Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Making a Judgment of Accountability: An Analysis of Budgets & Structural Balance Utilizing State CAFR's
(2013-04-23)
Budgeting is a key financial management tool utilized by governments. It provides a prospective view of revenues and expenditures for a particular time period. An adopted budget allows the governmental entity, the public ...
Applications of Mass spectrometry in natural product drug discovery for malaria: Targeting Plasmodium falciparum thioredoxin reductase
(2013-04-23)
Malaria is considered to be the dominant cause of death in low income countries especially in Africa. Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum is a most lethal form of the disease because of its rapid spread and the development ...
Effectiveness of coated controlled-released sulfate as an algicide for phytoplankton control in ponds
(2013-04-23)
Copper sulfate and diuron are the two common treatments for controlling blue-green
algae, the cause off-flavor in aquaculture ponds, especially catfish ponds. Copper sulfate has
been used most widely because of its lower ...
Development and Application of Grain Distillers Dried Yeast for Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei
(2013-04-23)
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in developing low-cost feeds for the Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. High prices and limited supply are the main factors that have affected primarily feed ...
Legislated Incentives and Expectations
(2013-04-23)
The United States Congress passes several pieces of legislation with the intent to improve the overall livelihood of Americans and assist other nations toward economic development. This collection of essays identifies ...
Stage-specific responses to freshwater mussels to temperature and suspended solids
(2013-04-22)
Elevated levels of suspended solids (TSS) are one of the most widespread water quality problems in streams, rivers, and lakes throughout North America, yet little is known about their effect on populations of freshwater ...
Modeling Human Perception of Postural Stress
(2013-04-22)
This work investigated the discomfort-time sequences of SPH tasks in an effort to determine the existing relationship between perceived discomfort and posture holding time. This study proposed the power function as an ...
A combined approach toward resolving the phylogeny of Mollusca
(2013-04-22)
With estimates of up to 200,000 extant species, Mollusca is second in number of species only to Arthropoda. Moreover, with species as different as meiofaunal worms and giant squid, Mollusca is one of the most morphologically ...
Semi-Supervised Classification Techniques in Big Data Text Analytics
(2013-04-22)
Imagine that you are trying to read everything you got in 2011 as soon as possible. That will take the first three months of 2012. How can we get access to the vast unstructured literature, automatically process it, ...
Removal or Immobilization of Arsenic by Stabilized Magnetite Nanoparticles in Water, Soil, and Poultry Litter
(2013-04-22)
Stabilized magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles were synthesized and extensively tested for enhanced removal of arsenate, As(V), from water, and for in situ immobilization of arsenic in soil and poultry litter. Two low-cost and ...
Genome-wide comparative analysis of channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
(2013-04-22)
Comparative map is a powerful tool to transfer the genomic information from well-studied model species to non-model species whose genomic resources are limited. Channel catfish is a primary aquaculture species in United ...
Molecular Mechanisms of Neuroprotection and Cognitive Enhancement by an Alternative drug Centella asiatica
(2013-04-22)
Complementary and Alternative medicine (CAM) is increasingly gaining enormous importance as a part of current day therapeutic regimen for various incurable, chronic neurological disorders, majorly because of the palliative ...
Path Decompositions of the Kneser Graph
(2013-04-22)
Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the existence of a graph decomposition of the Kneser Graph $KG_{n,2}$ into paths of length three and four, and of the Generalized Kneser Graph $GKG_{n,3,1}$ into paths of ...
Synergy not Antagonism in Antioxidant Defenses: The Unanticipated Effect of Electron Donors on Catalase-peroxidase Function
(2013-04-22)
Catalase-peroxidases, also called KatGs, have raised considerable interest due to their role in the activation of isoniazid, an anti-tubercular pro-drug for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. KatGs are heme-dependent enzymes and ...
The Relationship between Computer Expertise and Obesity in the Black Belt Region of Alabama
(2013-04-22)
This study deals with the relationship between computer expertise and obesity in the Black Belt region of Alabama. On the surface these concepts may seem unrelated. However, access to the internet has been associated ...
Exploring the Claisen Rearrangement and Aldol Reaction “on Water” and in Catalytic Antibodies using QM/MM Simulations and the Examination of Ligand Induced Conformational Changes in Alkanesulfonate Monooxygenase using Molecular Dynamics
(2013-04-22)
The “on water” environment, defined by the absence of water solubility of the reactants has been reported to provide increased rate accelerations, yields, and specificity for several types of organic reaction classes ...
Management of Palmer Amaranth in Glufosinate-Resistant Cotton and Cogongrass Eradication in the Southern United States
(2013-04-22)
The Southeastern US is struggling with cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica) and glyphosate- resistant Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri)–two of the most difficult-to-manage weeds of non-crop and row-crop areas, respectively. ...
Corn Sustainability for Cellulosic Biofuel and Grain Production in the Southeastern US
(2013-04-22)
Biofuel production from plant biomass has been proposed as a solution to mitigate fossil
fuel use. Corn (Zea mays L.) is an important crop in the Southeast. Its abundance and high yield
potential makes it attractive as ...
Chemistry in silico: Organic Reactions, Ionic Liquids, Tautomerization
(2013-04-22)
Computational chemistry is a collection of methods that seek to interpret and predict chemical phenomena. In this work, three distinct areas of chemistry are investigated: (1) the reactive pathways of UVA irradiated ...
Prediction of the Erector Spinae Muscle Lever Arm Distance for Biomechanical Models
(2013-04-22)
Low Back Pain (LBP) remains the U.S.’s most significant and costly injury. Improved
biomechanical modeling of the lumbar spine may allow better evaluation of LBP risk. To
calculate the forces acting on the spine, accurate ...