Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
Now showing items 9961-9980 of 10153
Perceived Competence and Attitudes of Counseling Psychology Graduate Students Regarding People with Disabilities
(2007-12-15)
Historically, people with disabilities (PWD) have been stigmatized and discriminated against by society as a whole. People with disabilities constitute the largest minority group within the United States. Hence, counseling ...
Dynamic Clustering Protocol based on Relative Speed in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks For Intelligent Vehicles
(2007-12-15)
A knowledge of real time traffic density on different roads has many applications such as real time navigation for driver, designing efficient vehicular routing protocol and building fully autonomous vehicles. Forming ...
An Exploratory Study of Men’s Interpretation and Choices of Male Looks
(2007-12-15)
Men’s shifting self-identities and masculinities result in changes in men’s clothing and shopping behavior. In fashion diffusion process, the fashion opinion leader plays a crucial role in approving or disapproving any new ...
Demographics of Adware and Spyware
(2007-12-15)
The World Wide Web is the most popular use of the Internet. Information can be accessed from this network of web pages. Unknown to users, web pages can access their personal information and, sometimes, also provide information ...
A Flexible Model for Multi-agent Based Simulation of Software Development Process
(2007-12-15)
Inadequate use of project management techniques in software development can be traced to the lack of efficient education strategies for managers. Software development processes are complex and therefore it is hard to predict ...
Symbiotic Adaptive Multisimulation
(2007-12-15)
Systems characterized by non-linear interactions among diverse agents often exhibit emergent behavior that may be very different from what the initial conditions of these systems would suggest. Traditional simulation ...
Automated Source Code Measurement Environment For Software Quality
(2007-12-15)
Measuring how well software component can be reused and maintained helps programmers not only write reusable and maintainable software, but also identifies reusable or maintainable components. We develop an automated ...
Finite Element Modeling of Skewed Reinforced Concrete Bridges and the Bond-slip Relationship Between Concrete and Reinforcement
(2007-12-15)
A bridge deck on US 331 near Montgomery, AL developed transverse and longitudinal cracking a few months after construction was completed. A refined finite element model of this continuous, skewed, composite bridge was ...
Relationships Between Laboratory Measured Characteristics of HMA and Field Compactability
(2007-12-15)
Compactability of HMA mixtures is often used to describe how easy or difficult a mixture is to compact on a roadway. Several asphalt researchers have proposed laboratory measured parameters of mixtures and/or their ...
A Sensitivity Analysis of the Mobility-Related Benefits of the Alabama Service and Assistance Patrol
(2007-12-15)
The Alabama Service and Assistance Patrol (ASAP) was developed by the Alabama Department of Transportation in an attempt to reduce non-recurring congestion in the Birmingham region of Alabama. This Freeway Service Patrol ...
Analytical Solutions for Sequentially Coupled Multi-Species Reactive Transport Problems
(2007-12-15)
Multi-species reactive transport equations coupled through sorption and sequential first-order reactions are commonly used to model sites contaminated with radioactive wastes, chlorinated solvents and nitrogenous species. ...
Evaluation of the Use of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement in Stone Matrix Asphalt Mixtures
(2007-12-15)
Mixtures that contain reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) can typically perform as well or better than conventional HMA mixes. However, use of RAP has generally not been extended to stone matrix asphalt (SMA) production. This ...
Destruction of Perchlorate and Nitrate by Stabilized Zero-valent Iron Nanoparticles and Immobilization of Mercury by a New Class of Iron Sulfide Nanoparticles
(2007-12-15)
This research compares representative standard strong-base anion (SBA) and weak-base anion (WBA) exchangers, a bifunctional resin (A-530E), a class of polymeric ligand exchangers (PLE’s), and an ion-exchange fiber (IXF) ...
Factors Affecting Arsenic Mobilization in Experimental Subsurface Systems
(2007-12-15)
Elevated concentrations of arsenic (As) in groundwater is a widespread problem
that affects millions of people around the world. Other than the adverse affects on human
health, this problem often raises economic, social ...
Preparation, Characterization, and Applications of Polysaccharide-stabilized Metal Nanoparticles for Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents in Soils and Groundwater
(2007-12-15)
Removal of chlorinated solvents in groundwater and soils represents one of the most challenging environmental issues. Highly reactive palladized iron (Fe-Pd) nanoparticles offer the potential to migrate in the soil and ...
Psychopathy and Choice of Victims: Implications for the Sub-Categorization and Treatment of Juvenile Sexual Offenders
(2005-12-15)
Adolescent sexual offenders are responsible for a considerable portion of the sexual abuse victimization that takes place in American society today. Convicted sexual offenders report that they most often began their sexual ...
Numerical Model Evaluations of Cumulative Contraction Scour at a Bridge Site with Cohesive Soils
(2005-08-15)
The objective of this study was to perform 2-Dimensional numerical contraction
scour calculations at an actual bridge site with cohesive soils. The 2-D model used in the
analysis was the Finite Element Surface Water ...
A Quantitative Study of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) Over Internet Protocol (IP) Protocols
(2005-12-15)
The research, which is discussed in this dissertation, consists of the development and testing of a suite of ten Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and reliable Real Time Protocol (RTP) MIDI over IP (MOIP) protocols, and ...
The Activity Metric for Low Resource, On-line Character Recognition
(2005-12-15)
This work presents an algorithm for on-line character recognition that is fast, portable, and consumes very little memory for code or data. The algorithm is alphabet-independent, and does not require training beyond ...
Reconstructing the Past Salinities Experienced by a Freshwater and Marine Piscivore in the Mobile-tensaw River Delta Using Otolith Microchemistry
(2007-12-15)
In this study, we used changes in otolith microchemistry, with particular emphasis on otolith Sr:Ca, along the otolith growth axis to examine the past salinities, and thus the past environments, experienced by age-0 ...