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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 2016 2016

Computational Study of Superconducting Correlations in Frustrated Lattices, W Wasanthi Priyanwada De Silva

The Effects of Sub-Lethal Chlorine Induced Oxidative Stress on Biofilm Formation and Thermal Resistance of Salmonella, Janak Dhakal

Evaluation of Management Strategies for the Headworm Complex in Grain Sorghum, Christopher Scott Dobbins

A Detailed Look into the Aerodynamic Forces Due to the Drag-Reducing Aerospike, Philip Douglas

Computational Investigation and Parametric Study of Lateral Impact Behavior of Pressurized Pipelines, Yangqing Dou

Maroon and White and Read All Over Newspaper Coverage of Desegregation of Mississippi State Football, 1970-1973, Benjamin Joseph Downs

The Thermodynamics of Ligand Association and Molecular Recognition of Cationic and Metallated Porphyrins and Ruthenium Complexes with Model DNA Constructs, Jesse I. DuPont

Do Living Shorelines Contribute to the Accumulation of Nutrients, Sediment, and Organic Matter Needed for the Maintenance of Coastal Wetlands?, Saranee Dutta

Assessment of Contamination Levels and Estimation of Dietary Intake of Heavy Metals from Selected Imported Fruits and Vegetables in Ghana, Eric Dzimado

Orbital Study of MSU CubeSath, Ayoub El Brouzi

Relationship between Air Mass Type and Emergency Department Visits for Migraine Headache across the Triangle Region of North Carolina, Christopher James Elcik

Large Eddy Simulation Study of the Effect of Large Wind Farms on Humidity, Oumnia El Fajri

Nocturnal Tornado Outbreak Climatology, Alexander M. Elmore

Sensitivity of Physical Parameterization Schemes to Stochastic Initial Conditions in WRF Tornado Outbreak Simulations, Michelle Anne Elmore

Optimal Supply Chain Configuration for the Additive Manufacturing of Biomedical Implants, Adindu Ahurueze Emelogu

Perceptions of College Students towards the Use and Usefulness of LinkedIn as a Professional Networking Tool, Carlos Shantel Ewing

Strategic Persistence, Dominant Strategy and Firm Performance in Publicly Traded Family Firms, Hanqing Fang

Optimizing Carbon to Nitrogen Ratios to Improve Nitrogen Removal in Agricultural Drainage Ditches, Derek Ronald Faust

Assessment Of The Pharmacodynamic Effects Of Cyclosporine In Dogs, Claire Fellman

Anisotropic Quadrilateral Mesh Optimization, Joseph Timothy Charles Ferguson

American White Pelicans Hand Raised until Fledging and Examination of the Trematode Infection Bolbophorus Damnificus in these Birds, Treena Lee Ferguson

Examining Age Differences in Metamemory for Emotional Words, Samuel Ethan Flurry

An Examination of the Hydrological Environment in Choctaw County Mississippi since 1995, with a Focus on an Area Surrounding an Industrial Complex established in 1998, Jeremy Keith Foote

Invasion Potential and Overwintering Biology of the Redbay Ambrosia Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the United States, John Formby

Fall Migrant Waterbird Community Structure and Stable Isotope Ecology in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley and Northern Gulf of Mexico: Use of Migratory Bird Habitat Initiative Sites and Other Wetlands, Justyn Richard Foth

Spatial and Trophic Niche Specialization in Castor Canadensis, Robert Antonio Francis

Community-Level Flood Mitigation Effects on Household-Level Flood Insurance and Damage Claims, Eugene Frimpong

Isotopic Study of Diet during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages at Mitrou and Tragana Agia Triada, Greece, Stephanie Fuehr

Interactions of Organodithiols with Gold and Silver Nanoparticles in Water, Manuel Gadogbe

Characterization and Value-Added Utilization of the Proteins Extracted from the By Products of Catfish Fillet Processing Plant, Haoran Gao

A Study of Wheat Flour Tortillas, Combustion, Selected Gaseous and Nuclear Surrogate Samples Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Charles Tarshi Ghany

Investigating Late Woodland-Period Aquatic Catchments through Freshwater Mussel Assemblage Composition, Sarah K. Gilleland

Ineradicable Pasts: The Force of Historical Trauma in Robert Penn Warren's Flood and Bessie Head's A Question of Power, Lisa Rene Gooden-Hunley

Engineered Cartilage on Chitosan Calcium Phosphate Scaffolds for Osteochondral Defects, Anuhya Gottipati

Best Management Strategies to Manage the Tarnished Plant Bug (Heteroptera: Miridae) in Cotton, Scott Hester Graham

Plant Community and White-tailed Deer Nutritional Carrying Capacity Response to Intercropping Switchgrass in Loblolly Pine Plantations, Ethan Jacob Greene

Administrator Perceptions of the Community College Mission in the State of Mississippi and How it may be Influenced by the Addition of Community College Baccalaureate Programs, Scharvin S. Grizzell

Methodology to Predict Daily Groundwater Levels by the Implementation of Machine Learning and Crop Models, Sandra Milena Guzman Gutierrez

Fuels Treatment Longevity of Mechanical Mastication and Growth Response of Ponderosa Pine (Pinus Ponderosa) in Northern California, Gregory Walters Hamby

Statistical Analysis of Radar and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data, Deok Han

Bureaucratic Response in an Era of Rapid Change: the Implementation of Strategic Habitat Conservation within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Heather Lea Hanna

Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) using Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) for Research, Mining, and Exploration Endeavors of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), Torrey Paul Harriel

The Perceptions of Economic Development Contributions of a Community College on Local Areas: A Comprehensive Analysis of One Rural Mississippi Community College, Burnell Harris

Analyzing the Influence Oxygen Deprivation has on the Capability of Listeria Monocytogenes to Induce Listeriosis in Gerbils, Jillian Leigh Harris

Automatic K-Expectation-Maximization (K-EM) Clustering Algorithm for Data Mining Applications, Archit Harsh

Who Speaks for the Enslaved? Authorship and Reclamation in Octavia Butler's Kindred, Antoinette Daineyell Hayden

Chronology and acculturation in the Choctaw homeland, 1650-1850, Marcus Hayes

School Engagement Perceptions Influencing Attendance Reported by Ninth Grade Students at a High Performing Rural School, Jemmye Ann Helms

Cultural Ambassadors: American Academics in the Soviet Union, 1958-1991, Kayla Brooke Hester

Implementing the MSTAR Teacher Evaluation Program, Christopher L. Hill

Influence of Military Workload on Muscle Exertion in Two Types of Military Footwear, Christopher Mark Hill

Comparison of Student Success using "Atoms First" Versus "Traditional" Curricula, Christina Sweeney Hillesheim

Effects of Feed Additive Inclusion Strategies on Male Heavy Broiler Performance, Rosana Akemi Hirai

Evaluation of Soil and Forage Nutrient Levels in Habitats of Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus Polyphemus) in South Mississippi, Bridget Nicole Hodges

Strategies for Reduced Unburned Hydrocarbon and Carbon Monoxide Emissions in Diesel Propane Dual Fuel Low Temperature Combustion, Kyle Anthony Hodges

Structural Analysis and Design of Seals for Coal Mine Safety, Matthew S. Holmer

The Efficacy of Animated Video Modeling in Promoting Joint Attention and Social Engagement Skills in Children, Tuan Quoc Ho

Traffic Signal Control at Connected Vehicle Equipped Intersections, Zhitong Huang

Analysis of ATP Synthase Super-Complex Assembly and Mitochondrial Morphology in Pcp1 Mutants, Mary Elizabeth Huddleston

The Application of Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and Sensitivity Analysis (SA) Methodologies to Engineering Models and Mechanical Experiments, Justin Matthew Hughes

Evaluation of Unstructured and Overset Grid Methods for Blast Analysis using Loci/BLAST with Emphasis on Urban Environments, Mark Anthony Hunt

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Integrating Food Science Lessons in High School Biology Curriculum in Comparison to High School Chemistry Curriculum, Lauren Elizabeth Ivey

Dynamics of Understory Tree Seedling Recruitment and Growth of Advance Regeneration Following Variable-Density Thinning of Second-Growth Conifer Stands in the Pacific Northwest, Carson James

Identification and Genetic Characterization of Antimicrobial Activities of Pseudomonas Mississippiensis, A Novel Bacterial Species Isolated from Soybean Rhizosphere, Jiayuan Jia

Sensitivity Analysis and Parameter Estimation for the APEX Model on Runoff, Sediments and Phosphorus, Yi Jiang

Towards Model-Based Fault Management for Computing Systems, Rui Jia

Transitioning Adult Education: Perceptions of the GED 21st Century Initiative, Aliesha Johnson

Computational Flood Modeling and Visual Analysis, Donald W. Johnson

From Horns to Helmets: Multi-Objective Design Optimization Considerations to Protect the Brain, Kyle Leslie Johnson

Lamb Wave Based Active Damage Identification in Adhesively Bonded Composite Lap Joints, Prateek Jolly

Environmental Management System Optimization Focusing on the Waste Environmental Media in the Chemical Industry, Mesha Jones

Using LiDAR data and geographical information system (GIS) technology to assess municipal street tree inventories, Wes Jones

Assessing the Transfer of Interruption Handling Skill to Novel Task Contexts, Winston Edward Jones

Experimental Characterization of Compaction and Sintering of Nanocrystalline Copper Steel Powder, Olalekan Rilwan Junaid

Political Trust and Presidential Voting: a Changing Political Environment Inducing the End of Traditional Politics in the United States, Brett Stephen Juraszek

Investigating the Utility of Age-Dependent Cranial Vault Thickness as an Aging Method for Juvenile Skeletal Remains on Dry Bone, Radiographic and Computed Tomography Scans, Kelly R. Kamnikar

Evaluation of an On-Farm Water Storage System as a Bmp for Sediment and Nutrient Reduction, Nutrient Recycling, And Irrigation in East Mississippi, Ritesh Karki

Use of Highway Culverts, Box Bridges, and Caves by Winter-Roosting Bats in Mississippi, Jessica B. Katzenmeyer

Mental Illness in Starkville, MS: A Cultural Consensus Analysis of the Public Conceptions of Mental Illness, Curtis Andrew Kennett

The Functional Role of sFRP3/4 in the Wnt Network that Governs Positioning of the Anterior Neuroectoderm around the Anterior Pole in the Sea Urchin Embryo, Anita Khadka

Budgetary Choice and Impact on Economic Growth: Lessons from U.S. State Government, Sung Chan Kim

Investigating the Antigen Removal Process of Porcine Cartilage in Preparation of Creating an Osteochondral Xenograft, Bradley Jeffery Kindred

Breeding and Brood Rearing Ecology of Mottled Ducks in the Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto Rivers Basin, South Carolina., Molly Rebecca Kneece

Dogma and Dixie Roman Catholics and the Southern Confederacy during the American Civil War, Gracjan Anthony Kraszewski

The Numerical Solutions of Fractional Differential Equations with Fractional Taylor Vector, Vidhya KrishnasamySaraswathy

Rhodium Catalyzed Coupling of In Situ Generated Alpha-Lactams with Indoles and Synthesis and Surface Immobilization of Bis-Corannulene Molecular Receptors, K G Upul Ranjan Kumarasinghe

Synthesis and Characterization of Ferrous Nanoparticles and Polymer-Grafted Ferrous Nanoparticles with an Examination of Thermal and Magnetic Properties, Swati Kumari

Utilization of Outdoor Resources to Enhance Understanding of Geosciences, Sarah Radencic Lalk

Hill-Fort Sites and Tumuli in the Shkodra Plain Region of Northern Albania: A Geospatial Perspective, Dora Jane Lambert

Impact of Diagnostic Versus Emotional Disturbance Label on Preservice Teacher Expectations of Student Academic, Behavior, and Social Outcomes, Amity M. Lancaster

Developing Assisted Reproductive Technologies for Endangered North American Amphibians, Cecilia Jane Langhorne

Methodology Development for the Measurement and Analysis of Sediment Oxygen Demands and Nutrient Releases, Luis Alfonso Laurens Vallejo

Multiscale Modeling of Multiphase Polymers, William Brantley Lawrimore

Co-Infection Dynamics of the Tick-Borne Bacteria: Rickettsia Parkeri and "Candidatus Rickettsia Andeanae", Jung Keun Lee

Experimental-Computational Analysis of Woodpeckers' Beaks/Hyoid Apparatus for Damping of Stress Waves, Na Yeon Lee

Journey to the Unconscious: An Examination of Paths to Enlightenment in Hermann Hesse's Works, Victoria B. Lee

Molecular Parentage of Radical Species in the Comae of Comets, Benjamin Kyle Lewis

The Ecological Significance of Phyllosphere Leaf Traits on Throughfall Hydrology, Biogeochemistry, and Leaf Litter Quality among Oak (Quercus Spp.) Species in the Southeastern United States, Katy Elizabeth Limpert

Methodology to Measure and Compare the Efficiency of Radiant Heaters Used in Poultry Brooding, John Emerson Linhoss

Nutrient and Irrigation Management of Encore Azalea 'Chiffon' Using Biocontainers, Tongyin Li