Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Navigating (In)security and Belonging: Refugee Experiences in Ferrara
(2025-04-03)
This dissertation explores the dynamics between refugees and cities through three papers that examine refugees’ precarious journey toward establishing a home and the challenges of accountability within the refugee reception ...
The Rise Above: Exploring LGBTQIA+ Students’ Journey Through a Challenging Campus Environment
(2025-04-03)
This study explores the lived experiences of members of the LGBTQIA+ community who were not only able to successfully navigate an institution that had a chilly climate but overcome the barriers and obstacles to graduate. ...
Natural competence and host adaptation in plant pathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa
(2025-04-03)
The plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa is a Gram-negative, fastidious, xylem-limited, vector-
transmitted bacterium, causing severe diseases on numerous economically important plants
including grapes, citrus, coffee, olive ...
From Producer to Consumer: Sustainability in the U.S. Beef Industry
(2025-04-03)
Sustainability in the livestock industry has been a significant focus in recent years, specifically in areas of environmental impact and animal welfare. Research into consumer perceptions of food systems is important so ...
Three Essays on Development Microeconomics
(2025-03-31)
In the first chapter, I investigate the impact of faster Internet access on research production in African universities, resulting from the staggered rollout of submarine cables to 12 coastal African countries in the late ...
Impact of hope, humor, and self-stigma on flourishing and acceptance in adults who stutter
(2025-03-21)
This study’s purpose was to understand how humor is used as a coping strategy for people who stutter (PWS) and how humor contributes to an individual who stutters’ (IWS) overall quality of life. Five factors were examined ...
Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Rabies in Alabama: Insights from Historical Trends, Oral Rabies Vaccine Bait Fate, and Spatial Epizootiology
(2025-03-19)
Rabies epizootiology and management in Alabama have evolved significantly over the past two centuries, yet the influence of long-term ecological and historical factors on the effectiveness of oral rabies vaccine (ORV) ...
Gerrymandering: The Impact of Redistricting on State Legislative Election Voter Participation
(2025-03-10)
State legislative elections are increasingly shaped by two factors influencing the prospects of winning a majority: the redistricting cycle and partisan tide elections (Makse 2014). Winning control of the redistricting ...
Hydrogel Products from Food Waste
(2025-02-28)
Dietary fiber provides organisms with key nutrients and allows for transport of small molecules and metabolic products. As an inspiration to design materials, dietary fiber is biocompatible, sustainable, and positively ...
A Preliminary Study on Enzyme Adhesion/Encapsulation within Janus Liposomes
(2025-02-17)
This thesis describes a research effort of encapsulating water-soluble enzymes within Janus liposomes, with aims to enhance the latter’s motion ability as micromotors. Janus particles have been of interest to the development ...
Sound Analysis with Dynamic Impacts
(2025-01-27)
The impact analysis helps identify potential issues or provides a professional diagnosis, treatment, and management strategies. The first part of the research explored the interaction between spheres (tennis ball, ping-pong ...
Empowering Designers in a Circular Approach to Organic Waste Management: Sustainability for Food Retail Sectors
(2025-01-24)
In the United States, approximately 120 billion pounds of food are wasted per year, which equates to about 40% of all total food produced (Recycle Track Systems, 2023). When considering the impacts of the current business ...
Reliability Investigation of Power Sources and Additively Printed Electronics for Flexible and Miniaturized Form Factors
(2025-01-15)
Over the past three decades, consumer electronics demand has surged, with products like smartphones, laptops, smartwatches, and VR headsets becoming widespread. These devices have evolved to become sleeker and more powerful. ...
Evaluation of Methods to Predict and Measure Out-of-plane Bending and Shear Stiffnesses in Cross-Laminated Timber Panels
(2025-01-14)
Cross-laminated timber is an innovative mass timber construction material that takes advantage of many of the strengths that timber provides while also helping to address many of timber's limitations. Most of the current ...
Interfacial Damage Mechanics and Reliability at Multiple Electronic Interfaces under Harsh Environments
(2025-01-13)
Advanced electronic assemblies are expected to perform with greater reliability in mission-critical applications under harsh environmental conditions, including high G-shock loads (up to 25,000 g), thermo-mechanical stresses, ...
Harmony in Horticulture: Rethinking State Preemption on Pesticide Regulation
(2025-01-13)
This three-paper dissertation investigates the adoption of state pesticide preemption policies in all 50 U.S. states from 1989 to 2016. Utilizing internal determinants, external factors (policy diffusion), and conventional ...
` Applying System Engineering Paradigms to Develop a Robust Finite Element Analysis Model of a 12U CubeSat
(2024-12-17)
Compelled by the prospect of working in the exciting and revamped space industry,
students join CubeSat projects to gain the skills and experience necessary to become competitive
in the industry’s job market. The ultimate ...
Self-Directed Learning in the GED Classroom: Barriers and Retention
(2024-12-17)
Adult education often serves older individuals seeking continued intellectual engagement beyond traditional educational settings. Defined by Houle (1972) as a process whereby individuals seek personal or societal improvement ...
Description of zoonotic blood-borne pathogens of domestic animals in Cairo, Egypt in a One Health framework
(2024-12-17)
Zoonotic, ectoparasite-vectored blood pathogens are crossing the human-animal interface in many countries in North Africa and the Middle East. This dissertation performed a meta-analysis of Dirofilaria spp. in 21 countries ...
Chemical Process Design Approaches Leveraging Process Modularization, Intensification, and Large Language Models
(2024-12-17)
This dissertation investigates critical aspects of chemical engineering, including reactor intensification, process expansion, distributed natural gas desulfurization, and large language models. The key findings of this ...