Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Significance of the Non-Profit Sector in America: A Case Study of Hurricane Katrina
(2009-08-06)
The purpose of this dissertation research project is to analyze the public’s perception of the capabilities (expertise, capacity, and resources) of the non-profit sector in assisting community residents following Hurricane ...
Soil Microbial Community Structure and Aflatoxin Contamination of Peanuts
(2009-08-06)
Potential management of the soilborne Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus fungi, a food contaminate that causes human and animal health problem, may be possible through maintaining an appropriate soil microbial diversity. ...
Role of calcium-independent phospholipase A2 in insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes
(2009-08-06)
Calcium-independent phospholipase A2 (iPLA2) is a member of the phospholipase A2 family that catalyzes the hydrolysis of glycerophospholipid at the sn-2 position to liberate free fatty acid and lysophospholipid. Recent ...
Assembly of 500,000 Inter-Specific Catfish Expressed Sequence Tags and Large Scale Gene-Associated Marker Development for Genome Selection Studies
(2009-08-05)
Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) sequencing is one of the most efficient means for gene discovery and gene expression profiling. With a good resource of ESTs, a large number of molecular markers can be identified, and issues ...
Fabrication and Electrical/Optical Characterization of Bulk GaN-based Schottky Diodes
(2009-08-05)
As a wide bandgap semiconductor material, Gallium Nitride has long been
considered as promising in blue and UV Light Emitting Diodes. And recently, its great
potential in high power and high temperature applications is ...
An Investigation of the Stability of Assessment Center Performance Consistency and Ratings of Job Performance
(2009-08-05)
The consistent lack of evidence for the construct validity of assessment center (AC) performance dimensions has led some researchers to propose alternative approaches to investigating candidate performance in ACs (Lance, ...
Relationships of Dimensions of the Meaning of the Choral Experience to High School Students’ Preferences for Concert vs. Show Choir
(2009-08-05)
The growth of the show choir since the 1970’s has caused controversy among choral music educators. In spite of the traditional paradigm which questions the value and validity of show choirs, their presence and significance ...
Global and Local Cardiac Functional Analysis with Cine MR Imaging: A Non-Rigid Image Registration Approach
(2009-08-05)
According to the World Health Report 2003, cardiovascular disease (CVD) made up $29.2\%$ of total global deaths, which highlights the importance of clinical cardiovascular research. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has ...
Productivity, Nutritive Quality and Utilization of Dallisgrass (Paspalum dilatatum) for Beef Cattle Production as Influenced by Fertilization Regime and Grazing Management
(2009-08-05)
Dallisgrass (Paspalum dilatatum) is well adapted to the Black Belt region of the southeastern US, and information on its productivity and nutritive quality as influenced by fertility and grazing management is needed in ...
Economic Risks of Aflatoxin Contamination in the Production and Marketing of Peanut in Benin
(2009-08-05)
Aflatoxins are naturally occurring mycotoxins that are produced by species of fungus: Aspergillus flavus and parasiticus. Aflatoxins occur in many agricultural products, in particular peanut (Arachis Hypogea L.). Many ...
Performance of Forage-Finished Beef Cattle Grazing Ryegrass, Rye or Oats, and Forage Quality Measured by a High-Throughput Procedure
(2009-08-05)
A 3-yr grazing trial was conducted with ryegrass (Lolium perenne), rye (Secale cereale) and oats (Avena sativa) as winter pasture for forage-finished beef. Replicate 1.42-ha paddocks were established and stocked with 3 ...
Examining the Role of Personal, Social Exchange, and Contextual Fit Variables in Employee Work Outcomes under Continuous Change: A Field Investigation
(2009-08-04)
Despite the consensus, that the ability of organizations to manage change is critical to their survival, organizations have seldom been able to change successfully. The knowledge that change can be difficult and disruptive ...
Biodecolorization of Paper Mills Wastewater Using Anaerobic Composting
(2009-08-04)
This research studied the feasibility of using anaerobic composting for decolorizing effluents in the pulp and paper industry. While color is regarded as an aesthetic problem, there are several adverse effects associated ...
Counselor Spiritual Competencies: An Examination of Counselor Practices
(2009-08-04)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the spiritual competencies and practices used by mental health professionals, particularly the 1) knowledge, 2) awareness, 3) understanding, and 4) interventions these practitioners ...
Privacy Protected Location Based Services
(2009-08-04)
An increasing number of the mobile devices nowadays embedded with the GPS module (e.g., smart phones, PDAs and RFIDs), which makes the user can facilitated from the location based services. They can ask for the nearby ...
Temporally Specific Extinction of Pavlovian Conditioned Inhibition
(2009-08-04)
In Pavlovian conditioned inhibition, conditioned stimulus A (CS A) is trained to predict the occurrence of an unconditioned stimulus (US), but when CS A is presented in compound with CS C, the US is omitted. Thus, CS C ...
Electrical Properties of MOS devices fabricated on 4H Carbon-face SiC
(2009-08-04)
Silicon-based devices are still the mainstay of the electronics industry, with applications ranging from small chips in personal computers to large, high power switching devices. However, Si has faced greater and greater ...
Synthesis, Spectroscopic Investigation and Immobilization Of Copper(II) Complexes as Oxidation Catalysts
(2009-08-04)
Schiff-base complexes that function as catalysts in aqueous media have been developed. The design of environmentally benign metal catalysts with multidentate ligands is a field of intense current interest. Transition metal ...
Development of Microscopic Imaging System for Rapid Detection of Salmonella in Raw Chicken
(2009-08-04)
The overall objective of this study was to develop a new Salmonella detection method on poultry by combining a biosensor with a light microscopic imaging system. In the first study, brain heart infusion (BHI) broth was ...
Identification of genes involved in the production of a novel antifungal agent (7, 10, 12-trihydroxy-8(E)-octadecenoic acid) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(2009-08-04)
The gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa catalyzes the conversion of ricinoleic acid into a novel trihydroxy fatty acid, 7, 10, 12-trihydroxy-8(E)-octadecenoic acid (TOD), that has a potent antifungal activity ...