Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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How Do Consumers Evaluate Mobile Apps? The Role of App Name Suffix, App Information Quality, and Consumer Characteristics
(2016-08-10)
The great penetration of mobile devices in the consumer market has allowed consumers to perform specific tasks by installing and using mobile apps. Despite the great potential of mobile apps, no published work has paid ...
Distortions in bipeak interval timing by chronic methylmercury exposure are attenuated by the L-type Ca++ channel blocker isradipine: Effects of relative and absolute target duration and duration of exposure.
(2016-08-10)
Nigralstriatal dopamine neurons have a unique, Cav1.3, L-type Ca2+ channel that exhibits rhythmic oscillations in Ca2+, conferring pacemaking activities. This may make them vulnerable to Parkinson’s Disease (PD) or ...
Immune and gustatory roles of the channel catfish skin as revealed by comparative transcriptomic analyses
(2016-08-09)
Fish scales are physical barriers protecting them from various external stresses, in particular, from pathogen infections. However, vast majority of catfishes are evolutionarily scaleless. How scaleless fish respond to ...
Economic Viability of Floating In-Pond Raceway Systems for Commercial Hybrid Catfish Production
(2016-08-09)
An in-pond raceway (IPRS) production trial was conducted in Dallas County, AL from January to November 2015. The goal of this work was to see how this new technology would behave in a commercial catfish farm setting and ...
A Conditional Reasoning Test for Risk and Incident Propensity
(2016-08-09)
Occupational injuries and fatalities persist in large numbers in the United States. Injuries and fatalities that occur at work have a high social and financial cost to employers. Moreover, human error is often to blame ...
40Ar/39Ar Ages of Feldspar and Muscovite from the Source and Detritus of the French Broad River, North Carolina
(2016-08-08)
As the westernmost metamorphic belt of the Appalachians, the Blue Ridge has been the subject of many geochronology studies. The Blue Ridge experienced high-grade deformation and peak metamorphism during Taconic orogeny, ...
A Model Driven Engineering Framework for Simulation Experiment Management
(2016-08-08)
Simulation experiments are a convenient and useful means to gain insight into
the operation of scientific models. They are conducted to address specific goals
and evaluate specific questions about the model. These ...
Monocyclic Components for Evaluating Disease Resistance to Cercospora arachidicola and Cercosporidium personatum in Peanut
(2016-08-08)
Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an economically important crop that is produced in the United States and throughout the world. However, there are two major fungal pathogens of cultivated peanuts, and they each ...
An Evaluation of Supplemental Activities Before and After a Field Trip to a Public Garden: Effects on Student Knowledge and Behavior
(2016-08-05)
The purpose of the study was to evaluate if students exhibit better knowledge comprehension and retention when exposed to activities before and after attending a garden field trip. Students’ behavior was evaluated on the ...
An Examination of the Relationship between Students with Learning Disabilities and Self-Advocacy/Self-Determination as a Predictor of Post-Secondary School Success
(2016-08-05)
This study examined the relationship between background (race, gender, and Socioeconomic Status SES) of students with Learning Disabilities (LDs) and self-advocacy/self-determination attributes on the impact of their ...
Learning Styles of Older Adults in Educational Settings
(2016-08-05)
Abstract
Learning Styles of Older Adults in Educational Settings, is an investigation into the learning styles of the baby boomer generation who are now entering retirement. With typical retirement at 65 years of age ...
Stakeholders Perspectives of Factors that Facilitate and Hinder Student Success in High Achieving, High Poverty, High Minority Rural High Schools in Alabama
(2016-08-05)
This study investigated high performing, high poverty, and high minority rural high schools in Alabama. Three types of schools, fringe, distant and remote formed the sample. The study examined key stakeholders’ perceptions ...
A 4-Year Longitudinal Study of Children’s Competent Problem Solving in the Context of Positive Parenting and Peer Relationships
(2016-08-05)
The ability to effectively, positively, and productively cope with social problems is considered one of the most important developmental tasks for children’s emotional and psychosocial adjustment. However there is a paucity ...
Development of Standard Data for Donning and Doffing Personal Protective Equipment
(2016-08-05)
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is specialized clothing or equipment worn to minimize exposure to a variety of occupational hazards. It has been estimated that 20 million U.S. workers wear some form of PPE. How much ...
Design of a Guidance Controller Using Network Topology
(2016-08-05)
In dynamic environments, the control of a formation of unmanned vehicles remains a significant control problem on both network and guidance dynamics levels. Currently, formations of unmanned vehicles require multiple ground ...
Chemosensation in the Common Bed Bug, Cimex lectularius
(2016-08-05)
As an ectoparasite on human beings and other animals, the common bed bug, Cimex lectulatius, has been resurgent worldwide and is of concern by both governments and general public for their biting nuisance and potential ...
Electron dynamics in inner-shell photo-ionization, dielectronic recombination and electron impact excitation
(2016-08-05)
This dissertation includes three main topics: Dynamics of outgoing inner shell photoionized electrons
and Auger decay electrons,
an investigation into the recently proposed mechanism of
below threshold dielectronic ...
Improving the homogeneity of superparamagnetic nanoparticles and a study of their physicochemical properties
(2016-08-05)
Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) have enormous potential in biomedical applications, including drug delivery, hyperthermia, and magnetic resonance imaging. However, the broad size distribution of SPIONs ...
40Ar/39Ar age variations among cogenetic feldspars from the Benson Mines, New York
(2016-08-05)
The alkali feldspar group constitutes one the most common mineral groups of Earth’s crust. The 40Ar/39Ar method for dating potassium feldspars has proven to be a powerful analytical tool for evaluating low-temperature ...
Preliminary Assessment of the Petroleum Source-Rock Potential of Upper Eocene Kopili Shale, Bengal Basin, Bangladesh
(2016-08-05)
The upper Eocene Kopili Shale occurs throughout the northern end of the Bengal Basin, including on the northwestern Indian Platform and in deeper basin areas (e.g., Sylhet Trough) of northeastern Bangladesh. The Kopili-equivalent ...