Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Investigation of 1-Trichloromethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline (TaClo)-Induced Neurotoxicity in the Zebrafish Models (Danio rerio)
(2025-07-23)
Environmental pollutants have been linked to neurotoxicity and are proposed to contribute to neurodegenerative disorders. Trichloroethylene (TCE) has been identified as an environmental contaminant and a potential risk ...
Expanding Horizons: Mappability, Literature, and the Making of the Medieval English World
(2025-07-23)
This dissertation set out to answer two questions: (1) how late medieval English literature represents space and (2) how mappability as both a technological and conceptual affordance acts and evolves across a variety of ...
Street-by-Street: Creating Resilience through Integration and Learning
(2025-07-22)
What are the learning conditions that allow for the most effective exchanges of information between street-level bureaucrats who work in the fields of emergency management and community planning? To answer questions, this ...
Making the Abstract Physical: Toward Improving Binary Reverse Engineering via Embodied Immersion
(2025-07-22)
Performing reverse engineering (RE) to determine precisely what a piece of software does is vital to tasks such as securing networks, mitigating malware, and maintaining legacy software. Much software is distributed as ...
Leveraging Geospatial Knowledge to Inform Water and Wastewater Management
(2025-07-18)
Water and wastewater management are persistent, evolving challenges, and geospatial knowledge provides a unique perspective to understand them. Although there are numerous studies on these topics and great progress in ...
Real-time Estimates of Logging Equipment Carbon Emissions in the Southeastern United States
(2025-07-17)
Whole tree harvesting using mechanized equipment is widely practiced in Southeastern U.S. forestry, yet limited field data exist on exhaust emissions under real-world conditions. This study addressed this gap by measuring ...
A Generic Digital Twin Ecosystem for Computer Numerical Control Manufacturing Processes
(2025-07-17)
This dissertation considers the design and implementation of a generic Digital Twin Ecosystem (DTE) for computer numerical control (CNC) manufacturing processes. The DTE architecture integrates real-time data acquisition, ...
Assessing hurricane-driven forest changes using satellite-based lidar and multispectral imagery
(2025-07-17)
Coastal forests in Alabama and Florida are increasingly vulnerable to storms and hurricanes, which can cause widespread canopy loss, decline in forest structure, and long-term disruption of ecosystem services. Accurate and ...
Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Trusting Teachers
(2025-07-17)
This qualitative narrative study explored how students diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) experience trust in their relationships with teachers and how that trust influences their decision to ...
Essays on CEO Compensation and Information Asymmetry in Equity Markets
(2025-07-17)
In the first study, the scholarly literature finds that informed traders prefer to transact in the options market, presumably because of the increased leverage found in that market. We define a new
measure of asset interest ...
A Randomized Crossover-Controlled Trial Investigating the Epigenetic Impact of a Greens-Based Supplement in Adults
(2025-07-16)
Aging is influenced by genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. Preliminary studies suggest that fruit and vegetable-based dietary supplements may reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, key factors in aging. ...
An Integrated Methodology for Flight Vehicle Sizing Subject to Stability and Control Constraints
(2025-07-16)
This dissertation focuses on incorporating stability and control into the conceptual sizing of novel flight vehicle concepts based on flying qualities guidelines defined for both rotor-borne and wing-borne flight conditions. ...
The Synergistic Effects of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation and 12 Weeks of Resistance Training on Skeletal Muscle and Vascular Function in Middle-aged and Older Adults
(2025-07-16)
Increasing dietary nitrate (NO3-) through beetroot juice (BRJ) supplementation elicits acute ergogenic benefits. However, it is unknown whether chronic NO3- supplementation can enhance resistance training (RT) adaptations ...
Clomiphene Citrate Supplementation During In Vitro Maturation of Porcine Oocytes Reduces ROS Accumulation and Promotes Oxidative Stress Resilience Pathways
(2025-07-16)
The research in this thesis addresses key challenges in reproductive biology particularly
concerning oocyte maturation and early embryonic development. The efficiency of in vitro
reproductive technologies such as oocyte ...
Piecing the Puzzle Together: Assembling a beautiful future for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation
(2025-07-16)
This investigation sought to develop a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation by considering the links between childhood background, trafficking experiences, and outcomes. ...
Effects of Maternal Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation on Neonatal Liver and Jejunum Transcriptomes and Regulatory Co-expression Networks
(2025-07-16)
Maternal nutrition throughout gestation affects fetal growth and development. The fetal adaptation to conditions in the uterine environment is called fetal programming. These adaptations lead to responsive and adaptive ...
Three essays on Corporate Finance and Insider Trading
(2025-07-16)
In chapter one, we introduce IPO Rival Insider Selling (IRIS) as a novel predictor of IPO underpricing and long-run performance. We argue that incumbent industry rivals possess private, dispersed information about upcoming ...
Graph-Based Visual-Semantic Representations for Visual-Data Understanding
(2025-07-15)
Visual event perception tasks, such as activity recognition, require reasoning over visual-semantic concepts present in scenes. These scenes often exhibit hierarchical structure, both physically (e.g., objects contained ...
Environmental Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Commercial Poultry Production: Microbiome, Resistome, Antimicrobial Residues, and Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli Dynamics
(2025-07-15)
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a major global threat to humans, animals, and the environment, often driven by overuse of antimicrobials and environmental contamination, particularly in food animal production. We focused ...
Characterization of a novel macrocyclic inhibitor of Lassa virus
(2025-07-15)
Lassa virus is a highly pathogenic virus belonging to the family Arenaviridae. It is the causative agent of Lassa hemorrhagic fever and is a significant threat to global public health. Lassa virus is endemic to West Africa ...