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Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Political culture, political socialization, and race : consensus /dissensus on political orientations among black and white college freshmen in Mississippi, John Charles Hughes Sr.
Approaches to the study of voting behavior in American presidential elections, 1944-1978 : a bibliographical essay, John Charles Kilkelly
The effects of three putative haloperidol antagonists upon haloperidol-induced effects on operant behavior in rats, Cynthia H. Walker
Kate Chopin's women of choice, Jeanne Elizabeth Wells
The development of a selective-differential medium for the isolation and detection of Yersinia enterocolitica, Hurbert Lap Chung Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Developing fluent recognition of basic pitch notation by programed instruction, Lawrence Clifford Smith
Development and applications of Poisson, Jensen, and Poisson-Jensen Formulas, Frank Eugene Westmoreland II
Rotifers as indicators of domestic pollution, Darryail W. Whittington
A comparison of twenty brain-injured and twenty non-brain-injured childrens' performance on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, Brenda Kay Wildermuth
Dubitanda in the David M. Robinson Memorial Collection of Antiquities at the University of Mississippi, Pamela Anne Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Out of Tennessee poems, with an introduction, Roy Neil Graves
Children as victims, demons, seers : Flannery O'Connor's wise brood, Marion Ellison Ham
Fundamentals of traditional composition : a harmonic approach, John Philip Manchester Jr
A survey of requirements, curricula, and degrees available in graduate music in the public universities in Mississippi, Allen Kent Sills
The planning of recitals of American piano music of the common practice period, James Walker Snyder
The Puritan Tradition in the Novels of Robert Herrick, Allen D. Towery
A survey of commercial radio managers' attitudes toward university broadcast graduates entering commercial radio marketing, Phil Ford Wier
A comparative study of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale and its sources and analogues, Susan Kay Morris Williams
Markov chains with denumerable state spaces, Thomas Daniel Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Subjective Associations Between Classical Mythology and Modern Technology Expressed in Graphic, Charles Abraham
A syntactic analysis of William Faulkner's prose fiction, Anne Conner Gaddis
The influences of the drum and bugle corps on the high school marching bands in the state of Mississippi, John Howard Hanbery
Development of a music curriculum for Mississippi County Community College in Blytheville, Arkansas, Gilbert Clarence Sommers
A practical guide for the collegium musicum, Harry Evers Spell
A methodology for the elucidation of the object-choice phenomenon in drug addiction : a comparison of the Jungian, Castanedan and Laingian paradigms, Michael Jay Sturman
Arranging for the marching band : a comprehensive text, Johnnie B. Vinson
Frontal chromatography : studies of additive effects on infinitely dilute solutes, Theodore Newton Westlake III
Harmony in selected piano works of Frederick Chopin, Charles Andrew Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
A Survey of Bryozoan Species and Ecology in Two Northern Mississippi Flood Control Reservoirs, John Withrow Burris
A pedagogical analysis of Aaron Copland's Piano Variations, Jerry Alan Bush
A comparative study of embouchure, breathing, and articulation on the horn, the trumpet, and the trombone, Paul. R. Carpenter
Some aspects of literary criticism and the English curriculum, Josephine Cleveland
Thirty years on Arkansas government, 1945 to 1975 : bibliographic essay on the political science literature on Arkansas state government and politics, Norman Leycester Hodges Jr.
The oboe : its technique and literature, Daniel Franklin Ross
A retreat from chaos : the agrarianism of Andrew Nelson Lytle, Franklin Neill Walker
Dean Swift Faulkner : a biographical study, Dean Faulkner Wells
Distribution of formicidae in three seral communities in North Mississippi, Shannon Mary West
The acculturation of foreign graduate students at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in relation to their English ability, Sheida Emanuel White
Terraces in north-central Mississippi, Charlie Burnell Whitten
The 1973 war powers law : reform or punitive action, Kenneth Carroll Willis
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
A Practical Approach to the Arranging of Popular Music, Charles Edwin Abraham
The Ecological Patterns of Racial and Socio-Economic Segregation, Riaz Ahmad
Scott Fitzgerald and money, the beautiful and damning, Reginald Franklin Gunnells
Ballistic muscular movements and their implications for piano technique, Don Lee Huneycutt
Relevant praise and irrevelant praise as reinforcement for children : a methodological study of social reinforcement, Thomas Gaillard White
The Spirit of the Times : a Pontotoc, Mississippi, newspaper, 1841-1842, James Rudell Willis Jr.
A.B.C., C.B.S., and N.B.C. live television interviews conductedduring the 1972 Democratic National Convention : an audio content analysis, David L. Womack
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Eric Hoffer's conceptual approach to the development of Americandemocratic leadership, Henry Nash Carrier III
Occupational and Educational Aspirations of Black and White Male High School Students in a North Mississippi County, Melissa Hall Clark
Long-Term Retention of Tritium in Man, Chin-Jen Ou
An analysis and comparison of select teaching methods for the clarinet, James K. Simpson
The relationship of the self-portrait and abstract forms with the immediate environment, Vernon Vance Wesson
The American role at Algeciras, James L. Whitten Jr
Changes in art judgements resulting from a course in art appreciation at East Mississippi Junior College as determined by mean gains, Jon H. Whittington
A study of selected classification systems available for use in music libraries with recommendations for the University of Mississippi Music Library, Jauwiece Mims Wilkenson
A comparative study of freshman and sophomore music education requirements in the Mississippi public junior colleges with Mississippi senior colleges and universities, Jerry Ellis Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Arrangements for Care of Preschool Children Whose Parents Live in the Married Student Housing Area at the University of Mississippi, Nancy Schomberg Abney
Rearrangement of Alkanesulfenanilides, Parviz Ainpour
Thermodynamic Investigations of Alcohol-Hydrocarbon Systems by Frontal Analysis, Mary Patricia Alewine
The Development of a Role Model for Campus Ombudsmen at Institutions of Higher Learning in the United States, Ray Bass Jr.
The evolution of jazz performance and study in high schools andcolleges, Thomas Glenn Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
A Survey of Theatre Production Facilities in the State Junior Colleges of Mississippi, Samuel David Christ Sr.
Time perception as a function of expectation of receiving an aversive stimulus, Richard Milton Weiss
Fedayeen : men of sacrifice, Ken Melvin Welshimer
Factors associated with attitudes of black students toward integration at the University of Mississippi, Robert Earl Williams
A comparison of self-concept of five-yearolds from a lower socioeconomic group and from a higher socioeconomic group, Rosanne Johnson Williams
St. Andrew Presbytery of North Mississippi : a study of ideal and real values in church participation, John Maxwell Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
A Suggested Guide for Teaching Stage Movement, Elynor Elizabeth Butler Hamilton
Graduate Record Examination Aptitude Test Scores of Selected Students at the University of Mississippi, Peter Carson
The Ku Klux Klan in the United States: Its History, Organization, and Recruitment Practices, Chester Leland Quarles
Temperature and concentration dependence of the N,N'-diphenylformamidine and N,N'-diphenylacetamidine and related compounds as shown by infrared spectroscopy, Edward McSherry Williams
A comparative analysis of The Little Foxes and Regina, Jimmie Lee Williams III
Nutritional adequacy and acceptance by students of the meals served in nine sorority houses at the University of Mississippi, Quintilla Smith Williams
The role of the engineer in urban planning, Harry Maury Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Syntheses and antimicrobial activities of some 4-aza-sitostane derivatives, Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein
Greek Religious Festivals and Art, with Illustrations from the University Of Mississippi Museum, Willene Carpenter Hull
Distribution and Incidence of Frog Lung Flukes in Lafayette, Pontotoc and Panola Counties, Mississippi, with the Proposal of a New Species and a Revision of the Genus Haematoloechus, Robert Thural Clark
A Comparison of the Five-Year-Old Child’s Perception of the Father Role and the Father’s Self-Role Perception, Carole W. Mandly
Elementary estimates for second smallest quadratic non-residuesfor primes of form 24n + 23 and 24n +- 13, Robert H. Waller
Growth characteristics and glycolysis of HeLa cells, Harrell David Whitten
An analysis of student teaching factors that contribute to effective teaching, Nell Land Williams
Female characters in the theater of Marivaux, Rudy De'Wayne Williams
The relevant market in antitrust cases : a legal and economic analysis, John Lloyd Wilson
Creep on cracking of soil-cement base, Frank Cherng Yao
A study to prepare a Mississippi planning law digest, Joseph Watt Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
The Role of the Fine Arts in the Total Education of the Terminal Student in the Public Junior Colleges of Mississippi, Joseph Robert Abrams
The Oil and Gas Industry in Mississippi, 1939-1966, Robert M. Campbell Jr.
False cap rock overlying Gulf Coast salt domes : analysis and origin, Charles William Walker
The use of farnesol in the study of metamorphosis and polytene chromosomes in Aedes aegypti (linn.), Gerald Bruce Whitfield
The two faces of Antigone, Mari-Jane Ciravolo Wilbanks
A study of J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories, Polly Franklin Williams
Theora Hamblett: phenomenon of cosmic art and creative intuition, Sandra Gai Williams
The ten Blake songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jane Hungerpiller Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
The Passion of Love as a Destructive Force in the Novels of Zola, Deanna Lorraine Aaron
Studies on Populations of Anchoa Kitchilli Cuvier & Valenciennes in Mississippi Sound, with Special Reference to the Life Cycle and Seasonal Variations in Abundance, Edna Janice Edwards
Primitivism in the fiction of William Faulkner, George William Sutton
The effect of inter-trial variation in the amount of reward foryoung children, William Robert Walker
The rehearsal, both individually and collectively in preparationfor a musical performance, with special emphasis on stage-fright, James E. Westbrook
A study of the Calvinist and new Humanist philosophies as the basis of Faulkner's Light in August, Kay Williams
The gametophyte of woodwardia areolata (L.) Moore : development in sterile culture, effects of exogenous sucrose, and an attempt to induce apogamy, Fred Tinsley Yeats Jr.