Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Physiology and Chemical Ecology of Solenopsis Fire Ants: Interactions with Biotic and Abiotic Factors in Their Environment
(2020-05-14)
Interactions between organisms and the environment affect the survival and distribution of species. Biotic and abiotic factors impact the adaptations of Solenopsis fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the southeastern ...
Evaluation of the effect of metabolism and transporters on drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics using PBPK modeling
(2020-05-14)
In the latest years, multiple types of computational models have been used extensively in drug development, with a massive growth of uses of physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling in fields associated with ...
Functional Genomics of Air Breathing in Catfish
(2020-05-14)
Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), tra catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus) and walking catfish (Clarias macrocephalus) all belong to order Siluriformes, but I. punctatus does not possess an air breathing organ (ABO) ...
Modeling of Warm Dense Plasmas for the Determination of Transport Properties and Equation of State
(2020-05-14)
We present the results of research studying the properties of dense plasmas using the average atom model. The average atom model is a physically reasonable statistical representation
of an atom in a plasma, and various ...
Improving Flower Production and Reducing Pre-Harvest Fruit Drop of Gold Kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis)
(2020-05-14)
Abstract
The Actinidia chinensis cultivars, ‘AU Golden Sunshine’ and ‘AU Gulf Coast Gold’ produce heavy crop loads of large, commercially acceptable kiwifruit in central Alabama. However, due to fluctuations in annual ...
Estudio diacrónico de quitar y toller en la época medieval
(2020-05-14)
In view of the increase in diachronic studies, the focus of this research is to understand the development of the Spanish verbs, quitar and toller. The goal in this investigation is, on the one hand, to study what was the ...
A high-resolution paleoclimate record of precipitation variability from a stalagmite in northern Cuba spanning the late-Holocene
(2020-05-14)
I present a new stalagmite δ18O record, named CL, collected from Garibaldi Cave in Matanzas, Cuba that spans between 322 and 3,747 years before present (BP). This study investigates hydroclimate drivers in Cuba and their ...
Stewardship of Synthetic Auxins in 2,4-D and Dicamba–resistant Crops and Mitigation of Off-target Movement
(2020-05-14)
A series of greenhouse, field, and laboratory experiments were conducted to evaluate preemergence (PRE) and postemergence (POST) herbicides for Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri L.) control in addition to assess the ...
Detection of Salmonella Typhimurium on Environmental Surfaces Using Magnetoelastic/magnetostrictive (ME) Biosensors.
(2020-05-14)
Food products can be contaminated by Salmonella anywhere along the food supply chain, so that serious foodborne illnesses, hospitalizations, and even death are caused. The conflict between the fast food-supply requirement ...
Using Symbolic Data Analysis to Detect Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Healthcare Insurance Claims Data
(2020-05-14)
As the nation’s cost of healthcare continues to escalate, so does the exposure to instances of fraud, waste, and abuse. Multiple approaches to detecting these occurrences are in practice today and there are multiple ...
The Effects of Physical Therapy Clinical Experiences on Post-Professional Orthopaedic Knowledge
(2020-05-14)
While it is the case that physical therapists who complete an orthopaedic residency program are more likely to pass the orthopaedic specialist examination, it is unclear if these programs provide those students with more ...
Social Media Information Search Behavior in Consumption Decisions: Consumer Segmentation and Discriminant Factors
(2020-05-14)
Upon recognition of the theoretical and empirical literature gap of research integrating the diverse roles of consumer information search on social media (Choi & Park, 2006), this study proposes the modified consumer ...
Reliability of Shear-Critical Reinforced Concrete Members
(2020-05-13)
Recent research on one-way shear strength and strut-and-tie design approach has led to updates in the ACI 318 Building code requirements for structural concrete. The changes in one-way shear design provisions in ACI 318-19 ...
Performatividad, agencia y trangresión del espacio en la autobiografía de Loreta Velázquez: The Woman in Battle
(2020-05-13)
The Woman in Battle es la sorprendente autobiografía de Loreta Velázquez, una mujer nacida en la Cuba española decimonónica y educada en Nueva Orleans que decidió tomar parte en la Guerra de Secesión luchando con el Sur, ...
Natural and Anthropogenic Contaminants in Groundwater and Cancer Cases in Fruithurst, Alabama
(2020-05-13)
The communities of Fruithurst and Muscadine in northeast Alabama, have a combined population of 1,600 people. Between 2013 and 2017, four children and four adults were diagnosed with leukemia or lymphoma. The goal of this ...
Growth and Morphology of a Synthetic Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)-Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) Backcross Breed and the Hybrid Between the Backcross Female and Blue Catfish Male
(2020-05-13)
The F1 hybrid between a channel catfish female (Ictalurus punctatus) × a blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) outperforms both parental species in commercial environments for numerous traits. However, reproductive isolation ...
Using the Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence to Teach Conceptual Understanding of Place Value, Rounding, and Expanded Notation to Elementary-aged Students with Learning Disabilities
(2020-05-13)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of CRA instruction on teaching place value understanding, rounding to the tens and hundreds place, and making equations multiple ways. The intervention included ...
Development of a Multi-band Plenoptic Camera for High Temperature Measurements
(2020-05-13)
In this thesis, the development of a novel multi-band plenoptic pyrometer is discussed and applied to several applications of interest in the engineering field. The multi-band plenoptic camera is a non-contact measurement ...
Improving the (off)-bottom line: assessing the costs and benefits of different culture techniques on an Alabama commercial oyster farm
(2020-05-13)
Off-bottom oyster aquaculture is an expanding industry in the Gulf of Mexico region, however numerous challenges threaten the sustainability of regional farms. To offset the negative effects of these challenges, farmers ...
High Fat Sugar Diet Induces Skeletal Muscle Degeneration and the Beneficial Effect of Time Restricted Feeding
(2020-05-13)
High fat sugar diet (HFS) is a high-energy diet and has been shown to lead to obesity and many related disorders. Obesity is a risk factor for a lot of diseases and previous studies have suggested that obesity is associated ...