Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Evolution of the Mechanical and Microstructure Properties of SAC Alloys During Thermal Cycling
(2023-04-18)
In real-time applications, solder joints are exposed to thermal and mechanical stresses. As a result, the microstructure evolves, and mechanical characteristics deteriorate, resulting in component failure. Solders have ...
Effects of Drought Stress on Floral Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) Agricultural Systems
(2023-04-18)
Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is a crop of renewed interest in modern agriculture. However, for it to be considered hemp and not marijuana, it must have a total THC concentration of no greater than 0.3%. Drought is a common ...
An Exploratory Study of Home Interior Design Features to Support Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being in the Postpartum Period
(2023-04-18)
The national maternal mortality crisis in the United States is a problem of urgent importance marked by clear disparities when examining death rates based upon race, ethnicity, and region of the country. Upon reviewing the ...
Using Preparation for Future Learning to Change Student Attitudes about Race in Undergraduate Genetics Laboratories
(2023-04-18)
Racist actions and views are complex, can be implicit or explicit, and are not necessarily
acknowledged or understood by the people who are contributing to racism in society. These
views and actions have broad impacts ...
Quantum Chemical Studies on the Catalytic Potential of Anionic Transition Metal Compounds in Methane to Methanol and Carbon Dioxide Carboxylation Reactions
(2023-04-17)
Using transition-metal (TM) catalysts in organic chemistry conversion reactions is a well-established practice due to their superior efficiency. They have been particularly useful in both methane to methanol conversion ...
Design and Instrument Characterization of the High-Energy Resolution relativistic electron Telescope (HERT) using Geant4 Simulation
(2023-04-17)
Earth’s outer radiation belt is filled with relativistic and ultrarelativistic electrons in the MeV energy range and above. These highly energetic electrons pose significant threats to avionics and humans in space, and ...
Cryptic Tolerant Species and Their Potential Effect on Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) Scores, with the Presentation of an Alternative Metric of Stream Health
(2023-04-17)
Metrics such as the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) are often used by management agencies to estimate the abstract property of stream health. These metrics are usually predicated on the belief that certain fish species are ...
Characterizing and Changing Course Elements in Undergraduate Biology Education
(2023-04-17)
I conducted a set of four studies to catalogue and examine course elements, including active learning strategies and evidence-based teaching practices, and their influence on student experiences and performance in college ...
Development of atomistic and concurrent atomistic-continuum frameworks to model shock wave propagation and phonon transmission
(2023-04-17)
In the first part of this dissertation, we develop a long-time moving window framework using Molecular Dynamics (MD) to model shock wave propagation through a one-dimensional monatomic chain. The moving window formulation ...
Is Humor the Best Medicine? Sense of Humor as a Mediator of the Relation between Dimensions of Perfectionism and Social Anxiety and Depression in College Students
(2023-04-17)
The diathesis stress model has been utilized to help clarify the association between aspects of perfectionism and psychopathology, as it emphasizes the role of poor coping skills. The current study aimed to explore the ...
The Clash of the Scientific and Official Minds and the Making of the Chernobyl Disaster
(2023-04-17)
Abstract
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant tragedy remains the world’s worst nuclear disaster in terms of ecological devastation and the loss of human life. The accident’s consequences reached far beyond the initial ...
Exploring Machine Learning Methods for Author Identification on Micro-Messages
(2023-04-17)
Author Identification, also known as Authorship Attribution, is the task of identifying an author of unknown text based on the writing style captured within a dataset of writing samples. Author Identification is used in a ...
Immediate Deflections of Simply Supported, Bonded, Class T and Class C Prestressed Concrete Beams
(2023-04-17)
Design practice for prestressed members has moved toward allowing partially prestressed members, which are allowed to crack under service loads. To define design requirements, the ACI 318 Building Code explicitly defines ...
Home is Where the Politics Are: An Exploration of Place-based Politics
(2023-04-13)
Political research has often considered identity and the role it plays in shaping a person's political ideology and party affiliation. When referencing identity, there are multiple identities that one can consider including ...
Adaptive Governance of Coral Reefs: Cases of Florida and the Caribbean
(2023-04-13)
Coral reefs are one of the most imperiled yet one of the most valuable ecosystems on the planet, providing food, medicine, and property protection to hundreds of millions of coastal people all over the world. Coral reefs ...
Biology and control of yellow and knotroot Foxtail
(2023-04-13)
Setaria pumila Roem. & Schult. (1817 and Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguelen, respectively known as yellow and knotroot foxtail, are two common species infesting turfgrass, pastures, roadsides, and some cropping systems ...
Walking-On: A Narrative Inquiry of Division II Non-Scholarship Student-Athletes’ Identity Development and Pursuit of Success
(2023-04-13)
Student-athletes have long been a population of interest to researchers regarding identity development and academic success. More specifically, researchers have looked into the identity foreclosure of student-athletes; its ...
Prevention of disease due to hypervirulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh) and a global survey of vAh in farmed fish
(2023-04-13)
This dissertation documents research focusing on hypervirulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh) regarding its geographical distribution, potential transmission among freshwater fish species, vaccine control, and probiotic control. ...
Reinforcement Learning with Reasoning for Long-horizon Robotic Tasks
(2023-04-09)
Recent developments in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehi-
cles (UGVs) have attracted intensive research interest from both academia and industrial areas.
Although Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are ...
Military Faculty Development at the Post-Graduate Level: Using the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model with Curriculum-Based Leadership
(2023-04-09)
The Department of Defense’s enduring mission is to provide combat-ready military
forces needed to defend our nation, deter war, and protect the security of the United States (DoD,
2020). Effective military training and ...