Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Utilization of Distiller’s Dried Grains with Soluble in Catfish Feeds
(2009-07-16)
Feed is generally the largest expenditure in semi-intensive and intensive catfish culture operations, and protein is the most expensive component of feeds. Efforts to reduce feed costs have resulted in increased use of ...
Critical Needs and Level of Support for the Military Spouse: A Comparative Study of the National Guard and Active Army during the Iraq War
(2009-07-16)
National Guard units have been asked to serve in ways never before experienced since the beginning of the Iraq War and throughout the continued war on terror. Multiple deployments, frequent long-term separations from ...
Atomic Data Generation and Collisional Radiative Modeling of Ar II, Ar III, and Ne I for Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas
(2009-07-16)
Accurate knowledge of atomic processes plays a key role in modeling the emission in laboratory
as well as in astrophysical plasmas. These processes are included in a collisional-radiative
model and the results are compared ...
Characterization of Viral Communities in Soil, Activated Sludge, and Influent
(2009-07-15)
Viruses are the most abundant yet uncharacterized biological entities on the planet. This thesis is a survey of viral communities in soil, activated sludge (AS), and influent (IN). Both culture-dependent and culture-independent ...
Constructing Cubic Splines on the Sphere
(2009-07-15)
A method to approximate functions defined on a sphere using Tensor Product cubic B-splines is presented here. The method is based on decomposing the sphere into six identical patches obtained by radially projecting the ...
An Analysis of the No Child Left Behind Act Using Gradual Switching Regressions
(2009-07-15)
Using a rich panel data set, this paper conducts unique analysis on the structural and overall effects of the No Child Left Behind Act on the sixty-seven county school systems in Alabama. A system of equations is specified ...
Daughter-to-Father Attachment, Daughter-to-Mother Attachment and Emotion Regulation in College Females
(2009-07-15)
Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1982/1969, 1973) and its relation to affect regulation has become an important area of research over the last several decades. This area of research is important due to the fact that fathers are ...
Modeling and Analysis of a PEM Fuel Cell System for a Quadruped Robot
(2009-07-15)
The polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell is a prospective alternative energy conversion device that has environment-friendly characteristics. It has not only electrochemical reaction but also coupled thermal fluid ...
Optimizing and Scheduling of a Pooled Log Transport System
(2009-07-15)
The log truck scheduling problem (LTSP) under capacity constraints and time window constraints which is an NP-hard problem, involves the design of a set of best possible routes for a set of trucks starting and ending the ...
Collaborative UAS Control to Increase Deconfliction Ability in the NAS
(2009-07-15)
The progression of aviation has led to the strong desire to integrate unmanned
aerial systems (UASs) into the national airspace system (NAS). In order for UASs to
occupy the NAS concurrently with other aircraft, the ...
Privately-Owned Small Impoundments of Central Alabama: A Survey and Evaluation Of Management Techniques and Enhancements
(2009-07-15)
Small impoundments are abundant and widespread throughout central Alabama, and support a large portion of recreational fishing effort. Because the quality of fishing in these ponds is directly related to the management ...
Data Extraction from Servers by the Internet Robot
(2009-07-15)
Data extraction from internet is a way to download and extract the required data automatically from web servers. In this thesis, we present a method called the Internet Robot to extract the data directly from a web server ...
Choice numbers, Ohba numbers and Hall numbers of some complete k-partite graphs
(2009-07-15)
The choice numbers of some complete k−partite graphs are found, after we resolved
a dispute regarding the choice number of K(4, 2, . . . , 2) when k is odd. Estimates of the
choice numbers and the Ohba numbers of K(m, ...
Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Groundwater-Surfacewater Interaction in Horizontal and Sloping Unconfined Aquifers.
(2009-07-15)
We investigated the interaction between the water moving from an unconfined aquifer and a surfacewater body. This interaction can occur during or after a rainfall event, which can cause the groundwater table to change. We ...
Electrochemical Sensors for the Detection of Tricresyl Phosphate and Determination of Acid Content in Engine Oils
(2009-07-13)
Electrochemical sensors were developed in this study for the detection of tricresyl phosphate (TCP), a toxic chemical found in airline cabins and determination of acid accumulation in engine oils upon extended usage.
A ...
Transdermal Delivery of Genistein as a Chemoprotective Drug for Melanoma
(2009-07-13)
Genistein is a soy isoflavone and it is a chemo preventative agent against various cancer cell lines including melanoma. The percutaneous absorption of genistein has been scantly investigated. Also, genistein has very poor ...
The Association Between Marital Functioning, Family Closeness, and Tsunami Related Health: Moderation by Religiosity
(2009-07-13)
To date, marital outcomes and family closeness following natural disasters have not been extensively investigated. Previous research indicates that disaster experiences relate to adverse mental health outcomes, and there ...
Erodibility Testing of Cohesive Soils
(2009-07-13)
The Erosion Function Apparatus (EFA) is used to measure erosion rates for cohesive soil samples subjected to water velocities tangent to the sample surface. EFA testing was performed on soil samples taken from three bridge ...
Revoevolution in the Fascist Ideosis: The Comedy of Bill Hicks
(2009-07-13)
Arising from the inconsistencies generated by serious discourse, comedy contains the potential to expose the dominant social logic that imbues cultural forms with meanings and values that perpetuate certain methods of ...
Diamond Chemical Vapor Deposition and Practical Applications
(2009-07-09)
Diamond chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique has been studied intensively and has overcome some of the constraints of traditional high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) diamond synthesis methods in the last decades. ...