Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Oleocanthal ameliorates metabolic and behavioral phenotypes, and pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
(2022-12-09)
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) healthiness is important to maintain brain homeostasis. The deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) is one of Alzheimer’s disease’s (AD) causative pathways to induce brain neuronal loss. In addition, AD ...
Aerial Vision-Based Relative Positioning and Ground Vehicle Speed Estimation for Cooperative UAV-UGV Automated Platoons
(2022-12-09)
This thesis is not approved for public release.
Collaborative Architectures for Relative Position Estimation of Ground Vehicles with UWB Ranging and Vehicle Dynamic Models
(2022-12-09)
The relative position to neighboring vehicles is critical to ongoing autonomy efforts including
collision avoidance and path planning; therefore, it should not be fully dependent
on an external reference such as GPS. ...
User Feedback Analysis for Business Intelligence: Semantics, Sentiment and Model Robustness
(2022-12-09)
Business intelligence (BI) is a set of enterprise decision support tools designed to help managers, analysts, and executives rapidly make wise decisions. The growth of the business intelligence applications is fueled and ...
High Strain Rate Material Characterization of Lead-Free SAC Solder Alloy and Solder Joint Reliability under Vibration and Thermal Loads
(2022-12-09)
Electronics will experience high and low working temperatures during operations, handling, and storage in severe environments applications such as automotive, oil and gas, aerospace, medical technologies, and defense ...
Neuromuscular Insights for the Design and Control of Hand-Assistive Robots
(2022-12-09)
Engineers often neglect the dynamics of neuromuscular control when developing hand-assistive robots. Models of the hand that decouple ‘peripheral’ kinematic and sensory dynamics from the ‘central’ dynamics of neural ...
Characterization of the Widescale Reversible Sliding Mechanism in California Red Abalone Nacre Structure
(2022-12-09)
The precise and ordered microstructures produced through the bottom-up process of self-assembly is a matter of much interest to many research teams, with many applications in the fields of engineering and technology. In ...
What to Wear to a Protest: The Look of the Movement in the Long 1960s
(2022-12-09)
Hidden “I was there”-style pictures in drawers of photos help tell a more complete story of events in the struggle for civil rights in “the long 1960s,” one in which “the look” of those protests and the clothing worn by ...
Development of Crash Modification Factor for Low-cost Median Opening Treatments at Unsignalized Intersections of Rural Divided Highways
(2022-12-09)
An effective access management technique is such that it has the lowest level of access
control to balance traffic operation and safety. Increasing the level of control can increase the
overall delay. On the other hand, ...
Use, Stay or Leave? Relating STARA Competencies and Intention to Use to Hotel Employee Turnover Intention
(2022-12-09)
Drawing on Person Job Fit and Person Organization theories, the present study aims to investigate the association between employee smart technology and AI competencies and turnover intention via the mediation of intention ...
Catalase-Peroxidase: A Structure that Facilitates Electron Transfer, Protein-based Cofactor Formation, and Antibiotic Activation
(2022-12-09)
Catalase-peroxidase (KatG) is a heme-dependent enzyme that uses a single active for the degradation of H2O2 by two distinct mechanisms. One is a catalase mechanism where two equivalents of H2O2 are disproportionated with ...
Advanced Process-Property Characterization of Additively Printed Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE)
(2022-12-09)
Printed Electronics (PE) is a constant evolving and growing technology that shows a tremendous potential for the future of electronics. Advancements in PE processes demonstrates its viability to fabricate electronic circuits ...
Lysophosphatidic Acid Induces Tau Hyperphosphorylation by Dysregulation of Kinase and Phosphatases
(2022-12-08)
The increased incidence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) indicates an unmet medical need to develop novel molecular targets for therapeutic potential. Alzheimer’s disease is primarily classified into early-onset (genetic) and ...
Laser-Assisted Synthesis and Time-Resolved Growth Control of Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials
(2022-12-08)
Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, including transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have recently been at the heart of quantum materials and information sciences research due to unusual properties associated with ...
Boundary Control and Employee Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Interruptions and Moderating Effect of an Office Space
(2022-12-08)
Using boundary theory and COR as theoretical frameworks, the goal of this study is to propose and assess a moderated mediation model of boundary control as a predictor of stress and life satisfaction in involuntary remote ...
BIOGEOCHEMICAL STORAGE AND TRANSFORMATION OF SEDIMENTS FROM GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED WETLANDS IN AGRICULTURE LANDSCAPES
(2022-12-08)
Geographically Isolated Wetlands (GIWs) provide many beneficial ecosystem services including biogeochemical storage and processing. However, due to the absence of hydrologic connectivity to surface waters, they lack legal ...
Graph-Based Relative Path Estimation Using Landmarks for Long Distance Ground Vehicle Following
(2022-12-08)
This dissertation presents a graph-based sensor fusion framework for the localization of automated ground vehicles for leader-follower path duplication. A specific focus is given to scenarios where the following distance ...
A Survey of African American Female Choral Conductors on Spirituality and "It Factor" Choral Performances
(2022-12-07)
Stunningly beautiful choral performances move audiences. Educators have debated why some musical moments touch listeners deeply and others, although technically sound, are nonetheless unremarkable. Some experts note that ...
EVALUATION OF DUAL-PURPOSE WHEAT VARIETIES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S.
(2022-12-07)
Dual-purpose wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) systems increase farm sustainability by diversifying on-farm income. While these systems are common in the Southern Great Plains of the U.S., they are not often utilized in the ...
Investigation of Large Protein Complexes Important for Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase Activity and Function
(2022-12-07)
Methyl-coenzyme M reductase (Mcr) is a key enzyme of methanogens that catalyzes the production or consumption of methane. Mcr contains a nickel tetrapyrrole cofactor (coenzyme F430) which has a crucial role in catalysis. ...