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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Transformation Of The American Mafia, 1880-1960, Connor Anthony Hagan
The Investigation Of Okhissa Dam Using A Real-Time Monitoring System, Corey Alexander Hamil
Cannabinoid Modulation Of Cisplatin Induced Neuropathy, Hannah Marie Harris
Temper, Mounds, And Palisades: The Walford Site (22Su501) Of Sunflower County, Mississippi, Kimberly Nicole Harrison
Power And Hotspot Modeling For Modern GPUs, Md Mainul Hassan
The South According To Quentin Tarantino, Michael Henley
Essays In Asset Bubbles And Financial Crises, Harlan Michael Holt
The Costs of Cuba Libre: U.S. Neo-Imperialism, Tourism in Cuba, and the Habana Hilton, Lauren Elizabeth Holt
Passing Time, Bryan Horn
Accurate Computation Of Molecular Properties From Novel Applications Of Quantum Mechanical Wavefunction Methods, James Coleman Howard
Efficient Utilization of Solar Energy in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells and in the Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide, Aron Joel Huckaba
Effects Of Swahili Vowel System On Kenyan English Speakers' Pronunciation, David Macharia Irungu
Primary Care Providers' Provision Of Therapeutic Lifestyle Change Counseling For Patients With Cardiovascular Risk, Tristen Jackson
Quality of life and healthcare utilization and costs among adults with autism, Krutika Maulik Jariwala-Parikh
The Effects of Different Cuff Widths on Arterial Occlusion in the Upper Body, Matthew Brian Jessee
The Interactive Effects Of Citizenship Pressure And Job Embeddedness On Positive And Negative Outcomes Of Engagement, Jeremy Logan Jones
Adaptive Movements And Thermoregulation In Big-Eared Bats, Cody Jordan
Health Utility Assessment Among Caregivers of Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis, Namita Joshi
Transdermal Iontophoretic Delivery Of Lipophilic Drugs, Abhishek Juluri
Three Essays On Merger Outcomes: Corporate Strategy, Bargaining Power, And Valuation Waves, Stephen N. Jurich
Biomolecular Folding Rates As Understood From Single-Reaction-Coordinate Langevin Dynamics And Kramers’ Theory, Md Adnan Kabir
The Sweet Auburn Curb Market: The Search For Contested Space in the City Too Busy to hate, Katie Carter King
Essays On The Implications Of Specialty Review Websites’ Electronic Word-Of-Mouth (EWOM) On Firm Value And Consumer Perceptions, Robert Allen King
African American Vernacular English (Aave) In The Classroom: The Attitudes And Ideologies Of Urban Educators Toward Aave, Melanie Hines Knapp
Method development for mass spectrometric characterization of ultra-small nanomolecules and mass spectrometry imaging of selected biomolecules, Nuwan K. Kothalawala
An Historical Study Of The Contributions Of Jane Frazee To Music Education In The United States, Erica Kupinski
The Value Of Internships Within Athletic Training Education: Educators’ Views, Heather Arlene Landry Shirley
Three Essays On Firm Liquidity Management, Chris M. Lawrey
Diagonals of Tensor Products of Banach Lattices with Bases., Byunghoon Lee
Testing Lepton Nonuniversality In Tau Neutrino Scattering, Hongkai Liu
Raptorq-Based Multihop File Broadcast Protocol, Roya Lotfi
Beyond The Fields, Terry Rodnell Lynn
Seawall, Kieran Lyons
Screening Of Natural Products For Their Effect On Kallikrein-Kinin System: Potential Implications In The Treatment Of Hereditary Angioedema, Hassan Abdu Madkhali
Essays On Monopoly And Monopsony Under Imperfect Information, Matthew Philip Makofske
An Evaluation of Geophysical Methods in the Detection of Toddler-Sized Burials During the First Six Months of Burials, Paul Sullivan Martin
Fiber compaction and wetout in tapered resin injection pultrusion manufacturing, Naveen Babu Masuram
Attentional Bias Toward Pain-Related Pictorial Stimuli Among Individuals With Migraine Following Negative Mood Induction, Michael James Mcdermott
Developing An Architectural Sequence For A Portion Of The Mound A Enclosure At The Carson Mound Group, Coahoma County, Mississippi, Todd Bryan Mcleod
The Spectroscopic Characterization Of Newly Developed Emissive Materials And The Effects Of Environment On Their Photophysical Properties, Louis Edward Mcnamara
Elliptical Metasurfaces For Cloaking And Antenna Applications At Microwave And Terahertz Frequencies, Hossein Mehrpourbernety
Effect Of Risk Evaluation And Mitigation Strategies (Rems) On Utilization Of Thiazolidinediones In A Medicaid Population, Clive Mario Mendonca
Novel Delivery Systems For Iron Replenishment, Naresh Modepalli
Progress Toward The Total Synthesis Of The Natural Product Herbicide Ascaulitoxin Aglycone, Jeffery Brian Morgan
Comparing Anthropometric Methods To Quantify Relations Between Adiposity And Headache, Vanessa Lee Moynahan
Wind Induced Ground Motion, Vahid Naderyan
Gold Nanomolecules : Developing Synthetic Protocols, Characterization And Investigation Of Ligand Effects On Structure And Properties, Praneeth Reddy Nimmala
Acousto-Electric Impedance Of Ferroelectric Phononic Superlattice, Ola Hassan Nusierat
Localization Of Sensors In Presence Of Fading And Mobility, Hamzeh Hussain Omari
The influence of current year fire on leaf litter decomposition rates and microbial enzyme activity in forests undergoing ecological restoration, Megan E. Overlander
The Effectiveness Of Teaching Methods In Traditional Amish Schoolhouses In Lawrence County, TN, Ann Marie Paley
Protein-ligand interaction studies and identification of new drug-like hits as cannabinoid receptor modulators, Pankaj Pandey
Principal Preparation Effectiveness: A Program Evaluation Of The University Of Mississippi's Principal Preparation Programs, Summer Pannell
Identifying A Mechanism For An Infiltration Threshold From The Sunflower River, Ms To The Underlying Alluvial Aquifer, Austin Cole Patton
Modeling Roughness of Rock Discontinuity Surfaces, Christopher Pickering
Faculty Perception Of Department Chairs' Leadership Style And Perceived Effects On Music Faculty's Self-Reported Productivity, Jessie Lee Primer
Lipid & surfactant based systems for improved delivery of poorly soluble APIs, Sri Satyasai Nagendra Babu Punyamurthula
Up and Down, Guibing Qin
Divergence And Bayes Error Based Soft Decision For Decentralized Signal Detection Of Correlated Sensor Data, Roopa Shree Rajanna
There's No Place Like Home, Stacey Lynn Rathert
Material Melancholy: Stranded Objects In Modern Southern Women's Writing, James Travis Rozier
Functional Reactive Programming For Games, Peter Adewunmi Salu
Exploration Of Novel Synthetic Utility Of Lithioacetonitirile, Rambabu Sankranti
The dead rise the dead and walk among the living: An examination of the haunting South, queerness, and grotesqueries in Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Local Color", Jordan Alexis Savage
The Historical Impact Of Philosophical Naturalism On American Aesthetic Education: Bennett Reimer’s Philosophy Of Music Education As Aesthetic Education, Jeremy Edwin Scarbrough
Fusion With Self-Referential Labels: Examining A Behavioral Measure, Lindsay Wilson Schnetzer
Organic Angels: Innocence, Conversion, and Consumption in the Antebellum American Novel, Laura Jean Schrock
Complex Vector Lattices: Tensor Products And Multilinear Maps, Christopher Michael Schwanke
Youth With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: An Examination Of Adolescents’ Illness Perceptions And Associated Impact On Health-Related Quality Of Life, Zainab Shahpurwala
Some experimental investigation on effect of light and vibration on nano coated piezo for energy harvesting, Abhay Sharma
Is This Fire, Gregory Sherl
Empirical Modeling Of Piping Along Mississippi River Levees In Southwestern Illinois, Rebecca F. Shields
Evaluation of inhibitors of histone deacetylases as potential neurotrophic agents, Surabhi Shukla
The Effects Of Departmentalized And Self-Contained Structures On Student Achievement, Carrie Renee Skelton
Discovery of Alternative Artemisinin Binding Sites in Plasmodium falciparum ATPase-6, Shuneize Elizabeth Slater
The Diverse Nature Of Corporal Punishment: An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Students’ Perceptions Of The Discipline Method, Academic Performance, And Social Behaviors, Demeka Lashun Smith
Kierkegaard And Byron: Disability, Irony, And The Undead, Troy Wellington Smith
Tax Compliance: Ethical Orientation, Risk Perception And The Role Of The Tax Preparer, Ashley Beckett Soliz
A Decision Tree Approach To The Assessment Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Regan Stewart
Synthetic Study Of Karlotoxins And Investigation Of Alpha-Diaminoboryl Carbanion Chemistry, Yusuke Takahashi
Beautification Practices Among Asian And Asian American College Students, Itsuka Takamune
Computational Finite Element Analysis Of Extreme Loading Response Of Structural Insulated Panel (Sip) Building Subsystems, Kimberly Anne Tanner
Evaluation Of Novel Ligands For Opioid Receptors, Amer Hussien Tarawneh
Opera Education In The Upper Elementary Music Classroom, Carmen Louise Taylor
Leading Edge, Seth Michael Thibodaux
The Delicate Art of Being: Psychological Responses to Environmental Damage in American Fiction of the 1970s, Andrew Timothy Thomas
Speaking in Wild Tongues: The Borderlands of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker, Sara Gabler Thomas
Thin Bodies, Elizabeth Meliza Tran
The Political Power Of The Black Church, Chanse Jamal Travis
Language policy implementers: Faculty perspectives on language policy at a Southeastern U.S. University, Jordan Nicholas Troisi
“The Hard Work is Done in the Looking”: Analyzing Representations of and Responses to Appalachia in Popular Culture, Elizabeth Rose Barnes Trollinger
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Moral Distress Among Counselors Working with Children and Adolescents, Ian Scott Turnage-Butterbaugh
The Influence Of Interventions On Reading Comprehension In A Second And Foreign Language, Anna Velezheva
Impact Of Refill Synchronization On Medication Adherence For Chronic Diseases, Divya Verma