Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Applying N-halamine Antimicrobial in Poultry Production and Food Processing for Improving Food Safety
(2017-07-22)
Food safety and food losses are drawing public attention, especially regarding meat and meat products. Using antimicrobial absorbent pads in packed meat trays and antimicrobial air filters in chicken production may provide ...
The Neurophysiological Correlates of Choice on Engagement, Motivation, and Motor Skill Learning
(2017-07-22)
Autonomous practice conditions have time and again shown to be advantageous for motor skill learning, but the reason for this benefit is still unclear. Some studies suggest this benefit arises from increased motivation ...
Investigation on Online Healthcare Social Platforms and Patient/Physician Performance through Data Analytics
(2017-07-22)
Essay 1:
It is unclear whether online patient communities are effective for health goal striving activities. Based on social cognitive theory, we identified two online mechanisms – social support and self-regulation – ...
Rural Tourism: An Examination of the Factors Influencing Revisit Intention to Rural Destinations in the Southeastern United States
(2017-07-22)
The continued growth in tourism over the last decade creates an opportunity for specialty forms of tourism to increase their market share. One area of expansion is rural tourism. Rural tourism a subset of cultural tourism. ...
Southern Root-knot Nematode (Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid and White) Chitwood) and Fungal Susceptibility of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) Accessions
(2017-07-22)
Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.), a spice crop native to southeast Asia, is undergoing evaluation as a niche crop for Alabama and other southeastern U.S. production areas. Thirteen accessions of Curcuma spp. (including eight ...
Killing the Common Core: An Analysis of State Policymaking
(2017-07-22)
Policymaking research explains and predicts what will happen when an issue enters the policy stream and why changes occur. Numerous theories, frameworks, and models have been created to attempt to explain policy shifts. ...
Statistical Time-of-Arrival Ranging by Measuring Round-Trip Time at Driver Layer in IEEE 802.11g Networks
(2017-07-22)
Alternative indoor localization methods have long been researched due to the unsuitability of GPS and cellular technology in indoor environments. Indoor localization systems find their applications in many areas such as ...
Cellular Confinement as a Means to Limit Sediment Resuspension
(2017-07-22)
This document contains the findings of experimental research that examines the effectiveness of small-scale confinement cells within the context of sediment basins, channels, or ditches. The confinement cells were tested ...
Examination of Parental Involvement in Relation to a Child's Academic Success
(2017-07-22)
Parents are their child’s first teacher, and education begins in the home. This study has been conducted to investigate the relationship between parental involvement and academic success. The study used a quantitative ...
Morita-Equivalence Between Strongly Non-Singular Rings and the Structure of the Maximal Ring of Quotients
(2017-07-22)
This dissertation focuses on extending certain notions from Abelian group theory and module theory over integral domains to modules over non-commutative rings. In particular, we investigate generalizations of torsion-freeness ...
Evaluation of Warm-Season Baleage in a Cow-Calf Production System
(2017-07-22)
A 52-d feeding trial was conducted to compare pearl millet (PM) and sorghum sudan (SS) harvested as baleage with bermudagrass hay (B) fed to cow/calf pairs during a winter feeding system. Alternating cone (C) and open-shaped ...
Solutions for Tractor-trailer Path Following at Low Speed
(2017-07-22)
Autonomous tractor-trailer systems have become more and more popular in real life. This dissertation focuses on control and estimation for the path following problem where space-based path is used as reference. The goal ...
Impact of Harvest Maturity on Consumer Preference, Fruit Quality, and Postharvest Longevity of Two Kiwifruit Cultivars (Actinidia chinensis Planch.)
(2017-07-22)
Harvest maturity is closely associated with postharvest performance and consumer preference of kiwifruit. This research focused on the impact of harvest maturity on consumer preference and postharvest performance of two ...
Geology of the 1:24,000 Roanoke East Quadrangle and investigations of the Long Island Creek Gneiss within the southernmost Appalachians, Alabama and Georgia
(2017-07-22)
The geology of the 1:24,000 Roanoke East, Alabama, Quadrangle has been determined to be of high mapping priority by the State Geologic Mapping Advisory Committee due to the rapid development along the I-85 corridor west ...
Baccalaureate Nursing Student and Faculty Views of Effective Teaching
(2017-07-22)
This study aimed to determine baccalaureate nursing student and nursing faculty views of effective teaching. Using the Teacher Behavior Checklist (TBC), a psychometrically sound tool, participants were sent an email ...
Three Essays on the Gender Wage Gap and Residential Water Demand
(2017-07-22)
This dissertation includes two essays that analyze the wage gap in twelve developing countries, and another essay focuses on residential water demand in China. Chapter 1 decomposes the gender wage differentials in twelve ...
Comparative genomics reveal symbiont-host evolution of deep-sea tubeworms (Siboglinidae, Annelida) and wood-boring bivalves (Xylophagaidae, Mollusca)
(2017-07-22)
Chemosynthetic communities are patchily distributed in deep-sea ecosystems, including hydrothermal vents, methane seeps and whale, wood, and algal falls. Unlike abyssal seafloor communities that suffer from food limitation ...
Effects of Growing Season, Application Timing, and Substrate Drench Applications of Paclobutrazol as Compared to Daminozide Standards on Growth and Flowering of Gerbera Daisy ‘Bright Red with Light Eye’
(2017-07-22)
Gerbera daisy (Gerbera jamesonii Hook. f.) is a popular pot plant with showy flowers, commonly marketing in spring. However, plants grown under greenhouse conditions can stretch or grow too large for containers. Plant ...
Chemokine ccl33 is a key regulator of fish barbel development
(2017-07-22)
Barbels are integumentary sense organ that can be found in fishes, reptiles and amphibians. Barbel structures are relatively simple, consisting of central rod of cartilage, nerve trunk, artery and taste bud. The cell types ...
Current Control for a Single-Phase Grid-Connected Inverter Considering Grid Impedance
(2017-07-22)
The voltage source inverters are typically used to connect between distributed generation and the utility grid. In the grid-connected inverter, an output filter is often utilized in the inverter terminals to reduce the ...