Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Evaluating the Impact of Climate Change on Rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves in Alabama Using Dynamically-Downscaled Precipitation Data
(2013-07-19)
Rainfall intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves are extensively used for
hydrologic designs. A design based on inaccurate rainfall characteristics can lead to
malfunction of infrastructure, excessive ...
Comparing the Effectiveness of Reform Pedagogy to Traditional Didactic Lecture Methods in Teaching Remedial Mathematics at Four-Year Universities
(2013-07-19)
Postsecondary remedial mathematics courses often have relatively low pass rates compared to other courses (Bahr, 2008; Virginia College Community System, 2011) and have contributed to the view that mathematics is a gatekeeper ...
Building Language and Literacy Foundations for L2 Learners in West Africa with Oral Vocabulary Instruction and Shared Reading of Predictable and Non-Predictable Stories in Picture Books
(2013-07-19)
This study investigated the effects of shared reading on oral vocabulary development with 42 second language (L2) learners in Dakar, Sénégal. Participants, ranging from four to six years old, were taught French target words ...
Characterization of CRF domain containing ERF genes- Solanum lycopersicum Cytokinin Response Factors SlCRF3 and SlCRF5 in tomato development
(2013-07-19)
Cytokinin is an important hormone involved in numerous aspects of plant growth and development. A newly identified group of transcription factors- Cytokinin Response Factors (CRFs) has been included as a side branch to ...
Lebesgue Approximation of Superprocesses
(2013-07-19)
Superprocesses are certain measure-valued Markov processes, whose distributions can be characterized by two components: the branching mechanism and the spatial motion. It is well known that some basic superprocesses are ...
A Review of the Perceived Critical Incidents of Counselors-in-Training in Practicum
(2013-07-19)
Counselor educators and supervisors have long acknowledged the importance of both personal and professional development throughout the process of counselor training. Counseling researchers seeking to better understand this ...
An Approach to the Design of Shouldered Personal Load-Carrying Systems
(2013-07-19)
Shouldered load-carrying systems are all around us. While their use and design range from the common purse or school backpack to the more specialized drum line marching carrier, their main function remains the same: to ...
Guidelines and Propensities Concerning Entrepreneurship For Emerging Industrial Design Professionals
(2013-07-19)
As cited by Hofer (2011), “There is little doubt that the economy has played a role in the
downturn of available positions [for young professionals], but the way in which today’s
graduates approach that problem suggests ...
Design of Resilient Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
(2013-07-19)
With the growing use of new telecommunications technologies such as 4G and wireless hotspots, heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) are gaining more attention. The source of heterogeneity of a HetNet can either be the ...
An Examination of the Attitudes, Attributions, and Beliefs Held Towards Poverty and Individuals Living in Poverty
(2013-07-19)
This study was conducted in order to examine the relationship between attitudes, attributions, and beliefs held toward poverty and individuals living in poverty (ILP) by undergraduate and graduate students. The study ...
Lipid Extracted Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (LE-DDGS) as a Partial Replacement for Soybean Meal in Hybrid Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus x Oreochromis aureus)
(2013-07-19)
Feed costs are primarily driven by the cost of protein sources used to produce the feed. Substitution of expensive protein sources with lower cost ingredients would potentially reduce the cost of the feed. Lipid-extracted ...
High Sensitivity Signatures for Test and Diagnosis of Analog, Mixed-Signal and Radio-Frequency Circuits
(2013-07-18)
The conventional approach, widely practiced in the industry today, for testing analog
circuits is to ensure that the circuit conforms to data-sheet limits on all its specifications.
However, such a specification based ...
Multiple Mechanisms of Permethrin Resistance in the Southern House Mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus
(2013-07-18)
The inherited resistance to permethrin in Culex quinquefasciatus, which is the primary vector of encephalitis and lymphatic filariasis pathogens, resulted from the molecular basis of multiple mechanisms involved in changes ...
Development of the Catfish 250K SNP Array for Genome-Wide Association Studies
(2013-07-18)
Catfish is the primary aquaculture species in the United States. In recent years, the catfish industry has encountered unprecedented challenges including increased feeding costs, devastating diseases and fierce international ...
Effect of 8 weeks of high-intensity interval training versus traditional endurance training on the blood lipid profile in humans
(2013-07-18)
INTRODUCTION: High-density lipoprotein (HDL) plays an important role in the prevention of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease (CHD), which is the leading cause of death in the United States. While the importance of ...
Modification and characterization of liquefied biomass-based epoxy resin
(2013-07-18)
With the increasing requirement of biomass composites, people have paid more attention to
the increasing use of synthetic adhesives, which require petroleum-based resources. Talking
about petroleum-based resources, the ...
A Comparison between the Mechanical Behaviors of Different Equine Articular Cartilage Surfaces
(2013-07-18)
In order to determine the stiffness and thickness of the equine articular cartilage, an indentation test and needle probe test were performed on fresh equine articular cartilage surfaces from the fetlock, carpal, and stifle ...
Isolation and Characterization of Bacillus spp. as Potential Probiotics for Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus
(2013-07-18)
Enteric septicemia of catfish (ESC), caused by the bacterium Edwardsiella ictaluri, is considered the most important bacterial disease of cultured channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus and is estimated to cost the industry ...
The Scottish Episcopal Church: Religious Conflict in the Late Stuart Period
(2013-07-17)
In 1689 the Scottish Parliament overthrew the Church of Scotland’s Episcopal government and replaced it with a Presbyterian church structure. Traditionally, historians have interpreted these events as evidence of the ...
Orthogonal bases of certain symmetry classes of tensors associated with Brauer characters
(2013-07-17)
The main focus of this dissertation is on the existence of an orthogonal basis consisting of standard symmetrized tensors (o-basis for short) of a symmetry class of tensors associated with a Brauer character of a finite ...