Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Child Abduction in Television News Media: A Content Analysis
(2014-12-09)
Television news media can be a beneficial part of society. It allows for individuals to gain knowledge about what is occurring around them. When child abduction cases are presented to the public through television news ...
KATG as a Defense Against Hydrogen Peroxide Toxicity: From a Redundant C-Terminal Domain to the Paradoxical Synergy of Two Mutually Antagonistic Activities
(2014-12-09)
Catalase-peroxidases (KatGs), first discovered in 1979, are heme-dependent enzymes mainly found in bacteria, archaea and fungi. They are capable of decomposing H2O2 by catalatic and peroxidatic pathways. KatG has garnered ...
Protective role of adiponectin in volume overload-induced heart failure
(2014-12-09)
Heart failure (HF) is approaching epidemic proportions in United States. Adiponectin is a protein hormone that plays an important role in modulating glucose uptake and fatty acid β-oxidation in the heart. It has been well ...
A Comparative Spatial Analysis of Two Communities from the Hickory Ground Site in Wetumpka, Alabama
(2014-12-09)
This thesis presents analyses on the intra-site spatial arrangement of two communities from the Hickory Ground site, 1EE89, in Elmore County, Alabama. Spatially referenced archaeological datasets of a Protohistoric community ...
Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Algae for Bio-oil Production
(2014-12-09)
Increased demand of energy, depletion of fossil fuel resources, global warming and energy security issues have led to extensive research in renewable energy source. Among the different renewable energy sources, biomass is ...
Why is China's Savings Rate So High?
(2014-12-09)
China’s economy is quite distinctive in the modern world as it has a comparatively high savings rate. China’s rapid growth in recent years has depended on a development model that has rested heavily on industrial investment ...
Bridal Gown Shopping in Relation to Body Size, Image and Satisfaction, and Previous Experience and Anticipated Pleasure
(2014-12-09)
The purpose of this research was to gain insight into how consumer’s body size, image, and satisfaction with previous apparel shopping experiences relate to views of the bridal gown shopping experience in terms of anticipated ...
Fiction Stir Welding of 5083-H131 Aluminum Alloy using A2 and H13 Tool Steels or 420 Stainless Steel Tooling
(2014-12-09)
Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a solid state welding method developed by The Welding Institute. The process is environmentally friendly, highly repetitive and easily adapted to manufacturing geometries. New welding schedules ...
E-Textbook Evaluation Study
(2014-12-09)
The effects that technological advances have on education and how these advances can be used to improve the learning process are important research questions that attract many researchers to study different aspects of these ...
Determination of the Image Distance in a Plenoptic Camera
(2014-12-09)
Two methods for determining the distance between the lens of a plenoptic camera and the focal plane, known as the image distance, are presented and tested. The plenoptic
camera is a form of light field imaging, which seeks ...
An Efficient Transition Detector Exploiting Charge Sharing
(2014-12-09)
Transition detectors have been widely employed for online error and metastability detection, including in Better-Than-Worst-Case (BTWC) timing design of microprocessors that are designed to allow occasional timing errors. ...
Racial Differences in College Students’ Dietary Intake, Anthropometric Measures, Physical Activity, and Stress Levels
(2014-12-04)
Background: Approximately one-third of college students (33.7%) are overweight or obese. Additionally, three-fourths of American Americans are overweight or obese with higher risks of obesity-related diseases.
Objective: ...
Assessment of the Effects of Acid-Adaptation on the Thermal Tolerance of Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella Heidelberg
(2014-12-04)
Foodborne illnesses attributed to major pathogens cause more than 9.4 million episodes, 55,000 hospitalizations and 1,351 deaths each year. Two of the most predominant pathogens contributing to these statistics are Listeria ...
Ivory Tower Whistleblowers and Hotlines: Higher Education Institutions' (HEI) Voluntary Implementation of NACUBO-recommended Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 Whistleblowing Best Practices Provisions: A Web-Based Survey Instrument and Exploratory Research to Determine HEI Level of Implementation, Expectations, Effects and Barriers
(2014-12-04)
The purpose of this exploratory study is to determine Higher Education Institutions’ (HEIs) level of implementation, expectations and effects from voluntarily implementing National Association of College and University ...
Efficacy of bacteriophage treatment in reduction of Salmonella populations on poultry parts
(2014-12-04)
In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated statistics detailing foodborne illness occurrence and attribution in the United States. From this compilation of data, the CDC concluded that ...
Control System Development for Autonomous Aerobatic Maneuvering with a Fixed-Wing Aircraft
(2014-12-04)
The increasing popularity of unmanned aircraft today has led to the development of more sophisticated vehicles with greater operating capabilities. The multirole nature of many civil and military unmanned aircraft along ...
An Analysis of the Multi-scale Structure of Rough Surfaces
(2014-12-04)
Even with the various surface finishing techniques, all surfaces are rough with different structures and geometric characteristics over multiple scales. The roughness impacts significantly the friction, wear, and surface ...
Catenary Action in Steel Framed Structures with Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Infill & Buckling Restrained Braces
(2014-12-04)
The progressive collapse of structures is considered a major concern for designers since the Ronan Point incident. Preventing and mitigating progressive collapse has become a serious issue for all types of buildings. ...
A Metaheuristic for Autonomous and Self-Organizing Consensus Formation Inspired by Honey Bee Nest Site Selection Behavior
(2014-12-04)
This research presents a self-organizing system for engineering consensus among cooperating, distributed processes and studying consensus negotiation in natural systems that use the quorum sensing mechanism. The presented ...
The Effect of Sand on the Wear of Anodized Aluminum
(2014-12-04)
Sand can cause excessive wear in mechanical systems, especially when the motion is frequent and small in amplitude. A modified block-on-flat wear test of anodized aluminum on hard coat anodized aluminum was used to study ...