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 2018
Wholesale Beef Futures Contract, Robert Stanley Thompson
Effect of Maternal Melatonin Levels during Late Gestation on the Programming and Metabolic Disposition of Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle in Bovine Offspring, Robyn Carl Thompson
Impact of Integrated Vegetation Management Practices on Green Antelopehorn Milkweed (Asclepias Viridis Walter) in Right-Of-Ways and Forages, Nolan Hendrix Thorne
Evaluation of Soybean Production Practices that Impact Yield Losses from Simulated Insect Defoliation, Benjamin Carroll Thrash
Safeguarding the health of mothers and children: American democracy and maternal and children's healthcare in America, 1917-1969, Nancy Jane Traylor-Heard
Improving Dropout Rates in Mississippi Schools: A Case Study Examining Effective Dropout Prevention Programs in Mississippi High Schools, Shevonda Williams Truman
Perceptions and Attitudes of College and University Administrators towards Secondary Agricultural Education Programs and the FFA, Karla D. Turner-Bailey
Effect of the Spray Droplet Size and Herbicide Physiochemical Properties on Pre-Emergence Herbicide Efficacy for Weed Control in Soybeans, Pedro Henrique Urach Ferreira
Copper(II) Complexes for Olefin Aziridination and Cyclopropanation: Towards Asymmetric N- and C- Transfer Catalyst, Henry U. Valle
Smoke signals: New Contexts for the Emergence, Spread, and Decline of Effigy Pipes in Southeastern North America, A.D. 1000-1600, Charles Van De Kree
Advisory Councils in MSU Extension, Jamie Varner
Characterizing the Groundwater Quality of the Upper Pearl River Watershed in Central Eastern Mississippi, Shannon Kirk Vattikuti
Investigating the Influence of Herd Behavior on Protection Motivation: A Multi-Stage Experiment, Ali Vedadi
Goodness-Of-Fit Test for Hazard Rate, Ralph Antoine Vital
Assessment of On-Arrival Vaccination and Deworming on Health and Growth Performance in High Risk Stocker Cattle, Richard Tucker Wagner
Geological Data Assessment for Reservoir Characterization and Modeling in Siloam field, Clay County, Mississippi USA, Mahnaz Wahidi
All or Nothing: An Investigation of the Interconnection between Social and Environmental Sustainability, Stacie F. Waites
Parental Discipline in Emerging Adulthood: The Creation and Validation of the Domains of Young Adult Discipline Scale (Dyads), Courtney S. Walker
Utilizing Enhanced Acetolactate-Synthase Tolerant Soybean (Glycine max L.) to Mitigate Off-target Deposition of Penoxsulam and Bispyribac-Sodium, David Charles Walker
Effects of Bacillus Subtilis-Based Probiotics on Broiler Growth and Intestine Health, Xi Wang
The Relationship of Student Demographic and Academic Characteristics on Students' Success in High School Online Courses, Jerri Luemora Ward
Hypervelocity Impact Experimentation of a Novel Micrometeoroid/Orbital Debris Shielding Concept Imbibed with Rheologically Characterized Shear Thickening Fluids, Justin Marshall Warren
Fusion for Object Detection, Pan Wei
Influence of Winter Annual Cover Crops and Insect Management Strategies on Insect Pests of Mississippi Soybean, Daniel Adam Whalen
The Structure-Property Relations of Fetal Porcine Brain under Compressive and Tensile Loading, Courtney Jo White
Peer Counseling/Mentoring and its Impact on the Academic Success and Retention of African American Students at a Predominantly White Institution, Eva Maria White
Adaptability and Management of Alfalfa Overseeded into Warm-Season Perennial Grasses in Mississippi, Joshua Andrew White
An Analysis of Grain Corn Nutritional Supplements and Relative Maturity in Mississippi, Joseph Bryan Whittenton
Soil moisture stress effects on soybean vegetative, physiological, and reproductive growth and post-harvest seed physiology, quality, and chemical composition, Godakande Chathurika Wijewardana
Impact of a Regulatory Threat toward Agricultural Water Use in the Mississippi Delta: An Experimental Approach, Steven Christopher Wilhelms
A Geotechnical Perspective on Carbon Sequestration in Clay using Gasifier Biochar, James Michael Williams
Drought-Tolerant and Short-Season Corn Hybrids to Mitigate Risk, Optimize Yield and Profit, while Increasing Water Use Efficiency, John Joseph Williams
Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to Predict Severe Weather Outbreak Severity in the Contiguous United States, Megan Spade Williams
Evaluation of Nematode Control Practices on Cotton Growth and Yield in Nematode Infested Soils, and the Effect of Bacterial Inoculation Timing on Bacterial Blight Incidence and Cotton Yield, Bradley Reagan Wilson
The "Split Gaze" of Refraction: Racial Passing in the Works of Helen Oyeyemi and Zoë Wicomb, Allison Wiltshire
Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Understand Speciation and Solvation Structure of Common Herbicides, Zachary W. Windom
An "[Un]Readiness To Be Touched": The Critique of Sentimentalism in Sensation Fiction, Rachel Vernell Wolfe
Behavior Plasticity Mitigates the Effect of Climate Warming in White-Tailed Deer, Carter L. Wolff
Agronomic Practices and Irrigation Water Management Tools that Improve Water Use Efficiency in Mid-South Soybean Production Systems, Clinton Wilks Wood
Structure-Property Relationships And Morphometric Effects Of Different Shark Teeth On Shearing Performance, John Watkins Wood
The Trans-Historicity of the Nineteenth-Century New England Novel: Social Injustice and the Puritan Ideological Legacy, Benjamin Michael Woods
Land Cover Types Associated with Warm-Season Convective Cloud Enhancement in Northeastern Mississippi, Crystal Francis Worley
Effects of X-ray irradiation on Quality and Shelf Life of Seafood Products, Yuwei Wu
Pathogenicity of Clostridium Perfringens and its Relationship with Gut Microbiota in Chickens, Wenyuan Yang
Measurement of Compton Scattering Cross Section at a few GeV Electron Energy, Li Ye
Genetic Assessment of Native and Non-Native White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) in the Southcentral U.S., Jordan L. Youngmann
Structure-Property Relationships of Polymer Gels and Concentrated Suspensions Modified with Anisotropic Nanoparticles, Mahla Zabet
Development of a 2U CubeSat for Imaging the 2017 Solar Eclipse, Sepehr Zangeneh
Techno-Economic Analysis and Optimization of Distributed Energy Systems, Jian Zhang
Network Wide Signal Control Strategy Base on Connected Vehicle Technology, Lei Zhang
Temporary Trade Barriers Investigation and Duty Imposition in the Forest Products Industry, Xufang Zhang
Distributed Predictive Control for MVDC Shipboard Power System Management, Nasibeh Zohrabi
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Improved Heuristic Search Algorithms for Decision-Theoretic Planning, Ibrahim Abdoulahi
Perceptions of Quality in an Online Learning Environment: A Faculty Outlook, April Michele Adams
Strategies for Passing School Bond Elections, Christy Harris Adams
Analysis of Near-Surface Relative Humidity in a Wind Turbine Array Boundary Layer Using an Instrumented Unmanned Aerial System and Large-Eddy Simulation, Kevin Allan Adkins
On-Farm Water Storage (OFWS) as Tool to Reduce Risk, Domena Attafuah Agyeman
The Role of Universal Stress Proteins in Edwardsiella ictaluri Virulence, Ali Akgul
Control of Görtler Vortices in High-Speed Boundary Layers, Radwa Alaziz
Regulation of Stomata Opening in the Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Plant Kalanchoe Laxiflora, Anoud Abdulmalik Albader
Investigations into the Life Cycle of Drepanocephalus Auritus with Notes on the Discovery of a New Snail Host Biomphalaria Havanensis in Mississippi, Neely Rae Alberson
Feasibility of CNT Epoxy Thermoset Based Strain Sensors for Sensing in Structural Applications, Jamel Hill Alexander
Management of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes using Gene Manipulation and Biological Nematicides Biological Nematicides, Weasam Adnan Radhi Aljaafri
Understanding molecular mechanisms of host-Edwardsiella ictaluri interaction, Nawar Hadi Al-Janabi
Efficacy of Bentonite and Calcium Montmorillonite Clays at Reducing Aflatoxin M1 Transfer in Lactating Holsteins, Sarah Caitlin Allen
Digital Holographic Microscopy of Microparticles, Satam Fahad Alotibi
Measurement of Material Thickness using X-Ray Attenuation, Abdullah Riyad Altayar
Engendering Landscape: A Gendered Analysis of Migration to the Buffer Zone of Carara National Park, Costa Rica, Jessica Ann Arends
An Examination of Job Satisfaction among Full-time Faculty in a Selected Mississippi Community College, Dana Martin Arnold
Time Scale Analysis of a Mathematical Model for Alzheimer's Disease based on the Metal Hypothesis, Eda Asili
Microstructural Behavior And Multiscale Structure-Property Relations For Cyclic Loading Of Metallic Alloys Procured From Additive Manufacturing (Laser Engineered Net Shaping -- LENS), Mohammad Ali Bagheri
Cognitive Processes of Prioritization in Multitasking, Hao Bai
Bayesian Network Analysis for Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems, Marc D. Banghart
Dry Reforming of Methane to Produce Syngas over Ni-Based Bimodal Pore Catalysts, Zhenghong Bao
The Perceptions and Usage of Social Media in Higher Education, Nancy B. Bardwell
Stand Level Growth and Survival Equations for Cutover Sites Loblolly Pine Plantations in the Mid-Gulf Region of Southern United States, Binayak Bartaula
An Investigative Study Toward the Development of a Crosslinked Porcine Xenograft Meniscus Total Replacement, Patrick Ehren Barton
Impact of Planting Date and Maturity Group on Management Strategies for Insect Pests in Soybean, Nicholas Ryan Bateman
Effects of Preemergence Herbicides on Hybrid Bermudagrass Root Growth, Establishment, and Sod Harvestability, Erick G. Begitschke
Assessment of Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense Lour.) Control Measures, and Selection of Most Cost Effective Management Regimes, Fabio Jose Benez Secanho
Depositional Systems Analysis of the Kosciusko Formation (Middle Claiborne Group) in Southern Mississippi, Robert Tyler Berry
The Role Of System of Systems in Additive Manufacturing, Suyogya Bhandari
Human Resource Managers' Perceptions of Soft Skills, Involuntary Employment Turnover, and the Efficacy of a Proposed Career Pathway Model, Charles Michael Blankenship
A Privacy Calculus Model for Personal Mobile Devices, Gregory J. Bott
Winter Cover Crops, Fall Applied Poultry Litter, and N Fertilization Effects on Soil Quality and Health Indicators, Apisit Boupai
Lightning Damage Resistance of a Full-Scale Flat PRSEUS Panel, Dounia Boushab
Internal State Variable Modeling and Experiments of Structure-Property Relationships of Iron Based Alloys, Shane A. Brauer
Characterizing Surface Enthalpy Flux and Ocean Patterns in Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclones, Mason Andrew Clark Bray
Determining Fitness Cost in Qoi-Resistant Isolates of the Frogeye Leaf Spot Pathogen, Nicole Rochelle Brochard
Compressive Strength Variation Due to Cement Source Change, Jared Lee Brown
The Food Factor: The Use of Branding and Social Marketing, McKayla A. Brubaker
Model Profile for the Federal Programs Director in the State of Mississippi, Rico Jamel Buckhaulter