Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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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 ...
Complete Replacement of Soybean Meal in Pig Diets with Hydrolyzed Feather Meal with Blood by Amino Acid Supplementation Based on Standardized Ileal Digestibility
(2013-03-28)
The current study was conducted to examine the possibility of completely replacing soybean meal (SBM) with hydrolyzed feather meal with blood (FM) by supplementing with appropriate AA based on standardized ileal digestible ...
Formulation Enhancement of Poorly Water-Soluble Pharmaceuticals by CO2-Based Crystallization Technologies
(2013-03-27)
This dissertation demonstrates the applicability of tunable solvent systems to the development of novel particulate formulations which enhance the deliverability and dissolution of poorly water-soluble active pharmaceutical ...
Effects of basket arrangement and stocking density when using the adjustable long-line system for oyster grow-out
(2013-03-27)
In recent years, as demand has risen, interest has grown in diversifying Alabama’s oyster harvest to include oysters for the premium half shell market. The adjustable long-line system (ALS) can be used to grow oysters ...
Eating Regulation and Residency Over the First Two Years of College: Associations with Body Mass Index, Weight, and Percent Body Fat in College Students
(2013-03-25)
Objective: To determine if eating regulation behaviors and residency were associated with body mass index (BMI), weight, and/or percent body fat in male and female students over the first two years of college.
Subjects: ...
Evaluation Of High Moisture And Dry Feed Both With And Without Hay Fed To Feeder Calves Subjected To Transportation Shrink
(2013-03-22)
Two backgrounding trials were carried out to evaluate the effects of diet on shrink both with and without hay offering 48-h prior to shipment, as well as subsequent weight recovery post-shipment. In trial 1, forty-eight ...
Urban Assemblages
(2013-03-22)
Urban Assemblages explores a landscape strategy for the adaptive reuse of abandoned
homes throughout the West End neighborhoods of Birmingham Alabama with the goal of making these properties once again valuable to local ...
Entering the Interspace
(2013-03-22)
This thesis document explores the relationships between topography, transportation infrastructure, and the experiential self within the urban context of Atlanta Georgia. The site undergoing exploration exists at the ...
Design Open Systems: How Can Middle Branch Harbor in Baltimore be Designed as an Open System?
(2013-03-22)
This thesis researches the potential of an open systems approach to the design of urban coastlines. Open systems are created and informed by the matter- energy that continually flows through them. A crucial feature is their ...
The Roles of Leadership in High Performing High Poverty Schools: A Case Study of Four Torchbearer Principals and Their Schools
(2013-03-21)
This study presents a comparative case study of four Torchbearer high performing-high poverty schools located in south Alabama. Using the underlying assumption that all children can learn and that principals are integral ...
First-principles Theoretical Study of Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Crystals and Earth Minerals at High Temperatures and Pressures
(2013-03-20)
The focus of this dissertation is the first-principles calculation of lattice thermal
conductivity, a non-equilibrium thermal transport property, for a wide range of solid
materials including both ideal crystals and iron ...
Evaluation of Eastern Red Cedar as a Substrate Component for Container Plant Production
(2013-03-20)
Peat moss, perlite and pine bark, being readily available and relatively inexpensive, have been the most popular substrate components of greenhouse and container nursery production for the past forty to fifty years. ...
Remediation in Urban Ecology: How Remediative Park Design in Montgomery, AL can influence its Future Development
(2013-03-18)
This design research project explores the possibility of connection between the riverfront and the downtown of Montgomery, Alabama by means of a remediative park system that encourages movement through the city. Currently ...
"You Are Where You Eat": reconnecting Birmingham, AL residents to their landscape through a local food network
(2013-03-18)
In an age of increasing globalization and expanding food distribution networks the distance between food sources and consumers is growing at an alarming rate. With
this growing gap comes the increased separation of ties ...
Neighborhood regeneration - Through New Patterns of Urban Public Space
(2013-03-18)
Like many other decayed downtown areas in the U.S, the one in Montgomery, AL
has a pedestrian framework which was provided for walking at the beginning of its
settlement. However, most of the downtown neighborhood streets ...
Beyond The Pit [of Democracy]: Mine Reclamation, Emergence, and Finite Resources
(2013-03-18)
Through the integration of democratic process with that of the reclamation of the Martin-Marietta Aggregate Quarry (MMQ), my design research proposes that it is possible to positively change contemporary understanding of ...
Brownfield Topographies: Regenerating brownfields through topological and ecological disturbance
(2013-03-18)
Brownfield topology is my term for the regeneration of urban brownfield sites through the disturbance of topography and site ecologies. This approach physically moves earth to generate unique arrangements of topography and ...
Affect and Interaction on Atlanta's Beltline
(2013-03-18)
This project addresses homogenous infrastructural design.
The research suggests that a reevaluation of infrastructure
based on a close attention to its social and physical conditions
can enable new approaches to its ...
Redefining Productivity: How can a productive landscape be redefined for social change?
(2013-03-18)
The landscape has always been expected to produce something, whether it be a crop, a mineral, a view, a resting place, or even an opportunity. In the small town of Loachapoka, Alabama, (pop. 162) the residents have become ...