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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Weirded: A Collection of Short Fiction, Rosalynn Laporishia Stovall
An Analysis of Profitable Post Admission Attractions for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Turning Magic into Money, Amber Lynn Strange
Droplet Pinch Off Dynamics in Viscoelastic Fluid, Andrew Jonathan Thurber
Gridiron Peers: An Analysis of the Legendary Coaching Careers and Foundations of success of Paul Bear Bryant and John Vaught Through Comparison and Contrast, David Luke Trewolla
Fitgerald's American Dream: It Happens to One, Not the Ninety-Nine, Cara Kathleen Troiani
Estimation of Charge Transfers by Individual Lightning Return Strokes, Lauren Elizabeth Vickers
The Effect of Mood on Short Term Memory, Amy Vitell
A Hidden WWII History: How New Media Reporting by CNN.COM Changed a Legacy, Elizabeth Claire Vowell
Investigating the Stability of Energy Metabolism in Cultured Neurons: Do Cerebellar GranuleNeurons Maintain A Metabolic Steady State in the Early Stages of Apoptosis?, Adrienne Lorraine Webb
Statistical Analysis of Precipitation and Inundation Effects on Trees in Different Flooding Regimes., Lucy Katherine Weber
The Importance of the United States Role in Cold War Latin American Military Coups: Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, Thomas Allan Weldy
Developing the Techniques for Raman, Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS), and Fluorescence Spectroscopies of Organic Molecules in Isolation, Jonathan Wolfe
The Kirchner Administration’s Soybean Export Tax Policy in Argentina as an Analytical Tool for Determining Political and Economic Shifts in Latin America since the Neoliberal Era, Patrick Joseph Woodyard
Living (or Not) Through Legendizing in Eudora Welty's Fiction, Ashley Catherine Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Acoustics in Highly Concentrated Wormlike Micellar Materials, Najat Ahmad Al-Sherri
No Place for You, My Love: Negotiation of Home and Identity in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedight, The Optimist's Daughter, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, Mallory Nicole Blasingame
The Effects of Background Stress on Cardiovascular Responses to Acute Stress, Christine MaLishka Jean Bocek
Theory and Practice: Translating the Arsamatoria, Ellen Bowden
Graph Theoretical Problems Computable by Networks of Finite Automata., Cameron Taylor Byrum
Pediatric Brain Tumors & Subsequent Communication and Swallowing Disorders., Emily Kathryn Chambers
Judeo-Christian Principles and Their Influence on Business Ethics in 21st Century America, Charles Benjamin Clark
Producing Godspell: An exploration of the concept musical, Dana Joanne Clark
Neural Cadherin: A Study of Domain 1., Elaine Ann Clark
Total Communication or the Picture Exchange Communication System? Increasing the Vocabulary Growth of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Ruth Ann Cooper
What Walt Disney Never Tod You: Social, Political, and Religious Interpretations of the Brothers Grimm Literature, Haley Alison Crum
The Bolivian Press and the Fight for a Revolution, Brandi Nicole Davis
Creation of a Topoisomerase I-EFGP Cell Line Using Recent Knock-in Technology, James Wayne Delancey
Seasonal Changes in Bacterial Communities in Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) Leaf Phyllosphere, William Craig Denney
Accounting for Carbon Credits: Convergence of US GAAP and IFRS, Robert Preston Derivaux
The Emergence of Biotechnology in the State of Mississippi: A Review, Whitman Scott Dowlen
The Osmolytic Effect and Its Action on Topoisomerase-I, Matthew Paul Dukes
Assessment of Eating Disorder Knowledge Among College Students & the Effectiveness of a Primary Prevention Program, Patricia Eileen Edwards
On the Metaphysics ofPhenomenal Mental States: An Inquiry into the Mind-Body Problem from Ordinary Intuition ofthe Mental, Brian Kyle Ferriss
Dopamine D2 Receptor Antagonist Raclopride's Effects on Core Temperature Alone and During Methamphetamine Administration at Varying Ambient Temperatures, Danielle Marie Fulbright
Military and Civilian Speech-Language Pathologists' Attitudes towards Evidence-Based Practice: A Pilot Study, Lauren Nicole Furr
The Last Drinking Drys: The Repeal of Prohibition in Mississippi, Joseph Stone Green
Christian society is not yet ready for this: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Christianity, Mark Douglas Gregory
The Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Effects on Women and Minorities, Shakitha Paquita Harden
Reconciling Southern Identity: Revising the Public Memory of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, James Matthew Hopper
Upgrade of a Raman Spectrometer with Modern Computer Control and Data Acquisition for Studies of Hydrogen Bonding in Pyrimidine, Austin Howard
Turkey and the European Union: Why Europe Doesn't Want a Taste of Turkey, Ann Kirkpatrick Jacobs
Whole Body Vibration Effects on Activation of Lower Extremity Muscles in Recreationally Trained Females, Margaret Jean Lancaster
Defending the Rorschach Blot, Mary Reagan Lightsey
Coover's Encyclopedi Satire: The Public Burning Revisited, John Mauldin
The Evolution of Campaign Finance and its Reform: An Expoloration and Economic Analysis, Meghan Milloy
Connections, Aynslee Elizabeth Moon
A Cross-Cultural Content Analysis of the 2008 American Presidential Election, Willow Beverly Nero
Acetylcholine Muscarinic Receptor-Mediated Contractility of Ovine Pulmonary Arteries: Changes with Maturation and Chronic Hypoxia, Dangtue Hu Nguyen
Hadwiger's Conjecture applied to Mycielski and Kneser Graphs, Anne Marie Nicholas
Influence of Particle Size on Mixed Culture Bacterial Biofilms, Kaleb James Page
Political Polarization and Networking in the Modern Internet Campaign, Alan Michael Pate
A Few Good Women: Break Through Roles in Three War Plays, Bobby Ellis Pelts
Finding Humanity in Dystopia: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake, Emily Thrash Peters
An Exploration of Factors Increasing Male Involvement in Couples' HIV Testing in Malawi, Mary Margaret Peterson
Whose Right Is It? The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms, Mary Mitchell Purvis
On Generalized Mersenne and Fermat Primes, Bette Catherine Putnam
The University of Mississippi's Role in the Presidential Election, Sara Ann Ralph
The Influences and Effects of Political Communication on Young Voters in the Digital Age, Kristen Michelle Robinson
Dissection of NCAD12: Distinctive Characteristics of Domains 1 and 2, Brittany Nicole Rogers
The Motivational Forces Behind China's Foreign Policy in Africa: A Historical Comparison Between the 1960s and Today, Tatiana Claire Sarasin
Guztien Gogora Egitea, Da Gauza Nekea, Pleasing Everyone is Tiresome: A Theory of How Domestic Policy Affects Foreign Policy, Ashton McLean Seip
Perceptions of Nursing Students Regarding Patient Suffering, Molly Marie Shivers
Accounting for Negative Goodwill Arising from Business Combinations, Jere Matthews Sights
Shattering Colored Glass: The Trauma of Magical Realism n Toni Morrison's Beloved and José Saramago's Blindness, Eric Edward Solomon
The Ontology of Number, Garrett Michael Strickland
China's Role in the Darfur Crisis: An Inquiry into Global Ethics, Katie Malone Swain
100 Years of Hoops: A Personal Perspective of Ole Miss Basketball, Whitney Lauren Tarpy
Sincerely Yours: An Analysis of the Nature and Strengths of Epistolary Fiction, Elizabeth Anne Taylor
Crowning Glory: A Sociological Study of Gender in the Beauty Pageant System, Lee Taylor
Testing A Model: Ca2+ Induced Exposure of Tryptophan in Neural-Cadherins, Chinelo Udemgba
Capturing the Banner of Batlissmo: The Frente Amplio and the End of Uruguay's Two-Party System, Kelly Ann Usher
Accounting for Gift Cards: A Demonstration of the Need for a New Accounting Standard, Ben Wilson Van Landuyt
Barcelona: An Economic Exception for Mega-event Host-cities., John Cantalin Wahl
The Olympics as a Catalyst for Chinese Environmental Regulation: A Theory with Three Case Studies from Beijing, Alecia Anne Waite
Big and Small: Using Large Scale Puppets in Low Budget Theatre, Lauren E. Wakefield
Cost Benefit Analysis: A Policy Tool of Anthropocentric Utilitarianism, Nora Anne Watson
Corporate Sports Sponsorship: An Analysis of Fan/Consumer Attitude and Purchase Behavior`, Jaime Marie Weaver
Change in the European Court of Human Rights: Accession of Eastern and Central European Member States, Rachel Morgan West
Internal Controls and Regulation of the Not-for-Profit Sector: Increasing Transparency for Churches, Sarah Catherine White
Internal Controls and Regulation of the Not-For-Profit Sector: Increasing Transparency for Churches, Sarah Catherine White
Power Play: How Grassroots Democracy has Affected Rural Chinese and the Chinese Communist Party, McDaniel Drake Wicker
Harry Potter: Magic or Illusion?, Douglas Fugate Caldwell Williams
Calcium Binding Affinity Properties of Neural Cadherin Domains 1 and 2, Thomas Thayer Wood
The Inextinguishable Longing for Elsewhere: Escapism in Recent Pulitzer Prize Winning Novels, Charles Barton Wynn
The Butterflies: An Original Film Produced Throught The University of Mississippi in August 2008, Winsor Yu-Liang Yuan
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Development Ethics: Ethical Questioning And Its Place In International Development, Miriam Elizabeth Abadie
Conceiving Equity: The Paradox Surrounding the Contraception Crisis in America, Meghann Diane Ainsworth
Institutionalized Islam: A Study of the Union des organisations islamiques de France, Andrus Gareth Ashoo
Russians at Work: Past and Present of the Russian Mentality toward Work, Dustin Cody Bankston
Nouveau: A Feminist Magazine Launch, Meghan Cori Blalock
The Evolution of Sexuality in Vampire Novels, Elizabeth Lauren Butler
Left against Left in Brazil: Party Rivalry, National Politics, and Ideological Change, Marcos de Moraes Cerdeira
Graphic Design Work for the Band RiverLeft, Benjamin William Deneka
Pink Wave or Red Threat? Bolivia's and Venezuela's Hydrocarbons Policies in Perspective, Patrick Hunter Dogan
The Euro Effect: Is the Euro the Cause of Italy's Woes and Spain's Successes?, Robert Charlton Duke
Antinociceptive Action of Mitragynine and its Synthetic Analogs in Mice, La Donna Evette Franklin
An Bhuil Gaeilge Agat?: Perspectives on the Irish Language in Ireland, Georgia Katherine Fyke
NATO and Global Expansion, John Doyce Griffin
Military Reforms with Chinese Characteristics: Informal Decentralization in the Chinese Government and Its Effect on Party-Military Relations, Daniel John Hedglin
Abnormal Group Velocities of Ultrasonic Pulses in Aqueous Suspensions of Polymer Microspheres, Robert Evans Heithaus