Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Accelerating Binary Genetic Algorithm Driven Missile Design Optimization Routine with a CUDA Coded Six Degrees-Of-Freedom Simulator
(2015-12-04)
Science and Engineering has benefited enormously from the advent of modern (digital) computing. As technology continues to grow, computation capability becomes exponentially faster, more reliable, and more efficient. While ...
Use of Optimized Aggregate Gradations and Dust-of-Fracture Mineral Filler for Concrete Applications
(2015-12-04)
Many proportioning methods exist to help the designer achieve a well-graded, or optimized aggregate gradation in the concrete industry, but not all are effective. The Shilstone Method and percent retained chart have been ...
Effects of Type and Level of Energy Supplementation on Stocker Cattle Performance from Annual Ryegrass
(2015-12-04)
Previous research has indicated that supplementation of high-quality grazed forage with high-energy feedstuffs can improve animal performance and enable increased stocking rates in grazed ecosystems. However, the extent ...
Consumers’ Response to Out-of-Stock Situations
(2015-12-04)
This study investigates the impact of purchase motivation, price promotion availability, frequency of out-of-stock situations, and urgency of need in an out-of-stock situation on consumers’ intensity of negative emotion ...
Conditioning Peers as Reinforcers and the Effects on Mand Training with Preschool-Aged Children
(2015-12-04)
Communication and social deficits are two of the core deficits in children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Skill acquisition programs simultaneously targeting communication ...
Perceptions and Practices of Mental Health Professionals Regarding the Employment of People with Serious Mental Illness
(2015-12-04)
The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of Supported Employment (SE) is an evidence-based practice that leads to successful employment outcomes for people with serious mental illness. Customized Employment (CE) ...
The Interface of Population Dynamics, Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds and Enigmatic Disturbance: Understanding Human-Crocodile Conflict in Costa Rica
(2015-12-04)
A recent survey indicates a unique male-biased sex ratio in a prized ecotourism species and aquatic sentinel taxon, the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus), at Palo Verde National Park, an influential conservation area ...
Measuring Faculty Productivity: Towards a Unified Methodology at the Departmental Level
(2015-12-04)
A disproportionate number of departmental and faculty productivity indices in higher education rely solely on research. Productivity in other areas of faculty workload areas, like teaching and institutional and community ...
Livable Neighborhood Factors Affecting Mode Choices in a Medium Sized University Community
(2015-12-04)
Communities across the United States are striving to increase walking, biking, and riding transit among their residents and thus become more livable. In order for these communities to become more livable, city planners ...
Grazing Evaluation of Cool-Season Grasses with and without Legumes
(2015-12-04)
Reducing the length of time that cattle must be sustained on stored forages during the winter by extending the grazing season is a growing interest of cattle producers in the Southeast. This project was conducted to evaluate ...
Chemical composition and pollution potential of fish and shrimp feeds
(2015-12-04)
The objectives of this research were to assess the resources use for producing aquaculture feeds and to determine the waste loads of nutrients to the culture system (system loads), along with the solution to reduce nutrient ...
Secure Design Considerations for Embedded Systems
(2015-12-04)
A guide is presented for embedded system designers that details secure design considerations for modern embedded systems. The guide focuses on adapting traditional software design practices to include adapted methodologies ...
Updating Soil Hydraulic Properties under Changing Land Use/Cover for Improved Hydrologic Predictions
(2015-12-04)
Land use/cover (LULC) change, especially forest to urban transition, can alter the soil hydraulic properties, including soil hydraulic conductivity, even though the soil texture and series may remain the same. Soil hydraulic ...
“What was her name?”: Pre-Nineteenth Century Slave Women’s Fragmented Narratives
(2015-12-04)
Accessing the narratives of enslaved women before the nineteenth century is challenging but necessary because of the limited ways we understand their experiences. The archive we primarily depend on does not provide ...
Classic and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Latent Profile Analysis
(2015-12-04)
Some trauma survivors, especially those exposed to chronic interpersonal trauma, exhibit a wide range of psychological sequelae beyond the classic symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Foremost among these are ...
Swimming Performance of Coastal and Inland Largemouth Bass at Varying Salinities
(2015-12-04)
Coastal estuaries represent an interface between marine and fresh waters, and, as such, they are exposed to seasonal and annual fluctuations in salinity. All of the organisms that live in estuaries must emigrate or endure ...
Sequential graft-Interpenetrating polymer networks based on polyurethane and acrylic/ester copolymers
(2015-12-04)
Highly transparent and tough graft-interpenetrating polymer networks (graft-IPNs) were synthesized using an elastomeric polyurethane phase (PU) and a highly stiff acrylate-base copolymer phase. The grafting points between ...
Investigation of Several Factors Affecting Total Alkalinity Concentration and Its Measurement
(2015-12-04)
The optimal endpoint pH for total alkalinity titrations decreased from 5.0 at 10 mg/L alkalinity to 4.2 for 300 mg/L alkalinity or more. The appropriate color changes for bromocresol green-methyl red (BG-MR) and methyl ...
The Relationship Between Creativity and Learning Style Preference, Age, and Educational Achievement
(2015-12-04)
This study investigated the relationship between creativity and learning style preference, age, and educational achievement. One hundred adult graduate students from the departments of Adult Education and Higher Education ...
Student Perspectives of Supporting and Hindering Factors in School Integration and the Role of Racial Identity in the Process
(2015-12-04)
May 17, 1954 would be an important historic day and would influence education in the lives of African American students in the United States with the unanimous verdict of Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas that ...