Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Laboratory and Field Measurements of Moisture Content and Bulk Electrical Conductivity of Subgrade and Base Course Materials
(2023-08-04)
Moisture content can impact the resilient modulus of pavement base course and subgrade layers. Given its influence on the post-inundation resilient moduli of the coastal pavement and base course and subgrade layers, it is ...
Direct-Write and Aerosol Jet Processes with Evaluation for Additively Printed Electronics
(2023-08-04)
Printed electronics, with their eco-friendliness, cost-effectiveness, and scalability, are becoming popular as a replacement for traditional silicon electronics. Flexible batteries, wearable sensors, and screens are just ...
A Pilot Randomized-Controlled Trial of Sleep Scholar: A Single-Session, Internet-Based Insomnia Intervention for College Students
(2023-08-04)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is a promising suicide intervention
for college students because insomnia is robust risk factor for suicide ideation (Liu et al., 2020;
Zuromski et al., 2017) and CBT-I ...
The Effects of Self-Compassion, Attachment-styles, and Intolerance of Uncertainty on Trauma Outcomes
(2023-08-04)
Research shows that a complex life experience, such as trauma, will most likely be experienced in a person’s life (Nelson, 2019). Experiences with trauma can have a lasting effect on all aspects of a person’s life, and one ...
Experiences in the field of education: How perceived experiences lead to teacher exit
(2023-08-04)
The ongoing teacher shortage has created major concern across the nation. While much research has sought to understand sources of teacher dissatisfaction, less attention has been paid to how general education (GE) and ...
Relative Position Vector Generation with Computer Vision for Vehicle Platooning Applications
(2023-08-04)
Many significant advances have been made in autonomous vehicle technology over the recent decades. This includes platooning of heavy trucks. As such, many institutions have created their own version of the basic platooning ...
Filament Morphology in Highly Magnetized Capacitively Coupled Low Temperature Plasmas
(2023-08-04)
Due to the small charge-to-mass ratio of dust particles, it is often necessary to use large magnetic fields of B ≥ 1 T, in order to observe the influence of magnetic forces in laboratory dusty plasmas. However, when ...
To Boldly Go: (Auto)Mobility in 20th Century American Masculine Identity
(2023-08-04)
Abstract
This project explores the relationship between masculinity, automobility, and American culture. Moving from the Gilded Age through the middle 20th century, this dissertation describes the changes to automobility ...
Homegrown Environmentalism: An Analysis of Natural Resource-Based Civic Groups Across Alabama
(2023-08-04)
In Alabama, local grassroots groups have emerged as important players in building community capital, fostering community engagement, and providing cost-effective solutions. Despite popular beliefs about environmental ...
Climate Change Implications on Rainfall Erosivity and Intensity Duration Frequency Curves over the Southeast United States
(2023-08-04)
Climate change impacts on precipitation characteristics will alter the hydrologic characteristics, such as peak flows, time to peak, and soil erosion potential. However, many of the currently available climate change ...
Closing the Yield Gap in Soybean (Glycine max) with Combined Improved Management Practices
(2023-08-04)
Food demand is expected to increase by 35% to 56 % by 2050. According to projections by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, global food and feed production needs to increase by 70% by that time to meet ...
Automatic Actigraphy and Polysomnography Sleep Scoring using Deep Learning
(2023-08-04)
The utilization of deep learning models for sleep scoring has become an increasingly promising area of research due to their potential to automate and enhance the accuracy of this crucial task. Sleep scoring involves ...
Component Level Testing of a Large Area Maintenance Shelter
(2023-08-04)
Large Area Maintenance Shelters (LAMS) are used by the United States military as temporary shelters for equipment and maintenance. After several LAMS structurally failed in wind speeds within the design parameters, the Air ...
THEORY OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL ℓ1-PENALIZED LOGISTIC REGRESSION
(2023-08-04)
n the setting where sample size n is sufficiently large relative to the number of features p, a classical result is that fitting a logistic model by means of maximum likelihood produces estimates that are approximately ...
A Data Element Mapping and Analysis (DEMA) Approach for Implementing a Complete Digital Thread
(2023-08-04)
In the age of digitalization and the fourth industrial revolution, the concept of the Digital
Thread and the Model-Based Enterprise has captured both the attention and resources of countless establishments. However, despite ...
The Formation of Iron Ore at the Keystone Skarn, Puerto Rico
(2023-08-04)
Iron (Fe) is essential to modern life, primarily for its use in steel. Understanding the processes that transport and deposit Fe within the crust is crucial to finding and evaluating Fe deposits for economic potential. The ...
Enhancing the efficacy of brand activism messaging: A construal level theory approach
(2023-08-04)
As interest in brand activism has increased in recent years due to polarizing social issues, scholars and practitioners have been motivated to understand consumers’ response and perceptions of authenticity in relation to ...
Enhancing User Experience through Improving the User Interface of Phonetics Tools and Studies on Phone-level ASR-based Automation through Deep Learning Techniques
(2023-08-04)
The research includes three studies at the intersection of communications disorders and computational linguistics. We begin with the case study of APTgt, a system created to im- prove reinforcement for Phonetics students ...
Early Contextual Influences on Young Adult Sleep and Sleep Inequities
(2023-08-04)
The residential neighborhood environment has been associated with a range of health outcomes and health inequities, including sleep. Sleep duration, quality, and variability have been increasingly studied as behavioral ...
Enhancing Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Investigating Aspect Term Extraction and Annotation Schemes
(2023-08-03)
We live in an age where there is constantly an increasing need for detailed information. From the company that needs to know what their users are feeling and thinking about their product to another crisis like a global ...