Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Cherokees, Creeks, and Charlestonians: The Colonial World of James Grant, 1757-1771
(2020-04-15)
The following study provides a revisionist interpretation of the career of James Grant, an officer in the British army during the French and Indian War (1754-1763), and subsequently governor of the new colony of East Florida ...
Integrated management strategies for plant-parasitic nematodes on warm-season turfgrass using plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, chemical nematicides, and remote sensing technology
(2020-04-15)
Plant-parasitic nematodes are a major pathogen of turfgrass throughout the United States, yet management strategies rely almost entirely on a limited number of chemical nematicides. The overall objective of this research ...
The Business of Love: Managing the Challenges of Legitimizing the Work of the Babysitter
(2020-04-15)
This thesis examines how babysitters construct their work as being more or less real work. I argue that babysitters construct their work as being both real and not real at the same time. In some ways, the work is real, ...
Visual signal detection as a measure for sustained attention and short-term remembering in mice exposed to methylmercury during adolescence
(2020-04-14)
Developmental methylmercury (MeHg) exposure is known to alter dopamine-mediated behavior associated with the prefrontal cortex. Exposure may be associated with symptoms of ADHD, such as inattention and impaired memory, ...
Digital Simulation and Recreation of a Vacuum Tube Guitar Amp
(2020-04-14)
This thesis presents the process of designing, building, and testing a system that will be referred to herein as the Digital Guitar Amplifier. The Digital Guitar Amplifier is a real time digital audio signal processing ...
Graduate Student Burnout and Cynicism: Examining the Effects of Student Co-Rumination and Need for Cognition
(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 ...
Rechargeable N-halamine Modified Antimicrobial Latex, Epoxy, and Polyurethane Coating on Different Materials
(2020-04-14)
N-halamines are effective antimicrobial agents with good stability, rechargeability, nontoxicity and low costs. They have been applied in many fields, such as the food industry and the textile industry. The object of this ...
Motivations of Chinese/Japanese/Korean Language Learners and their Relationship to Pedagogical Preferences
(2020-04-14)
The purpose of this study was to examine motivations of Asian Language learners, their pedagogical preferences in terms of classroom structures and activities in U.S. higher education setting, and their relationship based ...
The Impact of Precipitation and Temperature on Honey Yield in the United States
(2020-04-14)
This thesis examines what effect climatic factors such as precipitation, maximum temperature levels, and minimum temperature levels throughout the U.S., have on honey yield. Using Bee Informed Partnership (BIP) survey data ...
The Effects of Video Modeling as a Reading Intervention Strategy with Students with Deficits in Reading
(2020-04-13)
This study investigated the effects of using video self-modeling as an intervention strategy to improve the oral reading fluency of students with and without disabilities with a descriptive look at its impact on reading ...
Development of a one-dimensional moving window atomistic framework to model steady state shock wave propagation
(2020-04-10)
We develop a long-time, large-domain moving window atomistic framework using Molecular Dynamics (MD) to model shock wave propagation through a one-dimensional system. We implement ideas of control volume on a MD framework ...
Copper(II) 2-Quinoxalinol Salen Type Ligands as Catalysts for C-H Oxidation Reactions
(2020-04-09)
C-H oxidation is a powerful tool that has changed the face of synthetic organic chemistry over the last several years. Here, we explore the oxidation of alkynes to α,β-acetylenic carbonyls using only 1 mol % of an inexpensive ...
First Innovator States: An Ecological Analysis of Innovation and Diffusion of Policies to Address College Student Financial Insecurity in the American States.
(2020-04-08)
The issue of college student financial insecurity has risen to the political agenda of post-secondary institutions and states since the Recession of 2007 – 2009. This need is driven by stark increases in the cost of college ...
Resistance Status of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti from Alabama and Florida and Analysis Cytochrome P450 Genes Expression Level Compared with Susceptible and Resistant Strains
(2020-04-08)
Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti can transmit severe human diseases including dengue fever and yellow fever. When they are serious, these diseases can lead to human death and economic burden. Ae. albopictus has already ...
Learning Explanatory Models for Robust Decision-Making Under Deep Uncertainty
(2020-04-06)
Decision-makers rely on simulation models to predict and investigate the implications of their decisions. However, the use of monolithic simulation models based on fixed assumptions lack the requisite adaptivity needed ...
Multilevel Targeting of Canine Adenovirus Type 2 (CAV2) to Expand Oncolytic Virotherapy in Canine Tumors
(2020-04-06)
Oncolytic virotherapy is a promising therapeutic approach designed to selectively eradicate cancer cells but to spare normal cells. Oncolytic adenoviruses (Ad) are an outstanding and common vehicle for efficient cancer ...
Understanding and Improving Generative Adversarial Networks
(2020-04-06)
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been under the spotlight in the machine learning field for a few years. Especially, the power that learns a data distribution in an unsupervised fashion leads GANs to be applied ...
Melanoma drug discovery: Prioritization of candidate melanoma driver mutations in the ErbB4 receptor tyrosine kinase gene and identification of novel molecules that disrupt ErbB4 signaling
(2020-04-02)
BRAF V600E mutations are found in roughly 50% of metastatic melanomas. While these tumors typically initially respond to BRAF and/or MEK inhibitors, they frequently develop resistance to BRAF and/or MEK inhibition. ...
On-site Evaluation of Irrigation Management Practices in Container Nurseries in Alabama and the Effect of Leaching Fraction-based Irrigation on Fertilizer Longevity.
(2020-03-31)
Container production of ornamental plants is an important part of the green industry in Alabama. Container nursery growers rely on near daily irrigation and applications of fertilizers to produce marketable plants. Cultural ...
The Effects of Clinical Experience in the Rating of Intelligibility of Phonetically Contrasted Words
(2020-03-31)
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate if crowdsourced lay listeners with minimal exposure to child speech and certified clinicians in the field of speech-language pathology experienced in treating speech ...