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Liquid Crystalline Phase Behavior and Fiber Spinning of Double-Stranded DNA Stabilized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Dispersions
(2012-05-07)
This dissertation describes the first discovery and characterization of lyotropic cholesteric single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) liquid crystals phase where the SWNT acts as a mesogens and is not simply inserted into an ...
Liquid Jet Impingement on Mesoscale Modified Surfaces for Power Electronics Cooling
(2023-10-25)
In each vehicular generation, active safety and comfort features are added and enhanced,
increasing the power draw required to operate every feature. As a result, heat generation in the
power electronics is increasing, ...
Liquid Jet Impingement with Spent Flow Management for Power Electronics Cooling
(2015-07-21)
The high levels of heat generated by power electronics, on board electric and hybrid-electric vehicles, require the use of aggressive liquid cooling techniques. Incorporating the electronics cooling into the radiator flow ...
Liquid Phase Desulfurization of Hydrocarbon Fuels under Ambient Conditions using Regenerable Mixed Oxide Supported Silver Adsorbents
(2014-04-09)
Sulfur derivatives are major contaminants in hydrocarbon fuels. Sulfur emission from fuel is a major environmental concern and many countries around the world are enacting laws to limit it. In addition, the development of ...
List-Edge Coloring Planar Graphs with Bounded Maximum Degree
(2019-07-23)
In this thesis we prove that triangulations of maximum degree 5 are 6-list-edge-colorable. We also find necessary conditions for maximum degree to extend a list-edge-precoloring to E(G) for a planar graph G. The techniques ...
Literacy, Literature, and Pedagogy in Two Nineteenth-Century Alabama Normal Schools
(2014-07-24)
Six of Alabama’s eleven state universities began as normal schools during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Florence State Normal School and Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School created empowerment for individual ...
Lithofacies analysis of AU scientific drill cores 09-03 and 09-04, Wetumpka impact structure, Elmore County, Alabama
(2016-03-25)
The Wetumpka impact structure is an approximately 5 km diameter crater that resulted from a shallow marine cosmic impact in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico during Late Cretaceous (latest Santonian to earliest Campanian). ...
Livable Neighborhood Factors Affecting Mode Choices in a Medium Sized University Community
(2015-12-04)
Communities across the United States are striving to increase walking, biking, and riding transit among their residents and thus become more livable. In order for these communities to become more livable, city planners ...
Live-Load Response of In-Service Bridge Constructed with Precast, Prestressed Self- Consolidating Concrete Girders
(2013-11-08)
In order to assess the viability of a bridge constructed with precast, prestressed, self-consolidating concrete (SCC) bridge girders in the state of Alabama, the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) sponsored an ...
The Lived Experience of Identity Development for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals Who Have Survived Complex Trauma
(2022-12-05)
This study utilized a transcendental phenomenological framework to examine the lived experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming individuals who have experienced complex trauma. Participants completed semi-structured ...
The Lived Experiences of African American Males in Becoming Counselors and Counselor Educators
(2018-07-26)
The counseling profession has evolved over the years from traditional White men dominating the profession to a more diverse culture of helping professionals that vary in race, gender, and age. Despite the growth and ...
Liverwort Control in Container-grown Nursery Crops
(2006-08-15)
The objective of this study was to evaluate preemergence and postemergence liverwort control in container-grown nursery crops.
In Chapter II, experiments were to evaluate effectiveness of selected chemicals for postemergence ...
Living in the Global Village: The Value and Development of Global Citizenship among Youth
(2009-04-28)
Globalization in the 21st century is imposing new complex sociopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges that point to the need for global citizenship (Arnett, 2002; Korten, 1996). Given the demands on young people ...
Load Rating Corrugated Metal Culverts with Shallow Soil Cover
(2023-05-01)
Culverts under existing roadways that do not meet current cover requirements are common. Even though they may have performed without any issues for decades, rating of many of them using current specifications and methodologies ...
Load Testing, Analysis, and Design of a New Box Culvert Wing Tab
(2018-08-03)
Culverts are critical hydraulic and transportation structures. They are often subjected to complex load conditions such as backfill earth pressure and traffic live load. Culverts may experience total and differential soil ...
Local and National Scale Energy Calibration of Standard Penetration Test Hammers
(2012-03-27)
A Standard Penetration Test (SPT) energy testing program was developed for the
Alabama Department of Transportation. Six Central Mine Equipment (CME) automatic
hammers were calibrated using force and velocity measurements. ...
Local Calibration of the MEPDG Using Test Track Data
(2013-11-08)
The Mechanistic-empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG), now known as AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design, is a state-of-art mechanistic-empirical design method. It has been adopted by the American Association of State Highway ...
Local Motion Picture Exhibition in Auburn, From 1894-1928: A Cultural History from a Communication Perspective
(2004-08-15)
This thesis is a historical analysis of Auburn’s motion picture history from 1894-
1928. Auburn’s motion picture history is unique because it does not follow traditional
film histories. In 1905, Auburn residents and API ...
Local Repair and Next-hop Backup Route Based improvements in AODV Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(2013-07-11)
As Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) continue to experience increasing popularity, several different protocols have been proposed to efficiently transmit data among the participating nodes. These protocols have to be robust ...
Location Estimation in Wireless Networks
(2006-05-15)
Wireless location determination has attracted much attention lately due to its many applications in mobile (sensor) networking including target tracking and network intrusion detection. However, it is
challenging due to ...