Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Cryptic Tolerant Species and Their Potential Effect on Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) Scores, with the Presentation of an Alternative Metric of Stream Health
(2023-04-17)
Metrics such as the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) are often used by management agencies to estimate the abstract property of stream health. These metrics are usually predicated on the belief that certain fish species are ...
Characterizing and Changing Course Elements in Undergraduate Biology Education
(2023-04-17)
I conducted a set of four studies to catalogue and examine course elements, including active learning strategies and evidence-based teaching practices, and their influence on student experiences and performance in college ...
Development of atomistic and concurrent atomistic-continuum frameworks to model shock wave propagation and phonon transmission
(2023-04-17)
In the first part of this dissertation, we develop a long-time moving window framework using Molecular Dynamics (MD) to model shock wave propagation through a one-dimensional monatomic chain. The moving window formulation ...
Is Humor the Best Medicine? Sense of Humor as a Mediator of the Relation between Dimensions of Perfectionism and Social Anxiety and Depression in College Students
(2023-04-17)
The diathesis stress model has been utilized to help clarify the association between aspects of perfectionism and psychopathology, as it emphasizes the role of poor coping skills. The current study aimed to explore the ...
The Clash of the Scientific and Official Minds and the Making of the Chernobyl Disaster
(2023-04-17)
Abstract
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant tragedy remains the world’s worst nuclear disaster in terms of ecological devastation and the loss of human life. The accident’s consequences reached far beyond the initial ...
Exploring Machine Learning Methods for Author Identification on Micro-Messages
(2023-04-17)
Author Identification, also known as Authorship Attribution, is the task of identifying an author of unknown text based on the writing style captured within a dataset of writing samples. Author Identification is used in a ...
Immediate Deflections of Simply Supported, Bonded, Class T and Class C Prestressed Concrete Beams
(2023-04-17)
Design practice for prestressed members has moved toward allowing partially prestressed members, which are allowed to crack under service loads. To define design requirements, the ACI 318 Building Code explicitly defines ...
Home is Where the Politics Are: An Exploration of Place-based Politics
(2023-04-13)
Political research has often considered identity and the role it plays in shaping a person's political ideology and party affiliation. When referencing identity, there are multiple identities that one can consider including ...
Adaptive Governance of Coral Reefs: Cases of Florida and the Caribbean
(2023-04-13)
Coral reefs are one of the most imperiled yet one of the most valuable ecosystems on the planet, providing food, medicine, and property protection to hundreds of millions of coastal people all over the world. Coral reefs ...
Biology and control of yellow and knotroot Foxtail
(2023-04-13)
Setaria pumila Roem. & Schult. (1817 and Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguelen, respectively known as yellow and knotroot foxtail, are two common species infesting turfgrass, pastures, roadsides, and some cropping systems ...
Walking-On: A Narrative Inquiry of Division II Non-Scholarship Student-Athletes’ Identity Development and Pursuit of Success
(2023-04-13)
Student-athletes have long been a population of interest to researchers regarding identity development and academic success. More specifically, researchers have looked into the identity foreclosure of student-athletes; its ...
Prevention of disease due to hypervirulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh) and a global survey of vAh in farmed fish
(2023-04-13)
This dissertation documents research focusing on hypervirulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh) regarding its geographical distribution, potential transmission among freshwater fish species, vaccine control, and probiotic control. ...
Reinforcement Learning with Reasoning for Long-horizon Robotic Tasks
(2023-04-09)
Recent developments in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehi-
cles (UGVs) have attracted intensive research interest from both academia and industrial areas.
Although Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are ...
Military Faculty Development at the Post-Graduate Level: Using the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model with Curriculum-Based Leadership
(2023-04-09)
The Department of Defense’s enduring mission is to provide combat-ready military
forces needed to defend our nation, deter war, and protect the security of the United States (DoD,
2020). Effective military training and ...
The Impact of Public-Nonprofit Collaboration on the Capacity of Public Institutions in Nigeria.
(2023-04-03)
My dissertation explores the potential of public and nonprofit sector collaboration to improve public institutional capacity through institutional isomorphism. One of the major problems that has been identified in developing ...
A Conceptual Model of Design-Build
(2023-04-03)
Design-build is a project delivery method with roots in the ancient concept of the “master builder” where responsibility for both design and construction reside in one person. Despite the dominance of design-bid-build in ...
Precision Medicine Based on Real-time Immune Status Profiling Utilizing Novel Nanoparticles and Engineered Nanomaterials
(2023-04-03)
Cancer treatment strategies such as Anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (Anti-PD-L1) or chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) T-cells are limited by low objective response rates and severe side effects. This is partly due to the ...
Middle Space Leader: Professional Quality of Life
(2023-04-03)
This quantitative study explored the professional quality of life of middle space leaders who are serving public school systems in the state of Alabama. This study determined if there was a relationship between mindfulness ...
Numerical Investigation of the Flow Topology in a Bidirectional Vortex Engine
(2023-03-30)
The characterization of swirl-driven phenomena, including cyclonic flows, continues to
receive attention in the propulsion community. This may be attributed to the beneficial
properties of swirl when integrated into ...
Role of Print Architecture on Fracture Behavior of Additively Manufactured ABS: Opto-Mechanical Investigations
(2023-03-30)
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene or ABS is a popular and inexpensive isotropic, amorphous
thermoplastic widely used for Additive Manufacturing (AM) of engineering parts. An AM process
called Fused Filament Fabrication ...