Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Reliability and Prognostics of Copper-Aluminum Wirebond System Subjected to Extreme Ambient and Operating Conditions
(2018-07-26)
Wire bonding is predominant first level interconnect used in semiconductor packaging industry. Gold (Au) is traditionally used for wirebonding since inception. Recent increase in the cost of Au has forced industry to seek ...
Functional characterization of carboxylesterases in pyrethroid resistant house fly, Musca domestica
(2018-07-26)
House fly, Musca domestica, is a major sanitary pest which can carry and transmit more than 100 human and animal intestinal diseases. Currently, the chemical control with insecticides is still the most efficient weapon to ...
Evaluation of Training, Fueling, and Whey Protein Supplementation in Army Initial Entry Training
(2018-07-26)
Background: Nutrient intake needs to provide the energy required to support recovery from training, improve performance, and promote health. To date, research on energy expenditure and dietary intake in recruits that ...
Multi-objective Optimization for Establishing Geographical Boundaries and Associations Using Evolutionary Algorithms and Collaborative and Adversarial Intelligent Agents
(2018-07-26)
Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are useful in solving prohibitively large search problems in a limited amount of time. Where even the most efficient standard search algorithms can become unwieldy as the solution space expands, ...
The Lived Experiences of African American Males in Becoming Counselors and Counselor Educators
(2018-07-26)
The counseling profession has evolved over the years from traditional White men dominating the profession to a more diverse culture of helping professionals that vary in race, gender, and age. Despite the growth and ...
Ecological and Genetic Investigations of the Nickel Hyperaccumulator Streptanthus polygaloides (Brassicaceae)
(2018-07-25)
Hyperaccumulators are plants that take up, transport, and sequester large amounts of an element in their tissues. By doing this, they often achieve tissue concentrations that are toxic to most organisms. In this dissertation, ...
An Investigation of Factors that Affect Teacher Retention in East Alabama Rural Schools
(2018-07-25)
Many small rural school districts are consistently faced with the challenge of recruiting and retaining teachers (Lowe, 2006). These districts are faced with challenging factors such as low funding and being geographically ...
Identification and Predictive Modeling of High Propensity of Defects and Field Failure in Copper-aluminum Wire Bond Interconnect under Exposure to High Temperature and Humidity
(2018-07-25)
Semiconductor packaging industry is undergoing a paradigm shift from gold to copper wire bonding. The main driving force behind this shift is the much lower raw material cost of copper compared to gold as well as superior ...
Genetic analysis of loci controlling heat tolerance and ESC disease resistance in catfish
(2018-07-25)
Catfish is one of the main aquaculture species in the US. However, the catfish industry is under the threat of various of environmental stresses and diseases, with heat stress and ESC are two major representatives. One ...
Towards Efficient 5G Wireless Networks: Cross-Layer Design and Wireless Networking
(2018-07-25)
With the fast growing popularity of smart mobile devices and the explosion of data-intensive services, the 5th generation (5G) wireless system is expected to provide a 1000x mobile data rate in the near future. To provide ...
Relationship between Asphalt Binder Fatigue Properties and Mixture Fatigue Performance
(2018-07-25)
Fatigue cracking caused by repeated traffic loading is one of the major distresses in asphalt pavement. To control fatigue cracking, the current Superpave binder specification requires a maximum value of 5,000 kPa for the ...
Engineering Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum for Enhanced Isopropanol-Butanolethanol (IBE) Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass through Acetic Acid Pretreatment
(2018-07-25)
The objective of this study was to achieve efficient biofuel production from lignocellulosic biomass through the development of a novel biomass pretreatment method in combination with the metabolic engineering of microbial ...
A Data Driven Framework to Predict the Fatigue among Manufacturing Workers Using Wearable Sensors
(2018-07-25)
Worker fatigue has been known as a significant phenomenon in the manufacturing occupations. In these occupations, physical fatigue is a challenging ergonomic/safety issue as it lowers productivity and boosts the incidence ...
Thermal-aware Resource Management in Energy Efficient Clusters
(2018-07-25)
There is a pressing need for thermal management in most electronic devices today, ranging from portables to high-performance servers, and it poses barriers to the safe operations of data centers. The goal of thermal ...
Broad characterization of structural variation and genetic differentiation in two hybridizing macaque species
(2018-07-25)
Speciation and hybridization drive all of the biodiversity seen on the plant. Understanding underlying mechanisms of these cornerstones of evolutionary genetics if of vital importance. Here we seek to apply a combination ...
Validation of candidate genes associated with leaf spot resistance in cultivated peanut
(2018-07-25)
Peanut is an important oil crop that is grown in several parts of the world including the US, Asia and Africa. Early and Late leaf spot caused by Cercospora arachidicola and Cercosporidium personatum respectively are the ...
Mitochondrial function and oxidative stress in response to induced reactive oxygen species and reproduction
(2018-07-24)
Mitochondria are pivotal in the survival of complex organisms, generating metabolic energy in all eukaryotic cells by breaking down carbohydrates, fatty acids, and protein from diet and converting them to ATP (adenosine ...
Examining the Relationships between Front Line Supervisors and Employees’ Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, and Job Satisfaction within the Manufacturing Industry
(2018-07-24)
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The concept of emotional intelligence and the potential impact on an organization has sparked a concerted effort amongst researchers to examine and more clearly define the role of emotional intelligence in ...
Relational Aggression in Emerging Adulthood: Association with Social Intelligence and the Moderating Role of Empathy
(2018-07-24)
Relational aggression is intended to harm others through manipulating and damaging their relationships using traditionally indirect means (Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). Evidence has shown that social intelligence and empathy ...
CRF2 and its role in cytokinin response and abiotic stress
(2018-07-24)
Cytokinin Response Factors are a small family of plant transcription factors originally discovered in a screen for genes whose expression is controlled by cytokinin. Cytokinin is a plant hormone known to be involved in ...