Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions

An $H$-decomposition of a graph $G$ is a partition of the edge set $E(G)$ such that each element of the partition induces a subgraph isomorphic to $H$. A packing or cover of $\lambda K_n$ (with triples) is an ordered pair ...

The purpose of the study was to explore teachers’ attitudes toward students with disabilities in the southeastern United States. Variables such as gender, age, years of experience, grade level taught, extent of contact ...

Rapid identification and quantification of bacteria is beneficial for the environmental monitoring, such as water quality and site clean-up. However, existing bacteria quantification methods, such as colony counting or ...

Symbioses are characteristic of coral reef communities and can involve networks of species interactions as well as specialized adaptations to reef conditions. Because coral reefs are surrounded by nutrient-poor water, ...

Six of Alabama’s eleven state universities began as normal schools during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Florence State Normal School and Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School created empowerment for individual ...

There has been growing interest in the study of Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and the development of CNC-based new materials due to its renewable nature, unique aspect ratio and high elastic moduli. Characterization of CNC ...

Adolescents who have sexually offended commonly report offending someone within their peer network. However, little research has investigated factors that may contribute to poor quality of peer interactions. The purpose ...

Classification using high-dimensional features arises frequently in many contemporary statistical studies such as tumor classification using microarray or other high-throughput data. In this dissertation we conduct a ...

As the world becomes increasingly immersed in the Information Age, more and more supercomputers and datacenters must be built to keep up with humanity’s demand for electronic information. As the number of these facilities ...

Usability in information technology systems plays of vital role in conducting operations safely and securely. The methods for judging usability vary greatly, which makes assessing any aspect of usability difficult. In cases ...