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High Impact Practices and Their Effect on Beginning Career Outcomes in Agriculture
(2024-07-22)
High impact practices (HIPs), which are offered to undergraduates at Auburn University, help build both soft and hard skills that these employers stated they are seeking from candidates in today’s job market. The Auburn ...
High Performance Conducting Polymer Coatings for Enhanced Electrochemical Properties
(2018-11-27)
The dissertation focuses on performance of conducting polymer as a coating that can used as anticorrosive agent, ion-exchange membrane and electrodes for energy storage devices. There are mainly two ways to synthesize ...
High Performance Rate Adaptation on IEEE 802.11 Networks
(2008-08-15)
IEEE 802.11 standard has evolved from the basic transmission rates in early days to multiple
rates today with advanced encoding and antenna techniques. The performance of IEEE 802.11
wireless networks is supposed to ...
High Quality CT Image Reconstruction from Limited Projections Obtained from MiSpinner
(2016-05-05)
Computed tomography (CT) technology is widely used in the medical and industrial fields. However, a traditional CT machine costs too much for many researchers to afford it and prevents them from doing related research. To ...
High School Counselors' Perceptions of Career and Technical Education
(2018-07-12)
This study sought to determine if a relationship exists among high school counselors’ specific demographics, the educational experiences (i.e., professional development, training, and other coursework) of public high school ...
High School Student Opinion Polling on Career Exploration
(2011-10-19)
This study examines the use of student learning polls as indicators of student perceptions and influences on career exploration. No Child Left Behind requires schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress for two ...
High School Students’ Attitudes Toward Competitive Marching Band: A Comparative Analysis Based Upon Contest Rankings
(2017-04-24)
The purpose of this quantitative study was (a) to determine the extent to which secondary school students find educational and musical value in competitive marching band programs, and (b) to discover how contest rankings ...
High Sensitivity Signatures for Test and Diagnosis of Analog, Mixed-Signal and Radio-Frequency Circuits
(2013-07-18)
The conventional approach, widely practiced in the industry today, for testing analog
circuits is to ensure that the circuit conforms to data-sheet limits on all its specifications.
However, such a specification based ...
High Speed Pipelined SAR ADC with Time Domain sub-Ranging Fine Quantizer
(2024-12-10)
Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) stand as indispensable bridges, seamlessly connecting the tangible realities of the physical world with the boundless possibilities of the digitalized virtual world. In recent years, the ...
High Speed Videographic Quick Stop Device for Orthogonal Machining
(2013-12-04)
Advances in digital high speed video acquisition make it possible to create a fully integrated virtual quick stop device to observe the orthogonal metal cutting process in real time. This research aims to provide additional ...
High Strain Rate Elastic and Fracture Characterization of Isotropic and Orthotropic Materials with and without Nano Fillers
(2015-07-22)
A long-bar apparatus for subjecting relatively small samples to mode-I stress-wave loading has been devised for failure characterization. A methodology based on digital image correlation (DIC) used in conjunction with ...
High Strain Rate Material Characterization of Lead-Free SAC Solder Alloy and Solder Joint Reliability under Vibration and Thermal Loads
(2022-12-09)
Electronics will experience high and low working temperatures during operations, handling, and storage in severe environments applications such as automotive, oil and gas, aerospace, medical technologies, and defense ...
High Temperature Electronics Packaging Processes and Materials Development
(2010-08-16)
Silicon carbide device technology is being developed for power electronics applications for use at high temperatures. In recent studies, SiC based electronics and sensors have also been demonstrated for extended operation ...
High Temperature High Power SiC Devices Packaging Processes and Materials Development
(2006-08-15)
Silicon power devices have reached their theoretical limits in terms of higher temperature and higher power operation by virtue of the physical properties of the material. SiC has been identified as a material with the ...
High Temperature Vibration Fatigue Life Prediction and High Strain Rate Material Characterization of Lead-Free Solders
(2013-01-03)
Current trends in the automotive industry warrant a variety of electronics for improved control, safety, efficiency and entertainment. Many of these electronic systems like engine control units, variable valve sensor, ...
A High Throughput Multiplier Design Exploiting Input Based Statistical Distribution in Completion Delays
(2013-05-16)
The primary goal of this work is to ensure that optimum performance is achieved for a Multiplier Design, while reducing as much static power dissipation as possible or atleast equal to their slower counterparts. This design ...
High Tonnage Harvesting and Skidding for Loblolly Pine Energy Plantations
(2012-07-31)
The need for alternative and renewable energy sources is evident in the United States to ensure that the nation’s energy appetite is fulfilled. The southeastern United States has a very promising source for this renewable ...
High Tunnel Production of Tomatoes and Snapdragons for Season Extension in Southeastern Alabama
(2006-05-15)
Tomato and snapdragon production were evaluated for high tunnel production in southeastern Alabama during the spring and fall production cycles for season extension feasibility. ‘BHN 640’, ‘FLA 91’, ‘Sunleaper’, and ...
High-Dimensional Classification Methods for Sparse Signals and Their Applications in Text and Data Mining
(2014-07-22)
Classification using high-dimensional features arises frequently in many contemporary
statistical studies such as tumor classification using microarray or other high-throughput
data. In this dissertation we conduct a ...
High-Dynamic Range Collision Detection using Piezoelectric Polymer Films for Planar and Non-planar Applications
(2013-07-10)
This thesis develops a large area collision detection system utilizing the piezoelectric ef-
fect of polyvinylidene fluoride film. Complex high speed autonomous articulations associated
with modern large-scale high ...