Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Manipulate polaritonic nano-light with environmental permittivity
(2025-08-06)
Polaritons, hybrid quasiparticles formed by coupling electromagnetic waves with dipolar excitations in materials, offer deep subwavelength confinement of light. This unique feature allows access to nanoscale optical fields ...
Investigating the growth cycles of titania and carbonaceous nano dusty plasmas
(2025-08-06)
Understanding and controlling dust formation in plasmas — especially from gaseous chemical precursors is a key technological goal, and the overarching theme of this dissertation. Solid nanoparticles (i.e. nano dust) which ...
Biochar Influences Soil Health and Nutrient Dynamics in Row Crop Production Systems
(2025-08-06)
Most soils in Alabama are Ultisols, which are characteristically highly weathered, low in organic matter, and inherently low in fertility. The introduction of biochar to these soils as a soil amendment has the potential ...
Development of a Screening Platform and Systems Biology Tools for Enhancing Integrated Biogas Valorization and Wastewater Remediation
(2025-08-06)
Anaerobic digestion (AD) ranks among the top contributors to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States. AD is a prevalent technology at wastewater treatment facilities (WWTF’s) that breaks down ...
Online Outrage: The Impact of Negative Social Media on Stakeholder Perceptions and Behaviors
(2025-08-06)
Stakeholders frequently encounter a diverse array of social media content about firms. Although existing research has examined how organizations use social media to influence stakeholders and vice versa, it has largely ...
Embedded Imaging of Internal Shock Boundary Layer Interactions
(2025-08-06)
Ramjets and scramjets continue to be a central developmental focus spurred by both offensive and defensive needs on the battlefield. The development of field-able versions of these supersonic and hypersonic air-breathing ...
Design and Analysis of a Dual Antenna Vector Tracking Software Defined Receiver for Robust Navigation and Mitigation of Spoofing Threats
(2025-08-06)
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) remain the best way to maintain a global position, velocity, and timing (PVT) solution for autonomous systems.
However, GNSS is susceptible to interference and degradation.
One ...
Rapid and Reliable Quantitative MRI of Central Nervous System (CNS) at Ultra-High Field MRI (7T)
(2025-08-06)
Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (qMRI) surpasses traditional MRI, which primarily focuses on local image contrast. It reveals specific physical parameters related to the nuclear spin of protons in water and ...
Acculturation, Body Ideals, and Disordered Eating in Latinas
(2025-08-06)
This study investigated the relationships between acculturation, enculturation, acculturative stress, generational status, body image internalization, and body dissatisfaction among Latina women in the United States. ...
Modeling in Complex Large-Scale Topologies Applied to Urban Water Systems
(2025-08-05)
The increasing frequency of extreme rainfall events and the growing reliance on underground conveyance infrastructure have heightened the need for reliable simulation tools that can capture rapid pressurization and mixed‐flow ...
Integration of Cellular and Organismal Stress Responses to Light at Night and Simulated Night Shift Work in the Diurnal Zebra Finch and Nocturnal House Mouse
(2025-08-05)
The presence and absence of light is a fundamental environmental signal leveraged across the tree of life to synchronize internal biological processes to external, predictable environmental conditions. With the rise of ...
End-to-end Framework for Pavement Crack Severity Classification
(2025-08-05)
Pavement infrastructure forms the critical foundation of supply chains in both developing and developed nations. Maintaining optimal pavement performance is essential for effective transportation networks and economic ...
Examining the Relationship Between Caregiver Acceptance and Children’s Prosocial Behavior with Multiple Dimensions of Sleep as Moderators
(2025-08-05)
This study explored how sleep might influence the relationship between caregiver acceptance and prosocial behavior in early adolescence. Using a diverse sample and objective sleep data, the study first tested whether sleep ...
Improving Dielectric and Piezoelectric Property of Flexible Composite for Energy Applications Using CNC and Related Fundamentals
(2025-08-05)
With the rapid advancement of modern electronic devices, there is a growing demand for miniaturized, high-energy-output, and flexible energy storage and generation/conversion systems. Among energy storage technologies, ...
The Importance of Special Position while Working with Algebraic-Geometry Codes
(2025-08-05)
Feng-Rao majority voting can be used to decode functionally decoded AG codes in special form by predicting syndrome values not directly produced from the received word.
So we first recast special form in terms of ...
Patterns of thermoregulatory mass evacuation in honey bees
(2025-08-05)
Honey bees are master thermoregulators, capable of maintaining nest homeostasis across fluctuating ambient temperatures. When workers must cool their nest, they use multiple thermoregulatory behaviors (e.g., fanning, ...
Shaping the Ecological Thought: Ambient Poetics in the Long Nineteenth Century
(2025-08-05)
This dissertation considers the link between long nineteenth-century literature and ecological thinking, offering ways to study our interrelation and influence with land, water, biotic life, and each other. The main authors ...
Computational Investigations of Coenzyme F430 Biosynthesis and Radical S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine Enzyme Catalysis
(2025-08-05)
This dissertation applies computational techniques to investigate two enzymatic systems: the structurally uncharacterized coenzyme F430 biosynthetic enzyme CfbCD and radical S-adenosyl-L-methionine (RS) enzymes. CfbCD is ...
Measuring Performance-based Emotional Intelligence through an AI Chatbot
(2025-08-05)
The purpose of this study was to explore the plausibility of indirectly measuring performance-based emotional intelligence (EI) through an AI chatbot. A series of structured interview questions tapping into four facets of ...
Narratives of Bisexual College Students: Impacts of Emerging Adulthood, Minority Stress, and Forming Community
(2025-08-05)
The purpose of this dissertation’s study was to understand the experiences of bisexual college students during emerging adulthood (ages 18-25 years). This study examined the interactions of bisexual students with other ...