Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of different indicator microorganism enumeration protocols for water quality monitoring
(2016-05-04)
Water quality, such as drinking water quality, irrigation water quality, and recreational water quality, is important for public health. Escherichia coli, coliform and Enterobacteriaceae have been used as indicator organisms ...
Electrochemical Sensing System for Detection of Organophosphate Neurotoxins
(2016-05-03)
Jet engine oils contain appreciable amount of toxic ingredients, however are considered safe provided the oil stays in the engine and appropriate precautionary measures are taken. Organophosphorus compound tricresyl phosphate ...
Plasticity of Olfactory Response to Host-Related Plant Volatiles in The Parasitoid Microplitis croceipes
(2016-05-03)
Plants release blends of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in response to herbivore damage. Parasitoids use certain VOCs as indirect cues to locate their herbivore hosts. However, response of parasitoids to these chemical ...
Supervisory Development and Working Alliance: A Survey of Professional Counseling Supervisors
(2016-05-03)
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between supervisor development
and supervisor working alliance and identify factors that contribute to positive supervisor development and working alliance. In ...
Yoga: Effects on Throwing Performance, Range of Motion, Strength, and Flexibility in a NCAA Division I Softball Team
(2016-05-03)
Overhead throwing is a highly dynamic, total-body motion that requires strength, range of motion, flexibility, functional stability, and neuromuscular coordination. Throwing athletes train diligently to improve these ...
Stress Analysis in Bipolar Transistors
(2016-05-03)
Stress effects in semiconductor devices have gained significant attention in semiconductor industry nowadays. Stress effect in semiconductor devices is used as a beneficial effect in sensor applications and strain engineering ...
A New Concept Design of Directional Rumble Strips for Deterring Wrong-way Freeway Entries
(2016-05-03)
Wrong-way driving (WWD) on freeways has been identified as a serious traffic safety problem. Drivers who make wrong-way entries onto freeways pose a serious risk to the safety of other motorists and themselves. This study ...
Disease Resistance of Different Genetic Types of Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, Female × Blue Catfish, I. furcatus, Male Hybrid Catfish
(2016-05-03)
Eleven genetic types, Kansas Random × Rio Grande, Kansas Select × Rio Grande, 103KS × Rio Grande, Marion Select × Rio Grande, 103 KS × B, Marion Select × B, Auburn-Rio Grande × B, 103KS × D&B, Kansas Random × D&B, Marion ...
Suburbanization and the Magic City
(2016-05-03)
Since its founding in 1871, Birmingham’s metropolitan area has experienced enormous growth. In the late-nineteenth century, the city’s industrial origins influenced neighborhood development for working, middle, and elite ...
The Effects of Explicit Pronunciation Instruction in Elementary Spanish: Perception and Production of Vowels
(2016-05-03)
Research in pronunciation teaching in Spanish has focused mostly on intermediate or advanced levels, with only cursory attention paid to the elementary level. This research attempts to change that. Pronunciation is obviously ...
Transformative Landscapes: Through an Immersive Lens
(2016-05-03)
In a world where design and thinking have become quantifiable and didactic, the profession of landscape architecture has become saturated with ecological design. Data-driven methodology is practical and necessary; however, ...
Rates of Succession: Value of Urban Wilds
(2016-05-03)
Natural process is fundamental to landscape architecture. Combining forces with these processes is a landscape architects greatest challenge and opportunity. A dialogue with urban wilds successional qualities is the core ...
Shifting Landscapes
(2016-05-03)
Mobile Bay is a landscape that is experiencing distress from human manipulations, much like most coastal environments. The field of landscape architecture is attempting to tackle the issues by advocating for resilient ...
Improving Camber Predictions for Precast, Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders
(2016-05-03)
In precast, prestressed concrete construction, the eccentricity of the prestressing force typically results in a net upward girder deflection known as camber. Camber is first observed at the time of prestress transfer and ...
Maintenance Reimagined
(2016-05-03)
Landscape maintenance plays a vital role in how designed landscapes perform over time. The current approach is to suppress landscapes by repeating the same techniques through the seasons and years. The dynamic living ...
Revelatory Design, Making legible the local implication of a national energy infrastructure.
(2016-05-03)
This year The National Park Service is celebrating its 100-year anniversary. Since the creation of the first National Park America has shown its interest in preserving and protecting the nation’s cultural and natural ...
Play Neighborhood
(2016-05-03)
Nowadays the children’s discretionary time is diminishing. In the modern society, children spend their free time more on television, computing, video games and such kind of indoor activities. In addition, children spent ...
Beyond Remnant
(2016-05-03)
Cities' safety issue is one of the most important issues facing humanity today, due to its high population density and highly centralized properties. Over the years, the frequency and intensity of tornadoes and other such ...
Re-Imagining Interaction
(2016-05-03)
The sharing of thoughts, opinions and just common matters on social media, have gotten the attention of many people. They have the ability to reach diverse people far and wide and make unfathomable connections and outcomes. ...
Process-Based Design
(2016-05-03)
Landscape designs, nowadays, are commonly presented as compelling visions, both in real projects and conceptual designs. By the end of the deadline, people will be able to experience the new environment as the vision ...