Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Sustainable Indoor Environment: Influences on Occupants’ Workplace Wellbeing on the Auburn University Campus
(2015-08-19)
Sustainable buildings are believed to provide superior health and comfort to their occupants. However, little empirical research has been conducted to verify this belief. The purpose of this study is to explore if the ...
Fundamental studies of biomass fluidization
(2015-08-19)
The world is presently at a point of making important decisions regarding how to minimize disasters such as super storm, super earthquakes, and landslides that are caused by global warming due to fossil fuel exploration ...
Carbon Nanotube Vacuum Tube Diode RFID Tag
(2015-08-19)
Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) have been studied for the past two decades and their research continues with new commercial and practical purposes. The structure of carbon and the many shapes it can form makes it an extremely ...
An Investigation into the Application of Dynamic Merge Control in Work Zones: A Simulation Study
(2015-08-19)
With increasing highway traffic volume, construction and maintenance works are quite frequent. Upstream lane merging manoeuver and capacity bottleneck can result from a work zone lane closure, which pose increased safety ...
Hazard Exposures for Mechanized Logging Systems in the US South
(2015-08-19)
Logging is a very dangerous occupation with high injury and fatality rates. The logging
industry in the U.S is dynamic and has substantial variability by region. This research focuses on the hazard exposures for mechanized ...
Modeling Factors Influencing Commuter Cycling Routes: A Study of GPS Cycling Records in Auburn, Alabama
(2015-08-19)
As the emphasis placed on cycling as a means of transportation is increasing in the United States, so is the need for adequate facilities that provide cyclists with a comfortable and connected facility. In order for these ...
Fundamental Study on Kinetics of Hemicellulose Hydrolysis and Bioconversion of Hemicellulose Hydrolysate Mixture into Lactic Acid
(2015-08-18)
In the first part of this dissertation, the kinetics of hemicellulose hydrolysis in dilute-acid hydrolysis of Kramer Corn Stover (KCS) under high-solid conditions was investigated. Dilute-acid pretreatment is one of the ...
Educational Change: The View from Within
(2015-08-18)
The purpose of this dissertation research was to capture the lived experiences of teachers in an independent private school during a four-year period of multiple systemic changes. This was done in a retrospective manner ...
Climate Variability and Irrigation Impacts on Stream-Aquifer Dynamics in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin
(2015-08-18)
Climate variability cycles are responsible for short term fluctuations in climatic conditions thereby, affecting the water cycle and the availability of freshwater resources around the world. In Southeast United States, ...
Evaluating Methods for Estimating Delaware Bay Limulus polyphemus Abundance
(2015-08-18)
Monitoring is an essential component of wildlife management. In the United
States, Atlantic horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are harvested and relied upon by
several user groups in mid-Atlantic states, and managers ...
A MEMS Current Sensor Utilizing NdFeB Magnets
(2015-08-18)
The need for a current sensor in a 12V-1V DC-DC converter is discussed. Background topics of current sensing in DC-DC converters and magnetic MEMS are discussed. An iterative design process for a MEMS current sensor ...
Multicultural Counseling Competency of Counselors in Turkey
(2015-08-12)
The purpose of this study was to measure the multicultural counseling competency of counselors in Turkey. The multicultural counseling competency of Turkish counselors studied based on whether participants have or have not ...
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 ...
Sorption/Desorption and Photodegradation of Dispersed Oil Components in Marine Ecosystem
(2015-08-06)
This effects of a prototype oil dispersant on solubilization, sorption, and desorption of three model Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediment-seawater systems were investigated. Increasing dispersant dosage ...
Executive Functioning in Children with Positive Illusory Bias: Examining the Relationship between Cognitive Characteristics and Self-Perception
(2015-08-06)
Optimistic self-perception has been demonstrated to be a common phenomenon in the general population (Bouffard, et al., 1998; Harter, 1988; Mezulis, et al., 2004; Sedikides, et al., 2005). The phenomena of biased perceptions ...
Investigation of Mass Transfer Phenomena in Supercritical Antisolvent Precipitation Processes
(2015-08-04)
This dissertation involves a detailed discussion of the production of organic and polymeric microparticles of controllable size and size distribution for several applications including certain pharmaceutical formulations. ...
A Study of the Vibrational Reliability Performance of Different Doped Low-Creep Lead-Free Solder Paste and Solder BGA Packages
(2015-07-31)
The growing use of smaller and more powerful electronic components in more varied and adverse environments, especially in regards to mobile consumer electronics, has created the need to better understand how recent lead-free ...
Assessment of Storm Water Quality through Porous Pavement Systems
(2015-07-31)
Stakeholders, (designers, industrial developers, governmental agencies, and private landowners) are increasingly concerned about enhancing storm water quality, reducing run off, and improving the recharge of ground water. ...
An Extract Function Refactoring for the Go Language
(2015-07-31)
Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal code structure without changing its external behavior. Refactoring is specified as a parameterized program transformation ...
Discovery and characterization of antibacterial compounds expressed by soil microorganisms using culture-dependent and -independent approaches
(2015-07-31)
The emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens has increased the demand for discovery of novel antibiotics. Both culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches were used to discover antibiotics against methicillin-resistant ...