Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Effects of Assay Methodology and Standardization for Endogenous Losses of Energy on Determination and Additivity of Metabolizable and Digestible Dietary Energy for Broilers
(2022-11-16)
Efficient broiler production requires providing birds with diets with appropriate energy density. A lack of additivity of dietary energy could lead to under- or over-supplying energy to broilers. Additivity may be affected ...
How Does Engaging with On-campus Systems of Care Services Contribute Toward On-Time Graduation: Perceptions of Recent Graduate Participants and Advice to School Leaders
(2022-11-10)
For decades, schools have sought to level inequities facing students through programs focusing on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: feed them and keep them safe and they can succeed. Though traditional services including free ...
Using Design Based Research to Influence How Middle School Students Visualize Local Communities and Sense Belonging to Local Communities
(2022-11-08)
Many social studies teachers seek to serve democracy by empowering students to become transformative citizens (Banks, 2017). This goal requires teachers to meet students in their development and growth. Middle school ...
The Impact of Agriculture Education on Middle Grades Student’s Science Performance
(2022-11-07)
This study aimed to describe the impact by measuring the students’ knowledge of course
standards of agriculture education and science on middle school, grades 6-to-8 students’
performance in their academic science ...
Evaluation of Shear Tab Connections as Supplemental Energy Dissipators
(2022-11-04)
As structural engineering practice moves from life-safety to functional recovery after a significant seismic event, taking advantage of structural components to enhance the energy dissipation of a structure will be important. ...
Examining the Career Interests and Career Development of Incarcerated Youth with and without Disabilities.
(2022-11-03)
Individuals with disabilities typically have many complex factors that impact their career development process. Participants in this study (n = 87) were youth with and without disabilities, ages 14–21, who were incarcerated ...
Exploring the Minds of Emerging Adults: A Quantitative Investigation into Risky Behavior
(2022-11-02)
Emerging adulthood is a term used in the U.S. that describes the period of human development that begins in the late teens and continues through the late twenties, with a focus on the ages 18 to 25 years. Five key ...
Influence of maternal characteristics and reproductive history on fawn recruitment in female white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and Examination of phenotypic characteristics of successful mated pairs in white-tailed deer
(2022-10-21)
There still exist gaps in the literature regarding how intrinsic factors influence recruitment success and mate selectivity in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). We examined a captive population of white-tailed ...
Fabrication and Characterization of High Temperature P-channel 4H-SiC MOSFETs
(2022-10-18)
Power devices are of paramount relevance with the emergence of greener technology to utilize renewable energy sources. Conventional Si devices are reaching their performance limit due to Silicon’s physical limitation of ...
Alabama Pilot Survey for a New National Outdoor Recreation Survey Focusing on Minority Access and Views
(2022-09-19)
Since 2014, the agencies tasked with managing our outdoor recreation sites have experienced a knowledge gap caused by the discontinuation of the National Survey on Recreation and the Environment (NSRE), which was previously ...
Detecting Toxoplasma gondii in the giant African snail (Lissachatina fulica) in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi
(2022-08-26)
Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common parasitic foodborne diseases in the world and has severe negative impacts on humans and causes mortality in several wildlife species. Felids are the only definitive host of the ...
Methods of Optimal Control for Fuel Efficient Class-8 Vehicle Platoons Over Uneven Terrain
(2022-08-18)
This thesis implements an NMPC control system to facilitate fuel-optimal platooning of
class-8 vehicles over challenging terrain. Prior research has shown that Cooperative Adaptive
Cruise Control (CACC), which allows ...
Investigating E. coli Contamination in Choccolocco Creek, AL
(2022-08-16)
Pathogen loading, specifically high Escherichia coli (E. coli) concentrations, is a major cause for poor surface water quality worldwide. Many rivers and streams are used recreationally, and contamination poses a communal ...
Interactions of "Forever Chemicals" – Per and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances with Dissolved Organic Matter Extracted from Commonly Employed Soil Organic Amendments
(2022-08-15)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large group of chemicals that are highly persistent and ubiquitous in the environment. These compounds, known for their adverse effects on humans and the ecosystem, reach ...
Developing omics and cell culture resources in non-model organism for their application in elucidating complex trait evolution in natural populations.
(2022-08-15)
In the past, researchers chose models organisms to answer research questions based on their simplicity in morphology, domestication, and/or life history traits. Now, with high throughput sequencing (HTS) rapidly becoming ...
Trust and Distrust in Conversational AI Agents: The Effects of Agent Interaction Style and User Information Need
(2022-08-15)
Conversational agents (CAs) with artificial intelligence (AI) are computer programs with the ability to interpret and respond to users’ natural language and communicate with the users as humans would do with another human. ...
Exploring Geochemical Methods to Measure Arsenic-Dissolved Organic Matter Complexes and Coal Combustion Residuals in Surface Water
(2022-08-15)
Chapter 1, investigates the geochemical controls governing arsenic (As) mobility, precisely the formation of As-DOM complexes. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) reduces As mobility through equilibrium binding of As to the ...
Assessment of Breeding Soundness in White-tailed Deer in Alabama
(2022-08-12)
The deer family (Cervidae) has a nearly world-wide distribution, and deer farming has, in recent years, been gradually accepted as an economically promising industry. It is demonstrated that ungulate body size and horn/antler ...
Translating and Applying Recent Research on Military Family Life: A Preliminary Examination of the Efficacy of Mobile-Application-Based Professional Development for Military Human and Family Service Professionals
(2022-08-09)
A new mobile application (app) was developed by the Military REACH team. It delivered research-backed professional development content to practicing human and family service providers over the course of eight weeks. The ...
Assessment of Geochemical Reactivity in Geologic CO2 Utilization and Storage Systems
(2022-08-08)
Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is a consequence of increasing energy consumption. As a result, developing ways to manage excess CO2 emissions has become a vital concern to avert the exacerbating effects ...