioretention design. An open-source two-dimensional ...
An Examination of the Influence of Guided Practice on Overhand Throwing Competence in Preschool Children in a Mastery Motivational Climate
(2019-06-17)
It is widely accepted that fundamental motor skills (FMS) are considered the building blocks for successful participation in sports and physical activity for children, adolescents, and adults (Haywood & Getchell, 2014), ...
On The Number of Cylinders Touching a Sphere
(2019-06-14)
The kissing number problem is a packing problem in geometry where one has to fi nd
the maximum number of congruent non-overlapping copies of a given body so that they can
be arranged each touching a common copy.
The ...
Using pre-deployment planning for maintaining network connectivity in MANET models
(2019-06-13)
Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) allow communication with little or no network infrastructure. Assuming no infrastructure is available, user nodes are defined as service demanding and agent nodes as service providing, ...
Development and uncertainty characterization of 3D particle location from refocused and perspective shifted plenoptic images
(2019-06-13)
In recent years, the development of non-invasive 3D diagnostics has become a significant
area of research due to the wide variety of available techniques and the multitude of engineering
problems that benefit from these ...
On the study of atomic and molecular processes affecting Astrophysical Plasma using high-resolution optical and UV spectroscopy
(2019-06-13)
Rydberg Enhanced Recombination (RER), a recombination process related to dielectronic
recombination in which electrons are captured into energy states below the ionization
threshold, has been theoretically predicted to ...
Healing the hearts of bereaved parents: Impact of legacy artwork on grief in parents whose children died of cancer
(2019-06-13)
Approximately 12% of youth with cancer do not survive, representing a devastating loss for parents. Strategies to improve parent coping have been understudied, and no studies have examined the impact of legacy-making ...
Examining Characteristics and Barriers on the Adoption of School Gardens among Agricultural Education Teachers
(2019-06-13)
The overall purpose of this study was to understand the influence of selected
factors on the adoption of school gardens by Agricultural Science teachers in Alabama.
This study looked at how the relationships between ...
Three Essays on Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
(2019-06-12)
In the first chapter, we evaluate the effects of climate change on Vietnam’s rice market. Results suggest that under a low-emission scenario and without interventions, rice production would drop by as much as 18% by 2030 ...
Functional Genomics Investigation of Siroheme and Heme d1 Biosynthesis
(2019-06-12)
Many bacteria and archaea grow under anaerobic or microaerophilic conditions. In order for these organisms to survive under these conditions, many utilize nitrate or nitrite as terminal electron acceptors for anaerobic ...