Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Unpacking the Complexity of Diabetes Care through Investigating Disease Control and Therapeutic Inertia among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
(2023-06-22)
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a prevalent chronic condition requiring complex management and routine assessment of patient’s diabetes treatment. Therapeutic inertia occurs when patients do not receive timely, diabetes treatment ...
Supply Chain Talent Management: Decision-Making in Industry 4.0
(2023-06-21)
Industry 4.0 (I4.0), also known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is characterized by various intelligent technologies connected through the internet that harness the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning. ...
Impact of an 8-week active play intervention on child developmental outcomes
(2023-06-16)
Background: Play is an essential component of early childhood education and is included in American preschool children's current physical activity guidelines. However, there is a lack of evidence about the effect of active ...
A Forgotten Leader: Exploring the Experiences of African American Male School Leaders in Addressing the Disciplinary Outcomes of African American Students
(2023-06-16)
The purpose of this research study was to explore the stories and experiences African American male school administrators have in addressing the disciplinary outcomes of African American students in the state of Alabama ...
Essays on Financial Markets and Institutions
(2023-06-16)
This dissertation consists of three essays that focus on financial markets and institutions. Chapter 1 examines whether branches of banks in communities affected by natural disasters raise deposit rates to attract additional ...
Order Picking Method for Multi-entity Cooperation in Picking Warehouses
(2023-06-08)
In recent years, different kinds of autonomous robots have been widely studied and applied in warehouses to meet the increasing demand for dealing with more customer orders, providing shorter delivery time, and achieving ...
Evaluation of Aerobic Culture Results and the Expression of Embryonic Transcripts From In Vivo Derived Embryos Exposed to Media With and Without Antibiotics
(2023-05-31)
More than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States each year, with a resultant 35,000 deaths. The United States Department of Agriculture is investigating ways to judiciously use antibiotics ...
Studies on the Role of Non-canonical Wnt/JNK Signaling During Early Anterior-Posterior Axis Formation in Sea Urchin Embryos
(2023-05-30)
The establishment of embryonic body axes is a crucial event during early metazoan embryogenesis, determining the correct shape of the adult body plan. Wnt signaling pathways are conserved cascades that regulate important ...
Prediction of Structural Health of Pavement Preservation Treated Pavements Using Neural Networks
(2023-05-17)
Structural testing of pavements is required to ensure their strength, durability, and longer service life. Destructive testing methods are less costly but more time-consuming and pose a safety risk for road users and crew ...
Understanding extinction risk in aquatic invertebrates using range size and genetic diversity
(2023-05-17)
Genetic diversity is not only necessary for evolutionary processes but also for ecosystem functioning and population stability. This is particularly true for ecosystem engineers that contribute broadly to function and food ...
Drought Management Plans of States in the Southeastern United States: A Comprehensive Evaluation
(2023-05-16)
While the Southeast is often considered to be a region of abundant rainfall and humidity, severe droughts over the last two decades have raised awareness of the importance of proper management strategies at the state level. ...
Minority Stress, Relationship Satisfaction, and Psychological Distress in Same-Gender Relationships
(2023-05-15)
I tested hypothesized relationships between sexual minority stress theory (Brooks, 1981; Meyer 1995), Bodenmann’s (1995) stress-divorce-model, and Cohen’s social support/stress buffering hypotheses by using hierarchical ...
Additive Manufacturing of Engineered Polymeric Flexible Structures
(2023-05-15)
Polymer-based additive manufacturing (AM) processes allow the flexibility, rapid, and low-cost fabrication of complex geometries. In recent years, fused filament fabrication (FFF), also known as fused deposition modeling ...
Cellulose Nanomaterial-based Films for Grease-resistance Food Packaging Application
(2023-05-15)
The common uses of plastic for food packaging are advantageous in many cases because of its easy processability, low cost, and excellent resistance to water, oil, and grease penetration. The per- and poly-fluoroalkyl ...
A High-Resolution Hurricane Analysis for the Southeastern United States
(2023-05-11)
This study investigated hurricane trends in the Southeastern United States. First, we developed a high-resolution gridded hurricane dataset, GRID-HURDAT2, and calculated Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index in three ...
Secure Base Script Stability and Early Childhood Competence
(2023-05-10)
Internal representations of attachment inform children about themselves and the world around them and shape the expectations they have for relationships. Secure representations of attachment – measured by the secure base ...
The Mechanistic Studies of Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence and the Conformational Analysis of Dinoflagellate Luciferase
(2023-05-10)
This dissertation discusses the luciferase enzyme of dinoflagellates, which are eukaryotic
microorganisms found in both freshwater and marine environments. Dinoflagellates are known
for their capability for bioluminescence. ...
The Effects of the Environment on Phenotypic and Genetic Variation
(2023-05-09)
The study of genetic and phenotypic variation in the natural world is one of the cornerstones of biological research and is the founding basis of many subfields. Despite centuries of research, there still remains questions ...
Exploring the Relationship Between Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome and Social Problem Solving
(2023-05-08)
Cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS), previously referred to as sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), is represented by a set of symptoms that have been found to be associated with emotional, social, and daily life impairments ...
The effects of socioeconomic factors on trajectories of language and motor development in infants
(2023-05-08)
Multiple domains develop simultaneously and interact throughout infancy and early childhood. Although relationships between motor and language skills have been examined cross-sectionally during the first three years of ...