Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Value of Talent Recruitment: Analyzing the Impact of Ethnic Campus Diversity and Social Movements in College Football Recruiting
(2023-04-27)
Many U.S. higher education institutions compete for top talent in academics, administration, and athletics. Particularly college football is a major business and marketing tool for promoting the university to current and ...
Green TEAM: Surface-Initiated Free Radical Polymerization of Tethered Electrolyte Active-Layer Membranes
(2023-04-27)
The recovery of valuable species like lithium and uranium is of growing importance as we turn toward sustainable energy sources. Nanofiltration (NF) membranes are of growing interest as potential candidates for tackling ...
Exploring Novel Influenza Vaccine Strategies in the Swine Model: Along With New Potential Come New Challenges
(2023-04-27)
Influenza A virus (IAV) is a highly contagious respiratory pathogen that constitutes a significant threat to global public and animal health. Unremitting antigenic variation of IAV strains not only results in immune evasion ...
Visual and Vocal Expression in Traditional Choirs: An Explanatory-Sequential, Mixed-Methods Design
(2023-04-27)
The purpose of this study was to examine choir director perceptions of vocal and visual
expression, determine what constitutes visual and vocal expression, and more concretely define
what vocal and visual expression are ...
In Vivo Quantitative MRI of Hemodynamics, Endothelial Function, and Metabolites
(2023-04-27)
Magnetic resonance (MR) hemodynamic imaging involves the study of vascular blood circulation. The regulation of tissue oxygenation depends directly on the regulation of blood flow. Impaired blood flow, oxygen supply, oxygen ...
Numerical approaches to investigate small bodies’ properties in their structure and surface with case studies
(2023-04-27)
Asteroids, comets, and Kuiper-belt objects (aka. Small bodies) can tell us essential information to understand their evolutionary history and advance the history of our solar system. Since the currently available data on ...
Food Spending Among Low-Income Consumers: the Effects of the SNAP Cycle and Seasonality on Purchases and Produce Incentive Use
(2023-04-27)
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food assistance benefits to low-income households. Participants in SNAP face both a cyclical and seasonal struggle when it comes to maintaining enough food ...
From Edge to Equipment: Design and Implementation of a Machine-Learning-Enabled Smart Manufacturing System
(2023-04-27)
In smart manufacturing, data management systems are built with a multi-layer architecture, in which the most significant layers are the edge and cloud layers. The edge layer, not surprisingly, renders support to data ...
The Total Fiscal Effects Index (T.F.E.I.). Building a Dependent Variable to Gauge the Long-Term Fiscal Consequences of Using Economic Discretionary Incentives Packages to Lure Businesses: The Auburn, Huntsville, Montgomery, and Mobile Cases
(2023-04-27)
Discretionary economic incentives have been a policy tool widely used by local governments to bring business to their jurisdictions to create jobs and foster economic development. However, businesses have managed to pit ...
Growth performance, survival, blood chemistry, and immune gene expression of channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) fed probiotic-supplemented diets
(2023-04-27)
The channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) farming industry is the largest and one of the oldest aquaculture industries in the United States. Despite being an established industry, production issues stemming from disease ...
Forest Inventory and Grassland Restoration Planning of Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama
(2023-04-27)
Redstone Arsenal (RSA) is the largest landholding in the Tennessee River Valley of Alabama, encompassing 36,000 acres. This region was once dominated by expansive savannas, largely dominated by oak (Quercus spp.) and pines ...
Stress in Alabama’s Education Employees: Intensity, Manifestation, Connection to Turnover Intentions, and Alleviation Techniques
(2023-04-27)
Schools across America are filled with educators who are skilled in their craft but stressed with their work, which is leading to alarming rates of burnout, turnover, and attrition. Much of the existing professional ...
Using remote sensing to detect indicator species of tidal influence along the lower Apalachicola River, Florida
(2023-04-27)
Wetlands are an important part of coastal ecosystems for the multiple services they
provide, including erosion control, water quality, and wildlife habitat. With the threat of rising
sea levels, it is important to ...
Race and the John Birch Society
(2023-04-27)
This dissertation aims to uncover why the John Birch Society, since its early beginnings, has carried the label racist when the JBS firmly maintains it never considered race. While it could be that the JBS leadership has ...
Examination and Evaluation of the Persistence of Virulent Aeromonas hydrophila, Edwardsiella ictaluri and Flavobacterium covae Within the Sediments of West Alabama Commercial Catfish Ponds
(2023-04-26)
The three most prevalent bacterial pathogens responsible for channel (Ictalurus punctatus) and hybrid [♀ channel catfish (I. punctatus) × ♂ blue catfish (I. furcatus)] catfish losses are virulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh), ...
Design, Placement, and Laboratory Evaluation of Rejuvenated Cold Recycled Pavement Mixtures
(2023-04-26)
Cold recycled (CR) pavements, the combination of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and a recycling agent (foamed or emulsified asphalt binder) at ambient temperatures, can provide a sustainable method to rehabilitate, ...
A Geospatial Approach to Preserving Location Privacy
(2023-04-26)
Sharing true locations of users has become a basic requirement for accessing Location-based
services (LBS) on a wide range of web and mobile applications. LBS require users
to provide their current location for service ...
Towards Urban Sustainability: A Framework for Understanding the Applicability of SDGs to small and medium size cites (SMSC)
(2023-04-26)
United Nations (UN) News states that understanding upcoming urbanization trends is crucial to implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This agenda consists of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) that ...
Detection of Tritrichomonas foetus in the Bull
(2023-04-26)
Bovine trichomoniasis is a venereal disease in cattle that causes severe reproductive loss and can have devastating economic impact on the cattle industry. Bovine trichomoniasis is caused by a protozoal organism that ...
Improving Semi-autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle Operator Performance via Haptics
(2023-04-26)
This thesis has not been approved for public release.