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Theses/Dissertations from 1998
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
Fifty years and other stories / by Leslie Frances Walker, Leslie Frances Walker
Flow separation control with an active flexible wall, Heng Wang
Life is but a dream : self-confession about the last four years / by Hsin-Hui Wang, Hsin-Hui Wang
Monumental building in Augustan Athens / by David Alan Webb, David Alan Webb
One woman's journey : through myth and symbolism / by Rosalind Wilcox, Rosalind Wilcox
A reassessment of the blues revival in America, 1951-1970 / by Scott Wilkinson, Scott Wilkinson
Chromatographic investigations of the carbon dioxide-poly(dimethylsiloxane) system / by Sihua Xu, Sihua Xu
A journey towards simplicity / by Alfred J. Zimmermann, II, Alfred J. Zimmermann
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
The comedy of errors : a farce unmasked, David Andrew Doersch
Bed material size trends in incised channels, Martin Wayne Doyle
Curs'd distraction and wretched consequences : Thomas Otway's use of the sexual deviant as social criticism, David Andrew Duffey
Recent developments in Wisconsin's open records law, John Alton Duff
Factors associated with perception of AIDS risk among college students, Alva Jonathan Dugger
A finite element model with penalty formulation to predict the pressure and velocity behavior in a pultrusion die inlet, Srikanth Elaprolu
Article errors by Taiwanese students at the University of Mississippi : an analysis, Tien-Tung Fan
A comprehensive environmental assessment of a receiving aquatic system near an unbleached kraft mill, David Perrette Felder
Civic journalism as an alternative reporting method, Chaka Ferguson
'The Deadly Space Between' : tragic biblical epistemology in The Piazza Tales, Benjamin D. Franklin
A production study of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, Valerie Galloway
Tartuffe, Sharon Louise Goetz
Musical forms of the classical sonata, Kraig Gary Goreth
Catahoula stories, Marian Christina Hall
The synthesis of analogs of the antimalarial artemisinin lacking the d-ring, Chad A. Haraldson
Coagulation of opposites in space : as related to big shapes, Judith Beavers Harper
Duns Scotus and Leibniz on the principle of individuation, John G. Hartung
Beliefs and behaviors associated with vitamin supplementation, Gail L. Heimer
Equus : a production study, Robert Andrew Heller
The Mississippi Council of the association of southern women for the prevention of lynching, Caroline Beverly Herring
Frozen cats, Christa Michelle Hill
Observation of the charmed meson decay D̊ yields K̄pi+ pi̊, Qiuming Jie
The valley and the ocean : stories, Chad Roberts Johnson
The relationship between percent peak oxygen consumption and percent peak heart rate during deep water running in the adult population - age 50 to 70 years, Joel Christopher Jordan
Scattering of sonic booms by anisotropic turbulence in the atmosphere, Mark C. Kelly
The new Russia : a quest for community development, Marina Koval
Approximation of spin coating with a genetic algorithm based neural network, Ching-Fu Li
Howling the truth inarticulate : a comparative study of D.H. Lawrence and Frank Norris, Jay Anthony Lowrey
Two steps from the muse, Paul Edward Lowther