Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Role of Women in Post-Harvest Handling of Peanuts: The Case of Reducing Aflatoxin Along the Supply Chain in Ghana
(2013-08-20)
Peanuts are an important food and cash crop for rural farmers in Ghana. However, contamination of peanuts by aflatoxins, which have been linked to food poisoning and health related problems such as liver cancer and ...
Pinching, Bulking Duration, and Plant Growth Retardant Effects on Growth and Flowering of Greenhouse-grown Achillea בCoronation Gold’ and Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’
(2013-08-14)
Achillea בCoronation Gold’ (‘Coronation Gold’ achillea) and Coreopsis verticillata L. ‘Moonbeam’ (‘Moonbeam’ coreopsis) are popular herbaceous perennials that are widely grown under nursery and greenhouse conditions. ...
Removing Buffer Overflows In C Programs With Safe Library Replacement Transformation
(2013-08-13)
This work explores how buffer overflow vulnerabilities in C programs, specifically the ones that originate from the use of unsafe functions, can be fixed by using a source-to-source program transformation. I implemented a ...
Preparing Future Faculty Programs and Boyer's Four Domains of Scholarship
(2013-08-13)
Austin and McDainels (2006) revealed that American universities and colleges should
increase the interest in preparing future faculty using the four domains of scholarship among doctoral students so that students can ...
Biophysical characterization of ligand binding and release of Anthereae polyphemus Pheromone Binding Protein 1 (ApolPBP1) and Exploring the nickel proteome
(2013-08-07)
In moths, pheromone binding proteins (PBPs) transport the hydrophobic pheromone molecules to the membrane-bound receptors across the aqueous sensillar lymph to trigger the neuronal response. We showed here that, recombinant ...
Collecting the Scattered and Forgotten: Printers, Collectors, and Early Archival Societies
(2013-08-07)
The formation of archives in America, according to most archival literature, began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This view, however, fails to consider the pivotal roles played by individuals before ...
Proposal and Guide for Development of an Archival Special Collection for the Preservation of the Contributions of Auburn University and its Alumni to NASA and Space Exploration
(2013-08-07)
Auburn University, a major research institution, has a long and rich history of
engineering scholarship as well as scholarship in the history of technology and aviation. Many
graduates of Auburn have gone on to serve the ...
Economic Effects of Crop Rotations for Cotton, Corn and Peanuts under Risk
(2013-08-02)
This study provides an economic analysis of crop rotations for cotton, corn and peanuts under varying degrees of producer risk. Data for the study come from two experiments located in Alabama. Irrigation and crop insurance ...
The Predictive Validity of MACI Derived Clusters for Juvenile Sex Offenders
(2013-08-02)
The Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory scores from 648 juvenile sex offenders aged 12 - 19 (M = 15.88, SD = 1.43) were examined using cluster analysis in order to replicate five personality-based clusters identified in ...
A Geochemical and Hydrological Assessment of Oil and Related Compounds from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Gulf Coastal Saltmarshes
(2013-08-02)
In April of 2010, the Macondo-1 wellhead ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude oil. Ten saltmarsh sites along the northern Gulf coast were investigated to determine the fate, ...
A Constitutive Model for Lead Free Solder Including Aging Effects and Its Application to Microelectronic Packaging
(2013-08-01)
The microstructure, mechanical response, and failure behavior of lead free solder joints in electronic assemblies are constantly evolving when exposed to isothermal aging and/or thermal cycling environments. Traditional ...
Flooding Tolerance and Phosphorus Uptake of Southeastern Native Plants in Bioretention Gardens
(2013-08-01)
Bioretention gardens restore hydrologic function of urban landscapes and capture
stormwater runoff pollutants, such as phosphorus, a main pollutant in urban cities and
residential neighborhoods. Monoculture plantings are ...
Floodplain Vegetation and Soil Dynamics of the Alabama Piedmont Across a Gradient of Stream Channel Incision
(2013-08-01)
Erosion resulting from past land use in cultivated uplands of the Alabama Piedmont has contributed to variable stream conditions throughout the region, with high degrees of channel incision often typifying degraded riparian ...
Topics in Law and Economics: Three Essays
(2013-08-01)
In Chapter 1, the impact of proposed patent reform legislation is evaluated. Survival analysis is employed to ascertain what factors influence the length of time for patent grants. The role of these factors in potential ...
Parenting, Attachment and Child Outcomes: Self-Regulation as a Developmental mechanism
(2013-07-31)
Using data from The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD), I conducted two distinct but related studies. In the first study, the associations ...
Cultivating Life: A Study of a School Landscape Project
(2013-07-31)
This study was conducted in three parts. Parts one and two compared students at Fayetteville School (FHS), Drew Middle School (DMS), and Lincoln High School (LHS). FHS comprised the experimental group, whereas DMS and LHS ...
Overseeded TifEagle Bermudagrass Putting Greens: Effects of Nitrogen (N) Rate and Traffic
(2013-07-30)
Hybrid bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon x C. transvaalensis Burtt-Davy) putting greens are often overseeded with a cool season species at the onset of fall dormancy. Intended to provide winter color for the putting surface ...
Ultrastructural, Immunohistochemical, and Biochemical Variation Amongst Symbiodinium Isolates
(2013-07-30)
Symbiodinium spp. reside intracellularly in a complex symbiosome (host and symbiont-derived) in a specific host-symbiont associations. Symbiodinium is a diverse genus with variation equivalent to that of other dinoflagellate ...
Structure, dynamics and interaction study of Glutaminase Interacting Protein (GIP) and its complex with Glutaminase L and Brain-specific Angiogenesis Inhibitor 2 (BAI2) peptide and characterization of subunit A of Heterodisulfide Reductase (HdrA) from Methanothermobacter marburgensis
(2013-07-30)
Glutaminase interacting protein (GIP) is a 124 amino acid long protein containing a single PDZ domain. This protein intersects a number of important biological pathways. In many of these pathways, the mechanism of function ...
Numerical Investigation of the Solidification of Nanoparticle-Based Colloidal Suspensions
(2013-07-29)
In this dissertation, analytical and numerical approaches were used for analysis of the solidification process of nanoparticle-based colloidal suspensions, with a special emphasis to those used as nanostructured-enhanced ...