Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Does Targeted Campaign Message Impact Vote Intention and Vote Choice? An Experimental Study of Alabama Seniors
(2009-04-09)
Conventional wisdom and the huge amount of money spent by political campaigns in the United States hold that multiple targeted messages influence voter turnout and voter vote choice. Prior studies have focused primarily ...
A Critical Examination of the Effects of Colored Paper on the Academic Achievement of Fourth Graders in Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary
(2009-04-08)
Reading is a learned skill for life. It requires cognitive processing increasing with practice. This study examined the used of colored paper for comprehension and vocabulary aassessments given to fifty-one fourth graders ...
Taylor Kriging Metamodeling for Simulation Interpolation, Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization
(2009-04-02)
The dissertation explores Kriging metamodeling for the interpolation, sensitivity analysis and optimization of simulation models with costly computational or economic expenses. The key theoretical contribution is that a ...
Performance Optimization of Wireless Mesh Networks
(2009-04-01)
Wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communication network consisting of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology. The components of a mesh network are mesh clients, mesh routers for forwarding packets to mesh gateways that ...
Alternate In-Situ Environmental Testing System by Matrix Design
(2009-03-30)
Compared with the existing in-situ environmental testing system, this alternative one got significant improvement on measuring capacity, total cost, as well as number of connections that must be made between the hardware ...
Demonstration for Integration of Genetic Linkage and Physical Maps of Catfish Using BAC-Anchored Microsatellites
(2009-03-30)
Catfish is the major aquaculture species in the United States. The development of genetic linkage maps with high marker densities and the development of physical maps are important steps toward genome-enable genetic ...
The Scrum Process for Independent Programmers
(2009-03-27)
A software process is an attempt to impose structure on the software development process. The primary goal of a software process is to arrive at a repeatable, predictable process that will raise the productivity of software ...
Output Hazard-Free Test Generation Methodology
(2009-03-25)
Architectural restrictions of scan greatly limit the effectiveness of traditional scan based delay tests. It has been recently shown that additional testing for delays on short paths using fast clocks can significantly ...
Effect of Dietary Energy, Protein, Lysine, Versatile Enzyme, And Peptides on Commercial Leghorns
(2009-03-25)
Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of increasing dietary lysine on performance, egg composition, egg solids, egg quality, in seven commercial brown egg layer strains, and to determine the nutrient ...
A Low Power, Low Noise Phase Locked Loop MMIC for Ku- and X-Band Applications
(2009-03-23)
This paper presents the analysis, design, simulation, and test results for a Fractional-N
PLL frequency synthesizer. The synthesizer is designed to cover multiple frequency bands,
require low power, and have low noise. ...
Career Longevity Among Southeastern Band Directors: Environmental, Personal, and Educational Factors
(2009-03-11)
The purposes of this study were to determine whether variables reported in
previous research on teacher turnover could be reduced to a number of factors, and to
determine how those resulting factors affected career ...
Impacts of Land Use/Cover on Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Apalachicola, FL
(2009-03-10)
Rapid coastal development in response to a growing population raises concerns about human degradation of ecosystems. The importance of the carbon cycle and its role in climate regulation warrant the study of the effects ...
An Adaptive Jam-Resistant Cross-Layer Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks In Noisy Environments
(2009-03-10)
This dissertation contributes a jam-resistant communications protocol for use in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). Specific focus is given to the network layer routing of packets within a MANET. A MANET is a self-organizing ...
Examination of Academic Self-Regulation Variances in Nursing Students
(2009-03-10)
Multiple workforce demands in healthcare have placed a tremendous amount of pressure on academic nurse educators to increase the number of professional nursing graduates to provide nursing care both in both acute and ...
Synergy MAC: A Cooperative MAC Protocol
(2009-02-25)
Since the advent of IEEE's 802.11 standard, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) have gained widespread acceptance in providing broadband wireless access to portable devices. The performance of any WLAN depends largely on ...
Query-Localized Route Repair Mechanism for Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing Algorithm
(2009-02-24)
Ad-hoc networking is a concept in computer communications, which allows applications
to communicate with each other by forming a temporary network, without any form of
centralized administration. With the increasing ...
A Comparison of Life Threat and Betrayal as Risk Factors for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(2009-08-15)
Life threat has been underscored as the primary etiological factor for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since the publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III, APA, ...
Adaptive Disturbance Rejection and Stabilization for Rotor Systems with Internal Damping
(2009-05-15)
Advanced rotor systems today consist of a lightweight rotor supported by radial active
magnetic bearings (AMB). These systems are widely used in flywheel applications and in
other fields where high rotational speeds are ...
Robust Nonparametric Discriminant Analysis Procedures
(2009-05-15)
In this study, a nonparametric discriminant analysis procedure that is less sensitive than traditional procedures to deviations from the usual assumptions is proposed. The procedure uses the projection pursuit methodology ...
Structural and Electrical Characterization of Highly Oriented (KxNax)NbO3 (KNN) Thin Films By Chemical Solution Deposition
(2009-05-15)
(K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 (KNN) perovskite materials have been developed as promising lead-free piezoelectric materials for environmentally and biologically benign piezoelectric devices. To date, however, there are few reports on ...