Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Using Real Options Analytics to Improve the Capital Budgeting Process under Uncertainty
(2018-04-13)
Capital allocation processes are complex and time consuming in large organizations because of the diverse choices from projects proposed by various departments within the organization. Invariably these projects reveal ...
Quantitative Valuation of Ecosystem Services Provided by Oyster Reefs in Mobile Bay, Alabama
(2018-04-13)
Oyster reef services have been acknowledged for their ecosystem services, but globally oyster reefs are at risk due to rapid anthropogenic and natural changes. Conservation decisions for these important habitats often ...
Advanced Clustering Methods and Applications for Data Visualization
(2018-04-13)
Categorizing all sorts of data without any label information is one of the most important tasks in preprocessing raw data. To achieve that, an unsupervised learning technique, called clustering, is utilized. Generally, ...
Cold Metal Transfer-Gas Metal Arc Welding (CMT-GMAW) Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) Process Control Implementation
(2018-04-13)
While additive manufacturing is comprised of metal and polymer fabrication, current additively manufactured polymer-based products are much further from being put into industrial applications. Metal-based additive ...
Pyrite Biomineralization and Arsenic Sequestration at a Florida Industrial Site: Imaging and Geochemical Analysis
(2018-04-13)
A yearlong field-scale bioremediation experiment was conducted at a Florida industrial site, where groundwater in an unconfined aquifer was contaminated by an arsenic-based herbicide. The bioremediation technique stimulated ...
"No One Comes Close": US Airmen and their Technological Paradigm
(2018-04-10)
“No one comes close” is a recent US Air Force (USAF) mantra, developed as both a recruiting slogan and service motto. It reflects both the physical altitude of their domain (sky and space) and conveys a sense of operational ...
Energy Modeling and Management of Database System
(2018-04-10)
In this dissertation, we propose a toolkit called EDOM facilitating the evaluation and
optimization of energy-efficient multicore-based database systems. Two core components in
EDOM are a benchmarking toolkit and a ...
Tras la pista de la censura franquista: traducción, edición y censura en Primavera negra de Henry Miller
(2018-04-09)
Taking as a starting point previous research that explores literary translation in historical contexts governed by a censorship system in charge of maintaining a close literary polysystem, I analyze the translations and ...
Understanding Individual Differences in Faking: The Role of Ability to Fake and Motivation to Fake
(2018-04-09)
Research on applicant faking has indicated that faking on personality tests may deteriorate the quality of hiring decisions and affect the validity of personality tests. In order to understand the occurrence of faking, ...
The Effects of Computer-Based Graphic Organizers and Instructional Technology for Students with High-Incidence Disabilities
(2018-04-09)
This study investigated the effects of an instructional technology, a computerized graphic organizer, on vocabulary acquisition skills of students with high-incidence disabilities. Specifically, this study focused on the ...
Adolescent Methylmercury Exposure: Behavioral Mechanisms and Protective Effects of Sodium Butyrate and Environmental Enrichment
(2018-04-02)
Whether exposure to methylmercury (MeHg), an environmental neurotoxicant, during adolescence alters the brain and behavior is only beginning to be explored. The continued maturation of mechanisms that control neuronal gene ...
Non-axisymmetric equilibrium reconstruction and suppression of density limit disruptions in a current-carrying stellarator
(2018-03-29)
Reconstruction of non-axisymmetric, three-dimensional (3D) plasma equilibria is important for understanding 3D confinement and stability in stellarators as well as in nominally axisymmetric plasmas in tokamaks and ...
Effects of Intersection Features on Wrong-Way Driving
(2018-03-22)
Wrong-way driving (WWD) crashes are much more likely to result in serious injuries or fatalities compared to all other crashes. The analysis performed in this dissertation shows, specifically, that the risk of a fatality ...
A Multi-Industry Assessment of the Influence of Dedicated and Transient Institutional Investors on Firms’ Product Recall Strategies and Actions
(2018-03-20)
Product recalls represent a major concern for organizations and their stakeholders because of costly financial, reputational, and legal damages that ensue from well publicized consumer safety crises. Organizations attempt ...
Antecedents of Financial Corruption in Organizations
(2018-03-19)
Implications of prior research suggest that social-control agents (e.g., boards of directors, external auditors) deter managers from financial reporting violations because of fraud and error. However, existing theory does ...
Comparative analysis of repetitive elements in fish genomes
(2018-03-15)
Repetitive elements make up significant proportions of genomes. However, their roles in evolution remain largely unknown. To provide insights into the roles of repetitive elements in fish genomes, this dissertation work ...
The Impact of a Structured Mentoring Program on New African-American Superintendents in Alabama
(2018-03-07)
This study investigated the structured mentoring program provided to novice superintendents by the SSA (School Superintendents of Alabama). This study examined new African American superintendents’ perceptions of the ...
Volatile and Sr Isotope Analysis of Melt Inclusions from the Bandelier Tuff, Valles Caldera, New Mexico: Insights into Pre-Eruptive Magma Conditions
(2018-03-07)
The Valles Caldera, located in northwest New Mexico, is one of three caldera volcanoes in the United States that is still active today. Calderas have the largest, most cataclysmic eruptions that result in large bowl-shaped ...
Diagnosis of feline infectious peritonitis
(2018-02-27)
Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a fatal immune-mediated disease, is caused by feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV), the high-virulence pathotype of Feline coronavirus (FCoV). It is believed that the FIPV is an ...
Three Essays on Fish Demand Analysis
(2018-02-21)
The first chapter is themed around the catfish dispute between Vietnamese pangasius and U.S catfish. Vietnamese pangasius frozen fillets were accused of having depressing effect on U.S catfish prices, which in turn leads ...