Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Building a High-resolution Scalable Visualization Wall
(2006-12-15)
High-resolution and scalable displays are increasingly being used for interactive 3D
graphics applications, including large-scale data visualization, immersive virtual
environments, and scalable 3D rendering subsystems. ...
Post-Speech-Recognition Processing in Domain-Specific Text-Corpus-Based Distributed Listening System: Analysis, Interpretation and Selection of Speech Recognition Results
(2006-12-15)
Achieving usable recognition rates has been an almost never-ending quest in speech recognition research for more than three decades. Recently speech recognition rates have dramatically improved in conjunction with the rapid ...
Practical Consideration of Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks
(2006-12-15)
In this dissertation, we investigate different routing approaches in an attempt to improve
the network performance by considering how wireless networks operate in the realistic
environment. Our work is centered around ...
Algorithms for Task Scheduling in Heterogeneous Computing Environments
(2006-12-15)
Current heterogeneous meta-computing systems, such as computational clusters and grids offer a low cost alternative to supercomputers. In addition they are highly scalable and flexible. They consist of a host of diverse ...
A Life Preserver for the 'Sink or Swim' Years: An Investigation of New Teacher Obstacles and the Impact of a Peer Support Group
(2005-08-15)
The high number of teachers leaving the profession after only a few years of teaching has created a need for teacher education programs and school systems to address the obstacles new teachers are facing and look at ways ...
Guidelines to Change the Cultural Paradigms of Designers Toward Third World People Groups through Missiology to Influence Furniture Design
(2005-12-15)
Third world culture has been invaded by the western world. It is an issue that grows everyday with the media influences of western culture. Industrial designers have developed many of the products and systems which act ...
Effects of physical activity on cortisol levels in African American toddlers attending full-time daycare
(2005-12-15)
Cortisol is a glucocorticoid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex in response to both physical and psychological stressors. A baseline, diurnal pattern of activity, which peaks soon after waking and declines throughout ...
Provenance and Basin Tectonics of Oligocene-miocene Sequences of the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh
(2005-12-15)
Oligocene and Miocene strata of the Bengal basin, Bangladesh, show significant changes in sediment composition and record sediment-input history from different sources adjacent to the basin. Oligocene Barail sands (Qt70F2L28) ...
Movement, dispersal, and home ranges of tournament displaced largemouth and spotted bass in Lake Martin, Alabama
(2006-12-15)
Anglers fishing in black bass tournaments often displace fish great distances from their site of capture and the effects of tournament displacement on movement and behavior of fish after release have been variable. ...
An Evaluation of the Catfish Fishery in Wilson Reservoir, Alabama
(2006-12-15)
On Lake Wilson, Alabama, a popular recreational and commercial catfish fishery exists and this study was initiated to assess population metrics and estimate exploitation. Currently, creel or length limits are not used to ...
Evaluation of an AQUAVAC-ESC® Booster on Production of Food-size Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus in Earthern Ponds
(2006-12-15)
The effect of administering a more economically feasible dose of AQUAVAC-ESC® to channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) fingerlings for protection against enteric septicemia of catfish (ESC) was evaluated. The study consisted ...
Oligotrophication Effects Following Diversion of Waste Effluent from an Embayment of Lake Martin, Alabama
(2006-12-15)
I examined the effects of nutrient diversion on water quality, phytoplankton, and macroinvertebrate and fish community structures over a 10-year period in Lake Martin, Alabama. In 2001, a pipeline began diverting treated ...
Evolution of Signal Divergence and Behavior in Cyprinella galactura, the whitetail shiner
(2006-12-15)
Acoustic signaling in anurans, insects, birds, and mammals has played an important role as an interspecific isolating mechanism and is also believed to be a mechanism of sexual selection in intraspecific mate choice. A ...
Effects of hydrologic variation on dynamics of channel catfish and flathead catfish populations in regulated and unregulated rivers in the southeast USA
(2006-12-15)
Altered flow regimes resulting from dam construction can have negative impacts on growth and recruitment of fishes in regulated river systems. The effects of hydrologic variation on channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus and ...
A Comparative Study of the Immunological Properties of Extracellular Products Between Virulent and Less Virulent Edwardsiella tarda
(2006-12-15)
The immunological properties of the extracellular products (ECP) of the Edwardsiella tarda parent FL6-60 and mutant RET-04 isolates were investigated in Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus. Non-purified ECP derived from ...
Studies on Cercospora Leaf Spot
(2006-12-15)
Fresh Pseudocercospora cornicola specimens were compared to an isotype specimen to confirm species identity. The two specimens proved to be the same taxonomic entity. The fungus was then redescribed and illustrated from ...
Assessing Soil Microbial Populations and Activity Following the Use of Microbial Inoculants: Effects on Disease Suppressiveness and Soil Health
(2006-12-15)
In recent years, assessing use of microbial inoculants for promotion of plant growth has increased. Optimizing application frequency of PGPR is critical to achieving the maximum benefit from this technology. The study ...
Language acquisition of same-sex, multiple-birth siblings: A nature/nurture study
(2006-12-15)
This retrospective study considers the extent to which nature and nurture influence early first language acquisition. Data sets that address rate of grammatical acquisition, acquisition of regional dialect features, and ...
Ad-hoc and Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks for Activity Capture in Cooperative Robotics
(2006-12-15)
Cooperative robotics has been the focus of attention of various groups in recent years. The idea of using a team of robots instead of a single one to execute a task came from the necessity of accomplishing a task that is ...
Design and Development of a GPS Intermediate Frequency and IMU Data Acquisition System for Advanced Integrated Architectures
(2006-12-15)
Advanced levels of GPS and INS integration, including Deeply Integrated and Ultra-
Tightly Coupled, have been reported to provide significant gains in anti-jamming capa-
bility and reduced susceptibility to loss of GPS ...