Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Dynamics and Control of Satellite Relative Motion in Elliptic Orbits using Lyapunov-Floquet Theory
(2013-04-23)
Rendezvous and proximity operations involving satellites operating near each other have been performed since the Gemini missions. A better understanding of the dynamics of satellites in close proximity could be helpful ...
Glycopolymers for Biomedical Applications
(2013-04-23)
Glycopolymers are synthetic polymers containing carbohydrate groups. They may play an important role in a wide range of biomolecular events such as adhesion, inflammation, cellular recognition, cell growth regulation, and ...
Exploration Into the Effects of Hypoxia in an In Vitro Canine Glioblastoma Model
(2013-04-23)
Glioblastomas are aggressive, lethal primary brain tumors that affect human and canine patients. A subpopulation representing a variably large percentage of the bulk of tumor cells has been identified to have stem cell-like ...
Evaluation of a novel antiviral compound effective against multiple pestivirus species
(2013-04-23)
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a viral pathogen of cattle and other wild and domestic ungulates that is capable of affecting multiple body systems, most notably the gastrointestinal, reproductive, immune and respiratory ...
Context-based file systems and spatial query applications
(2013-04-23)
This dissertation presents studies related to I/O techniques in data-intensive computation and advanced solutions of spatial queries. There is a lack of general mechanisms for integrating multiple file system techniques ...
Digital Phase Accumulation for Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis
(2013-04-23)
This work explores direct digital frequency synthesis (DDFS) theory and design and its application in radar systems. Though there is nothing particularly novel about DDFS in general, recent designs have been revolutionized ...
Characterization of tmRNA function and regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(2013-04-23)
Transfer messenger RNA (tmRNA) encoded by ssrA, is a hybrid RNA with tRNA and mRNA domains that catalyzes recycling of stalled ribosomes. This bioenergetically important process appears to play diverse functions in the ...
Making a Judgment of Accountability: An Analysis of Budgets & Structural Balance Utilizing State CAFR's
(2013-04-23)
Budgeting is a key financial management tool utilized by governments. It provides a prospective view of revenues and expenditures for a particular time period. An adopted budget allows the governmental entity, the public ...
Applications of Mass spectrometry in natural product drug discovery for malaria: Targeting Plasmodium falciparum thioredoxin reductase
(2013-04-23)
Malaria is considered to be the dominant cause of death in low income countries especially in Africa. Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum is a most lethal form of the disease because of its rapid spread and the development ...
Effectiveness of coated controlled-released sulfate as an algicide for phytoplankton control in ponds
(2013-04-23)
Copper sulfate and diuron are the two common treatments for controlling blue-green
algae, the cause off-flavor in aquaculture ponds, especially catfish ponds. Copper sulfate has
been used most widely because of its lower ...
Development and Application of Grain Distillers Dried Yeast for Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei
(2013-04-23)
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in developing low-cost feeds for the Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. High prices and limited supply are the main factors that have affected primarily feed ...
Legislated Incentives and Expectations
(2013-04-23)
The United States Congress passes several pieces of legislation with the intent to improve the overall livelihood of Americans and assist other nations toward economic development. This collection of essays identifies ...
Stage-specific responses to freshwater mussels to temperature and suspended solids
(2013-04-22)
Elevated levels of suspended solids (TSS) are one of the most widespread water quality problems in streams, rivers, and lakes throughout North America, yet little is known about their effect on populations of freshwater ...
Modeling Human Perception of Postural Stress
(2013-04-22)
This work investigated the discomfort-time sequences of SPH tasks in an effort to determine the existing relationship between perceived discomfort and posture holding time. This study proposed the power function as an ...
A combined approach toward resolving the phylogeny of Mollusca
(2013-04-22)
With estimates of up to 200,000 extant species, Mollusca is second in number of species only to Arthropoda. Moreover, with species as different as meiofaunal worms and giant squid, Mollusca is one of the most morphologically ...
Semi-Supervised Classification Techniques in Big Data Text Analytics
(2013-04-22)
Imagine that you are trying to read everything you got in 2011 as soon as possible. That will take the first three months of 2012. How can we get access to the vast unstructured literature, automatically process it, ...
Removal or Immobilization of Arsenic by Stabilized Magnetite Nanoparticles in Water, Soil, and Poultry Litter
(2013-04-22)
Stabilized magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles were synthesized and extensively tested for enhanced removal of arsenate, As(V), from water, and for in situ immobilization of arsenic in soil and poultry litter. Two low-cost and ...
Genome-wide comparative analysis of channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
(2013-04-22)
Comparative map is a powerful tool to transfer the genomic information from well-studied model species to non-model species whose genomic resources are limited. Channel catfish is a primary aquaculture species in United ...
Molecular Mechanisms of Neuroprotection and Cognitive Enhancement by an Alternative drug Centella asiatica
(2013-04-22)
Complementary and Alternative medicine (CAM) is increasingly gaining enormous importance as a part of current day therapeutic regimen for various incurable, chronic neurological disorders, majorly because of the palliative ...
Path Decompositions of the Kneser Graph
(2013-04-22)
Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the existence of a graph decomposition of the Kneser Graph $KG_{n,2}$ into paths of length three and four, and of the Generalized Kneser Graph $GKG_{n,3,1}$ into paths of ...