Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Threat-Motivated Mobilization of Collegiate Social Movement Organizations: The 2016 Presidential Election
(2018-11-13)
The social movement process, a key component of the democratic political system, has been studied in countless permutations. Threat, such as a controversial new President, powerfully motivates activists to mobilize in ...
Evaluation of Advanced Soy Products in Diets Fed to Florida Pompano
(2018-11-09)
It has been suggested that soybean meal could be utilized to substitute the use of animal meal in the development of practical diets for majority of aquaculture species. However, the presence of anti-nutritional factors ...
Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of genes involved in disease resistance against enteric septicemia of catfish (ESC) in catfish
(2018-11-08)
Catfish is the leading aquaculture species in the United States, accounting for over 50% of all U.S. aquaculture production. In recent years, catfish industry has been facing numerous challenges, including increased costs ...
Inmates Make War: Convict Labor at State Penitentiaries in the Antebellum and Civil War South, 1796-1865
(2018-11-08)
Throughout the antebellum period, Southern state legislators sought to create financially self-sustaining penitentiaries that also reflected modern practice by encouraging inmate rehabilitation through silent reflection ...
Targeted Gene Insertion and the Effect of Random Insertion of the Masou Salmon Delta5-Desaturase Transgene on n-3 Fatty Acid Production and Culture Traits of Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
(2018-11-07)
Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) is one of the most abundant catfish species in North America. The objectives of this study were to determine the effectiveness of the Masou salmon delta5-desaturase transgene driven ...
Development of a Means to Calculate Project-Specific Liquidated Damages on ALDOT Projects Exceeding $20 Million
(2018-11-07)
This research effort sought to create a justifiable means for developing a project-specific liquidated damages (LD) calculation method for high value projects to be adopted by the Alabama Department of Transportation ...
Smartphone Sensor Fusion For Indoor Localization: A Deep LSTM Approach
(2018-11-05)
With the fast increasing demands of location-based service and the proliferation of smartphones and other mobile devices, accurate indoor localization has attracted great interest. In this thesis, we present DeepML, a deep ...
Red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) movement patterns based on acoustic positioning around oil and gas platform in the northern Gulf of Mexico
(2018-11-05)
Offshore oil and gas platforms provide habitat for many marine fish species in the northern Gulf of Mexico. By law, the owning company is required to remove obsolete platforms. The most economical method is explosive ...
Authorship Attribution via Evolutionary Hybridization of Sentiment Analysis, LIWC, and Topic Model Features
(2018-11-05)
Authorship Attribution is a well-studied topic with deep roots in the field of Stylometry. This thesis examines three less traditional feature sets for the purpose of Authorship Attribution. Each feature set is examined ...
Impacts of Drought and 40% Throughfall Reduction on Water Relations of a Longleaf Pine Stand
(2018-11-05)
Projections of increased frequency and severity of climatic- induced drought have raised concerns about the health, productivity and composition of forests in the southeastern United States. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris ...
Evaluation of Nitrogen-Delivery Methods for Stocker Cattle Grazing Annual Ryegrass
(2018-11-05)
A 3-yr study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of replacing N fertilizer with either interseeded annual legumes or supplementation with high-protein by-product feeds for stocker cattle grazing annual ryegrass. Each ...
Monitoring and Evaluation of Alabama’s First Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil-Integrated Bridge System
(2018-10-31)
Geosynthetic reinforced soil-integrated bridge systems (GRS-IBS) use closely spaced layers of geosynthetic reinforcement and compacted granular backfill to directly support the bridge deck and blend the abutment and roadway ...
Profile Monitoring of Multivariate Processes for Efficient Detection of Parameter Changes
(2018-10-31)
Profile monitoring has been extensively studied when the profile of a quality characteristic is normally distributed. There are a limited number of studies for the case when a profile follows other distributions such as ...
Crosslinked Polymers from Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass
(2018-10-23)
Present research is aimed at the development of crosslinked polymers from biomass pyrolysis oil. Crosslinked polymers are high performance materials employed in a wide range of applications and are most commonly derived ...
Impact Performance of Polyurea-coated Cementitious Composite Tiles
(2018-10-23)
In this research, I tried to investigate the effect of polyurea coating on improving the impact resistance of concrete. As a synthetic high strength elastomeric coating material, polyurea performed well to protect concrete ...
The Development of a Nucleic Acid-Directed Switch and Proximity Dependent Protein Assays using Electrochemical Techniques
(2018-10-09)
The analysis of nucleic acids (NA), has increased demand for point-of-care systems, such as rapid preventive health care, forensic applications, etc. Thus inspired, a vast amount of biosensor platforms for the detection ...
A Study of Methyl-coenzyme M Reductase Maturation: Coenzyme F430 Biosynthesis and Post-translational Modifications
(2018-10-03)
This dissertation seeks to investigate the coenzyme F430 biosynthetic pathway and post-translational modification (PTM) enzymes of methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR), which will have applications in natural gas-to-liquid ...
Surface Engineering of Organic Conductors
(2018-10-03)
Surfaces represent a rich area for research and scientific exploration, as they often govern how a material interacts with its environment. Control over the properties of a surface allows materials to be used in new ways ...
Movement and habitat use of Shoal Bass Micropterus cataractae in two Chattahoochee River tributaries
(2018-10-02)
Shoal Bass Micropterus cataractae is a fluvial specialist endemic to the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Recent studies show there is a lot of variation in movement and habitat ...
Educational Leaders’ Perceptions of the Implementation, Benefits, and Barriers to Breakfast in the Classroom
(2018-10-02)
This elicitation study explored principals’ perspectives regarding beliefs and practices related to breakfast consumption and Breakfast in the Classroom implementation within schools in a state in the southeastern United ...