Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Paradox and irony in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren, Jane Vyvian Frazier
The construct validity of the attitudes towards aspects of humansexuality scale and the passionate love scale, Jeffrey Dean Fross
The vitalization of the University of Mississippi's campus radiostation, William Edmond Garner
Synthesis and evaluation of 4-anilidopiperidine derivatives as potential analgetics, Catherine Louise Gatchell
The religious social and psychological revelations in representative stories of Flannery O'Connor, Kay Childers Graves
The use of supernaturalism in the short fiction of William Gilmore Simms, Susan Satterfield Hankins
Music as an essential part of education, Zachary J. Harris
Artist, the game (art + X = success) X = ? : a discussion of the art system of the late 20th century, John B. Henry
Multiple dielectric posts in a rectangular waveguide, Chung-I Gavin Hsu
Auditory brainstem response testing of drug offenders in a selected prison population, Claire Adrienne Jacobson
Petrology of subsurface volcaniclastic materials in the Eutaw Group of northwestern Yazoo County, Mississippi, Robert Jean-Michel
A reconsideration of the role of Sharp's rule in interpreting the Greek New Testament, Michael Lynn Johnson
A study of Swinburne's The Tale of Balen, George Garvey Kehoe
Insoluble residue zones within the Demopolis Chalk in northeastern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee, Louis LaFontisee Knight
Paintings and drawings, David Lambert
The perceptions of foreign news editors of U.S. metropolitan dailies regarding reportage from and about South Africa, Peter Redvers Lee
Determinants of patient satisfaction with hospitals : a path model, Robert Lewis Lence
Relational database implementation on the hidden line, Horng-Yu Li
Thermodynamics for zeolite heat pump and refrigeration systems, Jih-Hway Lou
Dicken's treatment of the clergy in representative novels, Deborah Hart McCollister
A comparative analysis of selected songs from Porgy and Bess and George Gershwin's musical comedies / by David Clair Miller, David Clair Miller
International and inter-racial xenophobia in Shakespeare's England, Richard Joe Morgan
Murphey with an e : a production study, William Smith Murphey
Even in Mississippi : a biography of Robert Clark, Melany Neilson
Writing the feature : a look at contemporary Mississippi through features, Julia Helgason Nicholls
Optimization by statistical experimental methods of lamination annealing of electrical steels, Sin Kin Peng
A production study of Baby, Maurice Norwood Phillips
A history of the media in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, Carolyn Holcomb Pittman
Decisionmaking on the Burger Court : developing a predictive model on abortion, Maude June Prater
U.S. Indian Ocean strategy : Diego Garcia, Thomas Watson Rakestraw
Ishmael Reed's multicultural aesthetic, Wilfried Raussert
Television viewing patterns of low power television station WO7B N, Bruce, Mississippi, in Calhoun County, Mississippi : a statistical analysis, Rory Campbell Reardon
Dark dreams / by Jeffery Alan Ritch, Jeffery Alan Ritch
A comparative study of speech fluency : black versus white college male athletes / by Tommie L. Robinson, Jr, Tommie L. Robinson
One-carbon acetogenesis and autotrophy with Clostridium thermoautotrophicum / by M. Dean Savage, Maurin Dean Savage
A single integral equation for numerical solution of electromagnetic scattering by homogeneous dielectric bodies / by Beshara Ibrahim Sholy, Beshara Ibrahim Sholy
A comparison of viewing patterns of public access television andpublic television in two cities / by Katherine Shurlds, Katherine Shurlds
A study of economies of scale in daily newspapers of the Southeastern Newspaper Publishers Association--1984 / by H. Cheri Sims, H. Cheri Sims
Relationships between stress-related risk factors and smoking exposure / by Patrick O. Smith, Patrick Olen Smith
Pharmacological and behavioral variables affecting tolerance to the sedative properties diazepam and midazolam / by Joseph P. Tizzano, Joseph P. Tizzano
Multilevel finite element models for sediment transport simulation / by Jaime Trujillo Delgado, Jaime Trujillo Delgado
Direct-to-consumer advertising : effects of different formats of warning information disclosure in printed drug advertisements on adults' cognitive reactions / by Gregory Keith Tucker, Gregory Keith Tucker
Auditory brainstem and middle latency responses in monkeys / by Beverly Ann Turner, Beverly Ann Turner
A comparison and contrast of the Old Testament Samson myth and John Milton's Samson persona in Samson Agonistes / by Wayde Vickey, Wayde Vickrey
Electromyographic assessment of residual pain activity followingthe performance of destructive oral habits / by Gregory Arthur Villarosa, Gregory Arthur Villarosa
High school press freedom in Mississippi, Edward Jennings Webb Jr
Hemisphericity and Reading Comprehension: A Study of Black Students from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds, Linda Hampton Wesson
Empirical results on approximating file symbol probability distributions using a subset of file symbols, Carolyn Suit Wheless
The role of magazine cover testing in single copy sales / by Amy Lyles Wilson, Amy Lyles Wilson
A gravimetric and magnetic investigation of the Sharkey platform, west-central Mississippi / by Gwynne A. Woodward, Gwynne Allison Woodward
Debra Yancy : an acting recital / by Debra Kay Yancy, Debra Kay Yancy
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Decarburization annealing of low carbon low silicon steel, Abraham Abraham
Performance of black liquid flat plate solar collector using double wall polycarbonate sheet, Mahmoud Zarif Ahoubareh
Performance of Black Liquid Flat Plate Solar Collector Using Double Wall Polycarbonate Sheet, Mahmoud Zarif Ahoubareh
Synthesis and immunological evaluation of peptidomimetics, Zainab A. Al-Shakarchi
Self-identity in Peter Taylor's In the Miro District and other stories, Kathryn Smith Anderson
A preliminary market feasibility study of a hospital-based wellness program, Steven Forrest Belcher
Experimental investigation of a refrigerator and heat pump usingnatural zeolite, Maheshwar Bhattacharyya
The effectiveness of appeals used in the yellow pages to advertise nursing homes, Karen Jean Blankenstein
The politics of expediency : fusion in the Mississippi Delta, late nineteenth-century, Thomas Neville Boschert
Steam gasification of Mississippi lignite in a fixed bed gasifier, David R. Boswell
A two dimensional finite element model for coastal hydrodynamicsimulation, Francisco Mauricio Toro Botero
The use of structured composition in the teaching of the three-part song form, Charles Mark Butler
The conversion of char-nitrogen to NO during fluidized bed coalcombustion, Chun-Cheng T. Chan
Vertical and lateral variations of foraminiferal populations in a series of subsurface cores from the recent sediments of Mississippi Sound and the adjacent Gulf of Mexico, Robin Gail Cranton
Aid of microcomputers in the design of prestressed concrete highway bridge support girders, Michelle Marie Crull
Nucleate pool boiling of freon-113 at atmospheric pressure froman enhanced surface, Thomas Peyton Easterly
Guided-mode launching in slab waveguide by way of diffraction atthe edge of a conducting screen residing on one surface of theslab, Timothy Hall Farris
Quantitative analysis of the heavy mineral distribution within recent stream-bed sands of the Pascagoula River system, southeast Mississippi, Michael Scott Fenster
Carbon substrate regulation of succinate uptake and oxidation in Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Suzanne Ferrenbach
The utilization of lithic resources in Sardis Lake, Lafayette County, Mississippi : further study of projectile points from the Savage collection, Linda Gay Fortune
Chert utilization at Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Area, Wheeler Van France
Evaluation of vaginal formulations of progesterone, L. David Fulper
A comparison of low-level and high-level language implementations of file transfer software for a specific unobtrusive computernetwork, Hal Edwin Fulton
A comparative study of students utilizing computer assisted instruction and students not utilizing computer assisted instruction, Constance German
Deathtrap : a production study, Alfred Glen Gourley
Dynamic movement in proteins as revealed by fluorescence quenching, Karen Ann Hagaman
Illustrations for the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture : interpretations of essays concerning contemporary southern cultural distinctiveness, Gary E. Hauser
Unified deactivation theory, James Paul Henley
An analysis and comparison of select teaching methods for E alto soxophone, Earl J. Hesse
The effect of region, generation and sociodemographic variableson female orientation to feminist political issues, Noel Wesley Hollyfield
Stratigraphic distribution and biometric relations of two uppercretaceous Exogyra species in northeast Mississippi and southwest Tennessee, John Edward Johnston
A study of the urinary metabolites of primaquine in rats, Lucia Jorge
Effect of autotrophic substrates on autotrophic enzymes and cellenergetics of Clostridium thermoaceticum, Rebecca Kellum
Rapid pyrolysis of Mississippi lignite, Masoumeh Noushin Khaleghdar Arab
An experimental study of the rise time of shock waves propagating in the atmosphere, Bruce Allen Layton
Transients on transmission lines terminated in lumped impedances, Svetozar Lazarevski
Modeling of the kinetic mechanism and the dispersion of photochemical smog, Phillip Edward Lee
A comparative study of expert and celebrity endorsement of OTC pharmaceutical products, Caroline Carlton Lipscomb
A production study of The Thesis Show, Greg Mach, Gregory A. Mach
A content analysis of the image of hospitals and hospital administrators as presented in health education textbooks, Jarvis Massey
Tender Is the Night : a critical study, Beth Ann Maxfield
Marketing as a tool of institutional public relations : the University of Mississippi, 1969-1979, Terri Taylor McClendon
Fallen tree, Marian Smith McLellan
A history of the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association, Carolyn Heard McMillin
A History of the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association, Carolyn Heard McMillin
Portrait drawing : a comparison of the effectiveness of teaching the split-brain theory approach and a traditional theory approach and a traditional approach, David Andrew Midkiff