Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Sustainable Packaging Design with Influence of Japanese Philosophy
(2021-08-03)
This thesis uses the concept of emotion to analyze the sustainability of packaging. It describes the environmental impact of packaging and current strategies to address this issue. It discusses the significance of user ...
Doin’ It for the Culture: An Exploration of Critical Consciousness and Civic Engagement Within HBCU Core Curriculum
(2021-08-03)
Within the context of higher education, HBCUs are more specifically known, due to their controversial origin, for having mission and vision statements that broadly imply attending this particular institutional type will ...
UAV Obstacle Avoidance by Applying Deep Learning
(2021-08-03)
In the last decades, many algorithms in the artificial intelligence field, including machine learning, deep learning, and so on, have been implemented for not only computer vision, but also in mobile vehicles. Thus, to ...
Effects of Environmentally Relevant PFOS Concentrations on Unionid Bioaccumulation, Benthic-pelagic Coupling, and Gene Expression
(2021-08-03)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent organic chemicals that have high energy carbon and fluorine bonds that make them resistant to metabolic breakdown and degradation. These substances are emerging ...
Agency and Women’s Geographies: Tracking Spaces and Mobilities in Progressive-Era Women’s Writing
(2021-08-03)
This dissertation investigates dramatic changes in women’s geographic experience as represented in key literary texts from the Progressive Era. Focusing on the intersection between literature and material spaces in the ...
Longitudinal Effects of Juvenile Recidivism and Justice Contact on Parent-Adolescent Relationships
(2021-08-03)
Research consistently shows that parents play a significant role in the etiology and desistance of delinquent behaviors (Cottle et al., 2001; Flanagan et al., 2019; Hoeve et al., 2009). However, much research has not ...
Influence of Packaging Film and Beef Trimmings on Ground Beef Shelf-Life
(2021-08-03)
Fresh beef storage in the retail setting can be presented in a variety of packaging methods and identifying the best alternative such as vacuum packaging to current traditional methods could potentially increase shelf life ...
Density Limit Disruptions in the Compact Toroidal Hybrid Experiment
(2021-08-03)
Density limit disruptions in toroidal plasma experiments have been an active area of research for decades. Density limit disruptions are plasma terminations that occur as the plasma
density is increased. Plasma disruptions ...
The Influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Age on Individual Mental Health and Couple Functioning in Couple Relationship Education Participants
(2021-08-03)
Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, are negative events experienced throughout childhood and are consistently linked with poorer physical and mental health in adulthood. Recent literature also finds robust links between ...
Impact of overloaded vehicles on bridges
(2021-08-03)
Excessive weight and a growing number of overloaded vehicles can cause an accelerated consumption of bridge service life. Therefore, there is a need to control the operation of heavy traffic. This study considered the ...
An Approach For Designing Tech-Driven Innovative Products with a Focus On Improving Early Adoption
(2021-08-02)
A variety of emerging technologies have become an essential feature of our time. Today’s designers not only need to design products but also should serve as a bridge between these technologies and human life. Part of the ...
Evaluation of Nondestructive Testing Methods to Assess the Condition of Concrete Bridge Decks
(2021-08-02)
Bridges are critical parts of the transportation infrastructure in the United States and throughout the world. During their lifecycle, reinforced-concrete bridge decks can experience distresses and defects in the form of ...
Patients’ Preferences for Second-line Pharmacological Agents in Type 2 Diabetes
(2021-08-02)
The second-line antihyperglycemic agents (AHAs) for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) have a wide variety of treatment attributes, including treatment benefits, side effects, and various treatment processes, such as dosage ...
Comparative genomics and prediction of genome features in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum isolates to aid in the identification of virulence factors specific for cotton
(2021-08-02)
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp vasinfectum (Fov), the causal agent of Fusarium wilt of cotton (Gossypiym species), is causing a devastating decline in worldwide cotton production. Although many factors associated with pathogenicity ...
The Impact of Unusually Distressing Events on Veterinary Professionals
(2021-08-02)
Previous studies have catalogued safety hazards and frequency of workers’ compensation claims in the veterinary workplace. However, distressing events other than workplace injuries have not been collected and analyzed, and ...
Exploring the effects of six weeks of resistance training on the fecal microbiome of older adult males
(2021-08-02)
ABSTRACT
Recent advances in molecular biology have enabled researchers to study the gut
microbiome. However, only limited evidence has examined whether resistance training alters
the gut microbiome, and no studies in ...
ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN SLEEP QUALITY, THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE, AND INEFFECTIVE ARGUING AMONG COUPLES IN THERAPY
(2021-08-02)
Considering the far-reaching effects of short or poor-quality sleep on biopsychosocial functioning, little to no research has investigated the associations among sleep quality, therapeutic alliance and couple outcomes in ...
Characterization of Additively Manufactured Mechanical Metamaterials
(2021-08-02)
Designing materials that are lightweight while achieving a desirable combination of mechanical, thermal, and other physical properties is an aspiration in material science. Lattice structures are suitable aspirant to achieve ...
Efficacy of Essential Oils and Cold Plasma to Improve Food Safety of Produce, Raw Beef and Ready-to-eat Meat by
(2021-08-02)
Foodborne diseases remain problematic in the U.S., resulting in illness, financial losses, and in some circumstances, death. Food processors have used traditional methods of chemical additives and thermal processes to ...
Investigating Soybean Test Weights for Cultivar Development
(2021-08-02)
Soybean test weight is a characteristic that has recently become of interest to both plant breeders and growers. The official weight of a bushel of soybean is 60 lbs bu-1 (75.7 kg hL-1). This standard is used to convert ...