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 2025
Simulating maize growth and yield for current and future conditions in Mississippi, Ruchita Bhattarai
Private landowner behavior and preference regarding managing chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Mississippi and Tennessee, United States, Sushma Bhattarai
Building flood resilience in Mississippi: Readiness gaps index and insights from spatial analysis., Udit Bhatta
Complex-valued structured parameterized learnable filter banks for time-frequency domain based classification, Sabyasachi Biswas
Post secondary teaching toolkit: A concise resource to highlight effective pedagogical strategies for post-secondary instructors, Matthew Thomas Blackwell
Developing an optimized site selection model for Eastern Cottonwood in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Quentin Boccaleri
Development and validation of a machine-learned actuator line model for rotors, Joshua L. Bowman
The influence of nature on design: A focus on the flora and fauna influence on 18th and 19th century decorative arts, Rachel Ann Bozeman
The effects of individual political reputations on perceiver emotional and behavioral reactions: An attribution theory perspective, Maria Victoria Bracamonte Larios
Enhancing soybean seed protein content via Arabidopsis QQS gene, and commercial soil influence on plant development, Ethan Brister
Effects of psychological arousal and relaxation on muscle performance, activation, and heart rate variability during maximal muscle strength and precision tasks, Allison Ann Brown
Cotton response to banded vs. broadcast potassium fertilizer rates and varietal response of peanut to disease pressure in a mid-south growing environment, Bryce Dale Bullock
A tale of four cities: The effect of job specialization on employee turnover within Mississippi’s local police departments, Wesley Bunch
Investigation of mechanisms of internal acoustic excitation on lift and drag augmentation, Robert Burcham
American officer administration development and its effects on conduct, 1900-1970, David R. Burford
Direct taxation, the British economy, and the transformation of the British fiscal state, 1783-1865, John Burrow
The impact of need-based financial aid on degree completion for community college transfer students at a southern university, Bethany L. Buse
An approach to expanding the Industrial Training and Assessment Center to the residential sector, Cailee Addison Bush
Variables that affect designers’ use of edible planting in residential landscape design, Emily Margaret Butler
Evaluating simulated threecornered alfalfa hopper (Hemiptera: Membracidae) damage in cotton (Malvales: Malvaceae) and identifying conducive environments, Reece Starnes Butler
Impacts of upgrading GCC on the SRTuner compiler autotuning algorithm, Jonathan D. Butterfield
Acoustic dispersion analysis for mechanical property characterization of advanced materials, Bowen Cai
The effect of ultrasound transducer type on diagnosing medial meniscal injury in dogs with cranial cruciate ligament injury, Thomas Campbell
Adaptive multi-sensor fusion for robust autonomous perception in unstructured environments, Samantha S. Carley
LeCun-PSO hybrid initialization of neural network using asymmetric gait features for classification of Parkinson’s disease, Michael Joseph Carter
Influence of diverse forage environments on honey bee colony health, Angus Catchot III
Creating a framework for offering alternative credentials at Mississippi State University, Marian Montgomery Chancellor
Characterizing the impact of cover crop on soil microbiome function affecting C and N inputs in corn production system, Durga Purushotham Mahesh Chinthalapudi
Remote sensing of coastal acidification: UAS and satellite-based estimation in the Mississippi Sound and landscape change impact assessment, Mohammed Omar Sahed Chowdhury
The role of institutional image in first-generation student choice to attend a rural Southern community college, Megan Caves Clark
Winter waterfowl forage production in managed coastal wetlands of the South Atlantic Region: Improving inputs for bioenergetics modeling used in regional conservation planning, Stephen Andrew Clements
Evaluating three lightweight airfield matting systems under F-35B aircraft loading, Brett D. Cobb
The teaching self-efficacy of agriculture faculty at community colleges in the southern United States, Allison Rachel Coley
Do depressive symptoms moderate the mediating role of executive function between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity symptoms and functional impairment?, Nicole Colón Bosques
Real-time enhanced tornado warning product guidance based on tornado debris signature height and population density, Alexander Cooke
Soil ethics in practice: Harvesting conservation choices among Puerto Rican coffee farmers, Patricia Marie Cordero-Irizarry
The effects of bullying victimization and bullying perpetration on academic, social, and emotional self-efficacy among adolescents, Amber Crenshaw
Evaluating the feeding value of almond hulls and the supplementation of carbohydrases on performance, egg quality, nutrient digestibility and intestinal health in LSL-Lite hens, Nelly Giovanna Cribillero Chuquihuaccha
Improving engagement through readers' theater: A systematic literature review and teacher process portfolio with program proposal, Karen K. Crum
Genetic control of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) plant height and length of fruiting branches, Travis John Culpepper
Improved part-scale FE thermal modeling of wire-arc DED via incorporation of the build platform assembly, Kimberly Alyssa Cummings
Creating developmental contexts for all: Staff and leadership perspectives on disability inclusion in 4-H, Lisa Ziegler Curtis
Spectral methods and wavelets in quantitative finance problems, Davood Damircheli
Governance of online civil society organizations: A perspective from public administration by conducting a case study of the Villoux Server System, Tyler B. Daniel
Neural signatures of ADHD: A fast periodic visual stimulation EEG study, Haleigh Brielle Davidson
eDNA Surveillance and Population Genomics of the Invasive Loaches Introduced to the United States, Tobin J. Davidson
Empowering early childhood: The evaluation of free curriculum in rural Mississippi, Elvia I. Davis
A framework for modular knowledge composition in network intrusion detection systems, Patrick L. Day
Ex vivo evaluation of polyethylene cable compared to stainless steel cerclage wire in a canine fracture model, Seila Natasha Day
Negative emotion and extreme speech in Russian-language social media posts during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Matthew Curtis Dean
Computational modeling of environment-driven molecular interactions in biological systems, Senal Delwakkada Liyanage
Evaluating the efficacy of functional feed additives in broilers with or without a live coccidiosis vaccine challenge, Dalton Gerard Dennehy
Meeting the needs of State Departments of Transportation (DOTs): Bridging the gaps between transportation engineering practice and education, Duffy Dessalines
Nuclear transparency of photoproduced Rho-0 Mesons., Bhesha Raj Devkota
Small area estimation methods for county-level forest biomass estimation, Pratyush Dhungana
DEM simulations for tractive performance of rigid wheel in granular media, Aidan Noah Dickerson
Spatiotemporal ecology of Mycobacterium ulcerans and mycolactone functions in French Guiana and Southeastern United States aquatic environments, Magdalene Dogbe
Optimization of metal organic frameworks design for CO2 capture through machine learning and molecular dynamic simulation, Maria Thuy Do
The evaluation of traditional and latency based functional analyses on the identification of the function of inappropriate mealtime behavior, Mallie N. Donald
Interspecific competition effects on biomass allocation in a young, fertilized longleaf pine stand in central Mississippi, Baylor Doughty
Social validity of functional analysis variations, Rita M. Druffner
High-leverage practices paired with evidence-based practices recommended for inclusion classrooms, Cynthia Dunnam-Shirley
Optimizing Mars terrain segmentation with weakly supervised learning: A focus on weighted loss from annotation metadata, Malika Dutta
Improving artificial intelligence literacy among middle school students using tangible objects, Sayantani Dutta
Lateral control of autonomous vehicle using deep CNN and AMPC, Iffat Ara Ebu
Predicting mesoscale rapid-onset drying patterns in Michigan, Rebecca P. Economides
Optical trapping of single dust in plasma - a micro-probe for in situ plasma diagnostics, Pubuduni Arunodika Kumarihami Ekanayaka Mudiyanselage Egoda Walawwe
Integrated experimental, numerical, and machine-learning framework for the analysis of spray dynamics in diesel and Gasoline Direct-Injection (GDI) engines, Yassine El marnissi
Considerations for cottonseed oil as a feedstock for renewable fuels, John Elmore
Using quantum annealing for sampling and pattern generation in generative machine learning and catastrophic forgetting mitigation, Abdelmoula El Yazizi
Evaluation of furrow-irrigation and agronomic management in Mississippi rice (Oryza sativa L.), Thomas W. Eubank IV
Assessment of water quality and remediation of heavy metals in a coastal system, Christiana Fumnanya Eziashi
Modeling the ballistic performance of laser-powder bed fusion additively manufactured 316L stainless steel targets with as-built residual stresses, David Pervis Failla Jr.
Missing data in agriculture and survival studies, Zhou Fang
Physiological and behavioral impacts of a campus-based equine-assisted intervention program, Emma Lynn Farnlacher
Multi-modal sensor fusion of RADAR and LiDAR for enhanced navigation in obstacle-occluded environments, Kyler Ashton Farrar
Bucket-based priority queues for A* and related bounded-suboptimal and anytime search algorithms: Theoretical and practical advancements, Garrett Michael Fereday
Mentorship in music education: Crafting a supportive path for new teachers, Stephen P. Fields
Quantifying sea surface temperature patterns in the eastern tropical Pacific and downstream impacts on precipitation and tornado outbreaks in the United States, Jason Paul Finley
Design, development, and validation of an automated hole-punching system for precision irrigation in lay-flat poly pipe tubing, Micah James Foster
Use of wetlands by migratory waterbirds in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Duncan Fraser
Evaluation of municipal solid waste gasification and the water gas shift reaction for biomass carbon removal and storage via pre-combustion carbon capture, Colby Luke Freeman
An investigation of ultra-short pulsed laser processing for novel improvement of body armor performance, Jason Taylor Fridlund
Synthesis of morphology and molecular data to describe and reassess species relationships in Amoebozoan amoebae, Nicholas W. Fry
Assessment of pagP gene function in avian pathogenic Escherichia coli pathogenicity using different challenge models, Hailey Fugate
Measuring emotional biases in attention and memory in individuals who fear happiness, Michael R. Gallagher
Use of mid-infrared spectroscopy for estimating soil chemical, physical, and hydrological properties in Mississippi and Texas, Kanthake Yasas Bandara Gamagedara
Regulating Artificial Intelligence in the U.S.: A historical-innovation-inspired framework, Di Kevin Gao
Leveraging Google Earth Engine for computationally efficient pixel-level analysis and vector delineation from satellite data., Rishita Garg
Extreme artifacts removal with curriculum learning, Sushant Gautam
Unraveling exoplanetary signatures from stellar activity: A journey beyond the known in RV mass measurements of K dwarf planets, Claire Susanne Geneser
Design and validation of a custom oscillation seeding chamber for bioreactor culture of ceramic coated polymer scaffolds, Jaydon Gibson
Optical flow-based Markov decision process control strategies for autonomous mobile robots in dynamic environments, Seth Morgan Gibson-Todd
Structure-property relationships of phenothiazine-based polyaniline derivatives, Hari Giri
Influence of horizontal grid spacing on numerical weather prediction simulations of clear air turbulence, Kailah Rose Gordon
Mapping renewable energy opportunities: Increasing rural energy resilience in Mississippi through Extension and national program insights, Kaitlyn Brooke Gordon
