Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Work life balance and psychological well-being in men and women
(2013-04-29)
The purpose of the present study was to understand the relationship between work-life balance and psychological well-being. There was a significant correlation between balance and global well-being. There were also a ...
Effects of hydrologic variation and water temperatures on early growth and survival of selected age-0 fishes in the Tallapoosa River, Alabama.
(2013-04-23)
Altered flow regimes resulting from the construction of hydropower dams can negatively affect aquatic organisms in a variety of ways. The effects of flow and temperature variation on early growth, survival, and hatching ...
Growing and Learning Algorithms of Radial Basis Function Networks
(2013-04-23)
Radial Basis Function (RBF) network is a type of artificial neural network, which uses the Gaussian kernel activation function. It has a fixed three-layer architecture. The RBF network is easier to be designed and trained ...
Systemic Inflammatory Response To Consecutive Days of Exercise In The Heat
(2013-04-23)
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the LPS-mediated SIR to acute bouts of exercise in the heat and any adaptive response that occurs during consecutive days of exercise in the heat. METHODS: 8 healthy males ...
Teachers’ Perception of the Presence of Teacher Leadership and ARMT+ Percent Proficient in Alabama’s Public Elementary Schools: A Correlation Study
(2013-04-23)
For over four decades, the concept of teacher leadership has been debated nationally and internationally with a view of establishing its role in student learning and achievements in schools. Over this period, a sizeable ...
Secure File Assignment in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
(2013-04-23)
There is a growing demand for large-scale distributed storage systems to support resource sharing and fault tolerance. Although heterogeneity issues of distributed systems have been widely investigated, little attention ...
Bipolar Electrochemistry: A Powerful Technique for Chemical Analysis and Property Screening
(2013-04-23)
The phenomenon of bipolar electrochemistry was first exploited about three decades ago in the industrial sector to minimize power dissipation and to carry out electrochemical reactions in poorly conducting media. However, ...
True Three-Dimensional Proximity Effect Correction in Electron-beam Lithography: Control of Critical Dimension and Sidewall Shape
(2013-04-23)
One of the major limiting factors in electron-beam (e-beam) lithography is the geometric distortion of written features due to electron scattering, i.e., proximity effect, which puts a fundamental limit on the minimum ...
Utilizing Dual Neural Networks as a Tool for Training, Optimization, and Architecture Conversion
(2013-04-23)
Very little time has been devoted to the application of Dual Neural Networks and advances that they might produce by utilizing them for conversion between network architectures. By leveraging the efficiencies of the various ...
Analysis and finite element approximation for nonlinear problems in poroelasticity and bioconvection
(2013-04-23)
This dissertation is concerned with nonlinear systems of partial differential equation with solution dependent physical coefficients satisfying the Nemytskii assumption. Such equations arise from two important application ...
Dynamics and Control of Satellite Relative Motion in Elliptic Orbits using Lyapunov-Floquet Theory
(2013-04-23)
Rendezvous and proximity operations involving satellites operating near each other have been performed since the Gemini missions. A better understanding of the dynamics of satellites in close proximity could be helpful ...
Glycopolymers for Biomedical Applications
(2013-04-23)
Glycopolymers are synthetic polymers containing carbohydrate groups. They may play an important role in a wide range of biomolecular events such as adhesion, inflammation, cellular recognition, cell growth regulation, and ...
Exploration Into the Effects of Hypoxia in an In Vitro Canine Glioblastoma Model
(2013-04-23)
Glioblastomas are aggressive, lethal primary brain tumors that affect human and canine patients. A subpopulation representing a variably large percentage of the bulk of tumor cells has been identified to have stem cell-like ...
Evaluation of a novel antiviral compound effective against multiple pestivirus species
(2013-04-23)
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a viral pathogen of cattle and other wild and domestic ungulates that is capable of affecting multiple body systems, most notably the gastrointestinal, reproductive, immune and respiratory ...
Context-based file systems and spatial query applications
(2013-04-23)
This dissertation presents studies related to I/O techniques in data-intensive computation and advanced solutions of spatial queries. There is a lack of general mechanisms for integrating multiple file system techniques ...
Digital Phase Accumulation for Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis
(2013-04-23)
This work explores direct digital frequency synthesis (DDFS) theory and design and its application in radar systems. Though there is nothing particularly novel about DDFS in general, recent designs have been revolutionized ...
Characterization of tmRNA function and regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(2013-04-23)
Transfer messenger RNA (tmRNA) encoded by ssrA, is a hybrid RNA with tRNA and mRNA domains that catalyzes recycling of stalled ribosomes. This bioenergetically important process appears to play diverse functions in the ...
Making a Judgment of Accountability: An Analysis of Budgets & Structural Balance Utilizing State CAFR's
(2013-04-23)
Budgeting is a key financial management tool utilized by governments. It provides a prospective view of revenues and expenditures for a particular time period. An adopted budget allows the governmental entity, the public ...
Applications of Mass spectrometry in natural product drug discovery for malaria: Targeting Plasmodium falciparum thioredoxin reductase
(2013-04-23)
Malaria is considered to be the dominant cause of death in low income countries especially in Africa. Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum is a most lethal form of the disease because of its rapid spread and the development ...
Effectiveness of coated controlled-released sulfate as an algicide for phytoplankton control in ponds
(2013-04-23)
Copper sulfate and diuron are the two common treatments for controlling blue-green
algae, the cause off-flavor in aquaculture ponds, especially catfish ponds. Copper sulfate has
been used most widely because of its lower ...