Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Title
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The Soft Side of Leadership: Principals’ Enactment of the Love Languages and Leadership Frames in Influencing School Culture
(2015-07-28)
The culture of a school defines how the school works in regards to rules, relationships, and attitudes. The current research focuses primarily on the principal’s academic intelligence and how it impacts school culture. ...
Soft Video Delivery by Metadata Reduction over LTE
(2019-12-05)
New methods for media delivery, specifically video, have become increasingly important
over the past decade. Along with increased user need for video streaming, video is now a majority
of the traffic on the internet. In ...
A Software and Hardware System for the Autonomous Control and Navigation of a Trained Canine
(2009-07-20)
This dissertation demonstrates the autonomous command and navigation of a trained
canine to multiple waypoints. A system is described consisting of a canine that can be
guided autonomously to a number of waypoints by an ...
Software and Methods for Computational Inverse Design of Soft Materials with Physical Relevance
(2026-07-29)
Soft materials are used in a wide range of applications, but they remain difficult to
design because their properties emerge from coupled molecular interactions and struc-
tures. This dissertation develops and applies ...
Software Defect Prediction with Fuzzy Logic
(2020-11-16)
Finding software defects in software project modules is a complex process and highly uncertain in nature. Even though multiple intensive machine learning and deep learning models are available to predict defects, it is ...
A Software Signal Simulation of Low Earth Orbit Satellites for Investigative Analysis
(2023-05-02)
Simulation tools are an important part of the engineering design process by allowing changes in algorithms and processes before implementation. Current global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) are mainly located in ...
Soil Hydrological Studies for Water Resource Conservation and Management in the Virgin Islands
(2025-04-22)
The Virgin Islands face water scarcity due to their small size, topography, and the prevailing climate of the northeastern Caribbean region. At the same time, demands placed on water resources are high, from tourism, ...
Soil Microbial Community Structure and Aflatoxin Contamination of Peanuts
(2009-08-06)
Potential management of the soilborne Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus fungi, a food contaminate that causes human and animal health problem, may be possible through maintaining an appropriate soil microbial diversity. ...
Soil Organic Matter Characterization and CO2 Flux in Long-Term Experiments
(2011-07-27)
Increasing global concentration of atmospheric CO2 predating the beginning of industrial era mostly due to fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and changes in land management has necessitated studies that will quantify ...
A Soil Quality Index for Alabama
(2015-08-21)
Soil quality is how well soil performs the functions expected of it. Many of Alabama’s agricultural soils are considered poor quality due to compaction, excessive runoff, a history of severe erosion, low soil organic matter, ...
Soil- and Foliar-Applied Potassium in Upland Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Production
(2019-12-20)
Soil test recommendations for upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) fertility are often based on varieties which are no longer in production, meriting questions on whether increased potassium (K) is needed for new varieties ...
Soil-Planter Interaction Force Distribution as Affected by Planting Depth Setting and Planter Configuration
(2016-04-26)
Agricultural field planting operations encounter great spatial and temporal variability. Research has shown that seeding depth and soil loading, produced by planting equipment, affect early crop growth as well as crop ...
Soil-Structure Interaction and Imperfect Trench Installations As Applied To Deeply Buried Conduits
(2007-05-15)
The imperfect trench installation method is used to reduce earth pressure on deeply buried conduits. Few quantitative refinements to the imperfect trench installation method, however, have been added since the fundamental ...
Soil-Structure Interaction Effects on the Seismic Response of Steel Structures
(2021-07-15)
Significant earthquakes are one of the most damaging events for structures. Much research has been done to mitigate the effect of earthquakes on structures. Soil-structure interaction can have a significant impact on the ...
Solar Energy Conversion and PEM Technology for a Residential Back-up Power System
(2013-04-22)
Shown in this work are the characterization, simulation, and implementation of a small-scale back-up power system powered through solar energy conversion. The technical approach utilizes solar arrays with a proton exchange ...
Solar-Wind Charge Exchange in Comets: Bayesian Diagnostics of Ion Composition and Freeze-In Temperature
(2025-11-18)
Cometary X-rays from solar-wind charge exchange (SWCX) probe solar-wind composition and coronal freeze-in conditions, yet most spectra are low- to moderate-resolution and strongly blended. Conventional fits often add more ...
Solder Joint Reliability & Prognostication of Lead Free Electronics in Harsh Thermo-Mechanical Environments
(2008-08-15)
The trends in the electronic packaging industry are to design smaller packages that have higher complexity, and to improve package reliability while reducing costs. These needs in the packaging industry have lead to a newer ...
Solder Joint Reliability Based Prognostic Health Management (PHM) Models for Life Prediction of Electronics Subjected to Harsh Thermo-mechanical Environments
(2013-12-04)
Field deployed electronics may accrue damage due to environmental exposure and usage after finite period of service but may not often have any macro-indicators of failure such as cracks or delamination. In real world setting ...
Solder Joint Reliability in Electronics Under Shock and Vibration Using Explicit Finite-Element Sub-Modeling
(2007-05-15)
Solder joint failure in electronic devices subject to shock and drop environment is one of the key concerns for the telecommunications industry. The recent trend towards miniaturization and increased functional density has ...
Solid Rocket Motor Internal Flow Solutions with FlightStream
(2021-07-13)
This thesis seeks to advance the state of the art for conceptual and preliminary design of
solid propellant rocket motors by adapting surface vorticity solution methods to the internal
ballistics problem. The practical ...