Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Teacher Absenteeism and Student Reading Growth and Achievement
(2021-07-19)
This study aims to explore the association between teacher absenteeism and student achievement. Specificially, this study aims to determine if an association exists between teacher absenteeism and elementary student reading ...
Multiple Investigations into Gaming and Psychosocial Functioning in a Community Sample of Adult Gamers
(2021-07-19)
As one of the world’s most popular pastimes, video games have been a focus of study for several decades. Yet, there are still necessary areas of investigation, particularly those informed by human developmental perspectives ...
Understanding and Improving Computer Vision and Spatiotemporal Deep Neural Networks
(2021-07-19)
Deep neural networks are increasingly being used to solve a wide range of machine learning tasks. In this dissertation, I discuss several research projects I have worked on at Auburn with the goal of understanding and ...
Evaluation of a Targeted Social Marketing Campaign Promoting Nutrition and Physical Activity to SNAP-Ed Eligible Adults in Alabama
(2021-07-19)
Obesity and its comorbidities disproportionately affect individuals with limited resources, minority populations, and those in the Southeastern United States (Warren, Beck, & Delgado, 2020). Adults with limited resources ...
Modeling Soil Moisture Dynamics in Wetlands
(2021-07-19)
Soil moisture distribution and fluxes are among the fundamental components of the hydrological cycle. One-dimensional Richard’s Equation (hereafter RE) is often used to represent the physics of water moisture distribution ...
Numerical and experimental analysis of Wetumpka impact crater, Alabama.
(2021-07-19)
Impacts are the most crucial process in the formation of the solar system, since planets and other bodies are considered to have formed by accretion of small objects through collisional processes. By studying craters on ...
A comparative genomics approach to identify novel inherited cancer risk variants in dogs and humans
(2021-07-19)
Dogs provide a very special and unique opportunity for novel discovery in inherited disease studies. Through breeding practices to aid in the development of specific breeds, dog breeds are a very homogenous population, ...
Hybrid Machine Learning Techniques for Manufacturing and Beyond
(2021-07-19)
This dissertation presents research performed to develop a novel soft sensor, feature space process monitoring, and domain knowledge-based path analysis for manufacturing and healthcare industries.
In recent years, as ...
Explaining Workaholism’s Effects on Work-Family Conflict: A Boundary Theory Approach
(2021-07-19)
This research examines the linking mechanisms and conditional processes underlying the
workaholism and work-family conflict relationship. Based primarily on the boundary
management literature, it was hypothesized that ...
Addressing the Limitations of Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Application of Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling
(2021-07-16)
To date, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) has been the predominant method for empirically evaluating the latent factor structure of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A voluminous CFA literature provided a strong ...
Distribution, Relative Abundance, and Habitat Association of Tallapoosa Bass Micropterus tallapoosae in the Tallapoosa River Drainage, Alabama.
(2021-07-16)
The diversity of freshwater fishes and black bass Micropterus spp. in the United States are concentrated in the southeastern region. Dams, anthropogenic land use, fragmentation, invasive species and other factors are ...
A Longitudinal Examination of Popularity and Friendship Quality as Predictors of Depression in School Children from Fall to Spring
(2021-07-16)
Although researchers have established the significant role children’s peer relationships have on their socioemotional functioning, missing from the literature is an understanding of the subsequent effects popularity has ...
Evolution of target-based resistance mechanism to acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase herbicides in Digitaria ciliaris
(2021-07-16)
Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler (southern crabgrass) is an annual grass weed of the southern United States, commonly infests all crops, non-crops, and even in turf. This grass is historically controlled in both crop and ...
Modeling and Optimization of Electron-Beam Lithographic Process
(2021-07-15)
An important issue in electron-beam (e-beam) lithography is to minimize the critical dimension (CD) error and line edge roughness (LER). This dissertation presents a method to measure the CD and LER from scanning electron ...
Teacher-efficacy as a complex web: Lessons from a qualitative case study on the transition of military faculty to emergency remote teaching during COVID-19
(2021-07-15)
Although scholars have well-established the benefits of higher teacher-efficacy, the lack of literature regarding the sources and influences of these self-beliefs has led to an overly-reductionistic view of the construct. ...
Teaching Controversial Issues during a Presidential Election: Exploring How Teachers Navigated Polarized Politics in 2020
(2021-07-15)
American politics today is the culmination of historical, political, social, geographic, and economic events that have significantly impacted this country. Over the last year, America and the world have been tested to ...
Examining the Impact of Virtual Reality Integration into a Social Studies Classroom
(2021-07-15)
One of the critical roles of instructional leaders is to help teachers with technology integration. Instructional leaders should be familiar with emerging technology and understand how they can help teachers integrate new ...
Evaluation of mechanical removal rates for rehabilitating over-crowded largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides populations in Alabama small impoundments
(2021-07-15)
Largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides populations in small impoundments exhibit poor growth and body condition under high population densities typically found in unmanaged ponds. The effectiveness of largemouth bass harvest ...
Soil-Structure Interaction Effects on the Seismic Response of Steel Structures
(2021-07-15)
Significant earthquakes are one of the most damaging events for structures. Much research has been done to mitigate the effect of earthquakes on structures. Soil-structure interaction can have a significant impact on the ...
Deviant Followers Across Cultures: An Investigation of Destructive Leadership, Workplace Deviance, and National Context
(2021-07-15)
Despite continued scholarly and practitioner interest in destructive leadership, the field has an incomplete understanding of the relationship between destructive leadership and followers’ workplace deviance, especially ...