Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Where Do I Belong? – Exploring How Students of Color Perceive Sense of Belongingness and Ego-Resiliency at Predominantly White Institutions
(2025-08-07)
The landscape of higher education has witnessed a notable surge in the enrollment of racially underrepresented students, particularly individuals representing various nonwhite racial or ethnic identities. While universities ...
Evaluation and Optimization of bio based Resins in Wood Composites: Bio based Phenolic resins with bio oil replacement and bio based PMDI resins with Partial Replacement of Bio-Oil and Polyethylene Glycol 1500
(2025-08-07)
This research is organized into five chapters. The first chapter provides a theoretical overview of key concepts related to resins and wood composites, with emphasis on phenol-based and PMDI-based adhesives. The second ...
Imaging and Analysis of Geological Porous Media
(2025-08-07)
Geological carbon sequestration (GCS) is a promising technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. GCS is the process of capturing CO2 from large point-sources or directly from the atmosphere, transporting the captured CO2 ...
Dense and high degree structures in graphs with chromatic number equal to maximum degree
(2025-08-06)
It is well-known that for any graph $G$, $\chi(G)\leq \Delta(G)+1$; Brooks’ Theorem says that all graphs meeting this upper bound must contain either $K_{\Delta(G)+1}$ or be an odd cycle. The Borodin-Kostochka Conjecture, ...
HEADS-UP and Beyond: Extension-Led Interventions for Weather-Related Disaster Readiness in Vulnerable Communities in Alabama
(2025-08-06)
Rural communities in Alabama face high risks from weather-related disasters such as tornadoes and hurricanes due to poverty, substandard housing, limited access to emergency communication tools, and systemic barriers to ...
Mechanical Performance of Additively Manufactured Soft Materials for Ultrasound and Biomechanical Simulation
(2025-08-06)
Additive manufacturing has enabled the fabrication of anatomically accurate, customizable models for use in medical training and human-interactive technology development. Anatomical manikins produced through these techniques ...
Data-Driven Machine Learning Aided Fine Scale Reconstruction for Hierarchical Parameter Systems and the Geometry of Adaptive Learners
(2025-08-06)
While statistical uncertainty is observable in many real-world systems and data, its incorporation into numerical prediction and optimization algorithms presents numerous challenges in terms of accuracy, efficiency and ...
A Critical Ethnography of Preservice Teachers' Imagined Emotions and Racial Engagement
(2025-08-06)
Teacher education programs in the United States continue to be predominantly white in both faculty and student demographics, with curricular structures that often marginalize or isolate discussions of race and systemic ...
Windows and Mirrors: One Teacher's Experience Adding Multicultural Literature to a Standardized Curriculum
(2025-08-06)
As a Black teacher with seven years of experience, including two years in pre-kindergarten and five years in third grade, I have wondered why some of the students in my classroom stayed silent, even when I tried to draw ...
Intelligent Emergency Stop System for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Using Minimum Jerk Trajectories and Path Tracking Linear Quadratic Regulator
(2025-08-06)
Autonomous vehicle technology is moving towards developing systems that can function without human operators. One method of improving safety in autonomous vehicles is to include redundant sensors and systems to protect ...
Assessing the Impact of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) on Household Food Insecurity and Nutritional Outcomes of Women and Children in Nepal
(2025-08-06)
This study explores the relationship between Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) conditions and three critical public health outcomes in Nepal: household food insecurity, child malnutrition, and women’s nutritional status. ...
Developing a Micro-Credential Framework for Emerging Topics in Construction Education: A Case Study on Mass Timber Preconstruction and Construction
(2025-08-06)
The construction industry is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the emergence of innovative technologies and sustainable materials such as Mass Timber. Despite the growing demand for expertise in these ...
An Investigation of Tool Entry in Orthogonal Metal Cutting Using an Optical Quickstop Device and Machine Dynamics Methods
(2025-08-06)
The entry and steady-state phases of plate orthogonal metal cutting were examined using an improved optical quickstop device (OQSD) in an experimental design that included material, hardness, depth of cut, cutting speed, ...
A Historical Case Study of Trauma-Informed Leadership During a Natural Disaster
(2025-08-06)
This historical case study examined the trauma-informed leadership practices implemented at
Enterprise High School in Enterprise, Alabama, following the devastating EF4 tornado that struck on
March 1, 2007, which ...
Examining the Impact of Voltage Unbalance on Power Converter Harmonic Emissions
(2025-08-06)
The continuously evolving state of the power grid along with the increased integration of renewable energy sources have put an emphasis on power quality disturbances and the standards that adhere to them. There are multiple ...
Adversarial Attack Detection and Defense in Graph Alignment and Text-to-Image Generation
(2025-08-06)
Recent advances in machine learning have highlighted critical vulnerabilities in graph matching models and text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs), where adversarial attacks can significantly compromise system performance ...
International Diffusion of Privatized National Defense: A Comparative Analysis of the Privatization of War
(2025-08-06)
This dissertation examines the rapid rise of the privatization of war phenomenon from 1998 to 2022, exploring why some states have adopted military privatization policies in the last 25 years while others have not. In other ...
Minimum Weakly Saturated Graphs and Bootstrap Percolation in General Host Graphs
(2025-08-06)
Bootstrap percolation in graphs, also known as bond percolation, originates as a method to study ferromagnetism in 2D and 3D lattices, though it has more recently been used to model other more complicated networks of ...
Understanding the decision factors and decision-making styles of selecting and using over-the counter medications to treat common minor ailments among young adults
(2025-08-06)
Introduction: The prevalence of inappropriate use of over-the-counter (OTC) medication is 20-50%. Young adults are at a unique developmental and transitional life stage that makes them vulnerable to inappropriate use of ...
Effectiveness, Safety, and Cost-Effectiveness of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Leveraging Real-World Evidence
(2025-08-06)
Objective: The purpose of this doctoral dissertation project was to 1) compare the effectiveness of first-line individual immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) agents and ICI in combination with chemotherapy (ICI-Chemotherapy) ...