Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Effect of feeding diets with varying energy levels and conditioning temperatures on broiler performance, processing yield, and nutrient digestibility
(2024-07-24)
Pelleting is the most common thermal processing method used in the manufacturing of broiler diets. It is a process that involves the use of heat, moisture, and pressure to agglomerate smaller feed particles into pellets. ...
eTETRAS: An Extension To The Essential Tremor Rating Assessment Scale
(2024-07-23)
Essential tremor (ET) is a widespread neurological condition characterized by tremors in an individual’s limbs, significantly impacting one’s quality of life. It stands as the most prevalent type of movement disorder, often ...
Factors Contributing to the Retention of Alabama School Based Agricultural Educators
(2024-07-23)
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between career retention factors and selected demographic characteristics of school based agricultural educators within the state of Alabama. Identifying these factors ...
Interdisciplinary Interactions Between Humans and the Natural World
(2024-07-23)
Humans interact with nature in a variety of different ways. The goal of this work is to examine these interactions through three distinct disciplines: environmental psychology, geoscience education, and environmental ...
Investigating Historic and Modern Reservoir Ecology at Whole Watershed and Singular Basin Scales with Sediment Paleolimnological Techniques
(2024-07-23)
Reservoirs or dammed river systems are prevalent both around the globe and in the Southeastern United States. They provide many ecosystem services (e.g., flood mitigation, water storage, navigation, recreation) at the cost ...
Diversity and Effects of Fungicides on the Pecan Phyllosphere Microbiome, and Fungal Interactions with a Novel Yeast
(2024-07-23)
The phyllosphere microbiome is one of the largest habitats on earth, hosting any organism that can adapt to it. Phyllosphere yeasts in particular can dominate this habitat, but to this date have been chronically understudied ...
Access to Healthcare in the Black Belt Region of the USA
(2024-07-23)
Even though the United States is highly developed, it lacks a universal healthcare system, leading to unequal access and health outcomes. These gaps are noticeable in marginalized areas like the Black Belt region, where ...
Investigation into the role of bacteria biofilms in the initial attachment and colonization stages of filamentous green algae in lab bench-scale algal turf scrubbers
(2024-07-23)
The design of reactor systems to cultivate filamentous green algae for remediation of nutrients from wastewater and for biomass production has long been pursued for various wastewater applications. The role of early ...
Characterization of Test Board Design and Evaluation of High-Performance Solder Alloys Under Vibration Testing
(2024-07-23)
In the service life of electronic products, there are many applications where they experience vibration loading. However, experimental vibration durability is less investigated due to the complexity involved. Previous ...
Surviving the Storm: Labor Market Resilience in Small Businesses During the Pandemic
(2024-07-23)
This dissertation highlights the importance of social distancing policies and targeted financial interventions, such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), in influencing labor market outcomes and business survival ...
The Role of OPDA Signaling in Induced Systemic Defenses Against Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
(2024-07-22)
Plants are vulnerable to a range of biotic and abiotic stressors, which hinder their growth and reduce agricultural yield. Existing management strategies fall short, lacking durable resistant/tolerant cultivars and nontoxic, ...
Exploring Electrically Conductive Nanoparticle Additives in Greases for Electric Vehicle Applications
(2024-07-22)
Global transportation trends favor renewable alternatives, with electric vehicles (EVs) emerging as a popular choice. However, EV adoption is challenged by range anxiety and infrastructure. Optimizing tribological contacts ...
What do Resources have to do with it? A Within-Person Examination of the Interplay Between Demands, Workaholism, and Burnout
(2024-07-22)
Existing research highlights associated constructs that involve sustained effort at work,
such as job demands and workaholism, and how these can lead to negative outcomes such as
burnout. Traditionally, these associations ...
Examining the Link Between Gender Minority Stress and Relationship Instability in TGD Relationships: Testing Problem-Solving Communication as a Moderator
(2024-07-22)
The experiences of stigma and discrimination faced by the transgender and gender diverse (TGD) community are well-understood through minority stress theory (MST), which suggests that stigmatized groups encounter additional ...
Evaluation of a Novel Poultry-Derived Fertilizer
(2024-07-22)
Poultry litter, a common soil amendment, can be applied to soils as a plant nutrient source. Due to a balanced N: P ratio, applying poultry liter based on N rates may result in an overapplication of phosphorous which leads ...
Social Anxiety as a Moderator of the Association Between Autonomic Reactivity to Social Stress and Avoidant, Withdrawn, or Disengaged Responses
(2024-07-22)
Avoidant, withdrawn, and disengaged (AWD) responses orient a person away from a stressor or one’s own thoughts, emotions, or physiological responses and high levels of AWD responses are associated with negative psychosocial ...
Improving Interpretability and Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence in Natural Language and Image Understanding
(2024-07-22)
Transformer-based models, such as BERT, have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP) by setting new standards for accuracy and capability. BERT has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on many NLP tasks and ...
Seabird Mitigation and the Prevalence of Campylobacter spp. at Oyster Farms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(2024-07-22)
Off-bottom oyster farming provides surface area for seabird perching. Regulatory agencies have concerns about bacterial contamination of oysters from seabird excrement and require operational plans aimed at bird mitigation; ...
The Identification of Foramsulfuron and Sulfentrazone Resistant Goosegrass (Eleusine indica) Populations
(2024-07-22)
Eleusine indica, commonly known as goosegrass, is a C4 weed species infesting turfgrass, cropping systems, and home lawns. Goosegrass is well known for developing herbicide resistance to different herbicide families and ...
Effects of a Split-Root Hydroponic System on Salinity Tolerance of Tomatoes
(2024-07-22)
Tomatoes are the most produced greenhouse crop globally and are loved due to their nutritional and health benefits. Meanwhile, the production of saltwater fish is on the rise, with consumers willing to pay premium prices ...