Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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The effect of omega-3 fish oil supplementation on cognition and neuroinflammation in a mouse model of Western diet induced obesity.
(2022-08-01)
The Western diet (WD) is generally characterized by high sugar and saturated fat content, which result in caloric excess and obesity. However, it includes suboptimal intake of some nutrients including omega-3 fatty acids. ...
Optimization Approaches to Identifying Personalized Colorectal Cancer Screening Strategies
(2022-08-01)
This dissertation investigates optimization approaches for solving a problem coined the colorectal cancer screening problem (CRCSP). This problem aims to identify a screening strategy for testing an asymptomatic population ...
Identifying the association between relationship hopelessness and relationship satisfaction and the moderating role of the therapeutic alliance
(2022-08-01)
Relationship satisfaction is a variable highly focused on in relationship literature through attempts to understand its influences and influencers. This study hoped to further contribute to that research by analyzing the ...
Behavior Analysis and Enhancement of Robustness for Deep Neural Networks
(2022-08-01)
Apart from the remarkable success of machine learning models utilizing deep neural networks in solving a variety of problems including image classifications, these models are highly vulnerable to small and carefully chosen ...
A Factor Analytic Examination of Burnout
(2022-08-01)
With the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, burnout is an increasingly popular topic in the public discourse. However, scientific research displays a lack of consensus about burnout’s underlying factor ...
Synthesis, Characterization, and Functionality of Quinol-Based Superoxide Dismutase Mimics
(2022-08-01)
There is great interest in developing biopharmaceuticals that can slow or halt the effects of the primary and secondary oxidative stressors that are responsible for aging, chronic diseases, and other health disorders. A ...
MULTIPLE JOB HOLDING, IDENTITY HARMONY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING: THE MEDIATING EFFECTS OF THRIVING
(2022-08-01)
Prior research has considered the impact of holding multiple jobs from the perspective of a side hustle within the gig economy, or moonlighting, and demonstrated both an enriching and a depleting effect. Adopting a different ...
Analyzing Climate Change and Extreme Weather Event Impacts on Human Migration and Vulnerability in the Southeastern United States (2004 – 2018)
(2022-08-01)
There is growing concern about how extreme environmental events and climate change will impact communities, both urban and rural, in the Southeastern United States (SEUS). A changing climate is expected to force individuals ...
Understanding Powder Feedstock-Part Performance Relationships in Additive Manufacturing
(2022-08-01)
In this dissertation, the relationships between the powder feedstock and the mechanical performance of additively manufactured (AM) parts were investigated. In this regard, different aspects of powder feedstock were ...
Robust Solutions for Enabling Trust in Digital Circuits
(2022-07-31)
The continuous emergence of counterfeit integrated circuits (ICs) in the electronics supply chain requires immediate solutions since they pose serious threats to our critical infrastructures due to their inferior quality. ...
Perceptions of School Counselors and Administrators on the Role of School Counseling
(2022-07-30)
This quantitative survey study aimed to identify differences between the perception of the role of school counselors of both administrators and school counselors and if the demographic criteria of years of experience, years ...
The Involvement of Copper in Leigh Syndrome
(2022-07-29)
Leigh Syndrome is a neurodegenerative disease that presents with bilateral lesions in the brain. This condition is characterized by progressive loss of mental and movement abilities in which these symptoms start as early ...
Experiences in Youth Relationship Education for Adoptive and Nonadoptive Youth in Alabama
(2022-07-29)
While recent studies have explored effects of youth relationship education (YRE) (e.g., Adler-Baeder et al., 2007; McElwain et al., 2017; Simpson et al., 2018; Huntington et al., 2021), and differences between subgroups ...
Using Network Analysis and Natural Language Processing Methods to Study Dark Side of Social media with Applications in Fake news and Anti-vaccine Messages
(2022-07-29)
Social media has revolutionized the way people consume information and communicate with each other. Despite the several benefits and opportunities of the advent of social media, such as crisis management and situational ...
The Impact of Traditional, Black, and Athlete-based Masculinity on Psychological Help-Seeking Among Black Men College Athletes
(2022-07-29)
This study examined how conforming to traditional, Black, and athlete-based masculine norms impacts self-stigma of help-seeking. Social support was examined as a buffer between self-stigma and willingness to seek help. ...
The Professional Learning and Development of Principals and Assistant Principals
(2022-07-29)
Continued professional learning and development of school leaders is a way to improve schools and promote positive organizational change (Andreoli et al., 2020; Kim, 2020; Rieckhoff & Larsen, 2012) as well as and a way to ...
Investigating the Process-Structure-Property Relationships of Additively Manufactured 17-4 Precipitation Hardening Stainless Steel
(2022-07-28)
The present work aims to investigate the process-structure-property relationships for the additively manufactured 17-4 PH stainless steel to improve its mechanical performance. To this end, a multidisciplinary (i.e., ...
Band Engineering of Perovskite Ferrite Epitaxial Thin Films for OER Catalysis
(2022-07-28)
Reliable energy from renewable sources via oxidation of water requires an efficient electrocatalyst. The high cost, low abundance, and poor stability of the current noble metal based electrocatalyst are a primary obstacle ...
A Novel Approach to Building Surrogate Models of Stochastic Simulations
(2022-07-28)
High-fidelity simulations represent the processes and phenomena in a detailed manner. However, they are generally computationally expensive to evaluate for optimization and sensitivity analysis applications. Additionally, ...
Investigation of the Redistribution of Kinetic Energy in a Microgravity Complex (Dusty) Plasma
(2022-07-28)
In the presence of gravity, the micron-sized charged dust particles in a complex plasma are compressed to thin layers, but under the microgravity conditions of the Plasma Kristall-4 (PK-4) experiment on the International ...