Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Three Essays on Market Efficiency and Corporate Payout Policy
(2019-04-29)
Chapters 1 and 2 of this dissertation discuss a special form of regulation, soft intervention, in China. Securities Laws in China are administered by the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). The CSRC has great ...
Big Data Analytics and Its Applications in Soft Sensor for Smart Manufacturing
(2019-04-29)
This dissertation presents research performed to develop industrial internet of things enabled testbed and statistics pattern analysis feature-based modelling approach for smart manufacturing.
Advent of internet completely ...
A continuous 100 thousand-year stalagmite δ18O record from the Yucatan Peninsula: implications for Caribbean hydroclimate on orbital and millennial timescales
(2019-04-29)
I present a new stalagmite δ18O record, named Katún, collected from Río Secreto Natural Reserve in the Yucatan Peninsula (YP) that spans the interval between 198 kyr to 320 kyr before present (BP), thus offering the oldest ...
Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability in rotating tokamak plasmas
(2019-04-29)
Tokamak plasmas display finite macroscopic rotation in standard machine operation. Yet, the theoretical understanding of stationary states is lacking as compared to static configurations. In this work, we investigate the ...
Radiation Hardness Study of AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs)
(2019-04-29)
Gallium nitride (GaN) has unique inherent properties such as ionic-covalent bond, large direct bandgap, excellent thermal stability, high threshold displacement energy and higher break-down field. Also, the relatively low ...
Statistical and Visual Analysis of Solder Joint Reliability in extreme Environments
(2019-04-26)
Over the last several decades, surface mount technology has advanced and become the most profitable industry worldwide. Cell phones or some type of hand held technology have become prominent throughout multiple age groups. ...
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 ...