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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Beginning in 2020, efforts are made to ensure each submitted thesis and dissertation is web accessible. If there are issues with the accessibility of the document, please contact etd@library.msstate.edu. Documents submitted before 2020 were not made web accessible. If you need accessibility added to a document, please contact etd@library.msstate.edu and we will try to accommodate your request.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2025

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Neural architecture search-driven unsupervised domain adaptation for enhanced wood chip quality evaluation in forest industries, Abdur Rahman

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An overview of global navigation satellite system reflectometry in coastal wetlands, Luke Andrew Redwine

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“Sometimes the world don’t give you what you need”: Black motherhood and kinship as resistance to necropolitics in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage, Hailey N. Reeder

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Unraveling quantum properties of novel two-dimensional systems using a first-principles approach, Binod Regmi

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The importance of community: an investigation of stress, coping, and the value of social support for first responders, Brian Reid

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Investigations into fluorescence of fluorene dimers: linker impacts and tuning potential through substituent addition, Abigail R. Ressler

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The relationship between internal coherence and student learning in high achieving middle schools: A Mississippi study, Christina Coleman Reynolds

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Elemental incorporation by calcite growing on the substrate in modified seawater solution, Mustafa Rezaei

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Evaluation of soil steaming, cover crops, and allelopathy: An integrated and sustainable weed management strategy in sweetpotatoes, Alaina Marie Richardson

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Feed-based strategies to improve poultry production efficiency, Anna Kathryn Riggs

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Digital twin technology for mobile robot navigation using Proximal Policy Optimization-enhanced RRT*-Smart algorithm, Elijah James Riser

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Incorporating in-situ wave energy data into a shoreline management model for Biloxi Back Bay, MS, Ashleigh D. Robbins

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Movement, microhabitat, and metapopulations: Improving our understanding of Gopher Frog (Rana [Lithobates] capito) ecology in Alabama, Krista Michelle Ruppert

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The effectiveness of positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) in title I secondary schools, Robyn Rush-Grace

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RAAD-LLM: adaptive anomaly detection using LLMs and RAG integration, Alicia Russell-Gilbert

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From Handle With Care to broader school-community partnerships that promote trauma knowledge, safety, and children’s resilience, Jenna E. Russo

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Cotton development, yield, and boll distribution response to row pattern and plant density, William Joseph Rutland

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Integrating case studies with meteorologists’ insight: Assessing meteorologists’ perception and utilization of composite indices, Brianna Marie Salazar

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Electronic structure and reactivity of pyrazine(diimine) complexes with first-row transition metals: insights into proton reduction and a comparative study with pyridine(diimine) complexes, Daniela Sanchez Arana

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Synthesis and reactivity of heterobimetallic ruthenium and rhodium complexes incorporating aromatic N-heterocycles and group 13 metals, Gabriela Sanchez Lecuona

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Structural determinants of global sustainability outcomes: A multinational, multidisciplinary analysis, Camica N. Sanderson

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Raspberry cultivar evaluation trial in Mississippi, Apphia Santy

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Application of PU learning in detection of DDoS attacks, Gagana Sathya Narayana Prasad

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Ecology and management of alligatorweed (Alternanthera philoxeroides) and an associated thrips biological control agent (Amynothrips andersoni), Samuel Alec Schmid

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Evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of drones for monitoring animals, Emma Ann Schultz

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Microbiomics of Amazonian fishes and associations with human pathogens (Mycobacterium ulcerans), Matthew Edwin Scott

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Assessing the kinematics and kinetics about the knee with an isokinetic dynamometer and force plates during field-based and lab-based trials., Samantha Ann Searles

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An insight into graph-based optimization approach to robot navigation and mapping with Human Autonomy Teaming-based strategy, Timothy Sellers

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Measuring what matters: A policy analysis of statewide accountability systems through the lens of college and career readiness, Steven DeAndre Shadwick

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Design and evaluation of a 5G testbed: Analyzing security solutions, IQ sample management, and performance visualization, Mohammed Saleh Shaik

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Costs and challenges in the Mississippi log trucking industry, James Tucker Shannon

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Impact of fertilizer timing and cover crop establishment methods on bedded soybean cropping systems in Mississippi, Grant Madison Shavers

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Advancing rangeland vegetation mapping through integrated UAV and satellite imagery: a comparative machine learning framework for fractional cover classification, Nishat Shermin

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Projected future reservoir impairment in the conterminous United States following three climate change scenarios, Darren James Shoemaker

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Site formation processes and lithic analysis of the Swag site (38AL137), John Nathan Shores

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Profitability of no-till and cover cropping for a corn-soybean rotation in the Mississippi Delta Region, William Arthur Sims

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Corn production and mycotoxin mitigation: selecting the right hybrid, planting density, and nitrogen rate., Namita Sinha

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Thermo-mechanical advancements for very high strength and ultra high performance concretes, Lana Grayson Brown Sisung

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Plant, pollinator, and bird communities in working landscapes across the southeastern United States., Craig Andrew Sklarczyk

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Enhancing profitability in the air transport industry through improved air passenger forecasting: a comparative analysis of ARIMA, Holt-Winters and LSTM time series forecasting techniques, Megan Skowronek

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Detection, occupancy, and abundance of vultures in Mississippi, Jonathan Smith

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Unraveling the enigma of missing people in Mississippi: Utilizing perspectives of structural violence and necropolitics to illuminate the “silent epidemic”, Sarajane Smith

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An exploratory mixed-methods investigation of previous sexual health communication between lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer young adults and their parents, Haley Elizabeth Solace

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The WhatWood? apps: Using smartphone functionality to overcome ergonomic challenges, broaden availability, and improve accessibility for two wood identification field manuals, Kyatt Gage Spessert

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Confirmatory factor analysis of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised: Short Form in college-attending emerging adults, Lydia Stanhope

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Does an adapted swimming program improve self-efficacy in individuals with intellectual disability?, Georgia Grace Starr

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Zeroizing trust in a naïve federated Zero Trust environment, Keith E. Strandell

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The smooth Toeplitz algebra, Jonas Morris Stuart

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Effects of environmental stress and antimicrobials on the health, microbiome, and product shelf-life of channel and hybrid catfish, Guyue Tang

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Assessing species status and genetic diversity in the Tombigbee Darter (Etheostoma lachneri), Caroline Nicole Teal

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“Here for everyone” (?): how intimate partner violence service organizations address community needs and transgender inclusion in the Deep South, Brian Tesch

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Synthetic data augmentation for retinoblastoma using diffusion, Andrew Thompson

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Mastering skills together: effects of video modeling on parent-implemented academic intervention, Chelsea S. Thorpe

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A fine-tined BERT model for improved querying of the Unmanned Aerial System integration safety and security technology ontology, Minh Hong To

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Estimating reliability of electric vehicle charging ecosystem using principle of maximum entropy, Himanshu Tripathi

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The role of K-12 educators in shaping STEM pathways: Examining social capital and self-efficacy in STEM education, Holly Trisch

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Optimizing OSB quality: assessing the influence of beta-cyclodextrin with essential oil treatments, Ethan Garrett Turo

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Non-thermal DBD plasma-induced CO₂ capture and conversion to value added chemicals, Chinwendu Theresa Umeojiakor

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Estimation of soybean root traits using computer vision and deep learning, Muhammad Usman

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“It just builds character”: Building the Bullying Myths Scale, Jessica Weiss Utley

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Boosting knowledge transferability through differentiable architecture search for skin lesion diagnosis, Anh Quoc Vo

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Academics vs athletics: Prioritizing the students in student-athletes and the importance of their return to the classroom, Stephen Walker

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Shifting Sands: Moving from Reality to Unreality, Aaron Waterson

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An examination of potential occupational horizons and site integrity through site formation processes at Aklis, St. Croix, Jesse Weaver

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The evaluation of tetflupyrolimet in rice (Oryza sativa), Dalton Ryan Whitt

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An updated viscoplastic self-consistent model to capture the effects of residual stress, microstructural heterogeneity, and precipitation in cold-sprayed aluminum alloys, Aulora Williams

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Combined effect of chitosan and lemon essential oil-infused slush ice on the shelf life of channel catfish, Dianna Wilson

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Reactive molecular dynamics and method development for applications in renewable energy and sorption equilibria, Woodrow Wilson

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Work-life balance and the impact of COVID-19 on faculty at Historically Black Community Colleges (HBCCs), Taneshia Turner Winston

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Myxozoan diversity and life cycles in catfish production ponds in Mississippi, USA, Ethan Woodyard

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An investigation into the inclusivity, methodology, and education of severe weather in K-12 schools, Stephen Holden Wooten

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Investigation of water-based ink printing on exterior surfaces of flexible packaging articles, Ashley Cornell Wynne

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Bridging physics and machine learning: physics-informed neural networks (PINN) for wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) thermal prediction, Haiye (Justin) Xie

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Evaluating rainfall sensitivity over land to tropical cyclone parameters using idealized WRF, Madison C. Yawn

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Antimicrobial efficacy of potassium ferrate against Listeria monocytogenes survival in water and on two food-contact surfaces, Ajay Kumar Yenduri

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Interatomic potential of multiphase materials using modified embedded atom method (MEAM) and artificial neural network (RANN), Henan Zhou

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Modifiers as floating information: A case against seamless modifier integration, Jaden Zinn

Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Synergistic adsorption of Pb (II) from aqueous solution using calcined biochar-bentonite clay hybrid, Azeezat Faderera Abdul-raheem

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Analysis of glacier changes in the western United State: assessing area, volume, and albedo changes, Bernard Latif Abubakari

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Time after time: Deciphering structural violence and vulnerability using postmortem recovery time data and demographics throughout the Southeast region of the United States, Elise J. Adams

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Habitat suitability modeling for optimizing stand initiation and restoration efforts of economically and ecologically important hardwoods, Segun Michael Adeyemo

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Divergent selection for anthesis of annual ryegrass (Lolium perenne ssp. multiflorum), Prakriti Adhikari

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Developing non-invasive molecular sampling methods for effective wildlife monitoring, Daniela Adjaye

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Physiology and gut microbiome diversity in honey bee colonies along an agricultural intensification gradient, Urita Mma Agana

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Investigations of guayule resin as a wood protectant, Queen Aguma

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Hydrologic connectivity between oxbow lakes and rivers within the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Hafez Ahmad

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Processing and characterization of conjugated polymers utilizing electrospinning technique for optoelectronic applications, Humayun Ahmad

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Constraints and challenges for ensuring food security in the northern and south-western region of Bangladesh: A policy, hazards, and climate change perspective, Zia Ahmed

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Physics-based and data-driven constitutive modeling of unsaturated soils under multi-physics loading conditions, Mohsen Ajdari

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Wavelet-enhanced 2D and 3D Lightweight Perception Systems for autonomous driving, Simegnew Yihunie Alaba

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Exploring single particles through optical trapping and advanced laser spectroscopy techniques, Haifa Hassan Alali

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Deep learning-based radio frequency interference detection and mitigation for microwave radiometers with 2-D spectral features, Ahmed Manavi Alam

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The impact of economic and social factors on new venture creation in Saudi Arabia, Nawaf Alharbi

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Deep reinforcement learning for advanced wireless networks enabling service and spectrum coexistence, Walaa Alqwider

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Analysis of positive solutions for classes of nonlinear boundary value problems, Bandar Alreshidi

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Individual differences in attention processes and creative thinking, Berna Altunisik

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Academic self-efficacy, achievement motivation, and academic success of international graduate students, Rawan Alzukari

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Engineering functionalized nanomaterials for targeting and ablating biofilms on surfaces, Dhanush Lakmal Yapa Amarasekara

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Removal of emerging contaminants from water using green adsorbents, Rabia Amen

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Common-mode EMI characterization and mitigation in networked power electronics-enabled power systems, Ashik Amin