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Realized Heritability and Response to Selection for Fecundity, Hatching Rate and Fry/KG for Channel Catfish Females (Ictalurus punctatus) Induced to Ovulate and Fertilized with Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) Males for the Production of Hybrid Catfish Embryos
(2009-02-23)
The objective of the this research was to determine the heritabilities and response to selection for fecundity, percent hatch and fry per kilogram body weight for channel catfish females induced to ovulate with luteinizing ...
Shape Memory Alloy Robotic Truss
(2008-09-09)
The development, design, and analysis of a Shape Memory Alloy Robotic Truss (SMART) actuator is presented in this research paper. SMART is a three-degree of freedom actuator capable of large rotary and bending displacements ...
Effect of Coordinate Switching on Simulation Accuracy of Translunar Trajectories
(2008-09-09)
This thesis focuses on the effect of round-off error in the accurate simulation of translunar trajectories. The three-body dynamics can be posed in either an Earth-centered (EC) or Moon-centered (MC) frame. In this study, ...
Invasive Characteristics of Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense Lour.) in a Bay Swamp in the Fall Line Hills of East-Central Alabama
(2008-09-09)
Exotic species often become invasive because of an ability to occur in many habitat types with a variety of environmental variables. One species of plant that is particularly invasive throughout the southeastern United ...
Methods for Optimization of a Launch Vehicle for Pressure Fluctuation Levels and Axial Force
(2008-09-09)
A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code has been combined with a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to perform a shape optimization study on a two dimensional axisymmetric model of a typical launch vehicle. The objective of this ...
Tufted Lovegrass (Eragrostis pectinacea) and Doveweed (Murdannia nudiflora) Control in Warm-Season Turfgrasses.
(2008-09-09)
Tufted lovegrass has been identified as a problem weed in sod production in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama, particularly in zoysiagrass. The slow growth rate of zoysiagrass is suspected to be a ...
Competition between Domestic and Imported Farmed Fish - A Demand System Analysis
(2008-09-09)
Monthly data from 1999 through 2007 are used to estimate demand interrelationships between domestic and imported farmed fish. Specifically, a demand model is estimated for four products: imported frozen tilapia fillets, ...
Launch Vehicle Performance Enhancement Using Aerodynamic Assist
(2008-09-09)
A complete preliminary design model of a three-stage solid-fuel launch vehicle
has been combined with a genetic algorithm to perform an optimization study with the
goal to enhance performance using aerodynamic assist. ...
Aerodynamic Testing of a Circular Planform Concept Aircraft
(2008-09-09)
Auburn University has entered into collaboration with Geobat Flying Saucer Aviation Inc. for aerodynamic and flow visualization studies of the Geobat aircraft. The aircraft model that was tested consisted of a circular ...
Analysis of Stable Isotopes of Hydrogen to Determine Migrational Source of Silver-Haired Bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) in Alabama
(2008-09-09)
Signatures of deuterium obtained from claws of 21 silver-haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) were used to estimate the nearest probable pre-migratory location of these bats. For 5 consecutive weekends beginning 28 ...