Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Population Regulation of Frogs and Lizards in a Lowland Wet Neotropical Forest: Integrating Alternative Hypotheses
(2017-07-26)
Populations can be regulated in space and time from the “bottom-up” by resources (e.g., food), from the “top-down” by predation, or from parallel factors, such as interactions with conspecifics or heterospecifics. Amphibians ...
Essays on Applied Econometrics
(2017-07-26)
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay analyzes the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the food products sector in Turkey. An Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model which is ...
Conversion of biomass derived carbohydrate to value added chemicals by liquid-phase thermochemical and biochemical processing
(2017-07-26)
Levulinic and lactic acid are considered as highly versatile chemicals with a potential to be building-block for the synthesis of various upgraded chemicals. The main objective of this study is to develop novel strategies ...
Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Spacecraft Relative Motion
(2017-07-26)
The description and control of the relative motion of spacecraft has attracted a great deal of attention over the last five decades. This is as a result of its numerous applications in rendezvous and proximity operations, ...
Inverse source problem and inverse diffusion coefficient problem for parabolic equations with applications in geology
(2017-07-26)
This dissertation deals with inverse problems for parabolic partial differential equations with an integral constraint and their applications in geology. We employ analytical and numerical methods to analyze and approximate ...
Board Level Reliability of Lead-Free Solder Interconnections with Solder Doping Under Harsh Environment
(2017-07-26)
The electronics packaging industry has moved from eutectic Sn-Pb solder to the lead-free near-eutectic Sn-Ag-Cu (SAC) solder system in the past few years. Reliability performance for Lead-Free solder joint under “extreme” ...
An Examination of Coaching Leadership Style Preferences of Female Professional Basketball Players
(2017-07-26)
In athletics, every athlete on any team prefers different behaviors from their coach.
Previous research has not been able to articulate player preferences regarding their preferred
coaching behaviors and if their coaches ...
Measuring Attachment in Adolescence: A Validation of the IPPA in Adolescents with Illegal Sexual Behaviors
(2017-07-25)
The Inventory of Parental and Peer Attachment (IPPA; Armsden & Greenberg, 1987) is a
well-established measurement instrument for assessing attachment during adolescence. However,
the factor structure of the measure has ...
From Trauma to Testimony: Resilience in Four Contemporary Novels
(2017-07-25)
As the work of eminent literary trauma theorists Cathy Caruth and Elaine Scarry has persisted as integral to the field, literary trauma studies now has a twenty-year legacy prioritizing the silencing and shattering impact ...
Essays on the Labor Market for Internships
(2017-07-25)
In chapter one we first describe the demand for interns. By processing the text of all available ads on a popular internship website, we are able to characterize the occupation that best matches the advertised internship. ...
Pharmacological characterization and functional rescue of the giant panda and human melanocortin-4 receptors
(2017-07-25)
The melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) is a member of family A rhodopsin-like G protein-coupled receptors. It is well established that MC4R is critically involved in regulating food intake and energy expenditure in mammals. ...
A Reduced Element Map Representation and Applications: Map Merging, Path Planning, and Target Interception
(2017-07-25)
Modern autonomous systems require complex and heavy computations. The complexity can be reduced by eliminating or integrating redundant information. In the case of mobile vehicles, occupancy grid map representations are ...
Application and Toxicity Assessment of Antimicrobial N-halamines for Food Safety Controls
(2017-07-25)
Cross-contamination from food-associated environments accounts for a big portion of microbial contamination in food products. The objective of this study is to develop N-halamine based antimicrobial coatings on various ...
The Regulation of Release of Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV from Healthy and Diabetic Skeletal Muscle
(2017-07-25)
Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) is a multifaceted enzyme that can be shed from skeletal muscle membrane via matrixmetalloproteinases (MMPs). Tissue inhibitors of MMPs (TIMP) within the extracellular matrix (ECM) modulate ...
Perceptions of Teaching Excellence: An Examination of Foreign and U.S.-Educated Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(2017-07-25)
This study examined the teaching qualities and behaviors that U.S.-educated and foreign-educated faculty who teach at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) deem necessary for teaching excellence. The Teacher ...
An Examination of Job Satisfaction and Work/Life Balance among Racial Minority Faculty in Higher Education
(2017-07-25)
Racial minority faculty remain underrepresented in higher education institutions across the U.S. Faculty continue to encounter barriers to recruitment and retention such as over extension, discrimination, the lack of ...
Microparticle Dynamics in Strongly Magnetized Low Temperature Plasmas
(2017-07-25)
Dusty plasma systems consist of charged microparticles (usually called dust grains) embedded in a background plasma. The dust component can significantly modify the background plasma by collecting electrons and ions, thus ...
Toeplitz Matrices are Unitarily Similar to Symmetric Matrices
(2017-07-25)
We prove that Toeplitz matrices are unitarily similar to complex symmetric matrices.
Moreover, two $n\times n$ unitary matrices that uniformly turn all $n\times n$ Toeplitz matrices via
similarity to complex symmetric ...
Automated microfluidic device development for metabolism, nutrient uptake, and hormone secretion analyses of primary endocrine tissues
(2017-07-25)
Pancreatic islets secret the dominant endocrine hormone, insulin, which controls the metabolic function fo nearly all other organ systems. Additionally, adipose tissue (fat) is now understood to be a complex, multicellular ...
Characterization of the global regulatory network of trans-translation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(2017-07-25)
Recycling stalled ribosomes is a bioenergetically important process for survival and propagation of bacteria. The primary ribosome rescuing mechanism in bacteria is trans-translation which is catalyzed by transfer messenger ...