Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Algorithm for an Unmanned Ground Vehicle on Variable Terrain
(2016-12-12)
This thesis presents a Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller (NMPC) for an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) capable of controlling the vehicle over both smooth and rough terrain using measurements from GPS and a Light Detection ...
Food Demand, Food Sensory Preferences and Attributes Explaining Food Price Differences
(2016-12-12)
This dissertation evaluates staple food demand in Burkina Faso, specialty coffee sensory attributes and their relation with coffee quality and the effect of material and reputation attributes on specialty coffee quality ...
From Trauma to Growth: The Roles of Event Centrality, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, and Deliberate Rumination
(2016-12-10)
Researchers have increasingly recognized that traumatic events can lead to both pathological outcomes such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and positive outcomes such as posttraumatic growth (PTG). Consistent with ...
Social and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Economic Implications of EU Regulations on Agricultural Products
(2016-12-10)
This dissertation comprises of three chapters exploring topics focussing on social and economic development, and on economic implications of EU regulations on products. Chapter One explores the contribution of value-added ...
A Tale of Two Anemone Shrimps: Predation Pressure and Mimicry in a Marine Cleaning Mutualism
(2016-12-10)
For mutualistic relationships between different organisms, coloration and behavior can be used to indicate the ability to provide a service. These visual signals allow other organisms to mimic them to gain their benefits ...
Three Essays on the International Economic Development
(2016-12-10)
This dissertation contains three essays as three chapters. The equilibrium displacement model (EDM) is employed to investigate the issues associated with the economic development in different context.
Chapter 1 ...
An Exploratory Study of the Impact of a Manipulatives-Intensive Fractions Unit during a Middle Grades Methods Course on Prospective Teachers’ Relational Understanding of Fractions
(2016-12-10)
“A critical pillar of a strong PreK–12 education is a well-qualified teacher in every classroom” (Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences, 2012, p. 1). In order for teachers to help students build procedural fluency from ...
An Examination of the Influence of Leadership Competencies on School Culture
(2016-12-09)
This study examined the relationships between leadership competencies of school principals and school culture. The leadership competencies that are examined in this study include positive disposition, cultivation of a ...
Genetic Technologies for Disease Resistance Research and Enhancement in Catfish
(2016-12-09)
A microinjection protocol was developed and validated for CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus. This protocol proved to be rapid, efficient and does not require elaborate equipment or a high ...
The Five Modes of Caring Student Index
(2016-12-09)
The purpose of the study was to examine the five modes of caring for students. Using Gary Chapman’s (1992) five love languages and additional work by Noddings (1984) and Gilligan (1982), the researcher designed a study ...
Banking Efficiency Analysis for Two Special Years during Recent Financial Crisis
(2016-12-09)
This paper covered almost thirty thousand groups of commercial banks’ quarterly data in 2007 and 2011 to analyze the influence of 2008 financial crisis on banking performance, and investigate if there is any difference of ...
Toward Automatic Translation: From OpenACC to OpenMP 4
(2016-12-09)
For the past few years, OpenACC has been the primary directive-based API for programming accelerator devices like GPUs. OpenMP 4.0 is now a competitor in this space, with support from different vendors. In our work, we ...
Characterization of Defeat of Weaponized Biological Spores via Heat Transfer
(2016-12-09)
During the past few decades, there has been concern that large amounts of weaponized Bacillus Anthracis (Ba) is being created and stored in 55 gallon barrels by potential adversaries of the United States. The most likely ...
Mobile Robot for Retail Inventory Using RFID
(2016-12-09)
The use of RFID technology is increasing in retail stores, because it improves the performance of automated checkout, inventory and theft detection systems. In this dissertation, we present a novel implementation of a ...
The Materiality of Mastery: Eliza Lucas Pinckney and the Production of Plantation Culture in the Eighteenth-Century South
(2016-12-09)
My dissertation project, “The Materiality of Mastery: Eliza Lucas Pinckney and the Production of Plantation Culture in the Eighteenth-Century South”, examines objects, including texts, made by South Carolinian Eliza Lucas ...
Cultivation Effects of Medical Television Viewing on Aspiring Doctors
(2016-12-09)
Using a cultivation analysis approach, this study involved analysis of the effects of media drama viewing on the career choices, career perceptions, and career motivations of pre-medical students. Survey questions investigate ...
Clinical Tests of Lumbo-Pelvic-Hip Complex Function in Individuals with and without Scapular Dyskinesis: Implications for Identifying Individuals at Risk for Upper Extremity Injury
(2016-12-09)
Scapular dyskinesis reflects suboptimal scapular function that may have damaging effects on surrounding structures. Due to its association with nearly all shoulder injuries, it has been recommended that the dynamic scapular ...
Model for Permit Loads for Barnes Slough Bridge
(2016-12-09)
ALDOT has an eleven-span flat slab concrete bridge over Barnes Slough and Jenkins Creek on the northbound side of US Highway 82/231 that was built in 1915 for which there are no construction drawings or other available ...
Evaluating Soil-Weather-Agronomic Practices Interactions on Aflatoxin Corn Contamination in the South
(2016-12-09)
Aflatoxins are potent carcinogens and contaminated corn grains if consumed can have a deleterious effect on both humans and animals. Pre-harvest aflatoxin contamination in corn (Zea mays L.) is a continuing concern in the ...
Biological Control Potential of Spore-forming Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Suppressing Meloidogyne incognita on Cotton and Heterodera glycines on Soybean
(2016-12-09)
The objective of this study was to screen a library of PGPR strains to determine activity to plant-parasitic nematodes with the ultimate goal of identifying new PGPR strains that could be developed into biological nematicide ...