Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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An Examination of Teacher Working Conditions in Alabama Middle Schools
(2011-05-09)
The purpose of this study was to determine what relationships, if any, exist between how Alabama middle school teacher perception of their principals affect student achievement and teacher attrition. Peer comparisons ...
Cranial cruciate ligament rupture in the dog: Gait analysis with an electronic walkway system and investigation in the role of steroid hormones on collagen homeostasis
(2011-05-09)
Canine CCL rupture is one of the leading orthopedic problem in the United States and other parts of the world. It has been suggested that gonadectomy of the male is a risk factor for trauma to the CCL, implying that sex ...
Effects of Body Shape on Body Cathexis and Dress Shape Preferences of Female Consumers: A Balancing Perspective
(2011-05-09)
Apparel design has been proposed as a tool for altering the perceptual body and an individual’s level of body cathexis. The purpose of this study was to uncover dress shape preferences of female consumers as a function of ...
Design of Protective Covers Against Natural Hazards
(2011-05-06)
The purpose of this project is to design a protective cover against natural hazards for aircraft, vehicles, and ground structures. Protection against natural hazards is necessary for maintaining the integrity of a vehicle ...
Redox Reactions in Polymeric Systems
(2011-05-06)
Reduction-Oxidization (redox) reactions performed in polymeric environments resulted in the reversible formation of stable silver nanoparticle and two reductive radicals. The reversible formation of stable silver nanoparticles ...
Novel Hydrogels from Renewable Resources
(2011-05-06)
The cell wall of most plant biomass from forest and agricultural resources consists of three major polymers, cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Of these, hemicelluloses have gained increasing attention as sustainable raw ...
Three Essays on International Trade
(2011-05-06)
This dissertation is composed of three essays. The first essay assesses the impact of agricultural support policies on refined sugar exports. A theoretically consistent gravity model is extended to include the spatial ...
Mitochondrial Biology: RNA Import and Xenomitochondrial Compensatory Mechanisms
(2011-05-06)
Deficiencies or alterations in mitochondrial function can cause or exacerbate many human diseases, including metabolic and developmental disorders. The first experiments described herein were conducted to study compensatory ...
Land-use Changes, Forest Type Changes, and Related Environmental Concerns in the Southern U.S.
(2011-05-06)
The U.S. South covers roughly 24 percent of the total land area and 30 percent of the unreserved forest area of the United States. During the past few decades, the region has experienced dramatic land use as well as forest ...
Fabrication and Characterization of Gallium Nitride Based Diodes
(2011-05-06)
This dissertation describes research to the fabrication and characterization of Gallium nitride (GaN) based diodes. GaN is considered to be probably one of the most significant semiconductor material ever discovered ...
Development of Wireless Magnetoresistive Sensor Network for Unexploded Ordnance and Landmine Detection
(2011-05-06)
This thesis summarizes the effort toward developing a passive/active magnetoresistive (MR) sensor array for unexploded ordnance (UXO) realized with wireless sensor network technology. In recent years, the rapid development ...
Ultra Low Power CMOS Design
(2011-05-05)
The ubiquitous era of emerging portable devices demands long battery lifetime as a primary design goal. Subthreshold circuit design can reduce energy per cycle in an order of magnitude of nominal operating circuits by ...
Adaptive Connectivity Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Vehicular Networks
(2011-05-05)
Multi-hop vehicle-to-vehicle communication is useful for supporting many vehicular applications that provide drivers with safety and convenience. Developing multi-hop communication in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is ...
Home Brewing and Serious Leisure: A Mixed Methods Examination
(2011-05-05)
The study of serious leisure since its introduction (Stebbins, 1982) is extensive, covering a multitude of leisure endeavors (Baldwin & Norris, 1999; Brown, 2007; Dilley & Scraton, 2010; Gibson, Willming, & Holdnak, 2002; ...
The Gospel Horse in the Valley: Evangelical Slavery and Freedom in the Chattahoochee Valley, 1821-1877
(2011-05-05)
This dissertation examines the introduction of evangelical religion into the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia during the frontier era, the formation and characteristics of biracial churches during the antebellum period, and ...
Built-in Self-Test and Calibration of Mixed-signal Devices
(2011-05-05)
Wide adoption of deep sub-micron and nanoscale technologies in the modern semiconductor industry is resulted in very large complex mixed-signal devices. It has then become more difficult to estimate and control device ...
Rooting Evaluation of Kiwifruit (Actinidia chinesis) and Effects of Anaerobiosis on Bud Break
(2011-05-05)
Two unrelated studies were conducted in completion of this degree. The first study evaluated different rates of growth hormone on softwood kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis) cuttings to determine the proper rate for optimal ...
Reliability Assessment of Electronics Under Drop-Impact Using Cohesive Zone and XFEM Models
(2011-05-05)
The evolution of complexity in the handheld portable electronics accompanied with the miniaturization due to advancement in technology has contributed to their vulnerability under shock and drop conditions. Drop reliability ...
Studies of Structures, Quadratic Electro-Optic Effect and Rechargeable Battery Characteristics in Specific Nonconjugated Conductive Polymers including Trans-1,4-Polyisoprene
(2011-05-05)
The structures, quadratic electro-optic effect and rechargeable battery characteristics in specific nonconjugated conductive polymers have been studied. FTIR spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction, optical absorption, differential ...
Hamiltonian Decompositions of Complete Multipartite Graphs with Specified Leaves
(2011-05-05)
For any 2-regular spanning subgraph G and H of the complete
multipartite graph
K with p parts each of size m, conditions are found which guarantee the
existence of a 2-factorization of K or of K - I (for some 1-factor ...