Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Target Reliability Analysis for Structures
(2015-01-06)
Structural performance depends on load and resistance parameters, in particular magnitude and frequency of load components and their combinations, strength of materials, modulus of elasticity, dimensions, rate of deterioration, ...
Does force enhancement occur during the stretch-shorten cycle?
(2014-12-17)
Recently, research into mechanisms for muscle force enhancement has gained popularity. Force enhancement is a term used for the increase in force output of muscle above that predicted by the muscle tension-length relationship, ...
Performance of Multi-Phase Passive Control Systems in Steel Structures
(2014-12-17)
Earthquake resistant buildings can experience significant damage during an event. A multi-phase passive control system (MPCS) was developed to reduce structural damage, repair costs, and downtime of buildings subjected to ...
Epidemiology of the virulence and antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli from canine and feline clinical isolates.
(2014-12-17)
Escherichia coli resistance impacts the veterinary professional because of therapeutic failure and the public health significance. The lack of national monitoring programs in small animal practices limits evidence-based ...
Die Attach for High Temperature Applications
(2014-12-17)
The energy sector is seeing dynamic growth with advanced oil and gas recovery methods being deployed. Measure-while-drilling (MWD) and downhole production instrumentation is important to maximize production and safety. ...
The Effect of Consumer Learning on Intention to Use Mobile Payments
(2014-12-17)
With the fast development of mobile applications and mobile internet, we arrive at the mobile commerce era. Mobile payments, a promising form of electronic payments, will become an important channel for conducting transactions ...
When the Wandering Traveler Speaks: The Narrative Poetics of Early Anglo-Indian Women's Travel Writing
(2014-12-17)
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British women who traveled to and wrote about India have been examined and analyzed as many things—imperial colluders, pseudo-feminists, ethnographers, missionaries, and sexual objects—but ...
Methyl-coenzyme M reductase: Elucidating the process of activation and study of the effect of the methanogenesis inhibitor 3-nitrooxypropanol
(2014-12-17)
To use methane as a biocatalyst, it is important to establish a cell free system to convert the inactive form of methane forming enzyme i.e Methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR) to the active form. MCR catalyzes the reversible ...
Determining Best Practices for the Integration of Academics in Career and Technical Education Programs at Career and Technical Centers
(2014-12-16)
The Southern Regional Education Board established the Technology Centers That Work (TCTW) in 2007. Since that time, the TCTW has sought to help Career and Technical Centers (CTCs) improve both the academic and technical ...
Evaluation of In-Place Concrete Strength by Core Testing
(2014-12-16)
When the average compressive strength of molded cylinder specimens do not meet the minimum required strength for a batch of concrete, testing must be performed on the in-place concrete to evaluate its strength. There are ...
Proactive Thermal-Aware Scheduling
(2014-12-15)
Modern CPU’s cut-off operations when CPU temperature reaches a predetermined threshold making the CPU unavailable for all processes. Furthermore, operating the CPU for extended periods at temperatures close to, but slightly ...
Calcium Availability to Runner-type Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) in the Southeastern United States
(2014-12-15)
Sandy soils in major peanut producing areas in the southeastern United States may be low in plant available Ca. Insufficient Ca supply to developing peanut may result in undeveloped pods and finally low yield, substandard ...
Innovations in Engineering Curriculum and Teaching: A Research-Based Study
(2014-12-15)
Universities have progressively improved in regards to the usage of technology in teaching-learning methodologies. Tools like videoconferences, chats and blogs, podcasting, webcasting and webinars, video streaming, and ...
Examining Social Networking Community Users’ Perception of Company Fan Page Use, Behavioral Intention, and Actual Visiting Behaviors
(2014-12-12)
Seeking to capitalize on the widespread popularity of Facebook, many not-for-profit and for-profit organizations have started their own brand or fan pages in social media to better communicate with customers. Notably, such ...
Flannery O'Connor and Mid-Century America
(2014-12-12)
Though the fiction of Flannery O'Connor has most often been studied from theological or psychological perspectives, her work is deeply entrenched in, and reflective of, the culture of the mid-twentieth-century United States. ...
Hybrid Learning of Feedforward Neural Networks for Regression Problems
(2014-12-12)
Inspired by the structure and functional aspects of the biological neural networks, the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is a very popular model in the machine learning fields to
learn complex relationships in the data. ...
Size Optimization of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications via a Novel Size- Selective Fractionation Process
(2014-12-12)
Magnetic nanoparticles, especially those composed of iron oxide, are extremely attractive options when it comes to MRI contrast agents and magnetically targeted therapies. Their superparamagnetic properties as well as their ...
Comparative genome analysis of related catfish species
(2014-12-12)
Catfish belong to the order Siluriformes. They are one of the largest orders of teleost fish, with over 5,000 living species, accounting for approximately 15% of teleost fish species, or 7.8% of all vertebrates. Catfish ...
Development of a reduced order electrochemical and thermal model for Lithium battery with blended cathode
(2014-12-12)
Accurate and fast estimation of state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) during operations plays a pivotal role in prevention of overcharge or undercharge and accurately monitoring the state of cell degradation, ...
Mutagenesis of virulence genes in an epidemic strain of Aeromonas hydrophila ML09-119 for development of an attenuated vaccine strain
(2014-12-11)
The epidemic strain of Aeromonas hydrophila caused a devastating outbreak of motile Aeromonads septicemia of catfish (MAS) on the fish farms of Southeastern United States in 2009. A.hydrophila ML09-119 was reported to cause ...