Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Assessment of Bioenhanced Back Diffusion and Reductive Dehalogenase Gene Abundance in an Aquifer Cell Packed with Heterogenous Soils
(2023-04-26)
Remediation of chlorinated ethenes can be challenging at complex contaminated sites with low permeability soils acting as secondary source zones due to back diffusion of adsorbed contaminant mass. To better understand how ...
Assessing family forest landowners interest in forest carbon programs in the southern United States and predicting carbon content in loblolly pine using Near Infrared Spectroscopy
(2023-04-26)
Over the past few decades, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have increased from 300 to 416 ppm. Increased concentrations of atmospheric CO2 affect forests and create an imbalance of carbon exchange between the ...
All You Need is Tensor Decomposition: A Better Understanding of Sparse Tensors
(2023-04-26)
Tensor is widely employed in data sciences to represent multi-dimensional information. Due to the low-rank nature of many tensors in the real world, predicting the unobserved entries of a partially observed tensor has ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2023-04-25)
These three essays relate to various areas of microeconomics, including labor, health, and education economics. In Chapter One, we investigate the relationship between primary care clinic performance and managerial turnover. ...
Construction and Calibration of Large-Scale Rainfall Simulators
(2023-04-24)
Large-scale rainfall simulation offers valuable insight into the effectiveness of erosion
control practice. While small and intermediate-scale apparatuses can analyze the effects of splash
and sheet erosion on a slope, ...
Applications of Robotic Devices for Motor and Sensory Rehabilitation
(2023-04-24)
With the increase of individuals effected by neurological disease, individualized rehabilitation methods can allow for improvement. Robotic intervention in rehabilitation enables a standardized, individualized practice ...
Ejecta Stratigraphy Modeling of the NASA/VIPER Exploration Zone at Mons Mouton Near the Lunar South Pole
(2023-04-24)
Permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) within some lunar polar craters host water ice and other volatiles delivered by sources such as asteroids, comets, interior degassing, and solar wind sputtering because of their frigid ...
The Effects of Chronic Elevated Temperatures on Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Tuber Development
(2023-04-24)
With global temperatures rising due to climate change, many crops are being adversely
affected. Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the fourth most important food crop in the world and
is especially vulnerable to heat stress, ...
Comparing and Intervening on Preference for and Reinforcing Value of Edibles Across Adolescents and Young Adults
(2023-04-24)
Obesity has been identified as an epidemic by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 1999. This epidemic is of concern because obesity is correlated with adverse health outcomes such as hypertension, ...
Size-selective Synthesis of [n]Cycloparaphenylenes and Related Benzenoid Macrocycles
(2023-04-24)
This work begins with a discussion of the currently existing methods for the π-extension of nonplanar aromatic systems with a focus on reactions pertaining to the π-extension of cyclophane-based molecules. Completing the ...
Competition between strains of the bacterial plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa
(2023-04-24)
Understanding the dynamics of interactions among different strains of the bacterial plant
pathogen Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) is crucial for preventing, detecting, and mitigating potential
outbreaks. The potential for ...
Engineering Comfort for Micro-resolution Mosquito Bite Blocking Textiles
(2023-04-24)
Over a million people die yearly from diseases spread by biting insects, especially mosquitos. Pesticides are currently used to control harmful insect populations although there are often negative side effects from pesticides. ...
Developing an Active Transportation Assessment Scorecard for Rural and Suburban Communities
(2023-04-24)
In recent years, many communities have begun to focus on creating spaces for walking
and bicycling throughout their localities to reduce congestion, improve public health, and
promote economic growth. However, rural and ...
Quantifying the Variability of Production of Asphalt Mixtures through newly implemented Performance Tests for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation
(2023-04-24)
This study aims to determine an appropriate standard deviation of Balanced Mix Design performance tests for Wisconsin specifications based on field-produced mixes. Identifying variability is an essential aspect of the ...
Three Essays in Labor Economics
(2023-04-24)
I focus on the task content of work and its effects on labor market outcomes. In Chapter 1, I estimate the impact of an individual’s occupational tasks on decisions to claim disability insurance. I show that changes in the ...
Development of Jobsite Cylinder Curing Practices for the Alabama Concrete Industry
(2023-04-24)
In concrete construction projects, quality assurance test cylinders are made to evaluate the quality of the concrete delivered to a jobsite. In order to accurately evaluate these cylinders, they must be cured according to ...
Effect of Extended Exposure Topotecan on Drug Resistance Using a Novel 3D Spheroidal Model of Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer
(2023-04-24)
Cancer consistently commands the highest number of therapeutic drug approvals each year, however, this has yet to yield significant clinical benefits for metastatic disease. Instead, most drugs are likely to increase ...
Adapting Expressive Writing for Minoritized Students at Predominantly White Institutions Who Experience Microaggressions
(2023-04-24)
Racial and ethnic based stressors, such as microaggressions, are pervasive, distressing, and result in long lasting negative repercussions for minoritized students at predominantly white institutions (PWI’s). These stressors ...
Organic Transition: Unwrapping Challenges for Growing Vegetables
(2023-04-24)
This study was conducted using four different growing systems (high tunnel, conventional open field, organic open field, and hydroponics) to determine which growing system would have the greatest results for lettuce ...
Factors related to occupancy and detection and population demographics of adult Bighead Carp and Silver Carp in the lower Red River catchment.
(2023-04-24)
North America native fishes have declined throughout the 20th and 21st century for a myriad of reasons, including invasive species. Two emblematic invasive fishes, Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, and Silver Carp ...