Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse: The History And Organization Of The New England Youth Ensemble, Valencia Collins Thevenin
Band Gap Engineering Of Titania Systems Purposed For Photocatalytic Activity, Cameron Robert Thurston
Interwoven, Preston Tolbert
The Impact Literacy Coaches Have On Mississippi's Lower-Performing Schools, Barbara Ann Trivelli-Bowen
Southern Discomfort: Performing Femininity In The Deep South, Rachel Whitney Turnipseed
Object Of Your Rejection: The Symbolic Annihilation And Recuperation Of Queer Identities In Country Music, Lauren Veline
The Relationship Between Caring For Individuals Diagnosed With Prader-Willi Syndrome And Caregiver Stress, Michael Andrew Vice
Mechanical And Computational Evaluation Of Cementitious Materials With Hollow Glass Microsphere Inclusions, Zachary J. Wallace
Stand Perfectly Still: Statues, Nudity, and the Pygmalion Myth in Victorian Theatre and Culture, Maggie Elizabeth Wallen
English-Swahili Code Switching: An Intersection between Stance and Identity, Gorrety Nafula Wawire
Creating A Stormwater Runoff Model For The City Of Oxford, Mississippi: When It Rains, Where Does That Water Go?, Alexandra Gay Weatherwax
Natural Disasters, Incidents Of Mass Violence, And Preparedness On A College Campus: A Study Of University Faculty And Staff, Marcela Caroline Weber
The Impact Of Word-Study Intervention Strategies On Students' Measures Of Reading Comprehension And Fluency, Trenisha Weekley
Discreet Only: An Exploration Of Discreet Practices On Grindr In A Mississippi Town, Ian Michael Whalen
Education Of Women In Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century French Literature, Armelle Tsafack Wiggins
Multiracial Individuals, Gender Dynamics, And Dating, Kayla Mildred Williams
Impact Of Hydration On Collegiate Athletic Performance, Fatigue, And Recovery, Lauren Woodard
War Time Memories Of Shojo (Girl) - An Analysis Of A Japanese Girls' Magazine, Shojo No Tomo, And Its Readers, Ai Yamamoto
A Probabilistic Approach To Multiple-Instance Learning, Silu Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
I Speak Better Arabic: Arabic Native Speakers’ Perception Of Arabic Dialects, Mahmoud Sayed Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Rahman
The Effect Of Pitching With Underweight And Overweight Balls On Pitch Velocity In Collegiate Baseball Pitchers., Hillary Ake
Saffron extract and its active constituents as preventative and/or treatment agents for prostate cancer using in vitro and in vivo models, Faisal Fayih Albaqami
Testing A Brief Directive Intervention To Reduce Symptoms Associated With Trauma, Fernando Trivelli Alessandri
The Effect Of Competitive Advantages On Corporate Tax Avoidance: A Determinant Or Excuse?, Andrew Dale Almand
Critical Quality Attributes of Topical Semi-solid Dosage Forms: Solvent Activity, Muralikrishnan Angamuthu
I Live Peacefully in a Video Game World- Collected Poems, James Ardis
Acoustic Behavior Of Soil Reinforced With Grass Roots, Blake Armstrong
The Role Of Loneliness And Resilience In Psychosocial Health For Victims Of Cyberbullying In A College Population, Alicia Luscomb Autry
The Corruption Of Promise: The Insane Asylum In Mississippi, 1848-1910, Whitney E. Barringer
Linearly Stressed To Death: Consideration Of Early Childhood Stress As A Main Contributor To The Regional Variability In Classic Maya Mortuary Profiles, Nicholas Billstrand
Thrill of a Billion Eyes: The Prancing J-Settes, Mary Paige Blessey
Exaggerated News Headlines And The Continued Influence Effect, Heather Nicole Bliss
The Role Of Study Strategy Use, Meaning In Life, And Grit On The Academic Success Of University Students, Kwoneathia Rasha Boswell
The Exigencies of War: Black Military Service, Free Labor, and Education in Civil War Missouri, Miller Williams Boyd
How Does Place Affect Access To "What Works?": Knowledge Usage In Urban And Rural Ngo Intervention Design, Caitlin Brooking
Field Use Of An Acoustic Surrogate System To Monitor Gravel Bed Load Flux, Jarrod Grant Bullen
Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800., Thomas Lance Bullington
The Role Of Partisanship In Selecting Ideal Communities, Kayla M. Butler
The Wound Is (Not) Real, Martin M. Cain
Music Education At The Troy Female Seminary: 1817-1904, Jennifer Elizabeth Peck Campbell
The design of the southern future: The struggle to build white democracy at the University of Mississippi, 1890-1948, Thomas John Carey
Investigation Of Parameters Enabling Admicellar Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (Raft) Polymerization, Poh Lee Cheah
Reducing Cache Contention On GPUs, Kyoshin Choo
Computation Aided Design Of Multicomponent Refractory Alloys With A Focus On Mechanical Properties, Paul Daniel Clark
Excavating the Catacomb of Santa Lucia, Gabby Coggin
Southern Sound And Space: An Exploration Of The Sonic Manifestation Of Place, Christopher James Colbeck
How the soul slips in: Virginia Woolf's (un)natural history of dogs, Allison Castle Combs
The Acute and Chronic Muscle Adaptations Following six weeks of "No Load" and Traditional High Load Resistance Training, Brittany Counts
Survivors Of Pediatric Brain Tumors: Psychosocial Outcomes And Executive Function, Lauren Elizabeth Cox
The Effects Promotional Incentives Have On College Basketball Attendance In Power Five Conferences, Alexander Ryan Cramer
Stress, sexual signaling, and alternative mating tactics in male green treefrogs, Hyla cinerea, Sarah Crocker-Buta
The Associations Between Values, Committed Action, And Cardiovascular Reactivity, Bianca Marie Crudup
Does Blood Flow Restriction Applied Post High-Load Exercise Augment Skeletal Muscle Growth Following Eight Weeks of Training?, Scott Justin Dankel
Passive Unaccusatives In L2 English, Chad Tyler Davis
Alcohol Use As A Precipitant And Comorbidity In Primary Headache, Rachel Davis
Prices, Trading Activity, And Market Quality In The Modern Otc Marketplace, Ryan Davis
Motivated Reasoning, Ambivalence, And The Local Economy: Asymmetric Biases In The Formation Of Economic Perceptions, Bradley Dickerson
God's Gonna Trouble the Water, Dominiqua Dickey
Remobilization Of Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Lead, And Zinc In A Riparian Wetland Model, Richard Glenn Dolly
Bacteria Prediction For Recreational Waters Through The Use Of Artificial Neural Networks, Christopher Douglas
Robust Nickel Catalysts Supported By Biaryl-Bridged Pyridyl-N-Heterocyclic Carbenes For Carbon Dioxide Reduction To Value-Added Products, Hunter Allen Dulaney
Flood Disaster Resilient Bridge Structures For Sustainable Bridge Management Systems, Alper Durmus
Biophysical Characterization Of A Proline Mutant Of Neural Cadherin, Keshia S. Dykes
Sedentary behavior-inducing randomized control intervention on various health-related outcomes in active, young adults, Meghan Edwards
Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn: The Role Of Sensation Seeking, Impulsivity, And Empathy In Cyberbullying, Anandi C. Ehman
Investigation of Neural and Epithelial Cadherin Monomer Properties Using a Molecular Dynamics Approach, Lianyi Fan
Evaluation and enhancement of physical stability of amorphous solid dispersions, Xin Feng
The radical south: Grassroots activism, ethnicity, and literary form, 1960-1980, Elizabeth Fielder
Spine Lifting Biomechanics Between Varying Occupational Activity Levels And Recreational Physical Activity Levels, Caitlin Rose Francis
Black Students Resisting And Coping With Racism At Predominately White Institutions, Latierney Frazier
Physiological And Perceptual Responses To Alternate Modes Of Exercise At Self Selected Or Prescribed Intensity Between Overweight And Non-Overweight Individuals, James Riley Galloway
Project Meshnet And The Politics Of Scientific Practice, Garreth Blake Gardner
Validation Of Integrated Coast-Ocean Model Cche2D-Coast And Development Of Wind Model, Afshin Gazerzadeh
Linguistic Variations Between Cajun French, Pedagogical French, And Mississippi Gulf Coast French, Virginia Jane Geddie
Representation of the American South in Marvel Comics, 1963-2016, Katherine Gill
The Influence Of Perceived Barriers, Perceived Social Support, And Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy On High School Juniors' And Seniors' Postsecondary Plans, Denise Antwainette Gilstrap
Cavaliers And Crackers: Landless Whites In The Mind Of The Elite Antebellum South, Jeffrey Glossner
Between Species: Biopolitics, Resistance, and Interspeciesality, Temple Jo Gowan
State Of Mississippi Crisis Communications: Examining MSWIN Preparedness, Michael Knox Graham
Nixon's FBI: The Bureau In Crisis, Melissa Graves
Funneled Into Prison: Race And Behavior Modification At A Mississippi Alternative School, Daniela Alexandria Griffin
Predisposing Risk Factors Associated With Stress Fracture Development In Division I Cross Country Runners, Kaci Griffin
Berkeley on the Source of Self-Knowledge: Introspection and Causal Maxim, Scott Harkema
Quant Se Depart Li Jolis Tans: Betrayal In The Songs Of Medieval French Women, Hannah Harkey
Playbook, Jason Edward Harrington
Bone Mineral Density, Preventative Behaviors And Risk Factors In African American And Caucasian Mother-Daughter Pairs, Mary Haskins Haskins
Boxing Men: Ideas Of Race, Masculinity, And Nationalism, Robert Bryan Hawks
Identifying Values: Comparing Four Methods Of Values Identification, Emmie Hebert
A Study Of The Mechanical Behavior Of Composite Materials Exposed To Corrosive Environments, Ryan Keith Hedgepeth
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment, Russell James Henderson
Reconstructing lithofacies of the Norphlet Formation (Jurassic) as potential exploration targets: Little Cedar Creek and Brooklyn Fields, southwest Alabama, Catherine E. Henry
Come: A Poetry Manuscript, Virginia Henry
The Impact Of French Camp Academy On Child Abuse And Neglect, Ji Hoon Heo
Gender, Genre, and “Quality” Television: The Field of Television Production in America from 1951 - 2013, Joseph Andrew Hoff
Sookie's Place(s): New Roadways Into The South Of The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Sarah Holder
Brain Drain Or Brain Gain? Cognitive Skill Training With Novice Video Game Players With Casual Video Games, Sean Hollis
Examining The Impact Of Geosocial Networking On The Sexual Behaviors Of Men Who Have Sex With Men, Curtis Hooks
Trans Mississippi, Jessi Hotakainen