Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Wireless Communication of a Chaotic Waveform
(2015-05-18)
Over the past couple of decades, mathematical equations have been developed that successfully model natural phenomena that occur in various fields such as chemistry, biology, and fluid mechanics. These equations, however ...
A “Gruesome Business”: Collecting and Repatriating Pacific Theater War Trophies
(2015-05-18)
While serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II, American servicemen collected a variety of souvenirs. Some men collected skulls and bones. Other men collected flags, photographs, binoculars, or other personal ...
Long-Term Deformations and Prestress Losses in Precast, Prestressed Bridge Girders
(2015-05-18)
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is widely becoming used to construct precast, prestressed bridge girders. In order to determine the acceptance of SCC for bridge girders in the state of Alabama, The Alabama Department ...
Analog Computation of a High Frequency Exactly Solvable Chaotic Communications System Using State Variable Networks
(2015-05-18)
The design of a high frequency, chaotic oscillator and linear matched filter has been shown as a viable means of electronic communication. Although many chaotic systems are noted for complex or unpredictable behavior, a ...
Factors that Affect Fuel Consumption and Harvesting Cost
(2015-05-13)
Fuel consumption in logging is an important component of harvesting costs. There has been an increased interest in the carbon budget associated with timber harvesting as well as an industrial need for updated fuel consumption ...
Just War Theory and Armed Non-State Actors
(2015-05-13)
In the modern era mankind faces challenges that include: globalization, regional and
international institutions assuming sovereign authority over states, devastating acts of terrorism,
24-hour international news coverage, ...
The Effects of Aerobic and Localized Fatigue on Jump Shot Kinematics and Kinetics in Team Handball Players
(2015-05-13)
Team handball has become a very popular sport throughout the world and according to
the International Handball Federation over 30 million athletes in 183 countries currently play the
sport. The purpose of this project ...
Delayed Reward Discounting in Adolescents with Sexual Offense Convictions
(2015-05-13)
Current explanatory models of sexual offending have been useful in elucidating the etiology of maladaptive sexual behaviors. Prominent models of sexual offending, however, are based largely on empirical findings regarding ...
Fair Factorizations of the Complete Multipartite Graphs and Related Edge-colorings
(2015-05-12)
In this dissertation, first the technique of vertex amalgamations is used to extend known results on graph decompositions, and in particular on decompositions of the complete multipartite graph K(n,p) with p parts, each ...
An Automated Rename Refactoring for Go
(2015-05-12)
Our work focuses on building an automated Rename refactoring for Go. We show that the tool is effective by testing with a suite of 75 manually written unit test cases and running it on 50 large, open source Go projects ...
Evaluating the Distribution and Dispersal of Invasive Woody Vegetation Related to Land Use in Auburn, Alabama
(2015-05-12)
The spread of invasive species in riparian areas is an international problem and has resulted in significant loss of native species in riparian areas worldwide, including the east Alabama region. The objective of this ...
Evaluating Ornamental Performance and Public Perceptions of Cool-Season Annual Bedding Plants within Alabama Public Gardens: A Partnership of Green Industry Groups.
(2015-05-11)
This study focused on field evaluations of cool season annual ornamental selections at two Alabama public garden sites and public perceptions of annual color combinations in planters at three separate public gardens ...
A Review of the Alabama Department of Transportation’s Policies and Procedures for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Pavement Type Selection
(2015-05-11)
This thesis examines the process of life-cycle cost analysis for pavement type selection and gives specific consideration to the policies and procedures used by the Alabama Department of Transportation as of June 2013. ...
The Perception of Benefit of Vocalization on Performance When Producing Maximum Effort
(2015-05-11)
Abstract
Objectives/Hypothesis: The purpose of this study was to determine the presence of the belief that using voice during force production is beneficial to sport performance. This study was also used to determine if ...
Construcción desde afuera: el género masculino mexicano en Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo
(2015-05-11)
En esta investigación, se explora desde una perspectiva de estudios de género la manera en que se construye la masculinidad masculina. Esta construcción es una función no del individuo, sino que se hace a base de la ...
Geology of the Jacksons Gap, Alabama, 7.5-Minute Quadrangle: Implications for the Evolution of the Brevard Fault Zone
(2015-05-11)
The Brevard fault zone is a major Appalachian structure that marks the boundary between the eastern Blue Ridge (EBR) and the Dadeville Complex (DC) of the Inner Piedmont (IP) terrane in Alabama. Despite over a century of ...
Polymer/Composite Devices for Sports Injury Prevention
(2015-05-11)
For the safety and well being of all athletes in a high contact sport, it is in the athletes’ best interest for those responsible to constantly be looking for ways to improve safety equipment such as helmets and padding. ...
Effect of Random Noise and Gaussian Noise Forcing on the Wake of a Circular Cylinder
(2015-05-11)
Flow over a bluff body has been a topic of extensive investigation, due to a variety of engineering problems such as vortex induced vibrations, unsteady forces and noise associated with the periodic flow in the wake. The ...
Development of an Improved RF Band-Pass Filter using CSRR Metamaterial Structures on an LCP Substrate
(2015-05-11)
For over a decade, academic exploration into the emerging field of metamaterial technology has resulted in advancements in the design of myriad devices such as oscillators, antennas, transmission lines, superlenses, and ...
Interaction of future climate change scenarios of elevated tropospheric ozone and altered rainfall on loblolly pine seedlings inoculated with ophiostomatoid fungi
(2015-05-11)
Southern Pine Decline is a cause of premature mortality of Pinus species in the Southeastern United States. While the pathogenicity of ophiostomatoid fungi have been observed both in the laboratory and the field, the driving ...