Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Machine learning-based additive manufacturing process optimization and quality prediction with photomicrography and tomography
(2023-08-03)
Process optimization and quality prediction are essential for promoting manufacturing quality and improving product reliability in Additive manufacturing (AM). However, the complex multi-physics processes of AM, involving ...
Upper and Expected Value Normalization for Evaluating Information Retrieval and Text Generation Systems
(2023-08-03)
Evaluation metric is a crucial part to improve the performance of any system. An accurate evaluation metric is capable to detect and compare multiple different models and thus serving the user’s need in a specific domain. ...
Detection and Intrusion of Attacks in Cyber-physical Security for Additive Manufacturing
(2023-08-03)
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) have become increasingly prevalent in industrial production as they integrate sensing, computation, control, and networking into physical objects and infrastructure. One of the branches of CPS, ...
Wisdom: A Virtue or a Vice? Examining Wisdom's Role in Moral Reasoning and Behavior in Organizations
(2023-08-03)
Research has demonstrated personality traits’ capacity to predict moral thinking and
workplace behavior. This research has predominantly focused on traits contained within the Big
Five and HEXACO frameworks. However, ...
Land use and land cover decision-making: An ecosystem services and extreme weather perceptions study of Gulf of Mexico private forest owners
(2023-08-03)
The northern Gulf of Mexico has a distinct contrast in land cover between the highly urban coastline and rural and forested areas inland. Regular occurrence of extreme weather events leaves both urban and rural landowners ...
Sleep, Physical Activity, and Mental Health Among Sexual-Minority, Transgender, and Gender-Diverse Youth
(2023-08-03)
In the face of legislation that curtails the rights and wellbeing of sexual- and gender-minority (SGM) youth, developmental science has a responsibility to investigate SGM health and its protective factors. Sleep is a ...
Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Distress in Veterinary Support Staff
(2023-08-03)
In medicine, clinical scenarios arise that require practitioners to balance conflicting professional obligations. These ethical dilemmas can cause moral distress, which is defined as knowing the right thing to do but being ...
A Framework Supporting Human-AI Adversarial Authorship: The Analysis of User Frustration to Improve System Efficiency
(2023-08-03)
Writing style can be traced back to a specific author with the use of authorship attribution techniques. These techniques use machine learning algorithms to classify the authors. This document discusses research focused ...
Genetic and genomic enhancement of the aquaculture production of hybrid catfish
(2023-08-03)
Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) are two important freshwater aquaculture species in the United States. Interspecific hybridization is an efficient strategy to enhance production ...
Staphylococcal and Streptococcal Biotechnology: Utilization of Bacterial Tools to Advance Preclinical Research and Healthcare
(2023-08-03)
Existing within microcosms of their own making, bacteria sculpt the surrounding environment by responding to the current climate or altering their habitat for protection and survival. The net effect of the bacterium’s ...
Writing in Defense of Black Womanhood: Twentieth Century Black Female Intellectuals and the Development of Intersectional Thought
(2023-08-03)
“Writing in Defense of Black Womanhood” seeks to create an intellectual genealogy for the theory of intersectionality. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s influential articles, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black ...
Using Bioinformatics Tools to Explore Symbiotic Associations Between Marine Invertebrates and Microbes
(2023-08-03)
The relationships and interdependence of microbes and marine invertebrates play a critical role in maintaining the marine ecosystem and are also pointers to environmental health and biodiversity. Some of these symbiotic ...
Transport Properties of 2D Heterostructures Determined via First Principles Calculations
(2023-08-03)
Atomically thin, two-dimensional materials have demonstrated their great potentials in nanoelectronics due to their mechanical and optoelectronic properties. With atomic layers free of dangling bonds, these materials possess ...
Black Paths to White Boards: Black Alumni Service on PWI Governing Boards
(2023-08-03)
Governing boards of universities are tasked with upholding university principles and promoting university ideals, including those pertaining to diversity, equity, and inclusion. However, many university governing boards, ...
Music Teacher Preparation for Inclusion of Students with Special Needs: Survey of Music Teacher Educators in the United States
(2023-08-03)
Current music teacher educators at colleges and universities were examined to determine how they prepare preservice music teachers to work with students with special needs. Participants included music education professors ...
Tests of olfactory memory in dogs and humans
(2023-08-03)
Olfaction is a highly evolutionarily preserved cognitive process in the brains of animals. In the fields of psychology and neuroscience, research on olfaction has lagged far behind that of vision or other physical senses. ...
Essays on Macroeconomics Forecasting and Economic Policy Uncertainty
(2023-08-03)
First paper analyzes the properties of forecast bias in the Survey of Professional
Forecasters in relation to economic policy uncertainty. Employing the quarterly forecast bias of 14 key macroeconomic variables and 12 ...
Upper and Expected Value Normalization for Evaluating Information Retrieval and Text Generation Systems
(2023-08-02)
Evaluation metric is a crucial part to improve the performance of any system. An accurate evaluation metric is capable to detect and compare multiple different models and thus serving the user’s need in a specific domain. ...
Alcohol-carboxylate transport in phenyl-based membranes of varying chain length transport
(2023-08-02)
As global climate change is a major concern which is accelerated by CO2 emissions, we need to reduce CO2 emissions from the environment. In order to do that, researchers conceptualized CO2 reduction cells which electrochemically ...
Decision Making Models for Power Systems Operations Under Uncertainty
(2023-08-02)
As the power grids worldwide transition from fossil fuel-based power plants to an era dominated by renewable energy sources (RESs), new operational challenges and uncertainties emerge, particularly for Independent System ...