Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Genetic Assessment of Alabama's Redeye Bass (Micropterus coosae)
(2022-11-28)
The southeastern United States is a hotspot for aquatic biodiversity that is under constant threat of extirpation and extinction due to human disturbance. Molecular markers are relatively new tools that are applicable to ...
Evaluating alternatives for the implementation of Curve Number in SWMM for an urbanized watershed
(2022-11-27)
Modeling hydrological abstraction, particularly infiltration, in urbanized areas is a complex task. Without field validation data, researchers and engineers often rely on readily available methodologies on semi-empirical ...
Evaluation of various antimicrobial agents to reduce the load of Salmonella and Campylobacter in poultry processing
(2022-11-27)
Poultry meat and products have been highly associated with outbreaks related to Salmonella and Campylobacter, and different interventions have been used for the reduction of these pathogens, with more emphasis on the ...
Data and Information Flow Improvements in Manufacturing Systems
(2022-11-27)
The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is making its mark with a wave of efforts to digitize and digitalize data and information in manufacturing systems. Global efforts are being made to accelerate the adoption ...
Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Examination of the Effects of Work and Family Factors on Active-duty and National Guard and Reserve Service Members’ Military Career Intentions
(2022-11-21)
The Department of Defense (DoD) prioritizes the retention of military personnel to maintain a ready defense force and earn return on their investment of training highly skilled Service members. Prior research has examined ...
Bidirectional Power Control of Grid Connected Three-phase Inverter under Unbalanced Conditions
(2022-11-21)
This research explores bidirectional real and reactive power control of a 100kW threephase, grid-connected inverter under unbalanced grid conditions. Different unbalanced grid conditions are studied, including unbalanced ...
Quality-Aware Data Crowdsourcing and Federated Learning in Wireless Networks
(2022-11-21)
Data crowdsourcing (referred to as ``crowdsourcing'' for brevity) has found a wide range of applications. In principle, crowdsourcing leverages the ``wisdom'' of a potentially large crowd of workers (e.g., mobile users) ...
Exploring Middle Level Learner Experiences with Learning About World Religions & Philosophies Using Authentic Pedagogy
(2022-11-21)
The United States is a highly religious nation. Unfortunately, the teaching about various world religions and philosophies in public schools remains highly contested across the nation, particularly in highly Christianized ...
Using Airborne and Spaceborne lidar for Mapping Forest Attributes in Southern Alabama.
(2022-11-21)
Remote sensing has become a major resource for assessing ecosystems and global
carbon cycling. In forest applications, remote sensing data have been used to estimate
the amount of carbon stored or lost in forests due to ...
The diversity of oomycetes associated with cotton seedlings in Alabama and the assembly of the spermosphere microbiome of cotton and soybean
(2022-11-21)
Cotton and soybean are major crops in the US grown for fiber and protein. Fungal and oomycete pathogens can affect cotton and soybean seedlings resulting in seed and seedling damping-off. Many different oomycete species ...
School Leadership: The Journey from Trauma Aware to Trauma-Informed
(2022-11-21)
Until recently, discussions around trauma-informed approaches and practices have been limited primarily to the fields of mental health and social services; however, “attention to childhood trauma and the need for trauma-informed ...
There’s a Rhythm to Our Method: An Endarkened Narrative of Four Black Women Teachers’ School Discipline Practices
(2022-11-21)
Due to Black women teachers’ cultural and historical legacies, Beauboeuf-Lafontant (2002) suggested
that Black women’s form of care is often demonstrative of a womanist ethic of caring, which is
defined by three ...
Fingerprinting-based Indoor Localization with Deep Neural Networks
(2022-11-18)
In recent years, more capabilities and applications have been added to existing wireless communication systems due to the rapid development of the Internet of Things(IoT). WiFi and RFID exhibits tremendous potential in ...
Achieving interview equilibrium: Striking balance between technology and human-centered approaches in asynchronous video interviews
(2022-11-18)
Asynchronous video interviews (AVI), or one-way video interviews, are becoming increasingly popular in organizations’ hiring processes despite the limited and mixed empirical support for this newer technology procedure. ...
Quasi-Static and Dynamic Crack Initiation and Growth in Soda-lime Glass: Full-field Optical Investigations
(2022-11-17)
Soda-lime glass (SLG) is a widely used structural material with numerous advantages in terms of thermal, physical, and mechanical properties besides sustainability and recyclability. It is widely used for structural ...
The Slow-Coloring Game on Path Power Graphs
(2022-11-16)
The Slow-Coloring Game is a game played on a graph G by two players which we will refer to as Lister and Painter. In the ith round, Lister marks a nonempty subset M of V (G) of uncolored vertices as eligible to receive ...
Effects of Assay Methodology and Standardization for Endogenous Losses of Energy on Determination and Additivity of Metabolizable and Digestible Dietary Energy for Broilers
(2022-11-16)
Efficient broiler production requires providing birds with diets with appropriate energy density. A lack of additivity of dietary energy could lead to under- or over-supplying energy to broilers. Additivity may be affected ...
How Does Engaging with On-campus Systems of Care Services Contribute Toward On-Time Graduation: Perceptions of Recent Graduate Participants and Advice to School Leaders
(2022-11-10)
For decades, schools have sought to level inequities facing students through programs focusing on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: feed them and keep them safe and they can succeed. Though traditional services including free ...
Using Design Based Research to Influence How Middle School Students Visualize Local Communities and Sense Belonging to Local Communities
(2022-11-08)
Many social studies teachers seek to serve democracy by empowering students to become transformative citizens (Banks, 2017). This goal requires teachers to meet students in their development and growth. Middle school ...
The Impact of Agriculture Education on Middle Grades Student’s Science Performance
(2022-11-07)
This study aimed to describe the impact by measuring the students’ knowledge of course
standards of agriculture education and science on middle school, grades 6-to-8 students’
performance in their academic science ...