Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Shelf Life Validation of Marinated and Frozen Chicken Tenderloins
(2020-07-21)
It is immensely important for producers and restaurants to know the shelf life of a meat product. If a consumer eats a product that is rancid it could impact a restaurant’s reputation. The objective of this study is to ...
Real-time Monitoring of Staphylococcus Aureus Biofilm Formation Under Flow Conditions in Microfluidic Chambers
(2020-07-21)
Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) causes most of life-threatening infections such as endocarditis, osteomyelitis and sepsis. Since biofilm development is often a key factor in the development of an infection of indwelling ...
From New South to Sunbelt: Greenville, South Carolina
(2020-07-21)
Greenville County, South Carolina is the Palmetto State's most populous county and exert's substantial influence on the state's politics and economy. Spaces such as Greenville have largely been omitted from the narrative ...
Students’ Satisfaction with Interactions in Online Courses at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
(2020-07-20)
Student satisfaction is an important factor when analyzing online courses. Research has shown that student interactions in online courses are linked to overall satisfaction and success in their courses. However, student ...
Allosteric modulation of human melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) by zinc and copper ions and characterization of spotted sea bass MC4R
(2020-07-20)
Since the metal ions have been shown to play an important role in regulating signal transduction of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), we investigated whether the Zn2+ and Cu2+ regulate the pharmacology of human ...
Investigation of Multicomponent Transport Phenomena in Nafion 117 and Crosslinked Polyether-based Membranes via In Situ ATR FTIR Spectroscopy
(2020-07-20)
This dissertation focuses on understanding transport and co-transport behavior for a series of species in dense, hydrated polymer membranes. The rate of solute transport through a membrane, permeability, is a fundamental ...
Raman-Spectrokinetics to Determine Structure-Reactivity Relationships in Catalytic Reactions with Supported Metal Oxide Catalysts
(2020-07-20)
The relationship between catalyst surface structure and reactivity/selectivity still represents one of the most important questions to be addressed in modern heterogeneous catalysis. Such fundamental information would allow ...
Development and Application of New Platforms for Oligonucleotide and Protein Assays
(2020-07-20)
Sensitive and rapid detection of infectious disease is becoming very significant to improve human health. We have seen that the sensitive methods often required expensive, and sophisticated instruments. Biosensors are ...
Electrochemically Triggered Interfacial Deposition/Assembly of Materials
(2020-07-20)
Presented in this Dissertation is a new electrochemical methodology for surface deposition and interfacial assembly of materials. Using ferrocene-terminated self-assembled monolayers to electrochemically recruit polyelectrolytes ...
Molecular, physiological, and organismal-level effects of thermal stress in corkscrew sea anemones Bartholomea annulata
(2020-07-20)
Changing ocean dynamics in the form of increasing seawater temperature are having drastic effects on the symbiotic relationships of coral reef cnidarians, causing them to bleach and die at increasing frequencies. Most ...
Estimation of Semi-parametric Functional-coefficient Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects
(2020-07-20)
We consider the problem of estimating a semiparametric varying coefficient panel data model where the unobserved individual effects are correlated with explanatory variables in an unknown arbitrary way using a local linear ...
Teaching Physical Education in Nontraditional Settings
(2020-07-20)
The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to examine the experiences of PETE pre-service teachers, physical education teachers, and teacher educators that have taught physical education in a non-traditional ...
Effects of Prior Learning Assessment on Graduation Rates of Adult Students in an Online Degree Program
(2020-07-20)
Technological advances and changes to America’s workforce have created a need for adult workers to upskill their abilities. Many of these adults address this need by pursuing a college degree. While adult learners tend to ...
Message framing: the role of cognitive linguistics in hotel's environmental claims and its effect on consumer perception and behavior
(2020-07-20)
As consumers’ awareness on environmental issues increase, so does their dubiety towards the motive beneath a hotel’s environmental initiatives. Particularly, earlier studies suggest that consumers are unable to detect real ...
The Impact of Integrating Mathematics into Elementary Physical Education
(2020-07-20)
Positive findings regarding integrated curriculum in the classroom setting (Chen & Yang, 2019; Kurt & Pehlivan, 2013; Vars, 1996) and movement integration during the school day (Donnelly et al., 2009; Duncan, Birch, & ...
A Newton - Galerkin Finite Element Method to solve reduced dimensional Variable Density Flow and Solute Transport Equations using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition method
(2020-07-20)
The mathematical model of Variable Density Flow and Solute Transport (VDFST) is a
time dependent, coupled and nonlinear dynamical system that is widely used to simulate seawater
intrusion and related problems. The numerical ...
Does multitasking work for you? The role of multitasking fit in employee job satisfaction and turnover intentions
(2020-07-20)
Person-job (P-J) fit refers to the degree of congruence between an employee and their occupation. P-J fit is important for organizations to understand, because it predicts job satisfaction and turnover intentions, such ...
After Culloden: Anglo-Scottish Identity in the Wake of the 1745 Jacobite Rising
(2020-07-20)
This dissertation explores the literary representation and negotiation of Scottish identity and Anglo-Scottish Union during and immediately after the Jacobite Rising of 1745 (“the Forty-Five”). I argue that we can trace ...
Business Rules Discovery in Web Application through Process Mining
(2020-07-20)
Advances in information technologies have allowed businesses to deliver their services to new markets that did not exist before, especially in fields such as e-commerce, healthcare, e-education, and cloud services. Web ...
Forecasting Transformative AI
(2020-07-20)
Technological forecasting is challenging, and the forecasting of AI progress is even more challenging. Forecasting transformative AI – AI that has great potential for societal transformation – which presents even more ...