Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Identification of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes Using FAME Analysis
(2009-07-22)
For several years, chromatographic analysis of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) has been used to identify bacteria more quickly than traditional methods. The objective of this study was to determine the applicability of ...
Polyketide Synthase Pathway Discovery from Soil Metagenomic Libraries
(2009-07-21)
Polyketides are structurally diverse bacterial secondary metabolites, many of which have antibiotic or anti-cancer activity. Modular polyketide synthase (PKS) enzymatic complexes contain conserved ketoacyl synthase (KS) ...
Recalibration of the Asphalt Layer Coefficient
(2009-07-21)
The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) currently uses the 1993 DARWin version of the 1986 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Guide for the Design of Pavement Structures ...
Geology of the Farmville Metagranite and Associated Units as Exposed at the Notasulga Quarry, Notasulga, Alabama
(2009-07-21)
Predicting the locations and thicknesses of aggregate-affable lithologies (ore units), interburden (non-ore material between ore-units), and overburden (overlying soil/saprolite) on a local level is critical for developing ...
Relationship of Thought Suppression and Emotion Suppression to Lesbians’ and Gay Men’s Levels of Outness: Investigating the Effects of Chronic Suppression
(2009-07-21)
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine emotion regulation, thought suppression and outness in relation to the lesbian and gay communities. Also, the relationship of level of outness and reported psychological ...
The Willingness of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners to Supply Wood Biomass for a Prospective Wood-Based Bioenergy Industry: A Case Study from Lee County, Alabama
(2009-07-21)
A key factor determining the potential for development of bioenergy industries is the availability of feedstock. Despite the abundant presence of wood biomass in highly forested regions such as the U. S. South, the ...
A Software and Hardware System for the Autonomous Control and Navigation of a Trained Canine
(2009-07-20)
This dissertation demonstrates the autonomous command and navigation of a trained
canine to multiple waypoints. A system is described consisting of a canine that can be
guided autonomously to a number of waypoints by an ...
Impact of Charge Collection Mechanisms on Single Event Effects in SiGe HBT Circuits
(2009-07-17)
Investigations into single event effect (SEE)
induced charge collection in
Silicon Germanium (SiGe) heterojunction
bipolar transistors (HBT)
are made through three-dimensional (3-D) device simulation.
The transistor ...
Using Parent-Child Interaction Therapy to Develop a Pre-Parent Education Module
(2009-07-17)
Ineffective parenting skills, poor knowledge of child development, rigidity, and harsh physical punishment have been identified as risk factors for abuse and child disruptive behavior. Due to the long-term negative ...
Recurrent phenotypic selection for increased winter productivity in annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.)
(2009-07-17)
In the Southeastern USA, dry matter distribution of cool season annual and perennial grasses is concentrated more in spring months with relatively less production in late autumn and early winter. Annual cool season grasses ...
Guidelines for the development of products from post-consumer glass
(2009-07-17)
A design process for creating products using post-consumer glass
Microhabitat Associations of Wintering Birds in a Southeastern Bottomland Forest within the Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain of Florida
(2009-07-16)
I examined microhabitat characteristics affecting the occupancy of wintering birds in a southeastern bottomland forest with repeated point counts at 186 sites. Models were derived a priori based on published literature and ...
Utilization of Distiller’s Dried Grains with Soluble in Catfish Feeds
(2009-07-16)
Feed is generally the largest expenditure in semi-intensive and intensive catfish culture operations, and protein is the most expensive component of feeds. Efforts to reduce feed costs have resulted in increased use of ...
Critical Needs and Level of Support for the Military Spouse: A Comparative Study of the National Guard and Active Army during the Iraq War
(2009-07-16)
National Guard units have been asked to serve in ways never before experienced since the beginning of the Iraq War and throughout the continued war on terror. Multiple deployments, frequent long-term separations from ...
Atomic Data Generation and Collisional Radiative Modeling of Ar II, Ar III, and Ne I for Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas
(2009-07-16)
Accurate knowledge of atomic processes plays a key role in modeling the emission in laboratory
as well as in astrophysical plasmas. These processes are included in a collisional-radiative
model and the results are compared ...
Characterization of Viral Communities in Soil, Activated Sludge, and Influent
(2009-07-15)
Viruses are the most abundant yet uncharacterized biological entities on the planet. This thesis is a survey of viral communities in soil, activated sludge (AS), and influent (IN). Both culture-dependent and culture-independent ...
Constructing Cubic Splines on the Sphere
(2009-07-15)
A method to approximate functions defined on a sphere using Tensor Product cubic B-splines is presented here. The method is based on decomposing the sphere into six identical patches obtained by radially projecting the ...
An Analysis of the No Child Left Behind Act Using Gradual Switching Regressions
(2009-07-15)
Using a rich panel data set, this paper conducts unique analysis on the structural and overall effects of the No Child Left Behind Act on the sixty-seven county school systems in Alabama. A system of equations is specified ...
Daughter-to-Father Attachment, Daughter-to-Mother Attachment and Emotion Regulation in College Females
(2009-07-15)
Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1982/1969, 1973) and its relation to affect regulation has become an important area of research over the last several decades. This area of research is important due to the fact that fathers are ...
Modeling and Analysis of a PEM Fuel Cell System for a Quadruped Robot
(2009-07-15)
The polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell is a prospective alternative energy conversion device that has environment-friendly characteristics. It has not only electrochemical reaction but also coupled thermal fluid ...