Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Empowering Neurodivergent Students through Extended Reality/Virtual Reality, Game-Based Learning to Increase Cybersecurity Literacy and Career Readiness
(2025-07-15)
Recent cyberattacks have caused the U.S. government to prioritize cybersecurity. A 2025 White House press release documents that the U.S. economy annually endures billions of dollars in losses to cyber-enabled fraud and ...
#TeacherQuitTok: Social Media’s Shaping of Teacher Exit Culture
(2025-07-15)
This dissertation investigates how TikTok, specifically #teacherquittok, influences teacher exit culture through multimodal narratives and the processes outlined in social influence theory. Teacher attrition has long been ...
K-12 Educators’ Comfortability and Perception of Artificial Intelligence
(2025-07-15)
The purpose of this study was to understand if a professional development course affected K-12 teachers’ comfort with AI, perceptions of AI, and access to resources. Further, the study sought to understand if there were ...
Remote sensing for adaptive management: Leveraging Landsat-based tools to support spatially explicit decision-making in Alabama’s Wildlife Management Areas
(2025-07-14)
Adaptive management emphasizes continuous improvement by learning from outcomes and adjusting strategies. It requires real-time data that static models cannot provide. To address this, we developed a land cover classification ...
Building Trust in Digital Twins Through Verification and Validation
(2025-07-14)
Digital Twin (DT) is a concept of growing interest, driven by the technological advancements related to Industry 4.0. A DT integrates innovative technologies to create a virtual model that replicates a physical system and ...
Investigating Attachment Bonds in Dogs
(2025-07-14)
As a result of living alongside humans for many centuries, dogs have developed unique social and emotional abilities that allow them to form close relationships with humans. The relationship between dogs and their human ...
Reconstructions of Aquatic Primary Producer Dynamics, Cyanobacteria Dominance and Cyanotoxin Concentrations in Subtropical Lake Ecosystems Throughout the Holocene and Late Pleistocene
(2025-07-11)
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are intensifying globally, threatening freshwater ecosystems and public health. Although modern HABs have been extensively studied in the context of anthropogenic nutrient enrichment, the long-term ...
Honors College Membership and Participation in High-Impact Practices
(2025-07-10)
This study examines the relationship between Honors College membership and participation in high-impact practices (HIPs) at a large, public research university in the southeastern United States. Grounded in theoretical ...
The Impact of Principal Data Literacy Actions on Teacher Data-Based Decision Making in High-Poverty Schools: A Convergent Mixed Method with Thematic Analysis of Alabama High Flyer Schools
(2025-07-10)
This mixed methods convergent case study explored the organizational structures, principal actions, and professional development practices that support teachers' use of data-based decision-making practices. The study filled ...
Characterization and Modeling of Temporal Illuminance (Light Intensity) in Naturally-Illuminated Broiler Houses
(2025-07-10)
Lighting plays an important role in the welfare, behavior, and productivity of broilers. This thesis investigates the influence of seasonality, sensor orientation and window configurations on light intensity in commercial ...
Impacts of Urban Agglomerations on Weather Dynamics: A Multifaceted Initiative for Better Understanding, Global Urban Monitoring, and Improved Urban-Rainfall Forecasting
(2025-07-09)
Urban areas are expanding rapidly and becoming increasingly connected, which has serious effects on the environment around them. The first objective of this dissertation evaluates this interaction by looking at how these ...
Dietary Ketones are an Emerging Strategy to Attenuate the Adverse Cardiorenal Effects of Short-Term High Salt Loading
(2025-07-09)
Background: Excessive dietary salt is a major risk factor for hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and impaired renal function. Recent studies suggest protective cardiorenal effects of exogenous ketone supplementation; however, ...
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Detailed Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder – 2nd Edition: Replication and Extension in a Trauma-Exposed Community Sample
(2025-07-08)
Trauma exposure is common and can result in a complex clinical presentation, including the manifold symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well a range of comorbid conditions such as dissociation, depression ...
Analytical Framework for Evaluating Wind Hazard Vulnerability of Light Wood-Frame Buildings
(2025-07-07)
Light wood-frame construction constitutes most of the residential building inventory in the United States. The vulnerability of wood-frame buildings to wind hazards and a wide variability in observed performance have ...
The roles of adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in determining a coastal fish's response to climate change
(2025-07-03)
When organisms experience an environmental change, they can employ a broad suite of behavioral, phenotypic, and molecular responses, mediated through either phenotypic plasticity or adaptation. These alternatives differ ...
Socio-Ecological Risk and Protective Factors, Individual Differences, and Adolescent Outcomes: A Developmental Cascade
(2025-07-02)
Adolescent alcohol use remains prevalent, and internalizing symptoms and sleep deficits have worsened for adolescents in recent years. To better understand the development of these outcomes, I tested a developmental cascade ...
Signals Crossed: Testing Different Forms of Interoceptive Dysfunction as Facilitators of Muscle Dysmorphia Symptoms
(2025-07-01)
Introduction. Interoceptive dysfunction (i.e., difficulties attending to internal sensations) may reflect a
risk factor for muscle dysmorphia (MD) symptoms. Specifically, gastric interoceptive dysfunction,
elevated pain ...
Moving from Disconnection to Connection: Understanding the experiences of South Asian International Students in the United States using a Relational Cultural Framework
(2025-06-29)
South Asian international students represent a growing yet understudied demographic in
U.S. higher education. While these students are often academically successful, they face unique
psychosocial challenges, including ...
Enhancing utilization of warm-season forages for beef cattle systems in the southeastern United States
(2025-06-27)
In the southeastern United States, grazing systems play a vital role in the nutrition and production of beef cattle. To further improve the efficiency and sustainability of these programs, it is essential to explore the ...
Volatile Organic Compounds as Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress in Childhood Obesity
(2025-06-26)
Childhood obesity is associated with increased oxidative stress and systemic inflammation, both of which contribute to the development of obesity-related comorbidities. Notably, obesity disproportionately affects certain ...