Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Investigating Historic and Modern Reservoir Ecology at Whole Watershed and Singular Basin Scales with Sediment Paleolimnological Techniques
(2024-07-23)
Reservoirs or dammed river systems are prevalent both around the globe and in the Southeastern United States. They provide many ecosystem services (e.g., flood mitigation, water storage, navigation, recreation) at the cost ...
Diversity and Effects of Fungicides on the Pecan Phyllosphere Microbiome, and Fungal Interactions with a Novel Yeast
(2024-07-23)
The phyllosphere microbiome is one of the largest habitats on earth, hosting any organism that can adapt to it. Phyllosphere yeasts in particular can dominate this habitat, but to this date have been chronically understudied ...
Access to Healthcare in the Black Belt Region of the USA
(2024-07-23)
Even though the United States is highly developed, it lacks a universal healthcare system, leading to unequal access and health outcomes. These gaps are noticeable in marginalized areas like the Black Belt region, where ...
Investigation into the role of bacteria biofilms in the initial attachment and colonization stages of filamentous green algae in lab bench-scale algal turf scrubbers
(2024-07-23)
The design of reactor systems to cultivate filamentous green algae for remediation of nutrients from wastewater and for biomass production has long been pursued for various wastewater applications. The role of early ...
Characterization of Test Board Design and Evaluation of High-Performance Solder Alloys Under Vibration Testing
(2024-07-23)
In the service life of electronic products, there are many applications where they experience vibration loading. However, experimental vibration durability is less investigated due to the complexity involved. Previous ...
Surviving the Storm: Labor Market Resilience in Small Businesses During the Pandemic
(2024-07-23)
This dissertation highlights the importance of social distancing policies and targeted financial interventions, such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), in influencing labor market outcomes and business survival ...
The Role of OPDA Signaling in Induced Systemic Defenses Against Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
(2024-07-22)
Plants are vulnerable to a range of biotic and abiotic stressors, which hinder their growth and reduce agricultural yield. Existing management strategies fall short, lacking durable resistant/tolerant cultivars and nontoxic, ...
Exploring Electrically Conductive Nanoparticle Additives in Greases for Electric Vehicle Applications
(2024-07-22)
Global transportation trends favor renewable alternatives, with electric vehicles (EVs) emerging as a popular choice. However, EV adoption is challenged by range anxiety and infrastructure. Optimizing tribological contacts ...
What do Resources have to do with it? A Within-Person Examination of the Interplay Between Demands, Workaholism, and Burnout
(2024-07-22)
Existing research highlights associated constructs that involve sustained effort at work,
such as job demands and workaholism, and how these can lead to negative outcomes such as
burnout. Traditionally, these associations ...
Examining the Link Between Gender Minority Stress and Relationship Instability in TGD Relationships: Testing Problem-Solving Communication as a Moderator
(2024-07-22)
The experiences of stigma and discrimination faced by the transgender and gender diverse (TGD) community are well-understood through minority stress theory (MST), which suggests that stigmatized groups encounter additional ...
Evaluation of a Novel Poultry-Derived Fertilizer
(2024-07-22)
Poultry litter, a common soil amendment, can be applied to soils as a plant nutrient source. Due to a balanced N: P ratio, applying poultry liter based on N rates may result in an overapplication of phosphorous which leads ...
Social Anxiety as a Moderator of the Association Between Autonomic Reactivity to Social Stress and Avoidant, Withdrawn, or Disengaged Responses
(2024-07-22)
Avoidant, withdrawn, and disengaged (AWD) responses orient a person away from a stressor or one’s own thoughts, emotions, or physiological responses and high levels of AWD responses are associated with negative psychosocial ...
Improving Interpretability and Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence in Natural Language and Image Understanding
(2024-07-22)
Transformer-based models, such as BERT, have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP) by setting new standards for accuracy and capability. BERT has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on many NLP tasks and ...
Seabird Mitigation and the Prevalence of Campylobacter spp. at Oyster Farms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(2024-07-22)
Off-bottom oyster farming provides surface area for seabird perching. Regulatory agencies have concerns about bacterial contamination of oysters from seabird excrement and require operational plans aimed at bird mitigation; ...
The Identification of Foramsulfuron and Sulfentrazone Resistant Goosegrass (Eleusine indica) Populations
(2024-07-22)
Eleusine indica, commonly known as goosegrass, is a C4 weed species infesting turfgrass, cropping systems, and home lawns. Goosegrass is well known for developing herbicide resistance to different herbicide families and ...
Effects of a Split-Root Hydroponic System on Salinity Tolerance of Tomatoes
(2024-07-22)
Tomatoes are the most produced greenhouse crop globally and are loved due to their nutritional and health benefits. Meanwhile, the production of saltwater fish is on the rise, with consumers willing to pay premium prices ...
High Impact Practices and Their Effect on Beginning Career Outcomes in Agriculture
(2024-07-22)
High impact practices (HIPs), which are offered to undergraduates at Auburn University, help build both soft and hard skills that these employers stated they are seeking from candidates in today’s job market. The Auburn ...
An experimental investigation of crater formation physics during plume-surface interactions using non-intrusive measurement techniques
(2024-07-17)
In this dissertation, a stereo-photogrammetry technique for obtaining non-intrusive, full-domain measurements of Plume-Surface Interaction (PSI) crater evolution was developed. Using this technique, crater formation was ...
In vitro investigation of the therapeutic potential of canine platelet lysate in wound healing
(2024-07-16)
Wound healing is a complex multicellular process characterized by different phases that are mediated by a combination of cascades, such as mediators and cellular components, and requires multiple cytokines and growth ...
Evaluating drought tolerance of southern highbush and rabbiteye blueberries
(2024-07-16)
Drought is one of the most detrimental natural causes leading to yield loss in crops across
the globe. With increasing severity and frequency of drought events, it is imperative to identify
and breed for cultivars that ...