Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Corporation and the DNA of Farmland Financialization
(2019-04-18)
Although farmland has long been understood to be an investment, policies shaping the economy, intensified by the 2007-2008 food crisis, have given rise to a new paradigm in which, for a set of major investors, farmland is ...
Multicomponent Polymer Systems: Polymer Compositional Analysis using Low-Field 1H-NMR Spectroscopy and Tuning the Compositional Drift in Styrene/Isoprene Anionic Copolymerizations
(2019-04-18)
This Thesis investigates multicomponent polymer systems in the context of their characterization and their synthesis. The composition of the different polymers comprising multicomponent polymer systems is a vital variable ...
What Makes Consumers Engage? The Effects of Mobile Location-Based Advertising (MLBA) Messages on Consumers’ Engagement with a Retailer on a Location-Based Social Commerce Application (LSCA)
(2019-04-18)
The rapid advancement of mobile and internet technology has changed the landscape of mobile marketing revolutionarily. The customization-focused contemporary retail trends have heightened the need for applications of ...
Establishing Balance: An Experience Sampling Methodological Study of the Work-Life Interface
(2019-04-18)
The present study aimed to examine whether daily perceptions of work-life balance effectiveness and satisfaction were related to within-day, between-day, and between-individual levels of stress when mediated by positive ...
Development and Evaluation of Assessment Tools and Management Strategies for Salmon Fisheries in Western Alaska
(2019-04-18)
The management of natural resources is fraught with difficulties stemming from uncertainty and conflicting objectives. Fisheries for Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. in western Alaska are no exception, but rather provide ...
Leadership Resiliency with Rural Superintendents
(2019-04-18)
This descriptive case study examined the factors that contribute to rural superintendents’ early departure into retirement and examines leadership resiliency and the challenges that the administration faces in leadership ...
Beneficial Modulation of the Gut Microbiota Prevents Stress-Induced Adverse Effects
(2019-04-18)
The gut microbiota plays a significant role in maintaining the homeostasis and overall health status of the host. Moreover, it has been shown that heat stress severely alters the stability of the gut microbiota. Thus, ...
Advanced physical and chemical characterization of oil spill residues
(2019-04-18)
Oil spill contamination is a worldwide problem. On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil platform located off the coast of Louisiana exploded and sank after 2 days. The wellhead could not be sealed until July ...
Between a Nation and a Country: the Creek Nation, the United States, and the Life of James Moore
(2019-04-18)
This thesis examines the life of James Moore, an Indian countryman who lived nearly fifty years in the Creek Nation. A study of Moore’s life offers insight into the massive changes that the Creek Nation endured in the first ...
A Systematic Approach and Design Guidelines for the Development of Smart Bathrooms Considering the Senior Population
(2019-04-18)
Around the world, populations are aging, and the life expectancy of the senior population is also increasing. At the same time, a large portion of the elderly prefer to stay at home, which is known as aging in place. ...
Jailed Black Fathers, Paternal Identity, and the Father-child Relationship
(2019-04-18)
There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of helping fathers maintain a father-child relationship during incarceration. Research has found that the effects of incarceration may diminish the ...
The Sehoy Legacy: Kinship, Gender, and Property in a Tensaw Creek Community, 1783-1851
(2019-04-18)
In 1783, Alexander McGillivray and his sister, Sophia Durant, migrated to the Tensaw Delta with a herd of cattle and forty enslaved laborers to establish a plantation on the periphery of Creek territory adjoining Spanish ...
A Guideline of Applying Chinese Calligraphy Culture to Contemporary Furniture Design
(2019-04-18)
In the information age, information dissemination is fast and broad. How to maintain the
vitality of national culture under the impact of various foreign cultures is very important to
guarantee spiritual and cultural ...
The Effects of Blast Loading on the Interface of Concrete Masonry Units and Mortar
(2019-04-18)
Masonry has always been a very efficient building material because of its low cost, availability, versatility, and construction simplicity. In terms of blast protection, masonry presents an enormous challenge: when ...
Comparing Responses of Triploid and Diploid Eastern Oysters, Crassostrea virginica, to Common Farm Stressors
(2019-04-18)
Commercial off-bottom aquaculture of the Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is challenged by repeated spring and summer mortality events that disproportionally affect triploid oysters. Many farmers believe common farm ...
Program Dosage and Relationship Quality in Healthy Relationship Education: The Role of Facilitation Alliance
(2019-04-18)
Program dosage and facilitation alliance have been related to improvements, namely couple relationship quality, in Couple Relationship Education (CRE) programs. However, little has been done to investigate how these variables ...
Enabling a Screw Fastener System for Orthopedic Implants Made by Additive Manufacturing
(2019-04-18)
This research study explores the feasibility of an additively manufactured screw locking system that allows for the fixation of patient-specific orthopedic implants without applying pressure onto the bone. This is beneficial ...
Dynamic Model Development and System Study of Ternary Pumped Storage Hydropower
(2019-04-18)
The conventional role of pumped storage hydropower (PSH) is energy storage: it generates power when it operates as a hydro turbine, and store energy from the electric grid when pumping water from the lower reservoir to the ...
Development of a CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system for Fusarium oxysporum and characterization of an extracellular superoxide dismutase and its contribution to pathogenicity on cotton
(2019-04-17)
The Fusarium oxysporum species complex (FOSC) is an important group of filamentous fungi that are able to infect both animals and plants. Based on its economic importance, an effort has been made to better understand the ...
The Effects of Community Partnerships on K-12 Computer Science Education
(2019-04-17)
Technology is a critical component of the American economy. Analysts have claimed it is imperative that the United States maintain its status as a worldwide leader in technology or its economy, standard of living, and ...