Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Writing in Defense of Black Womanhood: Twentieth Century Black Female Intellectuals and the Development of Intersectional Thought
(2023-08-03)
“Writing in Defense of Black Womanhood” seeks to create an intellectual genealogy for the theory of intersectionality. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s influential articles, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black ...
Using Bioinformatics Tools to Explore Symbiotic Associations Between Marine Invertebrates and Microbes
(2023-08-03)
The relationships and interdependence of microbes and marine invertebrates play a critical role in maintaining the marine ecosystem and are also pointers to environmental health and biodiversity. Some of these symbiotic ...
Transport Properties of 2D Heterostructures Determined via First Principles Calculations
(2023-08-03)
Atomically thin, two-dimensional materials have demonstrated their great potentials in nanoelectronics due to their mechanical and optoelectronic properties. With atomic layers free of dangling bonds, these materials possess ...
Black Paths to White Boards: Black Alumni Service on PWI Governing Boards
(2023-08-03)
Governing boards of universities are tasked with upholding university principles and promoting university ideals, including those pertaining to diversity, equity, and inclusion. However, many university governing boards, ...
Music Teacher Preparation for Inclusion of Students with Special Needs: Survey of Music Teacher Educators in the United States
(2023-08-03)
Current music teacher educators at colleges and universities were examined to determine how they prepare preservice music teachers to work with students with special needs. Participants included music education professors ...
Tests of olfactory memory in dogs and humans
(2023-08-03)
Olfaction is a highly evolutionarily preserved cognitive process in the brains of animals. In the fields of psychology and neuroscience, research on olfaction has lagged far behind that of vision or other physical senses. ...
Essays on Macroeconomics Forecasting and Economic Policy Uncertainty
(2023-08-03)
First paper analyzes the properties of forecast bias in the Survey of Professional
Forecasters in relation to economic policy uncertainty. Employing the quarterly forecast bias of 14 key macroeconomic variables and 12 ...
Upper and Expected Value Normalization for Evaluating Information Retrieval and Text Generation Systems
(2023-08-02)
Evaluation metric is a crucial part to improve the performance of any system. An accurate evaluation metric is capable to detect and compare multiple different models and thus serving the user’s need in a specific domain. ...
Alcohol-carboxylate transport in phenyl-based membranes of varying chain length transport
(2023-08-02)
As global climate change is a major concern which is accelerated by CO2 emissions, we need to reduce CO2 emissions from the environment. In order to do that, researchers conceptualized CO2 reduction cells which electrochemically ...
Decision Making Models for Power Systems Operations Under Uncertainty
(2023-08-02)
As the power grids worldwide transition from fossil fuel-based power plants to an era dominated by renewable energy sources (RESs), new operational challenges and uncertainties emerge, particularly for Independent System ...
Leaf temperature regulation in tree species of the eastern United States: the influence of leaf traits and resource availability
(2023-08-02)
Temperature has a direct effect on plant function (e.g., photosynthesis, respiration). However, the temperature that plants experience at the leaf level (Tleaf) is often decoupled from air temperature (Tair). Theoretical ...
Petrogenesis and Tectonic Implications of Almond Trondhjemite of Southern Appalachians in Alabama
(2023-08-02)
In the southernmost Appalachians, Devonian-Carboniferous Eastern Blue Ridge (EBR) syn/post-orogenic granitoids are examined in two groups, high Sr/Y and low Sr/Y granitoids. The Almond Trondhjemite (AT) is a part of these ...
Couples and Childhood Adversity: A Prevention Science Approach to Exploring Resilience with Variable-Centered and Person-Centered Methods
(2023-08-02)
Contemporary research on couple relationship education (CRE) goes beyond testing the effectiveness of CRE for the average participant and assuming a “one size fits all” approach. Scholars acknowledge the complexity of the ...
Studies on Expenditure, Prices, and Value of Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs
(2023-08-02)
Objectives: To determine the expenditure of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and price changes, and to elicit the preference-based value of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs).
Methods: First, Medical Expenditure ...
The Scales of Ocean and Coastal Governance: How International, National, and Local Governments are Preparing for Global Environmental Change and a Growing Population
(2023-08-02)
Coastal and ocean governance is a complex topic that requires an equally complex management structure. Governments around the world and at every scale have varying degrees of authority and resources to effectively manage ...
Effects of tillage practices and cover crops on X-ray computed tomography derived soil pore characteristics
(2023-08-02)
Soil management practices such as conservation tillage and cover crops improve soil health and crop yield. However, these practices may create connected soil pore networks that can cause preferential transport of contaminants ...
Recent High School Graduates’ Decisions Regarding High School Band Participation: A Phenomenological Study
(2023-08-02)
The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover why students chose to remain in high school band for four years or drop before they finished high school. The following research questions (RQ) guided this study: ...
The Backbone of Democracy: A Study Examining the Impact of Black Women in Politics
(2023-08-02)
This dissertation investigates how the inclusion of Black women in politics impacts democratic
norms in three unique ways: voter turnout, evaluations of government, and legislative policy
priorities. I hypothesize that ...
The role of hormones in the development of the adrenal gland
(2023-08-02)
The adrenal cortex, a crucial endocrine gland, is comprised of three distinct regions: the zona glomerulosa, zona fasciculata, and zona reticularis (referred to as the X-zone in mice). This organ plays a critical role in ...
An Investigation of the Coevolutionary Relationship Between Aprostocetus hagenowii (Ratzburg) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) and its Cockroach (Blattodea) Hosts
(2023-08-02)
Oothecal parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera) parasitize the egg cases (oothecae) of cockroaches (Blattodea). Oothecal parasitoids must have developed numerous adaptations to locate, parasitize, and develop within their hosts, ...