Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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“There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute”: An Examination of P.T. Barnum’s Methods and Museum Controversy Today
(2014-01-09)
The purpose of this paper is to show that P.T. Barnum’s methods have been used in contemporary museums when dealing with controversial exhibits. This contention is supported by first exploring P.T. Barnum’s production of ...
Integrated Framework for Process and Product Synthesis/Design
(2014-01-09)
Future growth within the chemical process industries depends on various factors such as raw material and energy availability, sustainability etc. A systematic process synthesis and design framework integrated with molecular ...
Laboratory Scour Testing of Hard Cohesive Soils in Alabama
(2014-01-09)
Establishing scour parameters in order to estimate the loss of soil adjacent to bridge piers is a crucial element in the design of highway bridges crossing over rivers and streams. Although there are numerous design criteria ...
GridPick: A High Density Puzzle Based Order Picking System with Decentralized Control
(2014-01-09)
We develop a novel semi-automated order picking system called GridPick that enables high levels of throughput, space usage, and flexibility. The system uses unit sized conveyor modules in grid architecture to bring requested ...
Performance Evaluations on Ditch Check Practices and Products for Channelized Stormwater Runoff Control using Large-Scale Testing
(2013-12-19)
The primary purpose and focus of this research is to evaluate and improve erosion and sediment control practices deployed in channelized flow conditions on construction sites in an effort to better understand these practices ...
Fighting Culture: Class and the Early English Boxing Novel in Late Victorian Society
(2013-12-19)
The early English boxing novel emerges at a critical point in the wider culture of
transition that typifies the later Victorian age in England. Evidencing the emergence of an
increasingly populist literature and popular ...
Development and application of WetQual-C, a mechanistic model for simulating carbon dynamics, GHG gas emissions and carbon export from wetlands
(2013-12-17)
Wetlands possess qualities that distinguish them as the most important influencer of global carbon (C) budgets. They have the highest carbon density among all terrestrial ecosystems and are known as the greatest individual ...
Nutrient Dynamics in an Old-Growth Bottomland Forest: Congaree National Park, South Carolina
(2013-12-16)
Floodplains are important landscapes that act as boundaries between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Past research efforts have illustrated that floodplains perform many beneficial functions, such as sediment retention ...
Population Status and Reproductive Biology of Clematis Morefieldii, a Federally Endangered Plant
(2013-12-16)
Clematis morefieldii is a federally endangered, perennial climbing vine. It inhabits limestone drains and outcrops on the Cumberland Plateau escarpments of northeast Alabama and south-central Tennessee. The NatureServe ...
An Automated Tissue Digester for Pancreatic Islet Production
(2013-12-13)
Pancreatic digestion is the primary step in preparing islets of Langerhans for clinical transplantation for restoring euglycemia in Type-1 diabetes patients. The yield of islets from the traditional method developed by ...
Geometric Morphometrics and Phylogeny of the Catfish genus Mystus Scopoli (Siluriformes:Bagridae) and North American Cyprinids (Cypriniformes)
(2013-12-11)
Understanding the evolution of organismal form is a primary concern of comparative biology, and inferring the phylogenetic history of shape change is, therefore, a central concern. Shape is one of the most important and ...
Examining Irregular Word Learning: Do Young Children Use Decoding and Context to Read Irregular Words?
(2013-12-11)
The purpose of this study was to examine how readers build orthographic
knowledge for irregular words, defined as words that do not conform to conventional
phonics rules and patterns. This study tests my theory that ...
Culturing African Lungfish (Protopterus sp) in Uganda: Prospects, Performance in tanks, potential pathogens, and toxicity of salt and formalin
(2013-12-11)
Culturing species resilient to drought and stressful water quality conditions may be a significant part of the future of African aquaculture. Air breathing fishes potentially have a role in low-management culture systems ...
Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in a Peanut-Cotton-Bahiagrass Rotation
(2013-12-11)
Restoration of soil fertility is important in the peanut-producing portion of the Coastal Plain, where many soils are highly weathered, structurally weak, and low in fertility as a result of intense row cropping. A ...
Experimental and In Silico Fermentation of Glucose and Xylose with Scheffersomyces stipitis
(2013-12-11)
Fossil fuel reserves are running out, global warming is becoming a reality, waste recycling is becoming ever more costly and problematic, and unrelenting population growth will require more and more energy and consumer ...
Developing a Multidisciplinary Best Practice Manufacturing Education and Research Laboratory for 21st Century Competitiveness
(2013-12-10)
In the last decade both industrialists and educators have acknowledged the presence of competency gaps in graduates entering manufacturing careers. As a result, the United States is presently faced with a crippling skills ...
Engineering Polymer Networks for Enhanced Loading and Extended Release of Therapeutics via Molecular Imprinting
(2013-12-10)
Conventional topical ocular therapies such as eye drops and ointments are the current “go to” therapy, and account for over 90% of the market. However, topical drug delivery results in very low drug bioavailability, ranging ...
Comparison of Soil Organic Carbon Methods and Carbon Sequestration and Soil Characteristics in Louisiana Crawfish Ponds
(2013-12-10)
Two studies were conducted for this thesis research. In the first study, nine soil organic carbon (SOC) methods were evaluated using 336 soil samples from different regions, including Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas, as ...
Applications of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy to in-situ Dynamic Characterization of Energy Conversion and Storage Systems
(2013-12-05)
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is considered as a powerful and valid technique for non-destructive in-situ dynamic measurement of electrochemical power systems. Together with equivalent circuit (EC) simulation, ...
Small RNAs in Gossypium and Their Roles in the Response to Heat Stress
(2013-12-05)
Small regulatory RNAs, which usually are 20 to 24 nt in length, play crucial roles in plant growth, development, and stress response. Based on their origin, biogenesis and function, plant small RNAs can be classified into ...