Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Hopfield Neural Lattice Models
(2020-07-22)
Hopfield neural network model is a continuous deterministic model proposed by John J.
Hopfield in the early 1980’s. The model was proposed in an attempt to produced an artificial
neural network architecture that mimic ...
Development of the Contact Models to Determine Electrical Contact Resistance Including a Coupled Electro-thermo-mechanical Analysis Considering Temperature-Dependent Material Properties
(2020-07-22)
Reliability of the electrical contact or interface is one of the major concerns in many applications such as batteries, solar cells, electrical connectors, MEMS based sensors for hybrid and electric vehicles, electronic ...
Fatigue Behavior and Modeling of Polyether Ether Ketone under Variable Amplitude and Multiaxial Loading
(2020-07-22)
Experimental and analytical roadmap to thoroughly understand and establish benchmark material properties for unfilled polyether ether ketone (PEEK) under monotonic tension and compression, as well as uniaxial and multiaxial ...
Beyond the timberline: Assessment of Supplemental Income Opportunities, Forest Management Practices, and Attributes of Southern Pine Straw Types
(2020-07-22)
Of Alabama’s 23 million acres of timberland, over 13 million acres of it is owned by family forest landowners. Therefore, they play a pivotal role in the future of Alabama’s forest. Due to a combination of shift in ownership ...
Guideline for Applying Neo Confucianism thought in Product Design
(2020-07-22)
This study aims to summarize the design principles in Neo-Confucianism and use them to develop a guideline for product design. This study provides new design opportunities under Neo-Confucianism thought by analyzing the ...
A Phenomenological Study Exploring the Lived Experiences of Compassion Satisfaction in Early Career Mental Health Counselors
(2020-07-22)
This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of compassion satisfaction in eight early career mental health counselors. Through in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the researcher sought to capture the nuances ...
Robust Bayesian Methods for Semi-parametric Models
(2020-07-21)
Nonparametric rank-based approaches in many situations provide more flexible modeling speci cations and robustness when the distribution of data diff ers from the assumed distribution. This dissertation is mainly concerned ...
Women, the Family, and the "Search for Stability" in Thermidorian France
(2020-07-21)
The Revolutionary Tribunal trials of Jean-Baptiste Carrier and Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville played a central role in the Thermidorian government’s “search for stability”. In these trials, the Thermidorians sought to ...
Development and Calibration of Safety Performance Functions for Intersections on Rural Divided Highways in Alabama
(2020-07-21)
Although median separated highways provide apparent benefits over undivided highways, sometimes median openings on rural divided highways (RDHs) provide some of the greatest opportunities for frequent and severe crashes ...
Mental Health Labels and Their Effects on Public Stigma among College Students
(2020-07-21)
This study examined the relationship between labels used to refer to mental health, whether or not participants were asked to reflect on their preconceived notions around these labels, and endorsement of mental health ...
Effects of Lithographic Parameters and Geometric Exposure Method for Corner Rounding Correction in Massively-Parallel Electron-Beam Systems for the Mask Pattern Development
(2020-07-21)
The ability of electron-beam (e-beam) lithography to transfer fine features onto a substrate
is essential in many applications where high-resolution devices need to be fabricated. However,
its low throughput has been the ...
Elucidation of the mechanism of learning and memory deficits in adolescent offspring due to prenatal cannabinoid exposure
(2020-07-21)
Cannabis is now one of the most commonly used illicit substances among pregnant and lactating women. This is particularly concerning given that developmental exposure to cannabinoids has been demonstrated to induce enduring ...
Hardy space associated with flag-type singular integrals of three parameters
(2020-07-21)
The main purpose of this thesis is to establish a Hardy space theory associated with the flag-type singular integrals on Euclidean space. This theory is a continuation of those the classical one parameter, product setting ...
Semiparametric Estimation for Integral Projection Models
(2020-07-21)
Understanding the connection between variation in climate and population dynamics of plants and animals is important for predicting the impacts of future climate change. A popular approach for studying population dynamics ...
Improving Parameter Estimation for Integral Projection Models in Fluctuating Environments
(2020-07-21)
The matrix projection model (MPM) is one of the mainstream approaches for population
and environmental dynamics in biological and ecological sciences. MPM is very popular in
modern biological sciences mainly due to its ...
Sickness Behavior and the Metabolic Demand of Immunity: Insight from a Live Bacterial Infection Model.
(2020-07-21)
Life-history theory states that animals have access to a finite amount of resources over their lifespan. These resources are allocated between growth, reproduction, and maintenance, and how these resources are allocated ...
Secondary Physical Educators’ Grading Outcomes and the Influence of the Environment
(2020-07-21)
The aim of this investigation was to deploy an ecological examination (Ecological Systems Framework) to account for the role the total school environment influences physical educator’s grading outcomes. The framework ...
A Phenomenological Study: Exploring the Career Decision-Making of Women of Color in Counselor Education
(2020-07-21)
This study uses a hermeneutic phenomenology approach coupled with critical race theory to examine the lived experiences of women of color in counselor education and their pursuit to the professoriate. Scholars have made ...
Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and microbiota identified among flies and their sympatric animals
(2020-07-21)
Antimicrobial resistance is rising globally at an alarming rate as one of the most serious public health challenges. There is increasing evidence that the environment plays a major role in the development and transmission ...
On Planar Embeddings of the Knaster V Lambda-Continuum
(2020-07-21)
A\v nusi\'c, Bruin, and \v Cin\v c have asked in \cite{Anusic2} which hereditarily decomposable chainable continua (HDCC) have uncountably many mutually inequivalent planar embeddings. It was noted, as per the embedding ...