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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Bottling Hell: Myth-Making, Cultural Identity And The Datil Pepper Of St. Augustine, Florida, Anna Hamilton
Exploring Developmental Assets And Strengths In Mississippi Youth, Umieca Nicolle Hankton
Effects of nanosilver and silver nitrate exposure on fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) and zebrafish (Danio rerio), Adam D. Hawkins
The Life And Songwriting Of Vic Chesnutt, John Hermann
Cognitive Effects And Academic Consequences Of Video Game Playing, Sean Hollis
Cold War Pulp: Gender And Fiction In The Age Of Liberation, James Lewis Hood
Ramsey Theory Using Matroid Minors, Dixie Smith Horne
Why Aren't More Heathens Eco-Pagan Vegetarians? The Intersection Of Gender, Politics, And Spiritual Environmentalism, Kristen An Horton
An Analysis Of Two-Year College Fundraising Practices, Luke Joel Howard
Fixin' To Tell: Cultural Preservation, Multiculturalism, And A Delicate Double Commitment In Appalshop's "Insider" Activism, Kathleen S. Hudson
Analysis And Design Of Low Profile Multiband Multifunctional Antenna Arrays, Walker F. Hunsicker
Cardiovascular Disease Knowledge, Awareness, Perceived Risk, And Hormonal Contraceptive Use Among Female College Students, Amanda Kathryn Hutcheson
There Is No "I" In Team: An Investigation Of Team Dynamics In The Buyer-Seller Interaction, Katerina Hybnerova
Secondary Metabolite Production By An Endophytic Bacillus sp. from Platanus Occidentalis, Michael C. James
Environmental Degradation Of Nano Enhanced Polymers In Low Earth Orbit, Mohammed Jaradat
Academic Hazing In Music Education, Cameron Whitworth Jenkins
Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Role Of Ethnicity And Culture In Parent Interpretation And Service Utilization, Corinn Nicole Johnson
The Impact of pH on the Structure and Function of Neural Cadherin, Jared Michael Jungles
Synthesis, Characterization and Electrochemical Properties of Gold Nanomolecules, Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Jupally
Measurements Of Fluvial Sediments Using A Single-Frequency Acoustic Attenuation System, Thomas Alexander Kajdan
Corruption, information, and reelection chances of incumbent parties' presidential candidates in developing countries, Mavuto Kalulu
A Behavioral Intervention For Child Obesity: Increasing Physical Activity On The Playground Via Reinforcement In A Preschool Classroom, Kevin Francis Karl
Location, location: Factors influencing greenhouse gas fluxes from the Mississippi Delta agricultural region, Michael P. Keating
Reconfigurable microstrip antennas with tunable radiation pattern characteristics, Ahmed Khidre
Work Stress, Meaning, And Values: A Study Of Intellectual Disability Support Staff, Jennifer Marie Ladner-Graham
The Relationship Between Teacher Perception Of Principals' Leadership Behaviors And Student Achievement, Monte Damon Ladner
Can Student-Driven Changes Increase Salad Bar Usage In Schools?, Shannon Leeke
Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling Of Multiple-Sized Sediment Transport Modeling Under Current And Waves, Qianru Lin
A Complex-Envelope FDTD Formulation Using Real-Valued Field-Variables, Qi Liu
Random Forests Based Rule Learning And Feature Elimination, Sheng Liu
Certified personal trainers and physicians: An evaluation of consumer preference, influence, and decision making on intent to use a weight-loss medication, Linda Lemgruber Lobb
Dis Connect, Bradley Scott Luke
The Role Of Religion In The Relationship Between Loneliness And Health Behaviors, Lindsy Jean Magee
Management of breast cancer in the Medicaid population, Rohan Mahabaleshwarkar
Intranasal delivery of therapeutics targeted to CSF and Brain, Prashanth Manda
Broadband Approaches And Beam-Scanning Techniques For Reflectarray Antenna, Yilin Mao
Exploring The Influence Of Adult Attachment On Stress Coping Resources And Career Adaptabillity, Laith Mazahreh
The Space Between, Aaron Joseph Mcelfish
Silk Road: A Novel, Elizabeth McKay McFadden
Effects Of Narrative Writing And Post-Writing Processing Instructions On PTSD, Laura Mcintire
Memory In Mississippi: Imagining Women's Place In Interwar Political Culture, Rachel Mclemore
A Working Life, Benny A. Melton
The Adult Scale Of Parental Attachment-Short Form: Item Selection, Factor Structure, And Psychometric Properties, Anthony Aron Michael
Increasing Self-Efficacy And Quality Lesson Planning Using Lesson-Study With Elementary Preservice Teachers, Elizabeth Ann Mitchell
Three Essays On Diversification Strategy, Diversification Performance, And Corporate Misconduct, Brandon Charles Lee Morris
Comparing Distance-Based Vs. Time-Based Exercise Prescriptions Of Walking And Running For Improvement Of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, Cody Edward Morris
Attention and Emotion Regulation in Social Functioning, Katherine H. Moyer
Evaluation Of Cotton Valley "D" Sand Production In Stampede Field, Mississippi, U.S.A., Patrick Lawrence Murphy
The Efficacy Of Prostaglandin Synthase Inhibition On Attenuating Pressure Overload Induced Cardiac Remodeling, Krishna T. Nagalla
Democracy For Whom?: The Spanish-American War, The Philippine-American War, World War I, And The NAACP, Amanda Marie Nagel
Neurocognitive outcomes in children experiencing seizures during treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Stephanie L. Nassar
Finite element analysis of shear resistant mechanisms for biolaminate interfaces, Matthew Nelms
Regulators of repo: A Search for gcm/repo Transcription Factors, Kathy Ann Nipper
The Behavior Of A Macroscopic Granular Material In Vortex Flow, Asami Nishikawa
Optimized Image Compressed Sensing And Transmission Through Wireless Channels, Saheed Olanigan
In A Foreign Land: Stories Of African Immigrants And Their Children In Jackson, MS, Renee N. Ombaba
The Social Ecology Of Men's Sexual Self-Efficacy In The Mississippi Delta, Vanessa Ann Parks
Pharmacists' Preparedness For Acute Medical Emergencies, James W. Parrett
Solubility Enhancement via Melt Extrusion: Drug-polymer Solubility, Physicochemical Characterization and Quality by Design, Ketaki Patwardhan
Cross-Layer Capacity Optimization In OFDMA Systems: WiMAX And LTE, Bimal Paudel
Moderation And Mediation Of Headache-Related Disability: The Roles Of Self-Efficacy And Headache Diagnosis, Kelly Peck
An Evaluation Of Perceived Safety Of Free Software: The Brafs Model, Will Pepper
Sexual Assertiveness as a Predictor of Differential Vulnerability in Sexual Victimization Between Sorority- and Non-Affiliated College Women, Mary Ashton Phillips
Transgenerational Transmission Of Trauma In Second Generation Latino Children And Adolescents, Ricardo Phipps
#Democracy: The Internet And Support For Democracy In Central And Eastern Europe, Matthew Alan Placek
High-Strain Rate Tensile Characterization Of Graphite Platelet Reinforced Vinyl Ester Based Nanocomposites Using Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar, Brahmananda Pramanik
I Am See-Through: Participatory Video Making As A Method For Social Change In The Mississippi Delta, Paige Prather
Mr Hyde Or Dr. Jekyll? Characteristics Of The Information Systems Security Mindset, David Pumphrey
Sectionalism, Nationalism, And The Agrarian Revolt, 1877-1892, Benjamin Houston Turner Purvis
The Characterization Of Graphs With Small Bicycle Spectrum, Bette Catherine Putnam
Design And Analysis Of Reconfigurable Sensing Antennas For Wireless Sensing Applications, Qian Qiao
Determining Physician And Patient Characteristics That Predict The Use Of Atypical Antipsychotics In Children With Mental Health Disorders, Sujith Ramachandran
Xqx Based Modeling For General Integer Programming Problems, Vijay P. Ramalingam
Investigating the photosynthesis of Symbiodinium in Caribbean gorgonian corals, Blake Ramsby
Higgs Effects in Neutrino Physics and Heavy Quark Systems, Ahmed Rashed
Relationship Of Self-Efficacy In Community College Students From Critical Need Areas With First Semester Academic Achievement, Elmira Ratliff
Elemental Fingerprinting Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry And Chemometrics: Application To Environmental Science And Provenance Studies, Lorlyn Paquibot Reidy
Spectroscopic Analyses Of Factors Affecting Formation And Stability Of I-Motif Dna, Samantha Michelle Reilly
Determinants Of Bite Force In Four Species Of Sharks From The Gulf Of Mexico With An Emphasis On The Atlantic Sharpnose Shark, Rhizoprionodon Terraenovae, Kyle Walter Rice
That Spanified League: The Elizabethan Catholic Community and Resistance to the Jesuits, Thomas Ridgedell
Pretreatment Of Cellulosic Biomass By Iron-Containing Magnetic Ionic Liquid Dissolution, Christopher Roth Riley
Relaxation Adaptive Memory Programming For The Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem, Robert Christopher-Lee Riley
Exploring Jungian Archetypes As Potential Predictors Of Infidelity In Committed Relationships, Kattrina Miller Roach
Small Business Crews As High Performance Work Teams: The Role Of Vertical And Horizontal Familiarity, Foster Brett Roberts
The Band At Little Rock Central High School Before, During, And After Integration In 1957-1958, Brandon Earl Robinson
Measurement Of Anhedonia In The Chick Anxiety-Depression Model, Amy L. Salmeto-Johnson
Customer Tolerance In Community Pharmacy, Philip Everett Schwab
Parent's Use And Likely Use Of Nutrition Education Resources In The Mississippi Delta Region, Rachel Jessica Scoggins
Mississippi Motoring: Mom And Pops And Entrepreneurs, Erin Elizabeth Scott
Probing New Physics Through Third Generation Leptons, Preet Sharma
Evaluating Values, Mindfulness, and Working Alliance: Exploring the Effects of Short, Specific Techniques, Regan Slater
Transformation Of Early Nineteenth Century Chickasaw Leadership Patterns, 1800-1845, Emily Paige Smithey