Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Toward Automatic Translation: From OpenACC to OpenMP 4
(2016-12-09)
For the past few years, OpenACC has been the primary directive-based API for programming accelerator devices like GPUs. OpenMP 4.0 is now a competitor in this space, with support from different vendors. In our work, we ...
Characterization of Defeat of Weaponized Biological Spores via Heat Transfer
(2016-12-09)
During the past few decades, there has been concern that large amounts of weaponized Bacillus Anthracis (Ba) is being created and stored in 55 gallon barrels by potential adversaries of the United States. The most likely ...
Mobile Robot for Retail Inventory Using RFID
(2016-12-09)
The use of RFID technology is increasing in retail stores, because it improves the performance of automated checkout, inventory and theft detection systems. In this dissertation, we present a novel implementation of a ...
The Materiality of Mastery: Eliza Lucas Pinckney and the Production of Plantation Culture in the Eighteenth-Century South
(2016-12-09)
My dissertation project, “The Materiality of Mastery: Eliza Lucas Pinckney and the Production of Plantation Culture in the Eighteenth-Century South”, examines objects, including texts, made by South Carolinian Eliza Lucas ...
Cultivation Effects of Medical Television Viewing on Aspiring Doctors
(2016-12-09)
Using a cultivation analysis approach, this study involved analysis of the effects of media drama viewing on the career choices, career perceptions, and career motivations of pre-medical students. Survey questions investigate ...
Clinical Tests of Lumbo-Pelvic-Hip Complex Function in Individuals with and without Scapular Dyskinesis: Implications for Identifying Individuals at Risk for Upper Extremity Injury
(2016-12-09)
Scapular dyskinesis reflects suboptimal scapular function that may have damaging effects on surrounding structures. Due to its association with nearly all shoulder injuries, it has been recommended that the dynamic scapular ...
Model for Permit Loads for Barnes Slough Bridge
(2016-12-09)
ALDOT has an eleven-span flat slab concrete bridge over Barnes Slough and Jenkins Creek on the northbound side of US Highway 82/231 that was built in 1915 for which there are no construction drawings or other available ...
Evaluating Soil-Weather-Agronomic Practices Interactions on Aflatoxin Corn Contamination in the South
(2016-12-09)
Aflatoxins are potent carcinogens and contaminated corn grains if consumed can have a deleterious effect on both humans and animals. Pre-harvest aflatoxin contamination in corn (Zea mays L.) is a continuing concern in the ...
Biological Control Potential of Spore-forming Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Suppressing Meloidogyne incognita on Cotton and Heterodera glycines on Soybean
(2016-12-09)
The objective of this study was to screen a library of PGPR strains to determine activity to plant-parasitic nematodes with the ultimate goal of identifying new PGPR strains that could be developed into biological nematicide ...
P2Y2 Receptor Biased Signaling in Control of Vascular Inflammation
(2016-12-09)
Vascular inflammation plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of endotoxic shock and sepsis. Bacterial endotoxins like lipopolysaccharide (LPS) are biologically active substances that initiate the inflammatory response ...
Phospholipid/Aromatic Thiol Hybrid Bilayers
(2016-12-09)
Gold-supported hybrid bilayers comprising phospholipids and alkanethiols have been found to be highly useful in biomembrane mimicking as well as biosensing ever since their introduction by Plant in 1993 (Plant, A. L. ...
Layer-Specific Connectivity Analysis with High-Resolution Functional MRI in Human Brain
(2016-12-09)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been increasingly used for understanding the human brain connectome. In this work, we utilized high-resolution fMRI to investigate the sensitivity of layer-specific connectivity ...
Do seasonal changes in developmental temperature have season-specific consequences in a lizard?
(2016-12-09)
Rapidly changing environmental conditions can reduce the fitness of a phenotype. Phenotypic plasticity can solve this problem by enabling individuals to develop phenotypes that are suited to their immediate environment. ...
Physiological Reactance and Discrimination in Response to Visual Stimuli of Persons with Down Syndrome
(2016-12-09)
Despite the enactment of several pieces of legislation, persons with disabilities still experience discriminatory human resource practices. The following dissertation investigates the effect of several physiological measures ...
Defining the Phenomenon: Trafficking in Persons, Advocate Organizations and Issue Framing
(2016-12-09)
The modern era of Trafficking in Persons (TIP)—beginning with the African Slave Trade (AST)—has seen an alarming increase in the number of victims of the phenomenon. Contemporary TIP (cTIP) is a result of the increased ...
Bioconversion of lignocellulose into acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE): pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation
(2016-12-09)
Abstract
The objective of the present dissertation is to investigate the bioprocess for the production of acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) from lignocellulosic feedstocks via ABE fermentation with solvent-producing ...
Microfluidic Interfacing for Primary Endocrine Tissue: Developing Bioanalytical Methodologies and Novel Fabrication Methods for Cell Culture and Analysis
(2016-12-09)
In order to bridge the gap between microfluidic designs and real world applications, microanalysis systems were developed using minimalistic design attributes which could be readily paired with compatible bioanalytical ...
Laser Field Interactions with Atoms and Molecules
(2016-12-09)
This dissertation explores multiple areas of laser matter interactions.
It studies four main topics: multi-photon (few photon) double ionization of He, double photoionization of He-like systems
from level resolved ...
Investigating the Dog-Human Social Bond via Behavioral and fMRI Methodologies
(2016-12-09)
Domestic dogs have been bred into a close relationship with humans, and it is one in which they are often considered family members just as human children are. Given the development of this intense bond, it is unsurprising ...
The role of atomic excited states in laboratory plasmas and a study in fine structure diagnostics for far infra-red astrophysical observations
(2016-12-09)
This dissertation has a focus on the role of atomic excited states in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. The emphasis is on systems for which perturbation theory is not expected to produce accurate results. The work ...