Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Testing Erosion Potential of Heterogeneous Lithologies to Understand Atypical Valley Morphology in the Buffalo National River Watershed, Arkansas
(2019-04-17)
The effect of heterogeneous lithologies on valley morphology in tectonically stable landscapes is
an unresolved question in fluvial geomorphology. The upper reaches of the Buffalo National River
incise the Mississippian ...
Building Better Graphs for Climate Change Communication: Evidence from Eye-Tracking
(2019-04-17)
Reducing harm from global climate change will require public participation and therefore public education. Visual data representations such as graphs are often used for communication with public audiences but they are ...
Design Guidelines for Creating Visual Hand Management Board Games
(2019-04-17)
This thesis develops a design guideline for a visual hand management board game. There are more and more board game players all over the world. However, in an independent survey with one thousand respondents, 25% people ...
Hamilton Cycles In Multipartite Graphs With Two Associative Classes
(2019-04-17)
In this dissertation, the following two problems are considered: the embedding problem of when a k-edge-coloring of a multipartite graph G can be embedded into a Hamilton decomposition of multipartite graph H containing ...
Use of metabolic assays to assess thermal and hypoxia stress of freshwater mussel species from central Texas
(2019-04-17)
Warming temperatures are a major concern for freshwater mussels as they are limited in range, mobility, and potential to seek refuge from heat stress. Unionid mussels are ectothermic organisms, and the temperature of their ...
Exploring an Explanatory Child Speech Intelligibility Model Using Phonetically Contrasted Word Productions
(2019-04-17)
Purpose: In clinical practice, there is no standard measure of intelligibility that explains the kinds of difficulties that listeners who are inexperienced with child speech may encounter. This study aimed to investigate ...
Knowledge and Treatment of the Down Syndrome Population in Speech-Language Pathology: A National Survey
(2019-04-17)
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which speech-language pathologists possess both knowledge of Down syndrome and confidence in their clinical abilities to treat the population and their families. ...
A Cyclophane-Based Approach to [n]Cycloparaphenylenes and an Allylic Arylation Strategy for Regioselective Triphenylene Synthesis
(2019-04-17)
CHAPTER 1 Synthesis of functionalized p-terphenyl-containing macrocycles as key intermediates in the synthesis of functionalized [n]CPPs
Strategically designed, substituted para-terphenyl-containing macrocycles are ...
Impact of Tree Inoculation by Leptographium terebrantis on Soil Microbial Communities in Commercial Loblolly Pine Stand
(2019-04-17)
A variety of abiotic and biotic stressors, including root-feeding bark beetles and pathogenic ophiostomatoid fungi, are associated with root disease of Pinus spp. Our research goal was to analyze if a tree inoculation by ...
Evaluation of an Algal Turf Scrubber™ (ATS) Approach for the Remediation of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
(2019-04-17)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are a large group of synthetic organic chemicals ubiquitous and persistent in the environment due to their fluorinated alkyl chains. Existing methods for remediation of mixtures of PFAS ...
Sod-Based Rotation Systems: Research for Whom?
(2019-04-17)
Over the last two decades, a Southeastern multi-institutional, multidisciplinary research team developed a low-input sod-based rotational system with integrated cattle (SBRC) to improve sustainability for small- to medium-size ...
A Study of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy of β-alumina Na2O·11Al2O3 and NASICON Type Li1.3Al0.3Ti1.7(PO4)3
(2019-04-17)
Solid electrolytes are functional materials with high ionic conductivity. The conductivity highly depends on the microstructure such as grains and grain boundaries. For most solid electrolytes, both grain and grain boundary ...
Wireless Communication Demonstration in Hardware Using an Exactly Solvable Chaotic Oscillator
(2019-04-17)
This work presents a hardware demonstration of a mixed-signal wireless communication system that utilizes a chaotic oscillator based on an exactly solvable piecewise linear set of differential equations, along with a matched ...
The Efficiency of Modified Canola Oil as a Replacement of Menhaden Fish Oil in Practical Diet for Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei
(2019-04-17)
Lipids are an essential component of the diet serving as source of energy and components of cell structures. Marine species require a certain level of specific fatty acids in their diet as they have limited ability to ...
Physiological and behavioral impacts of railway noise on stream fishes
(2019-04-17)
While the expansion of anthropogenic noise studies in aquatic habitats has produced conservation-based results for marine organisms, little attention has been paid to the potential impacts of anthropogenic noise on freshwater ...
LINE-1 RNA Expression is Higher in Older Human Skeletal Muscle but Decreases With Endurance Exercise and Physical Activity
(2019-04-16)
INTRODUCTION: Long Interspersed Nuclear Element-1 (L1) has the autonomous ability to randomly move about the genome. As a result, L1 has been implicated with disease and aging. We sought to determine if skeletal muscle L1 ...
The Frictional Impact of Two Link Chain with a Flat
(2019-04-16)
Mechanical impact is an important phenomena in mechanical systems such as robotics,
multibody systems, spacecraft vehicles, ground vehicles, etc. It is a complex phenomenon that
occurs when two or more bodies collide. ...
Boron and Calcium Effects on Runner Peanut Production
(2019-04-16)
Calcium (Ca) and boron (B) deficiencies in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) reduce seed quality, yield, and crop value. Southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain soils are inherently low in Ca and B, requiring supplementation to reach ...
Fault Detection in Pressure Swing Adsorption Systems
(2019-04-16)
Over the years, there has been a consistent increase in the amount of data collected by systems and processes in many different industries and fields. On the other hand, there is a growing push towards revealing and ...
Development, Numerical Implementation, and Application of Methods to Simulate Solute Transport Processes in Porous Media Systems
(2019-04-16)
Solute transport in porous media has been the attention of a plethora of studies over the last several decades. This research identifies gaps in existing knowledge within the realm of solute transport in porous media systems ...