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Theses/Dissertations from 1978
The development of children's literature in the eighteenth century and its effects on children's literature in the twentieth century, Crenola Sneed Coleman
The feminine mask in the comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve, Sylvia Ross Cooper
Surface recycling of asphaltic concrete highway pavements, Alfred Bridwell Crawley
Efficacy of application of the system of multicultural pluralistic assessment with a rural population, Elizabeth Anneal Dillon
The food and feeding habits of the common bay anchovy, Anchoa mitchelli (Valenciennes), Zubir Bin Din
Discrimination against women in Mississippi newsrooms : an exploratory study, Ouida C. Drinkwater
An examination of triiodothyronine binding characteristics in rat liver nuclei with respect to age and hypophysectomy, David Edward ErkenBrack
A comparison of three methods for the facilitation of verbal expression in a non-verbal child, Elizabeth Patrice Felner
Synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of 1-substituted-4(propananilido) perhydroazepines as potential analgesics, Zona Gail Finney
Numerical methods for finding complex roots of functions, Peggy Emmons Geddie
Defender of inland waters : the military career of Issac Newton Brown, Commander, Confederate States Navy, 1861-1865, Charles Munro Getchell
Wave propagation and reflection on multiconductor transmission lines with inhomogeneous dielectrics, Gerald Anthony Gibson
How the international students at the University of Mississippi perceive American television, Bernard Opubo Graham-Douglas
The development and demonstration of a model and methodology toquantify the cost of controlling restricted pharmaceuticals in ahospital, Zack Thomas Grapes
A dietary analysis of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians of northeast Mississippi, Camille Margarita Hallman
The effect of large settlements on the stability of embankments, Somanath S. Hiremath
A trace element distribution of the Mississippian Fort Payne Chert of northeast Mississippi, Bruce Frederick Hoffman
The peace proceeding : preventive justice or unconstitutional quagmire, Leslie Gainer Johnson
Racial themes in the works of Thomas Pynchon, Edgar Reeves Jones
An application of cluster analysis to the detection of structurein sociometric data, Frederick Lemonte Jones
A history of the Memphis Volunteer Fire Department, 1848-1860, James Boyd Jones
Richard Nixon's Supreme Court : a study in transition, Donald Justice
A method for obtaining thermal stresses in composite plates caused by transient conduction, Chih-Tai Keng
Cristobal de Villalon : Erasmian humanist of the Renaissance in Spain as evidenced in his masterwork, El Scholastico, Jean Moore Kiger
Faulkner's Joe Christmas as existential hero, Wook Dong Kim
An in-home assessment of mediated training techniques for teaching time out, Wayne William Krug
Analysis of stresses in prestressed concrete pavement with design procedure, Bal Kartick Kudtarkar
The use of shrimp waste meal as a protein supplement in fish food, Nancy Agnes Kunz
Ultrastructure demonstration of uric acid in the nephrons of thekidney of Gallus domesticus, Chester Hamilton Lake
Some structural and magnetic properties of the hexagonal K(subscript x)VFand Cs(subscript x)VF, Robert Yuang-Fong Lee
Petrology of subsurface diabase sills encountered in paleozoic rocks of northwest Mississippi, Tsean-shu Patricia Lee
Pavement evaluation by deflection bowl, Chen-Wu Lin
Command disorder : Benjamin Franklin Cheatham and the Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865, Christopher Thomas Losson
The role of Chopin in the historical evaluation of the nineteenth century etude / by Don Edward Massengale, Don Edward Massengale
The use of the mask in the dramaturgy of Eugene O'Neill, Laura Greer McBryde
Landscapes : a descriptive analysis of form and control, Zelma Ann McIlwain
Changes in traditional community pharmacist work patterns following computerization, Alan Bert McKay
Estrangement in the life and selected works of George Crabbe, Mildred Newlin McMillan
Attitudes associated with opinions toward space exploration, Robert Dale McWilliams
The social context of popular musicianship, Jon F. Nutting
Late Pleistocene-Holocene depositional systems, southern Hancock, County, Mississippi, Freddie John Pellegrin
Four patterns of the eighteenth-century sublime in Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard, Thomas Stephen Prewitt
The development of aesthetic awareness through music education / Kim McKenzie Red, Kim McKenzie Red
The relationship between spatial and conceptual possibilities ofthe platter-form : unglazed slip decoration in Raku pottery / Robert Townson Reedy, Robert Townson Reedy
A survey of basic concepts and notation of rhythm / by Sue Ann Reuter, Sue Ann Reuter
John Sturges and the Western film / by Van Thomas Roberts, Van Thomas Roberts
Demand characteristics in the covert reinforcement procedure / by Donald Allen Sherrod, Donald Allen Sherrod
Developing fluent recognition of basic pitch notation by programed instruction, Lawrence Clifford Smith
The reality of Christian hope : a study of the positive voice in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor / by Darrell Eugene Stafford, Darrell Eugene Stafford
The effects of shared governance on burnout and job satisfactionamong hospital nurses / by Robert B. Sterne, Robert B. Sterne
An analysis of selected works by Vaclav Nelhybel / by Kenneth Lewis Stovall, Kenneth Lewis Stovall
The influence of relaxation instructions on drinking behaviors in the presence of stress stimuli / by Daniel Paul Strickler, Daniel Paul Strickler
Computer simulation of two-dimensional cascade flows of ideal fluids / by Tsu-Yi Su, Tsu-Yi Su
Mineralogy and origin of the medicine earth sulfates in the Bucatunna clay, central Mississippi / by Dan Albert Thompson, Dan Albert Thompson
Toxin produced by a bacillus isolated from the intestine of a surgeonfish / by Samuel Murry Tumey, Samuel Murry Tumey
Development and applications of Poisson, Jensen, and Poisson-Jensen Formulas, Frank Eugene Westmoreland II
Rotifers as indicators of domestic pollution, Darryail W. Whittington
A comparison of twenty brain-injured and twenty non-brain-injured childrens' performance on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, Brenda Kay Wildermuth
Dubitanda in the David M. Robinson Memorial Collection of Antiquities at the University of Mississippi, Pamela Anne Williams
Experimental study of a tunnel liner subjected to excavation loading / by Mohamed Zain Bin Yusuf, Mohamed Zain Bin Yusuf
Choice of effort expenditure distribution as a function of cumulative effort criterion and reinforcement rate / by Jeffrey Zimmerman, Jeffrey Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Microencapsulation of Naloxone hydrochloride and in vitro studies, Syed Ehtisham Hussain Abidi
Implementation of inquiry in Mississippi classrooms, Kevin Brian Bales
Individual reaction to stress in the development of hypertensionamong industrial workers, Benjamin Franklin Banahan
Effects of prenatal or neonatal administration of marihuana on learning behavior, Thomas Jefferson Bogue
The growth and reproduction in laboratory culture of two cryptomonad algae, Mary Carolyn Sullivan Bowen
The visionary experience in three novels by Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Elizabeth Tonos Brantley
A natural resources conservation plan for Central Mississippi Planning and Development District, Eric Calvin Brown
The renewing of culture, Ching-Yee Chang
Doctor or nurse: children's perception of sex-typed occupations, Glenn David Cordua y Cruz
Roman imperial public policy towards provinces as attested by coinage of the first two centuries A. D., Deborah Lynne Crenshaw
Control of radio stations in Chile, 1970-1973, Fernando Rene Crisosto-Garces
The geographical distribution of ciguatoxic fish in the easternhalf of the British Virgin Islands, William Thomas Davin
A study of administrators' attitudes toward the unit dose system, Michael Russell Dorman
A descriptive analysis of management and programming of carrier- current and educational radio broadcasting stations located at United States colleges and universities, Michael Wayne Dunn
Symbols of the mother archetype in six early poems of John Keats, John Clyde Ellis
Anne of Denmark : the character and political influence of James I's Queen Consort, Mary Helen Fink
James Joyce's satiric and ironic use of Biblical allusions in the Oxen in the Sun and other episodes of Ulysses, Linda Mebane Garner
Holocene stratigraphy of the Bayou Cumbest fluvial system, southeastern Mississippi, Conrad A. Gazzier
Gordon Craig's treatment of marionettes in The Mask, Martha McGaughy Geddie
A timed domain study of electrically-small probes, Alfred Edward Gent
The world of The World is Round : Gertrude Stein's experimentation in psychological realism, Gwendolyn Gong
Carson McCullers' fictive women : a discovery of their existence and an analysis of their character, Nan Graves Goodman
The Christian humanism of Fulke Greville, Marie Mullins Goodwin
Out of Tennessee poems, with an introduction, Roy Neil Graves
The Opelousas Daily World : vanguard of a revolution, Charles Curtis Guenther
Children as victims, demons, seers : Flannery O'Connor's wise brood, Marion Ellison Ham
Physician utilization and evaluation of a hospital based drug information center, Jimmy Naul Hayman
Calculation of Wigner coefficients for the group SUby a mapping into the group SU, Bruce P. Hellmann
Limb tremor as an indicant of emotional states, Samuel Broud Hester
The antislavery movement in Columbiana County, Ohio, Mary Jo Hinerman
Timeout from positive reinforcement as a positive reinforcer, John H. Hunsicker
Validation of the Spence-Helmreich attitudes toward women scale: an extension, Emma Louise Kinabrew
Optimal control using Kalman filtering of the reduced models ofthe Williams-Otto reactor, Chetan Bal Kudtarkar
An analysis of the public television audience in the Oxford, Mississippi, area, 1977, Susan Helen Langdon
The Beggar's Opera and The Threepenn y Opera : developments in theme and form, Sara Frances Leach
Three original plays, Mark Thompson Leonard
Someone had to be hated : the Pulitzer prize-winning campaigns of Julian Harris and the Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer-Sun, Gegory Carroll Lisby