Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Canine Design: Creating the Modern Dog Park
(2006-05-15)
With the growing popularity of dogs being considered members of the family within the United States, many cities are now providing dog parks along with their traditional playgrounds, to be used by the community. Modern ...
Sensitivity Analysis of Subjective Ergonomic Assessment Tools: Impact of Input Information Accuracy on Output (Final Scores) Generation
(2006-05-15)
Subjective ergonomic assessment tools are widely used by practitioners to detect existing or potentially hazardous conditions. Their output scores are used to design, implement, and evaluate measurements and controls in ...
The Optimum Upper Screening Limit and Optimum Mean Fill Level to Maximize Expected Net Profit in the Canning Problem for Finite Continuous Distributions
(2006-05-15)
The “canning problem” occurs when a process has a minimum specification such that any product produced below that minimum incurs a scrap/rework cost and any product over the minimum incurs a “give-away” cost. The objective ...
Young Children's Vulnerability to Achievement Goals: A Validation Study
(2006-05-15)
The purpose of this study was to explore validity of measures used to asses children as having a helpless or mastery oriented pattern of response to failure. Participants (N = 190) were part of a larger project, the Child ...
Developmental Antecedents of Adolescent Parenthood
(2006-05-15)
Adolescent parenthood is an issue of universal concern because of the negative outcomes associated with both the teen parents and their children. The current study sought to examine father absence and being born to a teen ...
Vocabulary Development of Preschool Children and Its Relation to Childcare Quality
(2006-05-15)
In the past decade, there has been an increase of the numbers of children in childcare centers and in preschools. Because of this increase, there has been a renewed interest in the effects of childcare centers and preschool ...
Adolescent Action-taking: Associations with Identity Style, Possible Selves, and Parental Support
(2006-05-15)
Action-taking is the intentional behavior in which adolescents engage. Productive
action-taking promotes positive youth outcomes and future goal-achievement. The aims of the current study were to examine variation in ...
Desegregation at Auburn University: A Historical Look at the Uses of Media
(2005-08-15)
This thesis examines desegregation at Auburn University, focusing on the role of the media. Why is the desegregation of Auburn University less well known than other southern schools and what role, if any, did the media ...
Analysis of Simulated Performance of Integrated Vector Tracking and Navigation Loops for GPS
(2005-12-15)
An alternative GPS signal tracking method that uses an extended Kalman-Bucy filter in place of traditional independent, parallel tracking loops is presented in this thesis. Furthermore, this method is extended into a ...
A Study of the Properties That Influence Vehicle Rollover Propensity
(2005-12-15)
In this thesis, a vehicle’s load condition is varied to investigate its impact on roll stability and a stability threshold is derived empirically using vehicle simulation. A vehicle model is developed and simulated using ...
Built-In Self-Test of Programmable Resources in Microcontroller Based System-on-Chips
(2005-12-15)
System-on-Chip (SoC) implementations typically incorporate embedded Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) cores to take advantage of the programmable logic and routing resources provided by FPGAs. Testing the FPGA core ...
Molecular Ecology of Peromyscus polionotus
(2006-08-15)
Lowe et al. (2004) describes ecological genetics as “the investigation of the origin and maintenance of genetic variation within and between populations, which ultimately leads to adaptation and speciation.” Thus, to gain ...
Evaluation of Cotton Gin Trash as a Roughage Source for Stocker Cattle
(2006-08-15)
Cotton gin trash is a by-product of the cotton ginning industry that may be used as a roughage source in beef cattle. A production trial and a digestibility study were conducted in an effort to determine the feeding value ...
Study of a Novel Host-Parasite Relationship: Mycoplasma gallisepticum in House Finches (Carpodacus Mexicanus)
(2006-08-15)
Although host-parasite interactions are well recognized as dynamic interactions leading to the occurrence of emerging infectious disease, we know little about how host-
parasite systems evolve. To better understand how ...
Evaluation of Sustainable Forage Systems for Meat Goat Production in the Southern US
(2006-08-15)
The effect of production systems on growth, carcass traits and carcass quality of 45 Boer wether goat kids was determined and the development of prediction equations for carcass composition was examined using carcasses ...
Effects of Sorption and Desorption on Bioavailability of Atrazine in Soils Amended with Crop Residue Derived Char
(2006-08-15)
The bioavailability of pesticides in soils is affected by the addition of crop residue-derived char, which alters the sorption and desorption characteristics of the soil. Sorption, desorption and bioavailability experiments ...
Effect of Weed Management on Fruiting Position and Yield of RoundUp Ready Flex Cotton
(2006-08-15)
Roundup Ready Flex cotton was commercially available in 2006 and growers need production information about this new technology. Field trials were conducted at the Prattville Experiment Field, Prattville, AL and the Field ...
Management of Ultra Narrow Row Cotton
(2006-08-15)
Ultra Narrow Row cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) production systems may have the potential to increase lint yields, decrease risks to losses from water stress, and allow the use of conservation systems which could contribute ...
Management and Landscape Influences on Soil Organic Carbon in the Southern Piedmont and Coastal Plain
(2006-08-15)
Southern Piedmont and Coastal Plain soils have undergone severe degradation, which is reflected in low soil organic carbon (SOC) contents. Restoration of SOC would improve soil quality and C sequestration, leading to a ...
Three Essays in Applied Economics: (1) School Funding and Student Performance in Alabama, (2) News and Volatility of Food Prices, and (3) The Impact of NAFTA on Labor in the US
(2006-08-15)
This dissertation consists of three essays in economics on education, time series econometrics, and international economics. The first essay attempts to evaluate the impact of state funding on student performance in Alabama ...