Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Identification of resistant or tolerant commercial cotton cultivars to the Fusarium wilt root-knot nematode disease complex and the identification of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum races in Alabama
(2015-05-05)
Fusarium oxysporum Schltd.:Fr. f. sp. vasinfectum (Atk.) W.C. Snyd. and H. N. Hans (FOV) is the causal agent of Fusarium wilt in cotton. This causal agent is a soil-dwelling fungus that can remain dormant for many years ...
Impact of Technology Learning and Innovation Mindfulness on the Information Technology Dynamic Capabilities of the Firm
(2015-05-05)
The concept and nature of the concept of organizational Absorptive Capacity has generated much research in the Strategic Management, Organizational, and Information Systems literature. Its classification as an organizational ...
Development, Experimentation, and Implementation of a Gap Damper System to Limit Displacements in Extreme Ground Motions
(2015-05-05)
Studies have shown the effectiveness of providing supplemental energy dissipation in base-isolated structures to reduce displacements at the isolation level, often with consequences to superstructure performance. A previous ...
Viscoelastic Modeling of Microelectronic Packaging Polymers Including Moisture Effects
(2015-05-05)
Reliable, consistent, and comprehensive material property data are needed for microelectronics encapsulants for the purpose of mechanical design, reliability assessment, and process optimization of electronic packages. ...
Evidence for Deformation and Faulting in the Muckleshoot basin, Washington
(2015-05-05)
The Muckleshoot basin of Western Washington state extends from the western base of the Cascades to approximately 10 km east of the Puget Sound. Mapped traces of the Tacoma and White River fault systems, to the west and ...
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors’ Perception of Assistive Technology/Rehabilitation Technology
(2015-05-05)
Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) counselors are not providing adequate Assistive Technology/Rehabilitation Technology (AT/RT) to individuals with significant disabilities (Gamble et al., 2006). Rehabilitation professionals ...
Chaotic Dynamic Character of Human Chewing Determined Using New Three-Dimensional Motion Capture Techniques
(2015-05-05)
A need exists to determine the dynamic character of natural human chewing so human mandible or lower jaw biomechanics can be fully understood. No one has reported investigating the dynamic character of natural human chewing ...
A Study of the Effects of Pavement Widening, Rumble Strips, and Rumble Stripes on Rural Highways in Alabama
(2015-05-05)
Run-off-road (ROR) crashes are usually severe and account for a significant amount of highway
fatalities. It is estimated that more than 50% of the fatal crashes in the United States and in
Alabama are ROR crashes. Rural ...
Factor Pair Latin Squares
(2015-05-05)
Sudoku has risen in popularity over the past few years. The rules are simple, yet the solutions are often less than trivial. Mathematically, these puzzles are interesting in their own right. This dissertation will use ...
Neural Correlates of Abstract Rule use within the Rostro-Caudal Axis of the Frontal Lobes
(2015-05-05)
This paper presents 2 experiments aimed to address key limitations in the understanding
of how abstract rules (i.e., matching, non-matching) are subserved by regions of the prefrontal
cortex (PFC) and frontal lobes of ...
For Youth For Life: 4-H Digital Badges: A Collaborative Tool to Support Informal Learning
(2015-05-05)
The intent of FYFL (For Youth For Life) application is to provide an easy to use, cost effective and scalable collaborative system in order to facilitate learning and sharing best practices across communities and institution ...
Three Essays on Agricultural Prices, Markets, and Trade
(2015-05-05)
This dissertation includes three essays to address price analysis, market response as well as trade effects of the agricultural commodities, in both China and U.S. The first chapter examines the demand impacts following a ...
A Review of Self-Identified Critical Incidents among Counseling Supervisors-in-Training
(2015-05-05)
Supervision-specific training programs have become the norm for individuals interested in becoming a counseling supervisor because formal training has focused on incorporating the principles from general development models ...
Fabrication and characterization of AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor
(2015-05-05)
As primary material for semiconductor fabrication field, Gallium nitride has attracted lots of interest of scientists and developers due to its unique and exceptional electrical properties such as high thermal conductivity, ...
Estrangement
(2015-05-05)
In abandoned rural landscapes, impressions of culture are overtaken by the steadiness of living things. The familiar succumbs to the wild, resulting in physical environments that arouse curiosity because of their uncanny ...
Novel Ecology, Novel Activity
(2015-05-05)
Ecosystems are complex, dynamic, and unpredictable to change, evolve, and behave. Change is a normal part of life, and through adaptive and flexible design, we can respond to this complexity. Dynamic ecosystem and novel ...
The Mother Culture: Dirty Creativity in the Urban Margin
(2015-05-05)
Our cities are made up of many landscape typologies. As human social structure has evolved over time, shared values have taken physical form in the urban condition. Urban marginalized space is formed by the backs of buildings ...
Transport Modeling and Response Characteristics of Commercial Catalytic Bead Sensors
(2015-05-05)
Concerns have been raised about contamination events in the bleed air supply of commercial airplanes. Reliable sensors to detect the presence of gases due to the contamination are therefore being considered. Catalytic bead ...
The Influence of a New Student Orientation Program on Freshman Student Academic Performance and Retention at a Comprehensive Two-Year Community College
(2015-05-04)
This study examined the differences in first-year students at a selected community
college who participated in a new student orientation program. The study compared academic
success, attrition, and retention of new ...
Digital Reverse Time Chaos and Matched Filter Decoding
(2015-05-04)
The use of reverse time chaos allows the realization of hardware chaotic systems that can operate at speeds equivalent to existing state of the art while requiring significantly less complex circuitry. Unlike traditional ...