Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Title
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The Design, Synthesis and Application of Redox-Responsive MRI Contrast Agents
(2015-07-29)
Reactive oxygen species (ROSs), such as hydroxyl radicals, superoxide anions and hydrogen peroxide, are side products of aerobic respiration. Although ROSs regulate several physiological processes, they have been implicated ...
Design, synthesis and characterization of polymeric films and membranes
(2010-05-20)
Solid polymer electrolyte membranes play a vital role in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Although these membranes have been used successfully, there is still a need to improve their proton conductivity, lower their ...
Design, Testing, and Simulation of a Low-Cost, Light-Weight, Low-g IMU for the Navigation of an Indoor Blimp
(2006-05-15)
In this thesis we develop an IMU for the purpose of navigating an autonomous indoor blimp. Due to the unique system properties of an indoor blimp, the developed IMU is light-weight and is capable of measuring slow rotational ...
Designer Silica Layers for Advanced Applications: Processing and Properties
(2009-05-04)
Recently, as scientists have investigated the application of conventional MEMS devices to biological systems, the exciting fields of bio-MEMS and microfluidics have emerged. Due to their small size, bio-MEMS and microfluidics ...
A Designers Perspective on Decreasing Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries through the Informed Design of an Interactive Training Device
(2009-12-11)
Young adults frequently engage in various physically demanding sports without the training or supervision of a trained professional. This lack of training or supervision frequently leads athletes to practice and play with ...
Designing a Landscape Based on Childhood Play
(2011-11-30)
Children have the right to play. Throughout history we have recordings of children playing in all cultures. PLAY is a basic need along with nutrition, health, shelter and education. It is vital to the development of all ...
Designing Advanced Catalysts for Urea Electrocatalytic Oxidation Reaction
(2021-07-23)
Urea is the primary end product of nitrogen metabolism in humans, excreted from the human body by kidney function through urine. Abnormal concentrations of urea in the human urine provide essential information on renal ...
Designing an Anisotropic Noise Filter for Measuring Critical Dimension and Line Edge Roughness from SEM Images
(2018-04-23)
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is often employed in inspecting patterns transferred through a lithographic process. A typical inspection is to measure the critical dimension (CD) and line edge roughness (LER) of ...
Designing an Instrument for Measuring Motivational Interviewing Skills Acquisition in Healthcare Professional Trainees
(2011-04-28)
Motivational interviewing (MI), as a counseling approach, has been used and evaluated extensively in the last decade. This approach has a significant impact on addiction management, change in lifestyle, and adherence to ...
Designing cooperative and shared living for households that include both people with and without visual impairments
(2021-07-30)
From the 20st century, organizations have been established for helping people with visual impairments. However, people with sight who are living with people who are visually impaired haven’t gotten much attention and ...
Designing Efficient Single Page Web Applications
(2018-12-03)
Traditional web applications rely on the client-server model to request and render data on
the browser. Although this architecture has been popular for over a decade, waiting for
information as the server caters to ...
Designing for Cultures: An Approach for Product Design Using Components of Regional Culture
(2009-08-06)
Although much of humanity is tied together by certain fundamental principles
and the sharing of common physical and mental faculties, individuals are inherently
different and have different aesthetic preferences. However, ...
Designing for the Improvement of Operator Situation Awareness In Automation Systems
(2007-12-15)
The enhancement of operator situation awareness (SA) has become a major design goal for automation systems, in a wide variety of fields, including aviation, aerospace, nuclear plants, and advanced manufacturing systems. ...
Designing Goal-Oriented Systems: How Competition and Automation Foster Motivation and Results
(2013-12-04)
People often turn to goal-oriented systems to improve their lives and modify their behavior. With the rise of the Quantified Self movement, there are now a plethora of these systems and their related products available. ...
Designing Into 3D for Quadruped Orthotics
(2022-07-25)
The goal of this research is to leverage local equine keratin material properties and their correlation to hoof tubule density (TD), hydration state (biological and environmental), temperature (biological and environmental), ...
Designing landscapes for bird conservation in the Southeastern United States
(2012-06-22)
The Southeastern United States has high conservation importance because of the region's habitat and species diversity, ecological processes, and evolutionary potential; however, it also warrants strong concern because of ...
Designing LC Ladder Filters with Lossy Elements
(2013-01-24)
Many publications and many books have been written on LC Ladder filters, however, most of the material in circulation only deals with ideal (lossless) LC ladder filters. It is assumed that in the lossless design, all of ...
Designing Optimal Layouts for Block Stacking Warehouses
(2017-05-16)
Storing pallets of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) on top of one another on a warehouse floor is known as block stacking. Although this storage system can be inexpensively implemented in any open area, it is challenging in terms ...
Designs of Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) and Its Transition to Rectangular Waveguide
(2015-05-11)
There has been an ever increasing interest in the study of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) since 1998. Due to its low loss, planar nature, high integration capability and high compactness, SIW has been widely used to ...
Destination perceptions of Chinese tourists: A comparison between Japan and South Korea
(2012-07-02)
It has been widely accepted that competitive advantage is the key to the success of organizations, regions and countries (Porter, 1980). In the tourism industry, a country’s potential depends on its ability to maintain ...