Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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From Construction Sites to Coastal Wetlands: National Erosion and Sediment Control Synthesis and Coastal Vegetation Response to Thin Layer Placement
(2025-07-29)
Erosion and sediment control (E&SC) measures play an important role in protecting water quality and preserving ecological balance in a changing environment. Sediment from construction activities can degrade water bodies ...
The Impact of Social Media on Resilience in College Students
(2025-07-29)
This quantitative study examined the relationship between social media usage motivations and psychological resilience among college students during emerging adulthood. Using a non-experimental survey design, 198 college ...
Age and Growth of Crappies in Alabama Reservoirs and Evaluation of the Statewide Minimum-Length-Limit
(2025-07-29)
Black Crappies Pomoxis nigromaculatus and White Crappies P. annularis in Alabama are currently regulated with a 229-mm minimum length limit (MLL) and a 30 fish/person/day bag limit. With the recent increased angler use of ...
Repurposing poultry effluents for irrigation in controlled environment agriculture
(2025-07-29)
Rapid global population continues to drive increased demand for food production, placing significant pressure on water resources and nutrient availability. The poultry processing industry, which reflects this growth, ...
Problems in Computational Algebraic Geometry: Lefschetz Properties and Toric Varieties
(2025-07-29)
The first chapter gives the mathematical background needed for the subsequent chapters.
The second chapter consists of the publication [16], a joint work with Hal Schenck, in which
the we examine the influence of geometry ...
Topic wise Segmentation based Hybrid Models for Sentiment Classification on Social Media Platforms
(2025-07-29)
Sentiment analysis is a crucial task in natural language processing that enables the extraction
of meaningful insights from textual data, particularly from dynamic platforms. The
research explores the development and ...
Mesoscale particle-based simulations of flow in expansion-contraction microchannels at low Reynolds number
(2025-07-29)
Polymer flooding is an enhanced oil recovery technique that enables the extraction of significantly more oil than conventional methods. The good performance of polymer flooding is believed to stem from a phenomenon known ...
Cellular and Humoral Immune Responses to Avian Paramyxoviruses in Chickens
(2025-07-29)
The current dissertation (i) examined the effectiveness of a recombinant Newcastle disease virus (NDV) vaccine candidate, (ii) evaluated mucosal and systemic immune responses induced by NDV in chickens with maternally ...
The effect of solder alloys and surface finishes on the thermal cycling reliability of different electronic packages
(2025-07-28)
Electronic products have become essential in modern society, powering everything from communication devices to critical infrastructure. Eutectic SnPb (Tin-Lead) solder has been used in electronics since the early days due ...
Middle Aged Farmer Perspectives on Farm Stress
(2025-07-25)
This qualitative study explores how middle-aged farmers (ages 35 to 50) perceive and respond to farm stress, economic risk, and transition planning across four U.S. States: Alabama, Kansas, Montana, and North Carolina. By ...
Effect of Broiler Litter Stockpiling Methods on Nutrient Transformations and Ammonia and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
(2025-07-24)
The United States (US) is the largest producer and supplier of poultry products worldwide and produces 9.16 billion broilers annually. In the US, 41% of the broiler industry is located in the southeastern region, accounting ...
Application of a Vortex Lattice Method Solver to an Aircraft Sizing Framework
(2025-07-23)
A Vortex Lattice Method (VLM) solver is developed to estimate the aerodynamic performance of lifting surfaces, while operating within the assumptions of Potential Flow. The VLM solution is found by representing an aircraft ...
Examination of Fear Extinction in Chronic Cannabis Use, Anxiety Disorders, and their Co-occurrence
(2025-07-23)
Comorbid cannabis use and anxiety are common, but the relationship is not well understood. The main active ingredient of cannabis is Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC). Acute THC intoxication has been shown to improve between ...
Understanding the criticality of volumetric defects on the fatigue behavior of additively manufactured aluminum alloys
(2025-07-23)
This study investigates the criticality of volumetric defects on the fatigue behavior of additively manufactured (AM) Al alloys. The role of various microstructures in determining sensitivity to defects, in particular their ...
Improved Momentum-Integral Framework for Modeling Viscous and Thermal Boundary Layers
(2025-07-23)
This work advances the classical Kármán–Pohlhausen (KP) momentum-integral method by applying an improved nearfield formulation, developed by Majdalani and Xuan, to several canonical problems. This formulation resolves a ...
Towards Understanding the Influence of Surface Integrity on Mechanical Behavior of Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V
(2025-07-23)
Additively manufactured components often exhibit shorter fatigue lives in their
unmachined state compared to machined or wrought counterparts mainly due to the presence of
surface micro-notches. While post-processing ...
Undergraduate and Graduate String Instrumentalists’ Approaches to Learning New Solo Repertoire: Descriptive Case Studies of Deliberate Practice Using the Fitts and Posner Model of Skill Learning
(2025-07-23)
Practice, defined as working at something repeatedly to achieve proficiency (Merriam-Webster, n.d.), is widely recognized as a necessary component of skill acquisition. Past research has recognized the need to develop ...
Investigation of 1-Trichloromethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline (TaClo)-Induced Neurotoxicity in the Zebrafish Models (Danio rerio)
(2025-07-23)
Environmental pollutants have been linked to neurotoxicity and are proposed to contribute to neurodegenerative disorders. Trichloroethylene (TCE) has been identified as an environmental contaminant and a potential risk ...
Expanding Horizons: Mappability, Literature, and the Making of the Medieval English World
(2025-07-23)
This dissertation set out to answer two questions: (1) how late medieval English literature represents space and (2) how mappability as both a technological and conceptual affordance acts and evolves across a variety of ...
Street-by-Street: Creating Resilience through Integration and Learning
(2025-07-22)
What are the learning conditions that allow for the most effective exchanges of information between street-level bureaucrats who work in the fields of emergency management and community planning? To answer questions, this ...