Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Investigating Uses for Industrial Sweetpotato in Addition to Ethanol Production to Establish Industrial Sweetpotato as a Sustainable Crop in the Southeastern United States.
(2015-07-23)
Field studies were conducted evaluating the effect of nitrogen fertilizer on yield, crude protein (CP), total digestible nutrients (TDN), and acid detergent fiber (ADF) of industrial sweetpotato tuberous roots (Ipomea ...
High Strain Rate Elastic and Fracture Characterization of Isotropic and Orthotropic Materials with and without Nano Fillers
(2015-07-22)
A long-bar apparatus for subjecting relatively small samples to mode-I stress-wave loading has been devised for failure characterization. A methodology based on digital image correlation (DIC) used in conjunction with ...
Credit Delivery Analyses and Climate Impact Issues: The Case of Ghana and Southeastern US
(2015-07-22)
The first paper examines the impact of the microfinance sector on small/ micro enterprises in Ghana. The study uses 2007 BEEPS data and employs the financing constraints approach to study if the presence of microfinance ...
Net Exchanges of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere in Tropical Asia during 1901–2010
(2015-07-22)
Terrestrial ecosystems act as important sources of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), which cause climate warming. Therefore, understanding and quantification ...
Energetic tradeoffs between reproduction and longevity in the house mouse (Mus musculus)
(2015-07-21)
Energy investment in reproduction comes at the cost of other life history traits, including future reproductive output and ultimately, lifespan. The disposable soma theory suggests that there is a negative relationship ...
Evaluation of Bacterial Amendments for Improving Water Quality in Alabama Catfish Ponds
(2015-07-21)
Four sets of experiments were conducted to evaluate the potential efficacy of bacterial amendments for improving water quality in channel catfish ponds. First, the effects of 12 bacterial amendments from eight companies ...
Exploiting Boundary Scan functions of FPGA on ATE
(2015-07-21)
With the increase of integration density at chip level, the controllability and observability of defects become complicated, resulting in limited physical probe access to I/O pins. It is impractical to apply test stimulus ...
The Relationships between Economic Hardship, Financial Distress, Relational Aggression, and Marital Quality as Experienced by Mid-Life Married Couples during and following the Recent Economic Recession
(2015-07-21)
Using data from the Flourishing Families Project, the current dissertation is composed of two studies examining how 335 mid-life married couples experienced economic hardship and financial distress during the recent economic ...
Young Adults’ Perception of Fathering and the Father-Child Relationship in the Context of Marital Violence
(2015-07-21)
The current study utilized a qualitative research design, combining grounded theory and thematic analysis, to examine fathering by maritally violent men from the perspective of their young adult children. Semi-structured ...
Bounded Complete Embedding Graphs
(2015-07-21)
In the study of graph embeddings, there is particular interest in small embeddings and in bounds on the minimum number of vertices that must be added in order to achieve an embedding of a particular design. We introduce ...
Corticosterone as a Predictor of Long-term Outcomes of Fear Attenuation Treatment
(2015-07-21)
Blunted adrenal corticosteroid levels and dysregulation of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) Axis are known risk factors for developing PTSD (Delahanty et al., 2000; McFarlane et al., 1997). Although other risk ...
Olfactory Responses and Odor Coding of Culex quinquefasciatus to Human Odorants
(2015-07-21)
The southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae), transmits a number of potentially fatal diseases, including West Nile virus (WNV). From 1999 to 2013, WNV caused 39,557 cases of human infection and ...
Exploring Participants’ Variation in Relational Outcomes based on Couple Relationship Education Curriculum
(2015-07-21)
The purpose of this study was to advance explorations of content of two different Couple Relationship Education (CRE) curricula, ELEVATE and a Mindfulness-Based CRE (MBCRE), and how each of two program experiences influenced ...
Common Law and Aesthetic Dissent: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon
(2015-07-21)
This dissertation investigates Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s dissents that instantiate his evolutionary view of the common-law system. The style and rhetoric of his dissents drew attention to his legal propositions that ...
Analyzing the Benefits of Graphics Processing Units for Computation-Intensive Applications on Hadoop
(2015-07-21)
Due to the ever expanding amount of data that is being generated in the “Big Data era” there is an ever increasing challenge of processing this data. This work aims to tackle the challenge of improving the performance of ...
Evaluation of Driver Assistive Truck Platooning on Traffic Flow
(2015-07-21)
Interest in driver assistive truck platooning (DATP) through the application of coordinated adaptive cruise control in the freight trucking industry is on the rise due to its expected benefits on the roadway. To investigate ...
Liquid Jet Impingement with Spent Flow Management for Power Electronics Cooling
(2015-07-21)
The high levels of heat generated by power electronics, on board electric and hybrid-electric vehicles, require the use of aggressive liquid cooling techniques. Incorporating the electronics cooling into the radiator flow ...
Phylogenetic treatment and taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) within the United States
(2015-07-21)
This systematic study documents the taxonomy, diversity, and distribution of the tarantula spider genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 within the United States. Aphonopelma is a group wherein traditional morphological characters ...
Experimental analysis of the wear of rubber against harder materials in reciprocating motion
(2015-07-21)
This work investigated the wear performance of rubber when contacted against harder composite materials through experimental analysis. The focus of this thesis was to find the optimal type of rubber and the composite ...
Demons into Dandies: Comic Villains and Urban Economics in Victorian Literature
(2015-07-21)
This dissertation traces the evolution of comic villains through their antagonistic rapport with the most serious of Victorian enterprises: the economy. In particular, the development of villains is situated as a metaphoric ...