Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Built-In Self-Test of Global Routing Resources in Virtex-4 FPGAs
(2009-05-05)
It is important to test programmable routing resources in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) because they take up the largest portion of configuration memory bits. In Virtex-4 FPGAs, routing resources account for over ...
Improving Reliability, Energy-Efficiency and Security of Storage Systems and Real-Time Systems
(2009-05-05)
Many life-critical systems are required to operate without a system failure for a given period of time. Examples are nuclear, aerospace, spacecraft and other such systems. Many of these applications are either storage ...
In Election Voting, Do People Touch the Objective or Not?
(2009-05-05)
Election technologies have been constantly evolving since the first election in the United States
of America. In 2008, during the early voting election one problem that occurred was vote switching
in West Virginia and ...
An Adaptive Single-Hop Medium Access Control Layer For Noisy Channels
(2009-05-04)
The work presented in this dissertation is for a contribution to the data link layer and its responsibility of managing the physical channel in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). Wireless networks in general are susceptible ...
Growth and Characterization of ZnO and PZT Films for Micromachined Acoustic Wave Devices
(2009-05-04)
The ability to detect the presence of low concentrations of harmful substances, such as biomolecular agents, warfare agents, and pathogen cells, in our environment and food chain would greatly advance our safety, provide ...
Neuroprotection against Methamphetamine Induced Neurotoxicity: Applications for Parkinson’s Disease
(2009-05-04)
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder associated with selective degeneration of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons. It is the most common of the neurodegenerative movement disorders, affecting ...
Biogeochemical Influence of Chinese Privet in Riparian Forests in West Georgia and the Influence of Oyster Harvesting in Apalachicola Bay, Florida
(2009-05-04)
In the Southeastern U.S., urbanization influences nutrient availability, species composition, and water quality among other ecosystem processes. This study examined the influence of invasive species spread, facilitated ...
Politics and Poverty: Women's Reproductive Rights in Arkansas, 1942-1980
(2009-05-04)
Today, many of us think of birth control and abortion in terms of women's rights and reproductive choice. But, as this study will illustrate, for much of the history of birth control and abortion in Arkansas, it simply has ...
Accountability Practices of School Counselors
(2009-05-04)
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the extent to which school counselors in Alabama are engaged in accountability practices consistent with the ASCA National Model and other contemporary views of the school ...
Runoff Generation in Pastures of the Appalachian Plateau Region of North Alabama
(2009-05-04)
A detailed hillslope-scale hydrologic study was conducted in a pasture at the Sand Mountain region of north Alabama, USA. A 0.12 ha hillslope was intensively instrumented using 31 distributed surface and subsurface runoff ...
Granular Forms of Sodium and Potassium Azide as a Nematicide for Established Turfgrasses
(2009-05-04)
There is a need for more user-friendly chemical tools for management of plant parasitic nematodes in both cool-and warm-season turfgrasses. SEP-100 is a stabilized liquid formulation of sodium azide and was extensively ...
United States Commerce in Live Vertebrates: Patterns and Contribution to Biological Invasions and Homogenization
(2009-05-04)
The trade in live vertebrates is a threat to biodiversity, homogenizing distinct flora and fauna, introducing invasive species and parasites, and depleting wild populations. Because records of live vertebrates imported or ...
Jaw Morpho-Functional Diversity, Trophic Ecology, and Historical Biogeography of the Neotropical Suckermouth Armored Catfishes (Siluriformes, Loricariidae)
(2009-05-04)
Tropical South America is renowned for its unparalleled biodiversity. Among vertebrates, fish diversity exceeds that of any other group. Estimates of total Neotropical fish richness range between 5000 and 8000 species, of ...
Clinicians' conceptual use of comorbidity
(2009-05-04)
Diagnostic overlap, termed comorbidity, is a common occurrence in psychopathology. However, the current classification system for mental disorders (DSM-IV-TR; APA, 2000) does not explicitly address how diagnostic concepts ...
Effect of Different Atmospheres for Isolation, Molecular Characterization, Pathogenicity Gene Screening, and Control of Campylobacter spp. from Processed Broiler Meat
(2009-05-04)
Our first experiments involved the studies of the effects of Oxyrase®, an enzyme based membrane system that selectively reduces oxygen from the medium, during the growth and isolation of Campylobacter spp. The effect of ...
Designer Silica Layers for Advanced Applications: Processing and Properties
(2009-05-04)
Recently, as scientists have investigated the application of conventional MEMS devices to biological systems, the exciting fields of bio-MEMS and microfluidics have emerged. Due to their small size, bio-MEMS and microfluidics ...
The Development of a Non-Reading Inventory: The Cannon Picture Interest
(2009-05-04)
Dr. John Holland’s theory of career development (1959, 1966, 1973a, 1985(a) 1985(b) and1997) is a developmental theory based on the fit of an individual’s personality to the work environment. He has developed several ...
Routing Metrics for Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks
(2009-05-04)
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have gained considerable popularity recently. Most research
on WMNs focuses on improving network capacity, because WMNs suffer from severe
throughput degradation due to interferences. Among ...
The Rational Design of Recognitive Polymeric Networks for Sensing Applications
(2009-05-04)
Testosterone recognitive networks were synthesized with varying feed crosslinking percentages and length of the bi-functional crosslinking agent to analyze the effect of changing structural parameters on template binding ...
Economic Feasibility of New Kiwifruit Cultivars for Commercial Planting in Alabama
(2009-05-04)
This thesis uses computer modeling (Stella 9 and Simetar) software and environmental data to evaluate the commercial feasibility of yellow fleshed kiwifruit plantings in Alabama.