Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Strength Assessment of Soil Cement
(2013-01-07)
Soil cement is a mixture of soil, portland cement and water that, once compacted and cured, forms a strong and durable pavement base. Construction practices and variance among core strength data have led to questions ...
Synthesis of Methanol and Higher Alcohols from Syngas over K Promoted Cu Based Catalysts in Supercritical Solvent
(2013-01-07)
With today’s increasing crude oil prices and a desire to reduce our dependence on imported oil, the synthesis of methanol and higher alcohol represents a promising pathway for utilizing synthesis gas (a mixture of CO and ...
Cooling Hadoop: Temperature Aware Schedulers in Data Centers
(2013-01-07)
The amount of unstructured data, also known as “Big Data” in Internet is growing every day. Because the Big data is unstructured, a large-scale distributed batch processing infrastructure like Hadoop is used instead of ...
The Effects of Thermal Aging on the Mechanical Behavior of Fine Pitch Electronics Packages
(2013-01-07)
The direction of Electronics packaging industry is to design smaller packages
with higher complexity while focusing on Sn-Ag-Cu as the alloy of choice for lead free
electronics assembly. While performance capabilities ...
Hospital Healing Garden Design and Emotional and Behavioral Responses of Visitors and Employees
(2013-01-04)
Despite the growing interest in healing gardens in hospitals which began in the 1990’s, there has been a major lack of a generalized measure to assess perceptions of specific design elements in healing gardens. Although ...
Effect of In Phase and Out of Phase Forcing on Circular Cylinder Wake
(2013-01-03)
Using periodic forcing, the control of instabilities in the wake of a circular cylinder was investigated. The cylinder model had two straight slits, one on each side, that were connected to separate low frequency and high ...
Controlled Spawning of White Catfish, Ictalurus catus, and Brown Bullhead Catfish, Ameiurus nebulosus, Using Carp Pituitary Extract and LHRHa
(2013-01-03)
If successful artificial spawning techniques can be developed, white catfish, Ictalurus catus, and brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus, may have the potential to become model organisms for accelerated catfish genetics ...
High Temperature Vibration Fatigue Life Prediction and High Strain Rate Material Characterization of Lead-Free Solders
(2013-01-03)
Current trends in the automotive industry warrant a variety of electronics for improved control, safety, efficiency and entertainment. Many of these electronic systems like engine control units, variable valve sensor, ...
Investigation of binding of Bacteriophage and Staphylococcus aureus using Magnetoelastic Biosensor
(2013-01-03)
Consumption of bacteria-contaminated food products results in illness, hospitalization and even deaths and researchers have been making efforts in finding a way for early detection of pathogenic bacteria, such as Staphylococcus ...
Development of Moisture Sensor Technology to Enhance Conveynace and Field Distribution of Broiler Litter
(2013-01-03)
As environmental implications for land application of poultry litter become stricter, technological advancements on litter spreaders will be required to improve field performance. The inherent physical variability, moisture ...
The Effect of Land Use/Land Cover on Headwater-Slope Wetlands in Baldwin County, Alabama
(2012-12-17)
Land use and land cover (LULC) have been shown to greatly influence aquatic environments although very few studies have described the effect on headwater wetlands. The overall goal of this research was to assess the impact ...
Estimation of Survival of the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus, by Analysis of Mark-Recapture Data with Tag Loss
(2012-12-17)
The Atlantic Horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is a valuable resource along the Mid-Atlantic coast which has, in recent years, experienced new management paradigms due to increased concern about this species role in the ...
Development and Application of One Dimensional Multi-component Reactive Transport Models
(2012-12-14)
The overarching goal of this dissertation is to develop reactive transport models and explore their applications to groundwater remediation problems. The primary focus of this dissertation is aimed at developing models ...
Non-perturbative calculations of atomic data for applications in laboratory fusion and astrophysical plasmas
(2012-12-13)
Results are presented for non-perturbative quantal calculations of atomic data for application in laboratory fusion and astrophysical plasmas. One of the key issues in laboratory
fusion plasmas is the accurate modeling ...
PDMS Deformation Effects during Start-up Flow in Microchannels of Different Depths and Containing Various Obstacles
(2012-12-13)
New experimental data for the microfluidic flow of a water-based liquid at very low Reynolds numbers (10-4 to 10-3) are provided for an optically transparent polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic chip with rectangular ...
Children’s Stress and Their Health: Cortisol and the Common Cold
(2012-12-11)
Many studies document associations between high levels of stress in early childhood and poor adult health, but understanding of mechanisms underlying these links is limited. Recent theoretical models focus on physiological ...
Studies for Improvement of Reproductive Biotechnology for Production of Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) Female X Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) Male Hybrid Embryos
(2012-12-10)
Investigative studies were conducted on the relative effectiveness between carp pituitary extract (CPE), luteinizing hormone releasing hormone analog (LHRHa) injections and LHRHa implants for producing hybrid catfish ...
Gene Duplication and Fusion: Strategy for Active Site Control and Starting Point for New Catalysts
(2012-12-10)
Catalase–peroxidases (KatGs) have two peroxidase-like domains. The N-terminal domain contains the heme-dependent, bifunctional active site. Though the C-terminal domain lacks the ability to bind heme or directly catalyze ...
The Development of a Statewide Trial, Evaluation, and Promotion Program: Trialing Summer Annuals
(2012-12-07)
The “Green Industry” is a term that encompasses many agricultural occupations such as turfgrass production, retail garden centers, ornamental plant production, and the landscape installation and maintenance industry. Two ...
The Effect of Daily Pill Burden on the Probability of Discontinuation of Initial HAART Regimens
(2012-12-06)
Background: Given that lower pill burdens have been shown to be associated with an increased duration of initial therapy, there is a need to understand the effect of daily pill burden on the duration of the initial ...