Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Using V2X and reinforcement learning to improve autonomous vehicles algorithms with CARLA
(2022-04-26)
Autonomous vehicles (AV) or cars of the future are only growing in popularity. However, there is a reported lack of trust in these AV. According to a recent survey conducted by the AAA automotive group on understanding ...
An Evaluation of Carbon Dioxide and Water Flow as Control Techniques for the Invasive Red Swamp Crayfish
(2022-04-26)
The Red Swamp Crayfish (RSC) is an invasive crayfish species that has invaded many
water bodies in North America and other continents. Recent work has demonstrated the potential
of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a tool to ...
Early Characterization and Performance of Flexible Pavements Utilizing Asphalt Additives
(2022-04-25)
Asphalt additives have been utilized for years to modify the performance of flexible pavements. They have the potential to lead to long-lasting and sustainable asphalt pavements. In recent years, several new categories of ...
ICD-11 Versus DSM-5 Conceptualizations of Posttraumatic Psychopathology: Implications for Prevalence, Comorbidity, and Measurement of PTSD and Complex PTSD
(2022-04-25)
ICD-11 and DSM-5 represent disparate approaches to diagnostic categories and criteria for posttraumatic psychopathology. First, DSM-5 follows a broad approach to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom criteria, whereas ...
Hardware Acceleration for Pedestrian Dead Reckoning in Embedded Systems
(2022-04-25)
Hardware acceleration within embedded systems can potentially allow algorithms to meet real time requirements in devices where it was previously impossible. Though many algorithms have been developed targeting embedded ...
The Effect of Everyday Informal Learning Activities on Lifelong Learning Mindset and Civic Engagement in U.S. Adults: Towards a Learning Cities Theory of Change
(2022-04-25)
The concept of a learning city has existed since the Faure et al. (1972) report proclaimed that lifelong learning was the path to a global learning society where all humans could achieve their best selves and by extension ...
Tools and Insights for Sustainable Management of Plant Pests and Pathogens
(2022-04-25)
Minimizing crop yield losses caused by plant pathogens is one way of increasing agricultural productivity. To that end, I developed an automated classifier of digital images of soybean diseases to assist with early and ...
Developing and Optimizing Micro-resolution Mosquito Bite Blocking Textiles
(2022-04-25)
Textiles have been applied in the context of entomological applications since the primitive inventions of clothing and shelter. In many cases insects are injurious to humans. Mosquitos kill over a million people each year ...
An Approach for Designing Board Games That Promote Children’s Social Skills
(2022-04-25)
As the world becomes more and more cooperative, children’s development of social skills becomes increasingly vital to their personal growth, and most importantly, future success in adulthood. Traditionally, educators ...
A Machine Learning Approach to Transit Fraud Detection
(2022-04-25)
This research is a collection of 3 papers on the use of machine learning methods to detect and classify transit media fraud using passenger transaction data. Academically, this work is an extension of machine learning ...
The Effects of Genetic-based and Swarm Intelligence-based Feature Selection on Adversarial Author Identification
(2022-04-25)
Within the realm of author identification, where researchers work to classify writing samples by author, researchers are using more and diverse feature sets to try to improve classification accuracy. From a computational ...
Family-Centered Practice Knowledge and Use Amongst Speech-Language Pathologists: A National Survey
(2022-04-25)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the degree to which practicing speech-language pathologists (SLPs) engage in family-centered behaviors within the pediatric population. Additionally, this study aims to determine ...
Southern Progress and Southern Honor: Slavery and Jim Crow at Auburn University
(2022-04-22)
Slavery built Auburn University physically, ideologically, and monetarily. After emancipation, slavery’s impact on Auburn does not vanish, instead it transforms into the violence of the Jim Crow South. Auburn played a key ...
Investigating HCAR and FAN1 Variants as Inherited Risk Factors of Breast Cancer
(2022-04-22)
Inherited genetic risk factors in known breast cancer (BC) susceptibility genes
increase an individual’s overall lifetime risk of developing BC but explain only ~35% of
hereditary BC cases. Therefore, additional BC ...
Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Profiles in Individuals Exposed to Criterion A Traumas versus Non-Criterion A Stressors
(2022-04-22)
Variable methods for assessing trauma exposure and mixed findings on the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following traumatic and non-traumatic events have fueled debate regarding the necessity of the ...
Mercury Impact Ejecta’s Contribution to its Own Meteoroid Population
(2022-04-21)
Mercury’s position in the inner Solar System and lack of an atmosphere subjects it to the greatest mean velocity impacts of the inner Solar System. Ejecta launched at speeds less than 4.25 km/s are retained by the planet ...
Equity and inclusion underlie instructor assessment choices amid COVID-19 pandemic
(2022-04-21)
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak mandated a rapid transition to online classes with little warning. Previous literature studying the effect of this sudden shift demonstrated enormous impacts on instructors and students. ...
Neurobehavioral Effects of Neonatal Methylmercury Exposure: Impacts on Perseveration and Learning
(2022-04-20)
Neural changes occurring during the neonatal period in rodents are akin to those seen in humans during the third trimester of pregnancy. The neonatal period is a developmental period during which the monoamine systems ...
Comprehensive Methodology for the Design Configuration and Operational Control of Shuttle-based Storage and Retrieval Systems
(2022-04-20)
During recent years, Autonomous Vehicle Storage and Retrieval Systems (AVS/RS) have been widely applied in distribution centers and production sites to meet the increasing demand for rapid and flexible large-scale warehousing ...
Securing Lethal Means for Suicide: A Focus Group Study Exploring Perceptions and Barriers Among Practicing Veterinarians
(2022-04-20)
Veterinarians are at higher risk for suicide than the general population, and it has been hypothesized that this may be attributable to veterinarians’ access to and knowledge of lethal drugs, specifically pentobarbital. ...