Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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A Petrographic and Geochemical Characterization of Magnetite Ore at the Island Queen Skarn, Puerto Rico
(2025-04-21)
Skarns classically form as the result of a multi-stage process including magmatic intrusion, alteration of carbonate-rich host rock, metasomatism, and later introduction of meteoric fluids. These processes transfer and ...
Assessing Spoilage Risks in Raw Chicken Breast: A Convergence Approach Using Microbiological Analysis, Volatile Profiling, Metagenomics, and Data Analytics for Microbial Growth and Shelf-Life Prediction
(2025-04-21)
Disruptions in the cold chain at various stages, from poultry processing to storage, distribution, and retail, can significantly impact the shelf life and quality of raw chicken, particularly during less-than-truckload ...
Parental Effects and Commercial-Scale Sperm Cryopreservation Techniques for Blue Catfish
(2025-04-21)
Catfish are an important U.S. aquaculture species, with the channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) female by blue catfish (I. furcatus) male hybrid constituting most of the harvest. Hatchery issues persist with male blue ...
Applications of charcoal morphometry and morphology during the Cretaceous Period
(2025-04-21)
Wildfire regimes are intensifying globally due to anthropogenic climate change, necessitating improved methods for reconstructing past fire activity to inform future mitigation strategies. The Cretaceous period, particularly ...
Understanding Execution Faults in Ansible-based Configuration Management
(2025-04-21)
Ansible is a popular tool for implementing the practice of infrastructure as code. While usage of the tool yields benefits for practitioners, faulty execution of Ansible configuration scripts can cause serious consequences, ...
The Memorialization of Emma Tenayuca: A Labor Activist’s Imprint on San Antonio, Texas
(2025-04-21)
This thesis examines how public opinions pertaining to Emma Tenayuca changed throughout her life, starting with the Pecan Strike in San Antonio, Texas in 1938 until her death in July of 1999. It argues that public records ...
Using Her Words: Marriage in Twentieth Century Advice Columns
(2025-04-21)
This thesis examines the evolution of popular perceptions of marriage in the United States during the mid twentieth century through advice columns. It argues that the point at which a marriage was considered salvageable ...
Nitric Oxide in Exercise Physiology
(2025-04-21)
Nitric oxide is an endogenous reactive nitrogen species found throughout the human body. Its role in human physiology at rest and during exercise has proven to be essential in maintaining human health and enhancing exercise ...
Development of novel molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP)-based sensors for the sensitive and selective detection of analyte
(2025-04-21)
The increasing importance of monitoring environmental changes resulting from chemical stimuli affects various aspects of human life, including daily routines, healthcare, and manufacturing. Addressing this demand necessitates ...
Field Inspections and Monitoring of Continuous Deck Slabs on Prestressed Concrete Bridges for Development of Refined Details
(2025-04-21)
Expansion joints are used in bridges to allow for the unrestrained movement of the
superstructure. However, due to the need for frequent maintenance, continuous deck details have
been developed to replace them. This study ...
On Accelerating Deep Neural Network Mutation Analysis
(2025-04-21)
The usage of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is increasing rapidly across various domains, necessitating rigorous testing to ensure validity, usability, and effectiveness. Mutation analysis of DNNs, a technique that applies ...
Edge-regular graphs and uniform shared neighborhood structures
(2025-04-21)
The definition of edge-regularity in graphs is a relaxation of the definition of strong regularity, so strongly regular graphs are edge-regular and, not surprisingly, the family of edge-regular graphs is much larger and ...
Exploring Parasite Diversity: Taxonomic Studies of Parasites from Birds, Crocodilians, and Anurans Across Diverse Ecosystems
(2025-04-21)
The overall objective of this dissertation was to apply modern taxonomic and molecular phylogenetic methods to understanding “hidden” (undiscovered) parasite diversity in common wildlife species. The specimens described ...
From Barbs to Blooms: Dispersal, Development, and Transcriptomics in Bidens
(2025-04-21)
The Asteraceae is the largest family of flowering plants, constituting ~10% of total angiosperm diversity. The family is characterized by its conserved inflorescence architecture, the capitulum. Despite the family’s global ...
Effect of rhizobial 1-aminocyclopropane‐1‐carboxylate (ACC) deaminase on soybean drought tolerance
(2025-04-21)
Although soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) obtains nitrogen through symbiotic nitrogen fixation, its grain yield is constrained by drought stress. The production of the plant hormone ethylene tends to increase under stress ...
Synergistic Effects of Volumetric Defects and Notch Geometry on the Fatigue Behavior of Additively Manufactured Metallic Materials
(2025-04-21)
In this dissertation, the synergistic effects of volumetric defects and notch geometry on the fatigue behavior of additively manufactured (AM) metallic materials were investigated. Factors influencing fatigue crack initiation ...
El MS. G-II-18 De El Escorial: Comentario a Isaías de David Quimhi y la Traducion de Alfonso de Zamora, Edición y Estudio de los Capítulos I y II
(2025-04-21)
El presente trabajo busca resaltar la importancia que tuvieron los exégetas hebreos como David Quimḥi en el Renacimiento, destacando el matrimonio que formaron la exégesis literal y la pedagogía para la educación del pueblo ...
Evaluation of the Impact of Processing Techniques and Labeling on Poultry Sensory Attributes, Consumer Acceptance, and Purchase Behavior
(2025-04-21)
Animal welfare is a topic of discussion for the animal agriculture industry as this niche market has been growing over the past decade. In poultry specifically, there are many various methods used to promote animal welfare. ...
Water Quality and PFAS - State Policy Innovation to Control an Emerging Contaminant - A Study of Administrative Rulemaking
(2025-04-21)
This dissertation examines the determinants of state-level policy innovation in regulating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in water resources. PFAS, often referred to as "forever chemicals," are ...
Vietoris–Rips Complexes of Torus Grids
(2025-04-20)
In this work, we study the homotopy types and homology of Vietoris–Rips
complexes of torus grid graphs. Let T_{n,n} be a torus grid graph consisting of n × n points
on T2 equipped with the l1 metric. We first compute the ...