Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The 'Fabulous' Fox Theatre and Atlanta, 1929-1975
(2010-05-05)
The Fox Theatre, currently one of Atlanta’s most prestigious performance venues and architectural icons, has stood at the corner of Peachtree Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue since its construction in 1929. Its fantastical ...
Southern Devices: Geology, Industry, and Atomic Testing in Mississippi's Piney Woods
(2010-05-04)
This work centers on the two underground atomic tests conducted in south central Mississippi on September 22, 1964, and December 3, 1966. The region, known as the “Piney Woods,” hosted the two blasts, conducted by the ...
Built-In Self-Test for Digital Signal Processor Cores in Virtex-4 and Virtex-5 Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(2010-05-04)
Current Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) incorporate special cores, apart from logic, such as digital signal processor (DSP) cores. The DSP cores can be cascaded to implement complex functions. An effective test ...
'On A Great Battlefield': The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933 – 2009
(2010-05-04)
Since July 1863 historians have written a great deal on the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, but have devoted little attention to the history of the battlefield itself. In the decades since the sound of artillery and muskets ...
Evolution of Flowering Time in Native North American Grapevines
(2010-05-03)
Native North American grapevines represent a significant portion of the biodiversity within the genus Vitis (Vitaceae). Previous studies of taxonomy and natural history suggested patterns of biogeography, phenology and ...
Performance Analysis of Attitude Determination Algorithms for Low Cost Attitude Heading Reference Systems
(2010-05-03)
Development of micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) and micro-electro optical
mechanical system (MEOMS) inertial sensors has been driven by the need for inexpensive
sensing solutions in military and commercial applications. ...
The Power of Preaching: Female Identity, Legitimacy, and Leadership in American Quakerism, 1700-1776
(2010-05-03)
Although 18th-century Quakerism allowed Quaker women ministers to preach as “enlightened” women, in many ways, they still had to transcend the colonial social conventions that inhibited their leadership. Because their ...
Development of Phage/Antibody Immobilized Magnetostrictive Biosensors
(2010-05-03)
There is an urgent need for biosensors that are able to detect and quantify the presence of a small amount of pathogens in a real-time manner accurately and quickly to guide prevention efforts and assay food and water ...
Activated carbon fiber filter media for proton exchange membrane fuel cell
(2010-05-03)
Sulfur dioxide, a major air pollutant, has been found to be poisonous to proton exchange membrane fuel cells and causes degradation of fuel cell systems. Currently used industrial desulfurization systems, such as wet ...
Alabama School Board Presidents’ Perceptions of Community Engagement
(2010-05-03)
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of Alabama School Board Presidents about community engagement in school board decision making. An exploratory
research design was used and data were collected by ...
A Study of the Relationship Between Indicators of Georgia Alternative School Effectiveness and Measures of Student Success as Perceived by Alternative School Administrators
(2010-04-30)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Georgia alternative school administrators' perceptions of student success factors and the three domains of essential elements of effective alternative ...
The Relationship of Principals' Perceptions of Professional Development Practices and Student Achievement in High Poverty Schools
(2010-04-30)
This study investigated if there are differences among Torchbearer and Non- Torchbearer Schools principals’ professional development practices as measured by principals’ perceptions of the implementation of the NSDC ...
“Strange Homecomings” Place, Identity Formation, and the Literary Constructions of Departure and Return in the Works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, and Ernest Hemingway
(2010-04-29)
This dissertation considers place identity theory to examine three American authors’ constructions of place. It examines the literature of Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, and Ernest Hemingway for what it might reveal about ...
Energy Efficient Pre-Fetching - Models to Implementation
(2010-04-29)
With the rapid growth of the production and storage of large scale data sets
it is important to investigate methods to drive the cost of storage systems down. We are currently in the midst of an information explosion and ...
C4-Factorizations with Two Associate Classes
(2010-04-29)
Let $K = K(a,p;\lambda_{1},\lambda_{2})$ be the multigraph with: the number of vertices in each part equal to $a$; the number of parts equal to $p$; the number of edges joining any two vertices of the same part equal to ...
Pathogenicity and Virulence of Root-Inhabiting Ophiostomatoid Fungi on Pinus Species of the Southeastern United States
(2010-04-29)
Root- inhabiting ophiostomatoid fungi cause root disease in conifer hosts around the world. A group of ophiostomatoid fungi in the genus Grosmannia Goid. and their Leptographium Lagerb. & Melin anamorphs have been recently ...
Constructive Aspects for the Generalized Orthogonal Group
(2010-04-28)
Our main result is a constructive proof of the Cartan-Dieudonn\'{e}-Scherk Theorem in the real or complex fields. The Cartan-Dieudonn\'{e}-Scherk Theorem states that for fields of characteristic other than two, every ...
Modeling, Analysis, and Validation of Temperature Dependent Vibration Induced Fretting Corrosion
(2010-04-27)
Connector reliability is an extremely important factor in electronic packaging, especially with regard to vehicle electronics. Two of the major drivers for fretting corrosion are vibration and thermal cycling. Most previous ...
Techniques for Establishing Vegetation for Erosion Control on Disturbed Slopes in Alabama
(2010-04-23)
Soil erosion is a serious issue in the revegetation of disturbed slopes that occurs during highway and other construction. Although slope disturbance from highway construction is widespread, there is little information ...
“Light within light”: The Possibilities of Grace in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Home
(2010-04-23)
This thesis examines two contemporary works of fiction, Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead (2004) and Home (2008), exploring how the characters of each novel contend with conceptions of grace, forgiveness, and agency, all hinging ...