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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
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
Smart Nanocoated Structure for Energy Harvesting at Low Frequency Vibration, Sudhanshu Sharma
Information Security In The Age Of Cloud Computing, James Eric Sims
Design and development of drug delivery systems for immediate and sustained release utilizing hot melt extrusion, Abhilasha Singh
The Relative Effects Of Mindfulness And Values On Therapeutic Relationship: Developing Methods Of Manipulating Alliance, Regan Michelle Slater
Hazel Brannon Smith: an Examination of Her Editorials on Three Pivotal Civil Rights Events, Lauren Nicole Smith
Warm Enough To Undress, Rachel Smith
Perfect Harmony: the Myth of Tupelo's Industrial Tranquility, Wendy D. Smith
Reinventing the Wheel: Examining the Antecedents, Moderators, and Outcomes of the Innovation Process, John Eli Smothers
Construct Validity Of The Child PTSD Symptom Scale, Regan Stewart
Finite Element Modeling of Seismic Wave Propagation in Earthen Embankments, Binyam Tadese
A Fractal Analysis of the Detection of Glucose Molecules on Biosensor Surfaces, Lokesh Taneja
An SSVEP Brain-Computer Interface: A Machine Learning Approach, Fei Teng
An Exploratory Study of the Experiences of Recent Graduates Who Participated in the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, Zaducka Tekeusha Thomas
An Evaluation of Medicaid Programs Using Medication Use-Related Quality Measures, Vennela Thumula
Language as Microaggression: the New Lexicon of American Racism, Juan Thurmond
Liminal Space, Sara Beth Truman
The Effect of Exercise on Mechanical Pressure Pain Threshold in the Presence and Absence of Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness, Brandon Tynes
Place, Race, and Religion in the Local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community and Movement of Memphis, Tennessee, Amy Catherine Ulmer
Multi-Configurational Investigation of Thermolytic Pathways of Highly Strained Ring Systems, Jeffrey Dwayne Veals
Metabolism And Pharmacokinetics In The Development Of New Therapeutics For Cocaine And Opioid Abuse, Pradeep Kumar Vuppala
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