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Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The effect of sloped surfaces on postural control and gait dynamics, Scott P. Breloff
The effects of cold temperature on gait initiation and dynamic balance in young and older females, Christi Brewer
Holy roller boy in voodoo country, Greg Brownderville
Negotiating the public road in the antebellum south : race and class in slave narratives and old southwest humor stories, Katharine A. Burnett
Memory for gossip, Jennifer Caldwell
La obra de leonora curtin : una investigación sobre el multiculturalismo de las prácticas médicas en el suroeste de los estados unidos, John P. Campiglio
Craig Claiborne : a southern-made man, Georgeanna Milam Chapman
Development of small molecule inhibitors of hypoxia inducible factor activation through pharmacophore model development, Tiffany D. Clark
Contextualizing women's lyric voices in Douce 308, Nadejda Colin
Home in repair, Anne Corbitt
Habitat for insanity, Micah Craven
Hooray for prohibition! : evangelicals and the southern temperance movement, Miranda Cully
Software for the Telugu language, Madhuri Dasari
Going to the market : a study of segregationist academies, Rebecca Domm
The impact of gender role orientation on childhood friendship patterns, Ashley O. Durkee
Renegade speakers : Jaques in As You Like It and King Lear, Amanda Etheridge
Evaluation of [┬│H]-SN56, a novel sigma-1 receptor radioligand, James A. Fishback
Staying afloat in a global world : reflections on life as a mill worker at Inman Mills, Inman, South Carolina, Jane Harrison Chapman Fisher
Does God see this? : shakers, slavery and the south, Ryan Lee Fletcher
New kahalalide derivatives from the alga bryopsis pennata, Jiangtao Gao
The utilization of low-cost commodity parallel graphics processors in high performance real-time computing systems, Gerald W. Godbold
Gay Darl : a new reading of erotics in As I Lay Dying, Phillip Andrew Gordon
New perspectives on Celtic feasting, Emily Greene
I'll give you that, Emily M. Green
The effect of small-scale stratification on gravity driven fingering in unsaturated porous media, B. Clark Griffith
Quantitative kinetic analysis of cro repression in vivo as a function of operator sequence, Yin Gu
Analysis and design of partitioned loop antennas, Roger D. Hasse
Hurricane Katrina's impact on the Mississippi Gulf Coast : general self-efficacy and its relationship to PTSD prevalence and severity, Michael J. Hirschel
Sugared histories, Melissa Holm
Integrating online query capabilities into a data warehouse system, Liang Huang
Geospatial evaluation of lineament correlation to tripoli deposits in the Alabama-Mississippi-Tennessee region, Allison S. Innman
Estimating turbidity current flow conditions from sinuous channel dimensions in the Bay of Bengal middle channel-levee system, Justin Paul Janaskie
Newspaper dailies : a comparative analysis of three major newspapers and their free off-springs, Luther Johnson
Bird dreams : stories and a one-act play, Michael Johnson
Persistence in the periphery : archaeological investigations at Baateelek, Caves Branch River Valley, Belize, Jillian Michelle Jordan
SN79, a novel sigma-2 receptor antagonist, attenuates cocaine-induced behaviors in mice, Nidhi Kaushal
The measurement of humidity in concrete and its effect on the coefficient of thermal expansion, Derek G. Kendrick
A comparative analysis of differentiation of self and entitlement among the emerging adult, Kale Edney Kirkland
Design, analysis and optimization of planar resonant metamaterials using split ring resonators, Sowjanya Kolli
Clarksdale, Mississippi : the birthplace of the blues, Natosha Lynn Lampkin
Truth, Melissa Jean Lee
Microbial conditioning of biomass for ethanol production, Swetha Mahalaxmi
Doorehtaf, Chris McCaslin
Going solo : the benefits of creating a single parent magazine / by Ellen L. McClurkin, Ellen L. McClurkin
The news media and IPV, Fred D. McGhee
Influence of the Biot Type-II wave on the angular dependence of the coupling of sound into the ground, Chris McNeill
Field-trial measurements and testing of 3G UMTS, AbdulKhaleq N. Mohammed
Integrating web 2.0 applications as cognitive tools in second and foreign language instruction, Daniela Munca
The effect of temperature on the thermal expansion mismatch in fiberglass reinforced composites, Emmanuel Bolarinwa Ode
Column synthesis of manganese oxide coatings on Ottawa sand, Olusegun Adegboyega Ojewole
Nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of loci of solubilization and the effect of ionic strength changes, Olumuyiwa Olaotan Olaosun
Color revolutions : source selection and ideological slant in U.S. media, Elza Orozalieva
Analytical modeling of artificial impedance surfaces / by Yashwanth Reddy Padooru, Yashwanth Reddy Padooru
Adsorption of inorganic carbon on volcanic rock : implications for global CO₂ budgets and ¹⁴C dating of groundwater, Ashley Phillips
Adaptive MIMO multiband OFDM UWB systems and cooperative communications, Jiqun Qi
Analytical modeling of address allocation protocols in wireless ad hoc networks, Ahmad Mahmoud Radaideh
Cumulative case strategy for solving the identification problem / by John Emmette Mitchell Rhymer, John Emmette Mitchell Rhymer
Key West elegies / by Danielle Sellers, Danielle Sellers
Comparison of global warming coverage in Russia and USA / Karen Shainyan, Karen Shainyan
A critical analysis of German translations of Beowulf, 1904-2005 / by Christopher Blake Shedd, Christopher Blake Shedd
Bring that beat back : the sound of the heart, the streets and the drums / by Vitus R. Shell, Vitus Shell
Aristotle's theory of political friendship / by John Spano, John Spano
The name of the nearest river / by Alex Taylor, Alex Taylor
Phylogeny, hybridization and the evolution of fire-stimulated flowering within the grass-leaved goldenasters (Pityopsis, Asteraceae), View-Hune Teoh
We are eaters : examining food ministry through the women of New Albany, Mississippi / by W. Andrew Tillman, W. Andrew Tillman
Why can't we be friends? : an exploratory study of the barriers to establishing friendships between American and International students / by Christina Tucker, Christina Tucker
Religion and race : Cuban confraternities in the nineteenth century, Hunter Upchurch
The girl can't help it, she's gotta rock 'n' roll / by Twinkle Mischelle VanWinkle, Twinkle Mischelle VanWinkle
Robust strain gage placement optimization for structural health monitoring / Charles Isaac Walker, Charles Isaac Walker
British ballads in the Arkansas Ozarks : survivals of oral tradition / by Justin E. Wallace, Justin E. Wallace
Imagining the unimaginable : witnessing trauma in the post-segregation south / by Becca Walton, Becca Walton
Examining the effects of a leave no trace outdoor ethics awareness workshop on the environmental attitudes and knowledge of undergraduate students, Timothy T. Williamson
Examining the Effects of a Leave No Trace Outdoor Ethics Awareness Workshop on the Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge of Undergraduate Students, Timothy T. Williamson
The debate on debates : do primary debates influence the electorates' candidate evaluations? / by James Colby Winzer, James Colby Winzer
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
A new way of reading : Stephanie Plum's hybrid audience and a new wave of genre fiction / by Sarah Wurgler, Sarah Wurgler
Analysis of phased array antennas and compact digital phase shifter / by Suresh Kumar Yada, Suresh Kumar Yada
Factors affecting spotted salamander breeding pond selection / Patrick Yamnik, Patrick Yamnik
The plasma kallikrein kinin system modulates endothelial cells / by Jia Yang, Jia Yang
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
Lessings ringparabel in Nathan Der Weise und ihre relevanz für die aufklärung und die heutige zeit, Saida Abdelmalki
Stochastic modeling of progressive damage in polymer concrete composites, Hunain Alkhateb
It's grotesque in the west : Hollywood's carnivalesque in Fitzgerald's The Love of the Last Tycoon : A Western and West's The Day of the Locust, Jill E. Anderson
Using electromagnetic induction to predict moisture content in loamy soils, Matthew S. Aufman
Open or not? : the public's right to gain access to police records, David Thomas Baxley
Physiological parameters as indicators of activity level in twelve species of sharks, Will V. Bet-Sayad
Going against the flow : making a case for a men's food and lifestyle magazine, Garreth C. Blackwell
Assessing the piping potential of individual levee segments along the Sacramento and Feather River levee systems in California, Joshua A. Bomar
TYPE A : or how I learned to stop worrying and love my dremel tool, Christopher L. Brady
Dreadful pennies, Mary Burroughs
The languages and logics of segregation at the University of Mississippi, Thomas John Carey
Microwave characterization of structured materials using a waveguide of square cross-section, Ravi Kiran Challa
A spatial median filter for noise removal in high dimensional images, James Church