Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Effects of Intersection Features on Wrong-Way Driving
(2018-03-22)
Wrong-way driving (WWD) crashes are much more likely to result in serious injuries or fatalities compared to all other crashes. The analysis performed in this dissertation shows, specifically, that the risk of a fatality ...
A Multi-Industry Assessment of the Influence of Dedicated and Transient Institutional Investors on Firms’ Product Recall Strategies and Actions
(2018-03-20)
Product recalls represent a major concern for organizations and their stakeholders because of costly financial, reputational, and legal damages that ensue from well publicized consumer safety crises. Organizations attempt ...
Antecedents of Financial Corruption in Organizations
(2018-03-19)
Implications of prior research suggest that social-control agents (e.g., boards of directors, external auditors) deter managers from financial reporting violations because of fraud and error. However, existing theory does ...
Comparative analysis of repetitive elements in fish genomes
(2018-03-15)
Repetitive elements make up significant proportions of genomes. However, their roles in evolution remain largely unknown. To provide insights into the roles of repetitive elements in fish genomes, this dissertation work ...
The Impact of a Structured Mentoring Program on New African-American Superintendents in Alabama
(2018-03-07)
This study investigated the structured mentoring program provided to novice superintendents by the SSA (School Superintendents of Alabama). This study examined new African American superintendents’ perceptions of the ...
Volatile and Sr Isotope Analysis of Melt Inclusions from the Bandelier Tuff, Valles Caldera, New Mexico: Insights into Pre-Eruptive Magma Conditions
(2018-03-07)
The Valles Caldera, located in northwest New Mexico, is one of three caldera volcanoes in the United States that is still active today. Calderas have the largest, most cataclysmic eruptions that result in large bowl-shaped ...
Diagnosis of feline infectious peritonitis
(2018-02-27)
Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a fatal immune-mediated disease, is caused by feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV), the high-virulence pathotype of Feline coronavirus (FCoV). It is believed that the FIPV is an ...
Three Essays on Fish Demand Analysis
(2018-02-21)
The first chapter is themed around the catfish dispute between Vietnamese pangasius and U.S catfish. Vietnamese pangasius frozen fillets were accused of having depressing effect on U.S catfish prices, which in turn leads ...
Microfluidic Circuit Designs for Nanoliter-Scale Flow Control and Highly Sensitive Quantitative Bioanalysis
(2018-02-14)
Within this dissertation, we have developed several new microfluidic circuit components that permit precise flow control at the nanoliter scale, and we have demonstrated their successful applications in either proof-of-concept ...
Enhancement and Defense of GPS Navigation Using Signal Processing Techniques
(2018-02-14)
In this thesis methods of spoo ng prevention are developed to detect, identify, and
mitigate an attack against both networked and standalone GPS receivers. A network based
detection algorithm is introduced which combines ...
Comparing triploid and diploid growth and mortality in farmed oysters, Crassostrea virginica, in the northern Gulf of Mexico
(2018-02-05)
The significance of the triploid advantage, in terms of growth and survival, varies across studies and environmental conditions. A meta-analysis was performed with 30 studies using chemically induced triploids and triploids ...
Performance of pecan (Carya illinoinensis) cultivars grown in Alabama
(2018-02-01)
Between 1996 and 1999, pecan cultivars were grafted to mature pecan trees at the E.V. Smith Research Center in Shorter, Alabama [E.V. Smith] and Gulf Coast Research and Extension Center in Foley, Alabama [Gulf Coast] in ...
Within-tree Fuel Quality of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda)
(2018-01-25)
There is a lack of knowledge in the whole tree’s fuel quality and how that quality might change within the tree or between size classes of trees. A sample set of 20 loblolly pines (5 trees within 4 diameter at breast ...
Effect of Ionic Strength on Cellulose Nanocrystal Dispersion Viscosity and Surface Modification of Thin Film
(2018-01-19)
The primary aim of this research was to explore the effect ionic strength on aqueous cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) dispersions with a range of concentrations spanning isotropic, biphasic, and liquid crystalline regimes. The ...
Assessing Occurrence and Habitat Characteristics of the Southeastern Pocket Gopher (Geomys pinetis)
(2018-01-10)
The southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis), a species of conservation concern in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, is of increasing conservation concern due to a range wide decline believed to be due to habitat loss and ...
Development of diets for soft-shell mangrove crabs (Scylla spp)
(2018-01-10)
The objective of this research was to develop practical formulated diets for soft-shell mangrove crab farming. Although the large-scale farming of soft-shell crab has been going for more than 20 years, little research has ...
Deep genetic divergence in the Deep South: An integrative approach to species delimitation reveals the paraphyletic nature of speciation in the trapdoor spider genus Cyclocosmia.
(2018-01-09)
Mygalomorph spiders house an incredible amount of cryptic genetic information, making them an excellent model for species delimitation. An integrative approach to species delimitation uses multiple lines of evidence to ...
Hydrogen Production Via Thermocatalytic Decomposition of Methane Using Carbon Supported Materials
(2018-01-09)
Convectional hydrogen (H2) production process such as steam methane reforming process (SMR) produces massive amounts of CO2 (i.e., 13.7 kg CO2 per kg H2 production). Because of the large amount of CO2 production during the ...
Development of Oligonucleotide, Small Molecule, and Protein Assays using Square-wave Voltammetry with Electrode-bound Nucleic Acid Nanostructures
(2018-01-09)
Biomarker analysis plays a decisive role in health care. This role is not only limited to disease diagnosis, but it also involves understanding of biological and physiological functions in order to monitor health, observe ...
Assessment and Synthetization of Extension Needs Encompassing the Economic and Ecological Impacts of Wild Pigs Among Young Pine Plantations
(2017-12-18)
The southeastern United States has recently seen its first increases in Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) acreage after more than four centuries of decline thanks to ongoing restoration efforts. Connecting existing ...