Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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A Woman’s Good Works: The Life of Inez Jessie Turner Baskin and Her Fight for Civil and Human Rights in the Cradle of the Confederacy
(2009-11-16)
Inez Jessie Turner Baskin (1916-2007) was an African-American, female, journalist who covered the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956 in Alabama’s capital for the Montgomery Advertiser as well as functioning as a central ...
Measuring Retail Service Quality in Farm Supply Cooperatives
(2009-11-16)
This study seeks to provide management of local farm supply cooperatives with suggestions that can help them meet the service quality needs of their customer base. It was hypothesized that certain customer segments have ...
Nanoreinforced Shape Memory Polyurethane
(2009-11-13)
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are functional materials, which find applications in a broad range of temperature sensing elements and biological micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). These polymers are capable of fixing ...
Design and Implementation of a Dual Excited Planar Circular Array Antenna for Base Stations
(2009-11-13)
Smart antennas present a promising solution to the present day capacity and coverage shortage in mobile wireless communications. These intelligent antennas when used at the base station can avoid a lot of interference by ...
Development of A Software Architecture Method for Software Product Families and its Application to the AubieSat Satellite Program
(2009-11-13)
Software architecture methodologies are very useful in reusing software code from one product to another. In software product families, several similar products are developed by the same organization that share many features ...
Improving Reliability Of Wireless Sensor Networks for Target Tracking using Wireless Acoustic Sensors
(2009-11-13)
The advancement of MEMS technologies has made it possible to produce tiny wireless
sensor devices. These tiny sensors hold the promise of revolutionizing sensing in a wide
range of application domains because of their ...
Novel Approaches to Creating Robust Globally Convergent Algorithms for Numerical Optimization
(2009-11-13)
Two optimization algorithms are presented, each of which seeks to effectively combine the desirable characteristics of gradient descent and evolutionary computation into a single robust algorithm. The first method, termed ...
Herbicide Performance and Weed Seedbank Dynamics as Affected by High Residue Conservation Agriculture Systems
(2009-11-12)
With the introduction of glyphosate-resistant crops in the late 1990’s, there has been widespread adoption of conservation agriculture systems throughout the southern portion of the United States, including Alabama. ...
An Approach to Design a User-Friendly Set of Guidelines for Homeowners to Achieve Maximum Energy Efficiency in Existing Home Structures
(2009-11-11)
Currently in America, there is a flood of information on how to “green” homes for energy efficiency. Despite this, there is no simple approach for homeowners to “go green”. As a result, homeowners are less likely to take ...
Teatro en rebeldía: generador de cultura
(2009-11-11)
This thesis is the product of the observation of a new trend in theatre burgeoning in Latin America, such being the realization of a revolutionary, juvenile (created by students) artist collective which is being forged and ...
A Robot Mounted Electromagnetic Induction System for Identification of a UXO Free Corridor
(2009-11-11)
This thesis gives a complete overview of a time domain electromagnetic induction system developed for identification of a UXO free corridor. An EMI sensor typically consists of the transmitter and receiver coils to induct ...
Biological Control Studies on the Reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) on Cotton in Alabama.
(2009-11-11)
Cotton production in the Southeastern United States is limited by the reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) causing an estimated loss of $98,000.000 per year. Currently, management is based on crop rotation and use ...
Modeling Service Performance and Dynamic Worker Allocation Policies for Order Fulfillment Systems
(2009-11-10)
In this dissertation, we propose several dynamic worker allocation
policies based on the sojourn time distribution in due-date order
fulfillment systems. To establish a sojourn-based policy, we must be
able to compute ...
Properties of Nonmetric Hereditarily Indecomposable Subcontinua of Finite Products of Lexicographic Arcs
(2009-11-09)
Nonmetric hereditarily indecomposable subcontinua of finite products of Lexicographic arcs are examined. It is shown that these subcontinua cannot intersect certain subsets of the products. Then nonmetric hereditarily ...
Optimizing Military Tactical MANETs efficiently using PSO
(2009-11-05)
A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a self-configuring network of autonomous agents designed to continuously support users who change the topology of the network dynamically and independently. The dynamic mobility of user ...
Weight and Body Measurement Changes In College Freshmen
(2009-11-04)
A limited number of research studies suggest that new college students gain some weight on average during their freshman year. Most studies have had relatively small samples; some have used self-reported rather than measured ...
Dynamic Slotting and Cartonization Problem in Zone-based Carton Picking Systems
(2009-11-03)
Due to the popularity of internet ordering and intelligent logistic and supply chain management systems, customers tend to order more frequently, in smaller quantities, and they require more customized service. As a result, ...
Evaluation of Composted Poultry Litter Use in Horticulture
(2009-11-03)
The U.S. poultry and egg industry is valued at billions of dollars in gross farm receipts and employs hundreds of thousands of people. A Survey by the United States Department of Agriculture in 2008 revealed that in Alabama ...
An Approach for Anonymous Spelling for Voter Write-Ins Using Speech Interaction
(2009-10-23)
Today, the technology used for voting does not fully address the issues that disabled voters are confronted with during elections. Every voter, regardless of disability, should be able to vote and verify his or her ballot ...
A Comparative Study of Variables that Predict the Retention of Black Pre-Engineering Students and White Pre-Engineering Students at a Majority University
(2009-10-23)
The persistence of Black engineering students to graduation from college continues to be of concern as the nation moves into a more globally diverse environment. Institutions have a large role to play to ensure that there ...