Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of an Organic Nitrogen Source in a Yellow Squash - Collard Rotation
(2014-02-04)
In-season nitrogen (N) management is a common challenge in organic vegetable production. Especially when using polyethylene mulch combined with fertigation. There is a need for a highly soluble quick release N source that ...
Evaluation of Critical and Essential Concrete Highway Bridges in a Moderate Seismic Hazard
(2014-01-21)
The task of this thesis is to determine if the response of critical and essential bridges designed using the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications would meet performance requirements when subjected to the moderate seismic ...
Steady State and Transient Response Characteristics of Commercial Carbon Monoxide Sensors
(2014-01-14)
Suggestions have been made to include sensor platforms that are capable of detecting potential bleed air contamination events on commercial airliners to protect the health and safety of aircraft passengers and crew. ...
Genomics of permthrin resistance in the Southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus Say
(2014-01-14)
The Southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, is a vector of several human diseases including West Nile fever and St. Louis encephalitis, owing to its blood feeding behavior whereby the female takes multiple blood ...
Ant Colony Optimization : An Alternative Heuristic for Aerospace Design Applications
(2014-01-09)
A modified ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is applied to a set of solid-rocket-motor and single-stage solid missile design problems. A local search procedure is also integrated with the algorithm, adding a search ...
The Cost of Incubation: Manipulating Nest Microclimate and Examining Nest Site Selection to Understand Energetic Tradeoffs during Incubation in Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa)
(2014-01-09)
Incubating Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa), face tradeoffs between time spent incubating with time spent foraging. To explore the costs and investment strategies of incubating female wood ducks I (a) manipulated the microclimate ...
Examining the Influence of Parental Behavior on Adolescent Problem Behavior
(2014-01-09)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which parents’ behaviors influence to an adolescent’s involvement in the juvenile justice system. Previous research suggests, adolescents involved in the juvenile ...
“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 ...