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Theses/Dissertations from 1998
The effect of dissolved oxygen and absorptive state on the swimming performance and swimming respiration of juvenile channel catfish, (Ictalurus punctatus Rafinesque), James Holly Walker Bartlett
Claude Gentry : the life of a truly southern historian and author and the local color characteristics of his Freedom Hills novels, Sharon Lee Franklin Bishop
Studies in molecular surface modification, Rex Anthony Boonyobhas
Effects of food web structure on thermal profiles of freshwater ponds, Bryan William Brooks
Fraternity myth-making in the twentieth century :L : three studies in folk history, Matthew McMillian Brothers
The pencil and the scalpel : rival perspectives in bartram and audubon, H. Dixon Bynum Jr.
The forgotten : regional poverty in New York State, Elizabeth Mary Caffrey
The power of Pentecost: brings peace to a sanctified church in the south, Audrey Chevella Campbell
Three journeys : a study of the acting process, Aaron Cedolia
Understanding cultural influences on the descriptive language of pain, Alice Christine Chaney
News coverage of female magazines : a textual analysis of the Ladies Home Journal & Ms. Magazine, Sept. 1993-Dec. 1996, Ling-Chuan (Linda) Chen
Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel inducible nitric oxide synthase inhibitors, Shukrit S. Chimote
The effect of stretching on muscle activity and muscle force produced during a maximum isometric contraction, Donald Gean Clark
Perceptions of the Demi-Monde in the work of Edgar Degas, Susan Nicole Morgan Clark
Vegetation and substrate types for wastewater treatment wetlands, Sara Allison Davis
What comes around, goes around : a defense of African-American burlesque performance from minstrels to jug bands, Charlene E. Dye
Deutsche wege - Deutsche identitatssuchen. Zeitung als Geschichtsbuch. Berichterstattung der letzten Halfte des Jahres 1989 in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung fur Deutschland, Brigitte Margarete Ebel
Questioning Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale, Heather LaLanne Feierabend
Pressure rise and velocity distribution inside a pultrusion cylindrical die inlet, Sai Uday Kumar Gadam
The effects of cryotherapy on ground reaction forces and leg muscle activity during a functional movement, Kevin John Gallen
Secondary metabolites from the sponges Suberea Crassa and Acarnus Erithacus, Hongfeng Gao
Three games : an application of game theory, Lynn Wesley Gardner
Measurement of tyvek reflectivity properties for the Pierre Auger project, Justus Ogwoka Gichaba
Gender effects on contralateral suppression of otoacoustic emissions, Dana Lee Glazier
Formulation and evaluation of artemisinin and arteether liposomes, Kedar S. Gokhale
A slaveowner's daughter : planter autonomy, self-interest, and ambiguous freedom in Mitchell v. Wells, Sarah Livingston Goldsmith
Analysis of stripline and waveguide discontinuities as a 2D-problem using finite difference time domain method, Andrei Goumilevski
The Yocona River Inn Bluegrass community, James Stanfield Gray
A theoretical study of the excited states of Butatrienylidene and the isomerization of bicyclo [2.1.0] pent-2-ene to 1,3-cyclopentadiene, Angela Janette Grayson
The cult and the cardinal : an examination of religion news coverage in leading print media, Gwendolyn Anglee Green
Models of motherwit, spirituality and experience : Granny midwives as ministers to women and guards of tradition, Angela E. Griffin
The tears that bind, Lashun R. Griffin
The other within : Margaret Atwood's vision of female friendship, Jill Elaine Grogg
Fate and transport of cyfluthrin through a forested riparian zone, Alicia Dawn Harrington
648 cups, 7 teapots and 8 paintings : an installation, Everett E. Henderson
The impetus and manifestation of monastic philosophy in romanesque ecclesiastical architecture : the cluniac-cistercian dichotomy, Michael Lance Herrington
Quantitative quaternary gis analysis of prehistoric site locations in the upper Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, Carla Hildebrand
Thomas P. Brady : a passion for order, Daniel M. Hoehler
Assessing risks associated with exposures of aquatic organisms to contaminated sediments, Duane B. Huggett
The writing's on the wall : family history, memory and the lost cause, Alice Page Elizabeth Hull
On the development of some wavelet techniques in computational electromagnetics, Winn Elliott Hutchcraft
Development of finite difference time domain input interface, Nithya L. Iyer
Analysis of renal proteins in hypertension, Namrata M. Kaul
The Smith chart, Mohammed Sayeed Zaman Khan
Stochastic modeling of carbon oxidation, Advait Kulkarni
The unknown playwright : a study of Aphra Behn's authorial mask, Angela M. Langfitt
Reproduction and the risk of predation on a web-invading spider, Argyrodes Trigonum (Hentz)(Araneidae: Theridiidae), Edgar Lawson Leighton
Improvisation method based on melodic composition, Phyllis Karen Linton
A directorial production study of Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime, James C. Mahle
Characterization and assessment of Lyngbya-dominated cyanobacteria blooms in the SB-1 reservoir, Springhill, Louisiana, Brian Jeffrey Mastin
Community baseball in North Mississippi, Traye D. McCool
Development and validation of an African American adolescent hope scale, Debra Jean Agnew Moore
The acute effects of a single bout of resistance training on postural control in the elderly, Justin Brian Moore
Divorce and children : study of coparental conflict and the young adult's willingness to be intimate, Melanie Brook Hodge Morris
Effect of surface condition on cracks and infiltration in a Mississippi Delta clay soil, Robert M. Neely
Distributed model approximation of the combustion process in the hybrid rocket engine, Jason Clifton Osborn
Isolation and lead optimization of natural sunscreens from the marine sponge Laxosuberites Sp., Tony Lee Perry
Current woody vegetative community structure and composition in a sixteen kilometer stretch of the little Tallahatchie River, Kevin Russell Pigott
L.C. Manning : remembering the night, Catherine Paige Porter
Reuben Davis : the biography of a politician in civil war era Mississippi, Nancy Anne Prince
Buckling and frequency response characteristics of pultruded hybrid glass-graphite, Swaminathan Ranganathan
A Comparison of Adolescent Drug Use Between Urban and Rural Populations, Randall G. Rhodes
Laboratory studies of the bioavailability and toxicity of silver in aquatic systems / by Perry Lee Rogers, Perry Lee Rogers
Black and white together : the Mississippi summer project of 1964 and its consequences / by Heather Nicole Sanders, Heather Nicole Sanders
The effects of acute thermal modality intervention and exercise on hamstring flexibility / by Rachel K. Sargent, Rachel K. Sargent
K.S. Maniam's The Return : voice and the indian immigrant in Malaysia / by Ratna Malar Selvaratnam, Ratna Malar Selvaratnam
Thermal characterization of poloxamer 407 gels / by Vipal Bhupendra Shah Sharma, Vipal Bhupendra Shah Sharma
Voices of the heart, Daniel Lee Sherman
The evolution of non-collegiate private studio voice instruction in select samplings in the United States, Samuel DeVaughn Shingles
Movement patterns of fishes in two Ouachita Highlands streams : a test of the restricted movement paradigm / by Elizabeth B. Smithson, Elizabeth B. Smithson
Low frequency Q-factor measurements / by Rachan Soonthornmuang, Rachan Soonthornmuang
A study of gender roles in Edith Nesbit's The Phoenix and the Carpet / by Christy A. Soper, Christy A. Soper
Mounting the butterfly : a production study of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly / by Robert Andrew Strickland, Robert Andrew Strickland
Alternative and complementary medicine : a focus on qigong / by Shannon Larry Sumrall, Shannon Larry Sumrall
I done made my mind up : the legacy of the providence cooperative farm, Kieran W. Taylor
The Meredith event at the University of Mississippi : the creaking of modern America under post modern stress / by William Thomas, William Thomas
An interdisciplinary study of selected works by John Cage that employ the I ching as a compositional method, Tammy L. Turner
Development and validation of a high performance liquid chromatographic method of analysis for artemisinin and select analogs using an evaporative light scattering detector / by Krishna Kumar Venkatesh, Krishna Kumar Venkatesh
All is fair in art and war : an historical overview of the theft of artworks in war specifically by the German and Soviet armies during World War II/ by Karleen Rainey Vincent, Karleen Rainey Vincent
Scale model experiments on the insertion loss of wide and double barriers / by Glenn Joseph Wadsworth, Glenn Joseph Wadsworth
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Seeking the indian legacy in the American Southeast : North Mississippi, Joe M. Anoatubby
The effect of philosophical orientation on participation, Michael Davis Ballard
Andrew Lytle, Wendell Berry and Agrarian social criticism : the implicit and explicit ecological land ethic of agriculture, Joseph Benjamin Borden
Dry river walking, Gregory Paul Brown
A million dollars in concrete and steel : federal aid to the University of Mississippi in the New Deal era, Davis Douglas Buchanan
Orpheus Descending : a scenic design, Michael Joseph Burnett
Through the eyes of Benito Pérez Galdós : a view of social immobility in nineteenth-century Spain, Suzanne Washington Cervantes
Order out of chaos, John Lawrence Cheatham
An analysis of the favorability of ethnic image, Juliet SinYen Cheng
FDTD analysis of square printed spiral antennas, Jianbing (James) Chen
Fiction, autobiography and folklore : voice and race in the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Brendan Joseph Conroy
Grand ceremonial : a production study, Alfred P. Cutturini
Frozen ecstasy : home-finding and escape in the short stories of Jayne Anne Phillips, Jon Morgan Davies
The gender gap in macropartisanship, Jennifer MacGregor Davis
Conformity and exceptionalism : the career of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, Gina M. DeAngelis
Somewhere east of the sun and west of the moon, Ty Dimig