Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Three Essays on Financial Institutions and Markets
(2019-04-26)
In chapter 1, given the financial troubles facing state pension plans in recent years, we examine determinants of the ratio of assets to liabilities, or the funded ratio, based on data for 153 pension plans from 2001 to ...
Disruption in Digital Fabrication: Exploring FDM 3D Printing and 3D CAD for a Wearable Apparel Product
(2019-04-26)
Three-dimensional printing (3D printing) technology has been applied in several fields due to its advantages of customization, complex shape manipulation, and energy and material sustainability. Apparel designers and ...
Geology of the Alexander City 7.5’ Quadrangle, Alabama and U-Pb Zircon Dating of the Elkahatchee Quartz Diorite, southernmost Appalachian orogen
(2019-04-26)
Geological mapping of the Alexander City Quadrangle in the eastern Blue Ridge of the Southern Appalachian orogen in Alabama reveals newly recognized units and supports multi-phase magmatism within the 880 km2 Elkahatchee ...
Formulation of Phytochemicals in Lipid-Based Nanoparticles for Melanoma Treatment
(2019-04-25)
Melanoma is one of the most common and aggressive types of cancer with high mortality. Current treatment is ineffective in preventing relapse of cancer. It also suffers from serious systemic side effects because of the ...
A Survey of In-service Music Teacher Preparedness for Teaching Non-Traditional Music Courses and Ensembles in Secondary-level Schools
(2019-04-25)
Despite efforts to diversify music curriculum in secondary schools, research indicates that music education in the United States (U.S.) primarily focuses on western classical music, overemphasizes performance, and fails ...
Dietary mercury and stress responses: how lifetime exposure to mercury alters stress responses and their relationship to spatial cognition
(2019-04-25)
Methylmercury is a widespread environmental contaminant that negatively impacts both humans and wildlife at sublethal levels. While environmental sources of methylmercury exist, the primary sources are anthropogenic, and ...
Impact of Rest and Secondary Intervention on the Development of and Recovery from Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Human and Rat ModelsImpact of Rest and Secondary Intervention on the Development of and Recovery from Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Human and Rat Models
(2019-04-25)
Experts from different fields study the development of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) from different perspectives: epidemiologists identify potential MSD risk factors, traditional ergonomists analyze motions, and medical ...
An Investigation of Seventh Grade Students’ Attitudes Towards Animals in a Middle School Science Classroom in Rural Alabama
(2019-04-24)
This dissertation examines the different types of attitudes toward animals held by 7th grade students in one middle school in the rural southeastern part United States. This study was conducted using seven-point Likert ...
Stratigraphy, Ore Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Genesis of Gold-Bearing Quartz Veins at the Hog Mountain Tonalite, Southwestern Appalachians, USA
(2019-04-24)
Hog Mountain of the southern Appalachians is a gold deposit in the eastern Blue Ridge of Alabama. The mineralized quartz veins found there have an average Au grade of 0.14 oz/t (maximum: 2.4 oz/t Au) and occur within a ...
“Being sexless, wilt thou be”: Nineteenth-Century British Poetry and the Challenge of the Androgynous Mind
(2019-04-24)
This dissertation occasions a recognition and discussion of androgyny by taking on the challenge of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s nineteenth-century claim that “a great mind must be androgynous.” Drawing on Judith Butler’s ...
PFogSim: A Simulator for Evaluating Dynamic and Layered Fog Computing Environments
(2019-04-24)
The first phase of 5G specification, Release-15, will be completed by April 2019, and our world will truly enter the 5G era. With the advent of 5G, the data transmission cost is expected to reduce significantly. Thus, it ...
Ultrasonographic Examination of Cows Affected with Ovarian Follicular Dysplasia
(2019-04-24)
A study commissioned by Florida Cattleman’s Association in 2007, 2016 and 2017 found ovarian follicular dysplasia (OFD) to be the major abnormal ovarian condition linked to subfertility and infertility in Florida’s beef ...
Reliability of Doped SnAgCu Solder Alloys with Various Surface Finishes Under Realistic Service Conditions
(2019-04-24)
The electronic packaging industry has moved from eutectic Sn-Pb solder materials to near-eutectic SnAgCu (SAC) solder materials in the past decade because of the increasing awareness of health and safety concerns associated ...
An Approach for Researching the Relationship Between Physical Design Characteristics Through Eye Tracking and Kansei Evaluation of Products
(2019-04-24)
Kansei engineering is widely used to explore the relationship between design elements and consumer Kansei, however, the methodology of conducting Kansei research and developing new design is still needed to be completed.
This ...
Comparison of Inflammatory Cell Populations in Young and Mature Beef Bulls; A Preliminary Study
(2019-04-24)
Bovine venereal diseases, such as Tritrichomonas foetus (T. foetus) infection, can be economically devastating to the cattle industry. Decreases in calf crops due to abortion and infertility, premature culling, and loss ...
Guidelines for Designing Inclusive Wearable Devices for the Aging Population
(2019-04-24)
Wearable technology has rapidly evolved during the past decades and become trendy nowadays. There is a steady increase in wearable devices sales every year; however, unfriendly user experience and high abandonment rates ...
Acoustic telemetry of shark movements and residency near artificial habitats in the northern Gulf of Mexico
(2019-04-24)
In the present study, acoustic telemetry was used to monitor the movements and residency of seven Sandbar Sharks Carcharhinus plumbeus, five Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, four Bull Sharks Carcharhinus ...
Existence of TP(d,k,n)
(2019-04-24)
Given a square grid of land, which has n rows and n columns. It is required to plant trees on the land so that there are k trees in every row and column and there is at most 1 tree in any small square part of the land with ...
Synthesis and Electrochemical Performance of SnOx/Ti3C2Tx Anodes for Li-ion Batteries
(2019-04-24)
Modern society has a higher requirement and need for high-capacity and stable energy storage and conversion devices. 2D materials are a group of emerging materials that have shown advantages in energy, catalysis, and ...
Pour Decisions: The Relationship Between Intoxication, Free-Pour Accuracy, and Subjective Impairment
(2019-04-23)
Reducing risk associated with college student drinking is a major public health concern. The free-pour assessment has the potential to inform interventions aimed at reducing risks associated with college student drinking. ...