Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Immediate Deflections of Simply Supported, Bonded, Class T and Class C Prestressed Concrete Beams
(2023-04-17)
Design practice for prestressed members has moved toward allowing partially prestressed members, which are allowed to crack under service loads. To define design requirements, the ACI 318 Building Code explicitly defines ...
Home is Where the Politics Are: An Exploration of Place-based Politics
(2023-04-13)
Political research has often considered identity and the role it plays in shaping a person's political ideology and party affiliation. When referencing identity, there are multiple identities that one can consider including ...
Adaptive Governance of Coral Reefs: Cases of Florida and the Caribbean
(2023-04-13)
Coral reefs are one of the most imperiled yet one of the most valuable ecosystems on the planet, providing food, medicine, and property protection to hundreds of millions of coastal people all over the world. Coral reefs ...
Biology and control of yellow and knotroot Foxtail
(2023-04-13)
Setaria pumila Roem. & Schult. (1817 and Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguelen, respectively known as yellow and knotroot foxtail, are two common species infesting turfgrass, pastures, roadsides, and some cropping systems ...
Walking-On: A Narrative Inquiry of Division II Non-Scholarship Student-Athletes’ Identity Development and Pursuit of Success
(2023-04-13)
Student-athletes have long been a population of interest to researchers regarding identity development and academic success. More specifically, researchers have looked into the identity foreclosure of student-athletes; its ...
Prevention of disease due to hypervirulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh) and a global survey of vAh in farmed fish
(2023-04-13)
This dissertation documents research focusing on hypervirulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh) regarding its geographical distribution, potential transmission among freshwater fish species, vaccine control, and probiotic control. ...
Reinforcement Learning with Reasoning for Long-horizon Robotic Tasks
(2023-04-09)
Recent developments in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehi-
cles (UGVs) have attracted intensive research interest from both academia and industrial areas.
Although Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are ...
Military Faculty Development at the Post-Graduate Level: Using the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model with Curriculum-Based Leadership
(2023-04-09)
The Department of Defense’s enduring mission is to provide combat-ready military
forces needed to defend our nation, deter war, and protect the security of the United States (DoD,
2020). Effective military training and ...
The Impact of Public-Nonprofit Collaboration on the Capacity of Public Institutions in Nigeria.
(2023-04-03)
My dissertation explores the potential of public and nonprofit sector collaboration to improve public institutional capacity through institutional isomorphism. One of the major problems that has been identified in developing ...
A Conceptual Model of Design-Build
(2023-04-03)
Design-build is a project delivery method with roots in the ancient concept of the “master builder” where responsibility for both design and construction reside in one person. Despite the dominance of design-bid-build in ...
Precision Medicine Based on Real-time Immune Status Profiling Utilizing Novel Nanoparticles and Engineered Nanomaterials
(2023-04-03)
Cancer treatment strategies such as Anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (Anti-PD-L1) or chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) T-cells are limited by low objective response rates and severe side effects. This is partly due to the ...
Middle Space Leader: Professional Quality of Life
(2023-04-03)
This quantitative study explored the professional quality of life of middle space leaders who are serving public school systems in the state of Alabama. This study determined if there was a relationship between mindfulness ...
Numerical Investigation of the Flow Topology in a Bidirectional Vortex Engine
(2023-03-30)
The characterization of swirl-driven phenomena, including cyclonic flows, continues to
receive attention in the propulsion community. This may be attributed to the beneficial
properties of swirl when integrated into ...
Role of Print Architecture on Fracture Behavior of Additively Manufactured ABS: Opto-Mechanical Investigations
(2023-03-30)
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene or ABS is a popular and inexpensive isotropic, amorphous
thermoplastic widely used for Additive Manufacturing (AM) of engineering parts. An AM process
called Fused Filament Fabrication ...
Three Essays on Exchanged-traded funds and Institutional ownership
(2023-03-16)
The first essay examines the replacement effect of smart beta ETFs on closet-factor active mutual funds. The results show that smart beta ETFs offer factor exposures at lower fees and, therefore, higher risk-adjusted returns ...
Analysis of The Effectiveness of Queue Warning Systems in Freeway Work Zones
(2023-03-14)
Work zone safety and mobility have always been a major concern for state DOTs and transportation professionals. While roadway usage has increased substantially in recent years as the U.S. population and number of licensed ...
JANUS LIPOSOMES: DESIGN, FORMATION AND ACTIVE MOTION
(2023-03-08)
The liposome is an amphiphilic molecule that contains both a hydrophilic head and a hydrophobic tail. As a class of biocompatible, water-dispersed colloids, liposomes have found widespread applications ranging from food ...
Advances in Understanding Graphene Hybrids and MXenes
(2023-03-01)
The overall goal of this research was to contribute to understanding the effects of additional components on the microstructures and properties of two-dimensional (2D) systems, namely graphene hybrids and MXenes. The first ...
Integrating single-cell multi-omics and experimental therapeutics to identify and validate novel secondary therapies against relapsed/refractory cancers
(2023-02-27)
Drug resistance has remained the Achilles' heel in cancer chemotherapy which serves as the principal limiting factor in achieving favorable treatment outcomes in cancer patients. Drug resistance that exists even before ...
Radio Source Signal Localization Methods and Hardware Simulation
(2023-02-23)
This thesis identifies and derives several methods of transmitter localization as well as
collects several pre-existing algorithms and adapts them to the use of passive GPS interference
localization. Due to legal ...