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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Impact of Leadership Effectiveness and Organizational Climate on Academic Achievement in Memphis City Schools' Alternative High Schools, Billy J. Walker
From Bootleggers to an Obey the Law Campus: an Analysis of the Alcohol Policies at the University of Mississippi, Scott Thomas Wallace
There Is No Dishonor in Desertion: Army Racial Intolerance and African-American Soldiers' Desertion, Steve Wallace
Nothing Less Than an Activist: Marge Baroni, Catholicism, and the Natchez, Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Eva Elizabeth Walton
Anticancer and antibiotic leads from marine organis, Bin Wang
Fret Studies of DNA Binding By Lambda Cro Variants, Lei Wang
Isolation, Structure Elucidation and Biological Evaluation of Natural Products From Plants and Fungi, Xiaoning Wang
Outings in the Queer South: Representations of Male Homosexuality in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty, Ramona Wanlass
Distressed Sales and Housing Prices: a Metro and Regional Analysis, Katherine Westbrook
The 50th Anniversary of REITs: a Triple Case Study With Financial Analysis, Barbara Sumrall White
Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Smackover Formation, Southwest Alabama, Andrew Wilbourn
The Impact of Servant Leadership on Follower Outcomes: Testing the Mediating Roles of Stewardship Climate and Trust, Wallace Alexander Williams
Deeds, Not Words: African American Officers of World War I in the Battle for Racial Equality, Adam Patrick Wilson
Thin Is In: a Content Analysis of Images in Women's Magazines From 2009-2011, Jennifer Kate Wilson
Only Nixon Could Go to China: L. Q. C. Lamar and the Politics of Reconciliation, Richard Brian Wilson
The Political Implications of Natural Disasters, Leah Cathryn Windsor
Survey of the Native and Nonnative Vascular Plant Species of Three Islands in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, Mark Gardner Winkler
Investigations Of Noncovalent Interactions Using Raman Spectroscopy And Electronic Structure Computations, Ashley Wright
Valproic Acid-Induced Teratogenesis in Japanese Rice Fish (Oryzias Latipes) Embryogenesis, Mengmeng Wu
A Historical Analysis of Living Blues Magazine, Melanie Young
Contributions to Robust Methods: Modified Rank Covariance Matrix and Spatial-EM Algorithm, Kai Yu
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Historical Overview of Children's Magazines, Elaine R. Abadie
High Temperature And Pressure Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy Study Of Metal Hydride Systems, Rasheed Adebisi
The History and Perception of Music Education in Kuwait, Youssif Abdullah Al Hassan
Nano-Materials By Design and Their Applications in Infrastructure, Hunain Said Alkhateb
The Gay of the Land: Queer Ecology and the Literature of the 1960s, Jill Elizabeth Anderson
Design and Analysis of a Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array and Its Feed Network, John Ashmore
Covering Systems of Polynomial Rings Over Finite Fields, Michael Wayne Azlin
The Effect of Static Pressure on the Inertial Cavitation Threshold and Collapse Strength, Kenneth Bryan Bader
Games That Will Pay: College Football and the Emergence of the Modern South, Matthew Bailey
Searching for Success: Predictors of Academic Adjustment of International Students, Gilberte Bastien
Impact of Relationship Context on Evaluations of the Sexual Behavior of Men and Women, Olga Vadymovna Berkout
Invasion of Hurricane-Disturbed Scrub Communities on Barrier Islands in Mississippi: a Battle Between Native and Non-Native Ecosystem Engineers, Christine Annette Bertz
Design, Synthesis, Biological Evaluation and Metabolic Stability Studies of Sigma Receptor Ligands, Rohit Bhat
Protecting the magazine brand: Brand manuals, their uses and implementation, Callie Jean Blackwell
Food and Identity: a Case Study of Roman Soldiers and Native Civilians in Roman Britain, Aaron Michael Bobik
Differentiated Phonics Lessons Effect on Fluency and School Culture, Margaret Quinlan Boyd
Gravesend, William Boyle
The Impact of a School-Based Cultural Awareness Program on Students' Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem, Charley Alexandria Braswell
Financial Cultural Capital: Cultural Capital in the Context of Higher Education and Federal Student Loans, Joey Brown
Starved: Food Deserts in the Mississippi Delta, Novelette L. Brown
Impact of a state sponsored intervention program on reading comprehension scores, Rolonda Brown
The Influences of Gender and Race on the Attachment Styles Within a Criminal Population, Morgan Litchfield Bryant
Independence Polynomials of Molecular Graphs, Cameron Taylor Byrum
Effects of Tornado Damage, Prescribed Fire, and Salvage Logging on Oak (Quercus Spp.) Saplings in Upland Oak Forests in Northern Mississippi, Jeffery B. Cannon
Characterization of intermolecular pi-Type interactions using sophisticated quantum mechanical, electronic structure computations, Emily Joy Carrell
The Effects of Professional Development on Implementation of the 2010 Mississippi Science Framework on Teachers' Attitudes About Teaching Science in Elementary School, Kimberly Lanette Carroll
William Faulkner's Hebrew Bible: Empire and the Myths of Origins, Scott T. Chancellor
Beyond the Bubble: Study Abroad and the Psychosocial and Career Development of Undergraduates, Vera V. Chapman
Relationship between coastal vegetation biomass with elevation and salinity gradients, Ying Chen
Fit of the Tripartite Model With Residential Youth Referred for Externalizing Problems, Eu Gene Chin
Examining the Effects of Realistic Recruitment on Work-Family Conflict: A Test of the Mediating Role of Expectations., Russell Clayton
Good Neighbors: Agents of Change in the New Rural South, 1900 to 1940, Thomas Wayne Copeland
Storm Spotting and Amateur Radio: a Field Guide for Volunteer Storm Spotters, Michael Patrick Corey
Formas De Tratamiento: El Voseo En Escuelas Y Liceos De Montveideo ("Use Of Voseo In A Classroom Setting In Montevideo, Uruguay), Irene Kaufmann Cotelo
Case-Mix Adjustment of Adherence Based Pharmacy Quality Indicator Scores, Sai Hurrish Dharmarajan
Running Identities and Interaction Ritual Chains, Jonathan Malonzo Dial
Positive Youth Development Among Latino/a Youth in a Service Learning Program, Christopher Fox Drescher
Cognitive Defusion and Psychological Flexibility With Self-Relevant Academic Distress Stimuli, Laura Ely
Korsgaard on Reason and the Normativity of Rationality, Robert Colin English
The Role of Mental Health Professionals in Cases of Child Sexual Abuse as Seen Through the Eyes of Judges, S. Lynn Etheridge
Bipartite Density of Generalized Petersen Graphs, Lisa Jordan Ewell
Epigenetic effects of benzo(a)pyrene in Fundulus heteroclitus and Danio rerio, Xiefan Fang
Sir Dudley North: Merchant Politics in the First Age of Party, Jamie Suzanne Farmer
Novel approaches to the control of infectious diseases, Damaris Agathe Meujo Foping
A Field Validation of Dam Indexing Methods in Mississippi, Steven Thomas Fox
The Role of Policy and the Built Environment on Children's In-School Physical Activity in the Mississippi Delta, Abigail Gamble
The Effects of Seasonal Changes and Turbidity on Swimming Performance in White Crappie Pomoxis Annularis and Black Crappie Pomoxis Nigromaculatus., Caleb Joseph Gaston
Quantification of an Ultrasound Test Apparatus and its Potential Use to Control Nuisance Species in Commercial Aquaculture Settings, Bradley T. Goodwiller
Response of riparian plant communities to hydrological alteration: Are seed banks a means of restoration?, Siobhan Boyer Gorham
God's Glass Ceiling: Women's Education in Christian Fundamentalist Higher Education Institutions, Melissa Graves
Thirsty birds like you, Abigail Cramer Greenbaum
Contextual Influences on Peer Acceptance and the Social Behavior of Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities, Caroline Brooke Green
Voice Call Capacity Over Wireless Mesh Networks, Pradeep Gunda Bhat
Well I'll Be: Positive Images Of Southern Women As Response To Feminism From 1980-2000, Jennifer Holman Gunter
The French Chef and the Cold War: Julia Child and the Mask of Contained Domesticity, Hillary Ann Hamblen
Cultural Factors That Predict Civic Engagement in African American Young Adults, Umieca Nicolle Hankton
The American School Discipline Debate and the Persistence of Corporal Punishment in Southern Public Schools, David M. Hargrove
An Examination of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching in Professional Development Settings, Shannon Harmon
Population Biology Of A Coastal Dune-Dwelling Spider (Arctosa Sanctaerosae) Along The Hurricane Disturbed Northern Gulf Of Mexico Coast, Robert A. Hataway
Extending The Human Capital Theory Of Career Success: An Empirical Test In The Ecuadorian Context, Mario Joseph Hayek
Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Succession in a Native Monterey Pine Forest and Its Potential Influence Upon Forest Population Dynamics, Kristopher Jordan Hennig
Variation in the Dynamic Response of Housing Markets, Andrew Pate Hill
Biopharmaceutical approaches for improved drug delivery across ocular barriers, Ketan Hippalgaonkar
The Relationship Between Discrimination, Acculturation, and General Psychological Functioning in International Students, Michael J. Hirschel
The Present Past - a Middle Swabian Dialect in the 21st Century, Stefanie Hirscher
Southern Noir: Appropriations and Alterations of a Twentieth-Century Form, Bob Hodges
A Study of the Relationship Between Reading Instruction and Male Students' Reading Scores in Single-Gender Elementary Classrooms, Chrystal Michelle Hodges
Sacrificial Acts: Martyrdom and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century Drama, Kelley Kay Hogue
Professional Preparation Of Secondary Health Education Teachers In Mississippi, Ensley Howell
Natural Products Chemistry of Leads Acting on MRSA, HCV, Malaria, and Depression Disorders, Mohamed Ali Mohamed Ali Ibrahim