Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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A Phenomenological Study Examining the Experiences of Counselors Working with Grief and Death in Early Childhood
(2022-05-23)
The phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of counselors completed grief work with clients in early childhood that have experienced a grief loss. Semi-structured interviews were completed with participants ...
A Design Approach for Extending Product Longevity
(2022-05-23)
This guideline proposes to extend the longevity of products by helping the designer consider authentic human behavior when designing new products. This includes designing products that provide true human satisfaction while ...
School Counselor Professional Identity in Relation to Post-master's Supervision
(2022-05-23)
School counselors and clinical mental health counselors are trained through master’s programs with similar course objectives. One major difference between school counselor and clinical counselor licensure/certification ...
Visible Yet Unseen: An Exploration of the Moderation Effects of Religiosity on the Relationship Between Discrimination and Psychological Distress among Muslim Women
(2022-05-19)
The purpose of this study was to gain understanding into the experiences of gendered discrimination among Muslim women by examining the relationship between religious discrimination and psychological distress. Specifically, ...
A Multi-Antenna Vector Tracking Beamsteering GPS Receiver for Robust Positioning
(2022-05-17)
This thesis proposes the coupling of a Global Positioning System (GPS) L1 C/A vector tracking software-defined receiver with controlled reception pattern array array (CRPA) satellite constrained beamsteering, i.e. a ...
EVALUATION OF NITROGEN SOURCES FOR ALABAMA COTTON PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
(2022-05-16)
Cotton is the most-widely produced cash crop in Alabama, with an average of 415,000 acres per year planted during the 2011-2020 growing seasons. Nitrogen (N) is often the most limiting nutrient in cotton production systems ...
The Distribution of Phosphorus Pools in Alabama Soil Regions and their Variation with Soil Depth
(2022-05-16)
The poultry industry in Alabama is the state's second-largest agriculture industry generating approximately 1.25 million tons of poultry litter (PL) annually and containing 19,000 tons of phosphorus (P). The PL has a typical ...
Spatial Intelligence - Route Prediction and Planning Base on Geospatial Information
(2022-05-10)
With the advances in localization techniques and popularity of mobile devices, Spatial Intelligence penetrated people's lives. What is Spatial Intelligence? It is 1) able to provide “smart” and intelligent services to ...
Dynamics of Secondary Steady State Flows in a Combined Taylor-Couette and Escudier Vortex Breakdown Flow Field
(2022-05-10)
Effects of a varying height end-wall on the bifurcation and stability of secondary steady
state flows within the annular gap of a Taylor-Couette cell were investigated. Experiments
were conducted at four different end-wall ...
Elizabeth Acevedo: Traducción e identidad
(2022-05-10)
El objetivo de esta tesis es investigar la traducción de la obra literaria de Elizabeth Ace-
vedo, poeta neoyorquina de origen dominicano nacida en 1988, así como el motivo de la enorme importancia de la realización de ...
Cover Crop Effects on Soil Hydrology
(2022-05-09)
Cover crops are known for their positive and significant effects on soils. They contribute to
growing subsequent crops, reducing soil erosion, increasing water infiltration, and improving nutrient management. Cover crops ...
Beef Communication within the Digital Pasture: Tools that Impact Consumer Perceptions
(2022-05-09)
Increasingly, people obtain information from social media (SM) instead of peer-reviewed scientific and factual sources. As a result, a knowledge gap has been created between average citizens, consumers, and the animal ...
Early Olfactory Stimulation in Purpose-Bred Detection Dogs
(2022-05-06)
Experiences during critical periods of early development have been shown to significantly impact cognitive development in dogs. However, the effect of early odor experiences on the ontogenetic development of cognition in ...
Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning for Fake News Detection
(2022-05-06)
Misinformation or fake news has a history of being weaponized in order to deceive or mislead a target audience. Presently, the ease of generation, dissemination, and effects that are achievable by leveraging fake news makes ...
Development and validation of a Paper-based analytical device (PAD) for formaldehyde detection and its utilization in wood composites emissions
(2022-05-06)
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are caused by different sources, including non-fully cured adhesives used to bond the pieces of wood in the fabrication of wood composites. N on-cured Phenol-Formaldehyde resins represent ...
Intersecting Social Justice and the Secondary Choral Classroom: A Phenomenological Study of Social Justice Teacher Perspectives
(2022-05-06)
The American public-school student population has changed, yet school music remains much as it was at the turn of the twentieth century. The reality of today’s profound absence of students of color, equity gaps, and lack ...
Increasing enrollment of EL students in Georgia: A multiple case study of school leaders at high-EL schools
(2022-05-05)
English learners (ELs) are increasing in US schools; however, their achievement
and graduation rate continues to lag as compared to non-Hispanic white students. In
Georgia, where the EL population has increased significantly ...
Impact Induced Landslides as a Mechanism for Diffusive Degradation of Complex Craters found Near the Lunar Southern Pole
(2022-05-05)
Throughout its history, the Moon’s surface has experienced numerous impact cratering events. Such events have degraded the surface through various processes. Processes include ejecta blanketing, overlapping (cookie cutting), ...
Building a Sustainable Future through the Material design of 3D Printed Polymer Materials
(2022-05-05)
3D printing technologies are coming to the forefront of scientific, industrial, and public attention as it allows customized manufacturing of complex parts with a high degree of control over design, processing parameters, ...
Effects of Shear Stress on Oxidized LDL Modulation of miRNA Expression in African American and Caucasian Endothelial Cell Lines
(2022-05-05)
Endothelial dysfunction is a leading cause of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Oxidized LDL (oxLDL) and microRNAs (miRNAs) have been shown to play crucial roles in the development and progression of ...