Theses and Dissertations
This collection assembles the theses and dissertations of Mississippi State University graduate students. The majority of the documents are born digital from 2001 to present; however, there are a few documents that have been digitized with the author's permission and added to the repository.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
A case against exclusive reliance on volumetric mixture characterization for future asphalt pavements and the advancement of a viable alternative, Jonathan Randy Easterling
Understanding the impact of tropical sea surface temperature biases on the projection of North American precipitation, William Tyler Edwards
Charting the course through complexity: Networked approaches to foster sustainable and resilient supply chains., Safae El Amrani
Quantum task mapping for large-scale heterogenous computing systems, Mackenzie Danyel Ellenberger
Numerical predictions of turbulent heat transfer in liquid metal flows, Mohammed Elmellouki
Synthesis and degradation of biobased polymers from plant oils incorporated with cellulose nanocrystals., Katherine Elmore
Effects of Turbulence on Scramjet Engines Combustion, Mohamed En-nali
Impacts of quality on cotton hedging and basis, Jacob Epperson
Functional complementation and occidiofungin susceptibility of fungal actin orthologs in S. cerevisiae, Moshood Fagbolade
Alight, the dead of night: Ascertaining the collection and use of nighttime site inventory in landscape architecture professional practice, Jacob Zachary Felkins
Predictions of thermo-fluid transport over a poultry incubation period using high performance computing, Melvy Fernandes
Evaluation and enhancement of the Phosphorus Index for the Mississippi Delta, Felipe Fernandez Martinez
Identifying fecal contamination sources in the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Amanda M. Free
Wide-spaced furrow irrigation effects on vertisols under corn production in the Mississippi Delta, Thomas Barton Freeland III
Enhanced intellectual property protection mechanisms towards collaborative data sharing in metal-based additive manufacturing, Durant Hayes Fullington
Fisheries management in Mississippi state-operated fishing lakes: A review and look to the future, Hayden Gregory Funk
Evaluating the impact of biostimulants at variable nitrogen rates in Mississippi corn production systems, Praveen Gajula
Hardwood seedling establishment and survival for restoring and enriching bottomland hardwoods in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Timothy Jaycob Gatlin
Steric tuning of hexadentate chelates and their effects on the stability and redox properties of first-row transition metals, Ryan Benjamin Gaynor
Assembly and analysis of a mobile reactor system for the continuous conversion of landfill gas to sustainable aviation fuels, Benjamin Eston Gibens
Mass timber utilization in architecture: Carbon sequestration, building materials and construction practices, Jacob Alan Gines
Evaluation of air fryer technology inactivation of Salmonella spp. in brownies formulated with almond flour and all-purpose flour, Courtlone Kenshon Glaspie
Effects of subconjunctival ropivacaine, tetracaine, mepivacaine, and liposomal bupivacaine on corneal sensitivity in healthy horses, Gabriel Alexander Gonzalez
The community college experience of autistic students, Jeffery Matthew Gordon
Assessing northern bobwhite habitat use and short-term response to prescribed fire in an intensively managed longleaf pine ecosystem, Jeffrey Martin Grayum
Assessment of the results decay has on the perpendicular grain properties of wood, Joseph Landon Greene
MITRE Attack framework adaptation in UAV usage during surveillance and reconnaissance missions, Jeffrey Greer IV
Effects of a nontraditional beef cattle finishing system on performance, carcass quality, and economics, Lakan D. Guelker
Evaluating the bull breeding soundness evaluation’s utility as a tool for preventing reproductive inefficiency, Todd Galen Gunderson
The impact of stimulus set size on efficiency of sight words training, Junchen Guo
Complexities in Datura production and ceramics in the Arkansas River Valley, Jaylyn Ashley Gustafson
Discrimination the roles of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols on tropical cyclone frequency from downscaling CMIP6 models, George Gyabaah
Feasibility and effectiveness of physical activity program in people with Down Syndrome using Self Determination Theory, Maria Haider
Factors associated with undergraduate students pursuing health and dietetic careers, Claire Bolen Hardin
Plastic contaminants detection and classification in seed cotton using customed design feeder separator unit and convolutional neural network, Jonathan Harjono
Resource description framework parsing method on the UAS integration safety and security technology ontology, Hunter Harris
Towards clearer paths: Addressing camera obstructions in autonomous vehicles through neural networks, Nicholas J. Harvel
Synthesis and characterization of lithium tris (2-(dimethyl amino)phenyl)tert-butyl gallate [Li(Me2NPh)3GatBu] complex for the catalytic hydroboration of benzophenone, Mohammad Raziul Hasan
Risk assessment of severe weather events affecting animal production facilities, Impana Hassan Swamy Gowda
Defending Hesi: the construction and earliest occupation levels of the Iron Age fortress, Benjamin Hatfield
Understanding the relationship between neonatal dairy calves’ gut microbiota and incidence of diarrhea using full-length 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and machine learning, Jalyn Grace Hawkins
Derivations on smooth Hensel-Steinitz algebras, Shelley David Hebert
Effects of eugenol and carvacrol in combination against Salmonella in hummus, Lauryn Ashley Heidelberg
The role of air-sea interactions in the intensity change of sheared tropical cyclones utilizing a dataset of co-located aircraft expendable bathythermograph and dropsonde soundings, Benjamin J. Henkel
Evaluating the emergent wetland plant Juncus effusus as a tool in phytoremediation of nitrogen and copper, Jacob Aaron Hockensmith
Insect management strategies using insect growth regulators in Mississippi soybean, Sawyer Clayton Hopkins
Producing college and career ready graduates in rural high poverty school districts, Hilute Hudson III
The influence of cotton technology on plant based scouting methods and performance of commonly used insecticides for tarnished plant bug (Hemiptera: Miridae)prior to bloom in Mississippi cotton, James Michael Huoni Jr.
Catalytic upgrading of rice straw bio-oil with alcohols using different bimetallic magnetic nano-catalysts, Alhassan Ibrahim
Evaluating the vertical transmission potential of Salmonella Reading in broiler breeders, Abubakar Shitu Isah
Robust longitudinal velocity control for advanced vehicles: A deep reinforcement learning approach, Fahmida Islam
Improving cultural safety: A thematic analysis of older rural African Americans’ experiences with the U.S. healthcare system, Sarah Marie Israel
Evaluating the use of soil amendments for shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) restoration on post-mined landscapes, Casey Iwamoto
The determinants of turnover intensions among U.S. federal employees: Investigating the moderating roles of organizational publicness, Justin A. Jackson
Factors influencing quality of citizen science-collected litter data and the retention of recruited citizen scientists, Jessi Alexandria James-Barry
Evidence-based practices: The special educator’s experience, Breana Joi Jamison
Effect of pressure on viscoplasticity and its usefulness in designing impact devices, Marouane Jarachi
May our impact continue: A qualitative study of university graduate diversity recruitment work in an era of shifting state-level DEI policies, Mark Anthony Jimerson Jr
Using phylogenomics and environmental metabarcoding to understand the distribution and evolutionary histories of amoebae, Robert E. Jones
An examination of middle school and high school special education students in inclusion classrooms employing co-teaching model, Antwaunette Jones-Taylor
Spatiotemporal characteristics of instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Holley Kamba
Attrition rates in the engineering industry by gender and time, Josiane Kander
A comprehensive performance evaluation of proprietary and open-source language models in closed and open-domain tasks, Abhilash Kanduri
Transport and variability in concentrations of water quality parameters in response to weather conditions in the Louisiana Continental Shelf: A comparative analysis, ANKITA PANDURANG KATKAR
Reclaiming the journey: A phenomenological study of Black lactation professionals, DeAndra Monet Kees
Socioeconomic status and rural community college students’ academic outcomes, Robert Jason Kelly
Boundary layer flow control in low-Reynolds numbers via internal acoustic excitation, Joshua Michael Kiley
An examination of depressive symptoms of African Americans as a part of a complex system, Jenna Kilgore
Outbreak intensity ranking indices for primary severe weather modes, Adonte Netreven Knight
Simulated residual nitrogen scavenging and recovery among cover crop systems using nitrogen-15 in a corn production setting, Curtis Champ Knight
Beyond clear paths: Training with neural style transfer and auto-augmentation for domain-generalized segmentation of soiled images, Jacob Randall Kutch
Customers’ advocacy for environmentally friendly golf courses: The role of green brand image, feelings of gratitude, and relationship quality, Taewoong Kyung
Identifying potential antibiotic uptake mechanisms of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Yuri Laguna Terai
Multi-Cloud architecture attacks through Application Programming Interfaces, Theodore Edward Lander Jr.
Adolescent black girls anger and aggression: What we can learn, Dawn Michelle Latiker
Disruptors and resilience capabilities of pharmaceutical supply chains exposed to rare catastrophic disasters: case studies of one localized and one global disaster, Jeanne-Marie Elizabeth Lawrence
A narrative inquiry exploring the role of trust in college decision making among rural Mississippi community college students, Barbara Mauer Lee
Abundance and control of nuisance watershield (Brasenia schreberi) populations in Mississippi, MacKenzie M. Lee
Extending Social Force Model for the design and development of crowd control and evacuation strategies using physics-based simulation, Aaron Wade LeGrand Sr.
Determine the composition of spoilage bacteria and their dynamic changes in fresh broiler breast meat during refrigerated storage, Dylan Joseph Lesak
Unraveling catalytic mysteries: Insights revealed by density functional theory, Tri Nghia Le
Efficacy of recycled glass cullet as a soil substrate for U.S. Gulf Coast salt marsh restoration, Ansley Levine
Estimation of cyanobacterial concentrations from uncrewed aircraft systems imagery over the Western Mississippi Sound, Gulf of Mexico, John Preston Liles
Evaluation of current management strategies for the tarnished plant bug and tobacco thrips in midsouthern cotton, Hunter Lane Lipsey
Effects of acute alcohol treatment on macrophage polarization, Liyuan Liu
Effects of an auditory versus visual stimulus on reaction and response time during countermovement and squat jumps, Russell K. Lowell
Residual stress predictions in L-PBF Ti-6Al-4V NIST bridges using FEM, Caitlin Delaney Luke
Investigating differences in perceived value and opportunities for student professional development in chemistry graduate programs, Contessa L. Maggard
Understanding stream litter loading through watershed characteristics, Elinor Reed Mallon
The analysis and comparison of cardiac time intervals via seismocardiography., Aysha Jenea Mann
Evaluation of soybean (Glycine max L.) seed inoculation with Bradyrhizobium japonicum and Bacillus subtilis on yield and root system architecture: a herbicide carryover perspective, Ncomiwe Andile Maphalala