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Gothic Travel: Captivity, Monstrosity, and Emotion in Transatlantic Eighteenth-Century Literature 

Aldridge, Todd (2016-05-06)
In this dissertation, I explore the relationship between captivity narratives and the Gothic in eighteenth-century transatlantic literature. I move from examining traditional captivity narratives of Mary Rowlandson and ...

Government Structure, Economic Inequality, and Social Safety Net Provision in US Counties 

Moorer, Regina (2016-08-04)
This study examines the relationship between economic inequality and social safety net spending at the county level between 1996 and 2010. Three key questions are explored. What effect does the interaction between economic ...

GPS and GIS Application and Analysis of Timber Harvesting Operations on Steep Terrain 

Michels, Owen (2009-05-19)
This study examined the productivity and site disturbance of a tree length harvesting system in the steep slope conditions of the Appalachian Highlands. Timber harvesting is a major industry in this area but has the potential ...

A GPS and GLONASS L1 Vector Tracking Software-Defined Receiver 

Watts, Tanner (2019-07-29)
Originally designed for military navigation, GPS has exploded into a modern tool used by government, industrial, and commercial sectors. The position and timing services GPS receivers provide have been integrated into ...

GPS and Inertial Sensor Enhancements for Vision-based Highway Lane Tracking 

Clanton, Joshua (2006-08-15)
For the past decade much research in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) community has been devoted to the topic of lane departure warning (LDW). A significant portion of highway fatalities each year are attributed ...

GPS Carrier Phase Tracking in Difficult Environments Using Vector Tracking For Precise Positioning and Vehicle Attitude Estimation 

Martin, Scott (2017-04-25)
In this dissertation, two approaches are developed to improve the carrier phase tracking performance of a software-defined GPS receiver. The first approach combines a non-coherent vector tracking architecture with a local ...

A GPS L1 and Cellular 4G LTE Vector Tracking Software-Defined Receiver 

Morgan, Samuel (2023-11-17)
In this thesis, a traditional GPS L1 vector tracking receiver is augmented with cellular 4G LTE channels. The hybrid receiver can acquire and track GPS L1 and LTE signals simultaneously in an extended Kalman filter-based ...

A GPS L5 Software Defined Vector Tracking Receiver 

Givhan, Charles Anderson (2021-08-11)
As the world continues towards autonomy, the need for continuous, precise, and robust navigation is becoming increasingly important. A new wave of modernized Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals are currently ...

GPS Multipath Detection and Mitigation Timing Bias Techniques 

Preston, Sarah (2015-05-08)
In this thesis, timing-based methods of multipath mitigation and detection are developed. GPS pseudorange measurements are used to calculate a receiver's position and timing bias, which is a measurement of the di erence ...

GPS/INS Operation in Shadowed Environments 

Clark, Benjamin (2008-08-15)
This thesis presents the analysis techniques developed for monitoring GPS signals in harsh shadowed environments such as heavy foliage. It also details a method selected for improved performance by combining raw GPS ...

Grade 6-12 String Performers' Perceived Meaning of School and Community Youth Orchestra Experience 

King, Katherine Lanier (2014-07-29)
A key issue for string education advocates is the growth of orchestra programs in schools and communities where participants are engaged in learning and performing. There is a need to discover what is personally meaningful ...

Gradient Flows, Convexity, and Adjoint Orbits 

Liu, Xuhua (2012-06-19)
This dissertation studies some matrix results and gives their Generalizations in the context of semisimple Lie groups. The adjoint orbit is the primary object in our study. The dissertation consists of four chapters. ...

Graduate Preparation and Professional Development of Speech Language Pathology Students: A Grounded Theory Study 

Waters, Sarah (2016-05-05)
This study describes a hierarchical model developed using grounded theory analysis of clinical development of speech-language pathology graduate students. Eight female students attending Auburn University’s speech-language ...

Graduate Student Burnout and Cynicism: Examining the Effects of Student Co-Rumination and Need for Cognition 

Newport, Matthew (2020-04-14)
Life for graduate students can be challenging, as they must find some way to balance their academic demands with other areas of their lives. Attempting to find such a balance only increases the stress that graduate students ...

Graduate Students of Color at PWIs: School Belonging, Ethnic Identity and Mental Health 

Calder, Claudia (2019-07-23)
This study sought to explore the perceived sense of belonging of graduate Students of Color who attend Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). Utilizing Baumeister & Leary’s, (1995) belongingness hypothesis as a foundation, ...

Graduate Students' Perceptions of Master Teaching 

Edge, Jon Mitchell (2019-04-09)
This study examined graduate students’ perceptions of master teaching qualities and behaviors exhibited by graduate-level faculty. The Teacher Behavior Checklist (Buskist, Sikorski, Buckley, & Saville, 2002) was administered ...

Graduate Students, Negative Perfectionism, Perceived Stress, and Disordered Eating Behaviors 

Wilson, Carmilya (2009-04-28)
Much of the literature on Disordered Eating Behaviors has examined their relationship with different risk factors. Among those factors examined have been perfectionism and stress. One form of perfectionism, Negative ...

Granular Forms of Sodium and Potassium Azide as a Nematicide for Established Turfgrasses 

Wells, Sheryl (2009-05-04)
There is a need for more user-friendly chemical tools for management of plant parasitic nematodes in both cool-and warm-season turfgrasses. SEP-100 is a stabilized liquid formulation of sodium azide and was extensively ...

Graph-Based Relative Path Estimation Using Landmarks for Long Distance Ground Vehicle Following 

Pierce, Dan (2022-12-08)
This dissertation presents a graph-based sensor fusion framework for the localization of automated ground vehicles for leader-follower path duplication. A specific focus is given to scenarios where the following distance ...

Graphene Based Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage 

Kanungo, Rohit (2019-07-30)
The objective of this work is to gain fundamental insights into the reduction of graphene oxide (GO), chemical reduction induced self-assembly of graphene and assembly of novel three-dimensional graphene morphologies. It ...