Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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A Study of the Adoption of Digital Government Technology as Public Policy Innovation in the American States
(2006-08-15)
The diffusion of information technology in the public sector presents the opportunity to evaluate the appropriateness of diffusion theory in a combined context of information technology and public policy innovation by ...
Developing Condition-Specific Hospice Formularies for Congestive Heart Failure and Depression Conditions and The Evaluation of Their Economic Impact
(2006-08-15)
With the increasing costs of providing pharmaceutical care, hospices in the U.S
are burdened with the high costs of providing optimum healthcare. There is a need to
implement cost-containment strategies such as drug ...
Changes in energy expenditure associated with injestion of high protein, high fat versus high protein, low fat meals among underweight, normal weight, and overweight females
(2006-08-15)
Changes in energy expenditure in response to ingestion of a high protein, high fat meal versus an isocaloric high protein, low fat meal were investigated in 21 females, aged 19-28 years. Subjects were classified based on ...
Evaluation of the bulk sweetener D-tagatose and the high intensity sweetener Splenda as sugar replacers in cookies
(2006-08-15)
For a variety of health reasons, consumers are consuming more foods prepared with less metabolizeable sugars and artificial sweeteners. Before sugar replacers can be used in foods, their effect on food characteristics ...
Simulation, Estimation, and Experimentation of Vehicle Longitudinal Dynamics That Effect Fuel Economy
(2006-08-15)
In this thesis, longitudinal vehicle dynamics are researched with an emphasis on heavy trucks and fuel economy. Commercial vehicles display large variations in their parameters, and due to many current trends in transportation ...
Dynamic Modeling of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Stack with 1D and 2D CFD Techniques
(2006-08-15)
The PEM fuel cell is a potential candidate for use as an alternative power source in future vehicle and power conditioning applications. The electric power, as a load, continuously varies as a function of time in the ...
Some Studies on Modeling and Simulation of a Disc Brake System for Squeal Prediction
(2006-08-15)
Most mechanical systems that involve a sliding contact experience some degree of friction induced self-excited vibration. A well known example is brake squeal which is a top concern for automotive companies, who must spend ...
Health Monitoring for Flywheel Rotors Supported By Active Magnetic Bearings
(2006-08-15)
Magnetic bearings are not a new technology in themselves, yet the control and implementation of such devices is still a budding science. Magnetic bearings are particularly attractive for some applications because of the ...
Microstructural effects on fracture behavior of particulate composites: Investigation of toughening mechanisms using optical and boundary element methods
(2006-08-15)
Particulate polymer composites are used in a variety of engineering applications. These are generally two phase materials with polymeric phase reinforced by a filler phase to improve overall mechanical, thermal and/or ...
Design Optimization and Health Monitoring for Multi-Directional Composite Flywheel Energy Storage Systems
(2006-08-15)
Flywheels are used to store kinetic energy through the rotation of an inertial mass, which usually rotates at very high speeds. Generally, that energy can be extracted (using a motor-generator system) in the form of ...
Torsionless Modules and Minimal Generating Sets for Ideals of Integral Domains
(2006-08-15)
This is a treatise of relationships between the number of elements necessary to generate the ideals of a domain and the
torsionless modules of that domain. Three types of domains are
identified according to natural ...
Mixed Groups with Decomposition Bases and Global k-Groups
(2006-08-15)
This thesis is devoted to proving assertions made without proof by Paul Hill and Charles Megibben in their fundamental papers regarding knice subgroups and the Axiom 3 characterization of global Warfield groups. The main ...
Evaluation of Restraint Stresses and Cracking in Early-age Concrete with the Rigid Cracking Frame
(2005-08-15)
Early-age cracking problems are common in a wide variety of concrete structures, ranging from bridge decks and piers, to pavements used for highways and airport runways. Numerous surveys conducted by state and federal ...
A-Stability For Two Species Competition Diffusion Systems
(2006-08-15)
My dissertation research focuses on establishing the structural
stability of the attractor ($\mathcal{A}$-stability) via Morse-Smale
property for diffusive two-species competition systems
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\label{abst ...
Fiscal Policy and the Growth of Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-saharan Africa (Selected Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa)
(2005-12-15)
This study evaluates the impacts of fiscal policy on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) region, focusing on the selected countries of Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. The study further ...
Simbuilder: An Investigation and Usability Study Of Novice Programming Techniques
(2005-12-15)
In many existing programming languages, novices always find it difficult to transform their mental plan to terms compatible with the computer. By analyzing the ways users think to solve their daily problems and designing ...
Development of an Augmenting Navigational Cognition System
(2005-12-15)
Social isolation for persons with cognitive impairments due to aging and/or disease is common and widespread. Those people who have diseases such as early Alzheimer’s and dementia tend to forget what they have to do to ...
Hydrothermal Syntheses, Structures, and Properties of New Iodate and Selenite Compounds of Transition Metals, Lanthanides, and Actinides
(2007-12-15)
Iodate and selenite anions possessing a nonbonding, but stereochemically active lone pairs of electrons, were selected as building blocks to produce new compounds with noncentrosymmetric structures, a prerequisite for ...
Studies to Elucidate the Mechanism of Reduced Flavin Transfer in the Alkanesulfonate Monooxygenase System from Escherichia coli
(2007-12-15)
The two-component alkanesulfonate monooxygenase system utilizes reduced flavin as a substrate to catalyze a unique desulfonation reaction during times of sulfur starvation. The flavin reductase (SsuE) provides reduced ...
Polymorphism in chicken immune response genes and resistance to disease
(2007-12-15)
Genetic resistance to a number of viral pathogens has been linked to polymorphisms in genes of the immune system. Among these are the genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and those induced by the type I ...