Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Dietary mercury and stress responses: how lifetime exposure to mercury alters stress responses and their relationship to spatial cognition
(2019-04-25)
Methylmercury is a widespread environmental contaminant that negatively impacts both humans and wildlife at sublethal levels. While environmental sources of methylmercury exist, the primary sources are anthropogenic, and ...
Impact of Rest and Secondary Intervention on the Development of and Recovery from Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Human and Rat ModelsImpact of Rest and Secondary Intervention on the Development of and Recovery from Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Human and Rat Models
(2019-04-25)
Experts from different fields study the development of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) from different perspectives: epidemiologists identify potential MSD risk factors, traditional ergonomists analyze motions, and medical ...
An Investigation of Seventh Grade Students’ Attitudes Towards Animals in a Middle School Science Classroom in Rural Alabama
(2019-04-24)
This dissertation examines the different types of attitudes toward animals held by 7th grade students in one middle school in the rural southeastern part United States. This study was conducted using seven-point Likert ...
Stratigraphy, Ore Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Genesis of Gold-Bearing Quartz Veins at the Hog Mountain Tonalite, Southwestern Appalachians, USA
(2019-04-24)
Hog Mountain of the southern Appalachians is a gold deposit in the eastern Blue Ridge of Alabama. The mineralized quartz veins found there have an average Au grade of 0.14 oz/t (maximum: 2.4 oz/t Au) and occur within a ...
“Being sexless, wilt thou be”: Nineteenth-Century British Poetry and the Challenge of the Androgynous Mind
(2019-04-24)
This dissertation occasions a recognition and discussion of androgyny by taking on the challenge of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s nineteenth-century claim that “a great mind must be androgynous.” Drawing on Judith Butler’s ...
PFogSim: A Simulator for Evaluating Dynamic and Layered Fog Computing Environments
(2019-04-24)
The first phase of 5G specification, Release-15, will be completed by April 2019, and our world will truly enter the 5G era. With the advent of 5G, the data transmission cost is expected to reduce significantly. Thus, it ...
Ultrasonographic Examination of Cows Affected with Ovarian Follicular Dysplasia
(2019-04-24)
A study commissioned by Florida Cattleman’s Association in 2007, 2016 and 2017 found ovarian follicular dysplasia (OFD) to be the major abnormal ovarian condition linked to subfertility and infertility in Florida’s beef ...
Reliability of Doped SnAgCu Solder Alloys with Various Surface Finishes Under Realistic Service Conditions
(2019-04-24)
The electronic packaging industry has moved from eutectic Sn-Pb solder materials to near-eutectic SnAgCu (SAC) solder materials in the past decade because of the increasing awareness of health and safety concerns associated ...
An Approach for Researching the Relationship Between Physical Design Characteristics Through Eye Tracking and Kansei Evaluation of Products
(2019-04-24)
Kansei engineering is widely used to explore the relationship between design elements and consumer Kansei, however, the methodology of conducting Kansei research and developing new design is still needed to be completed.
This ...
Comparison of Inflammatory Cell Populations in Young and Mature Beef Bulls; A Preliminary Study
(2019-04-24)
Bovine venereal diseases, such as Tritrichomonas foetus (T. foetus) infection, can be economically devastating to the cattle industry. Decreases in calf crops due to abortion and infertility, premature culling, and loss ...
Guidelines for Designing Inclusive Wearable Devices for the Aging Population
(2019-04-24)
Wearable technology has rapidly evolved during the past decades and become trendy nowadays. There is a steady increase in wearable devices sales every year; however, unfriendly user experience and high abandonment rates ...
Acoustic telemetry of shark movements and residency near artificial habitats in the northern Gulf of Mexico
(2019-04-24)
In the present study, acoustic telemetry was used to monitor the movements and residency of seven Sandbar Sharks Carcharhinus plumbeus, five Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, four Bull Sharks Carcharhinus ...
Existence of TP(d,k,n)
(2019-04-24)
Given a square grid of land, which has n rows and n columns. It is required to plant trees on the land so that there are k trees in every row and column and there is at most 1 tree in any small square part of the land with ...
Synthesis and Electrochemical Performance of SnOx/Ti3C2Tx Anodes for Li-ion Batteries
(2019-04-24)
Modern society has a higher requirement and need for high-capacity and stable energy storage and conversion devices. 2D materials are a group of emerging materials that have shown advantages in energy, catalysis, and ...
Pour Decisions: The Relationship Between Intoxication, Free-Pour Accuracy, and Subjective Impairment
(2019-04-23)
Reducing risk associated with college student drinking is a major public health concern. The free-pour assessment has the potential to inform interventions aimed at reducing risks associated with college student drinking. ...
Development of Analytical Systems for Detection of Biomarkers and Neurotoxic Exposure
(2019-04-23)
Exposure to the chemical and biological compounds in environment poses a serious health threat to humanity. Timely awareness of the chemicals in environment plays a vital role in exposure assessment, damage control, and ...
Gender and Rural Vitality: Empowerment through Women’s Community Groups
(2019-04-23)
Rural women are often the main supporters of their families and have been involved in improving the quality of life for households and communities. Sustainable rural development and poverty reduction is linked to empowering ...
Gene Editing and Hormone Therapy to Control Reproduction in Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus
(2019-04-23)
Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and their hybrids account for more than 60% of aquaculture production in the US. The catfish industry is being severely challenged during recent years as a result of higher operating ...
State of the Practice of Long Distance and Intercity Travel Modeling in US Metropolitan Planning Organizations and State Departments of Transportation
(2019-04-23)
Long distance and intercity travel represent a small percentage of total trips in the U.S., yet they represent a large percentage of total VMT. Long distance trips represent an important travel market with over $317 billion ...
El Cine Quinqui: Transgresión en las masculinidades retratadas en el cine postfranquista de la Transición
(2019-04-23)
Spanish transition to democracy (1975-present) accelerated the process of searching for new identities and film narratives depicted what had been censored and repressed during the dictatorship. This master’s thesis is ...