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Theses/Dissertations from 2021
"Between the two Great Battlefields:" Scottish Medical Women's Encounters with the Eastern Front, Fiona Gale Holter
QUEER SUBCULTURE IN THE CONSERVATIVE SOUTH: A STUDY OF DRAG PERFORMERS IN MISSISSIPPI, Christina Alison Huff
Dragon on a Dog Chain, Stephen M. Hundley
An Applied Research on Promoting Proficiency in Fourth-Grade Reading, Deirdre Huntley
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE AMERICAN STATES, Mohammed Shariful Islam
APPLICATION OF PASSIVE AIR SAMPLERS FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH, AND DETERMINATION OF METALS IN TREE RINGS AND MARINE SAPROPEL BY ICP-MS, Byunggwon Jeon
FORECASTING GEOTECHNICAL PARAMETERS FROM ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY AND SEISMIC WAVE VELOCITIES USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS, Fatema Tuz Johora
FIRST GENERATION LAW STUDENTS: BARRIERS TO SUCCESS, Melissa Jones
EFFECTIVENESS OF SEISMIC BEARINGS ON A TYPICAL ISOLATED TWO-COLUMN RC BRIDGE PIER LOCATED IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI, Hemant Raj Joshi
Evaluation of Manufacturing Methods for Antenna Design, Caleb Daniel Keathley
Influence of RAGE Signaling on Cellular Communication in Diabetes-Mediated Vascular Calcification, Amber Michelle Kennon
1.5 generation Korean-American young adults' bilingualism and their identity in the U.S., Hanna Kim
The role of year-round fan engagement: A new approach to sport fan behavior, Han Soo Kim
Academic Support Systems and College Readiness for Black Male Student Athletes, Derek Lovell King
TIME AND PLACE AT PROSPECT HILL: A PHASE-ONE SURVEY OF A HISTORIC PLANTATION, William Bryce Krumcke
"Beyond the Lines": A Reassessment of Civil War Prisons, Beth Kruse
Effect of Chronic Pain on Prospective Memory Performance, Alexander Joseph Kuka
Describing the gut microbiome of Amblema plicata, Lauren Lawson
The Influence of Emotion Regulation and Family Involvement on Diabetes Distress among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes, Patric Justin Leukel
What Remains: Telling the Story of Irene Taylor's Murder, Christian Leus
Opinions, Attitudes, and Self-Efficacy of Secondary School Counselors in RAMP and non-RAMP Designated Schools and their Work with Students with Disabilities, Christine Denise Lewis Pugh
Executive Functioning and Purpose in Life Among Emerging Adults in College, Alexis Kaylyn Liberto
AN IN-DEPTH APPROACH FOR FUNCTIONAL OLIGOSACCHARIDE ANALYSIS, Hao Liu
Investigating the Boundary Conditions of the Fresh Start Effect, Jennifer Locander
TURNOVER INTENTIONS OF SELF-INITIATED EXPATRIATES: THE ROLE OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS, Caleb W. Lugar
On the Variance in Selberg’s Central Limit Theorem Dissertation, Meghann Moriah Lugar
Quantitative Effects of Electrodialysis Membrane Fouling, John Malone
SYSTEMATIC COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS FOR CELLULOSE SUBSTRATES, MOHAMMAD MANSOURIANTABAEI
Less the Light, Michael Martella
The Plight of Valinor: A Historically Informed Perspective on the Future Development of Space Law and Potential Exercise of Self-Determination by Human Settlements on Mars, Marshall David Mckellar
DO BEARS PREFER THE WEAK AND THE DOWNTRODDEN? THE EFFECTS OF THE 52-WEEK LOW AND FINANCIAL STRENGTH ON SHORT-SELLER BEHAVIOR, Christopher Alan Miller
The Value of Participating in Cooperative Education, Megan Upchurch Miller
THE ROLE OF ACETYLCHOLINE IN ATTENTION AND LAPSES IN ATTENTION IN RATS USING THE MODE AND DEVIATION FROM MODE OF REACTION TIME LATENCY, Scott Lee Mitchell
EXPLORING COPPER ACTIVE SITES IN BIOLOGY WITH RELEVANCE TO ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND DE NOVO DESIGNED BIOCATALYSTS, Suchitra Mitra
Revitalization in the Alabama Black Belt: Cultivation of a New Civic Hegemony in Rural Main Street America, Martha Grace Lowry Mize
BUILDING TEACHER CAPACITY AS A PATHWAY TO EQUITY FOR FIRST-GRADE SPANISH-SPEAKING ENGLISH LEARNERS: AN APPLIED RESEARCH STUDY, Mary Greenlee Moak
Fabrication and Characterization of Ocular Inserts by Hot Melt Extrusion and 3D Printing, Meghana Mokashi
COME AS YOU ARE: ISLAMIC RELIGIOUSNESS AS A CONTEXT FOR MENTAL ILLNESS BELIEFS AND TREATMENT, Elijah Phoenix Mudryk
The Black Petromodernism of Zora Neale Hurston: Energy, Race, and Mobility, Stuart Mullet
Nonreciprocity Applications in Acoustics and Microfluidic Systems, Masoud Naghdi
A CASE STUDY CORRELATING CARDIOMETABOLIC MARKERS AND T HELPER INFLAMMATORY PATHWAYS IN COVID-19 PATIENTS, MOHAMMAD SHAHEED NAZRUL
Prototypically American: The Influence of Accent and Race on Hiring Evaluations, Tuong-Vy Cac Nguyen
Subcutaneous Delivery of Albumin, Vy Nguyen
Implementation of the Michael Heggerty Model to Increase Student Achievement of At-risk Readers in Kindergarten, Michelle White Nowell
GRAPHENE SAND COMPOSITES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN WATER TREATMENT, Abdulla Nusair
DEPENDENCY-BASED REACTIVE CHANGE PROPAGATION DESIGN PATTERN APPLIED TO ENVIRONMENTS WITH HIGH UNPREDICTABILITY, João Paulo Oliveira Marum
EFFECTS OF NONNATIVE PHONOTACTIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE PERCEPTION OF NASAL-INITIAL CONSONANT CLUSTERS, Msafiri Otonya
JUST SOUTHERN FOOD: FOOD JUSTICE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA, Christian Tabor Owen
Your Presence Threatens Me! Experimental examination of intergroup threat theory to assess prejudice towards Muslims, Sukhmani Pal
UNDERSTANDING WILLINGNESS TOWARDS DEPRESCRIBING AMONG OLDER ADULTS WITH OSTEOPOROSIS, Queenie Paltanwale
Essays on Female Labor Supply, Hyerim Park
The Relationship Between Head Coaching Change and Donations to Intercollegiate Athletic Departments, Michael Paulus
On Domination and Bondage Numbers of Some Classes of Graphs, Andrew Pham
Visual Tracking Speed and Soccer Performance Metrics, Julia Paige Phillips
THE ACCURACY OF SUBJECTIVE LOAD PARAMETERS IN COMPARISON TO ANALYTICAL LOAD MEASURMENTS IN NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL, Katherine Pierce
Dynamics for Discretized Gravity in the Causal Set Approach, Benjamin Pilgrim
Lessons Learned Through Time: An Examination of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the COVID-19 Crisis, Stephanie Lee Poiroux
CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT OF A CHANNEL-FLOW USING SYNTHETIC JET, Pravesh Pokharel
EQUITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: VOICES OF BUSINESS STUDENTS AT A PERVASIVLEY SECTARIAN UNIVERSITY, Van Brooks Poole
Analysis of Bundle Protocol with Turbo Code, Babita Pradhan
The Validity of Transracialism, Samantha Nichole Priest
Abuse deterrent formulation using Hot Melt Extrusion Technology, Vishvesh Raje
Experimental investigation of granular dam-break flows and their rheological properties, Luc Remi Rébillout
Pharmacological manipulation of NMDA receptor activation and synaptic norepinephrine levels: Effects on sustained attention in male rats, Zach V. Redding
EFFECTS OF ACUTE EXERCISE INTENSITY ON SOURCE EPISODIC MEMORY: CONSIDERATIONS BY CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS, Brandon Thomas Rigdon
INTERICTAL AVOIDANCE OF SENSORY STIMULI AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITH MIGRAINE, Daniel Rogers
The Efficacy of Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Individuals with Anxiety-Spectrum Disorders: A Meta-Analysis, Gordon Michael Russo
Autonomy and Higher Education: Insight into the Autonomy System in the Commonwealth of Virginia, George Lamar Rutherford, II
Psychometric Evaluation of Memory and Concentration Sections in the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Seungho Ryu
COPING WITH PAIN AND HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG ADULTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE, Monika Salkar
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AGROGEOPHYSICAL METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SOIL PIPES, Md Abdus Abdus Samad
Exploring Current Community College Transfer Students’ Perceptions of The University of Mississippi Brand and Potential Connections To College Choice, Sarah Christopher Sapp
Group Sandtray Therapy with Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Assault: A Single-case Research Design, Jana Elaine Scott
RESONANT ULTRASOUND SPECTROSCOPY: SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS WITH HEXAGONAL SYMMETRY, Christopher Lee Sevigney
APPLICATIONS OF HOT-MELT EXTRUSION (HME) TECHNOLOGY AND INVESTIGATION OF A SCREENING TOOL FOR HME, Gauri Deepak Shadambikar
Enzyme-Initiated Admicellar Polymerization, Elaheh Shakeri
ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY DESIGN USING ARTIFICAL NEURAL NETWORKS, SHARIFUL ISLAM SHARIF
Stress, Depression, and Anxiety, Oh My: Examining the effects of a single-session seminar on depression and anxiety symptomatology, Katelyn Sharpe
Constructing and Validating Feature Models Using Relational, Document, and Graph Databases, hazim shatnawi
Chronology of the Fatherland Site, Daniel Shawl
Three Essays Exploring Diversification Strategies in Family Firms: Evidence from the S&P 1500 on Acquisitions and Exits., Chelsea Sherlock
Advancements Toward Sustainable Solar Fuel Production Utilizing Reductive Homogeneous Electro- and Photocatalysis, Hunter Pratt Shirley
Philophilia, Andy Sia
Elucidating the interfacial interactions between biomacromolecules and functionalized PAMAM-based materials for biomedical applications, Briana L. Simms
ENHANCED ELECTROCHEMICAL AND LIGHT-DRIVEN CO2 REDUCTION BY INCOPORATING PENDANT FUNCTIONALITY IN THE SECOND-COORDINATION SPHERE OF MOLECULAR CATALYSTS, Sayontani Sinha Roy
Woman Enough?: Transgender Women and Intimate Partner Violence Shelters, Parker Smith
MIDWIFERY AND MEDICINE IN BRITAIN: A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF MIDWIFERY AND CHILDBEARING IN SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND, 1650-1780, Summer Smith
MEASURING THE VALUE OF INTERNAL CORPORATE EVENTS FROM ATTENDEES’ PERSPECTIVE: MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALE DEVELOPMENT, Inna Soifer
African American College Students First Experiences in Counseling, Melissa Denise Spencer
The Bake Sale: Fundraising and Social Justice in the 21st Century, Kelly E. Spivey
Blood Money: 12th Century Trade Wars and the Fourth Crusade, Alexander Evgeniy Stalowski
REDUCING DISPARITES IN ACT RESULTS ACCORDING TO RACIAL IDENTITY: AN APPLIED RESEARCH STUDY INTO THE WeACT PROGRAM IN TINLAKE HIGH SCHOOL, Marcus Stewart