Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Three Essays on the Valuation of Natural Resources in Recreation and Tourism
(2011-04-29)
This dissertation examines the demand behavior of recreational participants, their preference for resource attributes and their valuations of nature-based outdoor activities and related natural resources. The results are ...
Three Essays on Time Series Econometrics Analysis and Financial Market Applications
(2015-08-06)
This dissertation rst revisits the mean reversion properties of relative stock prices when
the US and the UK sever as reference countries. We present strong evidence of nonlinear
mean reversion of the stock price indices ...
Three Essays on Time Series Forecasting with Big Data
(2020-07-16)
In the first chapter, we propose factor-based out of sample forecasting models for US dollar real exchange rates. We estimate latent common factors employing an array of data dimensionality reduction approaches that include ...
Three essays on toxic chemical releases, house values, health and labor productivity
(2007-08-15)
The Toxics Release Inventory is a public access database established under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) to protect public health, safety and the environment from toxic chemical hazards. ...
Three Essays on Wildland Fire Economics
(2012-05-07)
This dissertation consists of three manuscripts examining different aspects of wildland fire economics, with a specific focus on prescribed burning and expenditures made by the USDA Forest Service on wildland fire suppression. ...
Three Inter-Related Essays in Applied Economics: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Ponzi-Financial Institutions
(2021-12-13)
This dissertation consists of three inter-related essays in applied economics, which delves deeper into different research questions with varying econometric models on the recent financial sector crisis in Ghana, sub-Saharan ...
Three Shades of Welfare in Applied Economics
(2018-11-30)
This dissertation comprises of three essays, organized in chapters, on the broader topic of welfare in applied economics. The first essay studies the implications of high food prices resulting from climate change on food ...
Three Studies of Shared Digital Labs: The Role of Trust in Business and Maturity Model Development
(2022-04-06)
Laboratories (labs) complement theoretical teaching/learning content in STEM subjects to promote understanding with practical knowledge and experience. However, these labs are typically expensive and available only to local ...
Three Studies on Drinking Game Behavior among College Students
(2010-08-04)
The majority of college students consume alcohol. Some college students consume heavily and these abusive patterns of alcohol use can be associated with substantial negative consequences. Drinking game participation has ...
Three Topics in Applied Economics
(2021-12-10)
This dissertation consists of three different chapters. The first chapter sheds the light on the association between financial literacy and financial inclusion; financial literacy and poverty in India during the period ...
Three-Dimensional Hybrid Simulation Of Dayside Magnetic Reconnection
(2011-04-27)
With a three dimensional (3-D) global hybrid simulation model, we
investigate magnetopause reconnection and the energy spectra of cusp precipitating ions under different IMF conditions.
First, the magnetic configuration ...
Three-Dimensional Modeling of Elasto-Plastic Sinusoidal Contact under Time Dependent Deformation Including Both Stress Relaxation and Creep Analysis
(2013-07-11)
Computational modeling of contact between rough surfaces has attracted a great deal of attention due to the developing technological needs of industry. Most of the early models of rough surface contacts assumed a cylindrical ...
Three-dimensional Printing of Drug-eluting Implants and Orodispersible Films
(2023-09-25)
Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a rapidly emerging additive manufacturing technology utilized to quickly fabricate customized dosage forms with complex geometrical designs. Due to its flexibility in adjusting the dose, ...
Three-Dimensional Tissue-Engineered Cancer Models for Tumorigenic Studies and Drug-Testing Applications
(2016-07-26)
Cancer is one of the most prevalent diseases, affecting millions of people throughout the world in various forms. Significant multidisciplinary efforts are being conducted to improve detection, diagnosis and treatment of ...
Three-Dimensional Trajectory Optimization in Constrained Airspace
(2007-12-15)
This dissertation deals with the generation of three-dimensional optimized trajectory
in constrained airspace. It expands the previously used two-dimensional aircraft
model to a three-dimensional model and includes the ...
Three-Dimensional Velocity Measurements in the Wake of a Hemispherical Roughness Element Using Plenoptic Particle Image Velocimetry
(2016-08-01)
Plenoptic particle image velocimetry (PIV) was used to perform instantaneous three-dimensional (3D) velocity measurements in the near-wake of a wall-mounted hemispherical roughness element at a Reynolds number (based on ...
A Three-essay Dissertation on Big Data Analytics Value Creation for Organizations and Their Supply Chains
(2018-12-03)
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay conceptualizes BDA capability in supply chain context based on two aspects: the level of analytics and the operational functions of supply chain. Content analysis ...
Three-essays on Learning Algorithms in Business Studies
(2023-07-24)
In this dissertation, I present new learning algorithms that are applicable to business studies. More specifically, I develop Synthetic Control Boosting with Poisson (SCB-P) and Synthetic Control Boosting with Negative ...
Thresholds of Axial Vibration Induced Fretting Corrosion in Electrical Connectors
(2013-04-22)
Vibration induced fretting corrosion has been considered an important cause of failure in electrical contacts. In previous research, the basic mechanism that controls the inchoation and development of such fretting degradation ...
Thriving in Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Comparison of Collegiate ACOAs and Non-ACOAs on Measures of Psychological Mindedness and Defense Mechanism Style
(2006-12-15)
Traditionally, literature examining Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOAs) has focused on negative outcomes associated with growing up in an alcoholic family. However, there is evidence of resiliency among ACOAs, given that ...