Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Orientation Affects Growth and Harvest Yield of Ocimum basilicum ‘Cardinal’ L. Grown on a Novel, Inexpensive Vertical Structure
(2017-04-27)
Cardinal basil (Ocimum basilicum ‘Cardinal’ L.) was grown on a novel, inexpensive, A-frame vertical structure developed at Auburn University. The structures were built from treated lumber with cattle fencing on each of the ...
Essays on International Timber Products Trade
(2017-04-27)
During the last decade, the production and trade of timber products have gone through rapid change due to the implementation of several new policies and regulations. Specifically, one of the world’s largest exporters of ...
Alternative ingredients in practical diets for Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)
(2017-04-27)
It is a well-known that fish meal supplies will not increase as most fisheries are beyond sustainable limits. If aquaculture and shrimp production in particular is expected to expand, the industry must move away from fish ...
The Relationship between Delinquency and Creative Writing for Detained Adolescent Males
(2017-04-26)
This study examined the use of a brief writing intervention, Writing Our Stories (WOS), as it relates to delinquency, impulsivity, and IQ in a sample of detained adolescent males. The oppositional and unruly subscales of ...
Geysering Caused by the Sudden Release of Pressurized Air Pockets
(2017-04-26)
Uncontrolled air pockets released from water filled shafts can lead to geysering in stormwater systems. Such occurrences are deleterious from public health and environmental standpoints and can cause property and structural ...
The Socio-Economic Impact of Concentration of Timberland Ownership in Alabama
(2017-04-26)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the relationship between concentration of timberland ownership at the county level which has more than 50% of its population living in rural areas and quality of life in Alabama. ...
Tunable Polymersomes: Towards Enzyme Delivery Through the Blood-Brain Barrier
(2017-04-26)
Delivery of therapeutics to the brain through non-invasive administration is a difficult task due to the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which prevents the transport of 98% of therapeutics. In GM1 gangliosidosis, patients are ...
Developing Single page application with best practices
(2017-04-26)
Browsers have been around since early 1990 and have been used for disseminating information using HTML, CSS and Javascript. Initially, Javascript was used as client side scripting language and its use was limited to data ...
Synthesis, Characterization, and In-situ Monitoring of Promoted ZnO Sorbents for Desulfurization in Fuel Cell Applications
(2017-04-26)
Energy from conventional power plants and transportation vehicles usually end up as low grade waste heat and this accounts for more than 70% of the fuel energy input. Fuel cell power systems for logistic or stationary ...
Assessing the Effectiveness of Collaborations Between U.S.-Ghanaian Public Universities
(2017-04-26)
Partnerships between United States and West African universities continue to grow and have become an important part of contemporary higher education engagement. Example of these types of collaborations/partnerships is U.S. ...
“The Skeleton in America’s Own Cupboard”: Mississippi’s Theodore G. Bilbo and the Shaping of Racial Politics, 1946-1948
(2017-04-26)
In the summer of 1946, Theodore Bilbo, a politician from rural southeast Mississippi, ran for election as a United States Senator. Fearing that a large number of newly-enfranchised blacks in his state would work to have ...
Evaluation, Local Calibration, and Validation of Performance Prediction Models in AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Software Using NCAT Test Track Data
(2017-04-26)
The AASHTOWareTM Pavement ME Design software was adopted by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) for structural pavement designs. The performance prediction models in the software ...
Instructional Strategies in Adolescent Literacy: The Process Sixth-Grade Science Teachers Use to Integrate Strategies during Instruction, and How Their Students Utilize Them
(2017-04-26)
Instructional strategies are important components for facilitating active engagement in reading text. This comparative case study sought to determine what instructional strategies three sixth-grade science teachers used, ...
Mathematical and Numerical Analysis for Linear Peridynamic Boundary Value Problems
(2017-04-26)
Peridynamics is motivated in aid of modeling the problems from continuum mechanics which involve the spontaneous discontinuity forms in the motion of a material system. By replacing differentiation with integration, ...
Rainbow Trees in Edge-Colored Complete Graphs and Block Decompositions of Almost Complete Graphs
(2017-04-26)
This dissertation focuses on two problems, the first involving the existence of many edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees in edge-colored complete graphs, and the second, creating a balanced sampling plan for a two-dimensional ...
Exploring the role of carotenoid pigments in physiological function and color signals
(2017-04-26)
The study of carotenoid-based coloration, particularly in bird species, is a large and growing literature that is increasingly defined by the framework of a single overarching concept, the resource tradeoff hypothesis. ...
Optimization and Investigation of SO2 Adsorption Process for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode Protection
(2017-04-25)
Gas-phase contaminant removal is a critical process for power supply systems (e.g. fuel cells and gas turbines). Because of high-energy efficiency, low emissions, and fuel flexibility, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) are ...
Comparison of IoT Application Layer Protocols
(2017-04-25)
It has been almost 20 years since the concept of the Internet of Things was first proposed. Now, IoT has become a leading technology that is becoming pervasive in our lives. However, behind the wide deployment of IoT ...
Evaluating Potential Agricultural Use of Industrial Byproducts
(2017-04-25)
The large quantity of byproducts produced by the U.S. industry requires environmentally friendly and economical means of disposal. Integration of certain byproducts (e.g., papermill lime mud and calcium silicate slag) into ...
Analysis of a drill core from the central uplift of Flynn Creek impact structure, Tennessee
(2017-04-25)
Flynn Creek impact structure is a small, asymmetric marine impact structure located in north-central Tennessee that formed when a hypervelocity impact occurred in an ancient shallow marine environment, with the target ...