Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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'My goal will ever be to make history popular': Peter Brannon's Quest for Alabama History
(2018-04-23)
Peter Alexander Brannon (1882-1967) was a noteworthy figure in Alabama history during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. Throughout his fifty-year career at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Brannon ...
Equitable Block-Colorings of Graph-Decompositions and Tiling Generalized Petersen Graphs
(2018-04-23)
A $C_4$-decomposition of $K_v - F$, where $F$ is a $1$-factor of $K_v$ and $C_4$ is the cycle on $4$ vertices, is a partition $P$ of $E(K_v - F)$ into sets, each element of which induces a $C_4$ (called a block). A function ...
Identification of A New Pharmacological Modulator for P2Y2 Receptor Activity
(2018-04-23)
P2Y2 is a G-protein-coupled membrane receptor activated by ATP or UTP nucleotides. They play major roles in cellular physiology in different aspects including inflammatory responses and apoptosis. Therefore, P2Y2 receptor ...
And They’re Off: A Critical Examination of the Horse Racing Film Subgenre
(2018-04-23)
Horse racing, the ‘Sport of Kings,’ has been a popular sport in American culture for centuries, and the sport has been depicted on film continuously since the medium’s emergence. Numerous feature films have focused on both ...
An examination of the impact of diverse internationalization experience on organizational resilience and a test of the Resilience Architecture Framework
(2018-04-23)
This research aims to improve our understanding of multinational enterprise (MNE) resilience by investigating potential sources of resilience and its performance implications. In particular, this dissertation focuses on ...
Variation in morphology and physiology of introduced populations of the Virile Crayfish, Faxonius virilis Hagen 1870
(2018-04-23)
Crayfish often show high levels of morphological variation between and within populations. Studies have shown that environmental factors can play a role in determining external morphology. Increased levels of phenotypic ...
An Evolutionary Strategies Method to Optimize Turbine and Compressor Blades
(2018-04-23)
The main goal of this study is to improve a two-dimensional optimization scheme for turbine and compressor blades, specifically by improving the overall efficiency of each blade row with respect to objective and penalty ...
Vicarious Racism Stress, Racial Discrimination, and Disease Activity: The Black Women’s Experiences Living with Lupus (BeWELL) Study
(2018-04-23)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by Black-White disparities in severity, which in part are associated with group differences in exposure to psychosocial stress. Among salient sources of stress are those ...
Kinetic Effects of Heat Stress on Olfaction: A Thermodynamic Evaluation of Electrical Responses to Odorants in Olfactory Epithelia
(2018-04-23)
Detection dogs are exposed to some of the most extreme environmental conditions in the world while simultaneously expected to maintain maximal olfactory function. Sometimes these conditions exceed their thermoregulatory ...
Use of Surface Specific Flow Factors in a Multi-Physical Model of Power Cylinder Components
(2018-04-23)
New technologies are being introduced for power cylinder components at a faster rate due to the drive for better fuel economy and CO2 foot print reduction. This includes new and advanced coatings, materials, and surface ...
Factors Influencing Tropical Forest Conservation: Evidence from the W Reserve
(2018-04-23)
We analyzed the factors that influence tropical forest resource conservation using the W Reserve in West Africa as the case study. Specifically, we first characterized the forms of pressure faced by the Reserve from the ...
Tense, Aspect, and Mood in the Spanish of Southern Arizona
(2018-04-23)
In this study I analyze the use of the Spanish verbal system in the Heritage Spanish speakers of Southern Arizona across three sociolinguistic generations. By using 15 oral interviews from the Corpus of Spanish in Southern ...
Designing an Anisotropic Noise Filter for Measuring Critical Dimension and Line Edge Roughness from SEM Images
(2018-04-23)
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is often employed in inspecting patterns transferred through a lithographic process. A typical inspection is to measure the critical dimension (CD) and line edge roughness (LER) of ...
"The Nerds Are in Charge Here...:" The Fan Convention Celebrity Encounter
(2018-04-23)
This paper is an ethnographic examination of the fan-celebrity dynamic at a particular fan convention, Wizard World New Orleans (2018). Although fan motivations for attending a convention may vary, one of the main draws ...
Assessing Rainwater Harvesting Potential for Urban Multi-Family Housing Developments in Auburn, AL using a sUAS
(2018-04-23)
Many cities today are facing growing pressure to develop in a sustainable manner, and green infrastructure is quickly becoming a popular strategy for addressing this. Through the incorporation of decentralized solutions ...
The Reliability of Zinc Oxide Based Thin Film Transistors Under Extreme Conditions
(2018-04-23)
In this Ph.D. dissertation, I report the device instability of ZnO thin film transistors (TFTs) under extreme environmental conditions. It is extremely important to identify the cause of device instability under different ...
"In Time of Iron-Age: The Choctaw Civil War and the Southern Frontier
(2018-04-23)
This dissertation is the first extended ethnohistorical study of the Choctaw civil war that occurred between 1746 and 1750 CE. Using gender as a primary lens of inquiry, it outlines the mutual intelligibility of Choctaw ...
The Effect of Asperity Geometry on Elastic-Plastic Statistical and Multi-scale Rough Surface Contact Models
(2018-04-20)
The solution to an elastic-plastic contact problem can be applied to many phenomena such as friction, wear, and thermal contact resistance. Many models have been developed to solve it. A deterministic approach accurately ...
Models of Moral Treatment: British Lunatic Asylums in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
(2018-04-19)
Samuel Tuke established a model of moral treatment for British insane asylums in the first half of the nineteenth century with his Description of the Retreat (1813). The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Wakefield—under ...
Utility of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Resources for Black Bass (Micropterus spp.) Conservation and Management
(2018-04-18)
The black basses (Micropterus spp.) are a genus of apex predators and important game fishes in North American freshwater ecosystems. Efforts to improve recreational bass fisheries have led to the widespread stocking of ...