Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Assessment of exudate-triggered responses driving Fusarium solani species complex dominance in the soybean spermosphere
(2025-12-04)
The soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) spermosphere, the narrow soil zone influenced by a germinating seed, is a transient yet ecologically significant niche where early plant-microbe interactions are initiated. Fusarium has ...
Effect of Processing Methods on Quality and Sensory Attributes of Ground Beef Patties
(2025-12-03)
Ground beef accounts for a substantial share of retail beef sales and is widely recognized as the most popular beef product consumed in the United States. To meet consumer demands, the meat industry must prioritize quality ...
Multi-Genre Conventions: Who Let the Nerds Out?- A SOR Exploration
(2025-12-03)
Despite their central role in the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) framework, conventions, particularly fandom conventions, remain underexplored in academic literature. Fandom conventions alone ...
Computational modeling and design of self-stratifying colloidal materials
(2025-12-03)
Self-stratification is a self-assembly process in which two or more types of colloidal particles dispersed in a solvent spontaneously separate into layers as the solvent is removed by drying. Self-stratification can enable ...
Crop Management Strategies for Hop Production in Alabama
(2025-12-03)
This thesis investigates the impact of crop management strategies for hops, including mulching, trellis system type, and cultivar selection in Alabama. This study aims to evaluate the relationship between these treatments ...
From Small Talk to Smart Talk: Development of an AI Chatbot to Infer Intellect and Cognitive Ability
(2025-12-03)
This thesis sought to develop an AI chatbot that can infer participants’ intellect and cognitive ability scores. Cognitive ability has been a construct of interest for over 100 years, with links to many important outcomes ...
Integrating PD-1 Blockade and OX40 Agonism: A Bispecific Fusion Protein for Comparative Cancer Immunotherapy
(2025-12-03)
Canine cancers represent a major clinical challenge, often recapitulating the immunosuppressive mechanisms observed in human oncology but lacking effective immunotherapeutic strategies. To address this gap, we developed a ...
Understanding the Fundamental Influence of Wood Extractives on Wood adhesion
(2025-12-03)
Spotted gum (Corymbia citriodora) is a highly desirable Australian hardwood species, valued by the forestry industry for its fast growth, durability, strength, and attractive color, making it ideal for structural applications. ...
Evaluation of Stress and Strain in Structural Components Using LiDAR Scan Data
(2025-12-03)
Assessing structural behavior with conventional field monitoring techniques is a challenging task that can be time consuming and expensive. This is especially true when the structure being investigated is a highway bridge ...
Experimental Evaluation of Concrete Bridge Girders Flexural Strengthened with Near Surface Mounted Titanium Alloy Bars
(2025-12-03)
This research presents findings from a comprehensive study evaluating the feasibility of using Near-Surface-Mounted (NSM) Titanium Alloy Bars (TiAB) to strengthen structurally deficient reinforced concrete (RC) bridges in ...
Development of a qPCR assay to detect and quantify Paenibacillus riograndensis DH44, and the effect of drought on Peanut soil fungal diversity.
(2025-12-02)
Plant health is not only determined by the plant itself, but also by its interaction with the
surrounding microbial environment. These communities comprise various microbes, including
bacteria and fungi, that inhabit ...
Effect of Storage on the Physicochemical and Textural Quality of Pork Chops and Chicken Breast
(2025-12-02)
Meat is an essential source of amino acids and micronutrients in the human diet, and its consumption is increasing worldwide. Chicken and pork meat currently dominate the global market due to their affordability and ...
Synthesis and characterization of isocyano-based monolayers as potential dual-function electric field probes.
(2025-12-01)
Electric field catalysis is an up-and-coming subfield of chemistry. The method most tunable for a wider range of reactions is the oriented external electric field method, which relies on an external potentiostat to generate ...
Explainable Deep Learning for Assessing Terrestrial Hydroclimate Impacts on Coastal River Discharge
(2025-11-30)
Coastal river discharge plays a critical role in regulating coastal water quality, ecosystem health, and community resilience. However, understanding how terrestrial hydroclimate influences past and future discharge remains ...
Establishing context surrounding ambiguous loss and childhood trauma: How are adults with childhood trauma coping?
(2025-11-30)
Childhood trauma can contribute to the experience of ambiguous loss, which is a relational and unclear loss that can create long lasting impacts to one’s well-being. The first paper within this dissertation presents a ...
Minimizing Data Dependency through Predictive and Few-Shot Approaches
(2025-11-25)
The advancement of deep learning in complex real-world applications is fundamentally constrained by the scarcity of high-quality unlabeled data. This challenge is particularly acute in two critical domains: biomedical ...
Security and Privacy in Federated Learning with Non-IID Data: Knowledge Deception, Concealment, and Multi-Perspective Defenses
(2025-11-25)
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized data silos without direct data sharing, providing significant privacy advantages. However, its distributed nature also makes it vulnerable ...
Evaluating the potential for spatial redistribution of black bass Micropterus spp. by tournaments at Neely Henry Reservoir, Alabama
(2025-11-25)
Tournaments for black bass species (Micropterus spp.) are popular throughout the United States. At these events, fish are typically caught and moved long distances from their capture location where they are subsequently ...
The comparative evolution of developmental plasticity across Anolis lizards
(2025-11-25)
Developmental plasticity describes the sensitivity of phenotypes to early-life environmental conditions, and occurs widely across organisms and traits. Depending on the spatial and temporal environmental context, developmental ...
Multi-omic analysis of skeletal muscle in response to disuse and retraining in trained and untrained individuals
(2025-11-25)
We previously examined how resistance training status (RT) in young healthy individuals, either well-resistance trained (T) or untrained (UT), affected molecular markers with leg immobilization followed by recovery RT. ...