Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Pinning Down the Change: A Community-Level Study of Timberland Ownership Change
(2014-05-13)
Over the last twenty years, the forest products industry has sold much of its land base
throughout the U.S. The majority of that land is being transferred from corporations in what was
a traditional vertically-integrated ...
Political Patents of Monopoly: Parliamentary and Public Discourse of Economic Policy, 1628-1648
(2014-05-13)
Discussion of patents of monopoly during the reign of Charles I reflected the changing political environment from the 1620s through the 1640s. Members of parliament and merchant pamphleteers described monopolies as ...
Mate Choice, Reproductive Success, and How Population Demography Influences Fawning Season of White-tailed Deer
(2014-05-13)
Mate choice of white-tailed deer based on age and body size is poorly understood. I studied a captive population to evaluate mate choice and reproductive success. Age differences between mated pairs did not differ from ...
Understanding Unsteady Flow and Modeling Water Quality Dynamics in the Coastal Systems under Various Hydrological and Climate Scenarios
(2014-05-12)
Three dimensional hydrodynamic Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) model was used to simulate flow, temperature, dye, age of tracer, and salinity in the Alabama coastal systems. The study area Perdido Bay and Wolf Bay ...
Optimal egg incubation temperature, and the effects of diet on growth of hatchling Eastern Indigo snakes (Drymarchon couperi) during a captive head-start program
(2014-05-12)
Optimal husbandry techniques are desirable for any headstart program, but frequently are unknown for rare species. In this thesis I determine the optimal incubation temperature and optimal diet diversity for eastern indigo ...
Pattern of Invasion of a Nonindigenous Cyprinid and Potential Shifts in Native Fish Assemblage Structure
(2014-05-12)
Invasive species increasingly threaten global biodiversity with faunal homogenizations and are of specific concern in the highly diverse aquatic systems of the Southeast United States. However, patterns of invasion and ...
Movement Patterns of Gray Triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, Around Artificial Reefs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(2014-05-12)
Relatively little is known about the ecology of gray triggerfish, Balistes capriscus Gmelin, despite its importance to both sport and commercial fisheries. In particular, gray triggerfish habitat use is not well understood. ...
Fronteras de cal: Discursos identitarios en la literatura futbolística
(2014-05-12)
The present thesis studies the construction of collective identity through soccer literature in Spain. This literature acts as a good example of discursive mechanisms that are used by the different imagined communities ...
Efficient Movement and Task Management in MapReduce for Fast Analytics of Big Data
(2014-05-12)
MapReduce programming model has achieved great success over the past decade. With its recognized merits such as superior scalability and strong fault tolerance, MapReduce has thrived as a primary processing engine adopted ...
Spatiotemporal Breeding Strategies within a High Density, Male-skewed White-tailed Deer Population
(2014-05-12)
Animal movement is an integral part of most ecological, behavioral, or evolutionary processes observed in nature, and it has wide implications to numerous broad issues ranging from dispersal and migration to habitat ...
Investigating Termite Behavior and Application Methods of Non-repellent Termiticides for the Control of Eastern Subterranean Termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)
(2014-05-09)
The effects of three non-repellent termiticides were evaluated in the laboratory against the eastern subterranean termites, Reticulitermes flavipes Kollar, to determine their efficiency in controlling this species. Treating ...
iTad: An I/O-Aware Thermal Model for Data Centers
(2014-05-08)
With the ever-growing cooling costs of large-scale data centers, thermal management
must be adequately addressed. Thermal models can play a critical role in thermal management
that helps in reducing cooling costs in data ...
Three Essays in Applied Economics on Household Consumption
(2014-05-08)
This dissertation consists of three essays in applied economics on household consumption. Common to each essay is the use of aggregate data. Understanding how economic theory and model of household consumption are employed ...
An Examination of Transitioning and Relationship Building among High School Students and Mentors: A Strength-Based High School Completion Program
(2014-05-07)
High school dropout rates in the United States have a negative impact on society at large. Dropping out of high school has been shown to have a positive correlation to increased crime rates (America’s Promise Alliance, ...
Escalation Revisited: Investigating the Influence of Personality and Organizational Support on Escalation of Commitment
(2014-05-07)
Escalation of commitment research has been narrow in its scope of influencing factors. A goal of this study was to remedy this gap by including factors at the individual, organizational, and decision context level that ...
Design and Testing of an Electronic Load Board for Power Supply Validation and Verification
(2014-05-05)
As the need for high efficiency in power supplies increases, so does the need to test and verify the designs of the supplies. To test the design, efficiency, and reliability of a low-voltage, high-current power supply, an ...
Exploring Brand Equity: Residents and Non-Residents’ Perceptions of Locally-Owned Versus Multinational Hotel Brands in Nigeria
(2014-05-05)
This study investigated the perceptions of Nigerians and non-Nigerians’ on locally owned and multinational hotel brands operating in Nigeria. The influx of multinational hotels into Nigeria improves the country’s hotel ...
Assessing effects of supplemental feeding and Threadfin Shad addition to recreational fishing ponds using stable isotope analysis
(2014-05-05)
Pond enhancements are commonly used to increase fish production or enhance angling opportunities, but their effects are often not evaluated. I used stable isotope analysis to estimate the contribution of different rates ...
Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) as Electron Emitters for Plasmas Operating in Subatmospheric pressure under DC and Pulsed Fields
(2014-05-05)
Subatmospheric pressure is defined as the pressure from several milliTorr to several hundred Torr. The plasmas operated in subatmospheric pressure have the advantages of easier construction and stable operation. The ...
An Economic Comparison of Three Intensive Fish Production Systems
(2014-05-05)
A study was conducted to compare the economic costs and returns of three intensive aquaculture production systems located in Auburn and Browns, Alabama. The objective of this project was to examine the potential profitability ...