Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Disparities in the Appropriateness of Medication Use
(2018-11-27)
Background: Prior work has identified disparities in the quality and outcomes of health care across socioeconomic subgroups. Medication use may be subject to similar disparities.
Objectives: The objectives of this study ...
Design and Analysis of Woven Shape Memory Alloy Fabric
(2018-11-27)
Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) are smart materials that can memorize a shape and return to that shape after deformation upon the application of stress or heat. The most commonly used SMA is Nitinol (NiTi) which consists of ...
High Performance Conducting Polymer Coatings for Enhanced Electrochemical Properties
(2018-11-27)
The dissertation focuses on performance of conducting polymer as a coating that can used as anticorrosive agent, ion-exchange membrane and electrodes for energy storage devices. There are mainly two ways to synthesize ...
Transcriptomic analysis to identify candidate genes conferring gossypol tolerance in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum
(2018-11-27)
Fusarium oxysporium f.sp vasinfectum (Fov) is a soilborne filamentous fungus that causes vascular wilt on cotton. In response to pathogens such as Fov, cotton plants produce the phytoalexin gossypol as a defense mechanism. ...
Essays in International Trade: Cotton, Seafood, and Meat
(2018-11-26)
The dissertation consists of three essays as three chapters and it focuses on agricultural trade. Each essay studies a separate agricultural product and applies a different research method.
Chapter 1 applies a Muth-type ...
Smartphone Detection of Abnormal Equine Behavior
(2018-11-20)
This research was motivated by two key facts: There are over 9.2 million horses in the United States and over 64% of adults own a smartphone. Blending these two ideas led to the genesis of this research by asking the ...
Customized Instrumentation for Small-Volume Electrochemistry and Microfluidics used in Bioanalytical Applications
(2018-11-20)
Disease biomarker detection allows diagnosis of both chronic and acute conditions. Although current detection methods are adequate for several targets (e.g. enzymatic biosensors), the stability and limited number of targets ...
Data Driven Methods for Chemical Process and Product Synthesis and Design
(2018-11-20)
Data driven methods for chemical process and product synthesis have become integrated in all aspects of design. The responsibly of the academic community should be to provide users with guidance when managing the ...
Clinical Applications of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Canine Idiopathic Epilepsy Patients Receiving Levetiracetam
(2018-11-20)
There are currently no drugs approved for the treatment of canine idiopathic epilepsy and as a result extra-label use of human-approved medications is common. Older agents such as phenobarbital are effective in dogs, but ...
Three Essays on Agribusiness and Food Economics
(2018-11-16)
Energy security and food security are global challenges for people across the world. Research
examining land use for bioenergy crops is critical because it pertains to issues of food-fuel
competition. This dissertation ...
Characterization of Biofuels Produced from Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Algae, Its Subsequent Upgrading and Fractional Distillation
(2018-11-16)
Crude petroleum is the major source of transportation fuels in the world whose reserves are declining day by day. It has become imperative to look for an alternative that can either replace or substitute the current energy ...
Economic Value of Recreational Fishing on Walter F. George Reservoir (aka Lake Eufaula), Alabama and Georgia
(2018-11-16)
Recreational angling can be a major source of revenue for the local communities and States surrounding large reservoirs. This study estimated the angling effort and annual value of recreational angling at Walter F. George ...
Evaluation of Synergy between PGPR and Seaweed Extracts for growth promotion and Biocontrol of Rhizoctonia solani on soybean
(2018-11-16)
The necessity to increase crop yield is a constant pressure that farmers are faced with and chemical fertilizers and pesticides are the most effective method at this time. There are growing concerns towards the amount of ...
Use of Enzyme Supplementation in Practical Diets for Nile Tilapia Oreochromis niloticus
(2018-11-16)
Aquaculture industry is moving towards the use of plant based ingredients in tilapia diets, this due to decreased availability of fish meal worldwide. However, the replacement of fish meal by plant based ingredients can ...
Use of Source-Separated Human Urine to Enrich an Ultisol of the Southern Coastal Plain of the United States
(2018-11-16)
Source-separated human urine (SSHU), human urine intentionally diverted and kept separate from feces, has many environmental and agronomical uses. The principal objectives of this research were to investigate SSHU use in ...
The establishment of the Alabama Hereditary Cancer Cohort and genetic analysis
(2018-11-16)
Inherited genetic risk factors in known breast cancer (BC) susceptibility genes increase an individual’s overall lifetime risk of developing BC and are estimated to contribute towards approximately 35% of hereditary BC ...
Crop Efficacy and Weed Control Evaluation of a New Herbicide for Sensitive Herbaceous Ornamental Crops
(2018-11-16)
Preemergence herbicides are needed in the container nursery industry due to the high cost of hand weeding, but few preemergence herbicides are labeled for use on sensitive herbaceous ornamental crops. Currently, Snapshot® ...
A preliminary study on removing vanadium (V) from groundwater using Fe–Mn oxide nanoparticle with different stabilizers
(2018-11-16)
The Vanadium V5+ removal from water body and soil is an important issue for environmental protection and conservation. Nanoparticles as adsorption and the stabilizer against nanoaprticle aggregating have become the key ...
Slow Speed Orthogonal Machining of Polycrystalline FCC BCC HCP Alloys at Various Levels of Hardness using Gaseous Coolants
(2018-11-16)
A statistically designed slow speed orthogonal machining experiment was conducted to compare the effects of various metal-working gases upon the cutting process. Several metals with different crystalline structures and ...
Performance Evaluations of Sediment Barrier Practices and Unmanned Aircraft System Mapping Technologies
(2018-11-15)
Sediment barriers are sediment control practices typically installed along the perimeter of construction sites that are intended to intercept, capture, and temporarily contain sheet to shallow concentrated flows prior to ...