Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions

The world is not cleanly divided into separate self-contained entities. Rather, the landscape is comprised of components that overlap, interact, and intermingle with each other, creating gradients and ecotones between ...

As the current age of nuclear reactors gets older, more waste and a greater possibility of leaks can occur. There is a need for an on-site real time ability to be able to detect actinides in the environment to prevent a ...

Lactic acid and sodium metasilicate have been used in meat processing facilities as antimicrobial compounds. Their uses vary from carcasses rinses to ready to eat product applications at a variety of concentrations and ...

A System-on-Chip (SoC) is a complete system that has been integrated onto a single chip. An SoC is often designed by embedding reusable blocks called cores. With shrinking device sizes, SoC cores are growing in number and ...

All graphs in this paper are finite and simple. Let G = (V;E) be a graph, x an element of V and S a subset of V. Following convention, we let N(x) := {u : where ux is an element of E} and N[x] := {x}union N(x). For S, ...

Although it has been well documented that overweight and obese children and adolescents frequently experience difficulties in their peer relationships, significant gaps remain in the understanding of the long-term contributions ...

During the early twentieth century, the American city experienced changes to its infrastructure that are still visible today. These changes were a result of the city beautiful movement. Some of the changes to the city ...

As server technologies have progressed, the traditional methods of blade level cooling have become very costly. Up to this point, most server units have been cooled through forced air convection; a process that requires ...

Increasing demand in high power and high frequency semiconductor devices has promoted the rapid development of microwave power devices using GaN and SiC. Characteristics like high breakdown voltage and high electron ...

Since the inception of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) there has been a steady growth in the number of studies utilizing this non-invasive method to gain insights into the brain function in both healthy and ...