Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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A Case Study of a Career Academy: Toward a Conceptual Framework of School-Industry Partnerships
(2015-04-06)
School-business partnerships that provide authentic learning for students have been a well-documented part of our history. This study examined one such educational partnership developed to create a career academy. The ...
Speaking Silences: Lyric Poetry in the Narrative Strategies of Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Jane Barker
(2015-03-20)
This dissertation is an exploration of how Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Jane Barker co-opted Philip Sidney’s prose romance interpolated with poems, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. I explore how each writer uses ...
Quantitative methods for integrating instream biological monitoring data into aquatic natural resource management decision making
(2015-03-20)
Freshwater aquatic resource management is fraught with challenges, as managers of multiple-use, highly diverse systems must frequently make management decisions with limitations including unclear management objectives and ...
Resonant Frequencies in Aviation Platforms
(2015-03-09)
This thesis examines the coupling effects of electromagnetic fields to the interior of aviation platforms during electromagnetic vulnerability (EMV) testing and the potential of resonant frequency field enhancements. ...
Optimization of Block Layout for Grocery Stores
(2015-03-09)
Because of the proportion of the retail industry worldwide of the global economy and the lack of analytic approaches in the literature to retail facility design, this dissertation addresses block layout in grocery stores ...
The Origins of American Strategic Bombing Theory: Transforming Technology into Military Doctrine
(2015-03-06)
Perhaps no other technology changed how Americans viewed warfare in the twentieth century more than the airplane. In the minds of forward thinking aerial theorists this new technology removed the limitations of geography, ...
Extension of a Reflection-Mode Digital Gradient Sensor (r-DGS) to Study Impact Induced Deformations, Damage, and Fracture
(2015-02-23)
Reflective structures such as space mirrors, silicon wafers, solar reflectors, microelectronic devices to name a few, are made of stiff and brittle materials. They often suffer deformations and catastrophic failure when ...
Application of the Discontinuous Galerkin Method to Wake Vortex Flows
(2015-02-19)
A code was developed that utilizes the discontinuous Galerkin method to solve the
Euler equations while utilizing a modal arti cial viscosity sensor developed by Klockner [12].
The sensor was augmented for the purpose ...
Development of lipid based nanoparticles for melanoma treatment
(2015-02-12)
Melanoma is the most malignant skin cancer with high mortality. Currently, it can be treated multiple ways, such as chemotherapy, immunotherapy and targeted therapy. However, patients under these therapies usually have low ...
Augmenting Traditional Static Analysis With Commonly Available Metadata
(2015-01-20)
Developers and security analysts have been using static analysis for a long time to analyze programs for defects and vulnerabilities with some success. Generally a static analysis tool is run on the source code for a given ...
Constitutional Reform in Alabama: Why Efforts for Change Continue to Fail
(2015-01-14)
Alabama has been governed by the same constitutional document for one hundred thirteen years. The document is outdated and it is also the longest constitution in the world. Two of the most unique components of the document ...
Development of Test Methods for Evaluation of Bending Stiffness and Compressive Modulus of Braided Composite Lattice Structures
(2015-01-14)
Open Architecture Composite Structures (O-ACS) have been recently developed and are known for their high modulus per unit weight. They are truss structures preformed on a mandrel shaped as a cylindrical, elliptical or ...
Exploring Small Retail Businesses’ Perceived Competition during Post-Recession and Perceived Importance, Benefits and Challenges of B2B Networking
(2015-01-13)
This study is the first to investigate small businesses’ perceived market competition and their beliefs about B2B networking during the post-recession period. The existing data collected through in-depth interviews with ...
Effect of Torrefaction on Biomass Structure and Product Distribution from Fast Pyrolysis
(2015-01-13)
Torrefaction, a thermal pretreatment process, has been documented to improve the chemical composition of bio-oil produced from fast pyrolysis process. During torrefaction pretreatment, the major constituents of biomass ...
A Computational Mechanistic Study of an Aza-Michael Addition and a Paal-Knorr Reaction
(2015-01-13)
Computational chemistry is a rapid growing branch of chemistry that seeks to interpret chemical problems and predict chemical phenomena using mathematical approximations and computer programs. In the present work, we ...
Antimicrobial Testing and Sensory Evaluation of Clitocybe nuda Mushroom Extract in Liquid Whole Egg
(2015-01-09)
The use of antimicrobial agents in the food industry is critical for the reduction and control of foodborne pathogens as part of food safety programs. The food industry is looking for new naturally occurring agents with ...
Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) as a Cover Crop for Winter Wheat
(2015-01-09)
The use of cover crops in conjunction with non-inversion tillage is a popular conservation system that is incorporated into production rotations to improve profitability and sustainability of depleted soils in the Southeast. ...
Prejudice by Any Other Name: Conditional Support of Gay Males by Heterosexuals
(2015-01-09)
In U.S. popular culture, it is often easy to find both unambiguously supportive and unambiguously non-supportive statements in terms of the rights of sexual minorities. Although unambiguous attitudes are often expressed, ...
Connection Demand Prediction for the Design of Precast Concrete Wall Panels Subjected to Blast Loads
(2015-01-09)
One challenge in design of structures for highly impulsive loading is accurately predicting the peak transient shear and the corresponding connection force demand at supports. Single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) approaches ...
Fertilization Effects on Water Use of 8-year-old Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) Vary with Throughfall Treatment
(2015-01-07)
Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantations in the southern U.S. generate more timber than any other country in the world and therefore reductions in net primary productivity associated with climate variability may have ...