Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Moisture and Storage Time Effects on Grinding Characteristics of Loblolly Pine Woodchips
(2015-05-06)
In the processing of biomass to bio-products, grinding is unavoidable. Grinding is used to produce particulate materials and enhance handling, storage, and conversion processes. Performance of grinding operation is usually ...
Transgressive Design: the creation of latent experiences on landfills in the social injustice realm
(2015-05-06)
The designers of the past sought out the sites where the land would be easy to reclaim without too much hassle of what can and can’t be accomplished in their designs. In these areas where people who live below the poverty ...
Ballistic Limit Velocity For Continuous Fiber Polymeric Composite Materials and Polymers Through Experimental and Numerical Methods
(2015-05-06)
Composite materials are often subject to harsh operating environments which may include impact from errant projectiles of various geometries traveling at specific velocities and trajectories. Experimentalists seek to ...
A Survey of Web Vulnerabilities
(2015-05-06)
This study tracked the patching characteristics of the top 100,000 sites to three vulnerabilities: the POODLE attack, the POODLE TLS attack, and the FREAK attack. The study also carried out a survey on top server administrators ...
Antimicrobial Activity of N-halamine Coated Materials in Broiler Chicken House
(2015-05-06)
Broiler chicken houses are usually at a high risk of pathogen contamination travelling from birds to the facility or vice versa, during production. A hygienic living environment is important for producing healthy chickens. ...
Toxicity Assessment of Clitocybe nuda as Natural Antimicrobials
(2015-05-06)
Clitocybe nuda is an edible mushroom which shows promise to be developed as a novel natural food antimicrobial due to various antimicrobial components found in its fruit body as well as secondary metabolites in recent ...
Initial Relative-Orbit Determination Using Second-Order Dynamics and Line-of-Sight Measurements
(2015-05-06)
This thesis addresses the problem of determining the initial relative-orbit state between a chief and a deputy satellite using line-of-sight unit vectors. An analytical solution is investigated for estimating the deputy ...
Assessment of Multiple MapReduce Strategies for Fast Analytics of Small Files
(2015-05-05)
Hadoop, an open-source implementation of MapReduce, is used widely because of its ease of programming, scalability, and availability. Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and Hadoop MapReduce are two important components ...
Characterization of Thermally Induced Stress in IC Packages using Piezoresistive Sensors
(2015-05-05)
This thesis presents the characterization of thermally induced stress in IC packages using CMOS sensor circuits. In various applications, the IC packages are exposed to extreme environments. The knowledge of the thermally ...
Identification of resistant or tolerant commercial cotton cultivars to the Fusarium wilt root-knot nematode disease complex and the identification of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum races in Alabama
(2015-05-05)
Fusarium oxysporum Schltd.:Fr. f. sp. vasinfectum (Atk.) W.C. Snyd. and H. N. Hans (FOV) is the causal agent of Fusarium wilt in cotton. This causal agent is a soil-dwelling fungus that can remain dormant for many years ...
Impact of Technology Learning and Innovation Mindfulness on the Information Technology Dynamic Capabilities of the Firm
(2015-05-05)
The concept and nature of the concept of organizational Absorptive Capacity has generated much research in the Strategic Management, Organizational, and Information Systems literature. Its classification as an organizational ...
Development, Experimentation, and Implementation of a Gap Damper System to Limit Displacements in Extreme Ground Motions
(2015-05-05)
Studies have shown the effectiveness of providing supplemental energy dissipation in base-isolated structures to reduce displacements at the isolation level, often with consequences to superstructure performance. A previous ...
Viscoelastic Modeling of Microelectronic Packaging Polymers Including Moisture Effects
(2015-05-05)
Reliable, consistent, and comprehensive material property data are needed for microelectronics encapsulants for the purpose of mechanical design, reliability assessment, and process optimization of electronic packages. ...
Evidence for Deformation and Faulting in the Muckleshoot basin, Washington
(2015-05-05)
The Muckleshoot basin of Western Washington state extends from the western base of the Cascades to approximately 10 km east of the Puget Sound. Mapped traces of the Tacoma and White River fault systems, to the west and ...
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors’ Perception of Assistive Technology/Rehabilitation Technology
(2015-05-05)
Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) counselors are not providing adequate Assistive Technology/Rehabilitation Technology (AT/RT) to individuals with significant disabilities (Gamble et al., 2006). Rehabilitation professionals ...
Chaotic Dynamic Character of Human Chewing Determined Using New Three-Dimensional Motion Capture Techniques
(2015-05-05)
A need exists to determine the dynamic character of natural human chewing so human mandible or lower jaw biomechanics can be fully understood. No one has reported investigating the dynamic character of natural human chewing ...
A Study of the Effects of Pavement Widening, Rumble Strips, and Rumble Stripes on Rural Highways in Alabama
(2015-05-05)
Run-off-road (ROR) crashes are usually severe and account for a significant amount of highway
fatalities. It is estimated that more than 50% of the fatal crashes in the United States and in
Alabama are ROR crashes. Rural ...
Factor Pair Latin Squares
(2015-05-05)
Sudoku has risen in popularity over the past few years. The rules are simple, yet the solutions are often less than trivial. Mathematically, these puzzles are interesting in their own right. This dissertation will use ...
Neural Correlates of Abstract Rule use within the Rostro-Caudal Axis of the Frontal Lobes
(2015-05-05)
This paper presents 2 experiments aimed to address key limitations in the understanding
of how abstract rules (i.e., matching, non-matching) are subserved by regions of the prefrontal
cortex (PFC) and frontal lobes of ...
For Youth For Life: 4-H Digital Badges: A Collaborative Tool to Support Informal Learning
(2015-05-05)
The intent of FYFL (For Youth For Life) application is to provide an easy to use, cost effective and scalable collaborative system in order to facilitate learning and sharing best practices across communities and institution ...