Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Effects of Animal Fat, Flaxseed Oil, and Vitamin E on Growth Performance and Metabolic Profile of Finisher Pigs, Physical and Organoleptic Characteristics of Pork, and Gene Expression in Adipose and Muscle Tissues of Finisher Pigs
(2017-12-01)
Producing high-quality pork is an integral part of successful and sustainable pig production. Lipid content and composition is central to the nutritional value and eating quality of pork. The objective of this project was ...
Three Essays on Big Data Adoption and Its Impact on Business Value Creation
(2017-11-30)
Characterized by volume, variety and velocity (3Vs), big data has received much attention from firm executives, government officials, and academic scholars in the last few years. The emerging era of big data offers firms ...
Validation of MRI-Derived Morphometric Estimations of Biomechanical Inputs to Improve Low Back Pain Risk Assessment
(2017-11-30)
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders facing the working world. Previous LBP studies have focused on exposure to physical risk factors in the workplace such as lifting, pushing, pulling ...
The Investigation of Haliotis Rufescens (Red Abalone): Mesolayer Growth & Mechanical Behavior
(2017-11-30)
Self-assembly is a popular bottom-up process which results in highly-ordered and fine structures in micro- or nano-scale. The special structures produced through the self-assembly are always related to some unique and ...
Effect of Three Dimensional Substratum Features on Benthic Algal Biomass Productivity
(2017-11-30)
Algae has emerged as a promising and valuable source for biofuels, waste water remediation and bio-products such as fertilizers, bioplastics and aquaculture feed. Algae’s emergence can be attributed to its high growth rates ...
q-Steiner Systems and their Automorphisms
(2017-11-30)
The q-analog of t-designs and Steiner systems arises canonically from replacing sets of
conventional t-designs by vector spaces over GF(q) and their orders with the dimensions.
Thomas introduced these generalizations ...
Patterns of Parasite Infection Dynamics during a Biological Invasion
(2017-11-30)
Biological invasions may impact native ecosystems by affecting host-parasite dynamics. Introduced species can harbor parasites transported from their native range and these parasites can spillover to infect native taxa, ...
Radiation Hard Thin Film Transistors and Logic Circuits Based on ZnO and Related Materials
(2017-11-30)
Thin film and thin film transistors (TFTs) and logic circuits based on zinc oxide (ZnO) and
related materials, such as zinc tin oxide (ZTO), are designed, fabricated and characterized in
this Ph.D. dissertation. ZnO as ...
Static Friction and Junction Growth of Contacting Three-dimensional Sinusoidal Asperities and Rough surfaces
(2017-11-30)
It is reported that about one third of the world's primary energy per year was consumed by friction, and about 55% of the machine parts failed due to wear and tear. Therefore, it is important to understand the process ...
Policy Adoption and Networked Governance: How Power Arrangements Explain Local Approaches to HIV Testing in County Jails
(2017-11-30)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) continues to be a pernicious problem in the United States’ correctional facilities, despite national prevention efforts for decades. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has been working ...
Life history patterns, social group structure, and mating system of Pederson cleaner shrimps Ancylomenes pedersoni
(2017-11-30)
Cleaner organisms perform key functional roles in reducing rates of parasitism in marine communities. Pederson cleaner shrimps Ancylomenes pedersoni are major cleaners of reef fishes in the tropical western Atlantic, and ...
Use of Accelerometers to Characterize Behavior in Beef Cattle During Health and Subclinical Disease
(2017-11-30)
The acute phase response (APR) represents a protective, coordinated response of the host with the aim of eliminating the inciting stimuli and re-establishing homeostasis. Produced by activated immune cells, proinflammatory ...
The Effect of Incubation Temperature on Sex and Morphology in the African Redhead Agama (Agama picticauda)
(2017-11-30)
The first demonstration of temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) in a vertebrate was in the African redhead agama (Agama agama) nearly 50 years ago. The original study was generally overlooked until it was later ...
Biofuel Production from Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Algae and Its Subsequent Upgrading
(2017-11-30)
Algae are considered as a promising feedstock for biofuel production. The conversion of algae to biofuel was investigated in this study. The study was concentrated in two main areas: hydrothermal liquefaction of algae into ...
Revisiting the OSHA Hand Speed Constant
(2017-11-30)
This research focused on after-reach and over-reach in automated systems. OSHA uses a hand speed constant developed in 1935 (1.6 m/s) to calculate the “safe distance” on dual palm buttons and presence sensing devices. The ...
Neural Network Based Gesture Recognition Robot
(2017-11-30)
Autonomous mobile robots (ARM’s) are defined by their ability to perform some tasks independently from direct human interaction. However, interaction with humans at some point is necessary. There are some situations in ...
Effect of Rhizobacteria on Induction of Volatile Organic Compounds and Consequences for Corn Herbivores and Tritrophic Interactions
(2017-11-30)
Herbivorous insects depend on plants for survival. When herbivores feed on a plant the immobile plant responds directly by mobilizing it defenses, or indirectly by attracting natural enemies of the herbivore. Although plant ...
Energy Usage Pro ling and Topology-Based Scheduling for Clusters
(2017-11-30)
Energy saving is rapidly becoming one of the hottest topics in technology field within recent decades. With the development of technology, it brings a sheer increasing trend of data and the growth scale of clusters and ...
Towards the Computer-Aided Molecular Design of Reactants and Products
(2017-11-30)
Many chemical processes generate products with properties of interest to businesses and end consumers (B&EC), using reactions. Thus, a need for quantitative modeling of physico-chemical properties and molecular design (MD) ...
Advanced Relational Interventions, Emotional Arousal, The Real Relationship, and Single Session Outcome
(2017-11-30)
This study examined relationships among client-perceived session factors (self-reported emotional experience and judgments about the extent to which the therapist utilized process interventions), therapist-perceived session ...