Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Do seasonal changes in developmental temperature have season-specific consequences in a lizard?
(2016-12-09)
Rapidly changing environmental conditions can reduce the fitness of a phenotype. Phenotypic plasticity can solve this problem by enabling individuals to develop phenotypes that are suited to their immediate environment. ...
Physiological Reactance and Discrimination in Response to Visual Stimuli of Persons with Down Syndrome
(2016-12-09)
Despite the enactment of several pieces of legislation, persons with disabilities still experience discriminatory human resource practices. The following dissertation investigates the effect of several physiological measures ...
Defining the Phenomenon: Trafficking in Persons, Advocate Organizations and Issue Framing
(2016-12-09)
The modern era of Trafficking in Persons (TIP)—beginning with the African Slave Trade (AST)—has seen an alarming increase in the number of victims of the phenomenon. Contemporary TIP (cTIP) is a result of the increased ...
Bioconversion of lignocellulose into acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE): pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation
(2016-12-09)
Abstract
The objective of the present dissertation is to investigate the bioprocess for the production of acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) from lignocellulosic feedstocks via ABE fermentation with solvent-producing ...
Microfluidic Interfacing for Primary Endocrine Tissue: Developing Bioanalytical Methodologies and Novel Fabrication Methods for Cell Culture and Analysis
(2016-12-09)
In order to bridge the gap between microfluidic designs and real world applications, microanalysis systems were developed using minimalistic design attributes which could be readily paired with compatible bioanalytical ...
Laser Field Interactions with Atoms and Molecules
(2016-12-09)
This dissertation explores multiple areas of laser matter interactions.
It studies four main topics: multi-photon (few photon) double ionization of He, double photoionization of He-like systems
from level resolved ...
Investigating the Dog-Human Social Bond via Behavioral and fMRI Methodologies
(2016-12-09)
Domestic dogs have been bred into a close relationship with humans, and it is one in which they are often considered family members just as human children are. Given the development of this intense bond, it is unsurprising ...
The role of atomic excited states in laboratory plasmas and a study in fine structure diagnostics for far infra-red astrophysical observations
(2016-12-09)
This dissertation has a focus on the role of atomic excited states in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. The emphasis is on systems for which perturbation theory is not expected to produce accurate results. The work ...
Strategies for Monitoring Pathologic Conditions and Treatment Efficacy in Murine Models
(2016-12-09)
On the surface, the pathologies of infectious disease and cancer appear fundamentally different; however, there exist several commonalities including pharmacological targets and resistance mechanisms, immune response, and ...
Control of Sawtooth Oscillation Dynamics using Externally Applied Stellarator Transform
(2016-12-09)
The control of sawtooth oscillations is an active area of tokamak research. The sawtooth oscillation is driven by ohmic heating of the core plasma until the safety factor drops below one triggering the growth of an m=n=1 ...
Evaluation of Selected Edamame Cultivars for Isoflavone Content, Organoleptic Characteristics, and Production in Central Alabama
(2016-12-09)
Edamame [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is vegetable soybean harvested and consumed at the R6 development stage. The growing popularity of edamame as a healthy snack food has led to increased interest in edamame production from ...
Identifying Potential Cisco Refuge Lakes in Minnesota under Future Climate Warming Scenarios
(2016-12-09)
Fish habitat models were developed and applied to investigate the impacts of future climate change on cisco oxythermal habitat in Minnesota lakes. Cisco Coregonus artedi is the most common cold-water stenothermal fish ...
Development of Specifications for ALDOT Mass Concrete Construction
(2016-12-09)
In mass concrete construction, concrete temperature requirements must be established to
prevent delayed ettringite formation (DEF) and thermal cracking. This involves limiting the
maximum allowable concrete temperature ...
Identification of Selenium Reducing Species Within and Suggested Optimization of a Passive Biological Reactor
(2016-12-09)
As concern for the environment moves to the forefront of the issues considered most pressing by society, mankind is becoming increasingly aware of the harmful things it discharges into the ecosystem in the name of industry ...
Exploring New Technologies for Sustainable Viticulture in the Southeastern United States
(2016-12-09)
In the southeastern United States, Pierce’s Disease (PD) is the major limiting factor for production of Vitis vinifera L, European wine grapes. Recently bred, PD resistant 87.5% V. vinifera selections (‘U0501-12’, ‘U0502-01’, ...
Removal of pathogenic bacteria in algal turf scrubbers
(2016-12-09)
Algal Turf Scrubbers (ATS) are ecologically engineered systems that utilize the growth of filamentous algae on a submerged surface to remediate polluted water using sunlight as the main energy input into the system. Previous ...
Geomorphic and Sedimentologic Analysis of Four Streams in Southeastern Alabama: Channel and Habitat Response to Changes in Land Use
(2016-12-09)
Streams of the Southeastern US have varying degrees of degradation due to the long history of agricultural land use, reflected in incising and eroding banks with aggradation of fine grained legacy sediment. These effects ...
Mass Customization – An Approach to Designing Product Platforms for Mass Customization
(2016-12-09)
Over the last several decades, the production industry has experienced a paradigm shift from traditional mass production processes toward mass customization processes; this enables consumers to become an integral part in ...
Elder Voices: Slavery and Aging in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(2016-12-09)
This dissertation explores the ways in which nineteenth-century apologist writers sought to discount and silence the agency of African Americans through literary representations of enslavement in elder(ly) “Aunts” and ...
Atomic Characterization of L_1 And The Lorentz-Bochner Space L^X(p,1) for With Some Applications
(2016-12-09)
In the 1950s, G. G Lorentz introduced the spaces $\Lambda(\alpha)$ and $M(\alpha)$, for $0<\alpha<1$ and showed that the dual of $\Lambda(\alpha)$ is equivalent to $M(\alpha)$ in his paper titled 'Some New Functional ...