Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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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 ...
DNA barcoding of medically important mosquitoes and molecular detection of Rickettsia felis in the mosquitoes and the blood of domestic dogs and cats
(2021-08-02)
Rickettsia felis, an obligate intracellular bacterium, is the causative agent of human flea-borne spotted fever. The recent surge of reports of this disease has raised the concern of a near-future outbreak as the list of ...
Using Sediments to Identify Drivers of Cyanobacteria, Cyanotoxins, and Eutrophication in the Shallow, Subtropical Lakes of Florida, USA
(2021-08-02)
Nutrient eutrophication and cyanobacteria dominance has increased in lake systems throughout the world over the last two decades, with growing concerns over decreases in ecosystem services and the toxins that some cyanobacteria ...
Innovative Multi-Channel Shopping Experience Design Guidelines for a Society That is Aging
(2021-08-02)
The emergence of economic globalization has brought many opportunities and challenges to the retail industry. The improvement of people’s living standards has increased enormous demands toward consumption. To draw the ...
Attachment Anxiety as a Moderator for the Relationship Between Maternal Influence and Body Image Dissatisfaction Among Women
(2021-08-02)
Body image dissatisfaction (BID) is a significant concern for women in the United States. The current study (N=244) builds on previous BID research by exploring maternal appearance-focused influence in terms of modeling ...
The Association Between Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction: Mediated by Perceptions of Relational Power
(2021-07-30)
The goal of the current study was to determine the influence of equitable power balance on relationship satisfaction for couples in therapy. The Relational Theory of Power emphasizes that power is held within one’s standing ...
Numerical Modeling of Liquefaction-induced Settlement due to Reconsolidation
(2021-07-30)
Soil liquefaction poses a major threat to human life and property. Settlement following liquefaction has been one of the major sources of liquefaction-induced damage in past earthquakes and creating resilient infrastructure ...
Design and Analysis of Acoustic Metamaterials in Order to Isolate Microelectromechanical Systems Devices from High Frequency Acoustic Noise
(2021-07-30)
The effects of high frequency acoustic noise can be rather damaging to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) devices. The use of MEMS devices is widespread; therefore, some operational environments for MEMS devices can ...
Cardiac Output Measurements with UDCO and ECHO under general anesthesia during normotension, hypotension and hypertension in adult alpacas
(2021-07-30)
Cardiac output (CO) is defined as the quantity of blood pumped into the aorta each minute by the heart. Measurement of CO is considered an important tool to determine oxygen deliver to the tissues. Currently, there are ...
Equine Gait Analysis, Body Part Tracking using DeepLabCut and Mask R-CNN and Biomechanical Parameter Extraction
(2021-07-30)
Gait analysis plays a pivotal role in quantitatively defining equine biomechanical parameters for lameness detection and performance evaluation. Currently, equine gait analysis requires attaching markers or IMU sensors to ...
Using Image Schemas for Supporting the Development of the Metaphors in Product Design
(2021-07-30)
Metaphor is a powerful device, especially when it is realized the conceptual metaphor is at the core of human’s cognitions. Design is a domain filled with creativity and communication, which could use metaphor in many ways. ...
Designing cooperative and shared living for households that include both people with and without visual impairments
(2021-07-30)
From the 20st century, organizations have been established for helping people with visual impairments. However, people with sight who are living with people who are visually impaired haven’t gotten much attention and ...
Job Performance and Self-Efficacy of Final Assembly Workers in Southeastern Automobile Manufacturing Facilities
(2021-07-29)
This study investigated the relationships between final assembly workers’ job performance and self-efficacy as assessed by self-reported job performance and general self-efficacy instruments. Study participants were selected ...
Motivation, Stress, and Satisfaction of Graduate Students: A Comparative Study of Student Parents and Non-Parents
(2021-07-29)
This study investigated the motivational orientation, perceived stress, and general satisfaction of student parents (i.e., students who have dependent children) and non-parents (i.e., students who do not have dependent ...
Global existence, persistence, spreading speeds, and forced waves in chemotaxis models
(2021-07-29)
Chemotaxis models are widely used to describe the movements of biological species or living organisms in response to certain chemicals in their environments. This dissertation is devoted to the study of various dynamical ...
Developing, Evaluating, and Comparing Multiple Parcel Delivery Networks Using Agent-Based Simulation
(2021-07-29)
This dissertation focuses on assessing and developing multi-tier hub-and-spoke parcel delivery networks. The multi-tier concept has been developed to enhance network performance by reducing delivery time and operational ...
Paleoseismic Investigation of the Relationship of Earthquake-Induced Liquefaction Deposits to Deformation at a Site in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
(2021-07-28)
Geophysical, geologic, and soil surveys were conducted at a site in the New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ) to explore the relationship of fluvial sedimentary deposits to earthquake-induced liquefaction features, such as sand ...
Utilizing Hidden Markov Models to Classify Maneuvers and Improve Estimates of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle During High Dynamic Flight
(2021-07-28)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an increasing presence around the world; however, they can pose a threat to secure facilities. Many UAV mitigation techniques require accurate knowledge of UAV states to successfully ...