Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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The comparative evolution of developmental plasticity across Anolis lizards
(2025-11-25)
Developmental plasticity describes the sensitivity of phenotypes to early-life environmental conditions, and occurs widely across organisms and traits. Depending on the spatial and temporal environmental context, developmental ...
Multi-omic analysis of skeletal muscle in response to disuse and retraining in trained and untrained individuals
(2025-11-25)
We previously examined how resistance training status (RT) in young healthy individuals, either well-resistance trained (T) or untrained (UT), affected molecular markers with leg immobilization followed by recovery RT. ...
Electromagnetic Effects on the Transmission of Radio Waves Through Plasma
(2025-11-25)
At speeds exceeding Mach 5, vehicles reentering Earth's atmosphere generate enough heat to ionize the atmosphere as they move through it, creating a layer of plasma around the leading surface of the vehicle. Free electrons ...
Do Resident-Induced Motivating Operations for Staff Behavior Carryover to Other Residents?
(2025-11-25)
In Applied Behavior Analysis, practitioners often train caregivers and staff members to follow a behavior plan; however, few if any studies have evaluated the motivation of the implementer to follow the established rules. ...
Optimized Model Training with Reinforcement Learning and Domain Preservation via Divergence Reduction in Distributed Learning
(2025-11-25)
Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed framework for collaborative model training over large-scale distributed data, enabling higher performance while maintaining client data privacy. However, the nature of model aggregation ...
The Costs and Benefits of Visibility: A Panel Study of Nonprofit Fundraising and Marketing Effectiveness Before and After COVID-19
(2025-11-25)
This dissertation examines how marketing and fundraising investments shape nonprofit financial outcomes in the United States. Drawing on IRS Form 990 data from more than 35,000 public charities between 2013 and 2023, it ...
Evaluating the Performance of Southern Highbush Blueberry Cultivars Grown in Conventional and Alternative Production Systems
(2025-11-24)
The blueberry is the most valued berry fruit in the United States. The rising demand for blueberries can be accomplished by increased production areas in warmer climates. The enhanced adaptability of southern highbush ...
Prepared to Serve: Evaluating Two Interventions Promoting Readiness Among Service Members and the Helping Professionals Who Serve Them
(2025-11-24)
The social organization theory of action and change (Mancini et al., 2005) highlights the role of community service organizations and social processes in promoting adaptability and well-being within communities. Support ...
A spatiotemporal assessment of urbanization and water quality in the subtropics
(2025-11-24)
Urban populations and urban lands are expanding globally, which is predicted to continue in the coming decades. Through mechanisms like the heat island effect and diminished infiltration, urbanization confers a variety of ...
Illegitimate Tasks and Negative Spillover: The Roles of Positive Work Reflection and Job Security
(2025-11-24)
Workplace illegitimate tasks have been associated with a variety of negative consequences, but there is a need for a better understanding of the processes and contextual factors that influence these effects. This study ...
Bilevel Optimization in Wireless Federated Learning
(2025-11-20)
Federated learning (FL) has become a cornerstone of privacy-preserving, distributed machine learning, allowing multiple clients to collaboratively train models without centralizing their data. While significant progress ...
Catalysts and Constraints: Academic Diversity Officers and the Paradox and Politics of Organizational Change
(2025-11-20)
In 2020, racial tensions erupted into social unrest following the murders of multiple unarmed Black citizens, prompting heightened awareness and action for change. Corporations responded by implementing various strategies ...
U.S. Educators Learning in Peruvian Amazon: Evidence of Leadership Development in Participant Reflections
(2025-11-20)
This research study investigated the potential for transformative experiences in nature to foster authentic leadership among U.S. educators, through a narrative exploration of their reflections on a trip to the Peruvian ...
Growth, Stability, and Resilience in U.S. Farm Income
(2025-11-20)
This dissertation investigates the effects of government payments, extreme weather events, and renewable energy expansion on U.S. farm income. Chapter 1 assesses the impact of two major federal programs—the Conservation ...
Challenge and hindrance stressors: The mediating role of resource gain and resource loss in stressor appraisals
(2025-11-18)
The challenge-hindrance stress model has been the topic of significant empirical investigation, recently incorporating stressor appraisals within the framework. The incorporation of stressor appraisals has alleviated recent ...
“When They Don’t Come”: A Narrative Inquiry into First-Generation Students’ Experiences with Student Support Programming
(2025-11-18)
There is a growing need for first-generation student-focused services in higher education, yet evidence about how such services should be structured and made most effective remains limited (Whitley et al., 2018). Motivated ...
Solar-Wind Charge Exchange in Comets: Bayesian Diagnostics of Ion Composition and Freeze-In Temperature
(2025-11-18)
Cometary X-rays from solar-wind charge exchange (SWCX) probe solar-wind composition and coronal freeze-in conditions, yet most spectra are low- to moderate-resolution and strongly blended. Conventional fits often add more ...
Development in heterogenous landscapes: Linking embryonic environments to juvenile fitness in a lizard model.
(2025-11-18)
Developmental plasticity is the capacity of a single genotype to express multiple phenotypes in response to different early-life environments. Because developmental environments differ across space and time, they create ...
Public Policy for Resilient Oyster Management in the Gulf of Mexico: Managing a Vulnerable Species by Engaging Coastal Stakeholders
(2025-11-13)
The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) is an important economic, ecological, and cultural species throughout the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Despite its importance, oyster populations have been declining long-term throughout ...
Novel Outlier Detection and Clustering Methods Based on Cluster Catch Digraphs
(2025-11-13)
We propose a novel family of outlier detection algorithms built upon Cluster Catch Digraphs
(CCDs) and their extensions, designed to overcome the limitations of existing methods in handling
high-dimensional, heterogeneous, ...