Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Generic Reverse Engineering Architecture with Compiler and Compression Classification Components
(2009-05-15)
As more and more applications, libraries, and other types of programs are being executed in untrusted environments they will be targets of attackers. These applications are exposed to malicious programs attempting to exploit ...
Static Load Testing of a Damaged, Continuous Prestressed Concrete Bridge
(2009-05-15)
Shortly after the completion of interstate highway I-565 in Huntsville, Alabama, cracks were discovered in the continuous end of many of the prestressed concrete bulb-tee girders. Alabama Department of Transportation ...
Field-Based Strain Thresholds for Flexible Perpetual Pavement Design
(2009-05-15)
In the recent years, there has been a push towards designing roadways which will sustain 50 years of trafficking without having any structural fatigue damage. These --Y´perpetual pavements¡ are designed using mechanisti ...
Evaluating Spinner-Disc Technology for the Distribution of Poultry Litter
(2009-05-15)
Technological advancements, such as variable-rate technology (VRT), in agricultural application equipment have led to the belief that application accuracy of crop inputs have improved. However, minimal research has been ...
Synthetic Explorations to Sinefungin Analogs
(2009-05-15)
Sinefungin, a natural complex nucleoside, has been isolated from the cultures of Streptomyces griseolous, and from that of Streptomyces incarnatus. It is a structural analog of S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) and since its ...
Initial Investigation on Xylose Fermentation for Lignocellulosic Bioethanol Production
(2009-05-15)
Bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass has drawn tremendous attention, not only because bioethanol has a number of attractive traits as an alternative fuel to fossil fuel, but also due to attractive characteristics ...
Prevalence of Stocker Calves Persistently Infected with Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus in the Southeast Determined Using Immunohistochemistry on Skin Biopsies
(2009-05-15)
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is an insidious disease affecting cattle worldwide. It can cause early embryonic death, congenital defects, abortions, respiratory disease, immunosuppression, reproductive failure and may ...
Glycemic response to meal length in horses
(2009-05-15)
Cereal grains are an ideal feedstuff for horses with high energy demands because of their high soluble carbohydrate content. However, consumption of a single meal high in soluble carbohydrates causes an immediate increase ...
Potassium Movement and Uptake as Affected by Potassium Source and Placement
(2009-05-15)
Although downward loss of anions such as nitrate has been well-studied in high-sand turfgrass putting greens, leaching of cations such as potassium (K) has received less study. Moreover, turfgrass research with K has largely ...
The Testing effect and the Components of Recognition Memory: What Effects do Test Type and Performance at Intervening Test Have on Final Recognition Tests
(2008-08-15)
The testing effect has been shown to be a robust phenomenon in recall. However,
there have been inconsistencies demonstrating the testing effect in recognition final tests.
This has led some to suggest that recollection, ...
The Development of Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Detection of Campylobacter jejuni
(2008-08-15)
Campylobacter jejuni (and related species) has been recognized as the most common pathogen that causes human bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. It is the major cause of food-borne illnesses in the developed countries. ...
The Development and Application of Quantitative Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Detection of Avian Reoviruses
(2008-08-15)
We developed a TaqMan probe based real-time RT-PCR for qualitative and quantitative detection of avian reoviruses (ARVs). The primer-probe set was designed from the conserved region of ARV S4 genome segment. ARV strains ...
Body Mass Index and Physical Functioning in Older Adults
(2008-08-15)
Several researchers have reported that elevated body mass index (BMI) increases the risk of poor physical functioning. In most studies, physical functioning has been measured using self-reported questionnaires. For this ...
Development of a Rapid Detection Method of Salmonella Spp. on Chicken Skin by Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
(2008-08-15)
Salmonella is a major contributor to food-borne illness with contaminated poultry
meat being recognized as a chief source of the infection. The handling of raw poultry has
been reported as one of the most frequent causes ...
Solder Joint Reliability & Prognostication of Lead Free Electronics in Harsh Thermo-Mechanical Environments
(2008-08-15)
The trends in the electronic packaging industry are to design smaller packages that have higher complexity, and to improve package reliability while reducing costs. These needs in the packaging industry have lead to a newer ...
Exact Comparision of Hazard Rate Functions of Log-Logistic Survival Distributions
(2008-08-15)
A comparison of hazard rates of multiple treatments are compared under the assumption that survival times follow the log-logistic distribution. Exact test procedures are developed for ordered comparisons of the worst case ...
Robust Partial Least Squares for Regression and Classification
(2008-08-15)
Partial Least Squares (PLS) is a class of methods for modeling relations between sets of observed variables ...
The Role of Emotion in Computer Skill Acquisition
(2008-08-15)
In response to recent calls for researchers to identify the underlying causes of training effectiveness, this study investigated the role of emotion in computer skill acquisition (CSA). The current study introduced empathetic ...
Supply chain planning for hurricane response with information updates
(2008-08-15)
Planning inventories of supplies for the hurricane season can be
challenging. For instance, in 2004, manufacturing and retail firms
experienced stock outs because they were not prepared for responding
to the demand ...
Parent-Child Conflict and Children’s Sleep: Attachment Security as a Moderator or Mediator
(2008-08-15)
Findings in recent years have highlighted sleep problems in children as a growing epidemic throughout the world (National Sleep Foundation, 2004; Sadeh, Raviv, & Gruber, 2000). Dahl and El-Sheikh (2007) propose that in ...