Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
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
Representational crisis in psychiatry : corporate hegemony and postmodern knowledge, James Andrew Whitaker
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
Grim reapers' stories, Jennifer Linscott
Errors Russian learners of english make : a case of the perfect aspect, Marina Lopatkina
Reconfigurable antennas with beam-scanning radiation patterns, Lijun Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Contextualizing women's lyric voices in Douce 308, Nadejda Colin
Phylogeny, hybridization and the evolution of fire-stimulated flowering within the grass-leaved goldenasters (Pityopsis, Asteraceae), View-Hune Teoh
Religion and race : Cuban confraternities in the nineteenth century, Hunter Upchurch
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
A model for data provenance management, Zhendong Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Stochastic modeling of progressive damage in polymer concrete composites, Hunain Alkhateb
TYPE A : or how I learned to stop worrying and love my dremel tool, Christopher L. Brady
The University of Mississippi confederate cemetery: lost cause ideology, monumentation, and ritual, Allan Lemmon
Last best place, Jennifer Elaine Malesich
England’s Exodus: Jewish Readmission and English Identity, Patricia M. O'Sullivan
Treading the threshold of The House of the Seven Gables, Troy Nelson White
Facade, Shawn Whittington
MAP decoding of variable length encoded sources with symbol re-alignment, Lei Yao
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
“Daddy, Tell Me Another Story:” The Drive-By Truckers, Southern History, and Popular Culture, Ellie Campbell
The use of quantum dots in the detection and measurement of supercoiled DNA using capillary electrophoresis, Justin B. Clisby
Disillusionment, Kimberly Lockhart Noll
Reclaiming identity, reimagining place : characterizations of the white southern underclass in grit lit, Jacob Sullins
A behavior analytic contribution to theories of social categorization, Jonathan H. Weinstein
Wake measurements and flow visualization of a blended-wing-body-model, Harold Holbrook Whiffen
Experimental evaluation of cooling methods for a high density packing array of power amplifiers, Zachary A. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
A nostalgic reconsideration of the sublime in aesthetics, Katherine Rhodes Fields
A Survey and Analysis of the Implementation of Visual Art Standards in Mississippi Classrooms, Ann D. Ostenson
The concerto in G by Maurice Ravel : an analysis with neo-riemannian applications to his non-functional harmonic progressions, Maurice Ravel
VoIP traffic carrying capacity of an ad-hoc network, Rajagopal Sombhotla
Synthesis and characterization of polymer nanofibers produced by emulsion polymerization, Suxiang Wei
A study of acoustic signature classification methods and results, Jay E. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Size of RVE & effect of morphology on local fields : a statistical and numerical approach, Diwakar Anipindi
Genome-wide analysis of gene expression changes in Drosophila melanogaster with variable sensitivity to MPTP, Xinyu Chen
Chocolate Plantation: A Geophysical and Archaeological Examination of a Sea Island Cotton Plantation on Sapelo Island, Georgia, Christopher William Simmons
Authentic versus tourist : reexamining a collection of West African art in light of new debates and old ambiguities, Sarah Joy Walker
Psychological stress during exercise : stress hormone responses and immune function, Michael Weldy
In pursuit of a pure garden : Roger Williams in a trans-atlantic context, Bryn Elizabeth Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Beauty as Currency, Joseph Abide
An Attempt at Balance: Staging Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves, Richard Albert
A Lighting Design Process for Twelfth Night, Erin Alberts
Developing efficient technique in beginning piano students, Fen-Fang Chen
Nutrient stoichiometry in algal responses to multiple stressors in experimental agricultural wetlands, William Robert White
The effects of alcohol and a woman's refusal on men's ability to discriminate inappropriate sexual behavior in a date rape scenario., Andrea H. Winslett
Two approaches to eliciting vocabulary from users of AAC, Dana Kristen Yarbrough
Partnership as a means to strengthen elementary general music programs in Mississippi Delta schools, Karl Arthur Zinsmeister
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
A Land Use History of the Holly Springs National Forest, Michelle R. McAnally
Echoes of the lost cause : Civil War reverberations in Mississippi from 1865 to 2001, Sally Leigh McWhite
"So Strangely Misrepresented”: Rethinking John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory, Brian Craig Miller
A comparative study of vocal dysfunction of kindergarten through sixth grade music and non-music teachers of selected northern Mississippi schools, Thelma Lorraine Rozukalns
An introduction to the vocal works of American composer Rosemary Silversteen with an emphasis on pedagogical issues, Calista Jane Sprague
Temporal trends in party affect, Justin Paul Wedeking
Coping with college life: the effect of writing on freshman adjustment to college, Peter Wakefield Winslett
Analysis and design of coplanar waveguide fed bow-tie aperture antennas, Guiping Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
How pianists memorize and suggestions to enhance the memory process, Lawrence Darwin Brooks
A study of rapid curing of polyester resin in a heating oven to simulate pultrusion processing, Raghunandan Chaware
Artistic and redemptive uses of affliction in Anne Bradstreet's personal poems, Wilda Joell Head
The effects of the Alexander technique on the respiratory system of the singer/actor, Barbara Huskey Hudson
Civil liberties in cyberspace : a case study of the electronic frontier foundation, Mayoor Jaiswal
New world order : the changing themes of southern Americana in the twenty-first century, Sherry Gayle Jeffries
An investigation of the attitudes of selected voice teachers toward the use of gospel music in studio instruction, Dani Small Jones
A study of ten prominent clarinetists : a presentation of their methodology and pedagogy, Michael Magruder
Politics and poetry : Emily Dickinson's civil war poetry, Sylvia Christine White
A lighting design process for A Christmas Carol, Cara Shearer Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Works of Men, Paul N. Akin, Jr.
The effect of formulation excipients on the crystal growth and habit of silver sulfadiazine, Manpreet A. Kaur
Channel bank stability analysis and design considering the effects of Riparian vegetation and root reinforcement, Lance D. Yarbrough
Lattice fluid model for supercritical fluid chromatographic systems, Xuefeng Yi