Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Checking The Temperature: Where Does The U.S. Stand On Federal Shield Laws?, Austin Clay Vining
A Non-Classical Solution To Vague Persistence, Seth Waite
Anodic Metal Dissolution In Haloaluminate Molten Salts/Ionic Liquids, Chen Wang
On Topological Indices And Domination Numbers Of Graphs, Shaohui Wang
Obstacle-Aware Wireless Video Sensor Network Deployment For 3D Indoor Space Monitoring, Zhonghui Wang
Parental Awareness, Consumption And Feeding Practices Of Functional Foods, Peter Jewel Weiss
Donor Motivation To NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Athletic Departments, Daniel White
How To Find What's Lost When What's Lost Is You: The Presence of Disappearing Bodies in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq War Literature, Brandy Rachele Williams
The Impact Of Disclosing Auditor Independence And Tenure On Non-Professional Investor Judgment And Decision-Making, L. Tyler Williams
Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in Southern Film, Sara Marcella Williams
Esperanto: A Diachronic Study Of Language Word Order, Daniel Seth Wilson
PTSD And Emotionally Augmented Perception: An Argument For Direct Realism, Patrick Travis Woodruff
Exploring new chemical entities from traditional medicine: Docking, synthesis and specific bioactivities, Chinni Yalamanchili
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Analysis Of Pervious Concrete As A Stormwater Management Tool Using Swmm Modeling, Liya Eshetu Abera
Non-invasive drug delivery to the posterior segment of the eye: Development of formulation strategies and evaluation of ocular distribution and pharmacological activity, Goutham Reddy Adelli
Effect Of Accelerated Global Expansion On Bending Of Light, Mir Emad Aghili
Homeownership And Unemployment: Outcomes And Implications, George Mawuli Akpandjar
I eat shit food and am not worthy: Negotiating the queer weight of "white trash" embodiment in Dorothy Allison's Corpus, Rebecca Albright
Effects of benzo[a]pyrene and CYP19a1b knockdown on zebrafish development, Khalid M. Alharthy
The Effects Of Jaw Clenching, Jaw Alignment Via Performance Mouthpiece, And The Combination Of Both On Power And Force Production, Charles Allen
Influence of hot melt extrusion processing parameters on the properties of a pharmaceutical formulation, Saad M. Alshahrani
Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of sigma receptors (σRS) ligands as potential pharmacotherapy for cancer and drug addiction, Walid Alsharif
Versatility of hot-melt extrusion for dosage form design, Sultan Mohammad Alshehri
Solubility enhancement, mechanical properties and taste masking of poorly water soluble compounds by optimizing hot melt extrusion processing, Abdullah Saud Alshetaili
Mississippi Statewide Accountability System: A Measure Of Academic Attainment Or Other Factors, Eddie De Anderson
Characterizing the Innate Immunity in the Hawaiian Coral Montipora capitata, Melinda S. Ansley
Perceptions of Race and Privilege: An Examination of Intercultural Competence and Service-Learning in the Mississippi Delta, Laura Antonow
Fscan Code Development For Advanced Ligo Detector Characterization, Cody Arceneaux
Influence of novel techniques on solubility, mechanical properties and permeability via hot melt extrusion technology, Eman A. Ashour
Development Of The Medication Non-Adherence Scale (MNAS) And The Medication Non-Persistence Scale (MNPS), Amod Sudhir Athavale
An Investigation Of The Effect Of Single-Gendered Instruction On Achievement In Math And English In An Urban High School, Beverly Bacchus
Meaning In Life And Self-Efficacy's Relationship To Depression, Anxiety, And Stress: A Study Of Coastal Residents Affected By The Gulf Oil Spill, Brandy Baczwaski
Synthetic Materials with Redox-Triggers for Imaging and Drug Delivery, Jungeun Bae
The role of self-blame and resilience in psychosocial outcomes in college students who engage in cyberbullying, Jennifer Rose Bailey
Please Don't Forget About Me: African American Women, Mississippi, And The History Of Crime And Punishment In Parchman Prison, 1890-1980, Telisha Dionne Bailey
Negative Effects Of ComMycorrhizal Networks And Roots On Upland Oak Seedlings In Open-Canopy Woodlands And Closed-Canopy Forests, William Chase Bailey
Implementation Of A Raptorq-Based Protocol For Peer To Peer Network, Yuzhu Bai
Notes On Distance Dialing, Liam Baranauskas
Divided Schools and Divided Societies: Ethnic Saliency, Socialization, and Attitudes among High School Seniors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Matthew Thomas Becker
The Effect Of Cooperative Gameplay On Aggression And Prosociality In Violent Video Game Play, Jeremiah Nathaniel Beene
Soil bacterial structure and function associated with the invasive grass Microsteguim vimineum and two native grasses, Jennifer Kay Bell
The Relationship Between The Effects Of Rape, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Complex Trauma, And Post-Attack Victim-Perpetrator Interaction In Female College Students, Stephanie Christine Bell
A Study Of Retention Rates Among Non-Resident Students Enrolled In Freshman Retention Programs, Chelsea Welch Bennett
Interaction Of Coping And Severity Of Stressor From An Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Conceptualization, Nadia Nicole Bethley
Interaction Of Severity Of Stressor And Coping Strategy On Psychological Distress From A Psychological Flexibility Conceptualization, Nadia Nicole Bethley
The Role Of Fear Of Pain In Headache, Anna Katherine Black
Mississippi ASL Project, James Corey Blount
An Analysis Of Student Teachers’ Instruction In A Beginning Band Setting, Eric C. Bonds
Design, Synthesis And Cannabinoid Receptor Activity Of Benzofuran Ligands, Eric William Bow
Machine Dreams, David Lingen Bradway
Craig Santos Perez: Poetry as Strategy Against Military Occupation in Guåhan (Guam), Robert John Briggs
The Influence Of Facial Attractiveness And Babyfaceness On Actors' Memorability, April Marie Burns
Excavations Of Mound B: A Ridge-Top Mound At The Carson Site, A Mississippian Mound Center In The Northern Yazoo Basin, Samuel Henri Butz
Behavior, Energetics, And Swimming Performance Of The American Paddlefish, Polyodon Spathula, In A Lower Mississippi River Oxbow, Bryan Andrew Cage
Seed To Sale: Boundary Work In Mississippi Agriculture, Caroline Canarios
Pathogen Indicator Monitoring In The Ross Barnett Reservoir, Hannie Quay Parker Capps
Ehtnobotanical- And Chemometric-Guided Investigation Of Phytolacca Americana L., Michael Chan
Observation And Analysis Of Undergraduate Applied Piano Lessons And Individual Practice Sessions, Fen-Fang Chen
The Association Between Depressive Symptoms And Cardiovascular Events In African American Adults With Diabetes Mellitus, Felicia Nicole Chin
Economic Viability And Societal Benefits Of Integrated Multimodal Freight Corridors And Sustainable Passenger Transportation, Seth Austin Cobb
Three Essays On Bond Trading, Brittany Cole
I Have Been Somewhere: Place In The South Carolina Poems Of Nikky Finney And Kwame Dawes, Purvis L. Cornish
Predicting The U.S. Recessions With Housing Starts In Dynamic Probit Models, Yan Cui
Spatial Distribution Of Debitage At A Chert Procurement Site And A Cultural History Assessment On Orange Lake In North Central Florida, Joseph Petererson Culen
Visual Phallacies, John Howard Cummings
Examining The Relationship Between Sexual Want, Sexual Consent, And Sexual Assertiveness, Marie Darden
Dynamic response of glass under low-velocity impact and high strain-rate compression loading, Seyed Soheil Daryadel
Predictors Of Use Of Hydroxyurea And Its Impact On Clinical And Economic Outcomes Among Children With Sickle Cell Disease, Manasi Datar
The Effects Of Clinorotation In The Host Plant, Medicago Truncatula, And Its Microbial Symbionts, Ariel Dauzart
The role of self-regulation, self-efficacy, and outcome expectancy value on physical activity of former division I student athletes, Takilya T. Davis
Temperature Dependence Of Shear Speed In Micellar Fluid, E.G. Sunethra Kumari Dayavansha
Effective tuning of bimetallic composition of gold-copper nanomolecules and the emergence of plasmon-like feature in optical spectra, Asantha Champika Dharmaratne
Positive Youth Development in Tanzanian Youth: Utility of the Developmental Assets Approach, Christopher Fox Drescher
The Effect of a Second-Order Factor Wellness Intervention on the Total Wellness of Female Collegiate Athletes, Mindy Dunagan
Exploring The Use Of Criminal Background Checks In Higher Education: Perceptions Of Leaders At Four Institutions Of Higher Education In Mississippi, Tiffany Edwards
Oviposition Site Selection By Mosquitoes: Predator-Released Kairomones And Responses To Different Taxa, Lauren Larea Eveland
Fetishizing Southern Brutality: An Intersectional Analysis of Animalistic Dehumanization in Interracial Pornography, Shawna Faye Felkins
Meaning In Life And Automatic Stereotyping: A Study Of College Students, Ivonne Andrea Florez
Missouri! Bright Land of the West: Civil War Memory and Western Identity in Missouri, Amy Fluker
Graphene Based Metamaterials For Terahertz Cloaking And Subwavelength Imaging, Seyedali Forouzmand
The Pen is a Thing The Hand Already, Andrew Montgomery Freiman
Experimental Validation Of Metasurface Cloak For Dielectric Cylinder At Mircowave Frequencies, Corey Isaac Garner
Systems biology approach to understanding the control of glucose metabolism in healthy and apoptotic neurons, Hoda Gebril
The Dynamics Of Compression On Presidential Nominations, Samuel Raymond Gedman
The Least Prime Number That Splits Completely In S3-Sextic Number Fields, Zhenchao Ge
English Identity and Muslim Captivity in the Mediterranean, 1580-1640, Joel Gillaspie
Is The God Of Christian Theology Apathetic?, Kenneth Wayne Gilmore
Association Of Kidney Stones With Chronic Disease Among Adults In The United States: Considerations By Race-Ethnicity, Lashaunta Marie Glover
How Does The Audit Report's Structure Affect Nonprofessional Investors' Attention To Its Content?, Brian Matthew Goodson
Evaluation Of Cognitive Processing Therapy's Five Cognitive Distortion Themes, Jared P. Grigg
Parental Attitudes, Concerns, Health & Knowledge of Nutrition and Their Relationship to Usage of Functional Foods in Parental Feeding, Lauren Elizabeth Guy