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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Investor Behavior Surrounding Trading Halts: Short Sales, Predation and Contagion Effects, Mary Celeste Funck
Phytochemical studies on the medicinal plant Sutherlandia frutescens, Xiang Fu
Assessing the Timing of One-Sided Violence in Civil Conflict, Nicholas Christopher Galanos
The Legendre Transform of the Holst Action, Caixia Gao
Development of Novel Thermosensitive Polymers for Bioresponsive Drug Delivery, Vivek Kumar Garripelli
Functional Morphology of the Sphyrnid Shark Cephalofoil: an Assessment of the Hydrodynamic Lift Hypothesis Using Computational Fluid Dynamics, Matthew K. Gaylord
Cultivating a Rainbow Median Through the Study of Sexuality in Second Language Acquisition: Identity Construction of Lesbian Women Native to the Southern Region of the United States, Elizabeth Walker Graves
Making a Difference: Measuring the Effectiveness of Mississippi Teacher Corps Teachers as Compared to Non-Mississippi Teacher Corps Teachers, James Benjamin Guest
The Adoption of Lean Operations and Lean Accounting on the Financial-Performance Measures of Publicly Traded Companies, Daniel C. Harris
The Use of Space at the Late Woodland Shady Grove Site (22-Qu-525), Stephen George Harris
Trust and Trustworthiness in the Executive Compensation Policy Required By the Dodd-Frank Act: an Experimental Study, Dana L. Hart
A Factor-Analytic Study of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory, Second Edition (Lassi-2) in a Sample of University Students, Kwoneathia Hill
Preformulation Characterization And Formulation Development of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol Prodrugs For Potential Treatment Of Glacuoma, Tushar Hingorani
Mississippi Breakdown: a New Look at the Mississippi Old Time Fiddle Music Traditions, Joseph Jamison Hollister
Distributed Space-Time Message Relaying for Uncoded/Coded Wireless Cooperative Communications, Peng Huo
Virtual Worlds and Conservational Channel Evolution and Pollutant Transport Systems (Concepts), Chenchutta Denaye Jackson
Masculinity In Comparative Black Literatures, Latoya Renee Jefferson
How Do STEM Minority Faculty Members Describe Their Experiences of Graduate Student and Faculty Socialization?, Ayana Milele Johnson
An Examination of the Relationship Between an Autism Label and Teachers' Attitudes, Expectations, and Behavioral Intentions, Corinn Nicole Johnson
Immersion Within Call, Jaime Ann Jones
Homogenization of Structured Metasurfaces and Uniaxial Wire Medium Metamaterials for Microwave Applications, Chandra Sekhar Reddy Kaipa
Chinese/Chinese American Students at the University of Mississippi From 1946 to 1975, Hsin-Yi Sandy Kao
Reconfigurable Wideband Circularly Polarized Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wireless Applications, Ahmed Khidre
A Generic Qualitative Study of the Experiences of International Students Participating in the Cultural Connections Program at the University of Mississippi, Nadezda Nikolaevna Kholomeydik
Journey, Hosik Kim
The Effects of Response to Intervention on Third Graders' Reading Achievement, Marlon Demetrius King
Serializing the Middle Ages: Television and the (Re)Production of Pop Culture Medievalisms, Sara McClendon Knight
Determination Of Cutoff Frequencies Of Simple Waveguides Using Finite Difference Method, Sridhar Kolagani
Antimalarials from Plant Pathogenic Fungi, Mallika Kumarihamy
The Archaeology of Mortuary Ritual as Rite of Passage in Prehistoric Europe, Jacquelyn Mary Roberts Kyle
Discovery, Isolation, and Identification of Antimalarials from Fungal Endophytes, Andrekeus Lee
Adaptive Tolerance to Ocean Acidification in the Marine Sponge: Chondrilla nucula, Sylvester Lee
Stochastic Models For Evolutionary Genetic Problems, Wei Liao
Characterizing The Acoustic Properties Of The Jet Lab At The National Center For Physical Acoustics, Joshua Anderson Lieblong
The Cost Of Kinship: Southern Literary Families And The Capitalist Machine, Joshua Sean Lundy
Description of Coherent Structures in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer By Model Reduction of the Surface Pressure, Gregory William Lyons
Psychological Birth Order and Career Adaptability in an At-Risk College Population, Joshua Alexander Magruder
Preprocessing of Biomass Using Mechanical, Chemical and Microbial Techniques, Swetha Mahalaxmi
Design synthesis and biological evaluation of non-peptide neuropeptide FF ligands, Jessica Valentinas Mankus
Standoff Laser Interferometric Photoacoustic Spectroscopy for the Detection of Explosives, Logan Marcus
Exploration and Validation of the Camp Orientation and Experiences Scale, Mckenzie Lynn Martin
My Higher Self: Elizabeth Bishop and the Endurance of Emerson, Joshua Andrew Mayo
Encountering the Marvelous in Marie De France, Robert Edward Mccain
Bacterial and Sediment Transport in an Artificial Sand Bed Stream During Unsteady Flow, Mary Alexandra Mccaskill
Exploring Inter-Organizational Relationships Between Park and Recreation Agencies With Wounded Warrior Programs and Community Service Organizations, Morgan Alexander Mccreary
Rituals of Resistance: The Life, Lynching, and Legacy of L.Q. Ivy, Hannah Maureen McMahan
The Queen of the Household: Mothers, Other Mothers, and Female Genealogy on the Plantation in Postslavery Women's Fiction, Correna Catlett Merricks
Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England, Charles Mock
Pharmaceutical formulation development utilizing hot melt extrusion and other techniques for development of immediate and controlled release dosage forms, Noorullah Naqvi Mohammed
Horizons, Holography And Hydrodynamics, Arif Mohd
VirEthics and the Problem of Aging, Robert Edward Mongue
Synthesis And Characterization Of Nickel Complexes With Relevance To Nickel Acireductone Dioxygenase And Nickel Superoxide Dismutase, Margo Nicole Montgomery
Price Dynamics and Spatial Market Structure for Three U.S. Southern Pine Timber Products, Dekuwmini Mornah
Exploration of the Balanced Scorecard as a Tool for Performance Measurement and Strategic Planning in Higher Education Development, Clifton Perry Moulds
Restricting Supervised Learning: Feature Selection and Feature Space Partition, Xiaofei Nan
Advanced Design Methodologies and Novel Applications of Reflectarray Antennas, Payam Nayeri
The Perceived Effectiveness of Container Security at Seaports Along the Gulf Coast, William Augustus Neely
A Social-Cognitive Approach To Marketing Ethics: Institutionalization, Integrity, And Power, Ceri Nishihara
Development and Comparative Predictive Validity of an Outpatient Medication Exposure Measure for Risk Adjustment Using Retrospective Claims Data, Kyle Dennis Null
Admicellar Polymerization to Compatibilize Calcium Carbonate With Oil-Based Drilling Mud, Olugbenga Samuel Ojo
Thermal and Photochemical Interaction of CO2 with Biochar, Eneruvie Uyoyou Okinedo
Processes Involving Acid Gas Solubility In Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs), Fadekemi E. Osideinde
Accelerating the Performance of a Novel Meshless Method Based on Collocation With Radial Basis Functions By Employing a Graphical Processing Unit as a Parallel Coprocessor, Derek Owusu-Banson
Artificial Impedance Surfaces and Wire Media for Absorption and Cloaking, Yashwanth Reddy Padooru
The Role of Emotional Expression on Person Identity Recognition, Kristen Paris
Mais Bonito Da Região: the Cacao-Producing Region of Cachoeira Alta, Bahia, and the Transition From Wage Labor to Small Farming, Rodney D. Parker
The Effects of a Multi-Component Wellness Program on Employee Biometrics, Jennifer Erin Patrick
The Underrepresentation of English Learners in Mississippi's Intellectually Gifted Education Program: a Framework for Change, Vicki Patterson-Davidson
Effects of Off-Label Prescribing on Patient Decision Making, Douglas Paul
Staging Sodomy: Deviance and Devotion on the Early English Stage, Bobby Ellis Pelts
Cracker Barrel's Culture: Exporting the South on America's Interstate Exits, Susan Nicola Penman
Using Eye Tracking and Attention Maps in Computer Science Education, Austin Pernell
Perception of Resistance as a Predictor of Self-Blame in College Women Who Have Experienced Sexual Assault, Mary Ashton Phillips
Racialized Perceptions: a Comparative Study of Symbolic Racism in Europe, Brandi D. Pikes
Another World Entire: the Posthumanism of Cormac Mccarthy, Margaret Henson Pless
Comparison Of Apple's Ios 5 And Android For Mobile Applications Development: A Developer's Perspective, Estela Pochintesta
Effects of Hydrologic Connection on Physicochemical Conditions and Algal Properties in Backwaters of the Lower Mississippi River, Orathai Pongruktham
A Comparative Study of Segmented Tungsten Rod Penetration Into a Thick Steel Target Plate, Michael Bryant Presnell
Essays on the Strategic Implications of Marketing Capabilities: Marketing Exploration and Exploitation, Joseph Mitchell Price
Maintaining Intact Our Homogeneousness: Race, Citizenship, & Reconstructing Cherokee, Rachel Purvis
Impact of Design Parameters on Detached-Die Tapered Resin Injection Pultrusion, Sudip Ranjit
Analysis of Wavelet Based Alternatives for OFDM, Tassniem Rashed
King of the Hill's Souphanousiphones, the New Model Minority, and the Subversive Model Minority, Robert Reece
Simulation and Phases of Macroscopic Particles in Vortex Flow, Heath Eric Rice
C.C. Bryant: a Race Man Is What They Called Him, Judith E. Barlow Roberts
Two Trains Running: Capture and Escape in the Racialized Train Cars of the Jim Crow South, 1893-1930, Raleigh Mixon Robinson
Influence of Capillary Heterogeneity on Leakage of Co2 From a Borehole, Frank Roecker
Design Of A Material Test Kit For Use From 1.6 Ghz To 26.5 Ghz And Its Use In Evaluation Of Dielectric Properties Of Foam Core Materials Used In Sandwich Composites, Naveen Kumar Sankranthi
Picking Up the Pieces, Michael Presley Satterfield
Theoretical And Spectroscopic Studies Of Molecular Systems For Charge Transfer And Energy Storage And Transfer, Debra Scardino
Design and synthesis of HIV-1 integrase inhibitors, Sarah Chajkowski Scarry
Y'all eat: Foodways, performative regional identity, and the South in the twenty-first century, Kirsten Schofield
Impacts of Race/Ethnicity and Self-Esteem on Body Dissatisfaction in Women, Kristie Vail Schultz
Multidoman Piezo-Ceramic Cantilever, David Paul Sedorook