Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Exploring U.S. Consumer Insights on Poultry Welfare and Labeling
(2025-04-22)
The poultry industry has experienced significant growth, leading to increased scrutiny of poultry welfare and labeling practices. This study aims to assess consumer perceptions of broiler stunning methods which are directly ...
Enhancing Water Resilience in Haiti: Understanding Extreme Events and Urbanization Effects.
(2025-04-22)
Water supply, management, and associated risks are constant concerns for the Haitian population. The country faces severe issues such as waterborne diseases, cyclones, floods, landslides, and droughts every year. These ...
Evaluation of broiler chicken strain and diet on growth performance, carcass yield, Wooden Breast incidence, severity, and Pectoralis major compression properties
(2025-04-22)
Broiler production has advanced significantly, increasing global output by 68% from 1992 to 2022 through improved genetics, nutrition, and management practices. However, rapid growth and higher breast yields have also ...
Early Childhood Bedtime Routines and Adolescent Objective Sleep: Facilitators, Barriers, and Mechanisms
(2025-04-22)
Improving sleep is a public health need, given the implications poor sleep has for the health of children and the wide disparities in sleep based on race and economic class (Hale et al., 2020). Consistent bedtime routines ...
A Landscape Scale Analysis of Vegetation Change within the Blast Zone of the 1980 Mount St. Helens Volcanic Eruption through 2024
(2025-04-22)
The Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 resulted in a catastrophic loss of vegetated land within the Pacific Northwest. This study focused on the vegetation throughout the blast zone with a particular interest in comparing ...
Enhancing Construction Stormwater Management Nationwide: A Focus on Design Innovations and Training Programs
(2025-04-22)
A study of enhancing construction stormwater management was conducted through the completion of two distinct projects. One project focused on improving technology transfer methods through providing stormwater education and ...
Resisting Resistance: Development of Nanoparticle-mediated Delivery Systems to Explore RNA Interference as a Solution to Biological Resistance
(2025-04-22)
Biological resistance to conventional pesticides and antifungals presents a significant challenge in agriculture and healthcare, necessitating the development of alternative control strategies. RNA interference (RNAi) ...
Experimental Behavior of Skewed Cast-in-Place Concrete Box Culverts
(2025-04-22)
Cast-in-place reinforced concrete box culverts are widely used for roadway drainage and are the most common type of bridge in many states. The current culvert design methodology is performed in accordance with the AASHTO ...
Configuration Changes in Kubernetes Configuration Scripts
(2025-04-22)
Kubernetes has emerged as the dominant container orchestration platform, widely adopted for managing cloud-native applications. However, its dynamic configuration introduces complexities that can lead to security ...
Investigation of soy-based protein sources for largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans) fingerlings on growth performance, health status, and disease susceptibility
(2025-04-22)
The aquaculture industry faces many concerns as we push to increase production to meet human food demands. This has contributed to an exponential rise in price and demand for marine protein and oil sources. Formulated feed ...
Assessing the Transfer of Learning: A Qualitative Case Study on the Acceptance of Knowledge from a Military Faculty Development Center
(2025-04-21)
This qualitative case study explored training transfer among Military Instructors at the Marine Corps Faculty Development School, emphasizing training acceptance versus knowledge acquisition through a constructivist lens. ...
Rural Health Perspectives: Knowledge and Accessibility of Speech-Language Pathology in Alabama
(2025-04-21)
This study aims to evaluate the level of knowledge about speech-language pathology and communication disorders in rural and urban counties in the state of Alabama, in addition to accessibility of Speech-Language Pathology ...
A Petrographic and Geochemical Characterization of Magnetite Ore at the Island Queen Skarn, Puerto Rico
(2025-04-21)
Skarns classically form as the result of a multi-stage process including magmatic intrusion, alteration of carbonate-rich host rock, metasomatism, and later introduction of meteoric fluids. These processes transfer and ...
Assessing Spoilage Risks in Raw Chicken Breast: A Convergence Approach Using Microbiological Analysis, Volatile Profiling, Metagenomics, and Data Analytics for Microbial Growth and Shelf-Life Prediction
(2025-04-21)
Disruptions in the cold chain at various stages, from poultry processing to storage, distribution, and retail, can significantly impact the shelf life and quality of raw chicken, particularly during less-than-truckload ...
Parental Effects and Commercial-Scale Sperm Cryopreservation Techniques for Blue Catfish
(2025-04-21)
Catfish are an important U.S. aquaculture species, with the channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) female by blue catfish (I. furcatus) male hybrid constituting most of the harvest. Hatchery issues persist with male blue ...
Applications of charcoal morphometry and morphology during the Cretaceous Period
(2025-04-21)
Wildfire regimes are intensifying globally due to anthropogenic climate change, necessitating improved methods for reconstructing past fire activity to inform future mitigation strategies. The Cretaceous period, particularly ...
Understanding Execution Faults in Ansible-based Configuration Management
(2025-04-21)
Ansible is a popular tool for implementing the practice of infrastructure as code. While usage of the tool yields benefits for practitioners, faulty execution of Ansible configuration scripts can cause serious consequences, ...
The Memorialization of Emma Tenayuca: A Labor Activist’s Imprint on San Antonio, Texas
(2025-04-21)
This thesis examines how public opinions pertaining to Emma Tenayuca changed throughout her life, starting with the Pecan Strike in San Antonio, Texas in 1938 until her death in July of 1999. It argues that public records ...
Using Her Words: Marriage in Twentieth Century Advice Columns
(2025-04-21)
This thesis examines the evolution of popular perceptions of marriage in the United States during the mid twentieth century through advice columns. It argues that the point at which a marriage was considered salvageable ...
Nitric Oxide in Exercise Physiology
(2025-04-21)
Nitric oxide is an endogenous reactive nitrogen species found throughout the human body. Its role in human physiology at rest and during exercise has proven to be essential in maintaining human health and enhancing exercise ...