Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Photovoltaic Effect in a Composite Involving Nonconjugated Conductive Polymer and C60
(2008-12-15)
In this thesis, photovoltaic effect in a composite involving nonconjugated conducting polymer and C60 is reported. There has been an intensive research effort in the area of organic photovoltaic cells using conjugated ...
Material Factors Influencing Metallic Whisker Growth
(2008-12-15)
Whiskering refers to the formation of slender, long, metallic filaments, much thinner than a human hair, that grow on a metallic thin film surface. They are readily observed for pure and alloyed zinc (Zn), silver (Ag), ...
Palm Measure Invariance and Exchangeability for Marked Point Processes
(2008-12-15)
A random measure $\xi$ on a real interval $I$ is known to be exchangeable iff suitably reduced versions of the Palm distributions $Q_{t}$ are independent of $t \in I$. In this dissertation we prove a corresponding result ...
Some Necessary Conditions for List Colorability of Graphs and a Conjecture on Completing Partial Latin Squares
(2008-12-15)
Let C be an infinite set of symbols, F the collection of finite subsets of C. A function
L is a list assignment to a graph G if L assigns to each vertex of G a finite subset of C.
A proper L-coloring occurs when adjacent ...
Selected Topics in Alabama’s Environmental Horticulture Industry: The Economic Impact of Alabama's Green Industry and Migrant Labor in Alabama's Horticulture Industry
(2005-08-15)
The environmental horticulture industry, known as the green industry, constitutes the states highest selling and fastest growing agricultural crop sector. The author, in collaboration with Deacue Fields and Kenneth tilt, ...
Hellfire, home, and harm: An investigation of the interaction between religiosity, family processes, and adolescent deviant behavior
(2005-05-15)
There is an abundant literature dealing with the relationship between religiosity and deviant behavior in adolescence (Baier & Wright, 2001; Johnson, de Li, Larson, & McCullough, 2000; Johnson, Jang, Larson, & de Li, 2001). ...
On the Growth of Polynomials and Entire Functions of Exponential Type
(2004-12-15)
Concerning the growth of a polynomial and its derivative, the following inequalities
are well known as Bernstein Inequalities.
max(|z|=R) |p(z)| <= max(|z|=1) |p(z)|R^n, for R >= 1, (1)
max(|z|=1) |p0(z)| <= max(|z|=1) ...
The Use of Mechanical Thinning Treatments in Management of Small Stands at the Wildland Urban Interface
(2004-12-15)
This study analyzed the productivity and costs of mechanical thinning at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). It compared conventional commercial first thinning practices in even-aged loblolly pine plantations in the Southeast ...
On The Lattice Boltzmann Method: Implementation and Applications
(2008-12-15)
We studied the development and different types of the Lattice Boltzmann method. We gave several implementations. Then we presented two moving boundary treatments for the Lattice Boltzmann method, the second one is new. We ...
Development of Smart Functional Surfaces for Biosensor Applications
(2008-12-15)
Biosensing platforms and antimicrobial coatings were developed to combat problems associated with infectious diseases. Particularly, a lytic bacteriophage based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor was developed to ...
Development of Enzyme-based Biosensors for the Detection of Organophosphate Neurotoxins
(2008-12-15)
Elevated concerns of ecological safety and environmental pollution have
facilitated massive research in the area of chemical and biological agent detection. Large
numbers of anthropogenic chemicals were introduced in the ...
Overmolded Substrate on Aluminum Metal Backing for Harsh Environment Applications
(2008-12-15)
Demand for high-temperature electronics in the automotive industry increases daily with the increasing number of electronics going into under-the-hood locations. Along with keeping costs low and reliability high while the ...
Sorption of Arsenic by Iron Sulfide Made by Sulfate-reducing Bacteria: Implications for Bioremediation
(2008-12-15)
In this study, data from field bioremediation experiments, geochemical modeling, and laboratory batch experiments were integrated with published data on arsenic (As) sorption and coprecipitation onto growing iron (Fe)-sulfide ...
Provenance of Lower Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation, Cahaba Basin, Alabama
(2008-12-15)
The Cahaba basin, also known as the Cahaba Synclinorium, of north-central Alabama contains a thick (>2.5 km) synorogenic clastic wedge belonging to the Lower Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation. Sediment composition and ...
Influence of Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense Lour.) on Riparian Forests of the Southern Piedmont: Net Primary
(2008-12-15)
The spread of invasive, nonnative vegetation in the Southeast has been identified as a critical concern for the maintenance of ecosystem biodiversity and impacts on the forest industry. One example of such a species is ...
Biennial Seasonal Burning and Hardwood Control Effects on the Carbon Sequestration in a Natural Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
(2008-12-15)
This study has been superimposed on a study established in 1973 on the Escambia Experimental Forest located in south-central Alabama, USA to examine the effects of different seasons of burn and hardwood control treatments ...
General Fish Health Assessment and Age Evaluation of Impinged Fish at Steam Generating Power Plants
(2008-12-15)
Fish health assessments were made between impinged and reference fish collected at and in the vicinity of Steam Plant Gorgas (Black Warrior River, Walker County, Alabama) during three seasons: spring/summer, fall, and ...
The Effects of Strobe Light and Sound Behavioral Deterrent Systems on Impingement of Aquatic Organisms at PLant Barry, Alabama
(2008-12-15)
A hybrid and a sonic deterrent system were both evaluated for their effectiveness to repel fish from becoming impinged in a cooling water intake structure located at Plant Barry (Mobile River, Mobile County, Alabama). The ...
An Energy-Efficient Transmission Power Control Protocol for Cooperative Robotics
(2008-12-15)
Severe energy constraints inherent in multi-robot networks dictate that communication be performed as efficiently as possible to enable longer network lifetime and successful task execution. Therefore, energy-aware ...
Built-In Self-Test of the Programmable Interconnect in Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(2008-12-15)
Testing programmable interconnect resources in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is difficult because of the large number of wire segments and switches that must be tested. The adoption of Built-In Self-Test (BIST) ...