Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Better Than Worst Case Timing Design With Latch Buffers On Short Paths
(2013-11-08)
With continued advances in CMOS technology, parameter variations are emerging as a major design challenge. Irregularities during the fabrication of a microprocessor and variations of voltage and temperature during its ...
Physiology and Growth of a 6-year-old Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) Plantation in Response to Rain Exclusion and Fertilization Treatments
(2013-11-08)
The increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is expected to change climate in the southeastern United States. A hotter, drier climate is anticipated over the next century and could have detrimental effects on the ...
The Evaluation of a Dental Hygiene Education Intervention on the Oral Health Practices and Knowledge of Residents of Kimuli Village, Uganda
(2013-11-06)
According to Muhirwe (2003), Uganda has no structured oral healthcare system which might possibly allow the citizens to acquire the knowledge and access to appropriate oral healthcare. Since Ugandan villagers have limited ...
Geology, Petrology, and Geochronology of Rocks in the Our Town, Alabama Quadrangle
(2013-11-06)
The area of the 1:24,000 Our Town Quadrangle of east central Alabama is underlain principally by generally undifferentiated metasedimentary units, the Emuckfaw and Wedowee Groups, which have been intruded by major southern ...
Factors Influencing Consumers' Use of Retailer's Facebook Pages: Application of the Technology Acceptance Model
(2013-11-05)
Most of the top Internet retailers use Facebook to acquire insights about their customers and to communicate their marketing strategies. However, no published work has used the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to examine ...
Generating Renewal Functions of Uniform, Gamma, Normal and Weibull Distributions for Minimal and Non Negligible Repair by Using Convolutions and Approximation Methods
(2013-11-05)
This dissertation explores renewal functions for minimal repair and non-negligible repair for the most common reliability underlying distributions Weibull, gamma, normal, lognormal, logistic, loglogistic and the uniform. ...
Field Investigations and SWMM Modeling of an Undeveloped Headwaters Catchment Located in the Lower Coastal Plain Region of the Southeast USA
(2013-11-05)
The southeastern region of the United States is host to a diverse variety of geophysical regions including the Blue Ridge, Piedmont, Inland Basins and Coastal Plains. Each region shows its own distinctive set of hydrological ...
School Administrators’ Perceptions of Alabama’s ACCESS Distance Learning Program
(2013-11-05)
The purpose of this study was to examine Alabama high school principals’ perceptions about ACCESS Distance Learning. An exploratory research design was used and data were collected by survey. The survey was emailed to 508 ...
Microneedles Assisted Iontophoretic Transdermal Delivery of Drugs
(2013-11-01)
Topical/transdermal delivery offers an attractive alternative to oral and parenteral delivery in terms of non-invasiveness, administration and termination of dose and drug stability etc. However, the excellent barrier ...
Investigation on the Kinematics of Entrapped Air Pockets in Stormwater Storage Tunnels
(2013-11-01)
Various mechanisms can lead to the entrapment of air pockets within stormwater storage tunnels when they undergo rapid filling during intense rain events (Vasconcelos, 2006). These entrapped air pockets are linked to ...
Viewing the organization as a social actor: An intentions-based model of firm-level entrepreneurship
(2013-11-01)
A large majority of entrepreneurship research has suffered from a lack of theoretical grounding, and research on corporate entrepreneurship (CE) has been no different. This dissertation posits a theoretically-grounded ...
Response of diazotrophic microbial community to nitrogen input and glyphosate application in soils cropped to soybean
(2013-11-01)
The diversity of the diazotrophic community was influenced by soil pH, soil organic carbon content, soil depth, nitrogen input, and seasonal change; liming appeared to be the most important factor affecting the nifH gene ...
The Uses of Systems Thinking Tools for School Improvement
(2013-11-01)
Cornfield High School is a school located in St. Louis, Missouri, serving just over a
thousand students, grades nine through twelve. While sharing many similarities of other high
schools throughout the United States, ...
What You See is Not What You Get: The Influence of Approach and Escape Motivation on Visual Perception and Behavior in Spider-fearful Individuals
(2013-11-01)
The present study examined the influence of approach and escape motivation on visual perception, and whether these perceptions affect action responses in a direction congruent with these respective motivations, by comparing ...
A Tale of Two Markets: the People and Culture of American Flea Markets
(2013-11-01)
This thesis explores the people and culture of American flea markets from roughly the 1880s through the present day. American flea markets started in the late nineteenth century by newly arrived immigrants who utilized ...
DVF4: A Dual Vth Feedback Type 4-Transistor Level Converter
(2013-11-01)
Power dissipation in digital circuits has become one of the primary concerns in elec-
tronic design. With the increasing usage of portable devices, there are severe restrictions
being placed on the size, weight and power ...
Applications of the Classical Two-Coulomb-Center Systems to Atomic/Molecular Physics
(2013-11-01)
We advanced the classical studies of the two-Coulomb-center (TCC) systems consisting of two nuclei of charges Z and Z' and an electron in a circular or a helical state centered on the internuclear axis. These systems ...
The United States Food Administration During World War I: The Rise of Activist Government Through Food Control During Mobilization for Total War
(2013-11-01)
Although the United States Food Administration officially existed for less than twenty-four months, it left an ineffaceable mark on the economic, political, and social fabric of the nation. The unprecedented powers contained ...
Laboratory Investigation of the Dynamics of Shear Flows in a Plasma Boundary Layer
(2013-10-28)
The laboratory experiments presented in this dissertation investigate a regime of instabilities that occur when a highly localized, radial electric field oriented perpendicular to a uniform background magnetic field gives ...
The Development and Validation of Prediction Equations for the Apparent Metabolizable Energy of Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles in Broilers
(2013-10-28)
The objective of this research was to develop regression equations that accurately predict the AMEn content of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) samples varying in ether extract content and to cross-validate ...