Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
Now showing items 4921-4940 of 9772
Testing the Effectiveness and Psychology of Different Types of Pre-warnings in Reducing Applicant Faking on Personality Tests within Selection Contexts
(2015-12-16)
Research has consistently found that pre-warning can reduce faking. This study included four pre-warnings: (1) the detection and consequence warning, (2) reasoning warning, (3) subjective norm warning, and (4) moral ...
Development and Testing of Open Architecture Composite Structures and Composite Yarns for Compressive Strength
(2015-12-16)
Open Architecture Composite Structures (O-ACS) are truss structures formed by braid-
ing specially designed hybrid yarns, made of high strength bers, on convex shaped mandrels.
Previous studies on them have shown that ...
Item-Based Recommendation Algorithm Using Hadoop
(2015-12-16)
Recommendation systems are used to provide solutions to the problem of making personalized recommendations. They are achieving widespread success in E-commerce, social networking and advertisements. In E-Commerce, day-to-day ...
Practical Application of Petrographic Methods to Crushed Stone Aggregate Exploration: Comparing Microstructures and Grain Boundaries to Physical Quality Testing of Aggregate
(2015-12-14)
This research attempts to compare and correlate microscopic properties of aggregate material to the aggregates physical engineering properties. Material was collected and tested to obtain physical and mechanical properties ...
Alternative Mulch Species, With and Without Dimethenamid-p, for Weed Control in Nursery Container Production
(2015-12-14)
Weed control has been a persistent problem in the nursery industry. These antagonistic weeds incur many challenges and cost to control them as well as reducing the container plants marketability (Neal, 1999; Simpson et al, ...
Alternative Timing in Digital Logic
(2015-12-14)
For many decades using a system clock has been the go-to method of timing circuits. CPUs in particular have been at least partially defined by the speed of their clock. As technology moves forward, this is proving more and ...
Ecological Distribution of Shrews in the Cumberland Plateau of Alabama
(2015-12-14)
Shrews are small mammals that often occur in sympatry with other species of shrews.
This suggests some form of resource partitioning is occurring. I examined eight habitats in Jackson County, Alabama, and detected ...
Design and Experimental Validation of Longitudinal Controller of Connected Vehicles using Model Predictive Control
(2015-12-14)
In this thesis, a vehicle longitudinal control algorithm based on model predictive control (MPC) is applied to compute the desired relative acceleration of the following vehicle in leader-follower systems. Kinematic equations ...
Non-platelet Purinergic Signaling and Tissue Factor Expression
(2015-12-14)
Objective—Our group found previously that human coronary artery endothelial P2Y2 receptor mediates tissue factor (TF) up-regulation at mRNA and protein levels. The exact mechanism remains unknown and can involve increased ...
Alabama Community College Students: An Examination of the Association Between the Barriers to Graduation and the Motivating Factors
(2015-12-14)
This study identified motivating factors that address specific barriers to success for students attending Alabama community colleges. The motivating factors identified in the research included academic support/tutoring ...
A novel CPU P-State driver for better thermal control with improved power/performance trade-off
(2015-12-14)
Power consumption and thermal emergencies in multi-core processors are now a major bottleneck due to increased heat dissipation caused by running intensive programs on densely integrated systems. High temperatures lead to ...
Comparative Study of Sentiment Detection Techniques for Business Analytics
(2015-12-14)
As the amount of data proliferates, businesses are faced with a plethora of decision support opportunities and often times lack a prescribed set of techniques to speed up or even handle analysis opportunities. The primary ...
Parametric Development of Wire 3D Printing
(2015-12-11)
Currently commercialized additive manufacturing techniques offer great detail in small, difficult to produce parts. They are also slow, limited in scale, and expensive. An additive technique that can rapidly produce large ...
Preschool Life Skills Training Using the Response to Intervention Model with Preschoolers with Developmental Disabilities
(2015-12-11)
Previous research has examined a variety of methods for teaching young children important social skills in preschool to increase prosocial behavior and reduce classroom behavior problems. Preschool life skills (PLS) ...
Detection, isolation, and characterization of avian influenza viruses from waterfowl in wildlife refuges in the southeastern United States (2006-2011).
(2015-12-11)
Avian influenza (AI) is an infectious disease of birds caused by type A influenza viruses. These AI viruses (AIV) commonly infect poultry and wild birds; however, some AIV strains have infected and caused mortality in a ...
Exploring the Influence of Residential Status of Stepparents on Program Effects of Couple and Relationship Education
(2015-12-11)
While the research on CRE programs has expanded significantly in the past decade, only a handful of studies have considered family structure and its influence on the program experience or explored the specific experiences ...
Quasi-static poroelastic equations as a symmetric positive system and its numerical approximation
(2015-12-11)
This dissertation is concerned with the equations of linear poroelasticity and numerical simulation in the framework of symmetric positive systems. Physical systems arising in geomechanics, hydrology, soil mechanics, ...
Impacts of Native and Non-native plants on Urban Insect Communities: Are Native Plants Better than Non-natives?
(2015-12-11)
With continued suburban expansion in the southeastern United States, it is increasingly important to understand urbanization and its impacts on sustainability and natural ecosystems. Expansion of suburbia is often coupled ...
A Feature-based Solution for Kidnapped Robot Problem
(2015-12-11)
The Kidnapped Robot problem in robotics commonly refers to a situation where an autonomous robot can’t locate itself against the map. It can be caused by external force when a robot is carried to an arbitrary place, or ...
Design, Processing, and Failure Analysis of Open-Architecture Composite Structures
(2015-12-11)
The Open-Architecture Composite Structures (O-ACS) are composed of tow-pregs and cord-pregs. This research conducts a full spectrum analysis from tow-preg to cord-preg and O-ACS. The final goal is to propose an integrated ...