Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Health Monitoring for Damage Initiation & Progression During Mechanical Shock in Electronic Assemblies
(2007-05-15)
Electronic products may be subjected to shock and vibration during shipping, normal usage and accidental drop. Highstrain rate transient bending produced by such loads may result in failure of fine-pitch electronics. Current ...
Static, Dynamic and Acoustical Properties of Sandwich Composite Materials
(2007-05-15)
Sandwich composite materials have been widely used in recent years for the construction of spacecraft, aircraft, and ships, mainly because of their high stiffness-to-weight ratios and the introduction of a viscoelastic ...
Heuristic Optimization Methods for the Characterization of Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials
(2007-05-15)
Generally speaking, of the fundamental dynamic mechanical properties - mass, damping, and stiffness, damping is usually the most difficult to quantify. This is perhaps particularly true for composite materials which tend ...
Non-metric Continua that support Whitney maps
(2007-05-15)
An example of a non-metric continuum is constructed, where every non-degenerate subcontinuum is non-metric, that supports a Whitney
map. Additional non-metric examples are given and examinations of conditions under which ...
Sustainable Design for Primary Grade Students in Latin America to Leapfrog into the Twenty-First Century for Economic Development
(2007-05-15)
Research has shown that the education of primary grade students in Latin American countries is crucial to their economic growth. Although enrollment gains each year and most Latin American countries boast of literacy rates ...
Civil War and Reconstruction Era Cass/Bartow County, Georgia
(2007-05-15)
A "white men’s democracy" profoundly shaped aspects of pre-industrial Cass/Bartow County, Georgia’s social, economic, and political landscape. Following the removal of the Cherokee from northwest Georgia, white settlers ...
Auto-Configuration in Multi-Hop Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(2007-05-15)
As devices with wireless access technology, greater memory and longer battery life,
proliferate, there is a need to be able to allow more than one hop communication amongst
them. Also, such a network, with wireless enabled ...
Estuaries as habitat for a freshwater species: Ecology of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) along a salinity gradient
(2007-05-15)
Similar to the freshwater systems largemouth bass inhabit, the largemouth bass is a popular recreational sportfish in estuarine environments, like the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. However, catch rates of large (= 2.3 kg) largemouth ...
Rechargeable Batteries Based on Specific Nonconjugated Conductive Polymers; Electrical, Optical and Structural Studies
(2007-05-15)
Rechargeable batteries based on specific nonconjugated conductive polymers have been studied and developed. Quadratic electro-optic effect and electron paramagnetic resonance characterization of a specific polymer was ...
Characterization of Lead-free Solders for Electronic Packaging
(2007-05-15)
The characterization of lead-free solders, especially after isothermal aging, is very important in order to accurately predict the reliability of solder joints. However, due to lack of experimental testing standards and ...
Sample selection and reconstruction for array-based multispectral imaging
(2007-05-15)
In this work we address the problem of acquisition of multispectral
images in a sampled form and the subsequent processing of the
acquired signal. The problem is relevant in the context of color
imaging in digital ...
Empathy and Empathic Communication: Nursing Student Perceptions of Program Effectiveness, Academic Experiences, and Competence
(2007-05-15)
The purpose of this survey study was to examine the relationship between senior baccalaureate nursing student’s perceptions of their nursing program effectiveness in teaching them to empathically communicate with patients ...
PineHill: A Novel Approach to Computer Aided Language Learning
(2007-05-15)
Teaching language involves understanding the way people perceive words and utilizing methods of instruction that they can easily comprehend. Computer assisted instruction is of great benefit and more interesting to learners ...
Academic Virtual Advisor
(2007-05-15)
With the increasing aptitude of artificial intelligence and expert systems, new and
innovative uses are being discovered. The objective of this research was to examine the use
of an expert system to solve the problem of ...
Effects of Delay Variation of IEEE 802.11 on Synchronization in Ad Hoc Networks
(2007-05-15)
The 802.11 MAC protocol, extensively used in wireless networks, handles the problem of collisions over a shared medium in part by avoiding them through the use of a random backoff counter drawn from an exponentially ...
User Experience Design and Experimental Evaluation of Extensible and Dynamic Viewers for Data Structures
(2007-05-15)
Many techniques for the visualization of data structures and algorithms have been proposed and shown to be pedagogically effective. Yet, they are not widely adopted because they lack suitable methods for automatically ...
A Defense System on DDOS Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(2007-05-15)
Network security is a weak link in wired and wireless network systems. Malicious attacks have caused tremendous loss by impairing the functionalities of the computer networks. Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed DoS ...
The Fate and Transport of the Antimicrobials Sulfadimethoxine and Ormetoprim in the Environment
(2007-05-15)
Over the past decade, there have been increasing concerns regarding antimicrobial contaminants in the environment. To date, there exists limited research regarding the fate of these compounds in the environment once ...
Optimizing Haul Routes Using Geospatial Technologies for the Delivery of Ready-Mix Concrete in Urban Areas
(2007-05-15)
In the ready-mix concrete industry, timely and uninterrupted delivery of ready-mix concrete to a construction site is of utmost importance for efficient construction operation. Due to ever soaring fuel prices and small ...
Microwave Promoted Addition of Organosiloxanes to Hydroxyl Containing Substrates for Facile Synthesis of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agent Reactive Polymers
(2007-05-15)
The primary focus of this work was the synthesis and characterization of materials efficacious in detoxifying/killing chemical and/or biological threat agent surrogates, including Bacillus anthracis spores, in militarily ...