Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Tools and Insights for Sustainable Management of Plant Pests and Pathogens
(2022-04-25)
Minimizing crop yield losses caused by plant pathogens is one way of increasing agricultural productivity. To that end, I developed an automated classifier of digital images of soybean diseases to assist with early and ...
Developing and Optimizing Micro-resolution Mosquito Bite Blocking Textiles
(2022-04-25)
Textiles have been applied in the context of entomological applications since the primitive inventions of clothing and shelter. In many cases insects are injurious to humans. Mosquitos kill over a million people each year ...
An Approach for Designing Board Games That Promote Children’s Social Skills
(2022-04-25)
As the world becomes more and more cooperative, children’s development of social skills becomes increasingly vital to their personal growth, and most importantly, future success in adulthood. Traditionally, educators ...
A Machine Learning Approach to Transit Fraud Detection
(2022-04-25)
This research is a collection of 3 papers on the use of machine learning methods to detect and classify transit media fraud using passenger transaction data. Academically, this work is an extension of machine learning ...
The Effects of Genetic-based and Swarm Intelligence-based Feature Selection on Adversarial Author Identification
(2022-04-25)
Within the realm of author identification, where researchers work to classify writing samples by author, researchers are using more and diverse feature sets to try to improve classification accuracy. From a computational ...
Family-Centered Practice Knowledge and Use Amongst Speech-Language Pathologists: A National Survey
(2022-04-25)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the degree to which practicing speech-language pathologists (SLPs) engage in family-centered behaviors within the pediatric population. Additionally, this study aims to determine ...
Southern Progress and Southern Honor: Slavery and Jim Crow at Auburn University
(2022-04-22)
Slavery built Auburn University physically, ideologically, and monetarily. After emancipation, slavery’s impact on Auburn does not vanish, instead it transforms into the violence of the Jim Crow South. Auburn played a key ...
Investigating HCAR and FAN1 Variants as Inherited Risk Factors of Breast Cancer
(2022-04-22)
Inherited genetic risk factors in known breast cancer (BC) susceptibility genes
increase an individual’s overall lifetime risk of developing BC but explain only ~35% of
hereditary BC cases. Therefore, additional BC ...
Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Profiles in Individuals Exposed to Criterion A Traumas versus Non-Criterion A Stressors
(2022-04-22)
Variable methods for assessing trauma exposure and mixed findings on the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following traumatic and non-traumatic events have fueled debate regarding the necessity of the ...
Mercury Impact Ejecta’s Contribution to its Own Meteoroid Population
(2022-04-21)
Mercury’s position in the inner Solar System and lack of an atmosphere subjects it to the greatest mean velocity impacts of the inner Solar System. Ejecta launched at speeds less than 4.25 km/s are retained by the planet ...
Equity and inclusion underlie instructor assessment choices amid COVID-19 pandemic
(2022-04-21)
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak mandated a rapid transition to online classes with little warning. Previous literature studying the effect of this sudden shift demonstrated enormous impacts on instructors and students. ...
Neurobehavioral Effects of Neonatal Methylmercury Exposure: Impacts on Perseveration and Learning
(2022-04-20)
Neural changes occurring during the neonatal period in rodents are akin to those seen in humans during the third trimester of pregnancy. The neonatal period is a developmental period during which the monoamine systems ...
Comprehensive Methodology for the Design Configuration and Operational Control of Shuttle-based Storage and Retrieval Systems
(2022-04-20)
During recent years, Autonomous Vehicle Storage and Retrieval Systems (AVS/RS) have been widely applied in distribution centers and production sites to meet the increasing demand for rapid and flexible large-scale warehousing ...
Securing Lethal Means for Suicide: A Focus Group Study Exploring Perceptions and Barriers Among Practicing Veterinarians
(2022-04-20)
Veterinarians are at higher risk for suicide than the general population, and it has been hypothesized that this may be attributable to veterinarians’ access to and knowledge of lethal drugs, specifically pentobarbital. ...
Examination of how the use of multimedia characteristics, political partisanship and perceived organizational reputation influence perceived message effectiveness and attitudes toward the message of health organizations’ COVID-19 tweets
(2022-04-20)
Based on the social presence theory, this study aimed to examine the potential impact of using multimedia characteristics within health communication tweets in terms of perceived message effectiveness and attitudes toward ...
Coral Reefs and Climate Change: Examining Two Institutional Approaches to Managing a Novel Marine Ecosystem
(2022-04-20)
Much of Florida’s economy is tied to the third-largest barrier reef in the world, the
Florida Reef Tract. However, because of anthropogenic threats, it is not the thriving ecosystem it
once was, and its persistence ...
Biopsychosocial Mechanisms of Disease Progression in Black Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
(2022-04-20)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune condition that involves multiple organ systems and fluctuating disease activity which can lead to potentially debilitating symptoms, various morbidities, and ...
Evaluating the effects of three Alabama River dams on fish movements and population connectivity using otolith microchemistry
(2022-04-20)
Dams impede fish movement and can isolate riverine populations into defined areas. The Alabama River is divided into four major sections by three lock-and-dam structures. I used otolith microchemistry to quantify movements ...
Understanding Eating Behavior: How to improve it
(2022-04-20)
The relation between education and health has been well established in the literature, especially as it pertains to chronic diseases like obesity. But, due to data limitations, most extant research lacks a direct explanation ...
Survey of Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted by Four Ophiostomatoid Fungi
(2022-04-19)
Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is an important commercial timber species in the southeastern United States. It contributes to the growth of the economy by serving as raw material for the forest product industry in the ...