Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Investigating the relationship of increased biomass and nutrient content of soybean (Glycine max merr)
(2022-04-27)
Declining nutrient concentration in higher yielding cultivars is evident in literature meta-analyses assessing cultivars developed over the last century and studies performed under elevated CO2 to artificially increase ...
Intellectual Humility and Arrogance and Their Relationship with Self-Awareness: A Longitudinal Analysis of Congruency Through Self/Other Evaluations
(2022-04-27)
Character and leadership have long coupled to show benefits to organizations and their personnel. During the near century of modern leadership study, psychologists have focused on dozens of leader traits with an infusion ...
Understanding Long Covid-19 Patterns in Pediatric Patients using Network Analytics
(2022-04-27)
COVID-19 has had a long-term impact on the quality of life, work, and society by manifesting in the form of Long COVID. Long COVID is relatively less understood condition due to its recency. The challenge is even greater ...
Learning Style Preferences of Adults in Religious Institutions
(2022-04-27)
There is a lack of published research on adult education programs in religious
institutions. While religious institutions encourage their members to attend religious education
opportunities, it may often be out of ...
Subconscious threat processing and cannabidiol: A randomized controlled trial.
(2022-04-27)
Over the past two decades, neuroimaging researchers have produced strong evidence in support of a network of regions in the human brain which are responsive to socially salient threat signals in the form of fearful facial ...
L2 Auditory Processing of Three Spanish Dialects. Comprehensibility and its Relationship with Accentedness and Familiarity.
(2022-04-26)
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the impact on comprehensibility judgments – the difficulty that listeners perceive they have in understanding an utterance – in the auditory processing of three dialects of Spanish ...
Improving Programming Productivity with Statistical Models
(2022-04-26)
Modern applications often need to have very short time-to-market and upgrade cycles, and thus, short development time. To address this requirement, application developers often rely heavily on API frameworks and libraries ...
The Influence of Classmates on Gains following Relationship Education
(2022-04-26)
Using data from a statewide couple relationship education (CRE) program efficacy study, this implementation science study considered whether and how classmates influence gains from CRE exposure. We pursued a theoretically ...
Perceptions of Internal Organizational Diversity Efforts of Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color Working in Public Relations
(2022-04-26)
This thesis explores how Black, Indigenous, and women of color (BIWOC) working in public relations perceive their workplace diversity and inclusion efforts. Some perceptions of workplace diversity and inclusion efforts ...
Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Survey and Spatial Analysis of the George and Addie Giddens Cemetery, Opelika, AL
(2022-04-26)
Recent interest in locating and preserving the cemeteries of enslaved African Americans has increased the need for non-invasive geophysical techniques and efficient methodologies. The southeast United States provides many ...
Using V2X and reinforcement learning to improve autonomous vehicles algorithms with CARLA
(2022-04-26)
Autonomous vehicles (AV) or cars of the future are only growing in popularity. However, there is a reported lack of trust in these AV. According to a recent survey conducted by the AAA automotive group on understanding ...
An Evaluation of Carbon Dioxide and Water Flow as Control Techniques for the Invasive Red Swamp Crayfish
(2022-04-26)
The Red Swamp Crayfish (RSC) is an invasive crayfish species that has invaded many
water bodies in North America and other continents. Recent work has demonstrated the potential
of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a tool to ...
Early Characterization and Performance of Flexible Pavements Utilizing Asphalt Additives
(2022-04-25)
Asphalt additives have been utilized for years to modify the performance of flexible pavements. They have the potential to lead to long-lasting and sustainable asphalt pavements. In recent years, several new categories of ...
ICD-11 Versus DSM-5 Conceptualizations of Posttraumatic Psychopathology: Implications for Prevalence, Comorbidity, and Measurement of PTSD and Complex PTSD
(2022-04-25)
ICD-11 and DSM-5 represent disparate approaches to diagnostic categories and criteria for posttraumatic psychopathology. First, DSM-5 follows a broad approach to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom criteria, whereas ...
Hardware Acceleration for Pedestrian Dead Reckoning in Embedded Systems
(2022-04-25)
Hardware acceleration within embedded systems can potentially allow algorithms to meet real time requirements in devices where it was previously impossible. Though many algorithms have been developed targeting embedded ...
The Effect of Everyday Informal Learning Activities on Lifelong Learning Mindset and Civic Engagement in U.S. Adults: Towards a Learning Cities Theory of Change
(2022-04-25)
The concept of a learning city has existed since the Faure et al. (1972) report proclaimed that lifelong learning was the path to a global learning society where all humans could achieve their best selves and by extension ...
Tools and Insights for Sustainable Management of Plant Pests and Pathogens
(2022-04-25)
Minimizing crop yield losses caused by plant pathogens is one way of increasing agricultural productivity. To that end, I developed an automated classifier of digital images of soybean diseases to assist with early and ...
Developing and Optimizing Micro-resolution Mosquito Bite Blocking Textiles
(2022-04-25)
Textiles have been applied in the context of entomological applications since the primitive inventions of clothing and shelter. In many cases insects are injurious to humans. Mosquitos kill over a million people each year ...
An Approach for Designing Board Games That Promote Children’s Social Skills
(2022-04-25)
As the world becomes more and more cooperative, children’s development of social skills becomes increasingly vital to their personal growth, and most importantly, future success in adulthood. Traditionally, educators ...
A Machine Learning Approach to Transit Fraud Detection
(2022-04-25)
This research is a collection of 3 papers on the use of machine learning methods to detect and classify transit media fraud using passenger transaction data. Academically, this work is an extension of machine learning ...