Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Wind and fire as drivers of carbon pool variability in southeastern U.S. forests
(2024-12-05)
Forests in the southeastern U.S. play an important role in global climate mitigation via carbon (C) sequestration, yet recurrent disturbances like wind and fire threaten their ability to sequester C. Many southeastern U.S. ...
Estimating Fishing Mortality and Movement of Greater Amberjack in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean off of the Southeastern United States
(2024-12-05)
Greater Amberjack (Seriola dumerili) are an important marine species for sport and commercial fisheries across the southeastern United States. Two Greater Amberjack stocks are recognized for assessment and management off ...
Enhanced Indirect and Convex Optimization Methods for Generating Minimum-Fuel Low-Thrust Trajectories
(2024-12-05)
The high costs of space missions necessitate optimization across all mission aspects, particularly fuel consumption, which impacts both economic feasibility and payload capacity. Electric propulsion systems, with higher ...
Examining school administrators’ perceived involvement in special education transition services related to promoting post-school success.
(2024-12-05)
This qualitative study examines secondary school administrators’ perceptions of their roles in special education post-school transition programs and practices as explored through narrative inquiry interviews. Three research ...
Empowering Creativity: Harnessing the Potential of Industrial Design Students with ADHD
(2024-12-05)
The purpose of this project is to leverage the college-aged individual with diagnosed ADHD to best find their niche procedure within the design process by utilizing strategic management solutions in the design curriculum. ...
Classical Techniques in an Unconventional System: Investigation of the Insect Immune System and Gut Microbiome
(2024-12-05)
The role of the gut microbiome in development and function of the host immune system has long been an area of interest, investigated across taxa for decades. As mammalian systems can sometimes provide a prohibitive challenge ...
Effect of dehydration time on physicochemical, textural, instrumental color, and sensory characteristics of jerky-style pet treats made with swine pluck
(2024-12-05)
The current growth of pet ownership, coupled with the rise of pet humanization, has driven the integration of convenient materials repurposed into pet food products, particularly pet treats. Swine pluck (SP), a combination ...
Thermal Tolerance and Burrowing Behaviors of Red Swamp Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii)
(2024-12-04)
Red Swamp Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) are a globally invasive species whose burrowing habits contribute to damn and levee failures, erosion, and resistance to control measures. I used artificial burrowing chambers to ...
The management of sweetpotato whitefly in the southeastern US
(2024-12-04)
Sweetpotato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) is a significant pest affecting vegetable crops in the southeastern United States, causing direct feeding damage and transmitting viruses that can lead to substantial yield losses. ...
Enhancing Microalgal Biomass Growth and Nutrient Removal in Anaerobic Digestate
(2024-12-04)
Microalgal treatment of anaerobic digestate has attracted research attention due to algae’s capability for nutrient removal and recovery. However, microalgae rarely tolerate full-strength anaerobic digestate, and this ...
Molecular Profiling of Fertility in reproductively divergent Bos taurus Heifers: Insights into Gene and Cytokine Markers
(2024-12-04)
The reproductive efficiency of Bos taurus beef cattle is pivotal for the profitability and sustainability of cattle operations. Subfertility represents a significant economic burden within the cow-calf sector of the beef ...
A Descriptive Study of Elementary Student Access to School Music Education in Twelve Large Metropolitan Areas in the Southeastern United States
(2024-12-04)
Music education is an important part of a well-rounded elementary school curriculum.
Unfortunately, not every school provides their students with music classes. Schools in
predominantly White and wealthier communities ...
Effects of Biochar on Pollinator Plantings and Foraging Bees in a Southeastern Soil
(2024-12-04)
Bees are a diverse clade of insects pivotal to pollination in anthropogenic and natural
systems. Yet, this diversity is threatened by human-driven changes in the environment. The
establishment of pollinator habitat ...
Oxy-Steam Fluidized Bed Gasification of Southern Pine Biomass, Lignite Coal, Plastic Wastes, and their Blends for Hydrogen Production
(2024-12-03)
Rising energy demand, climate change, and waste management issues drive the need to convert waste into energy via thermochemical conversion processes such as gasification. This study explores the potential of producing ...
Captioning of Non-Speech Information in Children’s Programming on Pbskids.org
(2024-12-03)
The availability of closed captions in children’s programming has increased in recent years. However, quality, consistency, and other aspects of closed captions is still lacking, especially with non-speech information ...
Early Stages of Brown Rot Fungi Detection: NIR Spectroscopy Integrated with Chemometrics
(2024-12-03)
The southern U.S. is an important region for the forestry industry, playing a crucial role in the economy and the environment, being an important region of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L) timber production in the U.S. ...
Impact of thermal variation during early-stage incubation on muscle satellite cell heterogeneity and muscle development of broiler chicken embryos
(2024-12-03)
Although it has been known for some time that the use of multi-stage (MS) incubators results in broiler chicken embryos being exposed to sub-optimal incubation temperatures, they are still quite common in the commercial ...
An assessment of small grain winter cover crops for management of Meloidogyne incognita and Rotylenchulus reniformis in southeastern U.S. cotton production
(2024-12-03)
This experiment investigates five small grain winter cover crops including barley (Hordeum vulgare L), oats (Avena sativa L.), rye (Secale cereale L.), triticale (x Triticosecale Wittmack), and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) ...
Towards More Accurate Tree Biomass Estimation and Projections: Tree Growth, Hardwood Competition, Prescribed Fire and Environmental Factors
(2024-12-03)
Estimating tree biomass is a common task in forest management, and generalized allometric equations are popular tools used for this estimation. However, the most accurate estimates come from site- and species-specific ...
Unraveling Factors Influencing Host Specificity in Xylella fastidiosa
(2024-12-03)
Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) is a gram-negative, insect-vectored, plant pathogen that is restricted to the xylem, and impacts various crops such as grapes, blueberry, citrus, peach, pecan, almond, and olives. In Southeastern ...