Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconometrics
(2022-07-27)
For the first chapter, past literature has shown that 1970 amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA) led to significant reduction in air pollution early 1970s, and that it had positive infant health consequences for the cohorts ...
Enabling Oxide Dispersion Strengthening via In-situ Reaction During Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing: Methods and Mechanisms
(2022-07-27)
Oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) steels have continuously attracted interest over the past few decades for their potential applications in fission and fusion nuclear systems, high-temperature heat exchangers, and gas ...
On the Robustness and Privacy of Distributed Machine Learning
(2022-07-26)
Machine learning has recently gained tremendous interest due to its capabilities in producing predictive models in a wide variety of applications, such as objective detection and recommendation services. Meanwhile, the ...
A Preliminary Study of the Impact of Service Dogs on People with Physical Disabilities: Activities of Daily Living, Social Connectedness, Employment, and Quality of Life
(2022-07-26)
The use of service dogs as a holistic intervention for individuals with physical disabilities has increased in the past few decades. There is a relatively new body of research that demonstrates that service dogs positively ...
Characterizing Brain Entropy During a Face-Name Paired Association Task
(2022-07-26)
Brain entropy analysis – a measure of the unpredictability of a physiological time series - has gained attention as a measure of the complexity of brain activity in functional neuroimaging research. Investigations of ...
Devolution and Policy Change in the Gulf of Mexico: Red Snapper Management
(2022-07-26)
In 2020, American states were given management authority for Lutjanus campechanus (northern red snapper) in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico through Amendment 50 to the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fishery Management Plan. This ...
Collaborative Simultaneous Tracking and Navigation with Low Earth Orbit Satellite Signals of Opportunity and Inertial Navigation System
(2022-07-26)
This thesis has not been approved for public release.
Distribution, Relative Abundance, and Habitat Associations of Warrior Bass in the Black Warrior Watershed, Alabama
(2022-07-26)
Single season occupancy and zero inflated poisson models were used to identify relationships between Warrior Bass Micropterus warriorensis occurrence, relative abundance, and multiscale habitat factors. Warrior Bass ...
The Effects of Electricity Billing Structures and Electricity Rates on the Profitability of Solar Photovoltaic Projects: Evidence from Poultry Farms
(2022-07-26)
Increasing prices for fossil fuels contribute to rising electricity prices. This coupled with the drop in the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels has led to a rapid growth in PV adoption. Commercial poultry is a growing ...
Development of computational approaches for the design of antibodies and other binding proteins for target epitopes
(2022-07-26)
Antibodies are the most studied and successful therapeutic binding protein. Alternative, smaller-sized binding proteins are being modified for therapeutic applications. Computational energy models i.e. forcefields, protein ...
Understanding Misinformation: The Tale of Fake News and Fake Reviews
(2022-07-26)
Misinformation has been long issues in the global communities because of the booming usage of social networks, online retail platforms and so on. The wide spreading of the massive amount of misinformation has recently ...
Design Optimization of Lightweight Structures for Additive Manufacturing
(2022-07-26)
Lightweight structures have many applications in different engineering areas, such as automotive, aerospace, or medical industries, among many others. Optimal design of lightweight structures deals with finding the most ...
Internal Learning Partnerships: A Study of Collaboration in a High-Performing Rural School
(2022-07-26)
Over the past decades, schools’ academic success has been a major focus in the Department of Education beginning with the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) up to the current education reform, Every Student Succeeds Act (2015). ...
“Well, What did you Sexpect?” The Relationship of Heavy Episodic Drinking with Rape Myth Acceptance, Sexual Expectations, and Sexual-Coercion Alcohol Expectancies
(2022-07-26)
Contemporary research has established a strong relationship between heavy episodic drinking and both perpetration and victimization of sexual assault. To better understand this relationship, we aimed to explore the interaction ...
Cultural Competence, Implicit Racial Bias, and its Impacts on Subjective Discipline Decisions in Education
(2022-07-26)
The current study’s goal was to explore how individual levels of cultural competence and levels of implicit racial bias may impact the decision of teachers when faced with a subjective discipline decision. A series of ...
Co-Developing Climate-Smart Strategies: Enhancing Resiliency Among Alabama Row Crop Producers and Agricultural Stakeholders
(2022-07-25)
This thesis is embedded in a large USDA-NRCS project titled the Future of Farming: Increasing Adoption of Conservation Practices among Alabama Row Crop Farmers (FFP). The FFP is designed to demonstrate the benefits of ...
Fish Kill Loss Valuation through Estimation of Angling Effort and Use Valuation on Three Mid-Size Alabama Rivers
(2022-07-25)
State fisheries management agencies seek financial restitution following a fish kill. Economic losses due to fish kills on rivers have been underestimated in Alabama, as user loss values have not been included as a loss ...
Mixture Sampling and Determination of Asphalt Binder Content for Slurry Surfacing Systems
(2022-07-25)
Slurry seals and micro surfacing are two of the main preventative maintenance methods used by state and local agencies. However, there is a lack of methods for quality control/quality assurance for slurry surfacing systems. ...
Development of intensive indoor rearing strategies for largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) during critical early life history stages
(2022-07-25)
Largemouth bass (LMB), Micropterus salmoides, is arguably the most sought-after
recreational fish in the United States. Recently, there has been rising interest in LMB as a food
fish and current production techniques ...
Designing Into 3D for Quadruped Orthotics
(2022-07-25)
The goal of this research is to leverage local equine keratin material properties and their correlation to hoof tubule density (TD), hydration state (biological and environmental), temperature (biological and environmental), ...