Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Integration of Cellular and Organismal Stress Responses to Light at Night and Simulated Night Shift Work in the Diurnal Zebra Finch and Nocturnal House Mouse
(2025-08-05)
The presence and absence of light is a fundamental environmental signal leveraged across the tree of life to synchronize internal biological processes to external, predictable environmental conditions. With the rise of ...
End-to-end Framework for Pavement Crack Severity Classification
(2025-08-05)
Pavement infrastructure forms the critical foundation of supply chains in both developing and developed nations. Maintaining optimal pavement performance is essential for effective transportation networks and economic ...
Examining the Relationship Between Caregiver Acceptance and Children’s Prosocial Behavior with Multiple Dimensions of Sleep as Moderators
(2025-08-05)
This study explored how sleep might influence the relationship between caregiver acceptance and prosocial behavior in early adolescence. Using a diverse sample and objective sleep data, the study first tested whether sleep ...
Improving Dielectric and Piezoelectric Property of Flexible Composite for Energy Applications Using CNC and Related Fundamentals
(2025-08-05)
With the rapid advancement of modern electronic devices, there is a growing demand for miniaturized, high-energy-output, and flexible energy storage and generation/conversion systems. Among energy storage technologies, ...
The Importance of Special Position while Working with Algebraic-Geometry Codes
(2025-08-05)
Feng-Rao majority voting can be used to decode functionally decoded AG codes in special form by predicting syndrome values not directly produced from the received word.
So we first recast special form in terms of ...
Patterns of thermoregulatory mass evacuation in honey bees
(2025-08-05)
Honey bees are master thermoregulators, capable of maintaining nest homeostasis across fluctuating ambient temperatures. When workers must cool their nest, they use multiple thermoregulatory behaviors (e.g., fanning, ...
Shaping the Ecological Thought: Ambient Poetics in the Long Nineteenth Century
(2025-08-05)
This dissertation considers the link between long nineteenth-century literature and ecological thinking, offering ways to study our interrelation and influence with land, water, biotic life, and each other. The main authors ...
Computational Investigations of Coenzyme F430 Biosynthesis and Radical S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine Enzyme Catalysis
(2025-08-05)
This dissertation applies computational techniques to investigate two enzymatic systems: the structurally uncharacterized coenzyme F430 biosynthetic enzyme CfbCD and radical S-adenosyl-L-methionine (RS) enzymes. CfbCD is ...
Measuring Performance-based Emotional Intelligence through an AI Chatbot
(2025-08-05)
The purpose of this study was to explore the plausibility of indirectly measuring performance-based emotional intelligence (EI) through an AI chatbot. A series of structured interview questions tapping into four facets of ...
Narratives of Bisexual College Students: Impacts of Emerging Adulthood, Minority Stress, and Forming Community
(2025-08-05)
The purpose of this dissertation’s study was to understand the experiences of bisexual college students during emerging adulthood (ages 18-25 years). This study examined the interactions of bisexual students with other ...
Development and Application of a Coastal Community Flood Resilience Planning Toolkit
(2025-08-05)
Resilience of communities against natural hazards has always been a concern of planners and engineers, but the 21st century has seen a sharp increase in the exposure of our built environment to increasing frequency and ...
Latent Profile Analysis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Replication and Extension
(2025-08-05)
The distinction between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD (CPTSD), and borderline personality disorder (BPD) remains a subject of scientific debate, particularly in trauma-exposed populations where symptom ...
“Racism is Not Getting Worse, It’s Getting Reposted”: Exploring the Biopsychosocial Impact of Online Vicarious Racism
(2025-08-05)
Online vicarious racism, or indirect exposure to racially traumatic content via digital platforms, has become an increasingly salient contributor to racial stress and health disparities among Black Americans. The conceptual ...
The Role of Insulin Signaling in Sexual Dimorphism of Reproductive Senescence
(2025-08-05)
Reproductive senescence is an important part of the aging process in animals, including in Drosophila melanogaster. Hormone signaling pathways such as insulin and insulin-like growth factor-like signaling (IIS) have ...
Characterization of Fecal Gut Microbial Composition and Function in a State of Physical Activity and Excess Energy Intake
(2025-08-05)
Despite public health initiatives at the global, national, and state levels, the prevalence of obesity continues to grow. Alterations in gut microbial composition have been observed in individuals with obesity. Changes in ...
Place-based Policies and Food Access
(2025-08-05)
Significant and persistent disparities in health and economic mobility highlight
the potential role of an individual’s neighborhood environment. The neighborhood
food environment, the mix of restaurant and retail food ...
Experimental Characterization and Predictive Modeling of 100% Silicon Nanowire Anode Pouch Cells
(2025-08-05)
The need for next-generation energy storage technologies has made silicon a leading prospect for next-generation anode materials in lithium-ion batteries, due to its theoretical capacity nearly ten times that of conventional ...
Online Learning Engagement, Resistance, and Motivation: Scottish Rite Members and the Master Craftsman Online College and Leadership Academy
(2025-08-05)
This study examined how engagement, resistance, and motivation mediate the relationships between educational attainment, age, and course completion within the Master Craftsman Online College and Leadership Academy (MCOC), ...
Migration Energetics and Mitochondria: Modulation and Underpinning of Seasonal Flexibility in Mitochondrial Respiration in Migratory and Non-migratory Species
(2025-08-05)
The migratory phenotype consists of a suite of adaptations to support short- and long-distance movements. Numerous species make annual movements to and from more northern latitudes, taking advantage of the longer daylight ...
Autonomy, Guidance, and Control Strategies for Safe Operation of Aerospace Vehicles
(2025-08-05)
This dissertation is structured around three core research problems, each addressing a fundamental challenge in enabling safer operation of aerospace vehicles. While the primary motivation stems from the growing use of ...