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Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Contributions to the life history of the southern kingfish, Menticirrhus americanus (Linnaeus), in Mississippi, Barbara Jean Crowe
The effect of capital punishment attitude on jury verdict, Juliet Wilkins Dantin
Yeat's Mythologies : a glossary and index of Celtic and occult terms, Jackie Lou Darr
The superimposition : implications for visual expression, James Theron Davis
The effectiveness of a nutrition education program using the mastery learning technique for normal and moderately retarded children, Carol Elizabeth Denney
A sociological study of celibacy, William Mark Franks
The effects of picrotoxin, haloperidol and fluphenazine upon operant behavior in rats, Bela Geczy
Evaluation of a parent-training manual for reducing children's fear of the dark, Jean Elizabeth Giebenhain
A faunistic and ecological survey of the blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of northern Mississippi, Jerome Goddard
Explorations in visual thinking, Susan Beam Goff
Sedimentologic modeling of Lake Borgne : an example of Holocene marine deposition on the deltaic plain, north central Gulf of Mexico, Walter Scott Guidroz
Tranquility lies in Rome : Lucretian influences in the works of Matthew Arnold, James Edward Hall
The American theme in the works of Royall Tyler, Janet Lee Herold
The relationship between conceptions of intelligence and intellectual ability, Martha Ruth Holmes
The male, Karla Robbins Hornsby
Twentieth century composition : techniques and sequential exercises for beginning students, Patrick George Houlihan
The effect of vegetation on open channel flow, Jean Tanios Jarjoura
Mathematical dead time calculations, David Michael Johnson
Investigation of a burial erosion surface by surface resistivity methods, Little Tallahatchie River Valley, Panola County, Mississippi, David M. Jones
A production study of Barefoot in the park, Mary Louise Jordan
William Faulkner and man's relationship to the land, Rodney Eugene Kidwell
The Moondance of Schlaraffis : a translation with an introduction and critical notes to Ricarda Huch's Der Mondreigen von Schlaraffis, Georgina Kraus
Chretien de Troyes' Yvain : coming of age in medieval France, Amy Mary Lapwing
Charles Dickens's use of folklore : a study of elements in Bleak house, Alton P. Latimer
A study of Alexander Pope's color sensibility and his color application in The rape of the lock, Angela Pui-Yin Liong
Portrait of Fanny Kemble : a one-woman show, Judith Rae Loewen
Analysis of two-conductor microstrip transmission line with dielectric overlay, Branislav Majkic
A comparative evaluation of the intragranular effect of a new disintegrating agent on the dissolution of nitrofurantoin and tolbutamide granules, Ana de Mendoza
The effect of the personnel incentive grants program on Mississippi public library administrative units, Kathryn Graham Merkle
Genesis of bentonite in the Upper Cretaceous strata of Monroe County, Mississippi, Robert K. Merrill
Improving the use of the literature textbook in the high school, Marilyn Majors Monroe
The effect of an extrinsic incentive on physiological response during free recall performance, Michael Tennis Oliver
Clothing designs for physically handicapped women in wheelchairs, Janice Marie Causey Park
A scenic and lighting design for The Lion in Winter, William Ray Peeler
The Adamic myth and the American dream in the Leatherstocking novels of James F. Cooper, Michael Stephen Petrof
Petrography, environments of deposition, and provenance of the lower Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation sandstones in the Warrior Basin of Alabama, William Thomas Pfleeger
The degradation of ethylene oxide in the presence of chloride ion at pH 7.4 in aqueous media, Benjamin Alexander Quintana
Conductor losses in microstrip multiconductor transmission lines, Zoran Ratkovic
Chicago Tribune editorials : an analysis of the opinion of Robert McCormick, Don Maxwell, and Clayton Kirkpatrick / by Carlton M. Rhodes, Carlton M. Rhodes
Realism and naturalism in painting : a measure of congruity / by Michael Rogers, Michael Rogers
The effects of extrinsic reward upon novel and familiar tasks / by Sherry Lee Roth, Sherry Lee Roth
Reproduction and early life history of Morone mississippiensis ( percichthyidae) with comparisons to three other Morone species / by Frederick E. Schultz, Frederick Edward Schultz
A survey of media use in Greenwood, Mississippi : a focus on the black minority audience / by Debra Catherine Smith, Debra Catherine Smith
Electromagnetic scattering from infinite PEC strip embedded in dielectric slab / by S. Sundarrajan, Suresh Sundarrajan
The relationship between reading and writing, David Winston Taylor
Army of Mississippi's Medical Department, April-July, 1982 / by Paula Ann Ussery, Paula Ann Ussery
The effects of protocol-assisted patient education on utilization of services for symptoms for the common cold, Judith Rae Keneipp Werking
Greatest and best. An examination of Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1891-1900, Stephen Harry Wheeler
Racial differences in infant mortality, 1960 and 1970, Connie Diane White
Anisopterous odonata of North Mississippi, Gordon L. Wills
Andre Dubus : a study of his fiction, John Stephen Yarbrough
The life and works of Roark Bradford, Robert Yarbrough
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
A Symbolic Representation of the Female Figure, Jean Gardner Abrams
Representing kinetic illusion in serigraphy, Ronald Joe Alexander
A production study of The Grass Harp, Laura Elizabeth Alley
Correlates of job satisfaction for secondary social studies teachers in Mississippi, Dani Cheryl Allred
John Maury Allin : sixth Bishop of Mississippi and twenty-third presiding Bishop ofthe Episcopal Church, Joel Lawrence Alvis
Determination of the equivalency of the three component lists ofan object identification speech discrimination test, Cynthia Lynn Bagwell
Nucleate boiling from photo-etched surfaces, Albert Matta Bahhuth
Faulkner's military aviators, Howard L. Bahr
A comparative study of selected larval stages of Hyla gratiosa Leconte and Hyla cinerea (Schneider), Michael Joseph Balthazar
Biogenetic-type syntheses of some sesquiterpene lactones, Daniel Arthur Benigni
Newspaper accountability in Mississippi: a study of patterns of accountability among editors and reporters of Mississippi daily newspapers, Allyn Clark Boone
The Peabody phase in the upper Sunflower region, Samuel Owen Brookes
A survey of knowledge of and attitudes toward speech and hearingdisorders, Theresa Lynn Burcham
Considerations for using group instruction in conjunction with the private lesson for the applied piano major or principal, Nedra Hurst Carter
The convict lease in Tennessee, 1870-1896, William Lee Cate
Assessing student markets for the University of Mississippi in the 1980's : the adult learner, Lynne Meyer Celler
The effect of docusate sodium on the release of drug from the spansule dosage form, Walter Galloway Chambliss
An exploration of multiple channel evaluations in attributions of deception, Charles David Childers
The effect of the complexity of visual stimuli on the verbal responses of dysfluent children, Virginia Joy Chow
A study of six minor characters in Tom Jones, Linda M. K. Chung
A multivariate analysis of autonomic and striate muscle responses to two different stressful stimuli, Claudia Reeves Coleman
The effects of a right hemisphere lesion on the comprehension of the linguistic message, Peggy Joan Cook
A production study of Angel Street, Jackie Bynum Daniels
Agrarianism in the writing of Andrew Nelson Lytle, Rebecca Underwood Dorfmueller
Propagation characteristics of three-conductor dielectric-coatedtransmission lines, Osamuede Peter Enobakhare
Peasant violence in Ireland, 1830-45, Patrick Russell Falkner
The weapons of the early bronze-middle bronze intermediate period in Palestine, Jonathan E. Feinstein
Some relationships of salt marsh vegetation to abundance of themarsh periwinkle, Littorina irrorata Say, James Clark Garrison
The two worlds of The moonstone, James Craig Gibson
The biological and geological characteristics of salt marsh subenvironments, east St. Louis Bay, Mississippi, Laurel Therese Gorman
Subsurface investigation of a paleoerosion surface by surface resistivity methods, Panola County, Mississippi, Richard Ray Hardy
A study of the relationship between the degree of hypochondriasis in health care consumers and consumer acceptance of the nursepractitioner, Carolyn Ann Harman
The Wolfpin stories : with an afterword, William Scott Hays
An analysis of the effects of validity information upon clinicaljudgment, James David Herzog
The relationship between fertility and income, relative income, and subjective financial status, William Dean Hoffman
A study of the effects of an instructional program on student conductors' ability to critically evaluate concert band performance, Ronald Dean Hooten
A probabilistic representation of the unit hydrograph, James Ray Hudgins
Deep seabed mining : distribution of wealth to non sea-faring nations, especially the African Nations, Richard Sunday Igwike
Traditional theatre of Papua New Guinea, and the influence it has had on village-folk theatre and urban theatre, Teloti Kaniku
A series of nocturnes based on the immediate environment, Richard Alonzo Kelso
The American arms sales to Iran, Abbas Keyvanipour
Microwave phase shifters with inhomogeneous dielectric, Steven Shii-Tsuen Lin
Greece and the Truman doctrine, David Lumb
The relationship between debates in Parliament and the abolitionof flogging in the British Army and Navy, 1811-1881, Linda Colter Lundy
An analysis of self-report measures related to psychopathy, Lee Hale Mallory
The effects of stress termination and drinking in the presence of a stressed partner on drinking behaviors, Edward Lawrence Manning