Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Designing Optimal Layouts for Block Stacking Warehouses
(2017-05-16)
Storing pallets of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) on top of one another on a warehouse floor is known as block stacking. Although this storage system can be inexpensively implemented in any open area, it is challenging in terms ...
Movement, Occupancy, and Detectability of Green Salamanders (Aneides aeneus) in Northern Alabama
(2017-05-16)
Green salamanders (Aneides aeneus) are a species of concern throughout their range due to habitat modification and population declines. With few short-term movement studies on the species, the information is vital to better ...
Newcomers’ Trait Affectivity and Social Assimilation in Organizations
(2017-05-16)
Becoming assimilated into the organizational social environment is critical and challenging to newcomers. This study examined whether newcomers’ trait positive affectivity (PA) and negative affectivity (NA) could predict ...
Revitalizing Pepperell Mill Town by recreating social values: Post-industrial landscape design approach
(2017-05-15)
The main task of this project is to revitalize the Pepper Mill town by regenerating social values in the adjacent community. Due to former meaningful interconnections between the residents and the abundant post-industrial ...
A Subdivision Retrofit
(2017-05-15)
Because of the development process and its lasting impacts on the soil, subdivision landscapes often times communicate a placeless homogeneity. This thesis examines how a lot within the subdivision of Lundy West may be ...
Light and Shadow
(2017-05-15)
My project is about “ Light and Shadow”.
If we can see this world, it is because of light, when we see the light, we also can see the shadow with it. Light and shadow let us perceive everything around us.
Hundreds years ...
MOMENTS
(2017-05-15)
People are consumed with speed: work quickly, play quickly, love quickly. Something we do want to do quickly, but not everything. Apparently, many people are misleading by the pursuit of quality of life that they suffer ...
Temporal Awe: Designing for Succession and Emotion in Post-Industrial Landscapes
(2017-05-15)
This research-by-design thesis deals with the treatment of post-industrial sites in Landscape Architecture as spaces capable of bringing an emotional experience to visitors not typically seen within the urban fabric. As ...
17 years later: Changes in Vegetation Structure, Burrow Dispersion and Size-class Distribution at a Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Site in Alabama
(2017-05-15)
There are few studies that reevaluate vegetation structure at a gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) site after a long period of time in the southern Alabama or Florida panhandle portion of their range. The current study ...
Peer Victimization and Adjustment: The Moderating Role of Personal Orientations
(2017-05-15)
The present study examined whether associations between peer victimization and later aggression, depressive symptoms, and school liking are moderated by personal orientations, including popularity, affiliation, academic, ...
Flood Risk Assessment for the Vulnerable Populations and Infrastructure: Village Creek, Birmingham, Alabama
(2017-05-15)
Urban flooding is a prominent natural hazard in Village Creek that is associated with the large expanse of impervious surfaces in the area, which enhance storm runoff and overwhelm the drainage capacity of the storm sewer ...
The Human Dimensions of Whooping Crane Conservation in Alabama
(2017-05-11)
Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) were historically present throughout Alabama, including coastal and interior regions of the state. However, in the early part of the 20th century, habitat alteration and unregulated human ...
The Phenomenological Unveiling
(2017-05-05)
As humans, we often experience the world around us solely through our eyes, which has hindered us in designing. This is not to state that all human senses are not important, but rather to point out that our potential to ...
The Healing Garden: Studying Components of Healing Gardens and Expressing Them in Public Environments
(2017-05-05)
According to Robert Ulrich, as pointed out by Betsy
Severtsen in her article about healing gardens, our
world’s physical environment is being more widely
accepted as a direct influence on a person’s overall
health -- ...
Predicting Saltwater Intrusion Effects on Tidal Freshwater Wetlands of the Lower Apalachicola River
(2017-05-04)
Tidal freshwater forested wetlands are found between terrestrial and aquatic zones and are common near the outlets of the coastal rivers (Mitsch and Gosselink 2007). These wetlands are valuable resources due to the ecological ...
An Investigation of Hope, Health Promotion Lifestyle Behaviors, and Self-Efficacy in Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes
(2017-05-04)
The influence of hope and self-efficacy among young adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D) has not been fully researched. Research has been conducted on the effects of hope and self-efficacy in chronic diseases such as diabetes. ...
The Influence of Human Factors on Programming Performance: Personality, Programming Styles and Programming Attitudes
(2017-05-03)
The programming performance has been studied over several years. Researchers and scientists utilized various optimization technologies on algorithms and computer architectures to improve the performance. But, to date, few ...
Illuminating the Neurotoxic Effects of TFMPP derivatives in N27 Rat Dopaminergic Neuronal Cells through Oxidative Stress and Mitochondrial Dysfunction
(2017-05-03)
The use of designer drugs in the United States have increased tremendously. Designer drugs
are highly dangerous and most importantly the abusers don't have a clue with regard to what they
are getting. Thus, it is currently ...
The Relationship between Performance Appraisal and Psychological Contract: Three Generations of U.S. Hotel Employees
(2017-05-03)
This study aims to explore the relationship between performance appraisal and psychological contract from the perspective of U.S. hotel employees, as perceived by different generational cohorts. Specifically, this research ...
In-situ Electronics Measurement Using X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography System and Data Driven Prognostic Health Management
(2017-05-02)
In the 21st century, the electronics is everywhere and covers every aspect of human life. You can find it when watching TV, opening a laptop, or checking emails on a cell phone. Since 2015, 268 million PCs, 455 million ...