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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Experimental Investigation Of Impurities And Their Effect On Acousto-Electric Properties Of Lithium Niobate, Chandrima Chatterjee
Comparison Of Air Displacement Plethysmography And Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry For Estimation Of Body Fat Percentage In National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Athletes, Caitlyn Rose Chenevert
The Effect Of Using Board Games In Reducing Language Anxiety And Improving Oral Performance, Yi-Chun Cheng
Three Essays On Insurance Asset Management, Xin Che
A Body a Day: Constructing Deviance at the Mississippi State Asylum, Rachel Christine Childs
Home Is Where the Hot Tamale Is: Rediscovering the Delta, Georgia Corinne Clarke
How Sweet It Is: Swamp Pop Soda And Modern Day Sugar, Rebecca Lauck Cleary
Abstinence Based Sex Education: A Mixed-Method Evaluation Of Experiences With And The Effectiveness Of Sex Education In The Deep South, Heather Costa-Greger
The Use And Effectiveness Of Warm-Downs By Brass Students From The University Of Mississippi And Band Directors From Mississippi, David Matthew Cuevas
Synthetic Investigation of Natural Products Causing Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration, Michael John Cunningham
Medium Extra Vlue, Andrew Ryan Dally
Frequency and Temperature Dependence of Shear Wave Speed with Rheological Properties in a Micellar Fluid, E. G. Sunethra K. Dayavansha
Social Media Adoption Among Small-Market Mississippi Newspapers, William Dejournett
Small Batch: Women's Positions In Southern Craft Beverages, Victoria De Leone
Perceptions of University Students toward Bilingualism in Fribourg, Barcelona, and Oxford, Madison Densmore
Predictors Of Dental Opioid Analgesic Prescribing, Opioid Use And Dental Emergency Department Visits In The Mississippi Medicaid Population, Chukwuebuka Dibie
Food Insecurity And Physical And Mental Health Of Elementary School Children In A Rural, Appalachian Mississippi Community, Kelsey Reece Dismukes
The Effects Of Acidic Conditions And Tannins On The Survival, Development, And Behavior Of Cope’s Gray Treefrog (Hyla Chrysoscelis), Caleb E. Dodd
Topical Formulation For Stimulating Sweat Secretion as an Alternative to Iontophoresis, Tasnim Fatima
RiverRoad, Reginald Fontenot
The Impact Of Chinese Air Pollution On Match Attendance Of Chinese Super League, Wantong Fu
In Search Of Marketing's Genie: Essays On The Impact Of Ceo And Corporate Governance Factors On Marketing Strategies, Prachi Gala
How Do Specialist Expertise, Auditor-Specialist Communication, And Time Pressure Affect Auditors’ Use Of Specialists’ Valuations?, Sara Gochnauer
Building An Autonomous Indoor Drone System, Hunter Gossett
The Relationship Between Note-Taking Method And Grade Point Average When Controlling For Act Score And Self-Regulation Ability In Undergraduate Students, Donna Lee Gurley
Depending On Twitter For Breaking News: A Comparison Between American And Saudi Students, Maria Zoheir Hamdan
Effects of Hydrological Connectivity on the Benthos of a Large River (Lower Mississippi River, USA), Audrey B. Harrison
Impact of Human Disturbance on the Behavior and Physiology of the Endangered Ringed Sawback Turtle (Graptemys oculifera), Jessica Mary Heppard
Armatures For Success: Advancing Racial Equity For Funeral Service Technology Students, Angela Massey Hopper
College Wheelchair Basketball Players' Construction Of Identities: A Symbolic Interactionism Approach, Alison Hovatter
Energy Harvesting Nanocoated Piezoceramics For Low Power Systems, Quinten Humphrey
How Newspapers In China, India And Bangladesh Framed The Rohingya Crisis Of 2017, Md Khadimul Islam
Paper Chase: Perceptions Of The Pursuit Of Academic Scholarly Productivity Among Faculty Writing Group Participants, Deidra Jackson
L2 Teachers' Efficacy: The Impact Of Professional Development, Nino Jakhaia
Comparisons Of Time To Task Failure And Muscle Activity For Two Different Submaximal Fatiguing Contractions, Sunggun Jeon
Perceptions Of Executive Female Leaders In Athletics, Lynnette Y. Johnson
On The Design Of Physical Layer Rateless Codes, Amrit Kharel
Preparation and Evaluation of Cefuroxime Axetil Gastro-Retentive Floating Drug Delivery System for Improved Delivery via Hot-Melt Extrusion Technology, Rahul Madhukar Lalge
Impacts And Implications Of Polytypism On The Evolution Of Aposematic Coloration, Justin Philip Lawrence
Slavery's Holy Profits: Religion and Capitalism in the Antebellum Lower Mississippi Valley, John Lindbeck
The Influence of Self-Prescribed Knee Bracing on Walking in Healthy Adults, Lauren Luginsland
A Study Of Computational Problems In Computational Biology And Social Networks: Cancer Informatics And Cascade Modelling, Christopher Ma
Identifying Predictors of New Teacher Retention, Bonita Lanoza Maready
The Blood Flow and Perceptual Response To Lower Body Resistance Training With and Without Blood Flow Restriction, Kevin Mattocks
Community Connections: Public Outreach and Education at the Batesville Mounds Site, Lacy Nicole Mattson
Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter, Virginia Mccarley
Engagement Strategies And Their Impact On Underserved Students, Marquis Mccloud
Synthesis and Evaluation of Dual-Acting Ligands for Mu Opioid And Neuropeptide FF Receptors, Kelsey Gabrielle McPherson
Impulsion, Nicholas Meyer
Elastodynamic Model For Wind Induced Ground Motion, Mohammad Mohammadi
I'm Gonna Stay Right Here Until They Tear This Barrelhouse Down: Black Power and the Origins of Blues Tourism in Greenville, Mississippi, Tyler DeWayne Moore
Acute and Chronic Vascular Responses to Blood Flow Restriction in the Upper Body, J. Grant Mouser
Generalized Characteristics Of A Generic Polytope, Tommy Naugle
Bases In Spaces Of Regular Multilinear Operators And Homogeneous Polynomials On Banach Lattices, Khazhak Varazdat Navoyan
Inland North: Stories, Elsa Nekola
Using Finite Element Output to Detect Damage in a Steel Frame Model, Ai D. Nguyen
Increasing Access to High-Impact Practices: A Case Study on Internships at the University of Mississippi, Kristina Phillips and Jennifer Saxon
Molecular Dynamics Simulation Of Polymer Nanocomposites In Extreme Environments, Farzin Rahmani
Marginal Revenue Product Of Division I Swimmers, Olivia Adele Raxter
Procedural Justice And Police Officers: The Forgotten Perspective, Kirby Laura Rhodes
Marketing the Myth: The Racial Commodification and Reclaiming of Aunt Jemima, Holly Robinson
Mississippians In Physics: Perspectives And Practice In A Search For Physics Excellence, Paul D. Rogers
Engagement Strategies And Their Impact On Underserved Students, Tonyalle Vershutte Rush
The Same Old Blues Crap: Selling The Blues At Fat Possum Records, Jacqueline Sahagian
Polymer Based Delivery Of Doxycycline Hyclate For The Prevention Of Peri-Implant Mucositis Infection, Sagar Deepak Sawant
Increasing Access to High-Impact Practices: A Case Study on Internships at the University of Mississippi, Jennifer Saxon and Kristina Phillips
Preparation And Evaluation Of Valacyclovir Hydrochloride Ocular Inserts By Hot Melt Extrusion Technique, Gauri Shadambikar
A Framework For Assessing Water Quality, Prioritizing Recovery Potential, And Analyzing Placement Of Best Management Practices, Tadesse Animaw Sinshaw
The Relationship Between Metacognitive Awareness Of Reading Strategies Use And 10th Grade Students' College And Career Readiness Achievement In English Language Arts, Davida Smith-Keita
Measuring The Capabilities Infrastructure: A County-Level Index Of Nonprofit And Private Sector Organizational And Physical Community Capital, Ryan Thomas Snow
Biodiversity And Evolution In The Guiana Shield, South America, Andrew Michael Snyder
Fluorinated Organic Molecules for Medicinal Applications, Munia Sowaileh
The Effect of Environmental Perturbations on the Plant Phyllosphere Microbiome, Bram W. Stone
Excess Zeros, Endogenous Binary Indicators, And Self-Selection Bias With Application To First Marriage, Smoking And Drinking Outcomes, Lateef Subair
The Relationship Between Doctoral-Level Teaching Preparation Strategies In Cacrep-Accredited Counselor Education Programs And Self-Efficacy Toward Teaching, Eric Galen Suddeath
Japanese-English Bilinguals’ Competence Of Speech Acts In Politeness, Chikako Takehara
African American And First-Generation Students’ Perceptions Of And Experiences With An Academic Cohort, Sovent Zantrell Taylor
Multiobjective Reservoir Optimization Using Genetic Algorithm, Seyma Tiryakioglu
Engagement Strategies And Their Impact On Underserved Students, Emily Tucker
Professional Skill Development For Collegiate Recreation Student Employees, Peter Jacob Tulchinsky
A Song Of Confusion And Annoyance: Kant On The Beauty Of Absolute Music, Ryan Walton Turner
Characterizing Variable Flow Pathways And Geochemical History Of Seepage Under The Mississippi River Levee: 2011, 2015, And 2016 Floods, Kaitlin Marie Voll
Evaluation Of Parent Involvement In Families In Transformation (Fit) Wellness Program For Children, Heather Walker
The Role of Brand Name Fluency: A Pharmaceutical Marketing Perspective, David Wamble
Analysis Of Prehistoric Ceramics From A Fourteenth-Century Native American House, Carter Robinson Site (44Le10), Lee County, Virginia, Emily J. Warner
Synthesis and Characterization of Redox-Sensitive Polymer and Prodrug for Targeted Drug Delivery, Chang-Hee Whang
Examining Factors Related To Teacher Turnover In Mississippi School Districts And The Relationship Between Teacher Experience, Teacher Turnover, And Student Achievement, Angela Wheeler - Bass
On The Future Of Antidepressant Treatments: Targeting Neurotrophic Factors And Plasticity, Stephen W. White
Examining changes in bat swing kinematics in various regions of the strike zone in collegiate baseball and softball players, Caleb Williams
Demands And Offers In Ultimatum Games, Jeremiah Wills
The Slippery Slope Between Falling And Recovering: An Examination Of Sensory And Somatic Factors Influencing Recovery After A Slip, Samuel J. Wilson
Integrity Assessment Of Earthen Dams And Levees Using Cross-Plot Analysis Of Seismic Refraction And Electrical Resistivity Tomograms, Leti Teklu Wodajo
A Righteousness Housed in the Body: The Conception and Division of Kings' Bodies in Early Medieval Northwestern Literature, Sharon Miller Wofford
Down Under Punks And Dixie Rock: Reflections On Making The Documentary Film Chinese Whispers - Southern Roots In The Australian Swampy Sound, Gretchen Labudde Wood