Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Tire Force Estimation in Off-Road Vehicles Using Suspension Strain and Deflection Measurements
(2012-01-24)
This thesis develops and analyzes the improvement of tire force estimation and analysis using strain gauge sensors and displacement sensors mounted on the suspension of an all-terrain vehicle. Vehicle dynamic models are ...
An Intervention Analysis Model Examining the Effects of the Capital Purchase & Targeted Investment Programs on the Stock Prices of U.S. Banking Institutions
(2012-01-24)
This thesis uses an Intervention Analysis as an econometric procedure to determine what effect, if any, government capital injection had on stock prices. More specifically, we look at the effect that the initiation of the ...
Cycle Systems
(2012-01-18)
In this dissertation the author has found the necessary and sufficient conditions for obtaining a 6-cycle system of the Cartesian product of two complete graphs covering 2-paths in the corresponding bipartite graph. She ...
Love Styles Utilized by African-American Men as Predicted by Stages of Racial Identity and Perceptions of African-American Women
(2012-01-18)
The purpose of this study was to explore the interactions among racial identity levels and perceptions of African-American women, and the possible effects of the levels and perceptions on loves styles utilized by ...
Improving Performance of Hadoop Clusters
(2012-01-18)
The MapReduce model has become an important parallel processing model for large- scale data-intensive applications like data mining and web indexing. Hadoop, an open-source implementation of MapReduce, is widely applied ...
Development of a Laboratory Apparatus to Study the Thermal Degradation Behavior of Commercial Jet Engine Oils
(2012-01-12)
Air quality on airplanes is a key priority of the Federal Aviation Association (FAA). It is suspected that, although rare, oil leaks in the engine can potentially allow contaminants into the air supply that is provided to ...
Development of User-Guided Program for Predicting Time-Dependent Deformations in Prestressed Bridge Girders
(2012-01-12)
A Visual Basic (VB) computer program was developed to predict time-dependent deformations and associated material stresses in prestressed concrete bridge girders. The VB program allows the user to select a model for the ...
Assessing Some Key Approaches Used to Monitor and Study Populations of Birds
(2012-01-10)
Efforts to monitor birds and determine their distributions often make assumptions that allow for inference into parameters of interest but necessitate that potentially confounding factors be ignored. In any scientific ...
Predicting Motivation to Change
(2012-01-10)
Motivation to decrease alcohol consumption has been a focus of past research with college students. However studies on the predictors of motivation among college students have produced mixed results. There is some theoretical ...
Enhanced Heat Transfer Catalyst Structures for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
(2012-01-10)
Highly exothermic catalytic reactions are problematic from a thermal management perspective and often dictate the type of reactor, heat exchanger, level of conversion/recycle and contacting schemes employed. Those reactions, ...
Land Use Land Cover Change Projection for use in Municipal Water Resource Planning in the Saugahatchee Watershed
(2012-01-09)
The present work analyzes land use land cover changes in the Saugahatchee watershed through the use of remotely sensed satellite imagery. Urban growth has effect on the land use pattern in the local as well as in the ...
A Geographical Investigation of Football and its Fans at Auburn University
(2012-01-09)
In Auburn, AL, football, and especially college football, reigns supreme. Particularly, interest is placed on the Tigers, the team representing the local institution, Auburn University. This research paper investigates ...
A Microsimulation Analysis on the Impact of Different Bridge Deck Replacement Methods on Travel Times and Road User Costs
(2012-01-09)
The objective of this research was to evaluate different bridge deck replacement methods using microsimulation software. Previously collected data from the test site, located on I-59 at State Route 68 near Collinsville, ...
Evaluation of a Mechanical Grader for the Improvement of the Aquaculture Production of the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica, in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(2012-01-09)
In order to develop culture regiments that increase oyster product quality and profitability, commercially available oyster aquaculture growout gear, a rotary style mechanical grader (“tumbler”) and three handling treatments ...
Management Effects on Yield and Flavonoid Content in American Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora)
(2012-01-09)
American Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora) is a member of the mint family (Labiatae or Lamiaceae), and is a medicinal herb traditionally used for its mild relaxant properties attributed to its content of flavonoids. Field ...
Fundamental Investigation of Saturated Flow Through Porous Media with Macropores
(2012-01-09)
Among the foremost issues in the area of hydrological sciences is the estimation of infiltration fluxes and the associated contaminant exchange from the near-surface to the ground water table. While the simplest and ...
Near-Surface-Mounted Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Strips for Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Girders
(2012-01-09)
The AL 97 bridge over I-65 near Letohatchee, Alabama, has been found to have deficient negative-moment capacity under current loading standards. A near-surface-mounted fiber-reinforced polymer (NSM FRP) strengthening system ...
SCL: A Cross-Layer Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
(2012-01-08)
Wireless Sensor Networks are a new class of distributed systems that are used to collect information from the physical area they inhabit. They usually consist of a large number of low-power wireless sensor nodes or motes ...
Evaluation of Physical Improvements Made Across a Signalized Campus Arterial
(2012-01-08)
The objective of this research was to develop and evaluate a methodology for
measuring the traffic and pedestrian effects of new physical improvements made to
Donahue Drive, a signalized arterial on the campus of Auburn ...
Design and evaluation of an accessible website developed using SharePoint 2010
(2012-01-06)
The internet and web applications are growing rapidly. People are, more than ever before, dependent on the web applications and this dependency will continue to increase. A large number of web users have various accessibility ...