Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Geochronology and structural geology of the Kjerringøy Peninsula, Nordland, Norway
(2014-10-30)
Field mapping, structural and petrographic analysis, ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, and chemical dating of minerals were employed to decipher the geologic history of the Salten area of north-central ...
A Study of the Implementation of Professional Learning Community Practices and Their Relationship to Teacher Practices and Student Learning Outcomes
(2014-10-30)
The present study was designed to examine the PLC elements identified by the leadership team at Angel Primary School. The three features of the school’s implemented innovation were common formative assessment, the school’s ...
Optimization of Enrichment Protocol for Campylobacter Detection
(2014-10-30)
Poultry meat represents the primary source of Campylobacter-associated foodborne illness. The current methods set forth by USDA-FSIS for qualitative detection of Campylobacter from poultry involve selective enrichment to ...
The Influence of the Probiotic PondToss™ on Growth Performance and Health of Channel Catfish, Ictalurus Punctatus, And Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis Niloticus
(2014-10-24)
In 2011, global aquaculture production of food fish comprising channel catfish and Nile tilapia reached 62.7 million tonnes with an estimated value of US$ 130 billion. As aquaculture technology intensifies to meet market ...
A Grounded Theory of Employed Professional Role Identity: One Pathway to Understanding Professional-Organizational Relationships
(2014-10-10)
An increasing amount of research has recently been devoted to the complex dynamics surrounding employed professionals, particularly from the standpoint of understanding the ways in which they identify with their roles in ...
Survival of LIsteria monocytogenes on Ready-to-Eat Roast Beef During Refrigeration Storage
(2014-10-10)
Listeria monocytogenes (LM) is a psychrotrophic bacterium with serious consequences to human health. Listeriosis causes an estimated 1600 sicknesses and 260 deaths annually in the United States with the primary source of ...
Evaluation of Beam Load Cell Use for Base Reaction Force Collision Detection on Industrial Robots
(2014-10-10)
This thesis evaluates the ability of four beam load cells placed under the base of an industrial robot to accurately estimate robot link parameters and detect collision. This setup can be a cheaper option than using ...
Privacy-Enabled Probabilistic Verification in Broadcast Authentication for Vehicular Networks
(2014-10-10)
Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) possess an extremely dynamic nature accompanying the high mobility feature. In VANETs, each vehicle sends out safety messages at regular intervals of 100-300 ms. Since the purpose of ...
Photovoltaic effect and quadratic electro-optic modulation in specific iodine-doped nonconjugated conductive polymers
(2014-10-10)
In this thesis, photovoltaic effect and quadratic electro-optic modulation in specific iodine-doped nonconjugated conductive polymers (NCP) have been reported. Exceptionally large quadratic electro-optic effects in specific ...
Computer-Aided Molecular Design with Multi-Dimensional Characterization
(2014-10-10)
In this work, a methodology for the solution of computer-aided molecular design (CAMD) problems with property models utilizing descriptors of varying dimensionality has been presented. The problems encountered within this ...
Robust Gain-Scheduled Observer Design with Application to Vehicle State Estimation
(2014-10-10)
This dissertation develops an application of the state-of-the-art convex optimization algorithms to the vehicle state estimation problem. The main challenge in this field is that the time-varying uncertain parameters and ...
Perceptions of Service Quality in a Mixed Audience Environment
(2014-10-10)
The gay population has become an increasingly in-demand consumer group in the United
States (Iwata, 2006). The rapidly growing awareness of the gay consumer evidences an
understanding that the preferences and purchasing ...
Client Perception of Therapist Body Size: Effect on Evaluations
(2014-10-06)
The present study sought to determine whether there are differences in the competency ratings assigned to counselors of varying body sizes and whether the relationship between these variables is moderated by the client’s ...
Antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-hyperglycemic properties of Tridax procumbens in lowering cardio-metabolic risk factors
(2014-10-06)
Tridax procumbens L. has traditionally been used in India and Africa for the management of diabetes and inflammation. Phytochemical characterization has revealed presence of carotenoids, saponins, tannins, phenolics and ...
Comparison of Chinese and International Harmonic, Interharmonic and Flicker Standards
(2014-09-11)
Power quality is one of the essential problems related to daily life with growing quantities of power electronic equipment invading our homes, offices and factories. Standards for power quality, including harmonics, ...
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Population Analysis as Applied to Leflunomide and Cyclosporine Therapy in Dogs with Immune-mediated Diseases
(2014-09-10)
Two immunomodulator drugs, leflunomide (teriflunomide is its active metabolite) and cyclosporine, are often monitored in veterinary patients in order to support the design of dosing regimens when used to treat immune-mediated ...
Three Essays in Hedonic Housing Price
(2014-08-20)
Chapter 2 attempts to quantify the impacts of green space, by using the hedonic price analysis of the relationship between property values and the green space amenities around the selected single family houses in Delaware ...
Industrialization, Deindustrialization and Re-Industrialization in a Southern U.S. State: Alabama from 1970-2010
(2014-08-20)
Over the last fifty years, the U.S. has transitioned through three periods of manufacturing, (a) “The Industrial Period” from 1945-1979, (b) “Deindustrialization of America from 1980-2000, and (c) “Re-industrialization of ...
Paleogeographic Reconstruction of Part of Eastern Gondwanaland:Petrofacies and Detrital Geochronologic Study of Permo-Carboniferousgondwanan Sequences of India and Bangladesh
(2014-08-19)
This study has been carried out focusing on petrofacies and geochronology of Permo-Carboniferous Gondwanan sequences of Barapukuria, Dighipara, and Khalaspir coal basins in the Bengal Basin and Jharia Basin in the Eastern ...
Experimental Analysis and Modeling of Biomass Gasification using a Downdraft Gasifier
(2014-08-19)
The call for the use of renewable energy is an urgent one, for not the future but the present. Concerns over depletion of fossil fuels and their negative impact on the global climate have led to much research in this sector. ...