Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Trust and Distrust in Conversational AI Agents: The Effects of Agent Interaction Style and User Information Need
(2022-08-15)
Conversational agents (CAs) with artificial intelligence (AI) are computer programs with the ability to interpret and respond to users’ natural language and communicate with the users as humans would do with another human. ...
Exploring Geochemical Methods to Measure Arsenic-Dissolved Organic Matter Complexes and Coal Combustion Residuals in Surface Water
(2022-08-15)
Chapter 1, investigates the geochemical controls governing arsenic (As) mobility, precisely the formation of As-DOM complexes. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) reduces As mobility through equilibrium binding of As to the ...
Assessment of Breeding Soundness in White-tailed Deer in Alabama
(2022-08-12)
The deer family (Cervidae) has a nearly world-wide distribution, and deer farming has, in recent years, been gradually accepted as an economically promising industry. It is demonstrated that ungulate body size and horn/antler ...
Translating and Applying Recent Research on Military Family Life: A Preliminary Examination of the Efficacy of Mobile-Application-Based Professional Development for Military Human and Family Service Professionals
(2022-08-09)
A new mobile application (app) was developed by the Military REACH team. It delivered research-backed professional development content to practicing human and family service providers over the course of eight weeks. The ...
Assessment of Geochemical Reactivity in Geologic CO2 Utilization and Storage Systems
(2022-08-08)
Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is a consequence of increasing energy consumption. As a result, developing ways to manage excess CO2 emissions has become a vital concern to avert the exacerbating effects ...
Transcendent Hunger: Poor Women and Resource Raids in Civil War Georgia
(2022-08-05)
Poor women in Civil War Georgia organized and participated in resource raids of varying sizes in cities, towns, and rural areas throughout the state from 1862 to 1865. While the largest “bread riots” in cities across the ...
Antennal Responses, Repellency, and Toxicity of Essential Oil Formulations on the German Cockroach (Blattodea: Ectobiidae)
(2022-08-05)
The toxicity, repellency, and the electroantennogram responses induced by six essential oil formulations and their components against the pyrethroid-susceptible (S) and resistant (D and E) strains of the German cockroach, ...
Solvability and exact moment asymptotics for the interpolated stochastic heat and wave equation and the existence of an invariant measure for a special case.
(2022-08-05)
This thesis will consist of two main projects, Chapters 2 and 4, and a smaller project in Chapter 3. We will be studying a general space-time fractional stochastic partial differential equation in Chapters 2 and 3 and the ...
Study of Ice Jam Events on Missouri River During the Winter Seasons
(2022-08-05)
Rivers are hugely affected by river ice processes for a significant portion of the year causing river ice jams in Northern rivers such as the Missouri River in Montana. Ice jamming is an accumulation of ice in a river, ...
Chinese Consumers’ Perceptions of Cross-Border E-Commerce Retailer Attributes: A Scale Development and Validation Study
(2022-08-05)
Cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) offers a new way for consumers to purchase foreign products online. China is the largest e-commerce market in the world and thus is a lucrative market for CBEC. However, no quantitative scale ...
Exploring Targeted Long-Distance Travel Survey Sampling Frame Approaches to Support Travel Survey Collection
(2022-08-05)
Long-distance travel continues to grow in economic, environmental, and infrastructural importance. To inform policy, infrastructural funding, and travel demand forecasting, detailed travel survey findings are needed at the ...
Dual Mode Redox-Responsive MRI Contrast Agents
(2022-08-05)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents function by shortening the relaxation
times of targeted nuclei, thereby better distinguishing regions with different local concentrations
of the visualized nuclei. ...
Study of deep neural networks on graph data in a generative learning regime
(2022-08-04)
Graph-formatted data is ubiquitous among different domains from social networks and academic citation networks to drug-target interactions and others. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved outstanding performance in ...
Evaluation of Bacillus biocontrol potential through the lens of secondary metabolite diversity in genomic, enzymatic, and chemical space
(2022-08-04)
Global food security is under threat by plant-pathogenic oomycetes and fungi. The overuse and misuse of pesticides against such pathogens triggers fungicide resistance and long-term environmental contamination. This warrants ...
Preventing the Preschool to Prison Pipeline: A Preliminary Study of the Effects of E-Coaching Head Start Teachers on Behavior-Specific Praise
(2022-08-04)
The number of preschoolers expelled and suspended from school is the highest among all student groups. In the long run, preschool expulsions and suspensions can have statistically detrimental effects on a child's life ...
Data-driven semiconducting nanomaterials design for energy applications
(2022-08-04)
Silicon nitrides and hydrogenated silicon nitrides attract widespread scientific interest across multiple application fields due to their superior combination of optical, mechanical, thermal and optoelectronic properties. ...
’Moving On’ to A New Life: An Exploration of a Reentry Program’s Influence on Self-Efficacy in Incarcerated Women
(2022-08-04)
The purpose of this study was to examine treatment results for incarcerated women in a southern-US women’s prison system who have participated in Moving On: A Program for At-Risk Women (MO). Research indicates that coping ...
An Introduction to Bernstein-Gel’fand-Gel’fand Correspondence
(2022-08-04)
This master's thesis serves as an introduction to the Bernstein-Gel'fand-Gel'fand correspondence first written in 1978. We shall cover some of the fundamental objects that the reader may not be familiar with, mainly tensor ...
Exploring the role of online visual information in pre- and post- tourism experiences
(2022-08-04)
Visual information significantly influences tourists' pre and post tourism experiences; it creates a vivid stimulation of the experiences and can provoke the tourists' imagination to better convey the favorable information. ...
Reactive Nitrogen and Climate Change in the Terrestrial Biosphere: Data-Model Integration
(2022-08-04)
The addition of excess reactive nitrogen (N) compounds to terrestrial ecosystems has largely stimulated the emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), the most important depleting substance of stratospheric ozone and a potent ...