Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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From Prison to the Community: How Offending Women Manage Post Release
(2021-06-28)
Over the past few decades there has been an alarming spike in the number of women entering and exiting the penal system. The many barriers post offending women experience before incarceration are seemingly the driving force ...
What’s in There for Me? Impact of User-Centric Advertisement Appeals on Consumers’ Emotional Responses and Sustainable Apparel Purchase Intentions
(2021-06-28)
Despite urgency to protect the environment, unsustainable apparel consumption continues to damage it. Although a high environmental knowledge, awareness, or concern encourages sustainable consumption, it does not guarantee ...
The Effects of Increased Workload on Softball Pitching Mechanics, Range of Motion, and Strength
(2021-06-28)
Softball pitching is a dynamic motion that requires the entire kinetic chain and has been documented to result in whole body muscular fatigue. In addition to muscular fatigue, increased pain has been documented after a ...
Guidelines for Designing E-sports Themed Cybercafé
(2021-06-23)
Cybercafés are the product of the early days of the Internet era. In today's mobile Internet era, cybercafés have transformed from public Internet sites to video game halls that are closely connected with the E-sports ...
Improving Plant-based Diets for Florida Pompano, Trachinotus carolinus.
(2021-06-21)
Florida pompano aquaculture is a growing enterprise in the United States and production is increasing. Success of Florida pompano production is dependent on the supply of cost-effective diets that promote optimal growth ...
The Impact of Stability Exercises on Core Muscle Imbalances and Subsequent Low Back Pain
(2021-06-21)
The pathology of low back pain (LBP) is often unclear, despite the fact that it is the most common musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) with hundreds of thousands of workers afflicted. One underlying mechanism that may contribute ...
EFFECT OF WAVE ACTION, BIOFOULING CONTROL, AND DENSITY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF EASTERN OYSTERS (CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA)
(2021-06-21)
To better understand the impacts of wave action on oyster performance and its interaction with other farming choices, triploid oysters were deployed utilizing the adjustable longline system at an oyster farm site near Deer ...
FULL-SCALE MECHANISTIC AND PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION OF A FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT WITH A STABILIZED FOUNDATION
(2021-06-21)
The current study aimed to develop a mechanistic understanding of the behavior of flexible pavements with stabilized foundations through full-scale testing, instrumentation, and simulation. In pursuit of this objective, a ...
Assessment of Risk and Risk Factors of Fluoropyrimidine-induced Cardiotoxicity among Colorectal Cancer Survivors Using a Mixed-Methods Approach
(2021-06-18)
Although new cancer treatment therapy has been increasingly developed, fluoropyrimidines, such as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and capecitabine, are widely used alone or in combination regimens as chemotherapy for the treatment ...
Three Essays in Applied Economics
(2021-06-15)
This dissertation consists of three empirical essays as three chapters, which sheds lights on select research questions on education economics, biodiversity, and water sustainability in the United States.
Chapter 1 ...
Working in Person During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Job Demands and Resources of Reopening the Economy
(2021-06-14)
This study investigated the effects of working in person during the COVID-19 pandemic on perceived job demands and resources for employees. The job demands-resources (JD-R) model of employee stress indicates that workplace ...
Synthesis, Analysis, and Pharmacological Profile of Designer Piperazine Drugs
(2021-06-14)
New or novel Psychoactive substances (NPS) or designer drugs are often uncontrolled synthetic chemicals that are analogs to classic controlled substances and have been a public health threat in the last two decades. The ...
Mitigating the Occurrences of Graduate Student Attrition: Making the Case for Standardized Noncognitive Assessments
(2021-06-10)
The purpose of this dissertation study was twofold. First, this research study examined the role of noncognitive factors on degree completion, academic achievement, and persistence. Second, this research study examined the ...
Interim Product Design Guidelines and Strategies
(2021-06-10)
With the improvement of technology, more and more radical products, which provide unprecedented customer benefits, have appeared in the market these years, but the diffusion of them is slow and still a big challenge for ...
The History of Alabama State College
(2021-06-04)
Alabama State College, now Alabama State University, has played an instrumental part in providing exceptional educational opportunities for
generations of African Americans in Alabama and beyond. The university has ...
Quantitative and Qualitative Subgroup Differences in PTSD Symptom Presentations: A Latent Class Analysis
(2021-06-03)
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a highly heterogeneous disorder (Galatzer-Levy & Bryant, 2013). Latent class analysis (LCA) and latent profile analysis (LPA) have been used to identify homogeneous subgroups of ...
Detection of GNSS Faults Using Receiver Clock Drift Estimates
(2021-05-25)
GNSS based navigation systems are used in almost every sector, from industrial and agricultural environments to everyday applications such as personal navigation or autonomous vehicles. Satellite navigation provides accurate ...
Models Based Practice in Chinese College Physical Education
(2021-05-24)
Research has supported that Sport Education (Siedentop, 1994; Siedentop, Hastie, Van der Mars, 2020) and Play Practice (Launder, 2001, 2013) in physical education can efficiently promote teaching and learning for both ...
Latent Class Analysis of Drinking Game Consequences Among College Drinkers
(2021-05-21)
Participation in drinking games has been identified as one specific alcohol-related context linked to increased risk among college students. Despite advances in drinking game research, questions remain about the different ...
Automated Microfluidic Droplet Generation and Merging with Integrated Salt-water Electrodes for Analyte Quantification and Monitoring of Endocrine Tissue Secretion Dynamics
(2021-05-21)
Adipose tissue, playing an important role in the global epidemic obesity and diabetes, has attracted extensive attention in recent decades. However, quantitative measurement of dynamics of nutrient uptake and metabolic ...