Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Alternate Futures: British Speculative Fiction and the Politics of Progress Between the Huxleys
(2022-11-29)
Alternate Futures examines the development of speculative fiction in British literature alongside the rise of the two-cultures debate in the late nineteenth century. When Matthew Arnold and Thomas Huxley debated the most ...
Non-Enzymatic Paper-based Urea Sensor with Hierarchical NiO Catalysts
(2022-11-29)
Urea has attracted attention because of its various potential applications, such as hydrogen production, fuel cells, fertilizers, and electrochemical sensors. Furthermore, as an end-product of human metabolism, urea is ...
Prescribed Fire Effects on Soil Properties and Nutrient Dynamics in a Longleaf Pine Forested Wetland Watershed
(2022-11-29)
In a geographically isolated wetland (GIW) area, located in Georgia, longleaf pine forests have been experiencing frequent rotational prescribed burning for more than 10 years. In general, because wetlands provide ecosystem ...
Immune-Associated Chronic Inflammation: Biological Responses Between Endothelial Cells and T Cells Following Treatment with Thymus vulgaris and Eugenia caryophyllata Essential Oils
(2022-11-29)
Chronic inflammation is associated with autoimmune disorders and chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Prolonged interaction between circulating leukocytes (CD4+ T cells) and microvasculature ...
An Urban Forest Inventory at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama
(2022-11-29)
Redstone Arsenal (RSA) is a United States Army Post in Huntsville, Alabama. To promote RSA’s management goals, an urban forest inventory was conducted to make good land management decisions in urban areas and maintain ...
Role of muscle satellite cells in the Wooden Breast broiler chicken meat quality defect
(2022-11-29)
The poultry industry has made improvements in nutrition, genetic selection, and management to improve broiler chicken growth performance and breast meat yield. However, these observed increases in performance have been ...
A new methodology to measure internal particle size in pellets and to quantify the degree of grinding during pelleting
(2022-11-29)
Grinding and pelleting are the major costs during feed production. Previous research has shown that ingredients’ particle size can influence poultry performance, organ development, and nutrient digestibility. Particle ...
Optimizing in vitro culture conditions for broiler chicken Pectoralis major muscle satellite cells
(2022-11-29)
There is growing interest in understanding how muscle-specific stem cells, or satellite cells (SC), contribute to post-hatch skeletal muscle growth of broiler chickens and their potential role in the development of breast ...
MACHINE LEARNING BASED MINERAL CHARACTERIZATION FROM PORE TO CORE SCALE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GEOCHEMICAL REACTIVITY
(2022-11-29)
Geological formations have great potential for large-scale carbon sequestration to reduce the net rate of increase in atmospheric CO2. In these systems, CO2 is injected into formations and mineralized through geochemical ...
Design of Sustainable Materials by the Transformation of Biorefinery Derived Waste Biomass into Biobased Polymeric Resins: Synthesis, Characterization, Applications
(2022-11-29)
Polymeric resins (PRs) are one of the most versatile materials, with a wide range of application fields. However, the synthesis of these polymeric resins predominantly relies on the precursor derived from the petroleum ...
The Effects of Lean Manufacturing on Occupational Safety and Ergonomics
(2022-11-29)
The association between Lean Manufacturing (LM) and occupational safety and ergonomics (S/E) is a widely disputed topic in scientific literature. This study attempts to add clarity to this controversial relationship through ...
Do structural and compositional shifts in mixed pine-oak forests alter fuels and fire behavior?
(2022-11-29)
The lack of fire disturbances throughout the 20th century has contributed to forest
structural and compositional shifts, resulting in the encroachment of shade-tolerant and often
fire-sensitive hardwood species in ...
Study of interactions and stability of pyrethroids and cellulose allomorphs for controlled release applications
(2022-11-29)
The study of controlled release materials is a growing field for applications like agricultural, biomedical, and insecticidal fibers. Cellulose, because of its abundance and ability to be modified and regenerated into many ...
A New Elections Federalism: Dual Election Administration Systems
(2022-11-29)
Dual election administration systems have a substantial history in the United States with differing characteristics over time and place. A dual election administration system creates categories of voters who are only ...
Blood Stress Hormonal Indicators and Meat Quality Attributes of Broiler Chickens Processed Using Electrical and Controlled Atmosphere Stunning Systems
(2022-11-28)
Increased consumer concern for animal welfare has led some poultry producers to alter their stunning methods from electrical stunning (ES) to controlled atmosphere stunning (CAS). However, there is little peer-reviewed ...
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: Yield Loss of Brassica carinata in the Southeastern United States and Effect of Fungicides and Light Wavelength.
(2022-11-28)
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a major pathogen of over 400 plant species around the world and is considered to be the biggest threat to the production of Brassica carinata in the southeastern United States. Brassica carinata ...
WELDED WIRE SHEAR REINFORCEMENT FOR PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGE GIRDERS
(2022-11-28)
Welded wire reinforcement (WWR) is a steel product that is prefabricated into welded
sheets. While this product is seeing use as shear reinforcement in precast concrete
bridge girders for some states, other states, such ...
Genetic Assessment of Alabama's Redeye Bass (Micropterus coosae)
(2022-11-28)
The southeastern United States is a hotspot for aquatic biodiversity that is under constant threat of extirpation and extinction due to human disturbance. Molecular markers are relatively new tools that are applicable to ...
Evaluating alternatives for the implementation of Curve Number in SWMM for an urbanized watershed
(2022-11-27)
Modeling hydrological abstraction, particularly infiltration, in urbanized areas is a complex task. Without field validation data, researchers and engineers often rely on readily available methodologies on semi-empirical ...
Evaluation of various antimicrobial agents to reduce the load of Salmonella and Campylobacter in poultry processing
(2022-11-27)
Poultry meat and products have been highly associated with outbreaks related to Salmonella and Campylobacter, and different interventions have been used for the reduction of these pathogens, with more emphasis on the ...