Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Effects of Maternal Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation on Neonatal Liver and Jejunum Transcriptomes and Regulatory Co-expression Networks
(2025-07-16)
Maternal nutrition throughout gestation affects fetal growth and development. The fetal adaptation to conditions in the uterine environment is called fetal programming. These adaptations lead to responsive and adaptive ...
Three essays on Corporate Finance and Insider Trading
(2025-07-16)
In chapter one, we introduce IPO Rival Insider Selling (IRIS) as a novel predictor of IPO underpricing and long-run performance. We argue that incumbent industry rivals possess private, dispersed information about upcoming ...
Graph-Based Visual-Semantic Representations for Visual-Data Understanding
(2025-07-15)
Visual event perception tasks, such as activity recognition, require reasoning over visual-semantic concepts present in scenes. These scenes often exhibit hierarchical structure, both physically (e.g., objects contained ...
Environmental Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Commercial Poultry Production: Microbiome, Resistome, Antimicrobial Residues, and Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli Dynamics
(2025-07-15)
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a major global threat to humans, animals, and the environment, often driven by overuse of antimicrobials and environmental contamination, particularly in food animal production. We focused ...
Characterization of a novel macrocyclic inhibitor of Lassa virus
(2025-07-15)
Lassa virus is a highly pathogenic virus belonging to the family Arenaviridae. It is the causative agent of Lassa hemorrhagic fever and is a significant threat to global public health. Lassa virus is endemic to West Africa ...
Leveraging intercropping system and genomics for breeding of allogamous crops towards sustainable agriculture
(2025-07-15)
As agriculture transitions toward sustainable systems, breeding must prioritize not only yield but also persistence and ecological function. This study integrates whole-genome re-sequencing (WGR) and near-infrared spectroscopy ...
Balancing the Benefits and Challenges of AI: Understanding its Impact on Employee Work Engagement and Burnout
(2025-07-15)
This thesis explored how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts work engagement and
burnout, using the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model to examine AI as both a job resource
and demand. Key AI factors included Perceived ...
Transition Stressors, Coping Orientation, and Alcohol Use in Emerging Adult College Students
(2025-07-15)
Emerging adulthood, typically defined as ages 18 to 29 years, is a developmental stage marked increased autonomy, identity exploration, and frequent role transitions. While this period offers growth and opportunities, it ...
Empowering Neurodivergent Students through Extended Reality/Virtual Reality, Game-Based Learning to Increase Cybersecurity Literacy and Career Readiness
(2025-07-15)
Recent cyberattacks have caused the U.S. government to prioritize cybersecurity. A 2025 White House press release documents that the U.S. economy annually endures billions of dollars in losses to cyber-enabled fraud and ...
#TeacherQuitTok: Social Media’s Shaping of Teacher Exit Culture
(2025-07-15)
This dissertation investigates how TikTok, specifically #teacherquittok, influences teacher exit culture through multimodal narratives and the processes outlined in social influence theory. Teacher attrition has long been ...
K-12 Educators’ Comfortability and Perception of Artificial Intelligence
(2025-07-15)
The purpose of this study was to understand if a professional development course affected K-12 teachers’ comfort with AI, perceptions of AI, and access to resources. Further, the study sought to understand if there were ...
Remote sensing for adaptive management: Leveraging Landsat-based tools to support spatially explicit decision-making in Alabama’s Wildlife Management Areas
(2025-07-14)
Adaptive management emphasizes continuous improvement by learning from outcomes and adjusting strategies. It requires real-time data that static models cannot provide. To address this, we developed a land cover classification ...
Building Trust in Digital Twins Through Verification and Validation
(2025-07-14)
Digital Twin (DT) is a concept of growing interest, driven by the technological advancements related to Industry 4.0. A DT integrates innovative technologies to create a virtual model that replicates a physical system and ...
Investigating Attachment Bonds in Dogs
(2025-07-14)
As a result of living alongside humans for many centuries, dogs have developed unique social and emotional abilities that allow them to form close relationships with humans. The relationship between dogs and their human ...
Reconstructions of Aquatic Primary Producer Dynamics, Cyanobacteria Dominance and Cyanotoxin Concentrations in Subtropical Lake Ecosystems Throughout the Holocene and Late Pleistocene
(2025-07-11)
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are intensifying globally, threatening freshwater ecosystems and public health. Although modern HABs have been extensively studied in the context of anthropogenic nutrient enrichment, the long-term ...
Honors College Membership and Participation in High-Impact Practices
(2025-07-10)
This study examines the relationship between Honors College membership and participation in high-impact practices (HIPs) at a large, public research university in the southeastern United States. Grounded in theoretical ...
The Impact of Principal Data Literacy Actions on Teacher Data-Based Decision Making in High-Poverty Schools: A Convergent Mixed Method with Thematic Analysis of Alabama High Flyer Schools
(2025-07-10)
This mixed methods convergent case study explored the organizational structures, principal actions, and professional development practices that support teachers' use of data-based decision-making practices. The study filled ...
Characterization and Modeling of Temporal Illuminance (Light Intensity) in Naturally-Illuminated Broiler Houses
(2025-07-10)
Lighting plays an important role in the welfare, behavior, and productivity of broilers. This thesis investigates the influence of seasonality, sensor orientation and window configurations on light intensity in commercial ...
Impacts of Urban Agglomerations on Weather Dynamics: A Multifaceted Initiative for Better Understanding, Global Urban Monitoring, and Improved Urban-Rainfall Forecasting
(2025-07-09)
Urban areas are expanding rapidly and becoming increasingly connected, which has serious effects on the environment around them. The first objective of this dissertation evaluates this interaction by looking at how these ...
Dietary Ketones are an Emerging Strategy to Attenuate the Adverse Cardiorenal Effects of Short-Term High Salt Loading
(2025-07-09)
Background: Excessive dietary salt is a major risk factor for hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and impaired renal function. Recent studies suggest protective cardiorenal effects of exogenous ketone supplementation; however, ...