Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Characterization of the Regulatory Process of Pyrethroid Resistance in the House Fly, Musca domestica
(2015-05-29)
The house fly, Musca domestica, is a major domestic, medical and veterinary pest that causes more than 100 human and animal intestinal diseases. The major barrier in the house fly control is their remarkable ability to ...
The Effects of Student Financial Contribution Toward Their Post-Secondary Educational Experience
(2015-05-29)
The college student population is predicted to increase from 13 million to 21 million between 2003–2015 (Strom, 2004). This increase along with the exponentially increasing cost of post-secondary education has caused an ...
The Mangalica Pig is a Novel Biomedical Model for Human Obesity and its Metabolic Complications
(2015-05-29)
The Mangalica pig is a genetic model of excessive adiposity; therefore, this
European heritage breed may serve as an applied model to improve pork quality in
modern commercial lean breeds and as a biomedical model to ...
Impact of decreased wetlands on microclimate of Kolkata, India
(2015-05-18)
The Landsat images were used to assess landuse/landcover (LULC) changes in Kolkata Metropolitan Development Area (KMDA) from 1990 to 2011 and in East Kolkata Wetlands (EKWs) from 1972 to 2011using a geographic object-based ...
Biomass Gasification for Power and Fuel Applications using a Bench-Scale Bubbling Fluidized Bed Gasifier
(2015-05-18)
Today fossil fuels are a major source of energy. Coal is used extensively around the world for power applications, while petroleum products are used to fulfill liquid fuel needs. This extensive use of fossil fuels has led ...
Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Heavy Metal Water Pollution and the Impact on Public Health in China
(2015-05-18)
Water is the source of life. China’s water pollution has become a burning research field because of the severely polluted conditions. 60 percent of the country's rivers were not potable according to the State Environmental ...
Prophet Without Honor: Hosea Williams and the Anomalies of the Black Freedom Struggle
(2015-05-18)
Examining the life of civil rights activist Hosea Lorenzo Williams’s life illuminates the entire landscape of the civil rights movement from a different vantage point, broadening the familiar geography and chronology of ...
Experimental woodsmoke exposure during exercise and an evaluation of blood oxidative stress
(2015-05-18)
Introduction: Woodsmoke exposure and exercise elicit oxidative stress in blood. The purpose of this investigation was to understand the effects of woodsmoke exposure on blood oxidative stress measures. Methods: Ten males ...
Wireless Communication of a Chaotic Waveform
(2015-05-18)
Over the past couple of decades, mathematical equations have been developed that successfully model natural phenomena that occur in various fields such as chemistry, biology, and fluid mechanics. These equations, however ...
A “Gruesome Business”: Collecting and Repatriating Pacific Theater War Trophies
(2015-05-18)
While serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II, American servicemen collected a variety of souvenirs. Some men collected skulls and bones. Other men collected flags, photographs, binoculars, or other personal ...
Long-Term Deformations and Prestress Losses in Precast, Prestressed Bridge Girders
(2015-05-18)
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is widely becoming used to construct precast, prestressed bridge girders. In order to determine the acceptance of SCC for bridge girders in the state of Alabama, The Alabama Department ...
Analog Computation of a High Frequency Exactly Solvable Chaotic Communications System Using State Variable Networks
(2015-05-18)
The design of a high frequency, chaotic oscillator and linear matched filter has been shown as a viable means of electronic communication. Although many chaotic systems are noted for complex or unpredictable behavior, a ...
Factors that Affect Fuel Consumption and Harvesting Cost
(2015-05-13)
Fuel consumption in logging is an important component of harvesting costs. There has been an increased interest in the carbon budget associated with timber harvesting as well as an industrial need for updated fuel consumption ...
Just War Theory and Armed Non-State Actors
(2015-05-13)
In the modern era mankind faces challenges that include: globalization, regional and
international institutions assuming sovereign authority over states, devastating acts of terrorism,
24-hour international news coverage, ...
The Effects of Aerobic and Localized Fatigue on Jump Shot Kinematics and Kinetics in Team Handball Players
(2015-05-13)
Team handball has become a very popular sport throughout the world and according to
the International Handball Federation over 30 million athletes in 183 countries currently play the
sport. The purpose of this project ...
Delayed Reward Discounting in Adolescents with Sexual Offense Convictions
(2015-05-13)
Current explanatory models of sexual offending have been useful in elucidating the etiology of maladaptive sexual behaviors. Prominent models of sexual offending, however, are based largely on empirical findings regarding ...
Fair Factorizations of the Complete Multipartite Graphs and Related Edge-colorings
(2015-05-12)
In this dissertation, first the technique of vertex amalgamations is used to extend known results on graph decompositions, and in particular on decompositions of the complete multipartite graph K(n,p) with p parts, each ...
An Automated Rename Refactoring for Go
(2015-05-12)
Our work focuses on building an automated Rename refactoring for Go. We show that the tool is effective by testing with a suite of 75 manually written unit test cases and running it on 50 large, open source Go projects ...
Evaluating the Distribution and Dispersal of Invasive Woody Vegetation Related to Land Use in Auburn, Alabama
(2015-05-12)
The spread of invasive species in riparian areas is an international problem and has resulted in significant loss of native species in riparian areas worldwide, including the east Alabama region. The objective of this ...
Evaluating Ornamental Performance and Public Perceptions of Cool-Season Annual Bedding Plants within Alabama Public Gardens: A Partnership of Green Industry Groups.
(2015-05-11)
This study focused on field evaluations of cool season annual ornamental selections at two Alabama public garden sites and public perceptions of annual color combinations in planters at three separate public gardens ...