Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Application of Modularity Principles in Designing of Functional Regenerating Open-ended Toys Alongside with Child Development
(2018-11-27)
The toy industry is massive. This benefits children a lot with varieties of creations sprouting every year. This hurts the environment due to their poor quality and usability. As an industrial designer, designing the product ...
Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) Cultivars Adaption Concerning Drought and Heat Tolerance Enabling the Expansion of Geographic Adaptation to include Alabama with Disease Resistance to Fungi and Nematodes as well as Herbicide Injury
(2018-11-27)
Lotus corniculatus L., birdsfoot trefoil (BFT), is a common flowering plant in the Fabaceae family, native to grasslands in temperate Eurasia and North Africa. BFT is a perennial herbaceous plant, similar in appearance ...
Application of MEMS Inertial Sensors in Sensing Passive Eye Response as a Surrogate for Brain Response to Head Acceleration and Rotation for On-field Objective Assessment of Concussion
(2018-11-27)
The passive eye response (PER) may act as a surrogate for the brain response to head acceleration during a concussion causing impact. A novel eye movement sensor designed in this dissertation is used to verify this hypothesis ...
Impact of Computer Assisted Learning/Computer Assisted Instruction on Academic Achievement in the Area of Fourth Grade Reading and Mathematics
(2018-11-27)
Today in the field of education, as a result of the accountability movement, public school administrators, teachers, students, and parents are faced with continuous pressure to raise standardized test scores. Test ...
Biofilm formation, virulence attenuation and comparative genomics of the fish pathogen Flavobacterium columnare
(2018-11-27)
Flavobacterium columnare is an important bacterial fish pathogen that causes great economic losses in aquaculture. In this dissertation I aimed at characterizing part of its life cycle including the transition between ...
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 ...