Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Parental Bereavement as a Form of Trauma in College Students: Personal Contexts and an Institution’s Role in Healing
(2024-12-13)
This qualitative study aims to understand how college students navigate parental loss and how institutions are helpful or harmful during the healing process. Utilizing a constructivist case study approach, data were collected ...
Opportunistic Time Synchronization Using Signals From Low Earth Orbit Communications Satellites
(2024-12-13)
This thesis develops a receiver that is capable of utilizing opportunistic pseudorange,
Doppler shift, and Angle of Arrival (AoA) measurements to jointly estimate precise receiver
time as well as satellite position states. ...
Fecal Microbiota and Associated Metabolites are Minimally Affected by Ten Weeks of Resistance Training in Younger and Older Adults
(2024-12-13)
Recent evidence suggests that short chained fatty acids (SCFAs) produced by gut microbiota may impact body composition and muscle accretion. Additionally, aging is implicated in negative alterations to the gut microbiome ...
Development and validation of a feed spillage protocol to evaluate commercial broiler feeding systems and approaches to enhance feed management in broiler production
(2024-12-13)
Feed spillage (FS) can significantly impact production costs in commercial broiler operations, yet methods to accurately quantify FS have been lacking. This research aimed to develop and validate a protocol to determine ...
Exploring Help-Seeking Behaviors of Black College Women at Predominately White Institutions: Impacts of the Strong Black Woman Schema
(2024-12-13)
Despite the efforts that have been made to normalize mental health in the black community, the stigma of seeking mental health services within the black community persists. This stigma is especially more prevalent on college ...
Neural Underpinnings of Implicit Reappraisal: How Preceding Descriptions Influence Emotional Responses to Videos
(2024-12-12)
Emotion regulation is an essential part of everyday life, and deficits in regulatory behaviors can have harmful effects on one’s mental, physical, and social well-being. Existing models of emotion regulation propose different ...
LEO Aiding for a Barometric Map-Matching Pedestrian Dead Reckoning Solution in a GNSS Inhibited Environment
(2024-12-12)
The current pedestrian navigation space has become increasingly reliant on Global Nav-
igation Satellite Systems (GNSS) as their sole form of navigation. However, GNSS signals
are quite vulnerable to intentional and ...
Establishing Strategies to Improve Cracking Resistance of High Recycled Binder Ratio (RBR) Asphalt Mixtures
(2024-12-12)
With the increasing emphasis on sustainability within the asphalt industry, the adoption of Recycled Asphalt Materials (RAM) in asphalt mixtures is on the rise. Incorporating RAM into the mixtures offers several advantages, ...
A hydrometeorological data-driven study for assessment and subseasonal prediction of flash drought
(2024-12-12)
Flash droughts (FD) are high-impacting climate extremes which create environments with inadequate water availability, excessive temperatures, high pollution, and low economic or ecological productivity. The short- and ...
Effect of bermudagrass cultivar on the comprehensive profile of digestion and metabolism in beef cattle
(2024-12-12)
Since the release of ‘Coastal’ bermudagrass in 1943, much effort has been made toward the genetic advancement to improve yield and nutritive value. There is a gap in research comparing the in vivo digestibility among ...
Ovipositional Site Preferences and Characteristics of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (L.) (Blattodea: Blattidae), and Brownbanded cockroach, Supella longipalpa (Fabricius) (Blattodea: Ectobiidae)
(2024-12-12)
Cockroaches are major pests in much of the United States, with the U.S. Census 2019 American Housing Survey reporting 14 million households with infestations. Oviposition substrate preference has been studied in various ...
Responses to Avian Reovirus Infection in Vivo, in Ovo, and In Vitro
(2024-12-12)
Avian reovirus (ARV) is a significant pathogen in the poultry industry, associated with economic losses due to its clinical manifestations, including tenosynovitis, immunosuppression, and enteric diseases. This dissertation ...
A Feminist-Informed Autoethnographic Study Troubling My Motivations for Peer Leadership in Higher Education
(2024-12-12)
The purpose of this study was to trouble my own motivations for serving as a peer leader while in college. As a unit director for a student support office at a large, land-grant institution of higher education, I have ...
Bionomics of Crapemyrtle bark scale (Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae)
(2024-12-12)
Crape myrtle bark scale (CMBS, Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae) is an invasive pest of crape
myrtles (CM, Lagerstroemia) used in ornamental landscapes throughout the United States.
Infestations of CMBS diminish the aesthetic ...
Partial Saturation Numbers of Graphs
(2024-12-11)
Given a fixed simple graph $H$, a simple graph $G$ is called $H$-saturated if $G$ is $H$-free, but the addition of any edge $e \in E(\overline{G})$ creates a copy of $H$. The saturation number of $H$, denoted $\sat(n,H)$, ...
Explainable and Interpretable Machine Learning of Structure-Function Relationships for Membrane-Active Peptides in Drug Discovery: Enhancing Therapeutic Specificity
(2024-12-11)
Membrane-active peptides, particularly those with antimicrobial, anticancer, and other thera peutic properties, offer a promising alternative to traditional drug treatments. However, accurate
predictive models are essential ...
Age, Growth, and Reproductive Biology of Buffalofishes (Ictiobus spp.) in the lower Red River catchment
(2024-12-11)
Many North American freshwater fishes are of conservation concern. Riverine non-game fishes are understudied with many knowledge gaps in life history such as factors influencing spawning, hatching, and growth of individuals. ...
Genetic Biotechnology to Improve Reproduction of North American Catfish for Aquaculture, Genetic Enhancement and Genetic Conservation
(2024-12-11)
Xenogenesis is an emerging technology for hybrid catfish production using primordial germ cells (PGCs), spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs), or oogonia stem cells (OSCs) transplanted to a sterile host species. The present ...
Electrochemical Properties of Niobium and Vanadium Carbide MXenes as Determined by Synthesis Conditions and Interlayer Environments
(2024-12-11)
Since their discovery in 2011, two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, known as MXenes, have gained considerable interest because of their extensive surface area, excellent conductivity, and distinctive ...
Agenda Setting for the Vulnerable: Exploring State Legislators’ Sponsorship of Child Welfare Legislation
(2024-12-11)
This study seeks to understand what factors contribute to bill sponsorship by state legislators to address child welfare reform. Guided by Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework, this mixed-methods study employs quantitative ...