Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Three Essays in Natural Risks and Environmental Policy Analysis
(2015-04-29)
This dissertation includes three essays that address economic impacts of natural risks and environmental policy on natural resources and economic development. Chapter 1 examines the impacts of economic and flood risk ...
Ozone Removal at Microsecond Contact Time using Microfibrous Entrapped Catalysts
(2015-04-29)
Microfibrous Entrapped Catalysts (MFEC) manufactured from 8μm diameter nickel fibers were engineered into pleated heterogeneous catalytic reactors to improve catalytic performance from conventional packed bed and monolith ...
Interference Management and Exploitation in Emerging Wireless Networks
(2015-04-29)
In the past decade, with the prevalence of smart phones, the main use of cellphones has been
shifted from phone call to multimedia access. This paradigm shift has resulted in the demand for
higher and higher transmission ...
Scalable Collective Communication and Data Transfer for High-Performance Computation and Data Analytics
(2015-04-27)
Large-scale computer clusters are leveraged to solve various crucial problems in both High Performance Computing and Cloud Computing fields. Message Passing Interface (MPI) and MapReduce are two prevalent tools to tap the ...
Digital Testing with Multi-Valued Logic Signals
(2015-04-27)
The integrated circuit scaling has been following the Moore’s Law since 1965 [59, 60, 61]. Within these decades, researchers made great effort to shrink the transistor feature size and maximize the integration level. ...
The Effects of Mechanical Stress on Semiconductor Devices
(2015-04-24)
Mechanical strains and stresses are developed during the fabrication, assembly and packaging of the integrated circuit (IC) chips. Sources include processes such as shallow trench isolation, wafer backgrinding and dicing, ...
Analytical Study of the Effects of Grid Resistance on Grid-Connected PV Systems: Modeling and Simulation
(2015-04-22)
Lot of issues associated with grid-connected PV system have appeared. One of the issues is the variations of grid impedance. In the traditional real and reactive power calculations, the resistance of the transmission line ...
On the Countable Dense Homogeneity of Euclidean Spaces
(2015-04-20)
A countable dense homogeneous space, in a general sense, is a topological space in which any two countable dense subsets of the space are "dispersed" the same way. In this thesis, we will show that some very well-known ...
Self-Perceived Personality Characteristics of Award-Winning Career Technical Education Teachers and Award-Winning Core Subject Area Teachers Throughout the United States of America
(2015-04-08)
This study examined the relationships between self-perceived personality characteristics found in award-winning Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers and award-winning Core Subject Area (CSA) teachers throughout ...
Limited information strategies for topological games
(2015-04-08)
A topological game G(X) is a two-player game which characterizes
properties of a topological space X based upon the existence of winning
perfect-information
strategies for players in the game. If the property P is ...
Strategic Investment Decisions for Product Development Projects - An Option-Game Approach
(2015-04-08)
Gate-criteria have been identified as critical drivers of the success of a new product development (NPD) process. However, a major weakness of NPD projects is that gate-criteria are often inadequate for making go/kill ...
Knowledge and Practices of Disability Services Providers Who Serve Postsecondary Students with Traumatic Brain Injury
(2015-04-08)
This study gathered information about disability services providers’ knowledge, experiences, and practices in providing accommodations for postsecondary students with traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study surveyed ...
Uneven-aged Management of Longleaf Pine Forests Using Selection Silviculture
(2015-04-07)
Approximately 38 million hectares were dominated by longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.)
forests in the Southeastern United States prior to European settlement. Frequent disturbances,
especially fire, made this species ...
A Case Study of a Career Academy: Toward a Conceptual Framework of School-Industry Partnerships
(2015-04-06)
School-business partnerships that provide authentic learning for students have been a well-documented part of our history. This study examined one such educational partnership developed to create a career academy. The ...
Speaking Silences: Lyric Poetry in the Narrative Strategies of Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Jane Barker
(2015-03-20)
This dissertation is an exploration of how Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Jane Barker co-opted Philip Sidney’s prose romance interpolated with poems, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. I explore how each writer uses ...
Quantitative methods for integrating instream biological monitoring data into aquatic natural resource management decision making
(2015-03-20)
Freshwater aquatic resource management is fraught with challenges, as managers of multiple-use, highly diverse systems must frequently make management decisions with limitations including unclear management objectives and ...
Resonant Frequencies in Aviation Platforms
(2015-03-09)
This thesis examines the coupling effects of electromagnetic fields to the interior of aviation platforms during electromagnetic vulnerability (EMV) testing and the potential of resonant frequency field enhancements. ...
Optimization of Block Layout for Grocery Stores
(2015-03-09)
Because of the proportion of the retail industry worldwide of the global economy and the lack of analytic approaches in the literature to retail facility design, this dissertation addresses block layout in grocery stores ...
The Origins of American Strategic Bombing Theory: Transforming Technology into Military Doctrine
(2015-03-06)
Perhaps no other technology changed how Americans viewed warfare in the twentieth century more than the airplane. In the minds of forward thinking aerial theorists this new technology removed the limitations of geography, ...
Extension of a Reflection-Mode Digital Gradient Sensor (r-DGS) to Study Impact Induced Deformations, Damage, and Fracture
(2015-02-23)
Reflective structures such as space mirrors, silicon wafers, solar reflectors, microelectronic devices to name a few, are made of stiff and brittle materials. They often suffer deformations and catastrophic failure when ...