Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Life and Death: Examining the Power Dynamic Between Black Women, Physicians, and Society Through Narratives
(2019-05-08)
The current research examines the maternal narratives of four Black women who struggled during childbirth due to negligence by medical staff. Historically, Black women have struggled to receive equitable care for reasons ...
Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Simulations in the Perdido and Wolf Bay System
(2019-05-05)
The widespread fish kills of Gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus) were reported beginning on 7/31/2015 in the Cotton Bayou, Orange Beach City, Alabama. Although some possible reasons for the fish kill event were provided ...
Simultaneous Measurement of Perfusion and T2* in Calf Muscle at 7T with Dynamic Exercise using Radial Acquisition.
(2019-05-04)
Impairments in oxygen delivery and consumption can lead to muscle weakness and physical disability. Reduced blood flow, O2 delivery and consumption to the working muscle are likely to cause decline in muscle ability to ...
Relations Among Motives, Negative Urgency, and Protective Skills in College Drinkers
(2019-05-02)
Heavy alcohol use continues to be a common problem among the college student population, and numerous negative consequences can be attributed to student drinking. Several factors, including drinking motives and impulsivity, ...
A Manifesto of Impossibilities? Workers, Politics, and the History of the Luxembourg Commission, February-May 1848
(2019-05-02)
The Luxembourg Commission was the response of the provisional government of France during the Revolution of 1848 to demands by workers of Paris that the government do something to help alleviate the harsh conditions under ...
Continuous TCP Connection to the Internet on Fast-changing Mobile Ad-hoc Network
(2019-05-01)
As more and more sensors are being used in all industries, especially the Internet of Things, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) are also becoming more popular as good ways to organize wireless devices in the same area. Since ...
Effects of Planting Density, Prescribed Fire, and Other Factors on Stand Structure and Wildlife Habitat in Longleaf Pine Stands in Alabama
(2019-05-01)
Though the distribution of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests has decreased throughout the past century, increasing awareness of the economic and ecological benefits of longleaf silviculture has stimulated restoration ...
Army Reserve Officer Training Summer Camp: Examining the Relationship between Leader Development Activities and Leadership Evaluations
(2019-05-01)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leader development activities and leadership evaluations of cadets attending U.S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Cadet Summer Training Advanced ...
Vital Grace: Bodies and Belief in American Fiction
(2019-04-29)
This dissertation challenges a persistent association of religious thought with an emphasis on transcendence that denies the
importance of bodies. The authors whose work I explore—Flannery O’Connor, John Updike,
Andre ...
Three Essays on Market Efficiency and Corporate Payout Policy
(2019-04-29)
Chapters 1 and 2 of this dissertation discuss a special form of regulation, soft intervention, in China. Securities Laws in China are administered by the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). The CSRC has great ...
Big Data Analytics and Its Applications in Soft Sensor for Smart Manufacturing
(2019-04-29)
This dissertation presents research performed to develop industrial internet of things enabled testbed and statistics pattern analysis feature-based modelling approach for smart manufacturing.
Advent of internet completely ...
A continuous 100 thousand-year stalagmite δ18O record from the Yucatan Peninsula: implications for Caribbean hydroclimate on orbital and millennial timescales
(2019-04-29)
I present a new stalagmite δ18O record, named Katún, collected from Río Secreto Natural Reserve in the Yucatan Peninsula (YP) that spans the interval between 198 kyr to 320 kyr before present (BP), thus offering the oldest ...
Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability in rotating tokamak plasmas
(2019-04-29)
Tokamak plasmas display finite macroscopic rotation in standard machine operation. Yet, the theoretical understanding of stationary states is lacking as compared to static configurations. In this work, we investigate the ...
Radiation Hardness Study of AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs)
(2019-04-29)
Gallium nitride (GaN) has unique inherent properties such as ionic-covalent bond, large direct bandgap, excellent thermal stability, high threshold displacement energy and higher break-down field. Also, the relatively low ...
Statistical and Visual Analysis of Solder Joint Reliability in extreme Environments
(2019-04-26)
Over the last several decades, surface mount technology has advanced and become the most profitable industry worldwide. Cell phones or some type of hand held technology have become prominent throughout multiple age groups. ...
Three Essays on Financial Institutions and Markets
(2019-04-26)
In chapter 1, given the financial troubles facing state pension plans in recent years, we examine determinants of the ratio of assets to liabilities, or the funded ratio, based on data for 153 pension plans from 2001 to ...
Disruption in Digital Fabrication: Exploring FDM 3D Printing and 3D CAD for a Wearable Apparel Product
(2019-04-26)
Three-dimensional printing (3D printing) technology has been applied in several fields due to its advantages of customization, complex shape manipulation, and energy and material sustainability. Apparel designers and ...
Geology of the Alexander City 7.5’ Quadrangle, Alabama and U-Pb Zircon Dating of the Elkahatchee Quartz Diorite, southernmost Appalachian orogen
(2019-04-26)
Geological mapping of the Alexander City Quadrangle in the eastern Blue Ridge of the Southern Appalachian orogen in Alabama reveals newly recognized units and supports multi-phase magmatism within the 880 km2 Elkahatchee ...
Formulation of Phytochemicals in Lipid-Based Nanoparticles for Melanoma Treatment
(2019-04-25)
Melanoma is one of the most common and aggressive types of cancer with high mortality. Current treatment is ineffective in preventing relapse of cancer. It also suffers from serious systemic side effects because of the ...
A Survey of In-service Music Teacher Preparedness for Teaching Non-Traditional Music Courses and Ensembles in Secondary-level Schools
(2019-04-25)
Despite efforts to diversify music curriculum in secondary schools, research indicates that music education in the United States (U.S.) primarily focuses on western classical music, overemphasizes performance, and fails ...