Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Optimization Models for Advanced Cyber-security in the Smart Grid
(2014-06-18)
The power grid is increasingly dependent on information and communication technologies, which puts more emphasis on the importance of power system security as one of the top priorities. Internal and external factors can ...
Essays on Applied Econometrics: Agriculture and Development
(2014-06-18)
This dissertation explores three topics on agriculture and development using different applied econometric techniques. In the first chapter, Non-linear regression models were used to estimate the effect of own and other ...
Individual Differences in Reinforcing Value of Alcohol After a Priming Dose Among High-Risk College Students
(2014-06-18)
The priming effect refers to an increase in the desire for more of a substance after consuming an initial dose. Sensitivity to the priming effect among drinkers is considered a risk factor for hazardous drinking. Drinkers ...
Dual-Threshold Voltage Design of Sub-Threshold Circuits
(2014-06-18)
Threshold voltage of MOSFET technology represents the value of the gate-source voltage
when the current in a MOS transistor starts to increase significantly since the conduction
layer just begins to appear. However, a ...
Odinn: An In-Vivo Hypervisor-based Intrusion Detection System for the Cloud
(2014-06-18)
Cloud computing has emerged as the de facto service model for modern enterprises;
however, security concerns remain a major impediment to full-scale adoption. Concurrent
to this paradigm shift looms another concern that ...
Efficient Numerical Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear Filtering Problems
(2014-06-18)
Examples of nonlinear filtering problems arise in biology, mathematical finance, signal processing, image processing, target tracking and many engineering applications. Commonly used numerical simulation methods are the ...
Believing Sexual Activity Makes One An Adult: Associations with Effective Parenting, and Adolescents' Educational Investments and Cumulative Sexual Risk-Taking
(2014-06-17)
Adolescent sexual risk-taking has been a hot topic in research and prevention work over the past decade, however, much of the research has focused on the environmental and biological predictors of sexual risk taking and ...
PGE mineralization at the Allard stock: Implications for the porphyry to epithermal transition, La Plata Mountains, Colorado
(2014-06-06)
Geochemical and petrographic studies on the Allard stock, which hosts a porphyry Cu-Ag-Au-Te-PGE deposit in the La Plata Mountains of southwestern Colorado, suggest mantle sources for both metals and sulfur. Microprobe ...
Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling under Warm Season Turfgrasses
(2014-06-06)
Despite its large-scale presence in the urban ecosystem, the role of turfgrasses in C and N cycling in urban soils in the southeastern United States has not been documented, and in particular C and N cycling studies in ...
An Analysis of Emotion Recognition and Facial Processing Across Human and Cartoon Stimuli in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(2014-06-06)
The emotion recognition and eye tracking literature has yielded inconsistent findings with respect to the social perception and attentional abilities of children and adults with ASD. Previous research has suggested that ...
An Evaluation Framework and Decision-Making Model for Defense Acquisition Projects - Real Options and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)
(2014-05-30)
In this dissertation, strategic decision--making models based on real options and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) are proposed to assess the value of risky defense acquisition projects. A large-scale acquisition ...
La nueva literatura piquetera: incursión en la semilla del cambio
(2014-05-29)
El capítulo I se centra en Jorge Luis Borges. Se profundiza en las ideas del autor como padre del boom con respecto a la espiralidad y la eternidad observadas tanto en su poesía como en su prosa con la finalidad de exponer ...
The Lactocrine Hypothesis and Laser Microdissection: Evaluating Tissue-Specific Effects of Milk-Borne Factors on Gene Expression in the Neonatal Porcine Uterus
(2014-05-29)
In the pig, development of the uterus begins in utero and is promoted postnatally via communication of milk-borne bioactive factors (MbFs) that advance development of neonatal somatic tissues. The passage of MbFs from ...
Children’s Internalizing, Externalizing, Sexualized Behavior, and Social Competence as Predicted by Maternal Level of Depression: Are These Associations Moderated by Child Sex and Mothers’ History of Sexual Abuse?
(2014-05-27)
Maternal depression is often related to child functioning, including child internalizing, externalizing, and sexualized behavior, as well as child social competence. However, little research has investigated how child sex ...
Culture in Design: The Analysis of Culture through Semiotics and its role in the Automotive Industry
(2014-05-21)
With over 60 million automobiles being produced in 2013, the amount of time and energy that
goes into the automotive design process is extremely valuable. Billions of dollars are spent on research and development to ensure ...
Planar Magnetics Design for Low Voltage High Power DC-DC Converters
(2014-05-20)
Planar magnetic technology is widely used in a variety of applications from telecommunications to power electronics. In particular, the use of planar inductors and transformers in power electronics have burgeoned as a ...
Contribution of Particle Size and Moisture Content to Flowability of Fractionated Ground Loblolly Pine
(2014-05-20)
The use of woody biomass requires feedstock materials in particulate form; therefore there is a need for size reduction of the feedstock materials. Ground biomass typically has a non-uniform particle size and as a biological ...
Behind the Blurred Lines of Social Critique: Identifying the Living Dead in Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s [•Rec] Trilogy
(2014-05-20)
The purpose of this thesis is to establish the relationship, within the theoretical/critical framework of postmodernism, between the [•Rec] horror movies and the social/historical context to which they belong. The intention ...
Submerge: Urban Surface Adaptations
(2014-05-20)
Impervious surfaces are an ever increasing phenomenon throughout the world. They crop up at the local scale and proliferate into a global phenomenon that exponentially imperils natural systems. Their increasing presence ...
An Empirical Study of the Dim Sum Market
(2014-05-16)
This thesis represents a comprehensive study of the Hong Kong Dim sum market and the effect of country, issuers’ industry, and rating on the characteristics of Dim sum bonds. I find evidence that Dim sum bonds issued by ...