Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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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 ...
State and Local Government Policy Adoption: Section 218 of the Social Security Act
(2013-12-05)
This research examines state and local governments’ decisions to participate in Social Security coverage for employees and the financial effects that mandating Social Security coverage will have on the budgets and pensions ...
Modeling of Tensile Properties of Woven Fabrics and Auxetic Braided Structures by Multi-Scale Finite Element Method
(2013-12-05)
This study is undertaken to build an appropriate mechanical model for the analysis of mechanical properties of forming fabrics by incorporation of multi-scale modeling concept comprising micro-mechanical model, meso-mechanical ...
A New Evaluation of Hernán Cortés’s Textual Strategies in Light of Documents Written by and about Diego Velázquez
(2013-12-05)
During the conquest of Mexico, Hernán Cortés used textual and political strategies in his Cartas de relación that helped him achieve a position of power within the Spanish Empire. These strategies have been investigated ...
Designing Goal-Oriented Systems: How Competition and Automation Foster Motivation and Results
(2013-12-04)
People often turn to goal-oriented systems to improve their lives and modify their behavior. With the rise of the Quantified Self movement, there are now a plethora of these systems and their related products available. ...
Effect of Microbial Inoculation on Nitrogen Plant Uptake and Nitrogen Losses from Soil and Plant-Soil Systems
(2013-12-04)
Reducing the negative impacts of agricultural fertilizers is a world-wide concern, both from an environmental and human health perspective. One way to reduce these impacts is by enhancing plant uptake, which improves ...
Online Community Response to A Political Corruption Issue: A Study of Sina Weibo in the Lei Zhengfu Affair
(2013-12-04)
This study conducted a content analysis of one of the most popular Chinese microblogging sites, Sina Weibo, to investigate how Chinese Internet users used microblogging in response to a well-known political corruption ...
Mitochondrial Copper Transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(2013-12-04)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains a copper pool within the mitochondrial matrix that is required for assembly and activity of cytochrome c oxidase. Matrix copper exists bound to an anionic, fluorescent molecule known as ...
An Exploratory Study of High School Geometry Teachers’ Applied Content Knowledge
(2013-12-04)
Results from the 2007 TIMSS showed the grim reality that the United States did not measure up to other industrialized countries in both fourth- and eighth-grade results in geometry (Mullis, Martin, & Foy, 2008). Furthermore, ...
High Speed Videographic Quick Stop Device for Orthogonal Machining
(2013-12-04)
Advances in digital high speed video acquisition make it possible to create a fully integrated virtual quick stop device to observe the orthogonal metal cutting process in real time. This research aims to provide additional ...
Preexposing a stimulus may enhance its subsequent extinction
(2013-12-04)
Extinction, the repeated exposure to a stimulus following conditioning results in decreased conditioned responding (i.e., conditioned fear), has long been used as a therapeutic treatment to attenuate various anxiety ...
Relationships between plant biomass and cover in the ground cover layer of longleaf pine forests at Fort Benning, GA
(2013-12-04)
Interest in restoring longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) ecosystems has recently grown but little information is available for estimating biomass in the highly diverse ground cover layer of longleaf pine forests. ...
Effect of Reflow Process on Glass Transition Temperature of Printed Circuit Board Laminates and Model for Prediction of Package-on-Package (PoP) Warpage and the Effect of Process and Material Parameters
(2013-12-04)
The effect of temperature exposure encountered both during assembly and in fielded products, has a known influence on glass transition temperature of printed-circuit board (PCB) laminate materials. Printed circuit board ...
Effects of pre- and probiotics on pond production, growth and disease susceptibility of channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus and Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus
(2013-12-04)
Disease outbreaks have become a major challenge to the profitable culture of fish and shellfish as aquaculture operations intensify. Globally, total annual losses from disease outbreaks have reached billions of United ...