Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Systematics of the Riffle Dace with Special Emphasis on the Blacknose Daces (Leuciscidae: Rhinichthys)
(2025-04-28)
The freshwater fish genus Rhinichthys (Agassiz 1849) has a complex taxonomic history and extensive geographic distribution across North America. In this dissertation, I used multiple molecular and morphological approaches ...
Quantifying the Impact of Porosity on Mode I Fracture Behavior in Advanced Composite Materials
(2025-04-28)
Advanced composite material applications are rapidly proliferating within the aerospace industry, but challenges remain to their more widespread adoption due to the influence of process-induced defects. The complex ...
Fundamental o Fútil? Relations Between Multiple Dimensions of Familism and Adolescent Sleep in a Hispanic Sample
(2025-04-28)
The cultural value of familism describes prioritizing family over the individual. Evidence supports relations between familism and health behaviors like sleep; thus, this study explores associations of parent and adolescent ...
A Quantitative Survey of Secondary Instrumental Music Educators' Perceptions of Undergraduate Preparation to Teach in Disparate Locales
(2025-04-28)
Every community in the United States is different, from the smallest town to the largest city, and each locale offers unique rewards and challenges for instrumental music educators. However, novice instrumental music ...
High-Throughput Experiments and Reliability Assessment of 3-D Printed Bistable Mechanical Metamaterials connected in series
(2025-04-28)
Bistable mechanical metamaterials, structures with two mechanically stable states, offer promising potential for deployable, energy-efficient, and adaptive systems in aerospace, robotics, and biomedical engineering. However, ...
The Role of Nerve Growth Factor in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
(2025-04-28)
Obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are characterized by increased levels of circulating fatty acids, resulting in metabolic abnormalities in the heart. Emerging data has demonstrated that cardiac dysfunction, ...
Data Driven Approaches for Nonlinear System Identification and Control of Hardware in the Loop Systems
(2025-04-25)
System identification can play in important role in the engineering design process. Generating a high-fidelity model of a system can lead to improved performance and reduced costs. There are many ways to create these models ...
OPTIMIZING WARM WATER AQUACULTURE: DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS, AND TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON GROWTH, HEALTH AND MICROBIOME
(2025-04-25)
With the rise of the global population, the increasing food demand has led to the intensification of farmed aquatic animal production. These intensified practices require substantial resources, including specialized feed ...
Examining sleep extension as a feasible strategy for improving cardiometabolic health in emerging adults with habitual short sleep
(2025-04-24)
The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the feasibility and efficacy of a two-week sleep extension intervention (increasing time in bed for 1 hour/night) to improve metrics of cardiometabolic health in emerging ...
Using Isotopes to Understand the Movement Patterns and Diet of Albatross and Pterosaurs
(2025-04-24)
Isotopes are useful tools for elucidating ecological unknowns in modern and prehistoric organisms. Two of the organisms that have lacked the application of 87Sr/86Sr methodologies to understand their movement patterns are ...
Screening Rhizobacteria for Control of Fall Armyworm in Turfgrass
(2025-04-24)
Fall Armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), is regarded as one of the most devastating noctuid pests in America. FAW larvae are especially detrimental to turfgrass, as foliar feeding results in an array of ...
Masking corporatas with communitas rhetoric: How the National Football League influences fans through their public messages
(2025-04-24)
This study examines the National Football League's (NFL) complex communication strategies, focusing on how teams navigate the tension between two opposing rhetorical frameworks: corporatas and communitas. Corporatas, ...
Project-Based Learning, Transdisciplinary Literacy, Equity Lens - A Mixed Method Study Facilitated to Examine Teacher Identities and Student Impact
(2025-04-24)
The study reported a mixed-methods research of transdisciplinary literacy (TDL) within a kindergarten through 3rd-grade project-based learning (PBL) unit design. This study has important implications as it analyzed how ...
Forest Structure, Composition, Basal Growth, Hydrology, and Salinity in the Lower Mobile-Tensaw Delta
(2025-04-24)
Coastal wetlands, particularly tidal freshwater forested wetlands (TFFWs), are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to climate change. They face direct impacts from global sea level rise and extreme weather events, compounded ...
Utilization of Egg Quality Biomarkers and Probiotics for the Improvement of Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Larviculture
(2025-04-24)
Shellfish aquaculture is a growing industry in the U.S., with the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) being one of the most economically important cultured species. However, seed supply is a limitation to the expansion ...
On the overarm throw: Evaluating technique with a novel metric for performance.
(2025-04-23)
Throwing is a highly complex movement pattern. Being refined over millennia (Lombardo & Deaner, 2018a), the body of research surrounding the throwing motion is extensive. However, a predominant focus on baseball pitching ...
Hormonal regulation for the prevention of cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s disease
(2025-04-23)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, with its two pathological hallmarks being the abnormal accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) and the hyperphosphorylation of tau, leading to neuronal degradation. ...
Advancing Secondary Mathematics Co-Teachers’ Culturally Sustaining and Collaborative Teaching Practices to Support Linguistically Diverse Students
(2025-04-23)
Research on teacher learning in collaborative partnerships, job-embedded professional learning for teachers, and language diversity in secondary mathematics classrooms is limited (Barwell et al., 2017; Giles & Yazan, 2020). ...
Leveraging SRAM for Counterfeit Detection and Secure 3DIC Integration
(2025-04-23)
Within the evolving domain of electronics security and counterfeit detection, researchers have historically placed a strong emphasis on techniques rooted in the analysis and recovery of non-volatile memory elements. These ...
Branched Amphiphilic Peptides Capsules for RNA Delivery: Design, Synthesis, and Optimization
(2025-04-23)
RNA is a versatile biomolecule with diverse therapeutic applications for vaccine development, cellular engineering, and other areas of biomedicine. Alone, however, RNA has little therapeutic potential, being readily degraded ...