Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Optimized Nonlinear Substrate Integrated Waveguide for Pulse Compression
(2013-04-15)
The time compression and associated frequency broadening of electromagnetic pulses has numerous applications in communication and radar systems. In this work, a new type of pulse compression device based on nonlinear ...
Assessing the Needs of Middle School Agricultural Education Teachers in Georgia
(2013-04-15)
Like their students, middle school agriculture teachers are a unique group with special needs and concerns. And like their students, the needs of middle school teachers and their programs are often misunderstood and ...
Exploring the Impact of Socio-technical Communication Styles on the Robustness and Innovation Potential of Global Participatory Science
(2013-04-15)
Emerging cyber-infrastructure tools are enabling scientists to transparently codevelop,
share, and communicate in real-time diverse forms of knowledge artifacts.
In this research, these collaborative environments are ...
Pathogen Detection Technique using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
(2013-04-15)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) signal relaxation is influenced by aggregate formation when magnetic nanoparticles bind with target molecules. In this study, a magnetic resonance based nanosensor was developed for a ...
Spatially Integrating Stakeholder Preferences for Wildlife Conservation and Ecosystem Services with Expert Opinions Using Public Participation Geographic Information Systems
(2013-04-09)
Due to changing trends in natural resource management, there is an increasing need to incorporate stakeholder opinions and preferences into the decision making process. Since much natural resource data is stored spatially ...
Survival, Count and Discrete Mixture Models for Analyzing Tumor Latency and Multiplicity in Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention
(2013-04-09)
Since the chemicals, including Bisphenol A (BPA), Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), have been reported for potential carcinogens separately and genistein is an controversial chemopreventive isoflavone, animal experiment ...
Physiological Effects of Prolonged Sitting and Local Pressure Application in the UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter
(2013-04-09)
Advances in flight technologies and the demand for long range flight have increased mission lengths for United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk aviators. Prolonged mission times have increased reports of pilots discomfort and ...
The Impact of Technology Integration on Student-Designed Games
(2013-04-09)
Student-designed games (SDG) is the process in which students create, organize, practice and refine their own games within certain limits established by the teacher (Hastie, 2010). Recent research has proposed different ...
A Word is Worth a Thousand Sentiments: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Use of Language as a Coping Mechanism in the Bilingual Works of Rosario Ferré, Luz María Umpierre-Herrera, and Judith Ortiz Cofer
(2013-04-08)
While much of the study of language as a coping mechanism has focused on private discourse, language can serve the same role when it is used in published creative writing intended for a public audience. This use of language ...
Trip and Parking Generation for Student-Oriented Housing Developments
(2013-04-08)
While there are many different residential land uses in ITE’s Trip Generation Manual, there is no land use category related to housing for college and university students. These housing developments are located off-campus, ...
Sequestosome 1/p62 and TRAF6 serve as a bridge to connect IRS-1 with Akt in insulin signaling
(2013-04-08)
Abnormalities in the insulin-signaling pathway might result in insulin resistance, contributing to the development of type 2 diabetes. Previous studies have established the involvement of p62 in the insulin-signaling pathway ...
Dictionary-Less Defect Diagnosis as Real or Surrogate Single Stuck-At Faults
(2013-04-05)
In this work, an algorithm to diagnose classic single stuck-at-faults and provide surrogate fault suspects for non-classical faults like multiple faults by analyzing failing circuits is proposed. The algorithm is based on ...
An Indoor Spatial Query Evaluation System based on RFID and Particle Filters
(2013-04-05)
People spend a significant amount of time in indoor spaces (e.g.,
office buildings, subway systems, etc.) in their daily lives.
Therefore, it is important to develop efficient indoor spatial
query algorithms for supporting ...
Low-Cost, Rapid, Sensitive Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria Using Phage-Based Magnetoelastic Biosensors
(2013-04-05)
As part of the ongoing efforts to secure food safety as well as to guard against possible bioterrorism, the role of pathogen detection technologies has become vital. However, conventional and standard detection methods, ...
Reinstatement interacts with interpolation interval to determine the effectiveness of counterconditioning
(2013-04-05)
Extinction and counterconditioning have been used extensively as applied techniques that attenuate conditioned fear. Relapse through the form of renewal, reinstatement, and spontaneous recovery present challenges for these ...
Performance Measures for Prioritizing Highway Safety Improvements Based on Predicted Crash Frequency and Severity
(2013-04-05)
The goal of this research was to develop highway performance measures that could be used to prioritize safety improvement projects by utilizing results from predicted crash frequency and crash severity for roadways the ...
Identification and Classification of Geographically Isolated Wetlands in North Alabama using Geographic Object Based Image Analysis (GeOBIA)
(2013-04-05)
Due to recent Supreme Court rulings there has been an increased interest in the isolated wetlands of the United States. These types of wetlands while generally smaller in extent than traditional wetlands serve vital ...
Relational Deception: 'Til Facebook Due Us Part
(2013-04-05)
The purpose of this study was to investigate romantic relational deception that occurs on Facebook based on participants’ gender, relationship status, and their amount of time spent on Facebook per week. Millennials as ...
Radio Frequency Module on Small Gasoline Engine Application
(2013-04-04)
Radio frequency communications applications are typically more applied than plain research in many aspects. A new application for radio frequency communications has been investigated for controlling the small gasoline ...
Performance Evaluation of Split Disk-Cache
(2013-03-29)
The performance gap between the processor and the memory speeds has been ever increasing. Whereas processor speeds have improved by 60% annually, secondary storage speed has only improved by 10% annually. Although there ...