Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Author "Narayanan, Hari"

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Analyzing the E ects of Sequencer Discrepancies on Next-Generation Genome Assembly Tools

Pritchard, Michael Jr (2016-08-04)

The advent of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques in the early 21st century massively increased genetic sequencing throughput while dramatically reducing associated costs. This is turn lowered barriers of entry ...

Applications of Augmented and Virtual Reality at Museums and Archaeological Parks to Improve Sustainability

Sargsyan, Nikolay (2022-05-24)

Augmented and Virtual Reality are relatively novel technologies that have gained popularity during the past decade. Virtual Reality allows one to be immersed in virtual worlds, while Augmented Reality combines virtual and ...

A Demographic Survey of Selected Third-Party Android Markets

Symon, William (2012-07-20)

In 1998 less than 10 percent of the global population held cell phone subscriptions. By the end of 2011 this number had increased to 87 percent, accounting for over 5.9 billion subscribers worldwide. Due to this high ...

Discovering Vulnerabilities In The Wild: An Empirical Study

Fang, Ming (2014-12-11)

There is little or no information available on what actually happens when a software vulnerability is detected. We performed an empirical study on reporters of the three most prominent security vulnerabilities: buffer ...

Energy Profiles of Java Collections Classes

Hasan, Samir (2016-04-22)

We created detailed profiles of the energy consumed by common operations done on Java List, Map, and Set abstractions. The results show that the alternative data types for these abstractions differ significantly in terms ...

An experimental investigation of semi-automatic generation of concept maps from textbooks

Nayak, Vineet (2019-07-18)

A concept map is a useful tool to organize and structure unstructured data, in this case, the information contained in a textbook. In education, a concept map can be used to set learning goals, monitor progress and visualize ...

For Youth For Life: 4-H Digital Badges: A Collaborative Tool to Support Informal Learning

Kakkar, Sarthak (2015-05-05)

The intent of FYFL (For Youth For Life) application is to provide an easy to use, cost effective and scalable collaborative system in order to facilitate learning and sharing best practices across communities and institution ...

Improving Vehicular Networking Reliability and Efficiency in the Context of Platooning Applications

Gao, Song (2016-05-23)

Vehicular networking is a technology that enables vehicles communication system. A joint effort from the automobile industry, transportation industry, and government offices is driving the adoption of this technology to ...

Thermal Management and Data Archiving in Data Centers

Chen, Yuanqi (2016-05-06)

This dissertation is focused on thermal and resource management of data centers. Recognizing that there is the lack of comprehensive benchmarks for thermal management in the context of cluster computing in data centers, ...

Using Virtual Reality to Measure Working Memory Performance and Evaluate the Effect of the Degree of Immersion on Working Memory Performance

Lusta, Majdi (2023-04-27) ETD File Embargoed

Virtual Reality is becoming prevalent in our society today in various industries like entertainment, education, health, manufacturing, and communications. It allows one to visualize almost any object or go anywhere and ...