Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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A Designers Perspective on Decreasing Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries through the Informed Design of an Interactive Training Device
(2009-12-11)
Young adults frequently engage in various physically demanding sports without the training or supervision of a trained professional. This lack of training or supervision frequently leads athletes to practice and play with ...
Identity Formation in Context
(2009-12-11)
The overarching goal of the proposed study was to expand Berzonsky’s model by examining associations among identity processing styles and contextual and behavioral factors, and by investigating whether these associations ...
Vision-Enhanced Localization for Cooperative Robotics
(2009-12-11)
Simultaneous Localization And Mapping - SLAM, is an extremely challenging open problem. SLAM involves a mobile robot building a spatial map of its environment
and finding the ego-position in the partially built map. The ...
Internet Data Acquisition, Search and Processing
(2009-12-11)
Internet data acquisition from the Web is the process of extracting essential data from any web server. Semi-structured data present in the form of HTML web pages need to be extracted, converted into structured data before ...
Genuine Sequential Estimation Procedures for Gamma Populations using Exact Evaluation Criteria
(2009-12-09)
In this dissertation, we develop genuine two-stage sequential procedures for bounded-risk and fixed-width confidence interval estimation for Gamma distributed populations, based on exact evaluation criteria. The term ...
Effects of Ozone Pollution and Climate Variability/Change on Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Terrestrial Primary Productivity and Carbon Storage in China
(2009-12-08)
Over the past several decades, China’s terrestrial ecosystems have experienced severe air pollution and other environmental changes. Quantifying how these environmental changes have affected carbon (C) fluxes and storage ...
Legislative Production and Ideology Voter Scores: Three Essays
(2009-12-03)
Legislators possess supply-side characteristics in the production process of public sector
outcomes. Constituents demand legislative services and choose those who most closely resemble
their preferences. There are several ...
Environmentally Benign Mixing of Nanoparticles
(2009-12-02)
Due to the increased use of nanocomposites, nanocatalysts, and nano-pharmaceuticals, mixing at nanoscale has become important. Conventional mixing techniques can be classified into: (a) dry mixing (mechanical mixing), (b) ...
Surface and Subsurface Transport of Phosphorus from Surface and Subsurface-applied Poultry Litter
(2009-11-30)
A plot scale experiment was conducted in a pasture at the Sand Mountain region of north Alabama, USA. Nine plots of 1.52 m by 3.05 m were constructed with sheet metal borders to isolate runoff. The soil was a Hartsells ...
Investigation into the Effects of Tool Geometry and Metal Working Fluids on Tool Forces and Tool Surfaces During Orthogonal Tube Turning of Aluminum 6061 Alloy
(2009-11-20)
Orthogonal Metal Cutting has evolved as a significant way of analyzing the mechanics involved in the art of metal cutting. An orthogonal tube turning apparatus was constructed and validated. The instrument was used to ...
College Freshmen Weight Gain: Residency Effects
(2009-11-20)
Objective: Academic year changes in weight, body mass index (BMI), percent (%) body fat, and fat free mass were examined in freshmen based on residency. Subjects: 277 freshmen living on campus and 183 living off campus ...
Dimensional Movement of Rotylenchulus reniformis Through a Silt Loam: Observations of Movement and Population Growth from an Initial Point of Inoculation
(2009-11-20)
Rotylenchulus reniformis was evaluated for total distance moved, rate of movement, and population growth upon initial introduction into a cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) field under irrigated and non-irrigated conditions. The ...
Ohmic Contacts to Implanted (0001) 4H-SiC
(2009-11-20)
The fabrication of low resistance ohmic contacts is a key technology issue for the development of SiC power diodes and transistors. In many cases, contacts are made to implanted regions due to the difficulty of doping SiC ...
Pine Seedling Detection and Registration
(2009-11-20)
Pine seedling nurseries across the United States depend on antiquated techniques and equipment to manage the country’s supply of pine seedling stock. This research is directed towards the development of a method to ...
A Study of Elastic Plastic Deformation of Heavily Deformed Spherical Surfaces
(2009-11-20)
This work uses a finite element analysis and analytical equations to model elastic-plastic and fully plastic large deformations of spheres in contact with rigid flat surfaces. The case considered here is of a deformable ...
A Study of School Counseling Services Provision to Children of Deployed Military Parents
(2009-11-20)
Considering the impact of deployment on the children of military parents as evidenced by a review of the literature, school counselors are in a unique position to assist these students during long-term or repeated deployments. ...
Prescription Drug Prices and the United States' Health Care Market, A Cross-Sectional Analysis
(2009-11-20)
This thesis is an analysis of the United States health care market and what factors most significantly influence spending habits. The data obtained for this study is from 2004 and was collected for each state through various ...
Experimental Investigation of Thermo-Hydraulic Characteristics of Two-Phase Flow of FC72 in Microchannel Heat Sinks
(2009-11-20)
Advances in electronics such as chip level integration and die stacking have led to a bottleneck in further development since dissipation of the resulting high heat fluxes continues to be a challenge. Due to the tremendous ...
Experimental and Computational Investigation of a Turbofan Inlet Duct
(2009-11-20)
The flow field of an axisymmetric turbofan inlet was investigated experimentally and computationally. Flow visualization results were obtained using LIF, hydrogen bubbles, and PIV. Incidence angle was determined to be a ...
Integration of Intensive Aquaculture and Horticulture Crop Production
(2009-11-19)
Agricultural sectors can be integrated into mutually beneficial productions
systems. Integration provides improved production sustainability, increased ecosystem
health, increased human health, and polyculture. Horticulture ...