Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Rates of Succession: Value of Urban Wilds
(2016-05-03)
Natural process is fundamental to landscape architecture. Combining forces with these processes is a landscape architects greatest challenge and opportunity. A dialogue with urban wilds successional qualities is the core ...
Shifting Landscapes
(2016-05-03)
Mobile Bay is a landscape that is experiencing distress from human manipulations, much like most coastal environments. The field of landscape architecture is attempting to tackle the issues by advocating for resilient ...
Improving Camber Predictions for Precast, Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders
(2016-05-03)
In precast, prestressed concrete construction, the eccentricity of the prestressing force typically results in a net upward girder deflection known as camber. Camber is first observed at the time of prestress transfer and ...
Maintenance Reimagined
(2016-05-03)
Landscape maintenance plays a vital role in how designed landscapes perform over time. The current approach is to suppress landscapes by repeating the same techniques through the seasons and years. The dynamic living ...
Revelatory Design, Making legible the local implication of a national energy infrastructure.
(2016-05-03)
This year The National Park Service is celebrating its 100-year anniversary. Since the creation of the first National Park America has shown its interest in preserving and protecting the nation’s cultural and natural ...
Play Neighborhood
(2016-05-03)
Nowadays the children’s discretionary time is diminishing. In the modern society, children spend their free time more on television, computing, video games and such kind of indoor activities. In addition, children spent ...
Beyond Remnant
(2016-05-03)
Cities' safety issue is one of the most important issues facing humanity today, due to its high population density and highly centralized properties. Over the years, the frequency and intensity of tornadoes and other such ...
Re-Imagining Interaction
(2016-05-03)
The sharing of thoughts, opinions and just common matters on social media, have gotten the attention of many people. They have the ability to reach diverse people far and wide and make unfathomable connections and outcomes. ...
Process-Based Design
(2016-05-03)
Landscape designs, nowadays, are commonly presented as compelling visions, both in real projects and conceptual designs. By the end of the deadline, people will be able to experience the new environment as the vision ...
Shifting street: A new street form turn street into place
(2016-05-03)
The street is one of the key spaces that people spend their time at everyday. The experiences of the street are important to enhance the quality of people’s life. There are lots of ways to build a street. With different ...
The Next Exploration: Savannah's River Region
(2016-05-03)
Urban landscapes continue to be shaped by dynamic social, cultural, and economic influences. Water remains one component of the landscape that continues to reside in a flux space, influential for life and economic means, ...
Departure, A New Urban Cemetery
(2016-05-03)
Cemeteries can offer tremendous value as a landscape that bonds us to our humanity. Yet, the once popular American cemetery has become alienated from the living. These sacred landscapes have become obscure spaces embedded ...
olympic heritage landscape
(2016-05-03)
A global phenomenon, urbanization started after the Industrial Revolution. Since 1800, the world population has increased by 6 times. In that same time, urban population has increased by 60 times and the rate of urbanization ...
Trait Emotional Intelligence Differences in Pre-Career and Mid-Career United States Military Leaders
(2016-05-03)
Trait Emotional Intelligence is a well-established predictor of desirable workplace outcomes such as job performance. In military contexts, the fifteen facets of Trait Emotional Intelligence overlap considerably with the ...
The Impact of Awareness of Aquatic Food and Consumers’ Beliefs About Product Attributes on Fish Consumption Behavior in China
(2016-05-02)
A five equation partially-recursive model is estimated to determine the effects of consumer awareness of farmed fish, beliefs about product attributes, and socio-economic-psychometric variables on fish consumption in three ...
Assessment of commercial fruit crop potential of selected banana (Musa sp.) cultivars in the subtropics of coastal Alabama
(2016-05-02)
Global demand and increased adaptability of banana cultures has led to the development of a potential niche market for non-Cavendish bananas. This present work was conducted to determine the feasibility of producing banana ...
A Location-Based Indoor Recommendation System Using A Hidden Markov Model
(2016-05-02)
Recommendation systems play an important role in both the industrial and the academic worlds because they can combine theoretical study and market use together perfectly. Through improving user experience, recommendation ...
Unpopular Views of Peace: The Great War and the Transformation of Southern Religion
(2016-05-02)
The Great War erupted in Europe in 1914. Initially, most Americans viewed the war with horror, and many actively advocated the United States stay out of the conflict. Southern churches were part of this wave of opposition ...
Analysis, Design and Construction of an LLC Resonant Converter
(2016-05-02)
The trend in DC/DC converters development is toward higher frequency, power density and efficiency. The traditional hard-switched converter is limited in switching frequency and power density. The phase-shift full-bridge ...
Synthesis of Functionalized Benzenoid Macrocycles: An Approach to Accessing Functionalized Cycloparaphenylenes
(2016-05-02)
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are cylindrically shaped allotropes of carbon with exceptionally good electronic and optical properties. The current state of art for making these CNTs involves heating graphite in a high temperature ...