Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Identification and isolation of five developmental stages in GM-CSF-stimulated murine bone marrow culture.
(2018-04-24)
Dendritic cells (DCs) are highly potent cells that link the innate immunity with the adaptive. However, these cell types (and their precursors) are extremely rare in vivo. Considerable work has been done to map the development ...
Public goods and private resources as determinants of county low birth weight incidence
(2018-04-24)
Infants born at low birth weight are at elevated risk of infant mortality, developmental delays, and adulthood cardiovascular disease. That low birth weight (LBW; <2500 grams) incidence varies two-to-three-fold between ...
Understanding wetland hydrology and water quality through data/process based modelling
(2018-04-24)
Rapid coastal development has led to loss/alteration of wetlands, streams, riparian vegetated areas and headwater areas that buffer coastal waterways from pollution. Small wetlands, besides being easily altered, have also ...
The Impact of Empathy, Coping, and Cultural Differences on the Process of Forgiveness
(2018-04-24)
The primary focus of this research was on decisional forgiveness following a traumatic experience. The purpose of this quantitative descriptive study was to examine the impact of empathy, coping skills, and the role culture ...
Development and validation of a UPLC-MS method for quantification of selected cannabinoids in canine plasma and its application to commercial cannabis products
(2018-04-24)
Introduction. Cannabinoids are the important chemicals in cannabis plant with medicinal value [51]. However, effective and safe use is best based on studies that describe their behavior in the plasma of the species being ...
Visualization Studies of Evaporation and Combustion of Alternative Liquid Fuels and Aviation Liquid Droplets in Controllable Environments
(2018-04-24)
This dissertation describes visualization studies of alternative fuel and aviation liquid droplet behavior in controlled environments. Three experimental setups using free-falling and suspended droplet techniques were ...
Fine Tuning the Environmental Benefits Index to Achieve Cost Savings for the Conservation Reserve Program
(2018-04-24)
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is the largest conservation program in the United States and was established in 1985. Over time, the conservation objectives of the program have broadened to include wildlife habitat, ...
The Impact of a Motor Skill Intervention on Executive Function in Preschoolers from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds
(2018-04-24)
Changes in motor abilities lead to changes in cognition including executive function, which may reduce the impact of poverty on cognitive outcomes. The first study examined changes in cognitive function in preschool children ...
Measuring Effectiveness in Alabama's Community Colleges as a Function of Institutional Expenditures
(2018-04-24)
With state resources for higher education under constant pressure, it is critical to understand how to maximize institutional performance while being economical with resource allocation. Future workforce demands will call ...
Smart Kids Application to Develop the Potential Interests for Children
(2018-04-23)
Children today are growing up in a rapidly developing world filled with quickly evolving technologies, such as the Internet, smartphones, and smart mobile devices, etc. As a result, more applications designed with children ...
Long-Distance Overnight Values of Travel Time Across Modes and Tour Characteristics
(2018-04-23)
The value of travel time (VoTT) quantifies the willingness of individuals to pay money in order to save a unit of travel time. It is a critical metric for the transportation industry that underlies many policy decisions ...
Therapeutic Relationship between Primary Caregivers of School-Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Speech-Language Pathologists
(2018-04-23)
The purpose of the current investigation was to determine facilitators and barriers that
contribute to the therapeutic relationship between primary caregivers of school-aged children
with ASD and their child’s ...
'My goal will ever be to make history popular': Peter Brannon's Quest for Alabama History
(2018-04-23)
Peter Alexander Brannon (1882-1967) was a noteworthy figure in Alabama history during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. Throughout his fifty-year career at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Brannon ...
Equitable Block-Colorings of Graph-Decompositions and Tiling Generalized Petersen Graphs
(2018-04-23)
A $C_4$-decomposition of $K_v - F$, where $F$ is a $1$-factor of $K_v$ and $C_4$ is the cycle on $4$ vertices, is a partition $P$ of $E(K_v - F)$ into sets, each element of which induces a $C_4$ (called a block). A function ...
Identification of A New Pharmacological Modulator for P2Y2 Receptor Activity
(2018-04-23)
P2Y2 is a G-protein-coupled membrane receptor activated by ATP or UTP nucleotides. They play major roles in cellular physiology in different aspects including inflammatory responses and apoptosis. Therefore, P2Y2 receptor ...
And They’re Off: A Critical Examination of the Horse Racing Film Subgenre
(2018-04-23)
Horse racing, the ‘Sport of Kings,’ has been a popular sport in American culture for centuries, and the sport has been depicted on film continuously since the medium’s emergence. Numerous feature films have focused on both ...
An examination of the impact of diverse internationalization experience on organizational resilience and a test of the Resilience Architecture Framework
(2018-04-23)
This research aims to improve our understanding of multinational enterprise (MNE) resilience by investigating potential sources of resilience and its performance implications. In particular, this dissertation focuses on ...
Variation in morphology and physiology of introduced populations of the Virile Crayfish, Faxonius virilis Hagen 1870
(2018-04-23)
Crayfish often show high levels of morphological variation between and within populations. Studies have shown that environmental factors can play a role in determining external morphology. Increased levels of phenotypic ...
An Evolutionary Strategies Method to Optimize Turbine and Compressor Blades
(2018-04-23)
The main goal of this study is to improve a two-dimensional optimization scheme for turbine and compressor blades, specifically by improving the overall efficiency of each blade row with respect to objective and penalty ...
Vicarious Racism Stress, Racial Discrimination, and Disease Activity: The Black Women’s Experiences Living with Lupus (BeWELL) Study
(2018-04-23)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by Black-White disparities in severity, which in part are associated with group differences in exposure to psychosocial stress. Among salient sources of stress are those ...