Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Graduate Students of Color at PWIs: School Belonging, Ethnic Identity and Mental Health
(2019-07-23)
This study sought to explore the perceived sense of belonging of graduate Students of Color who attend Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). Utilizing Baumeister & Leary’s, (1995) belongingness hypothesis as a foundation, ...
Edge-Regular Graphs with Lambda=2
(2019-07-23)
A graph G is edge-regular with parameters n, d, and λ if V(G)=n, the degree of every vertex of G is d, and for any pair of adjacent vertices u and v, N_G(u)∩N_G(v)=λ. We say such graphs are in ER(n,d,λ). In this dissertation ...
Modeling the Risk of Wrong-Way Driving at Freeway Exit Ramp Terminals
(2019-07-23)
Wrong-way driving (WWD) crashes are a critical safety issue on freeways. Although these crashes are rare in nature, they often result in severe injuries and/or fatalities. Typically, exit ramp terminals are the initial ...
Biomechanical Responses to Synthetic and Natural Turf during Locomotion
(2019-07-23)
The ability of athletes to adapt their movement patterns appropriately to varying constraints imposed by the playing environment is crucial for performance as well as musculoskeletal health. For outdoor athletes, playing ...
A Study of the Relationships Among and Between Factors Within the Workplace, Emotional Exhaustion and Turnover Intention in Professional Counselors
(2019-07-23)
The purpose of the current study was to gain an understanding of the relationships among and between factors within the workplace, emotional exhaustion, and turnover intention; specifically in mental health counseling ...
How does the major histocompatibility complex influence reproductive success in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)?
(2019-07-23)
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) gene products can influence sexual selection through their impact on the vertebrate immune system. Individuals with greater MHC diversity are generally believed to have more effective ...
Three Essays on Applied Economics
(2019-07-23)
This dissertation is composed of three chapters examining the wage inequality in developing countries, and the effect of insurance subsidy on land use allocation.
Chapter 1 is about the distributional decomposition of ...
Species Diversity of Hickory-feeding Phylloxerans (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae) in the U.S.
(2019-07-23)
During the spring months, hickories throughout the Eastern U.S. become adorned with abnormal growths or galls on the leaf or stem tissue. Many of these galls are caused by phylloxerans (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae: Phylloxera ...
Coping, Meaning in Life, and Posttraumatic Growth in Incarcerated Women
(2019-07-23)
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 Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey for Women (BT). Research indicates that ...
Development of Global Social Vulnerability Model for Earthquakes
(2019-07-23)
Although earthquakes are one of the most devastating natural hazards that affect humanity, very few attempts have been made to consider the human elements that put populations at risk. Most researchers focus on the assessment ...
The Effects of Exercise on LINE-1 Regulation
(2019-07-23)
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA and constitute approximately half of the human genome. LINE-1 (L1) is the only active autonomous TE in the mammalian genome and has been implicated, either directly or indirectly, ...
Structure-function relationship of human melanocortin-4 receptor and characterization of fish neural melanocortin receptors
(2019-07-19)
The neural melanocortin receptors, including melanocortin-3 and -4 receptors (MC3R and MC4R), are two important factors in regulation of energy homeostasis. MC3R primarily regulates feed efficiency and nutrient partitioning, ...
An Inclusive Design Guideline for Designing Elderly Friendly Smart Home Control Device
(2019-07-19)
Concerns related to age and aging of older people has been lingering around many people’s minds, especially for the older adults who are about to enter their young-old stage of life or already experiencing the physical and ...
Electron Propagator Theory: Fourth Order Diagrams, Composite Approach and Application to Anions, Superhalides and Double–Rydberg Anions
(2019-07-19)
The Electron Propagator Theory is useful for calculating vertical electron detachment energies and Dyson orbitals of neutral molecules and anions. The Electron Propagator Theory is a second quantization method that can be ...
Characterization and differentiation of bacteria by hyperspectral analysis
(2019-07-19)
Characterization and differentiation of microorganisms by hyperspectral analysis is a promising alternative to conventional techniques in clinical, food, and environmental microbiology to be used as a rapid, non-destructive ...
Biomechanical Implications of Performance Garments During the Overhead Throw Among Female Athletes
(2019-07-18)
The overhead throw is a dynamic motion that requires sequential movements of segments throughout the kinetic chain to efficiently deliver a ball to a specified target. Alterations throughout the kinetic chain often result ...
An experimental investigation of semi-automatic generation of concept maps from textbooks
(2019-07-18)
A concept map is a useful tool to organize and structure unstructured data, in this case, the information contained in a textbook. In education, a concept map can be used to set learning goals, monitor progress and visualize ...
Reception of Human Odorants and Their Chemical Antagonists in the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti
(2019-07-18)
The yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) (Diptera: Culicidae) is a vector of several tropical diseases, including yellow fever, dengue fever, Zika fever, and chikungunya. Mosquitoes use multiple cues such as CO2, ...
Performance of Mechanically Stabilized Earth Structures When Subjected to Passive Forces
(2019-07-18)
Mechanically stabilized earth structures are increasing in popularity due to their relative ease of construction and favorable performance. Current mechanically stabilized earth designs consider only active pressures ...
Phase transition for fractional stochastic partial differential equations in a bounded domain
(2019-07-18)
In this dissertation, we study several stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) in the open and bounded domain $D$, subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$ for $d\geq 1$, driven by a multiplicative noise. We are interested in ...