Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Transdermal Drug Delivery Adhesives with Foam Morphology
(2011-10-27)
Polyacrylate-based adhesives are common in commercial bandages for blister prevention and wound healing. In this research, pressure sensitive polyacrylate adhesive foams have been investigated that could potentially be ...
Finitely Generated Modules Over Noncommutative Chain Rings
(2011-10-26)
The notion of a right chain ring, a ring whose lattice of right ideals is linearly ordered by inclusion, is a generalization of a valuation ring. In this work we investigate properties of right chain rings and the structure ...
The Evolution of Medical Informatics as a Coherent Academic Discipline
(2011-10-26)
The purpose of this content analysis was to ascertain the prevalent themes, the challenges that exist, and future directions for the medical informatics (MI) discipline. Seven scholarly publications from the ten-year ...
High School Student Opinion Polling on Career Exploration
(2011-10-19)
This study examines the use of student learning polls as indicators of student perceptions and influences on career exploration. No Child Left Behind requires schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress for two ...
The Impact of Mindfulness Practice on Mental Health Service Providers-in-Training: An Examination of Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Empathy, and Burnout
(2011-10-19)
The current study used a true experimental design, with wait-list control, to determine if the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program would increase levels of mindfulness, self-awareness, and empathy, while ...
Modeling and Optimization of Novel Fuel Production Strategies
(2011-10-18)
Environmental problems such as global warming and fossil fuel shortage are some of the biggest challenges that human beings are facing nowadays. Alternative fuels are the potential answer to many future energy needs and ...
The Self Perceived Level of Preparation of Pre-service General Education Teachers to Instruct Students with Disabilities in an Inclusion Setting
(2011-10-18)
The number of students with disabilities being served in the general education classroom is growing each year. General education teachers often feel ill-equipped to appropriately address the needs of students with disabilities ...
Prosody: A Taught Means to an End or an End Result?
(2011-09-30)
This study investigates the effectiveness of teaching prosody in a readers’ theatre format. Prosody is traditionally defined as an end result that fluent readers inadvertently possess. In that case, struggling readers ...
Vehicle Routing with Cross Docks, Split Deliveries, and Multiple Use of Vehicles
(2011-09-22)
Cross docking plays a vital role in supply chain management. Cross docks can reduce the lead time of the product from supplier to retailer. The bene t of the cross dock would be reduced without e cient vehicle routing and ...
Application of Novel Nanoscale Materials and Advanced Electrochemical Techniques in Heterogeneous Catalysis and Fabrication of Combinatorial Material Libraries by Bipolar Electrodeposition
(2011-09-08)
The advancements in the electrochemical technologies combined with the introduction of novel materials makes our lives a lot better. This work has two major divisions: (1) development of better electrocatalysts for fuel ...
A Distribution-Free Control Chart for Retrospective Location Analysis of Subgrouped Multivariate Data
(2011-09-08)
In multivariate quality control, a proper Phase I analysis is essential to the success of Phase II monitoring. Even self-starting methods, which seek to minimize the Phase I process, usually recommend a single retrospective ...
The Effect Of Illumination On Medication Preparation Errors In A Long Term Care Facility
(2011-09-07)
The main objectives of this study were to (1) measure the effect of increased illumination levels on the medication preparation error rate in a long term care facility, and (2) measure the effect of increased illumination ...
Examination of Disengagement of Snake Phobics' Attention from Images of Snakes
(2011-09-07)
Changes occur in a number of psychological processes during fear. For example, increases in fear and arousal are sometimes followed by a narrowing of attention (Easterbrook, 1959; Baddeley, 1972) and increased selectivity ...
Advanced Learning Algorithms of Neural Networks
(2011-08-26)
The concept of “learn to behave” gives very vivid description of functionalities of neural networks. Specifically, a group of observations, each of which consists of inputs and desired outputs, are directly applied to ...
Methods for Improving Generalization and Convergence in Artificial Neural Classifiers
(2011-08-26)
Artificial neural networks have proven to be quite powerful for solving nonlinear classification problems. However, the complex error surfaces encountered in such problems often contain local minima in which gradient based ...
Strands For Wood Composites: Mechanics & NIRS Based Nondestructive Testing
(2011-08-25)
Improvements in silvicultural techniques have allowed for rapid growth and shorter rotation age of southern pine species utilized for structural wood components. However, the rapid growth results in lumber consisting ...
Ues of Vision Sensors and Lane Maps to Aid GPS-INS Navigation
(2011-08-25)
This thesis proposes a method to increase observability of a GPS/INS system operating under limited satellite coverage. Measurements from vision sensors are used to supplement the GPS pseudorange and pseudorange-rate ...
A Technology for Enhanced Control of Erosion, Sediment and Metal Leaching at Disturbed Land Using Polyacrylamide and Magnetite Nanoparticles
(2011-08-25)
Urbanization and human disturbance of land often result in serious soil erosion and releases of fine sediments and soil-bound toxic metals, which can lead to contamination of downstream water bodies and cause water treatment ...
Incorporating Green Chemistry Principles in Heterogeneous Catalysis Operations
(2011-08-25)
Many commercial processes for the production of chemicals involve harsh organic solvents as well as numerous by-products that are detrimental to the environment. For many years it was common practice to implement a process ...
Chemical Ecology and Management of Yellowmargined Leafbeetle Microtheca ochroloma Stal (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
(2011-08-22)
Cruciferous vegetable production is an important industry in Alabama and other parts of the southern United States (U.S.). Many farmers in the region grow various kinds of cruciferous crops (e.g., turnip, radish, mustard, ...