Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Parental Support and Adolescent Disclosure in the Context of Peer Stress
(2026-08-05)
The present study examined whether global parenting behaviors and context-specific parental
support behaviors predicted adolescents’ global and observed disclosure about their peer relationships.
Adolescents completed ...
Robotic and AI-Based Systems for Inventory Management in Ornamental Nurseries and Biomass Estimation in Cover Crops
(2026-08-05)
Recent advancements in field robotics, machine vision, hyperspectral sensing, and deep learning have created new opportunities for automating agricultural monitoring tasks that have traditionally depended on manual labor. ...
Making Space Under Constraint: Black Teacher–Student Relationships as Relational Architecture for Sociopolitical Development in the Alabama Black Belt
(2026-08-05)
This dissertation examines how Black teachers in the Alabama Black Belt build and sustain teacher student relationships as relational architecture under constraint, and how that architecture supports Black youths’ ...
Evaluation of Existing Methods for Estimation of Shear Wave Velocity for Sites in Alabama
(2026-08-05)
Bridges are critical infrastructure systems and need to be resilient to even the rarest of hazards. Seismic damage to bridges and other infrastructure systems is determined by the seismic loading. Seismic loading is dependent ...
Agency in the Pursuit of Freedom
(2026-08-05)
This dissertation examines how Black soldiers exercised agency during the Civil War in pursuit of a changing sense of freedom. It builds on the work of Civil War and African American historians from the past thirty years, ...
Quantification and Performance Implications of Recycled Binder Availability in Asphalt Mixtures Containing Reclaimed Asphalt Materials
(2026-08-05)
Asphalt mixtures containing recycled asphalt materials (RAM), including reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and recycled asphalt shingles (RAS), are commonly designed and produced under the assumption that all recycled binder ...
Integrating an AI-Driven Chatbot for Natural Language Traffic Safety Analysis within the SAFE-AL Dashboard
(2026-08-05)
This thesis presents the design and implementation of an AI chatbot by integrating
into the existing Safety Analytics For Evaluating Alabama (SAFE-AL) dashboard to give
users another way to interact with and understand ...
Antibiotic Resistance Patterns, Serovar Distribution, and Presence of Phenotypic Characteristics Related to Survival of Salmonella Isolated from Retail Poultry Products
(2026-08-05)
Salmonella has remained a persistent public health concern in the United States, despite robust food protection programs. Additionally, the spread of antibiotic resistance has created complications in the treatment of ...
Effects of genetic strain and nutrition on muscle satellite cell function and the development of Wooden Breast myopathy in broilers
(2026-08-05)
Wooden Breast (WB) myopathy is one of the most significant muscle disorders affecting the Pectoralis major (PM) of modern commercial broiler chickens, resulting in impaired meat quality and substantial economic losses to ...
Laser-Based Synthesis of Low-Dimensional Materials
(2026-08-05)
Materials are critical for the advancement of modern technology, as the performance, reliability, and functionality, especially of electrical systems and devices, are greatly governed by the properties of materials. ...
Three Essays on Applied Economics: Analysis of Agricultural Land Regulations and Ghana’s Cocoa Market
(2026-08-05)
This dissertation investigates how state-level farmland ownership regulations and market institutions shape agricultural asset valuation, market structure, and producer welfare. The first chapter evaluates non-resident ...
Essays on People-Centric Supply Chains
(2026-08-05)
In recent years, attention has increasingly turned to socially sustainable supply chains. However, the people who actually operate and sustain these systems are often overlooked. Supply chains are ultimately built on human ...
Evaluating the Effect of different Biochar Rates with Broiler Litter and Commercial Fertilizer on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Soil Nutrient Dynamics and Cotton Lint Yield
(2026-08-05)
Biochar has gained attention as a promising agronomic tool to increase soil nutrient availability and crop productivity. However, efficacy of biochar application in combination with broiler litter (BL) and inorganic N ...
A Learned Cost Model for High-Fidelity Quantum Circuit Layout Optimization
(2026-08-05)
On Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware, execution fidelity varies from one qubit assignment to another even when routing is absent, which makes layout selection a first-order determinant of circuit performance. ...
An Energy-Aware SQL Database System
(2026-08-05)
As enterprise data volumes continue to grow, the energy consumption of large-scale database systems has become an important concern alongside performance and reliability. Existing energy-efficient database approaches, ...
Equilibrium and Stability of Magnetically Confined Plasmas
(2026-08-05)
The equilibrium and stability of physical systems are fundamental topics with applications throughout physics.
To realize a practical magnetically confined fusion power plant, it is essential to establish and maintain ...
Consumers’ Adoption Process of AI-Powered Visual Search Engines: An Application of the Diffusion of Innovation Theory
(2026-08-05)
As an increasingly common feature in online shopping, AI-powered visual search engines (AI-VSEs) allow consumers to search for products using images instead of text. Despite their growing presence, little is known about ...
Design and Evaluation of Context Specific User Interface for CFIT Risk Mitigation in Mountainous Operations
(2026-08-05)
Pilots operate in information dense environments that require continuous instrument scanning, communication, navigation, weather monitoring, traffic awareness, and external visual assessment. These demands become more ...
Precision Thermal Environment Monitoring in Commercial Broiler Houses Using Sensor Networks and Machine Learning
(2026-08-05)
Spatial and temporal thermal non-uniformity in commercial broiler houses poses challenges for bird welfare, production efficiency, and environmental management. This dissertation investigated commercial broiler house thermal ...
A Stochastic Framework for the Algorithmic Design and Analysis of Military Entry Control Facilities
(2026-08-05)
Military Entry Control Facilities (ECFs) are designed to delay a threat vehicle long enough for security forces to respond before it reaches a protected point. The Vehicular Threat Delay Calculator (VTDC) supports this ...