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Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The Truth Shall Set You Free: Journalists' Addiction to Truth in the Face of Danger, Margaret O'Brien Middleton
What's Behind Genocide?: The Social Construction of Ethnicity and Mass Killing, Brianna Marie Phillips
China's Growing Unemployment Problems: Past, Present, and Future, Andrew Piletz
Playing The Game Our Own Way: A Social Perspective on Jazz and Blues in Southern Literature, Landon Christian Pollard
Media & Literature: American Cinema and C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Laura B. Rigby
Ils en ont parle, Mary Elizabeth Roe
Studies of Pyrene Fluorescence in Pressed Zeolite Discs, Keith Perry Russell
Myths, Stereotypes and Truths: A Critical Look at the Relationship Between Africans and African-Americans., Jennifer Olufemi Salu
Fraud as an Incentive for Change in Corporate America., Sharon Abimbola Salu
Ecocritism and the Renaissance: A Study in Shakespeare and More, Melissa Levert Smith
Spears for Hire: The Utilization and Motivations of Greek Mercenaries in the Archaic and Classical Ages., Stephen Kyle Tadlock
Cotton and Compromise: Charles Pinckney and the Political Unification of South Carolina 1788-1808, Hunter Glenn Upchurch
The Effect of Carrageenan-Induced Inflammatory Nociception on Distress Vocalizations and the Anxiolytic Efficacy of Drugs in the Chick Separation Stress Paradigm, Ralph Brooks Vance Jr.
The Whole Shebang: A Directorial Analysis of the Production of Rich Orloff's One Act Produced at the University of Mississippi The 8th and 9th of March 2006, Jennifer Theresa Webre
The Treatment of Medicine in Literature, Nicholas Shawn Whipple
Women in Informal Work: An Examination of the Position of Workers in the Latin American Informal Sector, Caroline Elizabeth Wicker
Pharmacological Dissociation of Anxiety Model in the Chick Separation Stress Paradigm, Robert Thomas Wicks
Country is…The Portrayal of Southern Culture in Country Music, Allison Ann Worley
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Size Exclusion Chromatography: Estimation of Protein Shape, Gregg Oyemachi Anazia
Spectacle of Self in Medieval Romance: Pagentry, Performance, and Clothing, Crady Yerger Bobo
The Value of an Arts Rich Education: Why Every School Should Teach the Arts, Holly Louise Buntin
Correlates of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome in African-American Adolescents, TaSheitha Vontre Butler
A Study of the Effects of the 2004 Tsunami on Coral Reefs and Fisheries of the Indian Ocean, Joseph Lane Campbell
Corticosterone Response in a Learned Helplessness Model of Depression, Courtney M. Cartwright
H-1B Worker Visas: Past, Present, and Future, Keith Gaines Drago
Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel(II) Coordination Complexes with Hydrotrispyrazolylborato and Dithiobenzoato Ligands, Brian Matthew Enggano
Collegiate Athletics Recruiting: Marketing a New Game Plan, Emily Douglas Evans
Sines, Cosines, and Conjugates, Caleb John Hallauer
An Examination of Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, and Information Retrieval Systems and Their Applications, Jeffrey Allen Holloway
Colored Red: A Memoir and Memoriam, Jordan Charles Hooper
Religion and Support of Democracy: Protestantism, Catholicism, and the Support for Democracy in Mexico, Sara Jolly
An Early Evaluation of the Impact of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Reports Issued by Public Accounting Firms, Austin Thomas Jones
Baseball in The Big Easy: An Analysis of Professional Baseball in New Orleans, Louisiana, Christopher Emile Kieffer
Ginger: The Making of a Redhead Magazine, Carlie Jean Kollath
Congress, Religion, and the Cold War Consensus from 1952-1956, Alexandra Clark Layfield
Engineering Genetic Networks to Measure Real Time Repression by λ Cro in vivo, Zachary Louis LeBlanc
Differences in Convention: Serious vs. Comic in Turn-of-the-Century British Literature (1885-1915), Christopher Michael Mossing
Spectroscopic Studies of Site 3 Mutants of Calmodulin, Shakirat Omolara Oyetunji
The Effects of Physiological Arousal on Measures of Upper Extremity Position Sense in Healthy Young Adults, Melissa Angelique Parker
The Relationship between Religion/Spirituality and Healing as Demonstrated by Falun Gong and Christian Science, Maribeth Porter
The Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on the Auditing Profession, Samantha Marie Rayburn
Six Middle Americans Respond to Thomas Frank's Question, 'What's the Matter With Kansas?' An Analytical Commentary on Populism and American Political Life, Rebecca Ruth Reyenga
Picric Acid Degradation in Sterilized Sediments from the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant, Minden, Louisiana, Stephanie Kimberly Rice
Ecotourism in Costa Rica: A Study of the Viabilities and Impacts of Three Ecotourism Models, Corey Harmon Rogers
Civil War Medicine: Crisis and Heroism in the Medical Profession, 1861 - 1865, Diana Frances Semmes
Perfect Order: A Collection of Short Stories, Virginia Lyons Shields
Freedom of the Press in a Post-September 11 World: A Global Perspective, Melissa Erin Sindelar
News Media Consumption and Perceptions of Poverty Within a Sample at the University of Mississippi, Erin M. Smith
Divination: A Collection of Poetry, Elizabeth Davenport Stephenson
Mixing the Old with the New: Magazines in the 21st Century, Brandie D. Thomas
Self-Discovery by Self-Destruction, Raney-Mills Turner
New Methods of Marketing and Manufacturing for a Startup Optical Internet Retailer, William Sharp Whitaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Comparative Population Dynamics of Freshwater Dinoflagellates of the Genera Peridinium and Peridiniopsis, Andy Canion
A Psychometric Investigation of Measures of Meaning, Gratitude, and Psychological Health, Natalie Lynn Cathcart
The Daughter’s Struggle for Definition both with and Against the Mother in Achieving Selfhood in Five Contemporary American Novels, Camille Leigh Comer
The Effects of a Distractor on Reaction Time Tasks in Rats: Mode vs. Distribution Skew, Karen Melissa Damico
Development of Common Law in Civil Law Socieites, Chasity Shea Davis
The Role of the Declining Status and Increasing Pluralism of the Catholic Church in the Formation of Religious Generation Gaps in Spain, 1936-1990, Allison Rene Ellzey
The Use of DNA Microarrays to Compare the Gene Expression Profiles of Paclitaxel and Acetic Acid 2,2'-thiobis, bis [[(2-hydroxyphynyl) methylene]hydrazid] in A549 Cells: Part 1, Jennifer Diane Ellzey
Ignorance and Want in the Works of Charles Dickens, Emily Katherine Ferris
European Lingua Franca? Germany's Relationship with English in the late Twentieth Century, Anna Elise Fleming
Personality Effects on Perception of Emotion from Audible Cues, Megan Diane French
Faulkner's Wake: The Emergence of Literary Oxford, John Louis Fuller
Networking Is not Everything: The Factors that Led to the Eventual Decline of the Brigate Rosse, Courtney Janos Geraci
The Emergence of a Middle Class among Turks in Germany: A Move toward Cultural Pluralism, Eden Blythe Hegwood
Magic Hour's Niche in the Marketplace: The Process of Launching a Photography Magazine, Summer Anne Hill
The Role of Women in Gothic Literature, Madeline Jean Holbert
A Number Theoretical Approach to Public Key Cryptography, Nathan Morley Holt
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A Comprehensive Understanding, Needs Assessment, and Development of Intervention, Jacquelyn Jean Lee
Effect of Country of Origin Awareness on Attitudes Toward Foreign Made Products, Natalia Lentino
Molecular Entrapments in the Nanosized Cavities of Polar-Solvated Zeolites X and Y”, Reagan Levidiotis
Institutionalized Hypocrisy: Divorce and Politics in Chile, 1884-2004, Amanda Faye Mitchell
Antibiotic Resistance in Northern Mississippi Wetlands, Shama Moktan
Battling from the Bottom Up: The Alleviation of Violence Against Women by the Non-Governmental Sector in South Africa, Shane Julia Richardson
Spatial Variability of Soil Electrical Conductivity and its Response to Soil Physical Properties, Matthew David Sleep
Spatial Variability of Soil Electrical Conductivity and Its Response to Soil Physical Properties, Matthew David Sleep
The Poetry of a New Generation: An Investigation of the Potential Use of Hip-Hop and Modern Spoken Word in the Classroom, Aaron Lee Thompson
Feeding Behaviour and Niche Overlap of Two Species of Wolf Spiders, Winter Lee Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Monte Carlo Simulation of a Nonlinear Epidemic, Blair Margaret Bannerman
Candy Apples and Other Tales of Entropy, Brent Hayes Bonds
Spleen RNA Concentration and Male Oramentation in the Wild Turkey, William Wilson Boone
Aspects of Schooling Behavior in the Golden Shiner, Notemigonus Crysoleucas: Nearest Neighbor Distance, Angle of Sqimming, and Antiphasic Coupling, Megan Thomas Brown
The Saint and Judith Female Conventions in Ouida's Held in Bondage, Strathmore, Friendship, and Moths, Hannah Lacey Bryant
The Evolution of Interpretive Standards for the Establishment Clause, Jacob A. Dickerson
Random Sampling of an A/D Converter and Aliasing, Jessica Ruth Drewrey
Romantic Characters in Modern Fiction, Kate Chadwell Galbreath
Assimilation versus Autonomy: Indigenous Education in Mexico, Gordon Lee Gent
Synthesis of Polymer Nanofibers Through Emulsion Polymerization, James Douglas Hankins
Ischemia Pre-conditioning and the Effects of Nitric Oxide Synthase, Jessica Jean Holt
The Effects of Autologous Platelet Gel on the Tensile Strength of Incisional Wounds, Thomas Matthew Jones
On the Origin of Ethics, John Ashley Kimble
Strong Black Woman: An Examination of Cultural Images of Black Women, Tamika Renee Montgomery
Doing All You Can, Brother?': Visual Themes of World War II American Propaganda Posters, Justin Rives Nicholas
Transitions: Decentralization and Senegalese Political Parties, Megan Earline Norris
Studies on the Role of Foldign of the Cro Protein in the Genetic Switch of the Bacteriophage Lambda, Chinwendu Chioma Onwubiko
A Comparison of Peaceful and Violent Separatist Movements, William Dorsey Pieschel
The UK and the EMU: An Economic Examination of the United Kingdom as a Relevant Factor of Success for Europe to Achieve Economic and Monetary Union, John Gabriel Roberts
How the Song Goes: Southern Society Singing The Dual Lives of Women, Amy R. Roebuck
Capital Punishment and Martial Law in Ireland, 1916-1923, Thomas Michael Taff
Implementation of SAP's Campus Management at the University of Mississippi, Kimberly Nicole Weston