Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Provenance of a boulder-bearing impact breccia from surface outcrops and a drill-core from the Wetumpka Impact Structure, Elmore County, Alabama
(2019-07-15)
The Wetumpka crater is a shallow marine impact structure located in the Elmore County, Alabama. The impact event occurred at approximately 85 Ma, during Late Cretaceous. The target was a shallow marine environment with a ...
Effects of Thermal Stress on Unionid Glochidia and Rising Salinity on Adult Unionid Mussels
(2019-07-15)
Unionid mussels are considered keystone species however, they are the most imperiled group of organisms in North America. Implications from changing thermal and salinity regimes are of particular interest due to potential ...
Home Range, Activity, Movement, and Habitat Selection of the Flattened Musk Turtle (Sternotherus depressus) in the Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
(2019-07-15)
The Flattened Musk Turtle, Sternotherus depressus, is an imperiled aquatic species endemic to the Upper Black Warrior watershed in Alabama. As one of the most understudied turtles in the United States, little is known about ...
Movement and Fate of Stocked Rainbow Trout in an Alabama Tailwater
(2019-07-15)
Hypolimnetic discharge from reservoirs in the southern U.S. provides water temperatures cold enough to support Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss fisheries in regions where they otherwise could not exist. The Sipsey Fork ...
Taxonomy and Systematics of Early Lineage Fish Blood Flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae)
(2019-07-15)
The monophyletic fish blood flukes (Platyhelminthes: Digenea: Aporocotylidae Odhner, 1912) comprise ~166 species assigned to 40 genera infecting freshwater, marine, and estuarine fishes. They are occasional pathogens of ...
Evaluation of a Trivalent Vaccine for Aeromonas hydrophila, Flavobacterium columnare, and Edwardsiella ictaluri Using In-pond Raceway Systems in West Alabama
(2019-07-15)
A trivalent vaccine, for virulent Aeromonas hydrophila, Flavobacterium columnare, and Edwardsiella ictaluri, was tested using in-pond raceway systems (IPRS) located in three active commercial catfish ponds. The goal of ...
Sensing, Classifying Movements, and Actuation of Biomimetic Robots
(2019-07-15)
Human skeletal muscle motion is a complex electrical, chemical, and mechanical process. The electrical, or electromyography, signal originates from the brain and travels to the muscle initiating the contraction of the ...
Evaluating practical approaches for on-farm water testing to meet the FSMA Produce Safety Rule requirements
(2019-07-15)
The Produce Safety Rule, a part of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), requires produce farmers to monitor the quality of irrigation and wash water used on the farm for generic E. coli in an effort to prevent ...
Mindfulness Frequency Impacting Relationship Quality: Exploring Changes for Participants in a Mindfulness Based CRE Program
(2019-07-15)
The current study utilizes a diverse sample of mindfulness-based relationship education (CRE) participants to address the links between care for self and care for partner behaviors, relationship satisfaction, and frequency ...
Fiducial Marker-Based Motion Capture System for Biomechanics and Lower Limb Prosthesis Alignment
(2019-07-15)
Lower limb loss is a disability that is currently estimated to affect more than one million Americans. Development of lower limb prostheses has allowed the amputee to regain their mobility to some extent and reengage in ...
Surficial Investigations of Hargraves Crater and Siloe Patera, Mars
(2019-07-15)
This study investigates Hargraves crater and Siloe Patera of Mars. Individual barchan and barchanoids dunes in Hargraves were almost accurately identified using a semi-automated object-based image analysis technique. The ...
Quality or Quantity: Which is More Important for Adult Child-Parent Relationships?
(2019-07-12)
The purpose of this study was to explore, in a community sample, the association between quality and quantity of parent-adult child interactions and parents’ ratings of parent-adult child relationship quality. Additionally, ...
Assessing changes and predictability of crop yields and failure risk in the United States: The Impact from Large-scale Climate Circulations
(2019-07-12)
The weather of the growing season influences crop production and yield. These changes in crop yields can result in economic loss and increases in global food insecurity drastically especially when high production areas are ...
Investigating the Effects of Functional Ice (FICE) on Food Safety, Shelf-life and Quality of Poultry Thigh Meat During Refrigerated Storage
(2019-07-12)
Food Safety and microbiological spoilage are two major concerns during the extended periods of refrigerated storage and transportation. Antimicrobial interventions applied during the poultry processing may not have a ...
Role of CXCR7 in Human Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle Restenosis
(2019-07-12)
Objective—Whether CXCR7 is a signaling or non-signaling scavenger receptor is still in debate. Our previous study showed that during monocyte-to-macrophage differentiation, CXCR7 mediates positive signaling to the p38 and ...
Enhancement of Nutrient and Organic Removal from Poultry Litter Using Anaerobic Digestion and Subsequent Algal Growth
(2019-07-12)
Research has indicated anaerobically digesting poultry litter can recover energy and reduce pathogen concentrations, which can be used as a nutrient rich media to support algal growth and simultaneously further treat the ...
Matching Analyses as an Evaluative Tool: Characterizing Behavior in Juvenile Residential Settings
(2019-07-12)
These studies aimed to use the generalized matching equation, a quantitative model of choice-making behavior, to interpret the interactions between adjudicated adolescents and direct- line staff members. In Experiment 1, ...
Scapegoating Saviors: Presidential Rhetoric in U.S. Government Shutdowns
(2019-07-12)
This project extends research on how and why rhetors create enemies in political discourse. Previous literature has examined the construction of enemies for a number of purposes. One of these purposes is scapegoating. To ...
Development of Behavior-semiochemical-based IPM Approach for Invasive Kudzu Bug, Megacopta cribraria (F.) (Hemiptera: Plataspidae)
(2019-07-11)
The kudzu bug, Megacopta cribraria (F.), is newly detected invasive pest insect native to Asia. Since the first detection in 2009, it has spread rapidly throughout the southeastern U.S. It has become a key pest of legume ...
The Association between Discrimination Concerns and Father Involvement: The Role of Accessibility and Racial Socialization
(2019-07-11)
In the United States, the number of children under 18 living in a mother-only household has steadily increased since the 1960s. As single-parent households have become more common, father involvement research has turned ...