Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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What Do Y'all Think?: A Study of Language Attitudes in the South
(2006-08-15)
This indirect language attitude study of Southerners’ views of Southern United States English (SUSE) surveyed 90 students (49 female, 41 male) from sections of the second-semester freshman-level composition class at Auburn ...
Anti-Catholic Polemic in Jacobean Print Culture: Contextualizing Westward for Smelts (1620)
(2006-08-15)
The 1620 anonymous prose fiction Westward for Smelts does not identify itself as a participant in the popular anti-Catholic polemic rampant in Jacobean England. Instead, Smelts relies heavily upon stereotyped caricatures ...
The Fabulous Nabob: Miscegenations of Empire and Vocation in Eighteenth Century British Literature
(2006-08-15)
This dissertation has grown out of my interest in literary representations of the Nabob, a British Returnee from India who appeared in the aftermath of the 1757 Battle of Plassey.The representations of the Nabob in popular ...
Electronically Steerable Antenna Array using PCB-based MEMS Phase Shifters
(2006-08-15)
In this thesis, a novel approach for cost effective fabrication and assembly of MEMS based Electronically steerable antenna (ESA) arrays’ using flexible printed circuit processing techniques has been developed. The critical ...
MEMS Based Tunable Microstrip Patch Antenna Fabricated Using Printed Circuit Processing Techniques
(2006-08-15)
This thesis presents MEMS-based electrostatically tunable microstrip patch antennas fabricated using printed circuit processing techniques. The microstrip patch is patterned on the top side of a flexible kapton polyimide ...
Bridge Pile Bent P-Delta Curves in Transverse Direction Using FB-Pier and GTSTRUDL Pushover Analysis Procedures
(2005-08-15)
Extreme flood events may create large transverse water loads that cause piles of a bent to bend about their weak axes in addition to causing scour. A comparison of the nonlinear pushover analysis procedures and resulting ...
Development of a biosensor for the rapid detection of Salmonella Typhimurium in milk
(2005-12-15)
Foodborne illnesses are still serious problems in the United States. Methods for rapid detection of foodborne pathogens are needed to protect public health. The recent advances in biosensor technology enabled the rapid ...
The Role of Body Mass Index and Body Shape in Perception of Body Attractivness: Cross-Cultural Study
(2005-12-15)
The purpose of this study was to cross-culturally investigate the effect of BMI (Body Mass Index) and three body shapes (Rectangle, Pear, and Hourglass) on the perception of female body attractiveness and body size. A ...
Agent-mediated brokering and matchmaking for simulation model reuse on the semantic grid
(2005-12-15)
The need for simulation in military is increasing significantly due to high costs and safety limitations. Simulation in military is employed for training individuals in real-operating scenarios. The virtual, simulated ...
On the Spectrum of Minimal Covers By Triples
(2006-08-15)
A Minimal Cover by Triples is an ordered pair (V,T) where V is a finite set and T is a
collection of three element subsets of V with two properties. First, that every pair of elements
of V appear together in at least ...
New Classes of Multivariate Gamma Survival and Reliability Models
(2006-08-15)
Multivariate modeling and analysis based on the multivariate normal distribution is well established and widely used. However, when the marginal distributions have only a positive support, such as time-to-event models, ...
The Triangle Intersection Problem For Hexagon Triple Systems
(2006-08-15)
The Triangle Intersection Problem for Hexagon Triple Systems
Carl S. Pettis, Auburn University
A hexagon triple is the graph
and a hexagon triple system is an edge disjoint decomposition of ...
Array Biosensor for the Detection of Organophosphates
(2006-08-15)
The aim of the current study was to develop an optical-based array biosensor for enzyme kinetics monitoring by fluorescence spectroscopy. The developed biosensor was used for the detection of Organophosphates (OPs), which ...
On Frobenius numbers in three variables
(2006-08-15)
Given a set of relatively prime positive integers
$\{a_1,a_2,\ldots, a_n\}$, after some point all positive integers are representable as a linear combination of the set with nonnegative coefficients. Which integer is the ...
Refractory Metal to Nickel-Based Alloy Joining Technologies for High Temperature Applications
(2006-08-15)
This thesis provides a detailed description of efforts towards the joining of niobium (Nb) to nickel-based alloys in order to increase the overall efficiency of gas turbine-based power generation systems. The desired ...
Chemical Sensing Employing pH Sensitive Emeraldine Base Thin Film for Carbon Dioxide Detection
(2006-08-15)
Respiration, or CO2 evolution, is a universal indicator for all the biological activities. Among many potential applications, the measurement of CO2 evolution has been found to be a rapid and nondestructive means for ...
An Autonomous Digging Vehicle
(2006-08-15)
This project is intended to develop a self-guided digging vehicle for various applications. Hence, the main focus for this vehicle is to have the ability to dig through loose soils. This project has focused on key digging ...
Managing Service Inventory in the Supply Chain
(2006-08-15)
Services have become an increasingly important part of the U.S. economy. This move has forced many companies to shift their focus from simply improving product manufacturing and product delivery to improving product service ...
Factors Influencing Adoption and Use of Precision Agriculture
(2006-08-15)
While the potential for creating efficiencies are possible with precision agricultural tools, the various combinations of tools, the steep learning curve of these technologies, and the initial investment of each of the ...
A System and Unit Design for Food Distribution During a Disaster Recovery
(2006-08-15)
Because of the steadily increasing population, disaster needs have been steadily increasing in number and scale. This increasing trend intensifies the need for aid in the recovery areas of disaster situations. The development ...