Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Formulation and Characterization of Bio-Enhanced Thermoset Resin Composites for Additive Manufacturing
(2025-08-12)
The transition to sustainable construction materials is essential to reducing the environmental footprint of the building industry. This research project aims to develop, characterize, and optimize thermoset bio composite ...
Unraveling Communication Dynamics of University Outreach
(2025-08-11)
This qualitative investigation examines the communication dynamics of university outreach from the perspective of higher education administration, addressing the notable gap in how non-traditional scholarship and outreach ...
Material Property Evolution of Underfills Encapsulants, Electronic Molding Compounds, Thermal Interface Materials and Magnetic ACAs
(2025-08-10)
The evolution of material properties in electronic packaging plays a critical role in the reliability of semiconductor devices operating in harsh environments. This dissertation investigates the thermo-mechanical behaviors ...
Designing and Validating a Dual-Layer HCI Framework for OCD Mobile Training: Cognitive System Architecture and User-Centered UI with Emotional Ease
(2025-08-08)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a chronic psychological condition affecting approximately
1.2% of adults in the United States and 1%–2% of individuals worldwide. The urgency for scalable, self-
guided interventions ...
Conceptual and Modeling Approaches to Investigate Coastal Road Vulnerability to High Water Tables and Flooding
(2025-08-08)
Low-lying coastal areas face increasing risks from elevated groundwater levels and surface flooding due to sea-level rise (SLR), extreme precipitation, and storm surges. The objective of this research is to develop and ...
Adapting the Reconnecting to Internal Sensations and Experiences Intervention for Veterinary Students
(2025-08-08)
Veterinary students and professionals are at elevated risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors compared to other high-risk occupational groups and the general population (Karaffa & Hancock, 2019; Nett et al., 2014; ...
In-Situ Bacterial Detection in Liquids Using Novel Bio-Free and Bio-Hybrid Biosensors
(2025-08-08)
The detection of bacteria in liquid is crucial to a wide range of applications, from clinical diagnostics and water safety to food processing and pharmaceutical quality control. While each application involves a different ...
Impact of Messaging on Veterinarians’ Willingness to Implement Means Safety Protocols
(2025-08-08)
Veterinarians exhibit an increased risk for suicide compared to the general population, which appears to be partially attributable to their access to and knowledge about pentobarbital – the most common drug used for humane ...
Evidence of Heritable Luteal Insufficiency in Portuguese Water Dogs: A Pedigree-Based Investigation
(2025-08-08)
Reproductive failure and pregnancy loss is devastating for dog owners both financially and emotionally. While infectious agents are the most common causes of canine pregnancy loss, hormonal aberrations are insidious as ...
Effective Characterization, Mitigation, and Modeling of Cycle Life and Thermal Degradation in High-Performance Lithium-Ion Battery Systems
(2025-08-08)
As lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technologies continue to evolve, delivering higher energy and power densities, the importance of design optimization for achieving safer, high-performance battery systems continues to grow. ...
Novel Applications of Stable Metal Isotope Geochemistry to Understand Ore Formation
(2025-08-08)
Metals including molybdenum (Mo) and iron (Fe) are critical resources for modern society. These metals are extracted from various types of ore deposits including porphyry (Mo) and skarn (Fe and Mo) and are predominantly ...
Micro-Diamond Chain: A Lightweight Framework for Controllable AI-Driven Workflows in Industrial Design
(2025-08-08)
This research addresses the disruptive impact of generative artificial intelligence on traditional industrial design models by proposing and validating a lightweight, AI-adapted design framework: Micro-Diamond Chain (MDC) ...
Workload Woes: The Dynamics of Teacher Workload on Job Satisfaction and Turnover
(2025-08-08)
Teacher workload and work intensification are increasingly recognized as key
contributors to job dissatisfaction, burnout, and turnover in K–12 education. Yet, research has
not fully captured the complexity of how workload ...
Tridimensional Acculturation and Mental Health of Black Caribbean Immigrants to the U.S.
(2025-08-08)
There are many immigrants to the U.S., notably a large population of Black Caribbean first- or second-generation immigrants. To date, there is little research about the acculturation of this large group. Moving beyond the ...
Experimental Characterization and Modeling of the Aging Behavior of the Lithium-ion Batteries Considering Kinetic-diffusion Limitation and Graphite-silicon Blended Anode
(2025-08-08)
Fundamental understanding of the electrochemical, thermal and mechanical behaviors of the lithium ion batteries during aging is crucial for securing lifespan and safety by the cost-effective and efficient design of cell ...
Nutritional Inequality and Its Socioeconomic and Environmental Determinants
(2025-08-08)
This dissertation consists of three essays that explore dietary inequality, methodological advances in measuring nutrition-related disparities, and the nutritional consequences of climate change. Collectively, these studies ...
The Power of Novelty: How Mitochondrial Diversity and Video Games Can Shape the Way We Think About Evolution
(2025-08-08)
In this dissertation, I explore questions related to mitonuclear ecology, sexual selection, the maintenance of genetic variation, and biology education. In my first two chapters, I use cybrid laboratory populations of ...
Transforming the black-box decision-making of AI models into explain-then-answer processes
(2025-08-07)
From climate's slow fever to the sun-bright flash of nuclear fire, humanity already lives beneath swords that could fall without warning. Global warming creeps toward tipping points [1] while stockpiles of fission and ...
The Officers’ Perspective of Academy Training and Transferability of Knowledge: Comparing the Effectiveness of Pedagogical to an Andragogical Method of Instruction
(2025-08-07)
Abstract
The training for law enforcement officers has a history steeped in a militaristic style method that has not evolved, even though demands have been made for the profession to evolve. There have been numerous ...
Studying Charge Transfer Phenomena in the Interface of SrCoO3 / SrIrO3 Superlattices and Sr2CoIrO6 Double Perovskites Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
(2025-08-07)
When two different transition-metal oxide thin films are stacked together, charge transfer can occur across the interface in certain cases. Interfacial charge transfer has been experimentally established as a promising ...