Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Strategies for Monitoring Pathologic Conditions and Treatment Efficacy in Murine Models
(2016-12-09)
On the surface, the pathologies of infectious disease and cancer appear fundamentally different; however, there exist several commonalities including pharmacological targets and resistance mechanisms, immune response, and ...
Control of Sawtooth Oscillation Dynamics using Externally Applied Stellarator Transform
(2016-12-09)
The control of sawtooth oscillations is an active area of tokamak research. The sawtooth oscillation is driven by ohmic heating of the core plasma until the safety factor drops below one triggering the growth of an m=n=1 ...
Evaluation of Selected Edamame Cultivars for Isoflavone Content, Organoleptic Characteristics, and Production in Central Alabama
(2016-12-09)
Edamame [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is vegetable soybean harvested and consumed at the R6 development stage. The growing popularity of edamame as a healthy snack food has led to increased interest in edamame production from ...
Identifying Potential Cisco Refuge Lakes in Minnesota under Future Climate Warming Scenarios
(2016-12-09)
Fish habitat models were developed and applied to investigate the impacts of future climate change on cisco oxythermal habitat in Minnesota lakes. Cisco Coregonus artedi is the most common cold-water stenothermal fish ...
Development of Specifications for ALDOT Mass Concrete Construction
(2016-12-09)
In mass concrete construction, concrete temperature requirements must be established to
prevent delayed ettringite formation (DEF) and thermal cracking. This involves limiting the
maximum allowable concrete temperature ...
Identification of Selenium Reducing Species Within and Suggested Optimization of a Passive Biological Reactor
(2016-12-09)
As concern for the environment moves to the forefront of the issues considered most pressing by society, mankind is becoming increasingly aware of the harmful things it discharges into the ecosystem in the name of industry ...
Exploring New Technologies for Sustainable Viticulture in the Southeastern United States
(2016-12-09)
In the southeastern United States, Pierce’s Disease (PD) is the major limiting factor for production of Vitis vinifera L, European wine grapes. Recently bred, PD resistant 87.5% V. vinifera selections (‘U0501-12’, ‘U0502-01’, ...
Removal of pathogenic bacteria in algal turf scrubbers
(2016-12-09)
Algal Turf Scrubbers (ATS) are ecologically engineered systems that utilize the growth of filamentous algae on a submerged surface to remediate polluted water using sunlight as the main energy input into the system. Previous ...
Geomorphic and Sedimentologic Analysis of Four Streams in Southeastern Alabama: Channel and Habitat Response to Changes in Land Use
(2016-12-09)
Streams of the Southeastern US have varying degrees of degradation due to the long history of agricultural land use, reflected in incising and eroding banks with aggradation of fine grained legacy sediment. These effects ...
Mass Customization – An Approach to Designing Product Platforms for Mass Customization
(2016-12-09)
Over the last several decades, the production industry has experienced a paradigm shift from traditional mass production processes toward mass customization processes; this enables consumers to become an integral part in ...
Elder Voices: Slavery and Aging in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(2016-12-09)
This dissertation explores the ways in which nineteenth-century apologist writers sought to discount and silence the agency of African Americans through literary representations of enslavement in elder(ly) “Aunts” and ...
Atomic Characterization of L_1 And The Lorentz-Bochner Space L^X(p,1) for With Some Applications
(2016-12-09)
In the 1950s, G. G Lorentz introduced the spaces $\Lambda(\alpha)$ and $M(\alpha)$, for $0<\alpha<1$ and showed that the dual of $\Lambda(\alpha)$ is equivalent to $M(\alpha)$ in his paper titled 'Some New Functional ...
Acculturation and Perceived Family Support: Influences on Coping Among Asian American College Students
(2016-12-09)
Acculturation among Asian Americans has become an increasingly important construct for researchers and professionals in psychology, particularly for the college-aged population. Acculturation has been studied extensively ...
Superconducting Flexible Cables For Cryogenic Applications
(2016-12-09)
In systems for cryogenic electronics experiments and applications containing multiple temperature stages down to the milliKelvin temperature range, such as in quantum computing research performed in dilution refrigerators, ...
Improving Sonar Reconstruction with Sparse Reconstruction Techniques
(2016-12-09)
In many sonar applications, traditional processing can fail to provide adequate information to accomplish the respective goals, because the processed information is either strictly bandlimited to the transmit band, distorted ...
Superconducting Resonators on Thin Film Flexible Substrates
(2016-12-09)
In cryogenic electronics applications and experiments, i.e., for cold detectors and low temperature quantum computing, the base temperature is typically below 100 milli-Kelvin. In order to reach this temperature range, a ...
Exploring the Role of Self-Esteem, Masculinity, and Attachment on Males' Responses to Social Support
(2016-12-09)
The current study explored the relationship between self-esteem, attachment, and masculinity and males’ responses to two types of social support messages. Participants read a scenario in which they were asked to imagine ...
Synthesis, Processing and Dynamic Fracture Behavior of Particulate Epoxy Composites with Conventional and Hierarchical Micro-/Nano-fillers
(2016-12-09)
Polymer-based particulate composites have a wide range of engineering applications due to their mechanical, chemical, dielectric, and lightweight characteristics as well as simplicity of processing. The mechanical performance ...
A Study of the Impact of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program in Alabama Schools
(2016-12-09)
This study examined the fruit and vegetable intake of a large sample of Alabama school children in elementary schools receiving fifty percent or more free or reduced priced lunch who qualify for the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable ...
The Role of Hope in School Leadership
(2016-12-09)
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore the relationship of hope in school principal leadership through (a) the administration of a self-report instrument that measures trait hope in the school principal, ...