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
Investigating the pretesting effect under cognitive load through increased playback speed, Oscar Ramirez Perez
Inclusion: Survey of Mississippi general and special education teachers view and experiences in an inclusion classroom, Patricia Ratliff
Generation Z’s perceptions of public sector culture moderate their aspirations towards public service, Andrew S. Rendon
La deconstrucción de la idea de maternidad en dos novelas colombianas: La perra de Pilar Quintana y Esta herida llena de peces de Lorena Salazar Masso, Catalina Revelo
The transnational beat: paramilitary policing and America’s associational defense state, Ryan Reynolds
Gastrointestinal parasite prevalence in cats and dogs entering Mississippi shelters and utility of pyrantel pamoate as a sole anthelmintic therapy, Dallas Elizabeth Riley
The effects of cover crops and reduced tillage practices on soil moisture, cotton yield, irrigation water use, and profitability, Carson David Roberts
Role of a precision biotic and a protease fed alone and in combination to Dekalb White laying hens at peak production phase, ElsiAnna Rodewald
Magnetite-laden Douglas fir biochar for arsenic and perfluoroalkyl substances contaminated water remediation and struvite/struvite-K rich Douglas fir biochar for soil remediation, Paththinihannadige W. K. P. M. Rodrigo
Preparing to come home, not recidivate: Juvenile offenders' perceptions of the juvenile justice system, Robbie Kaitlyn Salters
A tripartite study on climate change, nitrogen-sulfur interactions, and sulfur’s role in Mississippi corn production, Ramandeep Kumar Sharma
“Freakish Man”: sexual blues, sacred beliefs, and the transformation of Black queer identity, 1870-1957., Xavier E. Sivels
An examination of teacher candidates’ planning processes as they seek to integrate technology into disciplinary literacy instruction, Kimberly O. Smith
The role of subsurface dynamics in cometary outbursts, Ahmad Sohani
Evaluating efficacy of modified barrier operations to limit Silver Carp movements in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Joshua Stafford
Ultrasonographic evaluation of splenic nodules and masses with B-Flow interrogation correlates to cytologic or histopathologic characterization as benign or malignant., William Spigener Stevenson
Forest structure and edge effects on bee functional diversity in private, working pine forests, Madalyn Stoecker
An open-source digital twin of the wire arc directed energy deposition process for interpass temperature regulation, Ryan Mitchell Stokes
Photocatalytic disinfection of microbes in water by using titanium dioxide (TiO2) – decorated biochar, Aleria Story
Maternal and paternal appearance-related pressure and body esteem in emerging adults: Moderation by self compassion and gender, AlliGrace Story
Understanding Black student affairs professionals’ perceptions of racialized incidents in sorority and fraternity life, Ashley LaShi Swift
Mitigating delay and coupling effects in a high-speed PMSM drive using an optimal multivariable control approach, Kazi Nishat Tasnim
Characterization of the behavioral patterns in Salmonella biofilms across different serovars and environmental conditions, Hudson Thames
A modular compact kW-class IPOS DC-DC converter for pulsed power applications, Walker Joseph Thames
Southern pine beetle colonization: Dispersal phenology and host selection, John William Thomason
Does attendance in Head Start and Early Head Start programs influence social and emotional development in young children?, Mary Elizabeth Thorne
Setting the table: A study of grassroots organization political training program and Black women interests to run for local government., Adrian Shonna Tillman
Theory, school policy, and practices in education and culture in a classroom setting for minority students, Philip Turner
A determination of host receptors to choline-binding proteins of streptococcus pneumoniae, Milisen Tvarkunas
Identity status and identity style in the emo subculture: Exploring identity between emo vs. non-emo emerging adults, Melanie Rebekah Uggen
Optimizing water, nitrogen, and row patterns for irrigated corn and soybean in the Mississippi Delta, Amilcar Jose Vargas Loyo
Integrating building information modeling (BIM) and blockchain technology in the pre-construction planning processes, Abdul Wahab
A day in the life of a Farm-fluencer: can Agriculturalists change public perceptions towards Agriculture by using social media, Josey M. Webb
“A hiker who is strong” is stronger than “a strong hiker”: modifier position affects noun perception, Peter John Weber II
Application and feasibility of visible-NIR-MIR spectroscopy and classification techniques for wetland soil identification, Caleb Whatley
Effects of moderate exercise regimen on reproductive development of replacement beef heifers reared in drylots at a high stocking density, Logan M. Whipple
State funding of higher education institutions: An analysis of equity, Brittany O. White Doty
Choosing a foundational mathematics course in higher education: How is the decision made?, Heather Marie Wood
Performance evaluation of low-cost GPS machine guidance systems for livestock production forage and pasture management applications, Conner Childress Wright
Selective noise cancelling application for misophonia treatment, Timothy Wunrow
Spatial and temporal vulnerability analysis of natural disasters due to climate change, Weiwei Xie
The effect of salient features and recent strategy use on strategy selection in problem solving, Xinyu Xie
Growing Salvia miltiorrhiza in Mississippi, Zhiheng Xing
Enhancing data-driven process quality control in metal additive manufacturing: sensor fusion, physical knowledge integration, and anomaly detection, Christian E. Zamiela
Synthesis of colloidal nanomaterials of emerging semiconductor chalcogenide perovskites and related structures, Daniel Zilevu
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Physical Layer Security with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Advanced Wireless Networks, Aly Sabri Abdalla
Script-based design toolkit for digitally fabricated concrete applied to terrain-responsive retaining wall design, Nada Abdel-Aziz
Physics-based modeling of post-wildfire landslides in unsaturated hillslopes, Masood Abdollahi
Explainable Intrusion Detection Systems using white box techniques, Jesse Ables
Screening and selection for resistance to gray leaf spot (Pyricularia oryzae) in early planted annual ryegrass, Calyn M. Adams
Response of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) to salt stress, Bikash Adhikari
Leaf area index and aboveground biomass estimation of Populus and its hybrids using terrestrial LiDAR, Surya Adhikari
Investigating specialty crop farmers’ preferences for contract design and attitudes towards blockchain-based smart contracts, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang-Duah
Influence of periodic stitching on the in-plane and out-of-plane mechanical properties of polymer composites, Radwa Alaziz
Small area estimation of county-level forest attributes using forest inventory data and remotely sensed auxiliary information, Okikiola Michael Alegbeleye
Exponential Runge–Kutta time integration for PDEs, Trky Alhsmy
Applying Push-Pull-Mooring model to investigate non-malicious workarounds behavior, Nawaf Rasheed Aljohani
Examining the impact a bus driver attendance incentive program had on bus driver attendance in a rural Mississippi school district, Samuel B. Allison
Sign-symmetry and frustration index in signed graphs, Abdulaziz Alotaibi
A screening tool for the implementation of electric and thermal energy storage systems at commercial and industrial facilities, McKenna P. Amerson
Designing an Artificial Immune inspired Intrusion Detection System, William Hosier Anderson
The effects of a moderate severity hurricane on landscape-scale heterogeneity in a longleaf pine woodland, Andrew D. Arko
Modeling yield and aboveground live tree carbon dynamics in oak-gum-cypress bottomland hardwood forests, Suchana Aryal
Signings of graphs and sign-symmetric signed graphs, Ahmad Asiri
Direct measurement of the 114Cd(n, gamma)115Cd cross section in the 1 eV to 300 keV energy range, Kofi Tutu Addo Assumin-Gyimah
Identifying the shortest log trucking routes and optimizing those constrained by low-weight bridges in Mississippi, Swagat Attreya
Development of preservative-treated cross-laminated timber and lignin-reinforced polyurethane-adhesive for glued laminated timber, Samuel Oluwafemi Ayanleye
Fabrication and imaging of highly ordered plasmonic Au nano-prism and self-assembled supramolecular nanostructure, Ridwan Tobi Ayinla
Navigating the road to distributional social equity using smart cities technologies, Annus Azhar
Philosophies of Mississippi college readiness programs, Cory Ellis Bailey
The consequences of low energy availability related to relative energy deficiency in male athletes: A systematic review, Lauryn Bailey
Metabolic adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis and therapeutic approach in diabetic foot ulcers., Carol L. Baker
Scalable and explainable self-supervised motif discovery in temporal data, Somayeh Bakhtiari Ramezani
Advancements in geospatial monitoring of structures, Jordan Keith Baldwin
Comparison of aging techniques in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) of unknown age from the Mississippi Sound., Christa Elizabeth Barrett
Computational studies of the human cardiac sodium channel, Torien M. Beard
IDE-based learning analytics for assessing introductory programming skill, Phyllis J. Beck
Effects of electrical stimulation on water-soluble flavor compounds in beef semimembranosus muscle, Chelsie Beebe
The use of LiDAR to measure water surface elevations in Froude-scaled physical hydraulic models, Gary L. Bell
The impact of prior pandemic planning on health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of local government pandemic planning in the United States, Karissa D. Bergene
An analysis of moisture environments associated with mature North Atlantic tropial cyclones, Katherine Berislavich
Advancing air filtration analysis: a comprehensive approach to particle loading models, Gentry Nathaniel Berry
Patterns of distribution and dispersion of Silver Carp in an oxbow lake, Jordan Besson
Exact solutions for Schrodinger and Gross-Pitaevskii equations and their experimental applications., Bhavika Bhalgamiya
Hydrological and water quality assessment of forested coastal watersheds, Shreeya Bhattarai
Trace metal analysis of pond sediments to measure deposition from a coal-fired power plant in Ackerman Mississippi, Charles Bills
Synthesis and characterization of redox-noninnocent pyrazine(diimine) iron complexes and an inverted pyridine(diimine) ligand, Jaylan Billups
Examining physiological and photosynthetic effect of LED lighting on lettuce and kale microgreens, James Travis Blanche
Halide substitution of ternary bismuth chalcogenides for photovoltaic applications, Thomas Boggess
Dog tired: Examining the relation between dog and/or cat ownership and owners’ sleep, Courtney J. Bolstad
High temperature materials from Bis-ortho-diynylarene (BODA)-derived resins and Perfluorocyclobutyl (PFCB) aryl ether polymers, Ernesto Isaac Borrego
The response of an avian community to intercropping and forest management practices in a private working pine forest, Rebecca Doyne Bracken