Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Distribution, Relative Abundance, and Habitat Associations of Warrior Bass in the Black Warrior Watershed, Alabama
(2022-07-26)
Single season occupancy and zero inflated poisson models were used to identify relationships between Warrior Bass Micropterus warriorensis occurrence, relative abundance, and multiscale habitat factors. Warrior Bass ...
The Effects of Electricity Billing Structures and Electricity Rates on the Profitability of Solar Photovoltaic Projects: Evidence from Poultry Farms
(2022-07-26)
Increasing prices for fossil fuels contribute to rising electricity prices. This coupled with the drop in the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels has led to a rapid growth in PV adoption. Commercial poultry is a growing ...
Development of computational approaches for the design of antibodies and other binding proteins for target epitopes
(2022-07-26)
Antibodies are the most studied and successful therapeutic binding protein. Alternative, smaller-sized binding proteins are being modified for therapeutic applications. Computational energy models i.e. forcefields, protein ...
Understanding Misinformation: The Tale of Fake News and Fake Reviews
(2022-07-26)
Misinformation has been long issues in the global communities because of the booming usage of social networks, online retail platforms and so on. The wide spreading of the massive amount of misinformation has recently ...
Design Optimization of Lightweight Structures for Additive Manufacturing
(2022-07-26)
Lightweight structures have many applications in different engineering areas, such as automotive, aerospace, or medical industries, among many others. Optimal design of lightweight structures deals with finding the most ...
Internal Learning Partnerships: A Study of Collaboration in a High-Performing Rural School
(2022-07-26)
Over the past decades, schools’ academic success has been a major focus in the Department of Education beginning with the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) up to the current education reform, Every Student Succeeds Act (2015). ...
“Well, What did you Sexpect?” The Relationship of Heavy Episodic Drinking with Rape Myth Acceptance, Sexual Expectations, and Sexual-Coercion Alcohol Expectancies
(2022-07-26)
Contemporary research has established a strong relationship between heavy episodic drinking and both perpetration and victimization of sexual assault. To better understand this relationship, we aimed to explore the interaction ...
Cultural Competence, Implicit Racial Bias, and its Impacts on Subjective Discipline Decisions in Education
(2022-07-26)
The current study’s goal was to explore how individual levels of cultural competence and levels of implicit racial bias may impact the decision of teachers when faced with a subjective discipline decision. A series of ...
Co-Developing Climate-Smart Strategies: Enhancing Resiliency Among Alabama Row Crop Producers and Agricultural Stakeholders
(2022-07-25)
This thesis is embedded in a large USDA-NRCS project titled the Future of Farming: Increasing Adoption of Conservation Practices among Alabama Row Crop Farmers (FFP). The FFP is designed to demonstrate the benefits of ...
Fish Kill Loss Valuation through Estimation of Angling Effort and Use Valuation on Three Mid-Size Alabama Rivers
(2022-07-25)
State fisheries management agencies seek financial restitution following a fish kill. Economic losses due to fish kills on rivers have been underestimated in Alabama, as user loss values have not been included as a loss ...
Mixture Sampling and Determination of Asphalt Binder Content for Slurry Surfacing Systems
(2022-07-25)
Slurry seals and micro surfacing are two of the main preventative maintenance methods used by state and local agencies. However, there is a lack of methods for quality control/quality assurance for slurry surfacing systems. ...
Development of intensive indoor rearing strategies for largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) during critical early life history stages
(2022-07-25)
Largemouth bass (LMB), Micropterus salmoides, is arguably the most sought-after
recreational fish in the United States. Recently, there has been rising interest in LMB as a food
fish and current production techniques ...
Designing Into 3D for Quadruped Orthotics
(2022-07-25)
The goal of this research is to leverage local equine keratin material properties and their correlation to hoof tubule density (TD), hydration state (biological and environmental), temperature (biological and environmental), ...
Quantity demand and latent demand for local foods among public institutions in Lee and Russell Counties, Alabama
(2022-07-25)
Institutional food service operations have shown an increased interest in locally grown foods in the last two decades and are providing business opportunities for farmers and distributors as well as potential benefits for ...
A ‘Concentrate-&-Degrade’ Technique for Cost Effective Adsorption and Degradation of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water
(2022-07-25)
The overarching goal of this research is to develop and test a new class of carbon-photocatalyst composites for enhanced adsorption and destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water and field water. ...
Design, Performance, and Analysis of an Automated Tool for Neuropathy Assessment on the Plantar Surface
(2022-07-25)
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy results in the loss of sensation in the hands and feet. Other symptoms such as numbness, burning, shooting pain, and electrical sensation have been reported. Individuals with this disease are ...
Teachers’ Perceptions of Student Defenders of Bullied Peers: Associations with Defenders’ Race and Gender, and the Classroom Racial Composition
(2022-07-25)
This thesis examined whether children’s defending of bullied peers predicts changes in teachers' reports of students' prosocial and aggressive behavior and whether those associations are moderated by children’s gender and ...
Evolutionary Consequences of Gen(om)e Duplications in Animals
(2022-07-25)
My research interests can be broadly described as an attempt to explore the drivers of macroevolutionary processes and diversity patterns across taxa. One such driver is the contribution of gene and genome duplications. ...
Parabolic-Elliptic Chemotaxis Models with Singular Sensitivity
(2022-07-25)
Chemotaxis describes the movement of biological cells or organisms in response to certain chemicals in their environments and occupies an essential role in coordinating cell movement in many biological circumstances such ...
Evolutionary Ecology of Loricariid Catfishes
(2022-07-25)
How extrinsic (like functional constrains and ecological interactions) and intrinsic (like modularity and integration) interactions drive diversification is a formative area of evolutionary biology. In this dissertation, ...