Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions

Electrical systems regarding the transmittance of signals and data are under the constant threat of wear and tear. Many machines and systems that use cables to transfer signals and data are often used right up until failure ...

Groups of softball pitchers seeking to develop a movement pitch practiced under two different practice conditions. One group practiced using instructions centered on achieving an idealized movement pattern to create break ...

Mechanical interactions at the hand affect its entire neuromuscular circuit - from hand kinematics and peripheral nervous activation, to motor and somatosensory cortex activation, to cognition and decision making. ...

Inconel 718 is a Nickel based alloy with many applications in the aerospace and automotive industries. Due to its high strength under intense heat, IN-718 is used in extreme environments such as rocket engine manifolds ...

Specific gravity (SG, also called relative density) is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of a substance's density (mass per unit volume) to the density of a given reference material. In forestry, wood SG is ...

The largemouth bass (LMB; Micropterus nigricans) is a North American freshwater fish species. These fish have gained the reputation of being one of North America’s most beloved freshwater sportfish species and, in recent ...

Lipid-based nanoparticles (LNPs) are frontliners in nanomedicine, as their use as mRNA carriers and in drug delivery has become prominent over the years. Despite their increasing application in medicine, there are limited ...

This dissertation focuses on the structural properties of two types of posets, \(P(n,m)\) and \(P'(n,m)\), both of which are ordered by the majorization ordering. Specifically, we consider those cases where \(1 \leq n \leq ...

Decades of fire exclusion in historically fire-dependent forests across the southeastern U.S. have caused various ecological consequences, including the transition of open-structured forests to closed-canopy forests. This ...

Ion exchange membranes (IEMs) are indispensable materials with diverse applications in energy and environmental technologies, such as fuel cells, water desalination, water purification, and electrochemical CO2 reduction ...