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Theses/Dissertations from 2009
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
The Expression and Characterization of Full-Length PRCP in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells, Mubina Aziz Isani
The Green Bean: A specials coffee and cacao supplier that supports the organic and fair trade efforts in Central and South America., Allison Nicole Johnson
The Green Bean: A Specialty Coffee Company Designed around Organic and Fair Trade Efforts., Allison Nicole Johnson
Path of the Dragon's Eye: Using Fantasy Elements in Realism, Winston Edward Jones, Jr.
Path of the Dragon’s Eye: Using Fantasy Elements in Realism, Winston Edward Jones Jr.
Historical Memory and Muslim Identity in Andalusia, Sarah Lynn Karp
Shorebank Corporation: A Model of Community Development through Commerce, Joshua Dudley Kipp
Finding Space for Autonomy: Chiapas, the EZLN, and the Dynamics of the Indigenous Communities, Thomas Joseph Koger
Going Places: The Shift of the Textile Industry to China, Vaughan Abbay Leatherman
An Analysis of Networking Between Top Executives of Companies Suspected of Backdating Stock Options, Rebecca Kin-Ming Lo
The Hartz Commission vs. the Alliance for Jobs: A Study in German Labor Market Reform, Robert Russell Lynch
Sustainable Development in the Atacama Desert? Community and the Copper Mining Industry in Northern Chile, Livia Christina Macias
A Designer’s Portfolio, Hallie Landon Marshall
An Investigation into Developing a Business Plan for a Television Pilot, as Well as, An Examination of Consumer Perception toward Interactive Television and the Pilot, Celeste Elizabeth McKeon
The Perils of Privatizing Water: The Case of Buenos Aires in Comparative Perspective, Joshua Lee Norris
The Construction of Womanhood and Race in Novels by Caroline Lee Hentz and Augusta Jane Evans, Elizabeth L. Oliphant
Characterization of the Lipopolysaccharide Binding Site on the Plasma Protein High Molecular Weight Kininogen, Ryan Cory Perkins
Storytellers: Stories Within Songs, Carly Amber Phillips
The Politics of Memory: A Study of the Formation and Influence of Public Memory of the Military Regime in Argentina, Alexandra Azema Rodriguez
At the Roots of Faith: A Comparative Analysis of the History and Appeal of Buddhism and Christianity in Comtemporary China, Megan Christine Rogers
An Evaluation of 529 Savings and Prepaid Tuition Plans, Joshua Charles Rorie
The Rationality of the Green Knight: Testing, Tempting, and Culture in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Vincent Peter Rotkiewicz
Short Stories, Russell Joseph Rutherford
The Magnitude of Repression by Cro Protein in the Presence of Lambda Operator Variants, Shabnam Sarker
Concert Promotion in a College Community: A Guide for the Hopeful Concert Promoter, Lori Ann Simpson
The Use of Presidential Decrees in New Democracies: A Study of Argentina and Chile, Lindsey Michelle Stringer
A Study of Race Policy in Fidel Castro's Cuba, Lee Andrew Taggart
Object Usage Processing Improves Memory, Joseph C. Tann
FreeTime!?!? Theatre: The Creation of a Successful Production Company, Brian Martin Tichnell
Jean-Paul Marat: The Politics of Death, Joseph Paul Wallace
Current Model for a Narrow Bipolar Pulse, Samuel Stewart Watson
An Investigation of Short Sellers' Behavior around Short Interest Announcement Dates, Wei Wei
K-12 Public School Finance in Mississippi: A History and Policy Analysis., Shadrack Tucker White
Optimization Studies of the Important Drug Lead Kahalalide F which Acts on a Novel Cancer Target RPS25, Kully Lynn Woodruff
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Environment, Behavior, and Internal Consciousness: A Study of Space and Time in Dostoevsky, Laura Claire Bagwell
The Limits of Laïcité: Islam and the Headscarf Issue in France, Lindsay Blaire Beeman
Gardening programs in schools: A proposed solution to reverse the consequences of the current American food culture, Charlotte Grace Blessey
The Stones and the Bones: Contemporary Issues in Cultural Property, Christopher Michael Blocker
Soviet Language Policy in Uzbekistan: How the Role of Russian has Changed through Soviet Times and Independence, Mary Catherine Boehmer
Out of the Agrarian Closet: Rereading The Velvet Horn by its Queer Currents, Jacob W. Brasher