Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Advancing Specialty Crop Automation: Intelligent Robotic Systems for Navigation, Monitoring, and Analytics in Controlled and Field Environments
(2026-08-04)
Specialty crop production, spanning ornamental nurseries and controlled-environment agriculture, faces rising labor costs, a shrinking workforce, and a growing need for scalable, data-driven management. Traditional crop ...
Three Essays on Oil Prices and Their Macroeconomic Effects to the United States
(2026-08-04)
This dissertation essay contains three chapters with empirical analysis on different factors affecting global crude oil price and their impact on the United States macroeconomy, with specific focus on supply side of the ...
Gamma Ray Imaging of Runaway Electrons on the Compact Toroidal Hybrid Experiment
(2026-08-04)
Runaway electrons (REs) represent a significant challenge for magnetic confinement fusion devices due to their ability to achieve relativistic energies and produce substantial damage to plasmas facing components. While ...
At the Intersection of Racism and Heterosexism: Mental Health Risks for Black Sexual Minorities Youth
(2026-08-04)
Black sexual minority (SM) youth experience elevated exposure to racism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination, placing them at increased risk for adverse mental health outcomes. The present study examined ...
Improved Weld Bead Geometry Modeling and Predictive Temperature Optimization in Direct Energy Deposition (DED) Additive Manufacturing as Demonstrated in Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM)
(2026-08-04)
Directed Energy Deposition (DED) and Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) offer significant advantages for the fabrication of large-scale metallic components due to their high deposition rates and reduced material waste ...
Beyond Single-Document Detection: A Within-Subject Authorship Authentication Approach in the Age of Generative AI
(2026-08-04)
The rapid development and integration of generative AI platforms like ChatGPT into daily life has created challenges for verifying authentic human writing in personnel selection contexts and beyond. This dissertation ...
The Dark Shadow of Childhood Adversity: An Exploration of the Impact of ACEs on Playfulness
(2026-08-03)
This dissertation examines adult playfulness, a construct linked to psychological health and relational well-being, whose origins are not well known. To address this gap, Chapter 1 draws on developmental frameworks and ...
Effect of Whole Cottonseed Amount and Delivery Frequency on the Performance of Gestating and Lactating Beef Cows
(2026-08-03)
Whole cottonseed (WCS) is a common byproduct feedstuff in the southeastern United States due to its affordability, high energy, and high protein content. Since developing feeding recommendations in the 1980’s, seed quality ...
Numerical Simulation of Radial Manifold Microchannel Heat sink for Next-Generation Thermal Management in Data Centers and High-Flux Electronics
(2026-08-03)
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), cloud computing, and other data-intensive technologies has significantly increased the thermal design power (TDP) of modern electronic ...
Interpersonal Violence Disclosure in Healthcare Settings: Comparing the Impact of Negative Provider Disclosure Responses on Survivor Engagement Across Mental and Physical Healthcare Systems
(2026-08-03)
Interpersonal violence (IV) survivors often report heightened mental and physical healthcare needs, yet many experience challenges to continued engagement with needed healthcare services. Survivors' perceptions of how ...
RANSAC-Based Track Initiation for Kalman Filtering and Multi-Hypothesis Tracking Systems in Cluttered Range-Only Environments
(2026-08-03)
Track initiation in cluttered range-time surveillance environments is a challenging problem. Classical M-of-N initiation methods confirm tracks based on detection count alone within a static gate, with no geometric validation, ...
Understanding Visitor Behavior and Motivations in Alabama State Parks
(2026-08-03)
Understanding experiential aspects of visitor behavior is crucial to parks and protected areas visitor use management. This project revealed visitor behavior, preferences, motivations, and opinions at Gulf State Park and ...
A Work-Home Resource Model of AI and Global Work-Family Balance
(2026-08-03)
Artificial intelligence (AI) research is becoming increasingly integral to industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology research. However, the intersection of AI and a key subfield of I-O, work-family research, has yet to ...
Experimental Models for Investigating Influenza A Virus Evolution and Reassortment at the Human–Swine Interface
(2026-08-03)
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) pose a continual public health threat due to their segmented genome and capacity for rapid evolution through reassortment. The human–swine interface represents a critical environment for the ...
Minimum Viable Demonstrations: Data Requirements for Capable Driving Models and Zero-Shot Track Transfer for Connected Autonomous Vehicles
(2026-08-03)
Reinforcement learning has long been the dominant approach for training autonomous
driving agents, but it struggles in novel scenarios where running additional training episodes is
costly. Imitation learning is a strong ...
Data-Driven Approaches for Machining Efficiency Through Generalizable Tool Wear Prediction and Power Consumption Analysis
(2026-08-02)
Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing have generated large amounts of manufacturing data, creating new opportunities to use data-driven methods to improve machining efficiency. This dissertation examines machining efficiency ...
Interpretable and Risk-Aware Machine Learning for Environmental Suitability, Exposure, and Decision Systems
(2026-08-02)
Environmental and biological systems increasingly require prediction and decision-making under uncertainty. This dissertation develops and applies interpretable and risk-aware machine-learning approaches for environmental ...
Mentoring School Principals by Engaging in Well-Being Activities
(2026-08-02)
This study explores the implications of stress and burnout on the professional sustainability of school principals and proposes an evidence-based mentoring model as a solution to these issues. A qualitative action research ...
Lighting the Way: A Personal Journey Through Mentoring Constellations in the Lived Experience of a First-Year Assistant Principal
(2026-08-01)
Over the past three decades, the assistant principalship has evolved into an
increasingly demanding bridge between classroom instruction and school
administration. Despite the complexity of the role, assistant principals ...
Physical Activity for Mental, Physical, and Cognitive Health for Autistic Adults
(2026-07-31)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social and communication deficits, and restrictive, repetitive patterns of behavior, activities, and/or interests. Additionally, autistic ...