Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Coal and Renewable Energy: History, Impacts, and Future in Alabama
(2010-01-08)
Coal and renewable energy have differential impacts on human society. Coal is the most abundant, cheap, and yet environmentally detrimental source of energy. Renewable sources are environmentally benign but constrained by ...
Differential Effects of Challenge and Hindrance Stressors on Decision Making Performance
(2010-01-08)
The current study proposed differential relationships of challenge and hindrance stressors on decision-making performance based on the 2-dimensional model of stressors, which was expected to be mediated by perceived control, ...
Effluents from an Aquaculture Research Station and Stream Water Quality
(2010-01-07)
Lower Station of the E. W. Shell Fisheries Center discharges into Saugahatchee Creek. Ponds of the Fish Genetics Research Unit and the Aquaculture Production Research Unit are the main sources of anthropogenic pollution ...
Evaluation of Residual Feed Intake in Centrally-Tested Bulls and Related Steers
(2010-01-07)
Feed intake was measured on 1433 Angus, Simmental and composite Simmental-Angus bulls at the Auburn University Beef Evaluation Center (AUBEC) from 1977 to 2007. All bulls were housed at the AUBEC for a minimum of 70 days. ...
Brood habitat use and availability and daily and seasonal covey movements of Northern Bobwhites in east-central Alabama
(2010-01-07)
We examined home range habitat composition and preferred habitats within home ranges for Northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) broods during the breeding seasons (April 1 – October 31) of 2003 – 2006 on Sehoy ...
Application and Evaluation of WEPP in a Forested Watershed with Perennial Streams
(2010-01-06)
Forests generally have low erosion rates unless they are disturbed by harvesting operations or road construction. These common disturbances typically cause increase in the sediment yield which is reduced after vegetation ...
Neonatal Exposure to Estrogen and Estrogen Receptor Agonists and Antagonists: Effects on the Adult Endometrial Proteome and Morphoregulatory Gene Expression in the Neonatal Uterus
(2010-01-06)
Development of the porcine uterus begins prenatally but is completed postnatally. In mammals, the uterus provides an embryotrophic environment for conceptus development and integrates maternal and conceptus signals needed ...
The Effects of Colored Mulch and ChromatiNet® on Select Cut Flower and Vegetable Production in a High Tunnel Production System
(2010-01-06)
The objective of these studies was to determine the effects of colored plastic mulch on the quality of select cut flowers in a high tunnel production system. In the first study, snapdragons (Antirhinum majus) were evaluated ...
Dewatering Rock Crushing Fines Using Geotextile Tubes
(2010-01-06)
A study on dewatering rock crushing fines using geotextile tubes was conducted. The laboratory portion included rapid dewatering tests and hanging bag tests to evaluate the dewatering efficiencies of the geotextiles as ...
Evading Triangles without a map
(2010-01-06)
We divise a heuristic which enables a traveler to traverse the plane from a start point S to a target point T while evading unknown obstacles. The obstacles are assumed to be equilateral triangles which are all translates ...
Development of Functional Material Scaffolds for Sensing Applications
(2010-01-05)
Developments in the field of chemical and biological sensors call for sensitive and selective sensing surfaces to provide consistent information about target analytes. Since such sensors are mostly operating in complex ...
Simultaneous Detection of Salmonella Typhimurium and Bacillus Anthracis Spores Using Remote Phage-Based Magnetoelastic Microbiosensors
(2010-01-05)
This dissertation discusses the results of a study to develop a free standing,
magnetoelastic (ME) biosensor for the detection of S. typhimurium and B. anthracis
spores. This affinity-based biosensor is composed of ME ...
Partnering With Physicians: How Are Medical Speech-Language Pathologists Perceived
(2010-01-05)
The purpose of this research was to gather insight regarding physicians’ understanding and view of the medical speech-language pathologist. Some questions were compared to previous data presented in a prior survey by ...
Material behaviour of mixed formulation solders
(2009-12-18)
The transition from tin-lead to lead free soldering in the electronics manufacturing industry has been in progress for the past 10 years. In the interim period before lead free assemblies are uniformly accepted, mixed ...
Women's Gender Role Attitudes, Career Salience, and Paid Work Family Conflict
(2009-12-18)
The purpose of the present study was to explore the relationship between work-family conflict (WFC), career salience, and gender role attitudes in a sample (n=147) of women staff and faculty at universities and colleges. ...
Patterns of Stress and Suitability of Camera Surveys for White-Tailed Deer
(2009-12-18)
We collected fecal samples to examine stress levels in a fenced population of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). The purpose of the study was to determine how stress levels fluctuated throughout the breeding ...
Method for Isolating Immature Chicken Oocytes
(2009-12-18)
Knowledge of the development of the avian oocyte has been difficult to obtain due to the physical package of the oocyte at ovulation. The ability to isolate and culture avian oocytes, prior to the accumulation of large ...
Female Mating Preference and Reproductive Success in Eastern Bluebirds: Interacting Effects of Plumage Coloration and Genetic Compatibility
(2009-12-18)
In my dissertation, I used a combination of aviary-based experiments, field experiments and correlational research to fully explore the importance of mate choice and environmental heterogeneity on reproductive success in ...
Instrumental Jazz Ensemble Programs in Alabama High Schools
(2009-12-18)
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to survey the instrumental jazz ensembles of Alabama’s public high schools during the 2008-09 academic year. Since existing data on high school jazz ensemble programs in Alabama ...
Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling under Conservation and Conventional Tillage in Peanut and Collard Agroecosystems
(2009-12-18)
Although there has been considerable adoption of conservation tillage by agronomic and vegetable producers in the US, information on nutrient release from organic residues is lacking. Information on release of nutrients ...