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 2012
Evaluation of B-mode and color Doppler Ultrasound as Alternative Tools for the Study of Reproduction, Temperament, and Milk production- Related Variables in the Bovine, Hector Luis Sanchez-Rodriguez
Alternate Stable States in Ecological Systems, Sarath Sasi
Quantification of Storm Surge Probability using Ensemble Slosh Model Data, David Scott Schlotzhauer
Effects of Salinity on Growth, Oxygen Consumption Rate and Ion Regulation in Two Ages of Alligator Gar Atractosteus Spatula, Daniel Edwin Schwarz
Impact and Management of Twospotted Spider Mite in Pre-Flowering Cotton, William Sidney Scott
Chronobiology of Lygus Lineolaris (Heteroptera: Miridae): Implications for Rearing and Pest Management, Sarah Rose Self
Fatigue and Crack-Growth in 7050-T7451 Aluminum Alloy under Constant- and Variable-Amplitude Loading, Justin Wayne Shaw
Sustainable Construction Practices of Intentional Communities: a Pilot Investigation in Loudoun County, Virginia and Frederick County, Maryland, Jason Lee Shedd
Pond Management Approaches and Effects on Trophic Dynamics, Michael Scott Sherman
Response to Intervention (Rti) Self-Efficacy among Elementary and Middle School General Education Teachers, Tory Swearingen Shirley
A Procedure Using Rotylenchulus Reniformis Nucleotide Sequences to Quantitatively Measure Plant-Parasitic Nematode Infestation Levels using Metagenomic Dna Isolated Directly from Soil, Kurtis C. Showmaker
Fungal Communities on Flooded Building Materials, Frederick Skrobot III
Effects of Defendant and Complainant Alcohol Consumption, Lawre Elizabeth Slayton
Combined Heat and Power Systems for Commercial Buildings: Investigating Cost, Emissions, and Primary Energy Reduction Based on System Components, Amanda D. Smith
Logging Cost and Productivity Associated with Labor and Mechanization in the Eastern United States, Dustin Wayne Smith
Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis of CCHP systems, Joshua Aaron Smith
An Assessment of Student Performance in Career and Technical Education Programs and On Core Academic Subject Areas, Annie Jeanette Snow
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Fermion Systems with Matrix Product States, Jeong-Pil Song
A Comparative Study of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Spark Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Rapid Analysis of Mercury in Soils, Pavan Kumar Srungaram
Degree of Pyritization and Methylmercury Analysis, Weeks Bay Alabama, Henry A. Stauffenberg
Educational and Informational Delivery Method Preferences of Mississippi Beef Cattle Producers, Garrett Michael Steede
Biofacies Analysis of Late Mississippian Ostracodes and their Use as Paleoenvironmental Indicators in the Bluefield Formation, Mercer County, West Virginia, Benjamin T. Stencil
The Effects of Prison Program Participation on Recidivism of Ex-Offenders in Mississippi, Chad Lamar Stocks
Studies Related to the Synthesis of Chroman- And Quinoline-Based Heterocycles, Sean L Robert Stokes
Estimating and Modeling Red Oak Acorn Yield and Abundance in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Jacob N (Jacob Nathaniel) Straub
Optimization of Hydrothermal Pretreatment and Membrane Filtration Processes of Various Feedstocks to Isolate Hemicelluloses for Biopolymer Applications, Badamkhand Sukhbaatar
Investigation of Compaction and Corresponding Thermal Measurement Techniques for Cementitiously Stabilized Soils, W Griffin Sullivan
Civic Education in the Preservice Classroom: A Study of Gaming, Sarah Elizabeth Sumners
Thermo-mechanical Analysis of LENS [Trademark] Deposited Bimetallic (Steel-Copper) Parts, Tushar K. Talukdar
A Nonlinear Statistical Algorithm to Predict Daily Lightning in Mississippi, Erin Amanda Thead
Differentiation between "Bomb" and Ordinary U.S. East Coast Cyclogenesis using Principal Component Analysis and K-means Cluster Analysis, Evan Edward Thomas
Police Car 'Visibility': He Relationship between Detection, Categorization and Visual Saliency, Mark Dewayne Thomas
The Effects of Aspirin and Cyclosporine on Canine Platelet Function and Cyclooxygenase Expression, John Metcalfe Thomason
Modeling Effects of Climatological Variability and Management Practices on Conservation of Groundwater from the Mississippi River Valley Shallow Alluvial Aquifer in the Mississippi Delta Region, Robert Frank Thornton
Effects of Accreditation Regulations of Full-time Faculty on Community College Graduation Rates, Lynn Tincheradner
Incorporating Software Instruction into a Civil Engineering Curriculum, Andrew Michael Torries
Distance-Weighted Regularization for Compressed-Sensing Video Recovery and Supervised Hyperspectral Classification, Eric W. Tramel
An Octree Surface Wrapping Algorithm to Recover Building Structures, Michal Trcalek
Optical and Laser Spectroscopic Diagnostics for Energy Applications, Markandey Mani Tripathi
Replenishment Cycle Inventory Policies with Non-Stationary Stochastic Demand, Huseyin Tunc
Calculating Ion Pair Production within the Icet Hepa Filter Test Stand Aerosol Neutralizer and Radiation Dose Rates from Mobile Surveying System Data, Ronald James Unz
Sediment and phosphorus dynamics behind weirs in agricultural drainage ditches, Elizabeth Louise Usborne
Probing Protein and Organothiol Interactions with Gold Nanoparticles, Karthikeshwar Vangala
The Role of FGF-2 in Repopulation of Decellularized Porcine Aortic Valves, Divina Varghese
The Role of Thought Confidence in Resistance to Social Norms, Benjamin Howard Walker
A Theory of Music as Political Resistance, Ian D. Walker
Multi-Scale Den-Site Selection by American Black Bears in Mississippi, Brittany Winchester Waller
Decellularized Porcine Myocardium as a Scaffold for Cardiac Tissue Engineering, Bo Wang
Three Dimensional Elasticity Analyses for Isotropic and Orthotropic Composite Cylinders, Wenchao Wang
Yield Aggregation Impacts on Area-Based Insurance and Commodity Program, Yang Wang
Grain Bag Storage Systems: Monitoring, Analysis, and Effects, Jason Kellam Ward
Micromechanical Analysis of Cells from Hyperelastosis Cutis (HC) Affected and Carrier Horses, Kenyatta Shanika Williams Washington
Use Of Whey-Based Edible Coatings as Antioxidative and Antimicrobial Agents, Sashie Weerasinghe
A Methodology to Perform a Combined Heating and Power System Assessment and Feasibility Study for an Industrial Manufacturing Facility, Chad Allyn Wheeley
The Effects of Coarse Aggregate Cleanliness on Asphalt Concrete Compactability and Moisture Susceptibility, Kevin Lamar Williams
Holistic Wellness Factors of Traditional and Non-Traditional Community College Students, Patricia Diane Williams
The Effects of Gestalt Principles on Diagram Comprehension: An Empirical Approach, Krystle Dianne Wilson
Manganese Oxidation, Pseudomonas, and Potential Mercury Remediation, Kendra L. Wright
Feature-Based Uncertainty Visualization, Keqin Wu
L222W of Hemagglutinin Affects the Receptor Binding Affinity of Avian Origin H3N2 Canine Influenza Virus, Guohua Yang
Diagnosis and Characterization of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus, Lifang Yan
Evaluating a Vegetated Filter Strip in an Agricultural Field, Alina Fay Young
Evaluation of a Granulated Paper Waste Product as a Suitable Bedding Material for Horses, Amanda Arrington Youngblood
Optimal PGU Operation Strategy in CHP Systems, Kyungtae Yun
Characterization the Structure and Function of Dawdle Gene, and Characterization of Dawdle Physical Interactors in Arabidopsis, Seyit Yuzuak
The Effect of Bmp-13 on the Chondroinduction of Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Hilary Wynne Zelenka
Spatial Error Metrics and Registration for the Validation of Numerical Oceanographic Models, Sean B. Ziegeler
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Nuclear Phenomena in Covariant Density Functional Theory, Hazem Abusara
Agricultural conservation buffers for breeding grassland birds in eastern Mississippi, Heidi Lynn Adams
Success rates of GED credential recipients and high school graduates: a comparative study of Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College students, James Victor Adams
Development and Loss of Porosity in the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Sligo Formation Shelf Edge Reef, South Texas, Eyitayo David Aina
Centrarchid assemblages in oxbow lakes of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley with perspectives for fisheries management, Ted Joseph Alfermann
Were they or weren't they? A study of possible sedentariness using faunal indicators at a coastal Thom's Creek site (38ch1693), Lauren Lowrey Alford
Artificial Regeneration of Bottomland Hardwoods in Southern Mississippi on Lands Damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Derek Kyle Alkire
Using Green Roofs to Mitigate the Effects of Solar Energy on an Unconditioned Building in the Southern United States, Jason Lee Arnold
Study Of Food Digestion And Morphology Of Subterranean Termites From Mississippi, Timothy Joseph Arquette
Static and Free Vibration Analyses of Composite Shells Based on Different Shell Theories, Ebrahim Asadi
Control of Multigenerators for the All-Electric Ship, Yamilka Isabel Baez Rivera
Nestling Provisioning Of Dickcissels In Native Warm-Season Grass Field Buffers, Kristina Lynne Baker
A three-dimensional heat and mass transport model for a tree within a forest, Jerrell Ray Ballard
Studies on Hexahapto-Dibenzo[A,E]Cyclooctatetraene Complexes of Chromiumtricarbonyl and Cationic Manganesetricarbonyl, Nilantha Bandara
Identification of Genes Differentially Expressed in Elongating Fiber in a Cotton Chromosome Substitution Line CS-B25, Samuel Sunil Kumar Bandi
Effect Of Asphalt Emulsion On Surface Treated Flexible Pavements Using The Bending Beam Rheometer, Jason Michael Barham
Parenting style moderates the relationship between childhood exposure to violence and sexually aggressive behavior in early adulthood, Lisa Beck-Xaysuda
Power Supply on Chip DC-DC converter identification using black-box modeling techniques, Charles Craig Bilberry
Modifying the Double-Ovsynch Protocol to include Human Chorionic Gonadotropin to Synchronize Estrus in Dairy Cattle, Joseph Andrew Binversie
A Motion Capture Based Analysis of the Effects of Body Armor on Shooting Posture, Christopher Blackledge
Peripheral and Placental Immunology in the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV)-Infected Cat Model, Crystal Elizabeth Boudreaux
Testing the generalizability of informal social control theory: change and stability of illicit substance use across the life course among various racial and gender subgroups, Christopher W. Bounds
Stability of biophotonic Eschrechia coli 0157:H7 and its effectiveness as a validation tool in beef purge sampling methodologies, Paul Randall Broadway II
An examination of family nutrition programs implemented by Mississippi State University Extension Service in Jackson public schools, Gabrielle La'Dale Bryant
Effects of tibial tuberosity advancement and meniscal release on kinematics of the canine cranial cruciate deficient stifle during early, middle, and late stance, James Ryan Butler
Prey Specificity Of Thanasimus Dubius Between Latent And Intermediate Phases Of Southern Pine Beetle, Ryann Skiles Campbell
Wildlife habitat quality in southern Mississippi 8 years after intensive pine plantation establishment, Tamara Nicole Campbell