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Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Factors That Shape the Crisis Management Styles of Former and Current Senior Level Student Affairs Administrators at the University of Mississippi, Shannon Baker Richardson
Effects of a Heated Turbulent Boundary Layer on Surface Pressure Fluctuations, David William Rich
John Cotton's Middle Way, Gary Albert Rowland
Postglacial Sandy Hill: A Regional Manifestation of the Gulf of Maine Archaic Tradition, Benjamin Russell
Experimental Damage Diagnosis of a Model Three-Story Spatial Frame, Samantha Sabatino
The Heavy Hand of Government: an Economic Study of Obesity, Kanybek Imanakovich Sagynbekov
Biophysical Techniques of Transcutaneous Drug Sampling and Drug Delivery, Srinivasa Murthy Sammeta
The Swinney Conservatory of Music at Central Methodist University: an Historical Study, David William Samson
Meaning in life, depression, and alcohol use in a college sample, Lindsay Wilson Schnetzer
Playing the Game: Violence and the Revolt Against Normative Masculinity in John Updike's Rabbit Run, Norman Mailer's an American Dream, and Phil Andros's $tud, Ann Marie Schott
Threshold, Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
Pharmacy-Level Quality Measures and the Consumer: Preferences and Attitudes, Zainab S. Shahpurwala
A Nonparametric Bounds Approach for Hedonic Housing Price Indexes With an Application to the Southern California Market 1996 to 2008, Zhizhong Shan
The FEV Frontend: A Terrain and Water Simulation Client, Donald Brent Sharrow
Best Practices for Disaster Coverage: an Analysis of How the Herald Newspaper and WLOX-TV Covered Hurricane Katrina, Nicole R. Sheriff
Extraction of ontology and semantic web information from online business reports, Lakisha L. Simmons
A Strange Union: Science And Politics In The Loyalty Of Cadwallader Colden, Katherine Smith
Design and Synthesis of Novel Agrofungicides Based on Naturally Occurring PBDEs, Robert Alexander Smith
Calcite Cementation of Sixty-Five-Year-Old Aragonite Sand Dredge Pile, Nathan M. Snyder
Three Essays on Trading and Banking, William Paul Spurlin
Effect of UV-A irradiance on lipid accumulation in Nannochloropsis oculata, Rathy Srinivas
Biopharmaceutic and Pharmacokinetic Evaluation of Hesperidin and Hesperetin for Ocular Delivery, Ramesh Srirangam
Conservation Genetics and Distribution of the Yazoo Darter (Etheostoma Raneyi), Kenneth Alan Sterling
The Impact of Pre-K Programs on Student Achievement and Instructional Leadership in Rural Mississippi School Districts, Jeremy Eugene Stinson
Freeze-Thawing of Polyester/E-Glass as an Evaluation of an ASTM International Test Standard Proposal, Stefan Mauritz Strandlund
A Study in Texture Segmentation: Investigating the Role of Template Retuning in Perceptual Learning, Kurt Douglas Streeter
Can't You See the Sun's Settin' Down on Our Town?: Decline, Space, and Community in Frisco City, Alabama, Mary Amelia Taylor
Ourself Behind Ourself, Concealed: The Thematic Importance Of Doubling In Nineteenth And Early Twentieth-Century American Gothic Literature, Katharine Mclaren Todd
LT Code Equations, Stanley Truitt
The Relationship of Teacher Efficacy, Teacher Experience, and Teacher Grade Level Within the Implementation Process of Behavioral Interventions, Irene Walton Turnage
Nose to Brain Delivery of Therapeutic Agents, Siva Ram Kiran Vaka
Pharmacokinetic Evaluation of a Novel Compound, Sn79, a Putative Sigma-2 Receptor Antagonist, By Intravenous and Oral Administration in Rats, Harsha Vinnakota
Impact of Imagine Learning English in Two Northern Mississippi Schools, Dawn M. Waddell
Three essays on the impact of information and transparency in firms, Lloyd R. Wade
New Synthetic Methodologies for the Construction and Optimization of Natural Products, Amir E. Wahba
Reforming Tastes: Taste as a Print Aesthetic in American Cookery Writing, Sarah Wurgler Walden
Examining the sleep hygiene behaviors of migraineurs in a university setting, Ashli Brooke Walters
Divergence Of Opinion And Share Repurchase, Hao Wang
Behavioral Analysis of Directors of High-Performing Versus Low-Performing High School Bands, Mark Dwayne Waymire
Nutrition Assessment and Intervention Improves Body Composition and Diet in NCAA Female Volleyball Players, Rachel Wenzel
Characterization of the Engineering Properties and Economic Potential of the Transitional Clay Unit of the Ripley Formation, Northeast Mississippi, Richard Christopher Wheeler
Crashsmith Dope: the Role of Media in the Development of Professional Baseball in New York From 1919-1929, Ryan McGregor Whittington
Avian Cerebellum Specialization in Relation to Acrobatic Courtship Displays in Manakins (Pipridae), Steven Ray Wilkening
Corporal Punishment: Opinion Vs. Research, Margaret Williamson
Here on this hill, Jennifer Jean Wilson
Seismic Tomography for the Integrity Assessment of Earthen Dams and Levees., Leti Teklu Wodajo
Ion Transport, Viscoelastic, and Thermal Properties of Several Poly(Ethylene Glycol) and Poly(Propylene Glycol) Based Polymer Electrolytes, Benjamin Jacob Yancey
The Relationship Between Patterns of Relating and Academic Self-Concept, Ji Woong Yang
Improving Sample Collection Of Trace Particles Of Mock Explosive On Nano Coated Sensor, Daniel Woldemichael Yebo
Molecular details of the catalytic activity of carboxylesterases, Xiaozhen Yu
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Testing the Social Processing Advantage in Recognition and Reconstruction Tasks, Stephan Adair
Synthesis of Analogues Based on the Opioid Alkaloid Mitragynine, Marco A. Arribas
Willingness to Influence Indication-Based Off-Label Prescribing: an Investigation of Hospital Pharmacists, Ram Sankar Basak
Approaches Towards the Synthesis of Bradyoxetin, Vanildo Martins Lima Braga
Tiered Market Structures: an Empirical Examination of NASDAQ, Kevin D. Broom
The Economic Impact of the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005, Randall B. Bunker
Instructors' attitudes toward the use of technology at the University of Mississippi, Julia Emilia Bussade
A GIS-Based Analysis of Chickasaw Settlement in Northeast Mississippi: 1650-1840, Wendy Cegiellski
Using Bayesian Inference in Design Applications, Chung Yong Chan
Alternative weekly and city magazine under one roof: Contemporary Media, Inc.'s “Memphis Flyer” and “Memphis” magazine, Cory Taylor Cox
The Fungal Connection: Characterizing the Ectomycorrhizal Community and Belowground Response to Restoration Treatments in Northern Mississippi., Ashley Jane Craig
The Educational Implications Of Dibels Oral Reading Fluency Assessments And Mississippi Curriculum Test 2 In Reading First Schools, Debra A. Dace
Analysis of periodic structures using finite-difference time-domain method, Khaled ElMahgoub
Differences in Bone Mineral Density Among Adolescent Female Tennis Players and Non-Tennis Players, Kevser Ermin
The Influence of Individual Differences in Emotional Clarity on Sensitivity to Situational Cues, Elizabeth Lauren Foreman
Fungi-derived natural products with binding affinities for human opioid or cannabinoid receptors, Jiangtao Gao
An Analysis of Daily Newspapers in Mississippi That Charge for Online Content, David Hopper
A Single Case Study of a Three Year Coordinated School Health Program at a Rural North Mississippi Elementary School, Sandra Lena Howell
Pharmacological Reversal of Cognitive Bias in The Chick Anxiety-Depression Continuum Model, Kristen Anne Hymel
The Accounting Profession Goes to War: Accounting Contributions to World War II, Mark Ernest Jobe
Determinants Of Bone Mineral Density In African-American And Caucasian College-Aged Women, Andrea K. Johnson
Beyond the sunset : race and ethnicity in Cullman County, Alabama, Miles Laseter
Bicircular Matroids with Circuits of at Most Two Sizes, Torina Deachune Lewis
Glory Stands Beside Our Grief: the Maryland United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Assertion of Their Identity, Amanda Mae Myers
Distributed Turbo Product Coding Techniques Over Cooperative Communication Systems, Esam Ali Obiedat
The Effects of Ecological Restoration on Soil Microbial Enzyme Activities and Leaf Litter Decomposition, Anthony Jason Rietl
Analysis and Design of a Wideband Dual-Polarized Antenna Based on the Principle of Huygens' Source, Hyukjun Seo
Impervious Surfaces Mapping Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery, Tahmina Shirmeen
Type 2 Diabetes in Children: Estimates of Epidemiology, Quality of Care, Costs and Resource Utilization in a Medicaid Population, Vennela Thumula
Pharmacists' Rating of Relevance of Available Information in Deciding the Validity of Opioid Medication Prescriptions, Leonardo Roberto Torres
Preparation and Characterization of Lyophilized Cyclodextrin Complexes of a Hemisuccinate Ester of Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol for Transmucosal Delivery, Sampada Bhaskar Upadhye
The Role and Effectiveness of Proactive Behaviors as Coping Strategies in the Stress Process, Laura Anne Williams
The Crescent and the Cross: Islamic Influence in Southern Culture, Jesse Wright
Modeling of Transient Response of an Elastic Beam With Flexible Supports and Variable-Location Impact, Weiping Xu
The Effect of De-Contextualized Multimedia Software on Taiwanese College Level Students' English Vocabulary Development, Yaw-Liang Yan
Detection of Response Bias and Noncredible Performance in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, John Christopher Young
A Web 2.0 Strategy For The Meek School Of Journalism And New Media, Lauren Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Implementation of Intelligence-Led Policing in Mississippi, Christy L. Babb
Reconfigurable antennas with beam-scanning radiation patterns, Lijun Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Examining the effects of a leave no trace outdoor ethics awareness workshop on the environmental attitudes and knowledge of undergraduate students, Timothy T. Williamson
Having made cents of sense of place : literature, tourism, and the commodified myth of New Orleans, Hicks Wogan
The tonality, timbre, affect, and mood of postmodern drama, or, Blues music in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Matthew L. Wohlgemuth
Celebration drinking and the self-fulfilling prophecy of alcohol misperceptions : implications for the University of Mississippi, Catherine Dane Woodyard
Increasing the performance of the tangential vector finite element method by utilizing a graphics processing unit as a parallel coprocessor, Maxwell U. Woolsey
Timelessness undone : culture, agriculture, and the narrative of ecological decline in Faulkner's fiction, Deighton Zerby