Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Investigating Brain Function using Functional MRI-based Meta-analysis and Diffusion Tensor Imaging
(2015-05-04)
The investigation of structure and function in biological systems, specifically the brain, is paramount given the close relationship that they share with each other. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and Diffusion ...
An Examination of Mental and Physical Health in College
(2015-05-04)
The transitional years of college that a traditional student faces are full of change and adaptation; these years of emerging adulthood require learning how to balance new responsibilities. Although this new independence ...
Feral Towns : Alabama's Shrinking Towns
(2015-05-04)
The 21st century has created a feral condition in many small towns in Alabama. This feral condition has resulted in social, ecological, and spatial changes that require new forms of civic spaces, and understanding.
Playful landscapes build a resilient city
(2015-05-04)
There are lots of ways to build a resilient city in the world. With different situations, cities should have different ways to build resilient cities, like the case building resilient city in New Orleans is different from ...
Batty Landscapes: Rethinking Urban Pests.
(2015-05-04)
As a species we humans dominate the lands in which we live. Because of this we have started to lose respect for other species and often quickly dismiss them. This thesis looks to address this issue and change the way in ...
Implementation of Fork-Merge Parsing in OpenRefactory/C
(2015-05-04)
C preprocessor directives are extensively used in C programs. Due to this, performing advanced program transformations on C programs is difficult. To obtain correct transformations, all possible configurations have to be ...
Multi-robot SLAM and map merging
(2015-05-04)
Although it is a very useful technique for a robot to detect an unknown environment and plot the map, mapping is a classic problem in robotics. The mapping task can be sped up by multi-robot cooperation. Each robot in a ...
Examining the Role of Personal Problems in Determining Income
(2015-05-04)
The goal of this dissertation is to both theoretically and empirically examine how various personal problems affect income. The analysis will specifically examine the effects of divorce, alcohol use, misuse of legal drugs, ...
Modeling the Effects of Projected Sea Level Rise on Water Quality in Coastal Bangladesh
(2015-05-04)
Climate models show that Bangladesh will experience high rates of change in temperature, precipitation, runoff, and local sea level rise rates by 2100. Sea level rise will result in the degradation of groundwater quality ...
Gantt Resource Management System Applied to Construction
(2015-05-04)
The current scheduling techniques such as the Critical Path Method (CPM) do not directly take resources (i.e. material, equipment, manpower) into consideration when producing schedules. As a result resource requirements ...
Determinants of National Policy on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Selected Countries: A Comparative Study
(2015-04-30)
Embryonic stem cells have remained a polarizing issue around the globe. The plethora of potential applications and technologies are unfamiliar to most of society. Politicians and policy analysts continually work to pass ...
Transition Fronts in Time Heterogeneous Bistable Equations with Nonlocal Dispersal: Existence, Regularity, Stability and Uniqueness
(2015-04-30)
This dissertation is devoted to the existence, regularity, stability and uniqueness of transition fronts in nonlocal bistable equations in time heterogeneous media.
Instead of existence, we start our study with ...
Efficient Determination of Copper Electroplating Chemistry Additives using Advanced Neural Network Algorithms
(2015-04-30)
Copper plating is the metallization process of choice for modern semiconductor devices. It has proven to be a relatively inexpensive and simple process and easily adaptable to high volume manufacturing. The development of ...
Air Entrainment and Acoustic Wave Celerities Following a Rapidly Moving Pipe Filling Bore
(2015-04-30)
Water mains stormwater sewers and tunnels may undergo processes of rapid filling, in which
flow regimes transit from open channel into pressurized flows. In the process, air bubbles may
be entrained, which may influence ...
Optimization of High Power Gallium Nitride Based Point of Load Converters for Data Center Power Supply Chains
(2015-04-30)
Wide-bandgap semiconductors are enabling higher efficiency, greater power density, smaller size, and higher switching frequency than traditional Si semiconductors. This work shows the development of an over 96% efficient ...
Algorithms for Optimal Construction and Training of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks
(2015-04-30)
Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence are rapidly growing fields of research in both academia and industry. Artificial neural networks are at the heart of much of this research. Efficiently constructing and ...
Socioeconomic Disparities, Community Physical Environment, and Childhood Obesity in Alabama's Black Belt Region
(2015-04-30)
Health inequalities have been linked to socioeconomic disparities. These disparities are communal differences which have a profound influence on the physical environment. Scholarship has recently connected socioeconomic ...
Utilization of 'TifGrand' bermudagrass for sports turf: wear tolerance, shade response, and quality improvement.
(2015-04-30)
‘TifGrand’ is a relatively new, reportedly wear-, shade-, and drought-tolerant bermudagrass cultivar. TifGrand is similar to other bermudagrasses such as ‘Tifway’ and ‘TifSport’, and yet, displays some unique features, ...
Organization Improvisational Capabilities and Configurations of firm Performance in a Highly Turbulent Environment
(2015-04-30)
This dissertation intends to examine 1) nature of organization improvisational capabilities and 2) some possible configurations for firm performance in a highly turbulent environment, i.e., e-commerce.
Motivated by the ...
Examining Alabama Teacher of the Year Nominee Applications: Toward a Prototype of Expert Teaching
(2015-04-30)
Because of the complex nature of teaching (Gün, 2014), studying teacher expertise is no easy task. Many researchers have contributed to our understanding of teacher expertise by comparing expert teachers to non-experts ...