Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Creating a 3D Engineered Tissue Model to Mimic Colorectal Cancer Microenvironment for Studying Chemokine and Fibroblast in Cancer Progression
(2025-05-02)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide with a higher incidence in US. Among its subtypes, the consensus molecular subtype 4 (CMS4) is known to be the most aggressive, characterized ...
Microtubule Supported Trafficking of Synaptic Vesicle Precursors and Recycling Synaptic Vesicles
(2025-05-02)
Synaptic Vesicles are critical components for synaptic communication in the nervous system. The proteins associated with synaptic vesicles that enable their functionality must be continuously produced, transported to ...
The Influence of Support Systems on the Career and Family Decisions of Female Music Faculty in Higher Education
(2025-05-01)
The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the influence of support systems on
the career and family decisions of female music faculty in higher education. Data was gathered
from an anonymous survey and ...
Prognostic Health Management and Additive Manufacturing Quality Analysis of Cables
(2025-05-01)
Electrical systems regarding the transmittance of signals and data are under the constant threat of wear and tear. Many machines and systems that use cables to transfer signals and data are often used right up until failure ...
Career Pathways of Agriculture Students: An Introspective Look Through a 40-Year Lens
(2025-05-01)
Escalating workforce demands, rapid technological advancements, and the rise of niche markets have significantly impacted agricultural career pathways and post-secondary educational opportunities, increasing the importance ...
The Influence of Practice Design Using Task Constraints to Develop a Pitch With Vertical Break in Softball
(2025-05-01)
Groups of softball pitchers seeking to develop a movement pitch practiced under two different practice conditions. One group practiced using instructions centered on achieving an idealized movement pattern to create break ...
Material Characterization of Undoped & Doped Lead-Free Solders under High Strain Rates and Solder Joint Reliability for Combined Effects of Vibrations and High-Temperature Surroundings
(2025-05-01)
In the rapidly advancing fields of automotive, oil exploration, and military electronics, components are increasingly required to operate under extreme conditions, characterized by high and low temperatures and transient ...
Data-Driven Neuromechanical Modeling, Estimation, and Control for Hand-Assistive Robotic Interfaces
(2025-05-01)
Mechanical interactions at the hand affect its entire neuromuscular circuit - from hand kinematics and peripheral nervous activation, to motor and somatosensory cortex activation, to cognition and decision making. ...
ARvolutionizing Sustainable Fashion: The Influence of Augmented Reality Features on Young Adults’ Apparel Purchasing Behavior
(2025-05-01)
Cutting-edge technology profoundly influences various aspects of individuals’ lives, including their lifestyles, habits, and consumption patterns. Augmented reality (AR) is a key technological breakthrough that has ...
Evaluation of Fracture Properties of Additively Manufactured IN-718 Under Quasi-static and Dynamic Loading Conditions
(2025-05-01)
Inconel 718 is a Nickel based alloy with many applications in the aerospace and automotive industries. Due to its high strength under intense heat, IN-718 is used
in extreme environments such as rocket engine manifolds ...
Avondale: A Search for Identity in a Transitioning Neighborhood
(2025-05-01)
Avondale today exists as one of Birmingham, Alabama’s most popular historic neighborhoods for its public green spaces and bustling entertainment scene. Founded in 1887 as an industrial hub, Avondale quickly grew into a ...
Understanding the internal and external driving factors that impact specific gravity in Longleaf Pine through a spatial and temporal perspective
(2025-04-30)
Specific gravity (SG, also called relative density) is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of a substance's density (mass per unit volume) to the density of a given reference material. In forestry, wood SG is ...
Reliability Operations of The Tomia Island Microgrid
(2025-04-30)
Indonesia’s electrification ratio remained stagnant at 99.2% in 2020, largely due to its geographical challenges. Many areas still lack electricity, especially those located far from transmission lines or on small islands, ...
Immersion Aeromonas spp. vaccine efficacy and coinfection dynamics in largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans)
(2025-04-30)
The largemouth bass (LMB; Micropterus nigricans) is a North American freshwater fish species. These fish have gained the reputation of being one of North America’s most beloved freshwater sportfish species and, in recent ...
Rainbow Connectivity and Proper Rainbow Connectivity
(2025-04-30)
A connected graph G is rainbow connected with respect to an edge coloring of G if each pair of distinct vertices of G are joined by a rainbow path--a path with no color appearing on more than one edge of the path. G is ...
Toxicological analysis of Lipid-Based Nanoparticles: A Comparative Study
(2025-04-30)
Lipid-based nanoparticles (LNPs) are frontliners in nanomedicine, as their use as mRNA carriers and in drug delivery has become prominent over the years. Despite their increasing application in medicine, there are limited ...
A field and geochemical investigation of tourmaline occurrences around the Hog Mountain gold deposit, AL
(2025-04-30)
Tourmaline can be a powerful mineral as its properties allow it to preserve information that can be used to uncover its geologic history. Abundant, previously undocumented occurrences of tourmaline have been discovered in ...
Widths of Finite Posets under the Majorization Ordering
(2025-04-30)
This dissertation focuses on the structural properties of two types of posets, \(P(n,m)\) and \(P'(n,m)\), both of which are ordered by the majorization ordering. Specifically, we consider those cases where \(1 \leq n \leq ...
Navigating the Read 180 Literacy Program with English Language Learners: A Teacher Inquiry Lens
(2025-04-30)
This research study used teacher inquiry to examine the ways one White, monolingual teacher navigated a prescribed literacy program with English Language Learners (ELLs). The purpose of this study was to explore ways in ...
Mesophication in Southeastern U.S. forests: drivers of flammability and strategies for tree regeneration success
(2025-04-30)
Decades of fire exclusion in historically fire-dependent forests across the southeastern U.S. have caused various ecological consequences, including the transition of open-structured forests to closed-canopy forests. This ...