Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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In vitro and in vivo cold shock response in Vibrio vulnificus
(2007-08-15)
Vibrio vulnificus is a serious food-borne pathogen associated with the consumption of raw oysters. The Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC) recommends refrigeration of Gulf Coast oysters after harvesting to ...
Genetic Effects on the Production of Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) Female X Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) Male Hybrid Fry
(2007-08-15)
The hybrid from the mating of a female channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) with a male blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) exhibits heterosis for various performance traits which would make it attractive to the commercial ...
Brood stock nutrition: enhancement of egg quality for the production of hybrid catfish
(2007-08-15)
The catfish industry is one of the largest and best developed aquaculture segments in the United States. The development of technological solutions to maintain a competitive level in the market is key to this success. The ...
Resource Use and Waste Production at a Semi-Intensive Black Tiger Prawn Penaeus Monodon Farm
(2007-08-15)
A study of resource use and waste production was conducted at the Aqualma shrimp farm in Madagascar . This farm has 685 ha of grow-out ponds where black tiger prawn Peneaus monodon are produced by semi-intensive production ...
Total sulfur amino acid requirement and its application to practical diets for juvenile tilapia (Oreochromis spp.)
(2007-08-15)
Tilapia have become one of the most important fish species for aquaculture and play an increasing role in the international aquatic food trade. Therefore, the development of cost-effective feeds using inexpensive and locally ...
Physical Map Construction and Physical Characterization of Channel Catfish Genome
(2007-08-15)
Catfish is the major aquaculture species in the United States. To enhance genome studies involving linkage mapping, comparative mapping and linkage map and physical map integration, over 20,000 Bacterial Artificial Chromosome ...
Molecular characterization of Edwardsiella spp. and Flavobacterium columnare
(2007-08-15)
Bacterial diseases are responsible for large economic losses in aquaculture around the world. Flavobacterium columnare and Edwardsiella spp. negatively impact the channel catfish industry in southern USA. However, limited ...
Fat Bob
(2007-08-15)
This is a fiction writing thesis consisting of four short stories. Each short story was originally conceived of by the author during the graduate fiction writing classes taken at Auburn University during the spring and ...
The Polyphonic “Voice of Society”: A Stylistic Analysis of Our Mutual Friend
(2007-08-15)
My study of Our Mutual Friend is restricted to seven chapters, each with the same short list of characters, which introduce or conclude the four books of the novel. Society is the label under which these chapters come, ...
The Right to Represent: The Transformation of Topsy in Robert Alexander's I Ain't Yo' Uncle
(2007-08-15)
For my master’s thesis, I intend to examine the reception of “Topsy” in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin from the date of publication as a novel in 1852 through 1892. I will investigate and demonstrate the struggle ...
The Trouble With Gender in Othello: A Butlerian Reading of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice
(2007-08-15)
By applying the theories of gender as performance developed by feminist theorist Judith Butler in her 1990 work, Gender Trouble, to the canonical text of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, ...
'From Darwin to the Death Camps': A Collage of Holocaust Representation Focusing on Perpetrator Atrocity Discourse in Literature, Drama, and Film
(2007-08-15)
In this dissertation my plan is to take a collage of representational forms that deal with the subject of the Holocaust and to point at the discourse of the perpetrator as possibly a more postmodern form of representing ...
Development of an Autonomous Mobile Robot-Trailer System for UXO Detection
(2007-08-15)
The process of finding and removing unexploded ordnance (UXO) from contaminated sites is an expensive and time consuming task. In this thesis, an autonomous mobile robot-trailer system is developed for this purpose. It ...
Nonlinear Control and Design Methodologies for Electrostatic MEMS Devices
(2007-08-15)
A method to extend the travel range of electrostatically actuated MEMS device is presented. A gap closing actuator (GCA) is used to demonstrate the method. An output (position)feedback controller is presented, along with ...
Doubly-Selective Channel Estimation and Equalization Using Superimposed Training and Basis Expansion Models
(2007-08-15)
Owing to multipath propagation and Doppler spread, typical wireless channels are both frequency- and time-selective (doubly-selective). In this dissertation, we concentrate on channel estimation and equalization over ...
Radial Deblurring with FFTs
(2007-08-15)
Radial blurring (sometimes called zoom blurring) of an image occurs when a camera acquires an image while traveling at a high rate of speed towards an object. Removing this blur is a challenging problem because it is a ...
Experimental Characterization of the Temperature Dependence of the Piezoresistive Coefficients of Silicon
(2007-08-15)
In this work, the dependence of the silicon piezoresistive coefficients p11, p12, and p44 on temperature is investigated. Experimental calibration results for the piezoresistive coefficients of silicon as a function of ...
Standards for School Leaders: Considering Historical, Political, and National Organizational Influences
(2007-08-15)
Since their publication, standards for school leaders have influenced policy action at the national, state, and local levels. Much of the initial work in administrative standards implementation has taken place in the ...
Roosting behavior and habitat dynamics of male Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) following a large-scale natural disturbance
(2005-08-15)
Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) have been the subject of numerous ecological studies, partly because they are endangered. A majority of research has focused on maternity colonies and relatively less is known about males. ...
Professional Development as a Means to Increasing Teachers’ Self-Efficacy for Technology Integration
(2005-05-15)
The purpose of this study was to explore the importance of the integration of technology into educational classrooms and why teachers are reluctant to embrace this integration. Further, this study systemically evaluated ...