Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Parental Protection and Guidance Related to Early Adolescents’ Stressful Peer Experiences
(2022-07-20)
Peer-related parenting has been connected to young adolescents’ social and emotional wellbeing, yet largely missing from the literature are attempts to understand how parents respond to youths’ social and emotional ...
The Influence of Social Support on Adoption of Healthy Behaviors in a Faith-based Setting
(2022-07-20)
Overweight and obesity are national epidemics affecting 42.4% of adults in the U.S.; with the southeastern region exhibiting higher obesity rates than most other regions in the U.S. (National Center for Health Statistics, ...
Influence of pulsatility and inlet velocity profiles on tracheal airflow characteristics
(2022-07-20)
Patient-specific simulation is a powerful and emerging tool for studying human airway physiological and pathological characteristics. Decision-based systems for clinicians based on the patient airflow characteristics play ...
The Effects of Cardiovascular Exercise on eSport Performance
(2022-07-20)
Video games have evolved from a juvenile recreational activity into an avenue for organized competition known as electronic sports (eSports). Cognitive research identifies visual attention, memory, and task-switching as ...
Exploiting Renewable Energy and UPS Systems with a Renewable-Aware Scheduler to Boost Energy Efficiency of Data Centers
(2022-07-20)
It is prudent to leverage on-site renewable sources like solar and wind to build environmentally
friendly and energy-efficient data centers. Data centers deploy distributed UPS
systems to handle the intermittent nature ...
A Tale of Two Occupations: A Comparative Examination of the Occupation Policies of the U.S. and the Soviet Union in Post-War Germany
(2022-07-19)
At the end of World War II, Germany lay in ruins. The Wehrmacht had inflicted horrific levels of death and destruction on numerous European countries, only to have the war end with an utterly defeated, destroyed, and ...
Discovery, expression, and characterization of biosynthetic gene clusters encoding antimicrobial secondary metabolites from a soil metagenome and cultured Actinobacteria
(2022-07-19)
Dating back to the discovery of penicillin in 1928, nature and its diverse microbial life has been the most prolific source of antimicrobial compounds. These bioactive compounds are often derived from microbial secondary ...
Burnout Among Parents of Infants: Associations with Parental Self-Care Practices, Infant Negative Emotionality, and Couple Satisfaction
(2022-07-19)
While the phenomenon of parental burnout has gained more attention in research and popular media in recent years, missing from the literature is an understanding of the associations between parental burnout and characteristics ...
The effect of concurrent and non-concurrent (delayed) administration of mepivacaine hydrochloride and triamcinolone acetonide on inflamed equine osteochondral and synovial explants in co-culture
(2022-07-19)
During equine lameness investigation, intra-articular administration of a local anesthetic followed by a corticosteroid is common for diagnosis and treatment of osteoarthritis (OA). Anecdotally, veterinarians are advised ...
MyAccessible Math: Shining Light on Math Concepts for Visually Impaired Students
(2022-07-19)
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research aims to make systems versatile, easy to use, and accessible for most people. While computer technologies have successfully remodeled and improved the learning process, students ...
A High Achieving Middle School Band at a High Poverty School in Georgia: A Case Study
(2022-07-19)
This case study examined the pedagogical and organizational practices of successful middle school band directors teaching at a high-poverty school in Georgia through the lens of Self-determination theory. Inequity within ...
Examining the Relationship Between Leadership Style and Job Satisfaction in a Contingent Fire Department Environment
(2022-07-18)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Leadership Style and Job Satisfaction in a contingent fire department environment. This was a nonexperimental research study and it utilized a convenience ...
Farmer Mental Health and Rural Stressors
(2022-07-18)
Agriculture has recently suffered from low commodity prices, natural disasters (e.g. droughts and hurricanes), and supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19. These factors influence the physical and mental health of farmers ...
“I SEE You”: A Descriptive Analysis of Shared Emotional Experiences During Mother-Infant Interaction
(2022-07-16)
Extensive research and theory recognize the bidirectional contributions of parent and infant to the quality of early relationships. During mother-infant interaction, shared emotional experiences, defined as reciprocal and ...
Experimental and numerical study of sooting tendency of IBE in a laminar diffusion flame
(2022-07-15)
Recent advancements in metabolic engineering have demonstrated that through cost-effective batch fermentation processes, isopropanol-butanol-ethanol (IBE) can be produced at sufficient quantities from switchgrass biomass. ...
(Student) Activism as a Queer Worldmaking Disruption to White Supremacy and Heteropatriarchy within and Beyond Higher Education
(2022-07-15)
The purpose of this study was to explore how queer (student) activists challenge, disrupt, and transform higher education. With queer schools of thought as the theoretical framework, I positioned (student) activism as a ...
Identification of Pesticides Using Experimental and Computational Approaches based on Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Measurements
(2022-07-14)
Mass spectrometry is known to be a powerful analytical technique due its high sensitivity, specificity, speed, and versatility. It has the capability of detecting and identifying numerous analytes in sample matrices. In ...
Molecular predictors of the hypertrophy response to resistance training in young untrained female adults
(2022-07-13)
We determined if the myofibrillar protein synthetic (MyoPS) response to a naïve resistance exercise (RE) bout, or chronic changes in satellite cell number and muscle ribosome content, varied in females that classified as ...
Nanoplasmonic Imaging for Real-time Protein Detection and Cell Secretion Mapping
(2022-07-13)
The immune system is composed of a complex network of immune cells, proteins and, chemicals as the first line of defense to protect the human body against pathogens. Monitoring the immune status through disease progression ...
From Correction to Connection: The Effect of Pet Ownership on Recidivism and Empathy in Former Inmates
(2022-07-13)
After a person is released from prison the rate at which they reoffend is known as recidivism. Previous research shows that an increase an empathy leads to a reduction of recidivism rates (Kratcoski & Kratcoski, 2017; ...