Browsing Auburn University Graduate School by Author "Abebe, Asheber"

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Alternative ingredients in practical diets for Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)

Qiu, Xuan (2017-04-27)

It is a well-known that fish meal supplies will not increase as most fisheries are beyond sustainable limits. If aquaculture and shrimp production in particular is expected to expand, the industry must move away from fish ...

Biennial Seasonal Burning and Hardwood Control Effects on the Carbon Sequestration in a Natural Longleaf Pine Ecosystem

Thapa, Ram (2008-12-15)

This study has been superimposed on a study established in 1973 on the Escambia Experimental Forest located in south-central Alabama, USA to examine the effects of different seasons of burn and hardwood control treatments ...

Brood stock nutrition: enhancement of egg quality for the production of hybrid catfish

Quintero, Herbert (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 ...

The Catfish Antidumping in Perfect and Imperfect Competition and the Role of Aquaculture in Farmers’ Happiness

Nguyen, Duc (2007-08-15)

This dissertation consists of three chapters. Two focus on trade policy issues and provide empirical evidence for effectiveness of U.S. antidumping measures under Byrd Amendment. The Byrd Amendment permits US firms that ...

Climate Variability and Irrigation Impacts on Stream-Aquifer Dynamics in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin

Singh, Sarmistha (2015-08-18)

Climate variability cycles are responsible for short term fluctuations in climatic conditions thereby, affecting the water cycle and the availability of freshwater resources around the world. In Southeast United States, ...

Consequences of Decreased Water Temperature Caused by Aerator-Induced Evaporation on Growth of Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei in Ponds

Abdelrahman, Hisham A. (2016-07-25)

Two studies were performed related to water temperature in aquaculture ponds. The first study evaluated the influence of aeration on evaporation and water temperature in ponds, and compared the effects of daytime and ...

Controlled Spawning of White Catfish, Ictalurus catus, and Brown Bullhead Catfish, Ameiurus nebulosus, Using Carp Pituitary Extract and LHRHa

Fobes, Michael (2013-01-03)

If successful artificial spawning techniques can be developed, white catfish, Ictalurus catus, and brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus, may have the potential to become model organisms for accelerated catfish genetics ...

The Effects of Accumulated and Continuous Bouts of Aerobic Exercise and Differing Levels of Exercise Intensity on Postprandial Lipemia

Mestek, Michael (2007-08-15)

The purposes of this investigation were to compare the effects of low- and moderate-intensity exercise and accumulated versus continuous aerobic exercise on postprandial lipemia in males with metabolic syndrome. Fourteen ...

The Effects of Aerobic Exercise and Extended-Release Niacin on Fasting and Postprandial Blood Lipids

Plaisance, Eric (2006-12-15)

The primary purpose of this investigation was to compare the combined effects of aerobic exercise and extended-release niacin on fasting and postprandial lipemia. Fifteen men with the metabolic syndrome (Age = 46 ± 2; BMI ...

Efficient Rank Regression with Wavelet Estimated Scores

Kwessi Nyandjou, Eddy Armand (2011-07-07)

Wavelets have been widely used lately in many areas such as physics, astronomy, biological sciences and recently to statistics. The main goal of this dissertation is to provide a new contribution to an important problem ...

Essays on Food and Agricultural Policy

Irimia-Vladu, Marina (2006-12-15)

The study provides insight into the policy provisions that provide a safety net for low income families and agricultural producers in the United States. Private food assistance along with Food Stamp Program and Federal ...

Essays on International, Development and Environmental Economics

Alkilany, Yousef Aburodess Assaid (2022-07-28) ETD File Embargoed

This dissertation consists of three empirical essays in three chapters, which sheds light on select research questions on foreign inflows on the income inequality in low-income countries, the agricultural productivity of ...

Essays on South Africa: Exchange Rates, Bilateral Trade and Inflation

Kinyua, Peter (2012-04-20)

South Africa shows how natural resources can be harnessed to build a successful economy. This success gives rise to peculiar macroeconomic issues that warrant analysis. Chapter one of this dissertation investigates the ...

Evaluating the Competitiveness of US Agricultural Market Commodities

Kagochi, John (2007-08-15)

This dissertation is organized into three different topics in the field of international trade and economics that look at the competitiveness of US agricultural export commodities using different economic models and ...

Evaluation of Enzymes Supplementation in Diets for Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)

Qiu, Xuan (2015-07-23)

Fish meal is preferred among other protein sources because it is an excellent source of essential nutrients such as protein and indispensable amino acids, essential fatty acids, cholesterol, vitamins, minerals attractants ...

Exact Comparision of Hazard Rate Functions of Log-Logistic Survival Distributions

Dixit, Asha (2008-08-15)

A comparison of hazard rates of multiple treatments are compared under the assumption that survival times follow the log-logistic distribution. Exact test procedures are developed for ordered comparisons of the worst case ...

A Generalization of Special Atom Spaces with Arbitrary Measure

Alfonso, Paul, Jr. (2010-12-08)

A brief historical account of the development of special atom spaces is presented followed by the introduction of two new function spaces, A ( ; ) and B ( ; ), which are generalizations of previous special atom spaces ...

Generalized Signed-Rank Estimation for Certain Complex Regression Models

Nguelifack, Brice Merlin (2015-05-07)

This dissertation is mainly concerned with the Generalized signed-rank estimation of model parameters in complex regression models, specially nonlinear models with multidimensional indices and two-phase linear models. First ...

Improving Parameter Estimation for Integral Projection Models in Fluctuating Environments

Nath, Gopal (2020-07-21)

The matrix projection model (MPM) is one of the mainstream approaches for population and environmental dynamics in biological and ecological sciences. MPM is very popular in modern biological sciences mainly due to its ...

Iteration Methods for Approximation of Solutions of Nonlinear Equations in Banach Spaces

Chidume, Chukwudi (2008-08-15)

The objective in this manuscript is to study some iterative methods used to approximate solutions of nonlinear equations in Banach Spaces. In particular, we study a Halperntype iterative scheme in relation to nonexpansive ...