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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Daily Rhythms, William McComb
Habitat Selection Across A Temperature And Nutrient Gradient By Cope’S Grey Treefrog (Hyla Chrysoscelis) And The Mosquito, Culex Restuans, Sarah Christine McNamara
Comparing The Variability Of Natural Sand To The Variability Of Sand Containing A Simulant Land Mine, Anna Marie McWhirter
What's Next? The Intersection Of Politics And Marketing: A Look At Its Impact On Shareholder Wealth, Ashley Morgan
The Charger: A Case Study Of Leadership Decisions And The Oxford High School Student Newspaper, R. J. Morgan
Post-traumatic stress symptoms in sexual and non-sexual trauma: Comparisons on symptom severity, disgust, and contamination concerns., Jaime Murtagh
Efficient Generating And Processing Of Large-Scale Unstructured Meshes, Cuong Manh Nguyen
Come Clean, Joshua Nguyen
Mechanical Performance Of Graphene Enhanced Nitrile Rubber, Torkel Nord Bjaerneman
Application Of Cellulose Nanocrystals For Stabilizing Liquid-Liquid And Liquid-Gas Interfaces In Brines, Sanjiv Parajuli
Novel Ophthalmic Formulations For Improved Natamycin Delivery In Fungal Infections Of The Eye., Akash Vijay Patil
Narrative Identity In Online Spaces: Selves In 280 Characters Or Less, Adam Louis Paul
Understanding Social Anxiety Symptoms Through Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies, Megan Perry
Approaches To Alleviate The Vigabatrin Induced Retinal Toxicity, Anitha Police
Survival And Development Of Larval Odonates (Anisoptera) And Female Oviposition Site Choice In Response To Predatory Fish, Kevin Matthew Potts
Role Of Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Receptor In The Regulation Of Astrocyte Structure, Function And Cognition, Disha Prabhu
Perceptions Of Academic Writing From First Generation Non-Traditional Students, Margaret Jeanine Rauch
Go To Your God Like A Soldier: A Theory For Covert Intervention In Civil Conflict, Shelby Robertson
SEC Athletics And Engagement Of Fans, John Harrison Rowland
The Summer Melt Of Rural First-Year Students, Deidre F. Ruffin
Storytelling In TED Talks, Iuliia Rychkova
Single Parent Success In Mississippi's Community Colleges, Craig Ellis Sasser
The Southern Front: Gay Liberation Activists In The U.S. South And Public History Through Audiovisual Exhibition, David Hooper Schultz
Computational Modeling Of Shock Wave Propagation In A Layered Composites, Nicholas Ryan Scott
Spatial Context And The Role Of Competition In Oviposition Habitat Selection By Cope’S Grey Treefrog (Hyla Chrysoscelis) And Culex Restuans Mosquitoes, Reed Carroll Scott
Carceral Matrix: Black Women's Writing In Response To Mass Incarceration, 1963-2019, Allison Michelle Serraes
It's A Cis-Gendered Man's World: How Drag Kings Define Good Drag In Their Fight To Be Seen As The Best Performers, Madison Shappley
The Effects Of Eligibility Complexity And Incentive Structure On Taxpayer Behavior, Joshua Lee Simer
Remnants, Ian Skinner
Isotopic Analysis of Human Migration Among the Ancient Maya of Ambergris Caye, Belize, Rachel L. Smith
Service-Learning, ComCore, And The Secondary English Classroom: A Mixed Methods Study, Kimual Snow
A War Of Ideas: L.Q.C. Lamar And American Political Thought, Ashley Steenson
Nest Microclimate Manipulation Affects Growth, Development, And Heat-Shock Protein Production In The Eastern Bluebird (Sialia Sialis), Brooke E. Sykes
Learning Lineage And The Problem Of Authenticity In Ozark Folk Music, Kevin Lyle Tharp
The Lebanese In Mississippi: An Oral History Documentary Project, James G. Thomas
The Prosodic Profile Of Individuals With Prader-Willi Syndrome, Emma Kate Thome
Learning Community Impact On Low-Socioeconomic Student Success In A 4-Year Public University, April Thompson
Faculty Use Of Open Educational Resources: Attitudes, Norms, And Self-Efficacy As Behavioral Predictors., Jocelyn Tipton
Biological Evaluation Of Maasia Glauca (Hassk.) Mols, Kessler & Rogstad, Thanh-Thanh Claire Tran
African American Gospel Piano Style In The 21St Century: A Collective Case Study, Roderick Vester
Conformation And Binding Aspects Of Sulfated Carbohydrates By Liquid-State Nmr, William Vignovich
Out To Get Us: Contemporary Evangelical Expressions Of Identity In Interaction, Pace Tyler Ward
Implementing Read 180 To Increase Reading Achievement And Improve Organizational Learning, Debra Ashe Ware
Labor In The Field Is Much Changed: The Chickasaws And The Civilization Plan, 1790-1837, Jeffrey D. Washburn
The Killing Fields, Tyriek White
On Southern Soil: The Art And Ecology Of Racial Uplift, 1895-1950, Laura Wilson
Post-Soul Speculation: An Exploration Of Afro-Southern Speculative Fiction, Hilary Word
Aproaches To Develop Acyclovir Gastro-Retentive Formulations Using Hot Melt Extrusion Technology, Peilun Zhang
Development Of A Liposomal Formulation For Brain Targeting, Ziru Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Geographic Variations of Sound Channel Axis in the Global Ocean, Mukunda Kumar Acharya
E-cigarettes and conventional cigarettes: perceived risks and benefits among college students, Evi Addoh
A Study To Regioselectively Access Fluorinated Triazoles And Isoxazoles, Sweta Adhikari
Dynamic Code Selection Method for Content Transfer in Deep Space Network, Rojina Adhikary
Manifoldlike Causal Sets, Miremad Aghili
The Plantation Pull: Modernities and Genre in the Anglo-Hispanic-Dutch Caribbean-Atlantic, 1831-1935, Natalie Magdalena Aikens
Cellulose Nanocrystals as 'Green' Emulsifiers Stabilized Crude Oil in Water Emulsions, Omayma Alazzam
Watershed, Nadia Alexis
Cheminformatic Approach for Deconvolution of Active Compounds in a Complex Mixture - phytoserms in Licorice, Manal Mohammad Alhusban
Role Of Cardiolipin Remodeling In The Malignant Progression Of Breast Cancer, Jawaher H. Alkhamisy
Progress Toward the Synthesis of 3-Methoxyflavones as Potential Antioxidants, Neuroprotective Agents, and Trifluoromethylated 19F NMR Probes, Reem Alkhodier
Fabrication of topical film forming polymeric solution for pain management, Maha Hani Alkurdi
Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS): Reasons for Use and Associated Factors in Self-Selected Nicotine Concentrations, David Donald Allen III
A Study Of Contingent Faculty Representation In Governance At The University Of Mississippi, Mariana Rangel Allushuski
Phytochemical Investigation and Drug Interaction Potential of Cyanotis vaga, Ibrahim Almarabi
Utilizing of Magnesium Oxysulfate Binders for Additive Construction Applications, Hatem Hashem Al-masaeid
Decoding and Optimizing Magnesium Phosphate Binders for Additive Construction Applications, Hashem Khaled Almashaqbeh
Characterization of Drug-Loaded Milled Extrudate Particles Produced by Hot Melt Extrusion Technology for Dry Powder Inhalers, Ahmed Almotairy
Development and Characterization of Sustained-Release Formulations via Novel Hot Melt Extrusion Techniques, Bjad Khalaf Almutairy
Quadratic Reciprocity: Proofs and Applications, Awatef Noweafa Almuteri
Synthesis of Fluoroflavones as Potential Neuroprotective Agents, Maali Alshammari
Zeros of the Dedekind Zeta-Function, Mashael Alsharif
Shifting Power, Status Quo Dissatisfaction, And Power Parity: Their Effect On The Use Of Coercive Foreign Policy In International Relations, Nathan Alvin Andrew
Utilizing Various Neural Network Architectures To Play A Game Developed For Human Players, Michael Blake Arender
Two Way Street: An Applied Research Study on the Effects of Increased Parent and Community Involvement Activities on Student Academic Growth in Mathematics at South Lee Middle School, Jason Clifton Arledge
Characterization of hydrogen bonding, halogen bonding and argyrophilic interactions using computational modeling, Sarah Nicole Arradondo
We know where you belong at: Institutions and Marginalized Bodies in the Literature of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty, Michelle Lynn Ayers
The Influence of Recall Instructions on the Verbal Overshadowing Effect, Melissa Ann Baker
Hitting the Bullseye: The Influence of Technical Debt on the Accuracy of Effort Estimation in Agile Projects, James Ball
Investigation of narrow bipolar events in Mississippi thunderstorms, Sampath Asiri Bandara
The Independent And Combined Effects Of Hypoxia And Tributyltin On The Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea Virginica, Ann Fairly Barnett
Effects of Impoundments on the Community Assemblage and Gene Flow of Stream Crayfishes, Zanethia Choice Barnett
A bargain at any cost: the rise of dollar general, Frances Evelyn Barrett
Effects Of Halogen Bonding And Nir Tuning Of Dyes For Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Alexandra Baumann
Cramer type moderate deviations for random fields and mutual information estimation for mixed-pair random variables, Aleksandr Beknazaryan
Evaluating the effects of water influx on the Mississippi sound: current vs. Historical relationships, Jarett Lee Bell
Food Insecurity and Health of International Students, Jamie Nichole Benefield
Charlotte the Assassin: A Novel, Mary Berman
Youth Screening Protocol For General Psychopathology, Steven Bishop
Physical and chemical trace evidence from 3d-printed firearms, and use of a quadcopter for targeted sampling of gaseous mercury in the atmosphere, Oscar Beauchamp Black
Evaluation of Best Practices in Child Nutrition at Child Care Centers in Mississippi, Whitney Clara Black
Truth Marching On: Documenting the Plan to Bring Robert F. Kennedy to the University of Mississippi in 1966, Mary Paige Blessey
Groundwater transfer and injection pilot project: construction of a three dimensional groundwater flow model, Wesley Bluvstein
Essays On Money And Labor, Kwabena Okyere Boateng
The Effect of Magnesium Supplementation on Physical Performance of Collegiate Football Players, Shannon Marie Boguth
Extended Adolescence: The Ecology and Endocrinology of Facultative Paedomorphosis, Jason R. Bohenek
Developing a calibrated seepage meter to measure stream-aquifer interaction in the Mississippi delta, Wesley J. Bolton
Recall Reading Intervention for Children in Preschool and Kindergarten with Moderate to Severe Language Delays, Rebekah Christine Bosley