Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Teacher Perception of the Three-Component Model of Agriculture Education by Georgia’s Agriculture Education Teachers
(2022-05-01)
The purpose of this study was to describe teacher perceptions of the three-component model of agriculture education. The participants in this study were agriculture education teachers in Georgia. This study used a ...
Hybrid Sampling for Uncertainty Quantification in Systems with High Dimensional Parameter Spaces
(2022-05-01)
Spatial models formulated as partial differential equations, often include space dependent parameters that are not readily estimable and are therefore uncertain.
There are two broad classes of methods for computing ...
Segregation Academies in Rural Alabama: White Resisters’ Final Stand Against School Integration in Wilcox County
(2022-04-29)
This paper examines the series of events leading to the establishment of segregation academies in Wilcox Academy, Alabama, followed by a brief analysis of how white resisters founded and built these white private schools. ...
Your Experience on Your Terms: A survivor-based analysis of the impact caused by the miscommunication surrounding sexual violence on college campuses
(2022-04-29)
This thesis explores the perspectives of female survivors of campus sexual violence as they shed light on their disclosure and support seeking processes. Through the lens of communication privacy management (CPM) and social ...
Skills Sequencing in Music Literacy Instruction: A National Survey of the Pedagogy Practices of Secondary Choral Directors
(2022-04-29)
The importance of sound before symbol (or sight) theories has been taught to educators for hundreds of years (Hicks, 1980; Jacobi, 2012; West, 2016). While the general consensus in choral music education is that choral ...
Algal biomass production and nutrient removal from high strength anaerobic digestate
(2022-04-29)
The integration of microalgal biomass production with nutrient removal from the liquid portion of anaerobic digestate holds the potential to close the loop on waste. However, algal growth inhibition in anaerobic digestate ...
“A Politician’s Worst Nightmare”: Framing Analysis of Facebook Campaign Advertisements from the 2020 Alabama Senatorial Election
(2022-04-29)
This study is a framing analysis of campaign advertisements from the 2020 Alabama senatorial election between Doug Jones and Tommy Tuberville. This research aims to understand the relationship between the types of communicative ...
Investigation into MEMS Gyroscope Response in a High Frequency Environment
(2022-04-29)
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscopes first emerged in 1991 as an alternative to the heavy, power hungry spinning mass gyroscopes. These devices opened new
frontiers for the ability to sense and control with ...
Community Dynamics of the Phyllosphere Microbiome
(2022-04-29)
The phyllosphere of a plant creates a complex niche for inhabiting microorganisms in which interactions will occur. The dynamics of the interactions between a foliar plant pathogen, Xanthomonas perforans, and the resident ...
Factors Contributing to Job Satisfaction of Business Education Teachers
(2022-04-29)
This study was designed to identify the factors contributing to job satisfaction of business education teachers relating to school administration, colleagues, parents, and students and to determine if there was a relationship ...
Design, Fabrication and Testing of Novel Medical Facemasks to Prevent COVID-19
(2022-04-28)
The nation is going through an unprecedented time due to the Coronavirus pandemic. One of the most effective ways to prevent viral spread is to use face masks and respirators. Available reusable face masks are often not ...
Defense Against the Adversarial Arts: Applying Green Team Evaluations to Harden Machine Learning Algorithms from Adversarial Attacks
(2022-04-28)
Machine Learning permeates all facets of our lives today. Given these models are trusted to make important determinations in our lives like credit decisions, how susceptible are those models to attacks? Adversarial machine ...
Mathematical Studies of Population Models in Stochastic Environments
(2022-04-28)
This dissertation is devoted to the study of population models in stochastic environments. We will investigate a two-species lottery model in non-stationary stochastic environment, an $N-$species lottery model in stationary ...
“Who Said What?”: Effects of Message Framing and Source Type Toward COVID-19 Vaccinations Intentions Among College Students
(2022-04-27)
Since 2020 the world has experienced a change in our everyday lives due to the
COVID-19 disease. As the world tries to return to a place of normalcy, the COVID-19 vaccine
aims to do that. Considerable research has examined ...
The Glass Hospital
(2022-04-27)
This paper considers how the COVID-19 pandemic altered health care workers (HCWs) and their experiences with workplace discrimination. This research combines theories using glass as a metaphor (such as the glass escalator, ...
Enchanted Geographies of the New Republic, 1789 - 1846
(2022-04-27)
Rhetorical depictions of otherworldliness abound in antebellum American literature. Such images and tropes of otherworldly enchantment have recently been studied by scholars of nineteenth-century America in an effort to ...
Developing Teaching Materials for Spanish Heritage Speakers with Hearing Loss
(2022-04-27)
The purpose of this thesis is to address the challenges of teaching gender agreement to Heritage Speakers (HS) of Spanish with a mild, moderate, and moderately-severe hearing loss. I discuss a series of combined approaches ...
Maintaining Relevance in Agricultural Extension Programming Using Classical Extension Methods: A Social Network Analysis of the Future of Farming Project
(2022-04-27)
Rural Sociology is credited with pioneering social network analysis (SNA) to study the connections between individuals. However, the use of SNA methods has been eclipsed by urban community research and continuations of the ...
Constraints on the Petrogenesis of the Rockford Granite by Chemical and Radiogenic Isotopic Compositions
(2022-04-27)
The Rockford Granite is a Paleozoic igneous body located in Coosa County, Alabama. Regionally, between the Brevard zone and the Kowaliga zone, there lies intense faulting and shearing, which has been studied extensively ...
Identification of Molecular Biomarkers for Male Reproductive Success in Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus)
(2022-04-27)
The overall objective of this project was to understand the underlying physiological and
molecular processes that are associated with sperm production and function. The primary
objective was to identify RNA biomarkers ...