Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Climate Variability and Irrigation Impacts on Stream-Aquifer Dynamics in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin
(2015-08-18)
Climate variability cycles are responsible for short term fluctuations in climatic conditions thereby, affecting the water cycle and the availability of freshwater resources around the world. In Southeast United States, ...
Evaluating Methods for Estimating Delaware Bay Limulus polyphemus Abundance
(2015-08-18)
Monitoring is an essential component of wildlife management. In the United
States, Atlantic horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are harvested and relied upon by
several user groups in mid-Atlantic states, and managers ...
A MEMS Current Sensor Utilizing NdFeB Magnets
(2015-08-18)
The need for a current sensor in a 12V-1V DC-DC converter is discussed. Background topics of current sensing in DC-DC converters and magnetic MEMS are discussed. An iterative design process for a MEMS current sensor ...
Multicultural Counseling Competency of Counselors in Turkey
(2015-08-12)
The purpose of this study was to measure the multicultural counseling competency of counselors in Turkey. The multicultural counseling competency of Turkish counselors studied based on whether participants have or have not ...
Three Essays on Time Series Econometrics Analysis and Financial Market Applications
(2015-08-06)
This dissertation rst revisits the mean reversion properties of relative stock prices when
the US and the UK sever as reference countries. We present strong evidence of nonlinear
mean reversion of the stock price indices ...
Sorption/Desorption and Photodegradation of Dispersed Oil Components in Marine Ecosystem
(2015-08-06)
This effects of a prototype oil dispersant on solubilization, sorption, and desorption of three model Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediment-seawater systems were investigated. Increasing dispersant dosage ...
Executive Functioning in Children with Positive Illusory Bias: Examining the Relationship between Cognitive Characteristics and Self-Perception
(2015-08-06)
Optimistic self-perception has been demonstrated to be a common phenomenon in the general population (Bouffard, et al., 1998; Harter, 1988; Mezulis, et al., 2004; Sedikides, et al., 2005). The phenomena of biased perceptions ...
Investigation of Mass Transfer Phenomena in Supercritical Antisolvent Precipitation Processes
(2015-08-04)
This dissertation involves a detailed discussion of the production of organic and polymeric microparticles of controllable size and size distribution for several applications including certain pharmaceutical formulations. ...
A Study of the Vibrational Reliability Performance of Different Doped Low-Creep Lead-Free Solder Paste and Solder BGA Packages
(2015-07-31)
The growing use of smaller and more powerful electronic components in more varied and adverse environments, especially in regards to mobile consumer electronics, has created the need to better understand how recent lead-free ...
Assessment of Storm Water Quality through Porous Pavement Systems
(2015-07-31)
Stakeholders, (designers, industrial developers, governmental agencies, and private landowners) are increasingly concerned about enhancing storm water quality, reducing run off, and improving the recharge of ground water. ...
An Extract Function Refactoring for the Go Language
(2015-07-31)
Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal code structure without changing its external behavior. Refactoring is specified as a parameterized program transformation ...
Discovery and characterization of antibacterial compounds expressed by soil microorganisms using culture-dependent and -independent approaches
(2015-07-31)
The emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens has increased the demand for discovery of novel antibiotics. Both culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches were used to discover antibiotics against methicillin-resistant ...
Quality Evaluation of Live Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) based on Textural Profiling Analysis, Free Amino Acids Analysis, and Consumer Sensory Evaluation
(2015-07-31)
The consumption of live eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) has become an important part of the diet for consumers in the United States. Because large amounts of oysters are grown every year, it is necessary for oyster ...
A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Approach for Estimating Runoff Characteristics for Erosion and Sediment Control Practices in the Southeastern United States
(2015-07-30)
Soil discharged from construction sites to nearby waterbodies have a negative impact on water quality and the aquatic ecosystem. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP) in ...
An Exploration of Comprehension Instruction in Content-Area Elementary Classes
(2015-07-30)
Scores on national and international tests for students in the United States indicated that students are not performing proficiently in reading. Furthermore, students are not able to comprehend complex reading tasks, which ...
Redrawing the Maps for the Transfer of Writing Skills and Knowledge
(2015-07-30)
This research examines the case studies of two participants, students at a large land-grant university, as they transfer their knowledge of writing skills and practices across contexts as evidence of the shifting nature ...
Comparison between Radio Frequency (RF) and Traditional Heating Assisted Alkaline Pretreatment on Lignocellulosic Biomass
(2015-07-30)
Pretreatment plays an important role in making the cellulose accessible for enzyme hydrolysis and subsequent conversion because it more or less destroys resistance and recalcitrance of biomass. In this study, radio frequency ...
The Effects of Pressure on Strategy Selection for Decisions Made Under Uncertainty
(2015-07-30)
Decisions are often made in high-stakes or pressure filled situations. Some evidence suggests that in the presence of social and performance pressures, some people become less able to maintain the use of complex strategies ...
Development of 3D Background Oriented Schlieren with a Plenoptic Camera
(2015-07-30)
This dissertation investigates a novel idea of implementing background oriented schlieren (BOS) with a plenoptic camera along with its application for 3-dimensional (3D) density measurement and for depth perception (DP) ...
Thermal Conductivity Enhancment of Solid Eicosane-Based Silver Nanostructure-Enhanced Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage
(2015-07-29)
In this thesis, thermal conductivity of eicosane-based PCM was enhanced by suspending highly-conductive silver nanoparticles resulting in the formation of nanoparticle-enhanced PCM (NePCM). Eicosane (C20H42) was selected ...