Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Population response of eastern wild turkeys and white-tailed deer to removal of wild pigs
(2023-01-11)
Recently, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) have expanded their range and have the potential to greatly impact ecosystems in North America. Wild pig’s generalist diets and high fecundity make them a strong competitor with native ...
Life Cycle Assessment of a Steel-Timber Composite Structure Comparison to an Established Structural System
(2023-01-11)
The building and construction industry drives global energy use and emissions. With climate change mitigation being a forefront topic of concern, the building and construction industry has a responsibility to alleviate its ...
Why Do Some Local Governments Offer Job Training or Other Services to Immigrants While Others Do Not?
(2023-01-10)
Immigrants benefit the U.S. economy both at the state and local levels. Recognizing immigrants’ critical importance to the American economy, this research study investigates the relationship between local policy adoption ...
Effects of hunting frequency on wintering waterfowl abundance using UAVs
(2023-01-10)
Waterfowl managers must navigate trade-offs between providing sustainable waterfowl populations and hunting opportunities to establish effective waterfowl hunting regulations. Assessing these trade-offs requires information ...
Identifying Effectiveness of Engineering Traffic Control Devices for Wrong-Way Driving from the Driver Behaviors Perspective
(2023-01-09)
This dissertation aims to identify the effectiveness of engineering traffic control devices for wrong-way driving (WWD) from a driver behavior perspective, which contains two tasks: i) WWD fatal crash analysis, and ii) ...
Vice-presidential Selection: Ticket-balancing or More?
(2023-01-09)
Abstract
Traditionally, scholarly research on vice-presidential selection was focused almost exclusively on “ticket-balancing” – the practice of pairing presidential and vice-presidential nominees of differing geographical ...
Agriculture Teacher Longevity
(2023-01-03)
Agriculture Education teachers are leaving the profession at an astounding pace. Being over worked, loss of family and personal time, stress & burnout, feeling of being underpaid are some of the hardships that contribute ...
Experimental investigation of the heat generation rate of a large format pouch-type lithium-ion battery
(2023-01-03)
When battery cells are charged and discharged, heat is generated because of chemical reactions and the associated charge transport. The heat should be appropriately rejected to ensure the performance, safety, and lifespan ...
Effective Storytelling in a Fashion-based Crowdfunding Campaign: The Impact of Narrative Temporality, Narrative Appeal, and Mental Simulation on Crowd-funder Engagement
(2022-12-14)
The entrepreneurial world has witnessed a revolutionary shift from conventional seed funding solutions, such as angel investors, venture capitalists, and governmental funds, to crowdfunding. Although crowdfunding platforms ...
The Development of Speech-Language Pathologists' Counseling Self-Efficacy
(2022-12-13)
The purpose of this investigation was to understand, from the perspective of speech-language pathologists (SLPs), what factors contribute to the essential structure of the experience of SLPs with low perceived counseling ...
The Effect of Motivational Interviewing and Clinician Centered Interviewing Based Cardiac Rehabilitation on Core Outcomes
(2022-12-13)
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally and affects almost 50% of the American population over the age of 20 years old. Following cardiac events patients are encouraged to participate ...
Oleocanthal ameliorates metabolic and behavioral phenotypes, and pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
(2022-12-09)
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) healthiness is important to maintain brain homeostasis. The deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) is one of Alzheimer’s disease’s (AD) causative pathways to induce brain neuronal loss. In addition, AD ...
Aerial Vision-Based Relative Positioning and Ground Vehicle Speed Estimation for Cooperative UAV-UGV Automated Platoons
(2022-12-09)
This thesis is not approved for public release.
Collaborative Architectures for Relative Position Estimation of Ground Vehicles with UWB Ranging and Vehicle Dynamic Models
(2022-12-09)
The relative position to neighboring vehicles is critical to ongoing autonomy efforts including
collision avoidance and path planning; therefore, it should not be fully dependent
on an external reference such as GPS. ...
User Feedback Analysis for Business Intelligence: Semantics, Sentiment and Model Robustness
(2022-12-09)
Business intelligence (BI) is a set of enterprise decision support tools designed to help managers, analysts, and executives rapidly make wise decisions. The growth of the business intelligence applications is fueled and ...
High Strain Rate Material Characterization of Lead-Free SAC Solder Alloy and Solder Joint Reliability under Vibration and Thermal Loads
(2022-12-09)
Electronics will experience high and low working temperatures during operations, handling, and storage in severe environments applications such as automotive, oil and gas, aerospace, medical technologies, and defense ...
Neuromuscular Insights for the Design and Control of Hand-Assistive Robots
(2022-12-09)
Engineers often neglect the dynamics of neuromuscular control when developing hand-assistive robots. Models of the hand that decouple ‘peripheral’ kinematic and sensory dynamics from the ‘central’ dynamics of neural ...
Characterization of the Widescale Reversible Sliding Mechanism in California Red Abalone Nacre Structure
(2022-12-09)
The precise and ordered microstructures produced through the bottom-up process of self-assembly is a matter of much interest to many research teams, with many applications in the fields of engineering and technology. In ...
What to Wear to a Protest: The Look of the Movement in the Long 1960s
(2022-12-09)
Hidden “I was there”-style pictures in drawers of photos help tell a more complete story of events in the struggle for civil rights in “the long 1960s,” one in which “the look” of those protests and the clothing worn by ...
Development of Crash Modification Factor for Low-cost Median Opening Treatments at Unsignalized Intersections of Rural Divided Highways
(2022-12-09)
An effective access management technique is such that it has the lowest level of access
control to balance traffic operation and safety. Increasing the level of control can increase the
overall delay. On the other hand, ...