Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Assessing Barriers and Increasing Use of Immunization Information Systems in Pharmacies: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(2019-09-19)
The role of pharmacists as immunization providers is increasingly common. However, as the number of providers administering vaccines increases, there is a concern of fragmented immunization records in state and regional ...
Advances in Digital Gradient Sensing (DGS) Method for Experimental Mechanics
(2019-09-19)
Shape and surface topography evaluation from measured slopes is of considerable engineering significance in optical metrology and experimental mechanics. These kinematic quantities are often used for metrology of optical ...
Design and Numerical Simulation of an Evaporator for a Compact Vapor Compression Refrigeration System
(2019-09-12)
A miniature plate-fin heat exchanger was designed for use in a compact Vapor Compression Refrigeration (VCR) system used for cooling electronic components in an Air Transportable Rack (ATR) chassis. The evaporator was ...
Examining Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes of Organically and Conventionally Grown Produce
(2019-09-11)
The purpose of this study was to determine what the average Auburn University student’s
knowledge and attitude was towards USDA organic and conventionally grown produce and if
there was a difference between Auburn students ...
Development of a Two Dimensional, Optically Accessible, Hybrid Rocket Motor
(2019-09-06)
Traditionally, launch vehicles and in-space vehicles use solid rocket motors (SRM) and liquid rocket engines (LRE) to propel them into and through space. However, there are many drawbacks to both propulsion systems. Hybrid ...
Comparing Camera Survey Methods for Monitoring Eastern Wild Turkey Populations
(2019-08-26)
Conflicting estimates of the size and productivity of Eastern Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallapavo silvestris) populations led biologists in Alabama to seek repeatable, less-biased, survey methods. Previously, estimates of ...
Extension Empowers Alabama Youth to Improve Dietary Behaviors
(2019-08-23)
The purposes were to determine the outcome and procedural efficacies of Eat Better, Move More (EBMM), an obesity prevention program, and to identify sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in the home. A convenience sample of ...
Multicultural Competence: An Examination of Critical Consciousness and Multicultural Awareness in Undergraduate Students
(2019-08-20)
The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between critical consciousness and multicultural awareness among undergraduate students at Auburn University. Due to the constantly changing makeup of the ...
Resource Selection and Bait Response by Female Eastern Wild Turkey in Alabama
(2019-08-19)
A key element for the successful management of a wildlife species is understanding the
specific resources an animal is using and at what time of the year. Resource selection by animals is typically addressed in the terms ...
Reconstructing Paleoenvironmental Conditions of Northern Alabama Utilizing Guano Cores
(2019-08-18)
The need to understand long-term precipitation patterns in the southeast United States are of great concern considering human population increase, climate change, agricultural production and environmental stressors. Current ...
Occupancy Rates of Eastern Wild Turkeys: Estimating effects of experimental harvest regulations and automating image analysis
(2019-08-18)
Each chapter in this thesis contributes to the available knowledge about turkey populations in Alabama, the effects of management on those populations, and the ability to conduct cost-effective surveys for monitoring their ...
Four Essays on the Economic Development, Resource and Environmental Economic
(2019-08-16)
The economic structure and household livelihood of Mongolia have been experiencing dramatic changes driven by both the socio-economic transition and the climate change in the past decades. This dissertation investigated ...
Gaze behavior during predictive and diagnostic reasoning
(2019-08-16)
Many current theories of causal learning and reasoning offer causal structure as the answer to a long-standing question: what allows people to distinguish causal relationships from non-causal relationships? One component ...
Alabama & Georgia Media Sources and Their Claims About Alternative Food Networks
(2019-08-16)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which the media shapes information about Alternative Food Networks (AFN). This study is embedded in a larger project investigating local beef food safety in the Southeast ...
Three Essays in Applied Economics
(2019-08-16)
Since the 1920s Iraq has experienced a prolonged period of war which has adversely affect the country's economic, affecting the political as well as social aspects of the lives of people living in the nation. This dissertation ...
A Survey of Irrigation Best Management Practices in Alabama Container Production Nurseries.
(2019-08-16)
For over 100 years, nursery crop production in the United States has been well established and has become one of the most dominant, fastest growing sectors within agriculture. The green industry, specifically horticulture, ...
A Method For Obtaining New Conservation Quantities and a Solution Method For the N-Body Collision
(2019-08-15)
Exact, numerical, and perturbative methods are commonly used to solve dynamical systems of equations. Many systems’ solutions cannot be written in terms of elementary functions thus numerical and perturbative solutions ...
Characterizing Subsurface Structural Features of the Bellingham Basin by Gravity and Magnetic Modeling
(2019-08-15)
This study uses gravity and magnetic data modeling to identify the geometry of the Bellingham basin, Washington, and its deformational history. The study also provides additional insight into three newly identified ...
Reproductive success in white-tailed deer: using structural equation modeling to understand the causal relationships of MHC, age, and morphology
(2019-08-14)
Understanding factors that influence reproductive success is of utmost importance to the study of wildlife population dynamics. There are a multitude of factors that can influence a male’s ability to acquire mates, such ...
Characterization of Depot Development and the Role of the Novel Adipokine Relaxin in Regulating Lipid Metabolism, Endocrine Function and the Extracellular Matrix in Porcine Adipose Tissue from Lard and Meat-type Pigs
(2019-08-14)
The lard-type, Mangalica pig is a genetic model of excessive adiposity and a breed prized for its excellent pork quality. Therefore, this European heritage breed may serve as a model to improve carcass merit in modern ...