Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Biotic Composition and Taphonomy of an Upper Cretaceous Konservat-Lagerstätte: The Ingersoll Shale, Eutaw Formation, Eastern Alabama
(2007-08-15)
The Ingersoll shale is a thin (<1m), laterally restricted clay lens within the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Eutaw Formation, Russell County, eastern Alabama. The clay lens represents abandoned tidal creek fill within an ...
Fluctuating Asymmetry of White-Tailed Deer Antlers
(2007-08-15)
Fluctuating asymmetry has been proposed as an indirect indicator of individual quality. Sexually selected traits, such as deer antlers, are expected to exhibit patterns of decreasing level of fluctuating asymmetry with ...
A satellite derived map of Ecological Systems in the East Gulf Coastal Plain, USA
(2007-08-15)
Land cover mapping via remote sensing is an important tool for conservation and land management. A critical component to land cover mapping is defining the classification. A classification scheme must be sufficiently ...
The Impacts of Human Spatial Concentration, Economic Freedom, and Corruption on Species Imperilment
(2007-08-15)
Advocates of certain public policies believe that alternative spatial distributions of a fixed-size human population have different environmental consequences. Specifically, a more concentrated human population has a ...
Phage-coupled Piezoelectric Biodetector for Salmonella typhimurium
(2005-08-15)
Salmonella typhimurium is a leading cause of foodborne illness and a critical threat agent for potential bioterrorism. Current rapid detection initiatives include biosensors that routinely incorporate antibodies for ...
Trade Adjustments to Exchange Rates in Regional Economic Integration: Argentina and Brazil
(2005-12-15)
Currency devaluation is one of the most commonly used economic policies when a country faces a trade imbalance. By making exports more competitive in world markets and imports more expensive in terms of local currency, ...
Built-In Self Test for Regular Structure Embedded Cores in System-on-Chip
(2005-05-15)
Miniaturization and integration of different cores onto a single chip are increasing
the complexity of VLSI chips. To ensure that these chips operate as desired, they
have to be tested at various phases of their development. ...
Aerodynamics of Wrap-Around Fins in Supersonic Flow
(2005-12-15)
Existing supersonic fin theory has been modified to compute the pressure distribution over a wrap-around fin. Evvard’s theory has been used to calculate the pressure loading due to angle-of-attack on a wrap-around fin by ...
Influence of dams on stream fish biodiversity across a diverse Georgia landscape
(2007-08-15)
The composition of a stream fish assemblage is strongly influenced by the drainage basin, physiographic region, and the stream order it occurs in. It is also well known that anthropogenic disturbances can dramatically ...
In vitro and in vivo cold shock response in Vibrio vulnificus
(2007-08-15)
Vibrio vulnificus is a serious food-borne pathogen associated with the consumption of raw oysters. The Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC) recommends refrigeration of Gulf Coast oysters after harvesting to ...
Genetic Effects on the Production of Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) Female X Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) Male Hybrid Fry
(2007-08-15)
The hybrid from the mating of a female channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) with a male blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) exhibits heterosis for various performance traits which would make it attractive to the commercial ...
Brood stock nutrition: enhancement of egg quality for the production of hybrid catfish
(2007-08-15)
The catfish industry is one of the largest and best developed aquaculture segments in the United States. The development of technological solutions to maintain a competitive level in the market is key to this success. The ...
Resource Use and Waste Production at a Semi-Intensive Black Tiger Prawn Penaeus Monodon Farm
(2007-08-15)
A study of resource use and waste production was conducted at the Aqualma shrimp farm in Madagascar . This farm has 685 ha of grow-out ponds where black tiger prawn Peneaus monodon are produced by semi-intensive production ...
Total sulfur amino acid requirement and its application to practical diets for juvenile tilapia (Oreochromis spp.)
(2007-08-15)
Tilapia have become one of the most important fish species for aquaculture and play an increasing role in the international aquatic food trade. Therefore, the development of cost-effective feeds using inexpensive and locally ...
Physical Map Construction and Physical Characterization of Channel Catfish Genome
(2007-08-15)
Catfish is the major aquaculture species in the United States. To enhance genome studies involving linkage mapping, comparative mapping and linkage map and physical map integration, over 20,000 Bacterial Artificial Chromosome ...
Molecular characterization of Edwardsiella spp. and Flavobacterium columnare
(2007-08-15)
Bacterial diseases are responsible for large economic losses in aquaculture around the world. Flavobacterium columnare and Edwardsiella spp. negatively impact the channel catfish industry in southern USA. However, limited ...
Fat Bob
(2007-08-15)
This is a fiction writing thesis consisting of four short stories. Each short story was originally conceived of by the author during the graduate fiction writing classes taken at Auburn University during the spring and ...
The Polyphonic “Voice of Society”: A Stylistic Analysis of Our Mutual Friend
(2007-08-15)
My study of Our Mutual Friend is restricted to seven chapters, each with the same short list of characters, which introduce or conclude the four books of the novel. Society is the label under which these chapters come, ...
The Right to Represent: The Transformation of Topsy in Robert Alexander's I Ain't Yo' Uncle
(2007-08-15)
For my master’s thesis, I intend to examine the reception of “Topsy” in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin from the date of publication as a novel in 1852 through 1892. I will investigate and demonstrate the struggle ...
The Trouble With Gender in Othello: A Butlerian Reading of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice
(2007-08-15)
By applying the theories of gender as performance developed by feminist theorist Judith Butler in her 1990 work, Gender Trouble, to the canonical text of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, ...