Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 2004
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
Antenna modeling by infinitesimal dipoles using genetic algorithms / by Taninder S. Sijher, Taninder Sijher
Chocolate Plantation: A Geophysical and Archaeological Examination of a Sea Island Cotton Plantation on Sapelo Island, Georgia, Christopher William Simmons
Chocolate plantation : a geophysical and archaeological examination of a sea island cotton plantation on Sapelo Island, Georgia / by Christopher William Simmons, Christopher William Simmons
Multicultural survey of teacher attitudes about language proficiency among students / by Monty Elizabeth Singletary, Monty Elizabeth Singletary
Thermodynamic studies of micellization and adsorption for three alkyltrimethylammonium bromides using isothermal titration calorimetry / by Adam Eugene Smith, Adam Eugene Smith
Estimation of particle sizes for a range of narrow size distributions of natural sands suspended in water using multi-frequency acoustic backscatter / by Christopher K. Smith, Christopher K. Smith
Crown of thunder : a scenic design process / by Jared Sullivan Spears, Jared Sullivan Spears
Development of nanoparticle treated sensors and bearing diagnostics using fluctuation based processing / by Sai Narayan Sundar, Sai Narayan Sundar
Characterization and modeling of VBR video traffic in a high-speed packet switched network / by Yang George Sun, Yang George Sun
A pedagogical and comparative study : selected songs of Dinos Constantinides / by Laura Mobley Thompson, Laura Mobley Thompson
Application of ant algorithms to the University course timetabling problem and the deviation problem / by William G. Vaughan, William G. Vaughan
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
Beauty as currency, Joseph S. Abide
An Attempt at Balance: Staging Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves, Richard Albert
An attempt at balance : staging Guare's The House of Blue Leaves, Richard J. Albert
A Lighting Design Process for Twelfth Night, Erin Alberts
A light design process for Twelfth Night, Erin Elizabeth Alberts
Use of bioassays to determine receptor-mediated induction of cytochrome P4501A and estrogenic activity in sediment and natural product samples, Srinivas Annavarapu
In-situ characterization of subgrade using falling weight deflectometer, Manil Bajracharya
Electronic cooling of a generic transmitter, Jaideep Bangal
Burning processions, Brad Anthony Bernard
Stochastic modeling of nonlinear epidemiology, Sankar Bokka
An impedance tube investigation of thermoacoustics with a multi-phase working fluid, Daniel C. Brown
A fractal analysis of estrogen, estrogen-receptor interactions and estrogen metabolism in two related species of catfish, Harshala D. Butala
An examination of soil biogeochemical properties and seed bank dynamics of timber harvested lands in Lafayette and Calhoun counties, Mississippi, Lisa Chambers-Strong
Application of inductive inference to models with additive exponential terms, Chung Yong Chan
The making of the homoerotic body : southern evangelicals and the fight for gay and lesbian rights, Courtney E. Chartier
Developing efficient technique in beginning piano students, Fen-Fang Chen
Integration of remote sensing and GIS to evaluate change in the Mississippi coast and Mississippi Sound, Erika C. Cohen
Archaic effigy beads : a new look at some old beads, Jessica F. Crawford
The development of criteria for the selection of wetland restoration sites in the Yazoo backwater area, Mississippi, Angela A. Davis