Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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FULL-SCALE MECHANISTIC AND PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION OF A FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT WITH A STABILIZED FOUNDATION
(2021-06-21)
The current study aimed to develop a mechanistic understanding of the behavior of flexible pavements with stabilized foundations through full-scale testing, instrumentation, and simulation. In pursuit of this objective, a ...
Assessment of Risk and Risk Factors of Fluoropyrimidine-induced Cardiotoxicity among Colorectal Cancer Survivors Using a Mixed-Methods Approach
(2021-06-18)
Although new cancer treatment therapy has been increasingly developed, fluoropyrimidines, such as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and capecitabine, are widely used alone or in combination regimens as chemotherapy for the treatment ...
Three Essays in Applied Economics
(2021-06-15)
This dissertation consists of three empirical essays as three chapters, which sheds lights on select research questions on education economics, biodiversity, and water sustainability in the United States.
Chapter 1 ...
Working in Person During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Job Demands and Resources of Reopening the Economy
(2021-06-14)
This study investigated the effects of working in person during the COVID-19 pandemic on perceived job demands and resources for employees. The job demands-resources (JD-R) model of employee stress indicates that workplace ...
Synthesis, Analysis, and Pharmacological Profile of Designer Piperazine Drugs
(2021-06-14)
New or novel Psychoactive substances (NPS) or designer drugs are often uncontrolled synthetic chemicals that are analogs to classic controlled substances and have been a public health threat in the last two decades. The ...
Mitigating the Occurrences of Graduate Student Attrition: Making the Case for Standardized Noncognitive Assessments
(2021-06-10)
The purpose of this dissertation study was twofold. First, this research study examined the role of noncognitive factors on degree completion, academic achievement, and persistence. Second, this research study examined the ...
Interim Product Design Guidelines and Strategies
(2021-06-10)
With the improvement of technology, more and more radical products, which provide unprecedented customer benefits, have appeared in the market these years, but the diffusion of them is slow and still a big challenge for ...
The History of Alabama State College
(2021-06-04)
Alabama State College, now Alabama State University, has played an instrumental part in providing exceptional educational opportunities for
generations of African Americans in Alabama and beyond. The university has ...
Quantitative and Qualitative Subgroup Differences in PTSD Symptom Presentations: A Latent Class Analysis
(2021-06-03)
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a highly heterogeneous disorder (Galatzer-Levy & Bryant, 2013). Latent class analysis (LCA) and latent profile analysis (LPA) have been used to identify homogeneous subgroups of ...
Detection of GNSS Faults Using Receiver Clock Drift Estimates
(2021-05-25)
GNSS based navigation systems are used in almost every sector, from industrial and agricultural environments to everyday applications such as personal navigation or autonomous vehicles. Satellite navigation provides accurate ...
Models Based Practice in Chinese College Physical Education
(2021-05-24)
Research has supported that Sport Education (Siedentop, 1994; Siedentop, Hastie, Van der Mars, 2020) and Play Practice (Launder, 2001, 2013) in physical education can efficiently promote teaching and learning for both ...
Latent Class Analysis of Drinking Game Consequences Among College Drinkers
(2021-05-21)
Participation in drinking games has been identified as one specific alcohol-related context linked to increased risk among college students. Despite advances in drinking game research, questions remain about the different ...
Automated Microfluidic Droplet Generation and Merging with Integrated Salt-water Electrodes for Analyte Quantification and Monitoring of Endocrine Tissue Secretion Dynamics
(2021-05-21)
Adipose tissue, playing an important role in the global epidemic obesity and diabetes, has attracted extensive attention in recent decades. However, quantitative measurement of dynamics of nutrient uptake and metabolic ...
Development and Characterization of Polymer Gel as Self-driven Actuators
(2021-05-19)
Actuators are objects that can transfer energy or signal to mechanical energy and are widely used in our daily life. Most of actuators are actuated by external energy suppliers that make the device big. Self-powered ...
Simulation of Quantum Parametric Amplifiers
(2021-05-19)
Parametric amplifiers couple a nonlinear element to an external environment, resulting in frequency mixing of a pump tone and a smaller signal tone. The pump’s energy is coupled into the signal tone and an additional idler ...
Studying the soil-strength effects of vegetation for slope stabilization and erosion control along streambanks and roadside slopes
(2021-05-19)
Vegetative covers are a common solution used for erosion control and slope stabilization for a variety of applications. Studies were conducted to look at two applications of vegetation for erosion control, stream restoration ...
Personal Anguish or Public Spectacle?: Understanding Involuntary Celibacy as A Deviant Identity
(2021-05-18)
Academic research into involuntary celibacy has increased in the past decade, and many studies have succeeded at describing the behaviors which make involuntary celibate people (Incels) infamous online without promoting ...
Gender Role Conflict, Masculine Body Ideals, and Male Body Dissatisfaction: Examining the Gender Self-Socialization Development Model
(2021-05-18)
The purpose of this study was to gain understanding into the development of body image in men by examining the Gender Self-Socialization Model. Specifically, the study assessed variables related to gender roles, masculine ...
Evaluation of Laboratory and Field Produced Cold Recycled and Full Depth Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Materials
(2021-05-18)
Cold recycling (CR) and full depth reclamation (FDR) are sustainable processes of
recycling existing pavement materials to construct stronger stabilized base layers. The recycled
asphalt pavement’s materials vary in ...
Effects of culture methods in the Pacific Northwest on the levels of Vibrio spp. in farm-raised oysters (Crassostrea gigas)
(2021-05-18)
Oyster aquaculture utilizes both on-bottom and off-bottom culture techniques to harvest raw oysters for the half-shell market. In the Pacific Northwest, the farming practices for growing the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea ...