Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Food Spending Among Low-Income Consumers: the Effects of the SNAP Cycle and Seasonality on Purchases and Produce Incentive Use
(2023-04-27)
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food assistance benefits to low-income households. Participants in SNAP face both a cyclical and seasonal struggle when it comes to maintaining enough food ...
From Edge to Equipment: Design and Implementation of a Machine-Learning-Enabled Smart Manufacturing System
(2023-04-27)
In smart manufacturing, data management systems are built with a multi-layer architecture, in which the most significant layers are the edge and cloud layers. The edge layer, not surprisingly, renders support to data ...
The Total Fiscal Effects Index (T.F.E.I.). Building a Dependent Variable to Gauge the Long-Term Fiscal Consequences of Using Economic Discretionary Incentives Packages to Lure Businesses: The Auburn, Huntsville, Montgomery, and Mobile Cases
(2023-04-27)
Discretionary economic incentives have been a policy tool widely used by local governments to bring business to their jurisdictions to create jobs and foster economic development. However, businesses have managed to pit ...
Growth performance, survival, blood chemistry, and immune gene expression of channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) fed probiotic-supplemented diets
(2023-04-27)
The channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) farming industry is the largest and one of the oldest aquaculture industries in the United States. Despite being an established industry, production issues stemming from disease ...
Forest Inventory and Grassland Restoration Planning of Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama
(2023-04-27)
Redstone Arsenal (RSA) is the largest landholding in the Tennessee River Valley of Alabama, encompassing 36,000 acres. This region was once dominated by expansive savannas, largely dominated by oak (Quercus spp.) and pines ...
Stress in Alabama’s Education Employees: Intensity, Manifestation, Connection to Turnover Intentions, and Alleviation Techniques
(2023-04-27)
Schools across America are filled with educators who are skilled in their craft but stressed with their work, which is leading to alarming rates of burnout, turnover, and attrition. Much of the existing professional ...
Using remote sensing to detect indicator species of tidal influence along the lower Apalachicola River, Florida
(2023-04-27)
Wetlands are an important part of coastal ecosystems for the multiple services they
provide, including erosion control, water quality, and wildlife habitat. With the threat of rising
sea levels, it is important to ...
Race and the John Birch Society
(2023-04-27)
This dissertation aims to uncover why the John Birch Society, since its early beginnings, has carried the label racist when the JBS firmly maintains it never considered race. While it could be that the JBS leadership has ...
Examination and Evaluation of the Persistence of Virulent Aeromonas hydrophila, Edwardsiella ictaluri and Flavobacterium covae Within the Sediments of West Alabama Commercial Catfish Ponds
(2023-04-26)
The three most prevalent bacterial pathogens responsible for channel (Ictalurus punctatus) and hybrid [♀ channel catfish (I. punctatus) × ♂ blue catfish (I. furcatus)] catfish losses are virulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh), ...
Design, Placement, and Laboratory Evaluation of Rejuvenated Cold Recycled Pavement Mixtures
(2023-04-26)
Cold recycled (CR) pavements, the combination of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and a recycling agent (foamed or emulsified asphalt binder) at ambient temperatures, can provide a sustainable method to rehabilitate, ...
A Geospatial Approach to Preserving Location Privacy
(2023-04-26)
Sharing true locations of users has become a basic requirement for accessing Location-based
services (LBS) on a wide range of web and mobile applications. LBS require users
to provide their current location for service ...
Towards Urban Sustainability: A Framework for Understanding the Applicability of SDGs to small and medium size cites (SMSC)
(2023-04-26)
United Nations (UN) News states that understanding upcoming urbanization trends is crucial to implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This agenda consists of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) that ...
Detection of Tritrichomonas foetus in the Bull
(2023-04-26)
Bovine trichomoniasis is a venereal disease in cattle that causes severe reproductive loss and can have devastating economic impact on the cattle industry. Bovine trichomoniasis is caused by a protozoal organism that ...
Improving Semi-autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle Operator Performance via Haptics
(2023-04-26)
This thesis has not been approved for public release.
Tapered Grain Geometry and Statistical Learning for Solid Rocket Motor Simulation
(2023-04-26)
This thesis investigates applying statistical learning techniques to a tapered grain solid rocket motor simulation. Tapered grain solid rocket motors (SRMs) have application in both defense and space industries. Tapered ...
A Mobile Augmented Reality Assistant via Deep Learning and Lidar for the Visually Impaired and Blind
(2023-04-26)
Visually impaired and blind (VIB) people often face additional difficulties in their daily lives due to their lack of access to visual information, which reduces their quality of life. Due to their vision problems, it is ...
Fibroblast Growth Factor-21 (FGF21) in Domestic Cats
(2023-04-26)
Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) are a group of structurally homologous yet functionally pleiotropic proteins. Unlike canonical and intracellular FGFs, the FGF19 subfamily, which includes FGF15/19, FGF21, and FGF23, act ...
Investigation of a Novel Application of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) for Sediment Fingerprinting
(2023-04-26)
Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) is a tool that is commonly used to measure the
length of time a quartz or feldspar grain has been buried in a sediment deposit. Recently there
have been advances in using OSL as ...
Genome-Wide Associations Identifying Marker-Trait-Associations for Root Morphology and Photosynthetic Related Traits in a Soybean (Glycine max) Diversity Panel
(2023-04-26)
Soybean is a staple crop for the food, feed, and fuel industries because of its unique oil and protein composition. It is the second most produced crop globally, with average acres planted and harvest yield increasing ...
Investigation into the Synthesis of Polymeric Core and Shell Nanoparticles for the Controlled Release of Small Hydrophobic Payloads
(2023-04-26)
Effective and safe delivery of drugs into the body, where it will provide the maximum benefit to the patient, is the ultimate treatment goal. Factors such as the drug’s bioavailability and pharmacokinetics can lessen ...