Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Order Picking Method for Multi-entity Cooperation in Picking Warehouses
(2023-06-08)
In recent years, different kinds of autonomous robots have been widely studied and applied in warehouses to meet the increasing demand for dealing with more customer orders, providing shorter delivery time, and achieving ...
Evaluation of Aerobic Culture Results and the Expression of Embryonic Transcripts From In Vivo Derived Embryos Exposed to Media With and Without Antibiotics
(2023-05-31)
More than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States each year, with a resultant 35,000 deaths. The United States Department of Agriculture is investigating ways to judiciously use antibiotics ...
Studies on the Role of Non-canonical Wnt/JNK Signaling During Early Anterior-Posterior Axis Formation in Sea Urchin Embryos
(2023-05-30)
The establishment of embryonic body axes is a crucial event during early metazoan embryogenesis, determining the correct shape of the adult body plan. Wnt signaling pathways are conserved cascades that regulate important ...
Prediction of Structural Health of Pavement Preservation Treated Pavements Using Neural Networks
(2023-05-17)
Structural testing of pavements is required to ensure their strength, durability, and longer service life. Destructive testing methods are less costly but more time-consuming and pose a safety risk for road users and crew ...
Understanding extinction risk in aquatic invertebrates using range size and genetic diversity
(2023-05-17)
Genetic diversity is not only necessary for evolutionary processes but also for ecosystem functioning and population stability. This is particularly true for ecosystem engineers that contribute broadly to function and food ...
Drought Management Plans of States in the Southeastern United States: A Comprehensive Evaluation
(2023-05-16)
While the Southeast is often considered to be a region of abundant rainfall and humidity, severe droughts over the last two decades have raised awareness of the importance of proper management strategies at the state level. ...
Minority Stress, Relationship Satisfaction, and Psychological Distress in Same-Gender Relationships
(2023-05-15)
I tested hypothesized relationships between sexual minority stress theory (Brooks, 1981; Meyer 1995), Bodenmann’s (1995) stress-divorce-model, and Cohen’s social support/stress buffering hypotheses by using hierarchical ...
Additive Manufacturing of Engineered Polymeric Flexible Structures
(2023-05-15)
Polymer-based additive manufacturing (AM) processes allow the flexibility, rapid, and low-cost fabrication of complex geometries. In recent years, fused filament fabrication (FFF), also known as fused deposition modeling ...
Cellulose Nanomaterial-based Films for Grease-resistance Food Packaging Application
(2023-05-15)
The common uses of plastic for food packaging are advantageous in many cases because of its easy processability, low cost, and excellent resistance to water, oil, and grease penetration. The per- and poly-fluoroalkyl ...
A High-Resolution Hurricane Analysis for the Southeastern United States
(2023-05-11)
This study investigated hurricane trends in the Southeastern United States. First, we developed a high-resolution gridded hurricane dataset, GRID-HURDAT2, and calculated Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index in three ...
Secure Base Script Stability and Early Childhood Competence
(2023-05-10)
Internal representations of attachment inform children about themselves and the world around them and shape the expectations they have for relationships. Secure representations of attachment – measured by the secure base ...
The Mechanistic Studies of Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence and the Conformational Analysis of Dinoflagellate Luciferase
(2023-05-10)
This dissertation discusses the luciferase enzyme of dinoflagellates, which are eukaryotic
microorganisms found in both freshwater and marine environments. Dinoflagellates are known
for their capability for bioluminescence. ...
The Effects of the Environment on Phenotypic and Genetic Variation
(2023-05-09)
The study of genetic and phenotypic variation in the natural world is one of the cornerstones of biological research and is the founding basis of many subfields. Despite centuries of research, there still remains questions ...
Exploring the Relationship Between Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome and Social Problem Solving
(2023-05-08)
Cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS), previously referred to as sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), is represented by a set of symptoms that have been found to be associated with emotional, social, and daily life impairments ...
The effects of socioeconomic factors on trajectories of language and motor development in infants
(2023-05-08)
Multiple domains develop simultaneously and interact throughout infancy and early childhood. Although relationships between motor and language skills have been examined cross-sectionally during the first three years of ...
Geochemical Characterization of Groundwater and Mineralogical Assessment in Hatiya Island, Southeastern Coastal Region of Bangladesh
(2023-05-05)
Groundwater is a vital source of fresh water for drinking and agricultural purposes in the region of Hatiya Island, Bangladesh, yet is subject to contamination by natural and anthropogenic activities. To address this issue, ...
A comparative study of variations in state water policy in response to recurring droughts
(2023-05-05)
The purpose of this study is to investigate how environmental culture, institutional structures, and water distribution have led to differences in water policy innovation, using Texas, California, and Alabama as case studies ...
Spray Evaporation on Enhanced-Surface Tube Bundles with Low-GWP Refrigerants
(2023-05-04)
With the development of new low-GWP HFO refrigerants and increasingly stringent regulation of existing HVAC&R systems, the heat transfer performance of these refrigerants and the effects of various enhancement techniques ...
Revalidating DNA Damage Inducible 1 Homolog II (DDI2) as a Novel Target for the Treatment of Cancer
(2023-05-04)
Cancer cells are under proteotoxic stress and are more sensitive to the perturbation of protein quality control pathways than normal cells. The proteasome is a critical component of the protein quality control machinery. ...
Contextualizing the Development of Emotion Regulation in Early Adolescence: Results from the ABCD Study
(2023-05-04)
Emotion regulation (ER) is known to be an important cognitive process which underlies both adaptive and maladaptive functioning. This thesis aimed to evaluate the associations between key micro- and macro-contexts and the ...