Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Clustered Seismicity in Alabama: Natural or Anthropogenic?
(2017-07-27)
Seismicity in the central and eastern U.S. is typically characterized by low-magnitude earthquakes (M < 4) with a random distribution that occur in areas of low to moderate strain rates. An unprecedented increase in ...
Design Guidelines of Applying Regional-Cultural Factors in Creating Visual Brand Language
(2017-07-27)
Appling cultural factors in product design is an attractive topic worthy to study. Regional culture, which affects people’s daily life from many respects, is one of the decisive factors for design directions. However, ...
Plant Growth and Physiological Responses to Various Surfactants Injected in Irrigation Water: Tween 20 as a Method for Reducing Water Use in Plant Production
(2017-07-27)
Nursery and greenhouse growers who heavily rely on groundwater and/or are located in drought prone regions should be hard-pressed to minimize water waste for the sake of their plants, their budgets, and the environment. ...
Development of a Rainwater Harvesting Model for Broiler Farms to Estimate On-farm Storage Needs
(2017-07-27)
Access to water is critical for poultry production and rainwater harvesting (RWH) may reduce reliance on low-yield and poor water quality wells or municipal (city or county) water supplies to supplement water consumption ...
Pro-Nerve Growth Factor Induced RhoA Kinase Activation in PC12 Cells
(2017-07-27)
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is characterized by neurodegeneration and progressive decline in memory, cognition and independence. Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) is the neurotrophin responsible for mediating neuronal survival and ...
Fungal associations and improving micropropagation of native Rhododendron spp.
(2017-07-27)
Rhododendron is the most abundant genus in the Ericaceae family, consisting of over 1000 species that are native to North America, Western Europe, and Northern Asia. With certain Rhododendron varieties being desirable due ...
Adolescent Perceived Parenting as a Moderator of the Be SAFE Bullying Prevention Program: Examining the Influence of Parenting on Adolescent Program Outcomes
(2017-07-27)
Evaluations of universal bullying prevention programs often find modest effects on adolescent bullying outcomes. It may be advantageous for those in bullying research to test differential effects of program outcomes via ...
Numerical Study of High Lift Configurations
(2017-07-27)
This study investigates the numerical prediction capability of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in resolving the high-lift aerodynamics. Various numerical aspects in CFD is explored in this research which includes different ...
Evaluating the Effects of Oat Fiber and Modified Corn Starch on the Characteristics of Smoked Sausage Utilizing Mechanically Separated Chicken
(2017-07-27)
There is an increasing demand for affordable, all-natural products in the food service industry. This category includes clean label products, which are generally recognized as being minimally processed and having simple ...
Evaluation of Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Chronic Neuropathic Pain
(2017-07-27)
Pain is something that will affect every person at some point in his or her lifetime,
and yet chronic severe pain remains an often-undertreated medical condition as the
current treatment protocol remains largely unsuccessful ...
Consideration of 2-150 kHz Disturbances in North American Power Systems
(2017-07-27)
This is an evaluation of considerations for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) limits for power line communication (PLC) based on North American standards. In the vast majority of cases, smart meters are located in the ...
What do we really know about oxidative stress? Facing the problems with current oxidative stress studies in passerine birds.
(2017-07-27)
Oxidative stress occurs in organisms when there are not enough antioxidants to satiate reactive oxygen species formed during oxidative phosphorylation within the mitochondria. The excess in reactive oxygen species can cause ...
El distanciamiento dialectal de Emilio Carballido en Orinoco: recuento sociolingüístico de una travesía literaria en Venezuela
(2017-07-27)
Emilio Carballido, destacado dramaturgo mexicano, rompió en 1979 su tradición literaria, fiel a la creación de personajes e historias con marcada expresión verbal mexicana: ese es el año en el que está fechada Orinoco, ...
The Effect of Price Risk on Mongolian Copper Exports
(2017-07-27)
Mongolia has copious mineral deposits. Copper ore is the major commodity of the mineral industry and is also Mongolia’s main export item. China is the largest destination for Mongolia’s copper exports. To analyze the price ...
Examination of FlightStream for Proximity Flight with Stores
(2017-07-27)
The goal of the following work was to validate and demonstrate the capability of the FlightStream solver to model proximity flight. To this end, wind tunnel proximity data for a MK-82SE bomb released from an F-16 was used ...
Investigating the Role of Servicescape on Site Selection for Traditional and Virtual Event Venues: A Comparative Study
(2017-07-26)
The meeting and event industry has transformed into one of the leading sectors of the hospitality and tourism industries, making it important for traditional and virtual event venues to understand the logistics behind ...
Defining Chaos
(2017-07-26)
This thesis is a study of the paper "Defining chaos" by Brian Hunt and Edward Ott [1] with added details to make arguments easier to follow. They introduced a new entropy-based definition of chaos called expansion entropy. ...
Prototyping the Reference Implementation of Persistent Non-Blocking Collective Communication in MPI
(2017-07-26)
This research focuses on the design, prototype implementation and standardization sta- tus of persistent non-blocking collective operations for the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard, through functional extension of ...
An Evaluation and Comparison of Ad Hoc Routing Algorithms for the Purpose of Autonomous Vehicle Control
(2017-07-26)
The capability to communicating through a decentralized network with no pre-existing structure is invaluable in numerous different scenarios. In order to effectively utilize these networks, an efficient routing algorithm ...
Taxonomy and systematics of freshwater turtle blood flukes (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea)
(2017-07-26)
Blood flukes (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda: Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) currently comprise three families: Schistosomatidae Stiles and Hassall, 1898 (species infecting mammals and birds and one crocodilian), Aporocotylidae ...