Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Assessing the Scientific Basis of the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule and Microbial Quality of Water Used to Grow Produce in Alabama
(2019-03-05)
Small farms are a growing part of the fresh produce market. In Alabama, 93 percent of farms are defined as small and 2 percent of agricultural sales were from fresh produce in 2016. Only 1.3 percent of produce farms in ...
Evaluation of a Treatment Package to Teach Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to Tact Past Events
(2019-02-25)
Speaking about past events is an important part of a functional verbal repertoire. Social interactions, personal safety, and academic success may be enhanced by learning to speak about past events. Unfortunately, children ...
Time to Quit with Grit? Expanding the Academic Persistence Framework
(2019-02-21)
Examinations into the effect of motivation and ability on academic and workplace performance have been fluid in the past century. Current operationalizations have proposed grit—defined as perseverance and passion in pursuit ...
Reliability-Based Calibration of the Code for Steel Girder Bridges
(2019-02-12)
Accurate evaluation and design of bridge structures can maximize the performance-to-cost ratio, which is one of the most critical aspects in infrastructure maintenance and expansion. The author of this dissertation presents ...
Effects of Cover Crop Mixtures on Biological Indicators of Soil Health under Conservation Systems
(2019-02-04)
Soil management practices affect the health and productivity of agroecosystems. Cover crops, which are grown between periods of cash crop production, play a critical role in building healthy soil. The most obvious benefit ...
Effect of cellulose nanocrystals addition on electrospun silk fibroin composites for the valorization of sericulture production waste streams
(2019-01-23)
The accelerated development in sciences experienced during the last decades, along with the significant expansion of our knowledge about material synthesis and processing have produced relevant breakthroughs in several key ...
Constructing Meaning through Talk: A Research Study Examining the Use of Dialogic Discourse in Guided Reading to Promote Student-Centered Classroom Practices in Primary Classrooms
(2019-01-22)
Teachers have been tackling the best approaches to teaching reading comprehension for decades. The classroom teacher becomes a vital component in improving the critical thinking students must develop within academic settings. ...
Theoretical Modeling and Lateral Load Testing of Driven Steel Pile Bridge Bents
(2019-01-09)
In this thesis, multiple lateral load tests on bridge bents were modeled and performed. FB Multipier models were created for eight load tests: four load tests conducted on a bridge bent under construction in an Alabama ...
Neural Profiles of Fear and Guilt: An Investigation Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy
(2019-01-09)
Fear and guilt are emotional processes that are implicated in the development and maintenance of psychiatric disorders. While research on fear has established a consistent neural network, a corresponding ‘guilt’ network ...
Numerical assement and evaluation of a stream monidification strategy to address sediment aggradation issues at Dean Road bridge in Dale County, Alabama
(2019-01-07)
Severe aggradation in bridge structures is a serious issue since it may lead to overtopping episodes during peak flows or increased risk of serious structural damage. Aggradation processes may be caused by changes in ...
Investigating the Effects of Agricultural Education on Student Achievement among Students in Tift County High School: A Quantitative Study
(2019-01-04)
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a single Agricultural Education program on the achievement of its students. The program was the Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Career Academy housed in the ...
Ecological Investigation of a Population of Trillium pusillum at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
(2019-01-03)
Trillium pusillum is a state-imperiled spring wildflower. Much information concerning its biology remains largely unknown. Four aspects of T. pusillum biology were investigated during this study. First, edge effects on ...
Congestion control, Video streaming, Wireless networks, Deep reinforcement learning
(2019-01-03)
With the fast growth of wireless technologies, such as 4G-LTE, cognitive radio networks,
and 5G and beyond, data transportation in the wireless environment is dramatically increasing
and has taken the dominant role over ...
Methiozolin Effects on Annual Bluegrass Control at Various Seasonal Timings and Creeping Bentgrass Injury in Shade
(2019-01-03)
Methiozolin is a new herbicide with efficacy against annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.; ABG) and is being investigated as a selective herbicide in creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.; CBG) golf course greens, tees and ...
A Descriptive Study of Dual Enrollment in Alabama
(2018-12-19)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of the Dual Enrollment Program in the State of Alabama. Dual enrollment programs allow high school students to enroll in college courses for college credit prior to ...
Examining Impacts of Cumulative Risk on Military-Connected Youth and the Role of Coping
(2018-12-19)
Youth in military families are confronted with stressors that are normative (e.g., racial or ethnic minority status, non-married family structure, social isolation) and stressors that are context-specific and emerge in ...
Fabric Structure Strength and Structural Integrity of Large Area Maintenance Shelters (LAMS)
(2018-12-19)
Large Area Maintenance Shelters (LAMSs) are deployed worldwide by the United States Air Force. The U.S. Air Force uses LAMSs as storage facilities and hangars for vehicles and aircrafts alike. The inherent low weight and ...
Streamflow Signature Analysis of Long-Term Effects of Urbanization on Hydrologic Alteration in the Southeastern United States
(2018-12-19)
Urbanization in the southeastern United States has risen exponentially over the past few decades. This increase causes runoff to have a greater surface flow, a smaller interflow, and sometimes a reduced baseflow by changing ...
Finding Fault in Dyer County, Tennessee: Exploring the Relationships of Earthquake-Induced Liquefaction Features to Subsurface Faults
(2018-12-17)
The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) is located within the northern Mississippi Embayment, a northeast-striking graben that formed as a part of a failed rift system and later filled with sediments. Although this intracontinental ...
Finding High Achievement in the Alabama Black-Belt
(2018-12-15)
The history of the United States is steeped with evidence of educational inequities based on race. From the time of slavery, a time in which slaves were forbade to learn to read, to the most recent education legislations, ...