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Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The necessity and methods for setting up a small political consulting firm : a study of five practitioners and one new agency, Brent Alexander
The American circus, Nathaniel Allen
A history of the political, social and financial struggle to establish and sustain the teacher training program at Jackson State University, 1877-1970, Antrece Lynette Baggett
Tito and the big three : Yugoslavia's road to non-alignment in the early cold war, James Clay Baker
An experimental investigation of flow separation control using an acoustic active surface, Debjyoti Banerjee
Effects of time and temperature on the dynamic flexural properties of pultruded hybrid composites, Dev Barpanda
Status quo orientation and initiation of hostilities in rival dyads, James M. Batt
Antigen-antibody binding kinetics : a fractal analysis, Aruna M. Beelaram
The role of the federal government in the development and implementation of a national information infrastructure : a look at universal service, Anne Michelle Beliech
Sthree Sunghersh (Women's Struggles) reflected through the history and contents of Manushi and MS. Magazine, Nirmala Bhat
The effects of processing parameters on the mechanical properties of various graphite and fiberglass epoxy systems, Kenneth Ralph Blount
Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman : Mary Erle as a New Woman in 1894, Heather Jane Borden
The effects of the amount of weight swung during warm-up in the on-deck circle on batting performance, Robert C. Boyd
An application of data envelopment analysis to the Mississippi School System, David C. Bramlett
Tula, Mississippi and the dogtrot house : a study of a community and its built environment, Jennifer Allman Bryant
Edgar Parker : twentieth century illustrator with victorian sensibilities, John M. Buchanan
Polymer phase transition studies by inverse gas chromatography : effects of experimental parameters, Qingmei Bu
Fraught with instruction : an American Clarissa in the diary of Anne Home Livingston, Peggy E. Burch
Computational models of saccade-related neurons in the superior colliculus, Christopher P. Buskirk
Totems, Kenneth Lee Butler
The problems of class and race in the early years of the cuban republic 1878-1912, David Marcos Callejo
Toward the foundation of an empirical data set on international terrorism, Troy D. Carico
The relationship of cardiovascular disease prevention to worksite health promotion programs in Mississippi, Amy Day Carr
A content analysis : Asian news coverage in Time and India Today, Jayanti Chandran
Life history and bioenergetics of the Brown Madtom, Noturus Phaeus, Matthew D. Chan
Epibiont populations on Daphnia : effects of Habitat Patch Dispersion on metapopulation dynamics, Deborah Ann Chiavelli
Consumer self-medication behavior : the influence of different factors on consumers' purchase decisions in the selection of OTC analgesics, Ram Mohan Chukkapalli
Granny midwives : grandmother to nurse midwives, Emily Susan Coe
Burnout among mental health professionals : a study of worker, patient, and organizational variables, Christine Cooper
Estimation of a disequilibrium model of the United States' Commercial Loan Market : evidence of credit rationing from 1980-1994, Laura E. Creasy
Finite difference time domain analysis of crosstalk on coupled microstrip lines, Shixiong Dai
Modeling the fate of chlorpyrifos in constructed wetlands, Monica Ashbrook Darby
Effect of hyperbaric pressure on the metabolism and viability of Thiobacillus Ferrooxidans, Kevin Daye
Development of an instrument to aid in community placement of individuals with mental retardation, William P. Deal
Letters to Vincent, Beverly Cattell Dennis
Microbial activity on model crude oil organic nitrogen compounds, Abir T. El-Alfy
Two strikes--against all odds : the role of Robert Blackburn in the development of lithography in the United States during the 1940s through the 1960s, Claude Ledell Elliott
Teaching the piccolo trumpet : from the perspectives of selected university trumpet teachers, Danny Keith Ellis
A critique of Plantinga's theistic epistemology, Brendan C. Engen
Characteristics of volunteers : predicting successful rape crisis center advocates, David Robert Englert
Cochannel interference in digital FM, Gang Fang
Phonological assessment in the Lebanese dialect of Arabic : test development, Lama K. Farran
Laboratory and outdoor stream mesocosm studies of growth, reproduction and sensitivity of life stages in a population of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas R.), Alba Rocio Figueroa
Comparison between permutation FSK and 4x4 FSK modulations in NWN system, Srdan R. Filipovic
The vascular flora of Trace State Park, Pontotoc County, Mississippi, Marcie D. Floyd
Massage and s-iga levels in healthy individuals, Robert Fulda
A graphical two and three dimensional particle path tracer package for computational hydroscience, Diego A. Galeano
Postpartum artificial feeders : a lost cause? The impact of education and professional status on breastfeeding, Marilyn M. Gardner
Kant's refutation of the ontological argument, Harry L. Gaston
Estranged fruit : making and unmaking in Mississippi's jails, Barry Gildea
Folkloric vampires and two modern literary representations, Rodney Michael Steven Gillespie
Mule racing in the Mississippi Delta, 1938-1950, Karen Marie Glynn
Mule racing in the Mississippi Delta, 1938-1950, Karen Marie Glynn
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead : entitled to some direction, Jason William Gonzalez
Why my mojo's working : symbols, faith, and psychosomatic effect in African-American hoodoo, Frederick Dunbar Grist
Identifying with the (M)other : feminine self-discovery in Kaye Gibbons's A Cure for Dreams and Charms for the Easy Life, Kristen Sulser Guinn
Agrarian prophecy and the displaced southerner : the grit émigré in Harry Crews' fiction, Matthew W. Guinn
The doom outside the door : Faulkner's Rosa Coldfield and Quentin Compson, Elizabeth Hagood
Jack Burden's children : out of history into history, Joe Beck Hairston
All you can be : a collection of short stories, Glenn H. Hatcher
Environmental justice : a statistical model of landfill development in Mississippi, Perry Denoa Hawkins
The influence of patch characteristics on bird assemblages in a fragmented landscape, David Joseph Horn
Civilized outrage and intimate revenge : mythologization and demythologization in part I of Seamus Heaney's North, Charles Prentiss Hough
A study of the relationship between the individual and the American wilderness in the works of Henry David Thoreau and Gary Snyder, Rebecca Marie Howard
An examination of the construct validity of the parental authority questionnaire, Regina Marie Hummel
Ethnopolitics : the theory of ethnic conflict, Masashi Ito
Error detection and correction in database management applications, Kenneth Lee Ivey
George A. McLean : profile of a people's newspaper publisher, Deidra Faye Jackson
The expression of Renal ╬▒Γéü -Adrenergic subtypes during the development of genetic hypertension, Matthew Brian Jones
A study of the image of Maitreya in early Buddhist sculpture : Korea, India, China and Japan, Soonboon Park Jung
Third world news coverage in the leading Finnish news magazine Suomen Kuvalehti and its American counterpart Time from 1986 to 1994 : a comparative study, Mauri Johannes Kaarre
Near-surface stratigraphy of the Oxford area, Mississippi, Sohail Kabir
Self-taught artists and popular culture, Caroline O'K. Kerrigan
Analysis of a class of cylindrical microstrip transmission lines, Omer D. Khan
James Dickey and the female imaginary : re-visioning landscape in poems 1957-1967 and deliverance, Donna Katherine Williams Kostopulos
Bioaccumulation of iron from iron citrate complexes, Wen Chang Liao
Purification and characterization of an oxygen-insensitive azoreductase from bacterial isolate C7, John Robert Logan
The hand and the spirit, Mary Mallahan
Relative importance of heterogeneous and homogeneous mechanisms during reburning of nitrogen oxide, Long Ma
Thomas Sully's portraits of the Michael Gratz family of Philadelphia, Virginia Smith Martin
The reasonable man stands alone : libel and letters to the editor in the post-Milkovich era, Jennifer Lynn Mattingly
The fulfillment of responsibility in selected novels by Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf, Sherry H. McClain
Design of radio link protocol analyzer for narrowband personal communications services, Dejan Milojkovic
Statistical analysis of processing parameter effects on the mechanical properties of an epon resin 9500, James Mogridge
Looking through the eyes of others : the homosexual's quest for identity in the selected works of James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka, Andrew X. Moore
Mechanism of transport of an ace inhibitor (lisinopril) in CACO-2 cell monolayers, Rajeshwar Motheram
Experimental characterization and finite element analysis of glass-graphite, Chandrasekhar V. Nori
A gathering of women : the female artist figure in Jill McCorkle's and Lee Smith's fiction, Nancy Beth Dolbier Opalko
Chromatographic investigations of polymer phase transitions / by Sanjay Panda, Sanjay Panda
Southern gothic as a genre, Robert Ray Pearson
Magnetostratigraphy of the Redonda Formation, Tucumcari, New Mexico, B. Keith Perler
An empiricist critique of belief in electrons, Paul Theodore Pojman
Computation of zero-, one-, and two-dimensional radar images, Jeffrey Douglas Pursel
A diels-alder approach to donor-sigma-acceptor molecules, Yangwei Pu
Effects of nonlinear distortion on PMU performance / by Wenlong Qin, Wenlong Qin
Application of neural networks for stereoscopic particle tracking velocimetry / by Madhava Krishna Rayaprolu, Madhava Krishna Rayaprolu
Personal disposition and the work environment as correlates of burnout in nursing home facilites / by Danisha Lexine Robbins, Danisha Lexine Robbins
Three ladies / by Kate Rose, Kate Rose
Your question or comment please : a sociological study of all-sports radio / by Joel Nathan Rosen, Joel Nathan Rosen