Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Digital Gradient Sensing (DGS): A Full-Field Optical Technique to Measure Angular Deflections of Light Rays and Its Applications to Failure Mechanics
(2012-07-19)
Optical transparency is an essential characteristic of solids used in many engineering applications such as automotive windshields, electronic displays, aircraft windows and canopies, hurricane resistant windows, bullet ...
Perceived Stress, Eating Regulation, Body Mass Index, Weight, and Percent Body Fat Relationships over the First Two Years of College
(2012-07-19)
Objective: To assess the associations among perceived stress, eating regulation and body mass index, weight, and percent body fat in college students during the first two years of college. Methods: Participants were ...
Measurement Invariance of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Across Three Civilian Trauma Types
(2012-07-19)
The factor structure of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains the subject of intense investigation. The DSM three-factor conceptualization of PTSD has not been empirically supported; rather, two four-factor models ...
Experimental Evaluation of Immersion-Cooled Strategies for High-Powered Server Modules
(2012-07-19)
Cooling of server-level high-performance computing equipment is an ongoing challenge. Early approaches, based almost entirely on forced air cooling, resulted in unsustainably high energy usage in the air-conditioning units. ...
Nutrient Digestibility, Growth Performance, and Carcass Characteristics of Broilers Fed Diets Formulated with Low Oligosaccharide Soybean Meals
(2012-07-19)
The objective of this research was to evaluate nutrient digestibility, growth performance, and processing yields of Ross × Ross 708 male broilers fed diets formulated with low oligosaccharide soybean meal (LOSBM) and ...
Couple Satisfaction and Symptom Distress: What to Look for When Forming an Alliance
(2012-07-19)
In this study, the relationship between dyadic adjustment ratings, individual symptom distress ratings and the therapeutic alliance for males and females was explored. Likewise, the interaction between individual symptom ...
Influence of Fruit Thinning and a Natural Plant Extract Biostimulant Application on Fruit Size and Quality of 'AU Golden Dragon', 'AU Golden Sunshine', and 'Hort16A' Kiwifruit
(2012-07-18)
Fruit thinning and the application of the natural biostimulant Benefit®Kiwi are expensive cultural practices, and the effectiveness of these practices on increasing fruit size of Actinidia chinensis cultivars grown in ...
Feeding Ecology of Pest Mole Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae: Scapteriscus spp.) and Associated Damage to Turfgrass
(2012-07-18)
Two omnivorous species of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae), Scapteriscus vicinus Scudder and S. borellii Giglio-Tos, are introduced subterranean pests that cause damage to turfgrass by feeding and tunneling in ...
Identification of Geographic Origin of Ictalurid Catfish and Penaeid Shrimp by Elemental Profiling
(2012-07-18)
Three investigations were performed related to identification of geographic origin of aquatic products by elemental profiling and multivariate statistics.
In the first study, fillets of channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus ...
Prognostic Health Management for Mission and Safety Critical Electronics
(2012-07-17)
The increasing reliance on electrical systems to fulfill mission and safety critical applications has motivated the need for in situ monitoring of functioning electrical systems and a priori warnings of failure. In this ...
Characterization of an Attenuated Aeromonas hydrophila Vaccine and Molecular Mechanisms of Channel Catfish Immunity against Aeromonas hydrophila infection
(2012-07-17)
An attenuated Aeromonas hydrophila AL09-71 N+R vaccine strain was compared to its virulent parent strain A. hydrophila AL09-71. The attenuated AL09-71 N+R strain was developed through selection of resistance to both ...
Second generation of catfish genetic linkage map and integration of catfish genetic linkage and physical maps using BAC-anchored microsatellites
(2012-07-17)
Integration of physical and linkage maps is a critical step in building necessary genome resources for fine mapping of QTL, comparative genomics, and accurate and efficient whole genome assembly. Previously, we have ...
Almost Resolvable Maximum Packings of Complete Bipartite Graphs with 4-Cycles
(2012-07-17)
A packing of a complete bipartite graph K(m,n) with 4-cycles is a decomposition of K(m,n) into a collection C of edge-disjoint 4-cycles and a set of unused edges L referred to as the leave. If C is as large as possible ...
Erosion Control and Removal of Suspended Soil Particles in Ponds: Evaluation of Geofabric Liners and Chemical Coagulants
(2012-07-17)
In an experiment conducted at the E. W. Shell Fisheries Center, Auburn, Alabama, three ponds each were lined with a permeable geotextile with 0.090-mm opening sizes, a permeable geotextile with 0.355-mm opening sizes, or ...
Immunopathogenesis, prevention and control of Bovine viral diarrhea virus
(2012-07-17)
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is an important infectious agent that affects cattle worldwide (Baker, 1995; Houe, 1999). Acute infections with some strains of BVDV may cause immunosuppression and clinical signs of ...
Evaluation of Realistic Mobility Model for Comparative Study of Routing Protocols in IEEE 802.11p (DSRC) Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET)
(2012-07-16)
As a countermeasure for rapidly changing topology and high mobility of vehicles, Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is emerging as a standard routing protocol. When used efficiently, an ad-hoc routing protocol could play a ...
Effect of Management on the Bacterial Community Present in Poultry Litter
(2012-07-16)
An unwanted byproduct of commercial broiler chicken grow out is thousands of
tons of litter. This litter is the material on which the broiler chicken spends its entire life.
Litter consists of a starting material, ...
Drill-Core And Geophysical Investigation Of The Western Part Of The Crystalline Rim Of Wetumpka Impact Structure, Alabama
(2012-07-16)
The present research project on Wetumpka impact structure, Elmore County, Alabama, is focused on understanding the effects of hypervelocity impact upon sedimentary target rocks and underlying crystalline bedrock in the ...
Experimental Study on the Compression of Entrapped Air Pockets in Stormwater Tunnel Systems
(2012-07-16)
Stormwater storage tunnels may undergo rapid filling pipe conditions during extreme rain events. Such conditions are relevant as adverse conditions may develop, such as surging due to entrapment and compression of entrapped ...
RLCH: Reliable Link lifetime based Cluster Head election in MANET
(2012-07-16)
Clustering has been widely considered in wireless ad hoc networks as a useful mechanism for solving the scalability problems, improving the stability, increasing the network’s energy efficiency, etc. The idea behind ...