Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Evaluating the effects of three Alabama River dams on fish movements and population connectivity using otolith microchemistry
(2022-04-20)
Dams impede fish movement and can isolate riverine populations into defined areas. The Alabama River is divided into four major sections by three lock-and-dam structures. I used otolith microchemistry to quantify movements ...
Understanding Eating Behavior: How to improve it
(2022-04-20)
The relation between education and health has been well established in the literature, especially as it pertains to chronic diseases like obesity. But, due to data limitations, most extant research lacks a direct explanation ...
Survey of Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted by Four Ophiostomatoid Fungi
(2022-04-19)
Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is an important commercial timber species in the southeastern United States. It contributes to the growth of the economy by serving as raw material for the forest product industry in the ...
Burnout as a Mediator in the Workaholism-Turnover Intentions Relationship
(2022-04-19)
The present research explores the relationship between workaholism and voluntary turnover
intentions with burnout as the explanatory mechanism. Existing literature has found a positive
relationship between workaholism ...
Soybean growth response to inoculation with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria supplemented with orange peel amendment
(2022-04-19)
In order to meet the projected global food demand from population by 2050, current crop production will need to double. In this context, researchers are studying sustainable strategies to improve nutrient absorption by the ...
Surface and Interfacial Studies of Perovskite Oxides Grown by Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy
(2022-04-19)
Perovskite oxides are well known for their intriguing properties such as ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, and superconductivity that can be tuned by different crystalline degrees of freedom. SrTiO3 (STO) is a perovskite ...
Thermodynamic Model and Initial Experimental Investigation of Air Dehumidification through Electrically Charged Vapor Capturing Electrostatic Droplets
(2022-04-18)
The removal of water vapor from the air to reduce relative humidity is a well known indoor environmental comfort requirement. Common dehumidification approaches require a substantial amount of energy and usually involve ...
Examining Solvita Soil Tests in Soils of the Southeast United States
(2022-04-18)
Nitrogen (N) an essential nutrient for healthy crop growth. Nitrogen fertilizer may be over applied because standard soil tests do not account for nitrogen mineralized by soil microorganisms throughout the growing season. ...
A Spatial Approach to Analyzing the Effects of Weather Patterns on Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Colony Loss Across the United States
(2022-04-18)
Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) have experienced high rates of colony loss over the
past decade. Honey bees are critical to agricultural production, providing 15 billion to the United
States (U.S.) economy each ...
Coral Reefs in Congress
(2022-04-15)
As coral reef ecosystems disappear at an alarming rate, the United States and the wider world are weighing options for bold policy action to stop the loss of climate sensitive ecosystems. It is difficult for policies to ...
Physical Layer Approach to Secure Visible Light Communication and Sensing
(2022-04-15)
Visible Light (VL) is a wireless technology that uses visible light (400 ~ 790 THz) as the medium to transmit information (i.e., visible light communication or VLC) or sense user's activities (i.e., visible light sensing ...
Role of Chemokine Receptor CXCR7 in Adipocyte Physiology and Disease
(2022-04-14)
Objective—Chemokines and chemokine receptors have long been shown to play important roles in inflammation, obesity, and type II diabetes. CXCR7 is characterized as an atypical chemokine receptor whose function as a signaling ...
The Physics of Wind Instruments
(2022-04-14)
Musical instruments have been studied by physicists for centuries due to their complex mechanisms and the presence of many pieces of fundamental physics within. This dis- sertation aims its focus on wind instruments which ...
Examining the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence, Job Performance, Job Satisfaction, and Employee Engagement among Workforce Educators
(2022-04-14)
Emotional Intelligence (EI), a multidimensional construct, is considered as the capacity to process emotional information accurately and effectively to include monitoring one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions. ...
Harsh Parenting and Trajectories of Adjustment across Late Adolescence: Autonomic Nervous System Activity as a Moderator of Risk
(2022-04-14)
Adjustment problems including internalizing symptoms (e.g., anxiety, depression) and externalizing behaviors (e.g., rule-breaking, aggression, hostility) increase across earlier adolescence but little is known about their ...
An investigation of the mitochondria as a potential source of racial differences in reactive oxygen species production and cellular respiration in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of healthy adults
(2022-04-11)
Background: Non-Hispanic Black (NHB) adults exhibit a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to Non-Hispanic White (NHW) adults. Vascular oxidative stress may be one contributing factor to these racial ...
Technology Use in Instrumental Practicing: A Mixed Methods Study of Middle School Band Students
(2022-04-11)
Deliberate, thoughtful, and structured practice is critical to developing proper skills on an instrument (Barry & McArthur, 1994; Byo & Cassidy, 2008; Duke et al., 2009; Hallam, 2001a; Lehmann & Ericsson, 1996; Miksza, ...
Professional Learning Communities: An Examination of 21st Century and Traditional Facility Designs
(2022-04-08)
Today’s educational structures require teachers to move from isolation to collaboration to improve knowledge, skills, and instructional practices for effective teaching and learning. To do this, many schools across the ...
Three Studies of Shared Digital Labs: The Role of Trust in Business and Maturity Model Development
(2022-04-06)
Laboratories (labs) complement theoretical teaching/learning content in STEM subjects to promote understanding with practical knowledge and experience. However, these labs are typically expensive and available only to local ...
Intraspecific variation in coral reproductive output and symbiont community structure following a thermal bleaching event
(2022-04-04)
Marine heatwaves and associated bleaching events are projected to increase in frequency and severity in the future, imperiling charismatic ecosystems such as coral reefs. Although mass bleaching events are often accompanied ...