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Ultrastructural, Immunohistochemical, and Biochemical Variation Amongst Symbiodinium Isolates
(2013-07-30)
Symbiodinium spp. reside intracellularly in a complex symbiosome (host and symbiont-derived) in a specific host-symbiont associations. Symbiodinium is a diverse genus with variation equivalent to that of other dinoflagellate ...
Un-Living History: Programming, Interpretation, and Management at Haunted Historic Sites
(2012-07-23)
Using employee interviews and a variety of other primary and secondary sources, this thesis examines ten historic sites throughout the southeast that are considered haunted in order to explore the advantages and disadvantages ...
[Un]Ethical Algorithms: The Social Justice Dilemma of Automated Writing Technologies
(2024-04-29)
This dissertation examines the use of AI-based technologies in providing legal assistance to resource-constrained populations and its potential impact on social justice. Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods ...
Uncertainty Quantification and Inference under Differential Privacy
(2025-07-31)
Advances in technology have led to the proliferation of adversarial techniques capable of undermining traditional data security protocols designed to ensure data privacy. Such breaches have resulted in significant financial ...
Uncovering different physiological mechanisms of peanut drought tolerance under mid-season drought in automated Rain-out Shelters
(2021-11-18)
Peanut is an economic cash crop mainly planted in arid and semi-arid regions where the drought causes around 20% loss of peanut production every year. Research suggested that crops have various physiological mechanisms ...
Uncovering the Social Organization of Women PhD Students' Experiences in Biology: An Institutional Ethnography
(2022-05-01)
Biological science programs enroll and graduate more women than other STEM disciplines; nearly 60% of undergraduate students are women, and women and men enter graduate programs at equal rates. This suggests that the field ...
Undergraduate and Graduate String Instrumentalists’ Approaches to Learning New Solo Repertoire: Descriptive Case Studies of Deliberate Practice Using the Fitts and Posner Model of Skill Learning
(2025-07-23)
Practice, defined as working at something repeatedly to achieve proficiency (Merriam-Webster, n.d.), is widely recognized as a necessary component of skill acquisition. Past research has recognized the need to develop ...
Undergraduate Attitudes Towards Parental Discipline Strategies
(2006-12-15)
Parenting is an essential part of children’s development. Because everyone has had experience with parenting young adults likely have opinions, attitudes and beliefs regarding parenting behaviors – even before they become ...
Undergraduate Business Students: Multiple Intelligences and Academic Majors
(2023-08-04)
This study explored the potential relationship between multiple intelligences and academic majors declared by undergraduate business students in the largest college at a mid-size public university in the southeast. To ...
Undergraduates who CARE: An evaluation of Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) training with undergraduate students
(2025-08-07)
Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement training (CARE) is an empirically-based, trauma-informed, behaviorally grounded training aimed at equipping any adult interacting with any child with the skills and benefits of parent ...
Underinsurance in Children with Special Health Care Needs
(2010-04-16)
Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) are a small part of the total population, but use more services and account for more costs than do their healthy peers. By the very nature of who they are and the health-related ...
Understanding 40Ar/39Ar Age Variations in Potassium Feldspars from Low-Sulfidation Epithermal Systems in the Miocene Yellowstone Hotspot
(2024-07-24)
The inception of the Yellowstone hotspot resulted in the Columbia River Large Igneous Province (LIP), Mid-Miocene magmatism in western North America, and numerous epithermal Au-Ag deposits in the Oregon-Idaho-Nevada region. ...
Understanding African American Lesbian and Gay Identity Development Within a Historically Black College Environment
(2009-05-06)
The purpose of this study was to conduct an examination of experiences associated with LG identity development among African American college students. Specifically, the study focused on LG identity development within the ...
Understanding and Estimating Travel Times of Overland Flows on Planes
(2014-04-23)
Estimating travel time of overland flow is one of the important studies in hydrology. A quasi-two-dimensional overland flow model (OFM) with the options of dynamic, diffusion, and kinematic wave approximation integrated ...
Understanding and Improving Computer Vision and Spatiotemporal Deep Neural Networks
(2021-07-19)
Deep neural networks are increasingly being used to solve a wide range of machine learning tasks. In this dissertation, I discuss several research projects I have worked on at Auburn with the goal of understanding and ...
Understanding and Improving Generative Adversarial Networks
(2020-04-06)
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been under the spotlight in the machine learning field for a few years. Especially, the power that learns a data distribution in an unsupervised fashion leads GANs to be applied ...
Understanding and Modeling the Effects of Surface Texture on Fatigue Behavior of Additively Manufactured Parts
(2024-04-29)
Additive manufacturing, considered as a future manufacturing technique, provides an unique advantage of fabricating near-net-shape parts without any additional processes. While there are extensive efforts to improve ...
Understanding and promoting rural adolescents' psychosocial development in the context of a unique social milieu
(2016-07-20)
The need to belong is fundamental among human beings, and is associated with a variety of indices of wellbeing. Individuals can experience belonging in a variety of contexts. During adolescence, two of the most prominent ...
Understanding Angler Preferences and Participation for Management of Alabama Recreational Fisheries
(2015-07-29)
Due to recent declines in the number of licensed freshwater anglers, there is an increasing demand to understand angler preferences and how that impacts participation. Incorporating angler characteristics into traditional ...
Understanding Cyclist Perceptions of Road Adjacent Shared-Use Paths: A Comprehensive Study of Both Stated and Revealed User Preferences
(2020-04-30)
Road adjacent shared-use paths are a valuable transportation facility for rural and suburban communities looking to reap the benefits of increased active transportation. Shared-use paths have the ability to immediately ...