Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Tin oxide sensors for insect infestation detection
(2009-10-02)
Agriculture suffers a significant loss every year due to pests. Early detection of insect infestation is important to reduce that kind of loss. Plants emit volatile organic compounds whose composition will change after the ...
Analysis of an Application where the Unscented Kalman Filter is not Appropriate
(2009-09-15)
In this work a spin stabilized rocket with a ring of lateral pulse jets for attitude correction
and fins that open early in flight is simulated. The rocket is simulated with five different sensor
packages: rate gyros ...
Reliability of Lead-Free and Advanced Interconnects in Fine Pitch and High I/O Electronics Subjected to Harsh Thermo-Mechanical Environments
(2009-09-11)
Industry is moving towards lower cost, increased functionality, and miniaturized electronics placed in ever closer proximity of higher operating temperatures, typical of harsh environments. In this thesis, three aspects ...
Mechanisms and Performance Measures in Mastery-Based Incremental Repeated Acquisition: Behavioral and Pharmacological Analyses
(2009-09-10)
Pharmacological and behavioral determinants of learning were examined using a mastery-based incremental repeated acquisition procedure. A 60-minute session began with a one link chain (single lever-press) that incremented ...
Influence of Various Thong Style Flip-flops on Gait Kinematics and Lower Leg Electromyography
(2009-09-09)
Flip-flops are a common footwear choice for the masses. This influx of flip-flop usage is in despite of the plethora of anecdotal evidence and consensus among the health field that flip-flops are not conducive to the ...
Evaluation of Intercellular Signaling in Legionella pneumophila
(2009-09-08)
The number of prokaryotes known to participate in intercellular signaling is growing. The objective of this research was to determine if Legionella species are able to communicate through the use of intercellular signals ...
The Effect of Depressotypic Attributions on Marital Satisfaction as Mediated by Spousal Support and Moderated by Length of Marriage in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(2009-08-28)
Mothers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) face unique stressors in caring for their child(ren) with a disability which often spill over into other areas of their lives, including their marriages. The present ...
Combined Flexural and Cable-like Behavior of Ductile Steel Beams
(2009-08-28)
In addressing the propensity of steel building structures to experience progressive collapse due to extreme loading conditions (e.g., blast), current design guidelines propose the use of a threat-independent approach that ...
Mercury Immobilization by Subsurface Reactive Barriers
(2009-08-17)
Mercury contamination is becoming a prevalent problem for environmental engineers. Chlor-alkali plants and coal fire power plants are the main contributors to the spread of this neurotoxin into the environment. Mercury ...
Behavioral Toxicology of the Eastern Subterranean Termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar) (Isoptera:Rhinotermitidae)
(2009-08-14)
The eastern subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar) is one of the most economically important termite species in the United States. Behavioral toxicology has become very relevant in the control of termites ...
Petrofacies and Paleotectonic Evolution of Gondwanan and Post-Gondwanan Sequences of Nepal
(2009-08-14)
The Gondwanan sequences are widely distributed in several intracratonic basins of peninsular India and also as discontinuous patches along the Himalayan orogenic belt. The Tansen Group (2400 m) in western Nepal is thicker ...
Hardware Testbed for Collaborative Robotics using Wireless Communication
(2009-08-14)
Collaborating mobile robots equipped with WiFi transceivers are configured as a mobile ad-hoc network. Search and rescue algorithms are developed to take advantage of the distributed processing capability inherent to ...
A Full Life-Cycle Methodology for Structured Use-Centered Quantitative Usability Requirements Specification and Usability Evaluation of Websites
(2009-08-14)
World Wide Web has gained its dominant status in the cyber information and services delivery world in recent years. But how to specify website usability requirements and how to evaluate and improve website usability according ...
Three Essays in Tourism, Trade, and Economic Growth
(2009-08-13)
This dissertation consists of three chapters in tourism, trade, and economic growth. Chapter one investigates the short and long run effects of the change in the nominal exchange rate on the US tourism trade balance, ...
Organic Matter Type Affects Growth and Physiology of Native Plants Planted Above-Grade
(2009-08-13)
Experiments quantified the response of three native taxa to different substrates utilized in above-grade planting. In a greenhouse study, Hydrangea quercifolia Bartr. ‘Alice’ (oakleaf hydrangea), Chionanthus virginicus ...
Explicit Finite Element Modeling in Conjunction with Digital Image Correlation Based Life Prediction of Lead-Free Electronics under Shock-Impact
(2009-08-12)
Increasing demand for smaller consumer electronics with multi-function
capabilities has driven the packaging architectures trends for the
finer-pitch interconnects thus increasing chances of failure of the
electronic ...
Biology and ecology of root-feeding beetles and ophiostomatoid fungi in sandhills longleaf pine stands
(2009-08-12)
Ophiostomatoid fungi, especially those of the genus Grosmannia Goid. and its Leptographium Lagerb.& Melin anamorphs, are vectored by beetles and have been implicated as factors in decline of loblolly pine (P. taeda L.) and ...
Sedimentation and Tectonics of Lower Cenozoic Sequences from Southeast of Shillong Plateau, India: Provenance History of the Assam-Bengal System, Eastern Himalayas
(2009-08-12)
The present study area is located along the southeastern part of the Shillong Plateau in the eastern and southeastern part of the Meghalaya State and in the lower (southern) part of Assam State, northeast India. A continuous ...
Analysis of Embodied Conversational Agents in SecondLife for Speech Recognition
(2009-08-12)
A virtual world is a computer simulated environment that's interactive and allows the user to become a participant in the computational space, entering a computer world that they have created. This participation gives the ...
Predicting Consumers' Cause-Brand Alliance Attitude and Purchase Intention: The Influence of Cause Involvement, Message Source, Perceived Motivations, and Cause-Brand Fit
(2009-08-11)
Companies have increasingly been engaging in cause-brand alliances to enhance brand image and increase sales. But, consumers’ reactions to such campaigns can be difficult to predict. The purpose of this study was to create ...