Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Effect of Price Risk on Mongolian Copper Exports
(2017-07-27)
Mongolia has copious mineral deposits. Copper ore is the major commodity of the mineral industry and is also Mongolia’s main export item. China is the largest destination for Mongolia’s copper exports. To analyze the price ...
Examination of FlightStream for Proximity Flight with Stores
(2017-07-27)
The goal of the following work was to validate and demonstrate the capability of the FlightStream solver to model proximity flight. To this end, wind tunnel proximity data for a MK-82SE bomb released from an F-16 was used ...
Investigating the Role of Servicescape on Site Selection for Traditional and Virtual Event Venues: A Comparative Study
(2017-07-26)
The meeting and event industry has transformed into one of the leading sectors of the hospitality and tourism industries, making it important for traditional and virtual event venues to understand the logistics behind ...
Defining Chaos
(2017-07-26)
This thesis is a study of the paper "Defining chaos" by Brian Hunt and Edward Ott [1] with added details to make arguments easier to follow. They introduced a new entropy-based definition of chaos called expansion entropy. ...
Prototyping the Reference Implementation of Persistent Non-Blocking Collective Communication in MPI
(2017-07-26)
This research focuses on the design, prototype implementation and standardization sta- tus of persistent non-blocking collective operations for the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard, through functional extension of ...
An Evaluation and Comparison of Ad Hoc Routing Algorithms for the Purpose of Autonomous Vehicle Control
(2017-07-26)
The capability to communicating through a decentralized network with no pre-existing structure is invaluable in numerous different scenarios. In order to effectively utilize these networks, an efficient routing algorithm ...
Taxonomy and systematics of freshwater turtle blood flukes (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea)
(2017-07-26)
Blood flukes (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda: Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) currently comprise three families: Schistosomatidae Stiles and Hassall, 1898 (species infecting mammals and birds and one crocodilian), Aporocotylidae ...
Population Regulation of Frogs and Lizards in a Lowland Wet Neotropical Forest: Integrating Alternative Hypotheses
(2017-07-26)
Populations can be regulated in space and time from the “bottom-up” by resources (e.g., food), from the “top-down” by predation, or from parallel factors, such as interactions with conspecifics or heterospecifics. Amphibians ...
Essays on Applied Econometrics
(2017-07-26)
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay analyzes the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the food products sector in Turkey. An Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model which is ...
Conversion of biomass derived carbohydrate to value added chemicals by liquid-phase thermochemical and biochemical processing
(2017-07-26)
Levulinic and lactic acid are considered as highly versatile chemicals with a potential to be building-block for the synthesis of various upgraded chemicals. The main objective of this study is to develop novel strategies ...
Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Spacecraft Relative Motion
(2017-07-26)
The description and control of the relative motion of spacecraft has attracted a great deal of attention over the last five decades. This is as a result of its numerous applications in rendezvous and proximity operations, ...
Inverse source problem and inverse diffusion coefficient problem for parabolic equations with applications in geology
(2017-07-26)
This dissertation deals with inverse problems for parabolic partial differential equations with an integral constraint and their applications in geology. We employ analytical and numerical methods to analyze and approximate ...
Board Level Reliability of Lead-Free Solder Interconnections with Solder Doping Under Harsh Environment
(2017-07-26)
The electronics packaging industry has moved from eutectic Sn-Pb solder to the lead-free near-eutectic Sn-Ag-Cu (SAC) solder system in the past few years. Reliability performance for Lead-Free solder joint under “extreme” ...
An Examination of Coaching Leadership Style Preferences of Female Professional Basketball Players
(2017-07-26)
In athletics, every athlete on any team prefers different behaviors from their coach.
Previous research has not been able to articulate player preferences regarding their preferred
coaching behaviors and if their coaches ...
Measuring Attachment in Adolescence: A Validation of the IPPA in Adolescents with Illegal Sexual Behaviors
(2017-07-25)
The Inventory of Parental and Peer Attachment (IPPA; Armsden & Greenberg, 1987) is a
well-established measurement instrument for assessing attachment during adolescence. However,
the factor structure of the measure has ...
From Trauma to Testimony: Resilience in Four Contemporary Novels
(2017-07-25)
As the work of eminent literary trauma theorists Cathy Caruth and Elaine Scarry has persisted as integral to the field, literary trauma studies now has a twenty-year legacy prioritizing the silencing and shattering impact ...
Essays on the Labor Market for Internships
(2017-07-25)
In chapter one we first describe the demand for interns. By processing the text of all available ads on a popular internship website, we are able to characterize the occupation that best matches the advertised internship. ...
Pharmacological characterization and functional rescue of the giant panda and human melanocortin-4 receptors
(2017-07-25)
The melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) is a member of family A rhodopsin-like G protein-coupled receptors. It is well established that MC4R is critically involved in regulating food intake and energy expenditure in mammals. ...
A Reduced Element Map Representation and Applications: Map Merging, Path Planning, and Target Interception
(2017-07-25)
Modern autonomous systems require complex and heavy computations. The complexity can be reduced by eliminating or integrating redundant information. In the case of mobile vehicles, occupancy grid map representations are ...
Application and Toxicity Assessment of Antimicrobial N-halamines for Food Safety Controls
(2017-07-25)
Cross-contamination from food-associated environments accounts for a big portion of microbial contamination in food products. The objective of this study is to develop N-halamine based antimicrobial coatings on various ...