Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Approaches to Improve Production and Performance of Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) Female x Blue Catfish (I. furcatus) Male Hybrid Catfish
(2015-05-08)
Xenogenesis was studied as a method for the production of hybrid catfish fry via mating xenogeneic males with normal channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus females. Spermatogonial type A cells were isolated from blue catfish ...
GPS Multipath Detection and Mitigation Timing Bias Techniques
(2015-05-08)
In this thesis, timing-based methods of multipath mitigation and detection are developed.
GPS pseudorange measurements are used to calculate a receiver's position and timing
bias, which is a measurement of the di erence ...
Private Paths to Protecting Places: The Creation of a Conservation Infrastructure in the American South Since 1889
(2015-05-08)
This dissertation investigates changes in the ways individuals protected private land in the twentieth century American South. In contrast with iconic parks like Yellowstone or the heavily industrialized lands of the ...
“For Youth for Life” An Online Education System Usability and Security Improvement
(2015-05-08)
The FYFL (For Youth For Life) application is used to perform website functions which helps learning among communities across many content areas, supports the 4-H badge management system and creates users of different levels. ...
Data Driven Decision Making for School Improvement Planning: Toward a Model and Process for Distributive Leadership and Shared Decision Making
(2015-05-08)
Many school leaders may not have adequate decision-making tools or skills to respond to the reporting requirements of accountability mandates such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race To the Top (RTTT) (Flowers & ...
Economic Value of the Tournament Black Bass Fishery on Lake Guntersville, Alabama
(2015-05-08)
Lake Guntersville is one of the most renown black bass fisheries in the United States and as such attracts many tournaments of various sizes and competition levels. This study attempted to quantify the economic impact of ...
Real-Time Vehicle License Plate Detection and Tracking Using Multilayer Back-Propagation Neural Networks with and without Hough Transform
(2015-05-08)
There are many applications of vehicle tag detection systems using image properties, which include image density, corner detection and blob analysis but using neural networks in real time for both detection and tracking ...
User-Based Recommendation Algorithm on Hadoop Cluster
(2015-05-08)
Recommender systems apply knowledge discovery techniques to the problem of making
personalized product recommendations using customers usage pattern. Systems like the k-
nearest neighbors and neighborhood-based collaborative ...
Enhancing Image Resolvability in Obscured Environments Using 3D Deconvolution and a Plenoptic Camera
(2015-05-08)
Light field imaging with a plenoptic camera is an emerging flow diagnostic technique capable of capturing three dimensional information about a given volume or flow from a single plenoptic image. Translucent occlusions ...
Generalized Signed-Rank Estimation for Certain Complex Regression Models
(2015-05-07)
This dissertation is mainly concerned with the Generalized signed-rank estimation of model parameters in complex regression models, specially nonlinear models with multidimensional indices and two-phase linear models. First ...
Palmetto Navy: Ironclad Construction and the Naval Defense of Charleston During the Civil War
(2015-05-07)
This dissertation traces the creation and operation of the Charleston Naval Squadron in the Civil War through a look at the different ships and construction strategies implemented within Charleston Harbor. Under the ...
Three Dimensional Flow Visualization of the Adverse Pressure Gradient Turbulent Boundary Layer
(2015-05-07)
An adverse pressure gradient (APG) turbulent boundary layer is investigated using a three dimensional scanning flow visualization technique. This dissertation includes an introduction to the structures and past research ...
Surface Dynamics of a DNA Loop Formation Using Surface Plasmon Resonance
(2015-05-07)
Electrochemical proximity assay (ECPA), was recently developed for direct protein quantitation as low as 10 fM. In this assay, the loop-like structure holds methylene blue (MB) in close proximity with the gold surface when ...
Optimization Approaches for a Dubins Vehicle in Coverage Planning Problem and Traveling Salesman Problems
(2015-05-07)
The motivation of this dissertation is a path planning task for an autonomous robot-trailer system in geophysical surveys. The path planning task includes two main stages. In the first stage, an efficient coverage path is ...
Investigation of RF Noise in 28nm RF CMOS Using TCAD
(2015-05-07)
State of art of 28 nm RF MOSFET is studied using sentaurus process and device tools.
DC characteristics, such as C-V, Rs, Rd and I-V curves are calibrated by adjustment of
physics model. The relationship between saturation ...
Exploring the Mechanism and Product Specificity of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1 and Drug Discovery for Diabetes and Malaria
(2015-05-07)
In this work, three main projects are studied: (1) the mechanism and product specificity of protein arginine methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) (2) the design and development of agonists that target peroxisome proliferator activated ...
Temporal and spatial variation in longleaf pine soil respiration and its heterotrophic and autotrophic components
(2015-05-07)
Soil respiration (Rs) is the sum efflux of CO2 from soil derived from the metabolic activity of autotrophs and heterotrophs in the litter layer, root-affected soil (rhizosphere), and bulk soil. Soil respiration exhibits ...
Rich Instruction of Mathematical Academic Vocabulary to Enhance Mathematics Achievement of Elementary School Students
(2015-05-07)
Mathematics scores on national and international tests for students in the United States have indicated that students in the United States have procedural understanding of mathematics but lack conceptual understanding ...
Novel Interface Trap Passivation and Channel Counter-doping for 4H-SiC MOSFETs
(2015-05-07)
4H-Silicon carbide (4H-SiC) is the most promising wide band gap semiconductor for next generation high power and high temperature metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). However, the channel mobility ...
Expression and Functional Roles of Cytokinin Response Factor Proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana
(2015-05-07)
Abstract
Cytokinin response factors (CRFs) are transcription factor proteins from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis). CRFs comprise a small, highly conserved subgroup of the AP2/ERF family of plant ...