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Theses/Dissertations from 1996
The effect of collisions on error performance in intelligent tag systems, Xiaowei Zhang
Synchronization for narrowband personal communication systems, Min Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Teaching the piccolo trumpet : from the perspectives of selected university trumpet teachers, Danny Keith Ellis
Mule racing in the Mississippi Delta, 1938-1950, Karen Marie Glynn
A tripartite perspective on reading and interpretation : a reading practice on William Blake's the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Robert Milton Sea
Effect of cracks on rain infiltration in a Mississippi Delta clay soil, Robert Ray Wells
The case of the reluctant story : the Allain sex scandal, William Franklin West
A way out of no way : African-American culture and empowerment at the Ichauway Plantation baseball diamond and store, Charles McCutchon Yarborough
Performance evaluation of forward error correction for narrowband personal communications systems, Wenxia Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
A Comparative Study of Selected Marches of Kenneth Alford and John Phillip Sousa, Alan Todd Alexander
The Effects of Caffeine and Affective Imagery on Facial EMG in Women, Robert Francis Mirabella
A new view of augmented sixth chords, Martha J. Reeder
A study of the issues involved in teaching singing to prepubescent children, Suzy White-Williams
Exploration of an actor's technique, Kathryn G. Witt
Stochastic modeling of aerosol agglomeration, Zhao-Ping Zhang
The effect of internal diffusion resistance in spin coating, Fengqi Zhou
Chromatography on organic surfaces, Chaowei Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
A Test of Self-Directed Practice and Feedback in the Reduction of a Disturbance in Body Image, Carla Carolyn Adams
A Study of the Atomic Number Dependence of Charmed D Meson Hadroproduction, Eric Matthew Aitala
A survey of recommended procedures and teaching methods for building and maintaining a wind and percussion instrumental music education program grades six through twelve, David Joseph Daigneault
Behind the Barbed Wire: German Prisoners of War in Mississippi, 1943-1946, Edward L. Maier III
Eighteenth century counterpoint : definition of terms and practical exercises, Raymond C. Patrick II
Development of stereoscopic particle tracking velocimetry for turbulent flow field diagnostics, Veera P. Rajendran
Problems facing television stations in markets 30-50, Marvin F. Williams III
Writing the Other: desire, language, and sexual ideology in the poetry of William Butler Yeats, Amy Elizabeth Wilson
Ebony's coverage of civil rights activists, 1960-1968, Evangeline Wilson
Automated ultrasonic nondestructive testing, particularly of fiber-reinforced composite structures, Shu-Bao Ye
Analysis of the eccentric annular ring microstrip antenna excited by a coaxial probe using the cavity model, Weidong Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
An overview of the pedagogical philosophies of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze and Zoltan Kodaly with application to early childhood musiceducation, Lydia Duckett Evanson
The Victorian temper : a perspective in microcosm, Rebecca M. Jordan
The Rain God, Emil William Kaul
Best evidence : a social history of the County Court of Lafayette County, 1865-1870, DebbieLee Landi
In the Handiwork of Their Craft is Their Prayer: African-American Religious Folk Art in the Twentieth-Century South, Joyce Ann Miller
Qualitative and quantitative determination of pinenes in gum turpentine, William D. Scott III
Models, G. Lawrence Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Television and the Survival of the Miss Mississippi Pageant, Angela A. Abraham
Governor William Jefferson Clinton : a biography with a special focus on his educational contributions, Charles Flynn Allen
Crises in Black and White: The McComb, Mississippi Enterprise-Journal's Coverage of Racial News, 1961-64, William Lance Conn
The Best of All Breathing: Hunting and Environmental Change in Mississippi 1900-1980, Wiley C. Prewitt Jr.
Statistical and numerical study of the relation between turbulence and sonic boom characteristics, Lixin Yao
Meadowbrook : an eighteenth century Chickasaw village, Jenny Dee Yearous
Measuring permittivities by coaxial line reflection method, Hongming Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
The Use of Orientalism in the Drama of Elizabeth Inchbald, Valerie Denise Adams
Four stories, Daniel Neal Debord
The Rise and Fall of the Great Music Festivals and the Hippie Culture of the 1960’s: Monterey, Woodstock, and Altamont, Charles Anthony Gates
Globe South, a Shakespeare Workshop : an interdisciplinary experiment in classroom dramatics at the University of Mississippi, Rebecca Ileta Moore Jernigan
The Effect of Repetitive Midazolam Treatment on Acoustical Startle in Rats, Robert Francis Mirabella
Concomitant Ordering in First Row Transition Metal Fluorides, Ajay Shah
From honky tonk angels to outlaw women : images of women in country music, 1944-1988, Deborah Carol West
The gothic impulse in three of Sam Shepard's plays, Susan E. Williams
Synthesis and characterization of nickel(II) complexes of a hydrotrispyrazolylborate ligand and of novel phosphinetrithiol ligands, Weihong Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
A History of Today's Christian Woman: 1978-1988, Janet Traylor Addison
Assessment of Male Body Image: Correlates and Components, Patricia Alexander
A Comparison of Two Hypnotic Methods for Achieving and Maintaining Abstinence from Smoking, Ronald Lee Lutz
Fatalism in some plays of Sam Shepard, Harksoon Yim
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
War and The Absurd in Ford’s Parade's End, William Wayne Albright
Opinions of Mississippi Pharmacists on the Prescription to OTC Switch, and the OTC Status of Ibuprofen, Li-ly Emily Chang
Divergent soliloquy : the unfolding of content, James L. Weems
Odious imitations of immortality for recitations in early childhood : a plan for using parody to teach appreciation of poetry, Ray A. Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Collaborative learning and instructor attitude, Barbara Childers McMillin
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Hemisphericity and Reading Comprehension: A Study of Black Students from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds, Linda Hampton Wesson
Empirical results on approximating file symbol probability distributions using a subset of file symbols, Carolyn Suit Wheless
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Performance of Black Liquid Flat Plate Solar Collector Using Double Wall Polycarbonate Sheet, Mahmoud Zarif Ahoubareh
The use of structured composition in the teaching of the three-part song form, Charles Mark Butler
An analysis and comparison of select teaching methods for E alto soxophone, Earl J. Hesse
A History of the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association, Carolyn Heard McMillin
Paleoecology of benthic foraminifera from the upper Cretaceous Selma Group of Mississippi, Daniel Graham Wells
"The 1940's Radio Hour" : a production study, Donna Marie White
The plight of the American Adam in the Leatherstocking series., Robert Clark Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Penal Reform in Mississippi 1799-1839, Heard Wylie Butler
The efficacy of speech-language intervention with geriatrics, Steve N. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
A rhythm pedagogy for freshmen and sophomore music students / by Sue Ann Reuter, Sue Ann Reuter
A comparison of videotape and line voice teaching of blissymbols, Hilda Elizabeth Welsch
Graceful trees and the Ringel-Kotzig conjecture, Cathy Ann Wills
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
M. P. Belaieff: An Episode in Russian Music, Maureen Blackburn Adkins
Length of Marriage as a Factor in Marital Satisfaction, Communication, and Performance on the Prisoner's Dilemma Game, Joseph Morris Alexander
The Federal Republic in the political theory of John Taylor of Caroline, Harold Brantley Cline Jr
Twentieth century composition : techniques and sequential exercises for beginning students, Patrick George Houlihan
Improving the use of the literature textbook in the high school, Marilyn Majors Monroe
The relationship between reading and writing, David Winston Taylor
The effects of protocol-assisted patient education on utilization of services for symptoms for the common cold, Judith Rae Keneipp Werking
Greatest and best. An examination of Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1891-1900, Stephen Harry Wheeler
Racial differences in infant mortality, 1960 and 1970, Connie Diane White
Anisopterous odonata of North Mississippi, Gordon L. Wills
Andre Dubus : a study of his fiction, John Stephen Yarbrough
The life and works of Roark Bradford, Robert Yarbrough
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
A Symbolic Representation of the Female Figure, Jean Gardner Abrams
The Wolfpin stories : with an afterword, William Scott Hays
A study of the effects of an instructional program on student conductors' ability to critically evaluate concert band performance, Ronald Dean Hooten
Petrology of North Mississippi Bauxite : A Case for Depositional Bauxite and Kaolin, Charles Nelson Thompson
An analysis of narrow conducting strips, William Allen Walker
The effects of reward and competition on intrinsic motivation, Patricia Lynn Wellons
Algebraic sets and the nullstellensatz, Cynthia Lynn Wells
A content analysis of international news in Mississippi daily newspapers, Henry David Windham III
Remote sensing, sedimentation and vegetation distribution within the coastal wetlands, eastern St. Louis Bay, Mississippi, Mary Earl Yeargan
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
"Bomb the Ban": A Study of the Legal Controversy Surrounding Off-Campus Speakers at Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, Lucie Robertson Bridgeforth
A Mississippi Opinion Poll A Study of Polling and Its Application to an Experimental Statewide Poll in Mississippi, John Michael Craft