Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Examining Solvita Soil Tests in Soils of the Southeast United States
(2022-04-18)
Nitrogen (N) an essential nutrient for healthy crop growth. Nitrogen fertilizer may be over applied because standard soil tests do not account for nitrogen mineralized by soil microorganisms throughout the growing season. ...
A Spatial Approach to Analyzing the Effects of Weather Patterns on Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Colony Loss Across the United States
(2022-04-18)
Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) have experienced high rates of colony loss over the
past decade. Honey bees are critical to agricultural production, providing 15 billion to the United
States (U.S.) economy each ...
Coral Reefs in Congress
(2022-04-15)
As coral reef ecosystems disappear at an alarming rate, the United States and the wider world are weighing options for bold policy action to stop the loss of climate sensitive ecosystems. It is difficult for policies to ...
Physical Layer Approach to Secure Visible Light Communication and Sensing
(2022-04-15)
Visible Light (VL) is a wireless technology that uses visible light (400 ~ 790 THz) as the medium to transmit information (i.e., visible light communication or VLC) or sense user's activities (i.e., visible light sensing ...
Role of Chemokine Receptor CXCR7 in Adipocyte Physiology and Disease
(2022-04-14)
Objective—Chemokines and chemokine receptors have long been shown to play important roles in inflammation, obesity, and type II diabetes. CXCR7 is characterized as an atypical chemokine receptor whose function as a signaling ...
The Physics of Wind Instruments
(2022-04-14)
Musical instruments have been studied by physicists for centuries due to their complex mechanisms and the presence of many pieces of fundamental physics within. This dis- sertation aims its focus on wind instruments which ...
Examining the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence, Job Performance, Job Satisfaction, and Employee Engagement among Workforce Educators
(2022-04-14)
Emotional Intelligence (EI), a multidimensional construct, is considered as the capacity to process emotional information accurately and effectively to include monitoring one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions. ...
Harsh Parenting and Trajectories of Adjustment across Late Adolescence: Autonomic Nervous System Activity as a Moderator of Risk
(2022-04-14)
Adjustment problems including internalizing symptoms (e.g., anxiety, depression) and externalizing behaviors (e.g., rule-breaking, aggression, hostility) increase across earlier adolescence but little is known about their ...
An investigation of the mitochondria as a potential source of racial differences in reactive oxygen species production and cellular respiration in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of healthy adults
(2022-04-11)
Background: Non-Hispanic Black (NHB) adults exhibit a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to Non-Hispanic White (NHW) adults. Vascular oxidative stress may be one contributing factor to these racial ...
Technology Use in Instrumental Practicing: A Mixed Methods Study of Middle School Band Students
(2022-04-11)
Deliberate, thoughtful, and structured practice is critical to developing proper skills on an instrument (Barry & McArthur, 1994; Byo & Cassidy, 2008; Duke et al., 2009; Hallam, 2001a; Lehmann & Ericsson, 1996; Miksza, ...
Professional Learning Communities: An Examination of 21st Century and Traditional Facility Designs
(2022-04-08)
Today’s educational structures require teachers to move from isolation to collaboration to improve knowledge, skills, and instructional practices for effective teaching and learning. To do this, many schools across the ...
Three Studies of Shared Digital Labs: The Role of Trust in Business and Maturity Model Development
(2022-04-06)
Laboratories (labs) complement theoretical teaching/learning content in STEM subjects to promote understanding with practical knowledge and experience. However, these labs are typically expensive and available only to local ...
Intraspecific variation in coral reproductive output and symbiont community structure following a thermal bleaching event
(2022-04-04)
Marine heatwaves and associated bleaching events are projected to increase in frequency and severity in the future, imperiling charismatic ecosystems such as coral reefs. Although mass bleaching events are often accompanied ...
Propeller Design and Optimization Using a Robust Genetic Algorithm and a Computationally Efficient Solver
(2022-03-28)
A computationally efficient and reliable propeller design tool has been constructed using an advanced real coded Genetic Algorithm (GA) and a mid-fidelity potential flow solver. The GA constructs a population of propeller ...
Toxicity and Physiological Effects of Essential Oil Components against the German Cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.) (Ectobiidae)
(2022-03-24)
The overarching goal of this research is to extend the scholarship on and provide new evidence that rationalizes the inclusion of low toxicity, plant-based essential oils (EOs), and their components (EOCs) into integrated ...
Exploiting Power-Up State of Latches as Hardware Security Primitives: PUF, TRNG and Recycled IC Detection
(2022-03-22)
Over the last two decades, hardware security has become more and more important and became a hot topic in both academia and industry. Threats seen on cyber-infrastructure and electronic devices are becoming more and more ...
New Statistical Learning for Next-Generation Functional Data and Spatial Data
(2022-03-18)
Advancements of modern technology have enabled the collection of sophisticated, high-dimensional data sets, such as 3D images, high dimensional data and other objects living in a functional space. As such, boosting the ...
Outcomes Associated with Teacher-Guided Indoor Preschool Physical Activity Interventions
(2022-03-08)
In the United States, preschool-aged children are not meeting age specific physical activity recommendations (1-3, 42, 82, 83) and spending a large portion of their days sedentary (4, 27). Minority children living in ...
Empirical Evidence of the Consequences of Bad Smells in Software
(2022-03-08)
A “smell” is a property of software source code that indicates a deeper problem. Smells do not necessarily affect the code at the immediate point in time but are thought to cause problems during a later phase of the ...
Mixed Infection in Tomato Plants by Dominant Bacterial Spot Pathogen and the Co-occurring Bacterial Species
(2022-03-08)
Pathogen dynamics can be altered by co-occurring pathogenic or opportunistic entities inhabiting the same host species. Mixed infection or co-infection caused by multiple pathogenic strains are common in nature. However, ...