Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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A Finite Element Study of an Elastic- Plastic Axisymmetric Sinusoidal Surface Asperity in Contact Against a Rigid Flat with Strain Hardening
(2018-04-17)
With the advancement in science and the introduction of new technology, computational modelling of contact between rough surfaces has attracted a great deal of attention. Researchers have developed many rough surface contact ...
Canine and Feline Differences in the Cytochrome P450 Transcriptome and Drug Metabolism
(2018-04-17)
Cytochrome P450 (CYP) is an important enzyme superfamily, estimated to metabolize 70-90% of pharmaceuticals. Use of pharmaceuticals with at least 30% metabolism by CYP in humans require phenotyping to determine the CYP ...
Disability Identity: The Impact of Disability Type for Individuals with Disabilities
(2018-04-17)
Disability identity development is a fairly recent and unique phenomenon in the academic literature that shapes an individual’s way of seeing him or herself, their bodies, their ways of interacting with the world and the ...
MBI-3X Bio-Nematicide Plant Health Effects on Root Crops
(2018-04-17)
MBI-3X is a new nematicide formulated from fermented and killed microbial broth. The broth contains large amounts of dead cells and an array of secondary metabolites in the fermentation supernatant with a corresponding ...
Chemokine Receptor CXCR7 in Vascular Biology and Disease
(2018-04-16)
Initially CXCR4 was thought to be the exclusive receptor for SDF-1. However, the discovery of a new SDF-1 receptor CXCR7, made the picture more complex. Whether CXCR7 is a “scavenger” receptor or not is still in debate. ...
A Phenomenological Study: Self-Care and Work-Life Balance among Pre-tenure Counselor Educators
(2018-04-16)
Self-care is vital to ongoing wellness and can be any activity or engagement that one participates in emotionally, mentally, or spiritually to prevent burnout (McGarrigle & Walsh, 2011). According to Bradley, Whisenhunt, ...
Examining the Lived Experiences of Acculturation Among Haitian Immigrants Living in the United States: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2018-04-16)
The United States has the largest immigrant population compared to other countries around the world (Thaker, 2013). As the United States experiences unprecedented migration by foreign-born individuals, Haitian immigrants ...
Cogent: A Coherence-Driven Cognitive Agent Modeling and Simulation Framework
(2018-04-16)
Agent based modeling is an effective methodology for understanding complex cognitive systems through generative mechanisms that explain emergent behavior. However, most agent modeling languages use general-purpose imperative ...
Work-Life Boundary Management: Measurement, Validation, and Longitudinal Mediation
(2018-04-16)
Employees constantly transition from work to home roles, crossing boundaries between these roles. Drawing on boundary and border theory, work-life boundary management (WLBM) consists of behaviors that help create and ...
Development of New Composite Materials for Secure Storage Units to Increase Burglary Resistance
(2018-04-13)
The aim of this research is it to find and develop new materials for secure storage systems with increased physical burglary resistance. The tests and evaluation of the materials takes place on the basis of the fulfilment ...
Nomological Network of a Challenge and Hindrance Workplace Stressors Scale: A Meta-Analysis
(2018-04-13)
This research presents a meta-analysis that aims to assess the reliability and nomological network of the Cavanaugh, Boswell, Roehling, and Boudreau (2000) measure of challenge and hindrance workplace stressors, specifically, ...
The Effects of Founders’ Competence, Integrity, and Demographic Characteristics on Equity-based Crowdfunders’ Investment Decision
(2018-04-13)
Scholars are increasingly exploring crowdfunding, a novel and rapidly growing source of new venture financing. A key part of this research has sought to explain what factors are important to the crowdfunding investment ...
Using Real Options Analytics to Improve the Capital Budgeting Process under Uncertainty
(2018-04-13)
Capital allocation processes are complex and time consuming in large organizations because of the diverse choices from projects proposed by various departments within the organization. Invariably these projects reveal ...
Quantitative Valuation of Ecosystem Services Provided by Oyster Reefs in Mobile Bay, Alabama
(2018-04-13)
Oyster reef services have been acknowledged for their ecosystem services, but globally oyster reefs are at risk due to rapid anthropogenic and natural changes. Conservation decisions for these important habitats often ...
Advanced Clustering Methods and Applications for Data Visualization
(2018-04-13)
Categorizing all sorts of data without any label information is one of the most important tasks in preprocessing raw data. To achieve that, an unsupervised learning technique, called clustering, is utilized. Generally, ...
Cold Metal Transfer-Gas Metal Arc Welding (CMT-GMAW) Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) Process Control Implementation
(2018-04-13)
While additive manufacturing is comprised of metal and polymer fabrication, current additively manufactured polymer-based products are much further from being put into industrial applications. Metal-based additive ...
Pyrite Biomineralization and Arsenic Sequestration at a Florida Industrial Site: Imaging and Geochemical Analysis
(2018-04-13)
A yearlong field-scale bioremediation experiment was conducted at a Florida industrial site, where groundwater in an unconfined aquifer was contaminated by an arsenic-based herbicide. The bioremediation technique stimulated ...
"No One Comes Close": US Airmen and their Technological Paradigm
(2018-04-10)
“No one comes close” is a recent US Air Force (USAF) mantra, developed as both a recruiting slogan and service motto. It reflects both the physical altitude of their domain (sky and space) and conveys a sense of operational ...
Energy Modeling and Management of Database System
(2018-04-10)
In this dissertation, we propose a toolkit called EDOM facilitating the evaluation and
optimization of energy-efficient multicore-based database systems. Two core components in
EDOM are a benchmarking toolkit and a ...
Tras la pista de la censura franquista: traducción, edición y censura en Primavera negra de Henry Miller
(2018-04-09)
Taking as a starting point previous research that explores literary translation in historical contexts governed by a censorship system in charge of maintaining a close literary polysystem, I analyze the translations and ...