Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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An Ecological Perspective on Coparenting During Infancy: Exploring Associations among Social Support, Mental Health, and Parental Burnout
(2022-07-25)
The months following the birth of a new child can be a stressful time for parents. The way in which partners work together to share parenting responsibilities (i.e., coparent) is especially important for navigating the ...
Pharmacological regulation of melanocortin-3 and -4 receptors by melanocortin-2 receptor accessory protein 1 or 2
(2022-07-25)
The neural melanocortin receptors (MCRs), melanocortin-3 and -4 receptors (MC3R and MC4R), play essential non-redundant roles in the regulation of energy homeostasis. Melanocortin-2 receptor accessory proteins (MRAPs, MRAP1 ...
Partnering with Reach Out and Read Alabama to Understand Families’ Experiences with Books and Their Babies: The Reading and Relationships Project
(2022-07-22)
Shared book reading is associated with higher quality parent-child interactions (Canfield et al., 2020a), as well as child cognitive (e.g., Baker, 2013; Baker et al., 2017) and socioemotional development (Downer & Mendez, ...
Electronic Tongue Analysis of Major and Minor Steviol Glycosides and Their Application in Foods
(2022-07-22)
The electronic tongue (E-tongue) is a taste-sensing analytical device that simulates the human tongue. It has been predominantly adopted in food industries as a tool for taste evaluation. Significantly, some products causing ...
Native Ant Biodiversity Response to A Dominant Competitor in Pine-Hardwood Forests of Alabama, USA
(2022-07-22)
This thesis explores how invasive species affect native biodiversity. Specifically, I explore how the invasive ant species, Solenopsis invicta influences the recipient native ant community in pine-hardwood forests. These ...
Controlling dust charge in complex plasmas
(2022-07-21)
A dusty plasma is a four-component plasma consisting of electrons, ions, neutral gas, and microparticles (dust) which collect charge from the surrounding plasma environment. They can be found in every regime of plasma ...
Printed Circuit Board Sensor Technology: Rigid vs. Flexible vs. Additive Manufacturing
(2022-07-21)
There is no denying that printed circuit boards (PCB) have integrated themselves into all sorts of technology that we have today. They are in the computers on which we work, the appliances we use, and the sensors that ...
The Role of Nerve Growth Factor in Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease in the C57BL/6N Mouse Model
(2022-07-21)
Both obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are chronic diseases that are caused by metabolic dysregulations. Disturbance of metabolism homeostasis can further lead to the development of neurodegenerative diseases, ...
Descriptions and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Guiana Shield Pencil Catfishes
(2022-07-21)
The systematics of the catfish genus Trichomycterus Valenciennes 1832 are complicated and unresolved. This genus is paraphyletic, containing all members of the Trichomycterinae that cannot be adequately placed into an ...
Firm Hedging Decision and Its Value Implication
(2022-07-21)
In Chapter 1, we study the impact of increased transparency in the reporting of OCI on firms’ foreign currency cash flow hedging practice and the value relevance of this change. We find a reduced level of foreign currency ...
Design and Analysis of Low-Cost X-Ray Imaging System Incorporating Add-On Mouse Rotation System in Pre-Clinical Research
(2022-07-21)
Computed tomography (CT) has become an essential tool in diagnostic and sports medicine. It is able to generate a three-dimensional rendering that can be used to interrogate a given region or desired structure from any ...
Predicting the Food Safety and Shelf-Life Implications of Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) Temperature Abuse (TA) on Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast Fillets
(2022-07-20)
Maintaining food safety and preventing spoilage are paramount during food distribution. However, in the last segment of the cold chain (Last Mile), less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping practices can lead to cyclic temperature ...
Parental Protection and Guidance Related to Early Adolescents’ Stressful Peer Experiences
(2022-07-20)
Peer-related parenting has been connected to young adolescents’ social and emotional wellbeing, yet largely missing from the literature are attempts to understand how parents respond to youths’ social and emotional ...
The Influence of Social Support on Adoption of Healthy Behaviors in a Faith-based Setting
(2022-07-20)
Overweight and obesity are national epidemics affecting 42.4% of adults in the U.S.; with the southeastern region exhibiting higher obesity rates than most other regions in the U.S. (National Center for Health Statistics, ...
Influence of pulsatility and inlet velocity profiles on tracheal airflow characteristics
(2022-07-20)
Patient-specific simulation is a powerful and emerging tool for studying human airway physiological and pathological characteristics. Decision-based systems for clinicians based on the patient airflow characteristics play ...
The Effects of Cardiovascular Exercise on eSport Performance
(2022-07-20)
Video games have evolved from a juvenile recreational activity into an avenue for organized competition known as electronic sports (eSports). Cognitive research identifies visual attention, memory, and task-switching as ...
Exploiting Renewable Energy and UPS Systems with a Renewable-Aware Scheduler to Boost Energy Efficiency of Data Centers
(2022-07-20)
It is prudent to leverage on-site renewable sources like solar and wind to build environmentally
friendly and energy-efficient data centers. Data centers deploy distributed UPS
systems to handle the intermittent nature ...
A Tale of Two Occupations: A Comparative Examination of the Occupation Policies of the U.S. and the Soviet Union in Post-War Germany
(2022-07-19)
At the end of World War II, Germany lay in ruins. The Wehrmacht had inflicted horrific levels of death and destruction on numerous European countries, only to have the war end with an utterly defeated, destroyed, and ...
Discovery, expression, and characterization of biosynthetic gene clusters encoding antimicrobial secondary metabolites from a soil metagenome and cultured Actinobacteria
(2022-07-19)
Dating back to the discovery of penicillin in 1928, nature and its diverse microbial life has been the most prolific source of antimicrobial compounds. These bioactive compounds are often derived from microbial secondary ...
Burnout Among Parents of Infants: Associations with Parental Self-Care Practices, Infant Negative Emotionality, and Couple Satisfaction
(2022-07-19)
While the phenomenon of parental burnout has gained more attention in research and popular media in recent years, missing from the literature is an understanding of the associations between parental burnout and characteristics ...