Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Testing A Conditional Process Model of Gender Minority Stress and Resilience, Depressive Symptoms, and Dyadic Coping Among Gender Minorities
(2023-04-20)
Many studies show that depression is pervasive among gender minority populations with strong links between minority-related stress and the development of depressive symptoms. Using frameworks of minority stress theory ...
Quantifying Male Reproductive Performance of Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) to Improve Hatchery Production of Hybrid Catfish
(2023-04-20)
Catfish farming constitutes about 60% of total U.S. aquaculture production, where the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus female × blue catfish, I. furcatus male hybrid accounts for >50% of the harvest. Current hatchery ...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Monitoring of Forestry Best Management Practices: Feasibility, Potentiality, and Framework
(2023-04-20)
This study explores unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the forestry sector and evaluates the feasibility and potential of UAVs for monitoring forestry best management practices (BMPs). The review of 58 studies from 2003 ...
Characterizing the Chemical and Structural Basis of Animal Coloration from an Evolutionary Perspective
(2023-04-20)
Many questions regarding how animals produce their striking range of colors remain
unanswered, particularly when pigments and structures are combined. In this dissertation, I
completed four studies centered around ...
The Effect of Initial Curing Temperature and Duration on the 28-Day Compressive Strength of Concrete
(2023-04-19)
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of initial curing temperature and duration on the 28-day compressive strength of concrete. To determine the relationship between initial curing temperature and duration ...
A Virtual Reality Framework to support Rheumatoid Arthritis Education: The Impact of Different Immersion Levels on the Empathy and Engagement of College Students
(2023-04-19)
The use of Virtual reality (VR) has increased within the medical field. Its uses include assisting physicians and patients through medical education, medical training, patient rehabilitation, surgery simulations, and many ...
Examining the Causes of Variation between States Safe Drinking Water Act Violations
(2023-04-18)
Water quality is a daily essential concern for residents. The Environmental Protection Agency has established health-related rules under the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect tap water quality and require all public water ...
Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Regularized Huber Regression
(2023-04-18)
With the rapid advancement of technology, the amount of available data for extracting interesting insights and meaningful patterns has grown exponentially, resulting in a significant increase in the dimensionality of ...
Evolution of the Mechanical and Microstructure Properties of SAC Alloys During Thermal Cycling
(2023-04-18)
In real-time applications, solder joints are exposed to thermal and mechanical stresses. As a result, the microstructure evolves, and mechanical characteristics deteriorate, resulting in component failure. Solders have ...
Effects of Drought Stress on Floral Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) Agricultural Systems
(2023-04-18)
Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is a crop of renewed interest in modern agriculture. However, for it to be considered hemp and not marijuana, it must have a total THC concentration of no greater than 0.3%. Drought is a common ...
An Exploratory Study of Home Interior Design Features to Support Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being in the Postpartum Period
(2023-04-18)
The national maternal mortality crisis in the United States is a problem of urgent importance marked by clear disparities when examining death rates based upon race, ethnicity, and region of the country. Upon reviewing the ...
Using Preparation for Future Learning to Change Student Attitudes about Race in Undergraduate Genetics Laboratories
(2023-04-18)
Racist actions and views are complex, can be implicit or explicit, and are not necessarily
acknowledged or understood by the people who are contributing to racism in society. These
views and actions have broad impacts ...
Quantum Chemical Studies on the Catalytic Potential of Anionic Transition Metal Compounds in Methane to Methanol and Carbon Dioxide Carboxylation Reactions
(2023-04-17)
Using transition-metal (TM) catalysts in organic chemistry conversion reactions is a well-established practice due to their superior efficiency. They have been particularly useful in both methane to methanol conversion ...
Design and Instrument Characterization of the High-Energy Resolution relativistic electron Telescope (HERT) using Geant4 Simulation
(2023-04-17)
Earth’s outer radiation belt is filled with relativistic and ultrarelativistic electrons in the MeV energy range and above. These highly energetic electrons pose significant threats to avionics and humans in space, and ...
Cryptic Tolerant Species and Their Potential Effect on Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) Scores, with the Presentation of an Alternative Metric of Stream Health
(2023-04-17)
Metrics such as the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) are often used by management agencies to estimate the abstract property of stream health. These metrics are usually predicated on the belief that certain fish species are ...
Characterizing and Changing Course Elements in Undergraduate Biology Education
(2023-04-17)
I conducted a set of four studies to catalogue and examine course elements, including active learning strategies and evidence-based teaching practices, and their influence on student experiences and performance in college ...
Development of atomistic and concurrent atomistic-continuum frameworks to model shock wave propagation and phonon transmission
(2023-04-17)
In the first part of this dissertation, we develop a long-time moving window framework using Molecular Dynamics (MD) to model shock wave propagation through a one-dimensional monatomic chain. The moving window formulation ...
Is Humor the Best Medicine? Sense of Humor as a Mediator of the Relation between Dimensions of Perfectionism and Social Anxiety and Depression in College Students
(2023-04-17)
The diathesis stress model has been utilized to help clarify the association between aspects of perfectionism and psychopathology, as it emphasizes the role of poor coping skills. The current study aimed to explore the ...
The Clash of the Scientific and Official Minds and the Making of the Chernobyl Disaster
(2023-04-17)
Abstract
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant tragedy remains the world’s worst nuclear disaster in terms of ecological devastation and the loss of human life. The accident’s consequences reached far beyond the initial ...
Exploring Machine Learning Methods for Author Identification on Micro-Messages
(2023-04-17)
Author Identification, also known as Authorship Attribution, is the task of identifying an author of unknown text based on the writing style captured within a dataset of writing samples. Author Identification is used in a ...