Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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A Collaborative Tool for Communities of Practice to Share Best Practices
(2013-09-30)
This dissertation presents a For Youth For Life (FYFL) cloud tool as a unique solution to a problem of identifying an easy to use, scalable, cost effective, and fault tolerant collaborative system or tool for members of ...
Dielectric Permittivity Measurements of Electronics Cooling Fluids
(2013-09-23)
High performance electronics often present heat management challenges which can, in some applications, be mitigated through the use of liquid cooling technologies. In this work, select 3M Novec and 3M Fluorinert dielectric ...
Examining the Relationship between Work Stress, Emotion Regulation, and Adult-Child Interactions among Family Child Care Providers
(2013-09-18)
This study examined work-family stress, emotion regulation, and how the combination of these variables affect the quality of adult-child interactions in a sample of family child care providers. I hypothesized that family ...
SQSTM1/p62 Expression Effects on Mitochondria and Protection from Neurodegeneration: A Proposed Role from Mitochondrial Dynamics to Learning and Memory
(2013-09-12)
Sequestosome 1(SQSTM1/p62) is a multi-domain scaffolding protein involved in
multiple cellular processes ranging from endocytosis to protein degradation that employ
both the ubiquitin proteasome system and autophagy. In ...
Paraoxonase Responses to Exercise and Niacin Therapy in Men with Metabolic Syndrome
(2013-09-12)
Our purpose was to characterize changes in paraoxonase 1 (PON1) activity and concentration after single aerobic exercise sessions conducted before and after 6-weeks of niacin therapy in men with metabolic syndrome (MetS). ...
Surviving the Spill: Stakeholder Perceptions of the Commercial Seafood Supply Chain in Alabama and Mississippi After the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
(2013-09-12)
Stakeholders in the commercial seafood industry in Alabama and Mississippi have experienced a series of environmental and man-made shocks in the last decade. Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, the recession of 2008, and the ...
The evaluation of post-surgical processing on the measurement of cutaneous and myocutaneous biopsy specimen dimension in cats
(2013-08-28)
The purpose of this study was to determine if post surgical processing affected the dimensions of skin samples obtained from cats. A second objective was to identify factors that contributed to changes in the dimensions ...
Economic Impact of Recreational Angler Visitation to Lake Guntersville, Alabama
(2013-08-22)
Recreational fishing in Alabama is a major revenue source for communities surrounding popular fishing destinations as well as a source of tax revenue for local, regional, and state governments. Statewide economic data on ...
Shifting Relationships Between Crayfish and Symbiotic Worms in Surface Water and Subterranean Environments
(2013-08-22)
Branchiobdellidans are small annelids (Clitellata) that have neutral, positive, and negative effects on stream crayfishes. Host effects are context dependent, with positive effects (increased survivorship and growth) ...
Development and Testing of Innovative Instructional Materials to Improve Student Learning in Engineering Classes - Case Studies, Smart Scenarios and Serious Games
(2013-08-21)
Most mechanical engineering courses require students to work on over-simplified theoretical representations of real-world problems. Although this gives students an in-depth understanding of concepts and principles, they ...
HadioFS: Improve the Performance of HDFS by Off-loading I/O to ADIOS
(2013-08-21)
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the underlying storage for the whole Hadoop stack, which includes MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, etc. Because of its robustness and portability, HDFS has been widely adopted, often ...
Development of a test procedure to study the effect of unilateral load on the posture and trunk biomechanics during walking (Gait) using nonlinear methods
(2013-08-21)
Low back pain is a common musculoskeletal disorder that affects 80 percentages of people at some point in their lives. In the United States it is the most common cause of job-related disability, a leading contributor to ...
Response of Deep Foundations to Seismic Loads in Alabama
(2013-08-21)
Deep foundations are commonly used as foundation elements for bridges in Alabama. Due to the implementation of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Load and Resistance Factor ...
Characterization of the mechanism of 4-Hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase (IspH)
(2013-08-21)
In this thesis, two projects were carried in the context of understanding the reaction mechanism of 4-Hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase (also called HMBPP reductase or IspH).
The first project is the ...
A New Deal for Writers: The Alabama Writers' Project and Its Contributions to American History
(2013-08-20)
At the height of the Great Depression and the New Deal, administrators and staff of the Federal Writers’ Project embarked on a series of literary undertakings to uncover and restore the nation’s cultural and historical ...
A Study on Forces, Tool Wear and Surface finish in Orthogonal Machining of Aluminum 6061 T6 alloy and AISI 1020 Steel with HSS and Uncoated Carbide tool inserts under different gaseous cutting environments
(2013-08-20)
The current study is a statistically designed Orthogonal tube turning experiment to evaluate different cutting environments that can be used in machining aluminum 6061 T6 alloy and AISI 1020 Steel alloy. Two different tool ...
Investigation of Thermally-Actuated Pumping During Pool Boiling of a Dielectric Liquid on an Asymmetric Microstructured Silicon Heat Sink
(2013-08-20)
Developments in the field of electronics fabrication have led to significant miniaturization of devices. Such a reduction in foot-print of the electronic devices coupled with increased capabilities, such as computing ...
A Comparison of Artificial Viscosity Sensors for the Discontinuous Galerkin Method
(2013-08-20)
The following work focuses on the development of an explicit Runge-Kutta, discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the nonlinear, hyperbolic Euler equations. The discontinuous Galerkin method is a control-volume ...
Foliar and Granular Nitrogen Fertilization of Bentgrass
(2013-08-20)
Creeping bentgrass, (Agrostis stolenifera L.), is the most widely used cool-season turfgrass for golf course putting greens. Creeping bentgrass is a fine-textured, stoloniferous, perennial with exceptional cold tolerance. ...