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 2017
Imaging Calcium Carbonate Crystallization in Association with Organic Compounds, Maurice Philip Testa
Sources of Ensemble Forecast Variation and their Effects on Severe Convective Weather Forecasts, Erin Amanda Thead
Recreational Firewood Movement as a Vector of Non-Native Woodborers in Mississippi, Matthew John Thorn
The Mysterious Mounds: Indian Mounds And Contested American Landscapes, Nicholas Andrew Timmerman
Does Prior NSSI Moderate the Relationship between Alcohol Intoxication, Pain, and Deliberate Self-Harm?, Matthew A. Timmins
Hedging the Price Risk of Crop Revenue Insurance through the Options Market, Sweta Tiwari
Experimental Evaluation Of A Precast Concrete Beam-To-Column Prototype Design Under A Column Removal Scenario, Jorge Omar Torres Alamo
Don't Worry ; It's Only a White Lie, Annie Trinh
A Correlation Study on Soil Selenium Content and Diabetes Mellitus in Contiguous United States, Yang-Chih Tsao
Senior Food Environments: Predicting Low Food Access and Developing Interventions for Seniors in Nonmetropolitan Counties, Joshua J. Turner
Alternative Post Emergence Nitrogen Management Strategies for Delayed-Flood Rice Production, Richard Edward Turner
Gaussian Mixture Model Based SLAM: Theory and Application the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Matthew Ryan Turnowicz
Deprotonation as a Unified Pathway for Organothiol Binding to Citrate- and Borohydride Reduced Gold Nanoparticles, Sandamini Heshani Alahakoon Ulpanhewa Vidanalage
Effective Field Theory For Halo Nuclei, Akshay Vaghani
Examining Gendered Patterns of Techniques of Neutralization Using Fictional Crime Dramas, Lauren Michel Vasquez
Using Occupancy Estimates to Assess Habitat Use and Interspecific Interactions of Bats in Forested Communities, Scott Allan Veum
Behind the Screen: Composing Academic Identity in the Digital Age, Michelle Lee Wait
Water-Use Characteristics of Warm-Season Putting Green Cultivars and Management Practices Associated with New Putting Green Genetics, Stephen Bryant Wait
Discrete Fourier Transform on Global Data Analysis, Wenshuang Wang
Performance Evaluation of a Power Generation Unit-Organic Rankine Cycle System with Electric Energy Storage, Edward Harrison Randall Warren
African American Female Secondary School Educators: Their Teacher-Student Relationships, and How Their Relationships with their Students' Parents, Colleagues, and Administrators affect the Teacher-Student Relationships, Kathryn Elizabeth Warren
"Deep" South: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and Environmental Knowledge, 1800-1974, Alyssa Diane Warrick
Public Service Motivation: Have financial Incentives Strengthened the Motivation of Mississippians?, Alexander G. Washington
Severe Weather Parameters and their Effectiveness on Forecasting Tropical Cyclone Induced Tornadoes, Jonathan Curtis Weaver
Schizoaffective Disorder: Do Clinicians' Conceptualizations Match DSM-5 Criteria?, Christopher Allen Webb
Perceptions of African American Male Students Enrolled in Developmental Education Programs in the Community College, Eddie Lee Wells
Race, Drugs, and Sentencing: A Quantitative Analysis of Sentencing Outcomes for Federal Cocaine and Methamphetamine Drug Offenses, Makeela Johari Wells
Effect Of Magnesium Sulfate On Acute Bronchoconstriction In The Equine Asthma Model, Caitlin Jael Wenzel
A Curvelet Prescreener for Detection of Explosive Hazards in Handheld Ground-Penetrating, Julie White
Investigating employability: a study to ascertain whether attaining stackable credentials increases opportunity for employment for career technical graduates, Amy Green Whittington
The Self-Concept of Students in Remediation in a Rural Community College in Mississippi, C Fitzgerald Wicks
Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer Analysis of the Pylos Linear B tablets, Billy B. Wilemon
Managing Charcoal Rot of Soybean through Supplementing Secondary Nutrients, Teresa Hosack Wilkerson
Chemical Signaling by Giant Pandas to Communicate Sexual Receptivity, Abbey Elaine Wilson
Effects of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012 Pell Grant Eligibility Requirements on Enrollment in Community Colleges, Tracy Kathleen Wilson
Design, Evaluation, and Particle Size Characterization of an In-Duct Flat Media Particle Loading Test System for Nuclear-Grade Asme Ag-1 Hepa Filters, Matthew Christopher Wong
Occurrence of Bornean Mammals in Two Commercial Forest Reserves and Characteristics that Influence their Detectability, Seth Timothy Wong
A Simulation of LFM Pulse-Doppler Radar and an Application of Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau Wavelets in CFAR Detection, Aaron Joshua Wright
Identification of Candidate Resistance Genes in Multiple Herbicide Resistant Echinochloa Colona, Alice Ann Wright
Genetic diversity among and between Rivercane, Arundinaria Gigantea, Canebrakes assessed by Microsatellite Analysis, Jeremi Scott Wright
A Biophysical Investigation of Calcineurin Binding to Calmodulin, Dinesh Kumar Yadav
Mechanical and Fatigue Properties of Additively Manufactured Metallic Materials, Aref Yadollahi
Catalytic Thermal Conversion of Kraft Lignin to Multi-Layer Graphene Materials, Qiangu Yan
Finite Element Study on the Influence of Bone-Implant Interface Condition on Femoral Fracture after Cementless Total Hip Replacement, Caleb Onuh Yenusah
Benefits of Fun with Food Camp on Undergraduate Nutrition Students' Education, Cecily Bernice Young
Catalytic Treatment of Carbon Monoxide Emissions Produced by Diesel-Methane Dual Fuel Combustion: Investigation of Au-Cu@SiO2 Catalyst, Navid Zanganeh
Assessment of Remotely Sensed Image Processing Techniques for Unmanned Aerial System (Uas) Applications, Christopher Michael Zarzar
Identifying Factors affecting the Presence and Abundance of Invasive Tree Species in Mississippi, Jun Zhai
Large-Scale Graph Visual Analytics, Fangyan Zhang
Genome Maintenance by Selenoprotein H in the Nucleolus, Li Zhang
A Comprehensive Study of Phenolics and Peptides from Three Legume Varieties, Yan Zhang
Toward a Molecular Mechanism of Phase Separation in Disordered Elastin-Like Proteins, Yue Zhang
Role of Rap1a in AGE/RAGE-mediated Signaling in Type II Diabetes Mellitus, Jia Zhao
Field Methods, Sampling Strategies, Historical Documents, and Data Redundancy: A Study of Historic Tenant Farmsteads in Leflore County, Mississippi, Jayson Jon Zoino
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Relationships among Environmental Attitudes, Environmental Knowledge, and Outdoor Recreational Habits of Upper Elementary School Students in Mississippi, Katherine Elizabeth Abell
Baseline Susceptibility of Selected Lepidopteran Pests to Diamides and Use Strategies in Mississippi Soybean, Charles Andrew Adams
Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Chiral -NHC Transition Metal Complexes and Catalytic Activity, Gopalakrishna Akurathi
An Inventory of Terrestrial Vertebrates in Aldesa Valley and Estimating Factors that affect Avian Species Richness and Occurrence, Abdulaziz Subhi Alatawi
An Automated Study of Antioxidant Potentials of Polar Extract of Turmeric as Influenced by Ultraviolet Radiation, Nagham Salah Alawadi
Increasing Student Achievement by Supporting Metacognition, Nathan William Alexander
Investigation of a Stress Class System for No.2 2 by 8 Southern Yellow Pine, Theodore Brock Alexander
Fiscal Management Practices and Quality Programming in Early Childhood: The Impact of Administrator Preparation, Charles E. Allgood
Conversion of Industrial Waste and Wastewaters into Lipids Suitable for Biodiesel Production, Marta AmirSadeghi
A Framework for the Design and Analysis of High-Performance Applications on FPGAs using Partial Reconfiguration, Richard D. Anderson
Coupled and Uncoupled Earth Pressure Profiles in Unsaturated Soils under Transient Flow, Syed Gous Andrabi
Microwave Mild Hyperthermia Applicators for Chemo-Thermotherapy of Liver, Mustafa Asili
Effect of Cultural Intensity and Planting Density on Wood Properties of Loblolly Pine (Pinus Taeda L.), Nasrin Aslezaeim
Comparing Attitudes and Perceptions of Forest Certification Among Foresters, Loggers, and Landowners in Mississippi, John B. Auel
Morpho-Physiological Characterization of Cotton Chromosome Substitution Lines for Abiotic Stresses, Akansha Awasthi
Holding Performance Measures Accountablefor Social Equity: A Polycentric Approach to Evaluating American Higher Education, Tracey L Norden Baham
A Horticultural Therapy Program for The Elderly: Effects on Cognition, Quality of Life, and Loneliness, Mariah Ruth Baird
Investigation of Human Subjectivity during Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), Marc D. Banghart
Faster-X Evolution in the Speciation of Heliconius Butterflies, Margarita Baquero
Application Timing of Herbicides for Miscanthus (Miscanthus X Giganteus) Control and Effects of Mowing on Rhizome Initiation and Production, Dosha Nicole Barksdale
Vortex Detection in CFD Datasets Using a Multi-Model Ensemble Approach, Randa Bassou
Validation of a Mesh Generation Strategy for Predicting Ice Accretion on Wings, Rania Bassou
An Empirical Model of Collaboration Capability and Absorptive Capacity in Virtual Teams: a Multi-Dimensional Investigation using Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Fadi Salameh Batarseh
Geotechnical Properties of Very High Moisture Content Dredged Soil Lightly Cemented with Ordinary or Portland-Limestone Cement, Mohammed Bazne
Temporal Growth and Harvest Adjustment Procedures for Large-Scale Forest Inventory Data, Jacob R. Beard
Using Stochastic and Deterministic Approaches for Integrating Freight Movement and Aircraft Taxiing to Solve the Gate Assignment Problem, John A. Behrends
The Reconstruction and Analysis of Oral Microbiome Composition Using Dental Calculus from the Mississippi State Asylum (1855-1935), Jackson, Ms, Jonathan Robert Belanich
A Reinterpretation of the Chanak Crisis through the Lens of the Eastern Question, Ali Benek
Turbulent Simulations of Feline Aortic Flow under Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Heart Condition, Manish Rajendra Borse
Droplet Impact on Dry, Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Micro-Scale Roughness Elements, Nadine Boufous
An Investigation of the Formability of ZEK100 Mg Alloy Using Pneumatic Bulge Formability Testing Methods, John Briou Bourgeois
Mexican and Central American Emigration: Exploring Recent Motivations and Challenges of the Migrant Child Arriving to the U.S, Frank (Frank Edward) Bradford
A Comparison of Direct Instruction and Experiential Learning Techniques to Assess Agricultural Knowledge and Agricultural Literacy Gains in Private School Students, Timothy Bradford Jr.
Effect of Toxoplasma gondii on Altering Dopamine Levels and Neuroinflammation Contributing to an Increased Risk of Developing Schizophrenia, Derek Lee Bramlett
Cotton Growth and Developmental Responses to Multiple Environmental Stresses, David William Brand
O Narrator!: Narrative, Rhetoric, and Justice in Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale, Caitlin Josephine Branum
Cardiac Extracellular Matrix: Structure, Biomechanics in Myocardial Infarction, and Heart Regeneration, Bryn Brazile
The Value of Canopy Cover: Hedonic Pricing Study in Lakeland, Tennessee, Lee Eric Bridges
Maximizing the Informal Education of Death Valley National Park Ichnofossils, Curt Burbach
Multiscale Structure-Property Relationships of Ultra-High Performance Concrete, Megan Noel Burcham
Perceptions of ELA Teachers on their Preparedness for Implementing Technology-Dependent Standards, Brandi Tindall Burton
Evaluation of the Effects of Heifer Development Method on Subsequent Reproductive Performance and Progeny Growth, Amanda Jillian Cain
Towards Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle Systems, Sheng Cai