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Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Bellsouth telephony : testing a high sensitivity GPS receiver in weak signal environments / by Terrance Wesley Sanders, Terrance Wesley Sanders
The body unbound, Kelley Pratt Sharp
A comparison of the characteristics of men and women with bulimia symptomology / by Karen Sheridan, Karen Sheridan
The Irish in rural Mississippi : a sample of the 1850 census / by Rankin Sherling, Rankin Sherling
For what binds us : the lyrics of place and desire in Jane Hirshfield and Judy Jordan / by Lisa Sloan, Lisa Sloan
VoIP traffic carrying capacity of an ad-hoc network, Rajagopal Sombhotla
Spatial and temporal variation in phytoplankton community characteristics in a southeastern reservoir / by Engela Sthapit, Engela Sthapit
The hyporheic zone : physical and ecological processes in small sand-bed streams / by John Michael Stofleth, John Michael Stofleth
Establishing the parameters required for spatial models of marine gas hydrates / by Emily Strack, Emily Strack
Site-specific RF signal power prediction model for the design of container tracking systems in an automotive metal fabricating plant / by Avinash S. Talreja, Avinash S. Talreja
Shaking reconstructed apples from secessionist trees : beyond ordinances of secession and civil war / by Audrey M. Uffner, Audrey M. Uffner
Quantitative analysis of land loss in coastal Louisiana using remote sensing / by Patrick M. Wales, Patrick M. Wales
Multicultural music perspectives of faculty members at the University of Mississippi / by Jill A. Ward, Jill A. Ward
Sing me back home : picking country music and memories in Hernando, Mississippi / by Angela Watkins, Angela Watkins
Synthesis and characterization of polymer nanofibers produced by emulsion polymerization, Suxiang Wei
Application of a particle filter to acoustic tracking of airborne targets / by Chad M. Williams, Chad M. Williams
A study of acoustic signature classification methods and results, Jay E. Williams
1 Cross + 3 nails = 4 sale : religion on the southern roadside / by Joseph A. York, Joseph A. York
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Phytochemical and biological investigation of alkaloids from Zanthoxylum Syncarpum tull leaves, Mounirah A. Al-Azeib
Acoustic waves in lithium niobate plates, Ashwini Almad
She ain't afraid of no ghost : ghostbusting warrior mothers and their daughters in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman warrior, Louise Erdrich's Tracks, and Toni Morrison's Beloved, Melanie R. Anderson
Size of RVE & effect of morphology on local fields : a statistical and numerical approach, Diwakar Anipindi
The application of multi-sensor remote sensing techniques in archaeology, Zeynep Nahide Aydin
In search of self, Jason Rae Baldwin
Nitrogen and phosphorus removal capabilities of Juncus Effusus and Paspalum Urvillei under eutrophic water conditions, Jason Victor Beadle
Homescapes, Andrew Blanchard
Discriminant, convergent, and discriminative validity of the Asperger syndrome diagnostic scale, Koren Marie Boggs
A Journey, Norma Sanders Bourdeaux
The production and direction of 'Proof' by David Auburn, Rebecca Bourgeois
Functional activities of a series of Trimetoquinol analogs on human ⁾-Adrenoceptors in vitro, LeNe'Sheya Y. Boyd
A reconstruction of Moreau chambers' : 1937 excavation of a Chickasaw village in northeastern Mississippi, LaDonna F. Brown
A Reconstruction of Moreau Chambers' 1937 Excavation of a Chickasaw Village in Northeastern Mississippi, LaDonna F. Brown
Greens : a cultural text of the south, Brooke Butler
James Joyce's Oxen of the Sun, Daniel Butler
A study of horse race elements in democratic primary election coverage in The New York Times, Jon Francis(Jack) Carmer
Beautiful, desirable, and dead : sexual violence in the fiction of Eudora Welty, Correna M. Catlett
Analysis and design of coplanar waveguide fed undirectional slot antennas with wide radiating apertures, Venugopal Chennupati
Genome-wide analysis of gene expression changes in Drosophila melanogaster with variable sensitivity to MPTP, Xinchuan Chen
Genome-wide analysis of gene expression changes in Drosophila melanogaster with variable sensitivity to MPTP, Xinyu Chen
Propaganda in political advertisements : an assessment of propaganda usage in Mississippi's 2003 gubernatorial political announcements, Marie Clare Christiansen
Repression unbound : validation of the index of self-regulation of emotion, Mark Christopher Clayton
How am I feeling? That depends on how you ask : an effect of question format in the self-report of mood, Grant C. Corser
Supercritical fluid extraction of Ephedrine using carbon dioxide and methanol, John Coyne
Association discovery in lung cancer microarray data, Kristin E. Davidson
Streamlining the production workflow using Quark or indesign with automation, Tim Davis
Earthquake damage assessment and liquefaction potential in North Mississippi, Khalid Ahmed B. Desai
Numerical analysis of fresnel zone plate antennas, Sasikanth Devulapalli
A comparison of the amount of whole schools training on teachers' attitudes toward arts integration, Sherry Lynn Donaldson
The knowledge and practice of college art students concerning the use of toxic paint pigments and solvents, Steven Bert Donaldson
A wireless sensor-based location strategy for manufacturing, Shirong Du
The victimization of the bride in Greek tragedy, Charles Gammel
Transitions, Rebecca A. Geary
The evolution of fire-stimulated flowering in the genus Pityopsis, Amy K. Gowe
Immigration and social change : a case study of reverse social remittances among North Mississippi, church-based ESL volunteers, Rachael C. Sibley Gutierrez
A superfund environmental evaluation using historical aerial photography and imagery, Jesse L. Harris
Common ground : looking at the culture of Oxford High School athletics, Christopher Jay Hedglin
Using remote sensing to search for the elusive Fort Maurepas along the back bay of Biloxi, Pollyanna Held
The place of wailing and grinding of teeth, Max Bishop Hipp
Occurrence of bird species of concern in three rare upland plant communities in North Mississippi, Douglas Scott Hohman
Trinity, troika, and triangle : patterns of three in the works of Carson McCullers, Emily Holloway
Inventory of levee slides with potential of prediction using commercially available remotely sensed data, A. K. M. Azad Hossain
Differences in syntactic abilities of children who speak Choctaw, Larita Maye Howard
A different kind of civil rights work : the Gustavus Adolphus College black recruitment program, William P. Hustwit
Landslide investigations in the Mississippi River bluffs of northwest Mississippi, Igor Dimitri Jaramillo
The treatment of folksong elements in Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Michael Emerson Jefferson
Effect of source clarity on the judgment of facially expressed emotions in context, Michael Brandon Kitchens
Dyadic green's functions of circular waveguides with application to excitation and scattering problems, Victor Klymko
The rack, the magazine and the consumer : an examination of magazine purchasing habits at the newsstand, Geoffrey S. Kohl
Performance based seismic evaluation of essential facilites in north Mississippi, Sailaja Kondapalli
Hydrologic controls on wetland tree growth : determining the origin, residence time and water quality of groundwater in the shallow root zone, Brian C. Laine
Biopulping and solid state fermentation, Marty Lanier
Single user data throughput on the forward link of a high data rate system, Ching-Sia Lim
Design and synthesis of novel sugar mimics, Yuan Liu
The effect of a school of origin variable on the traditional predictors and prediction of undergraduate pharmacy students' academic performance, William Boyd Lobb
Folding, Mita Maity
Effects of flavonoids on CYP1 expression in RL95-2 endometrial carcinoma cells, Zankhana Master
Tangible connections to an African past : archaeological and ethnohistorical investigations of the Silk Hope, Dublin, Heather Mauldin
Establishing the Tougaloo College art collections : New York school abstract expressionists, artists for CORE, and the art committee for Tougaloo College, Susan Lloyd McClamroch
Naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) from produced waters in Mississippi oil and gas wells, Clayton McKay
Thomas Jordan's Lord Mayors' Pageants : 1671-1673, Lauren Merrow McNeill
The acoustics of fluid motion in porous media, Pasquale Montanaro
Leaving Laurel : migration and the failure of geographic cure in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Travis Montgomery
Fractal analysis of analyte-receptor reactions on biosensor surfaces, Bret Morris
Mediating effects of selected social cognitive theory variables on women's exercise behavior, Katherine Mowat
DRIVE : a season in the life of a sprint car racer or confessions of a dirty girl, Kendra Myers
Filters in topology : products of fr╩╣echet spaces and the stone transform, Anh Tran Mynard
Incompatible subjects : an indictment of Barthian postmodern radical orthodoxy, Brandon L. Newman
How to unmake your bed, Phyllis Nobles
Study of complete freeze-thaw and moisture induced degradation for polyester/e-glass composites / by Ghanshyam Pal, Ghanshyam Pal
Getting involved : motivational programs and strategies to influence adolescent art students' and their teachers' involvement in art museums, Katherine Patten
Queue lengths at the base station of an HDR forward link / by Gokul Purushothaman, Gokul Purushothaman
Lillian McMurry and Trumpet Records / by Luis Rodriguez, Luis Rodriguez
Cost of water treatment in the Mississippi embayment unit / by Sahithi Rondla, Sahithi Rondla