Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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From Barbs to Blooms: Dispersal, Development, and Transcriptomics in Bidens
(2025-04-21)
The Asteraceae is the largest family of flowering plants, constituting ~10% of total angiosperm diversity. The family is characterized by its conserved inflorescence architecture, the capitulum. Despite the family’s global ...
Effect of rhizobial 1-aminocyclopropane‐1‐carboxylate (ACC) deaminase on soybean drought tolerance
(2025-04-21)
Although soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) obtains nitrogen through symbiotic nitrogen fixation, its grain yield is constrained by drought stress. The production of the plant hormone ethylene tends to increase under stress ...
Synergistic Effects of Volumetric Defects and Notch Geometry on the Fatigue Behavior of Additively Manufactured Metallic Materials
(2025-04-21)
In this dissertation, the synergistic effects of volumetric defects and notch geometry on the fatigue behavior of additively manufactured (AM) metallic materials were investigated. Factors influencing fatigue crack initiation ...
El MS. G-II-18 De El Escorial: Comentario a Isaías de David Quimhi y la Traducion de Alfonso de Zamora, Edición y Estudio de los Capítulos I y II
(2025-04-21)
El presente trabajo busca resaltar la importancia que tuvieron los exégetas hebreos como David Quimḥi en el Renacimiento, destacando el matrimonio que formaron la exégesis literal y la pedagogía para la educación del pueblo ...
Evaluation of the Impact of Processing Techniques and Labeling on Poultry Sensory Attributes, Consumer Acceptance, and Purchase Behavior
(2025-04-21)
Animal welfare is a topic of discussion for the animal agriculture industry as this niche market has been growing over the past decade. In poultry specifically, there are many various methods used to promote animal welfare. ...
: Water Quality and PFAS - State Policy Innovation to Control an Emerging Contaminant - A Study of Administrative Rulemaking
(2025-04-21)
This dissertation examines the determinants of state-level policy innovation in regulating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in water resources. PFAS, often referred to as "forever chemicals," are ...
Vietoris–Rips Complexes of Torus Grids
(2025-04-20)
In this work, we study the homotopy types and homology of Vietoris–Rips
complexes of torus grid graphs. Let T_{n,n} be a torus grid graph consisting of n × n points
on T2 equipped with the l1 metric. We first compute the ...
Understanding the Role of Cattle Grazing and Poultry Litter Application on Weed Proliferation in Agricultural Fields
(2025-04-20)
This thesis investigates the complex interactions between cattle grazing and poultry litter (PL) application on weed seed dispersal and proliferation in agricultural systems in the southern USA. The first study focuses on ...
Taxonomy and Systematics of North American Monogenoidea Bychowsky, 1937
(2025-04-17)
Parasitic flatworms in the class Monogenoidea Bychowsky, 1937 (Platyhelminthes) are demonstrable pathogens to wild and cultured fishes. The objective of this thesis was to diagnose (taxonomy and systematics) monogenoid ...
Optimizing Flight Parameters for Pesticide Application Using Unmanned Aerial Application Systems (UAAS) in Vegetable Production
(2025-04-17)
Unmanned aerial application systems (UAAS) are emerging as an alternative technology for precision pesticide applications, addressing challenges in spray coverage and efficiency, particularly in crops with dense canopies ...
Biomechanical Manifestations of Choking Under Pressure in Baseball Pitching
(2025-04-17)
Baseball pitching is a complex whole-body movement that requires repeatability to achieve successful outcomes. Previous research has identified that release parameters, or the position and orientation of the baseball coming ...
The Implementation of the Sport Education Curriculum Model in Saudi Arabian Male Middle School Physical Education
(2025-04-15)
Although the successful adoption and positive outcomes of the Sport Education model have been documented in various cultural contexts beyond English-speaking countries, no research to date has explored its impact on Saudi ...
Caught in a Digital Trap: The Effects of Technostress on Work-Family Conflict and The Moderating Role of Attentional Resources
(2025-04-15)
As technology becomes increasingly embedded in the modern workplace, understanding its psychological effects on employees is critical for reducing work-family conflict and promoting well-being. This study investigates how ...
Predicting Collegiate Aviation Students' Performance in Flight Training Through Understanding Their Personality Traits
(2025-04-15)
Understanding how the personality traits of flight students correlate with the success of their training in the collegiate aviation environment could be insightful for schools in shaping their programs to serve the full ...
Look What You Made Me Do: Examining Dark Traits and Victimhood Tendencies in Allocation Games
(2025-04-15)
The current study examined the relationship between Dark Personality, Light Personality, and the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood using allocation games. While previous research has established connections between the ...
Tactical Piety: Heretical Piracy and Catholic Rhetoric in Colonial Quito, Panama, and Guatemala
(2025-04-11)
During the sixteenth and seventeenth century, Francis Drake and other English corsairs attacked Spanish coastal cities and ports. In response to the attacks, Spanish functionaries devised a religious rhetoric as an offensive ...
Effects of climate change on physiology and recombination rates in two species of Drosophila
(2025-04-10)
This dissertation investigates how environmental stressors, both individually and in combination, affect physiological, reproductive, and genetic traits in Drosophila species, shedding light on their resilience and ...
Evaluation of the effects of photonic decontamination on reduction of Salmonella and Campylobacter and a comparative transcriptomics analysis following its application on Salmonella Infantis
(2025-04-10)
Recently, there has been an increase in research into new methods responding to the unsuccessful efforts in reducing foodborne pathogen infections associated with poultry products such as Salmonella and Campylobacter. With ...
Revealing Peanut Drought Tolerant Mechanisms by Integration of Physiological Traits, Soil Microbes, and Genomics
(2025-04-10)
Peanut production is increasingly challenged by frequent and severe drought events worldwide. Rather than relying on costly irrigation systems, cultivating drought-tolerant cultivars offers a more sustainable approach for ...
Fatigue Behavior and Modeling of Additively Manufactured and Wrought Ti-6Al-4V Parts Under Realistic Loading Conditions
(2025-04-09)
The study is a comprehensive dive into the fatigue behavior and related failure mechanisms of additively manufactured (AM) and commercially available wrought Ti-6Al-4V under realistic loading conditions, including mean ...