Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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A Model for the Regional Variability of Riprap Prices in Alabama
(2020-05-05)
Riprap is widely used by departments of transportation (DOTs) for erosion control and slope stabilization activities. Even though DOTs seem to be satisfied with the ability of riprap to fulfill its intended purpose, its ...
Development of Micro-Computed Tomography Data Based Simulation Technique For Deformation and Strain Measurement of Densely Packed Electronics
(2020-05-04)
Rising pace of innovation and continuously increasing investments in research and developments has resulted in higher value added to each electronics equipment around us. This has also resulted in massive rise in demand ...
Moving Forecasting Error: A Risk-Based Cost Forecasting Approach
(2020-05-04)
The large amounts of historical pricing data the state transportation agencies (STAs) have collected during the last couple of decades, combined with the information technologies available today, have facilitated greater ...
Essays on Option Hedging and Application of the Black-Scholes Model
(2020-05-04)
This dissertation is composed of three essays related to hedging and application of the Black-Scholes model. The first essay is motivated by the short-lived arbitrage model, which has been shown to significantly improve ...
Hoeing out the New South: The Material Culture of the Hoe and the Segregation of Progress
(2020-05-04)
In the New South, the hoe became a symbol, utilized by white southerners, that attempted to primitivize blackness and segregate progress before the solidification of the Jim Crow. The historical relationship curated between ...
Right-to-Farm: Dispossession of Community in Rural America
(2020-05-04)
Practices of industrialization are changing rural landscapes despite oppositional efforts of community members. This thesis explores the themes of power and loss in rural areas impacted by industrial agriculture and how ...
Testing the Efficacy and Mechanisms of an Authentic Self-expression Orientation in Enhancing Newcomer Job Performance: A Longitudinal Quasi-Field Experiment
(2020-05-01)
Building on prior research (Cable, Gino, & Staats, 2013) showing that an orientation program that emphasizes authentic self-expression (ASE) may facilitate newcomer adjustment, the present longitudinal quasi-field experiment ...
Age Determination of Hybrid Catfish Ictalurus punctatus ♀ x Ictalurus furcatus ♂ and Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus and Economic Evaluation of Three Strategies to Control Big Fish on Commercial Fish Farms
(2020-04-30)
The number of catfish farms in west Alabama has declined from 250 to 71 over the 2003 to 2020 period. This has been due to a variety of reasons including foreign competition, changing consumer preferences, volatile market ...
Understanding Cyclist Perceptions of Road Adjacent Shared-Use Paths: A Comprehensive Study of Both Stated and Revealed User Preferences
(2020-04-30)
Road adjacent shared-use paths are a valuable transportation facility for rural and suburban communities looking to reap the benefits of increased active transportation. Shared-use paths have the ability to immediately ...
Redox-Active α-Diimines and Novel Schiff Base Ligands for Uranium Coordination Chemistry
(2020-04-30)
The use of nuclear power for electricity generation plays a large role in our highly energy-dependent economy, and provides a source of low-emission, renewable energy that is used worldwide. Despite the positive impacts ...
Guidelines for the Design of Digitally Fabricable Products for the Intent of Digital Distribution
(2020-04-30)
With the availability of low-cost 3D modeling and digital fabrication tools and software, a culture of “digital making” has emerged. With companies like Opendesk and Thingiverse providing open source resources for at-home ...
Del ángel del hogar a la mujer nueva en Las chicas del cable y La otra mirada
(2020-04-30)
This master’s thesis focuses on today’s television representation of female subalternity at the beginning of the twentieth century in Spain. The feminist movement of that time was gradually growing stronger in the country, ...
What prevents a person from becoming an immigration activist?: Understanding the impact fear of isolation and the level of privacy has on individuals
(2020-04-30)
The current study aims at gaining a deeper understanding of the impact of spiral of silence on social media regarding a specific immigration issue; refugees or asylum-seekers in the United States. There is a focus on how ...
Fix, Flee, or Fan the Flames? An Attributional Investigation of Relational Responses to Coworker Incivility
(2020-04-30)
Workplace incivility, which is low-intensity interpersonal mistreatment with ambiguous intent, is increasingly prevalent in today’s organizations. The ambiguous intent that characterizes incivility suggests attributions ...
Pink Lemonade: An Autoethnographic Fantasia
(2020-04-29)
Pink Lemonade provides a campus climate study of queer experience on a rural, Southern
campus in the United States. The researcher employs autoethnographic methods under a post- qualitative paradigm to explore the lives ...
Prevalence of parasites in Alabama poultry flocks with special emphasis on Eimeria maxima
(2020-04-29)
Coccidiosis is a disease caused by Eimeria spp. and it is the most prevalent and economically important disease in poultry. Due to its economic importance, the control of coccidiosis is critical. Other parasites can cause ...
Mechanical Characterization and Aging Induced Evolution of Cyclic Properties and Microstructure of Lead-Free Solder Materials
(2020-04-29)
Solder joints in electronic assemblies are often subjected to cyclic (positive/negative) mechanical strains and stresses. Such exposures can occur in variable temperature application environments or during accelerated life ...
Creating Black Girl Magic: The Weight of Motherhood for Middle Class Black Mothers and their Preschool-Aged Daughters
(2020-04-28)
Guided by an intersectional perspective, the current study was a qualitative inquiry into how the body image of six Black mothers impacted their mothering in regard to physical activity for their preschool-aged daughters. ...
From Tonic to Toxin: Medicinal Plants in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
(2020-04-27)
My dissertation, From Tonic to Toxin: Medicinal Plants in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, explores the reclassification of herbs in nineteenth-century British literature and culture from potent allies to ...
Exploring and Measuring the Teaching and Development of Earth Systems Thinking Skills in Undergraduate Geoscience Courses
(2020-04-24)
The understanding of the development of Earth systems thinking (EST) is a major challenge in the field of geoscience education. Major questions exist relating to systems thinking teaching practices, student conceptions ...