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
Effects of Defoliation in Soybeans and Susceptibility of Soybean Loopers to Reduced Risk Insecticides, Lucas Neil Owen
A Stochastic Process Study of Two-Echelon Supply Chain with Bulky Demand Process Incorporating cost Sharing Coordination Strategies, Hossein Parsa
Performance as a Historiographic Process in King John and the Winter's Tale, Joshua Rhodes Parsons
The Effect of Regular Participation in an After-School Program on Student Achievement, Attendance, and Behavior, Andrea Sheree Pastchal-Temple
Response of Listeria Monocytogenes to Bile Salts, Angela Inez Payne
Assessment of Management Factors Prior to Breeding and their Impact on Bovine Fertility, Kathryn Erin Pfeiffer
Mechanical Properties of Porcine Muscle in Compression and Tension with Microstructural Analysis, Renee Brook Pietsch
The Economic Contributions of a Mississippi Rural Community College Utilizing a Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Remedial Education Program., Curtis Ray Poole
Bird, Plant, and Herpetofaunal Associations in Cove Forests and Pine Plantations in Mississippi, Aaron Weston Posner
Safety Counter Measures: A Comprehensive Crashworthiness Study of Out-Of-Position (OOP) Airbag Deployment and Passenger Impact, Suryatej Reddy Potula
A Study of Selection on Microsatellites in the Helianthus Annuus Transcriptome, Sreepriya Pramod
Understanding Managerial Decisions about Global Sourcing: Offshoring and Reshoring of Production, Raymond George Purnell
Assessing the Potential for Increased Capacity of Combined Heat and Power Facilities Based on Available Corn Stover and Forest Logging Residue in Mississippi, Selvarani Radhakrishnan
The Hinterland: Compilation of Nearby Brown Dwarfs and Ultracool stars, Christopher David Ramos
Conceptual Change: The Integration of Geologic Time into the Teaching of Evolution, David L. Ramseyer
Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Activity of Silica Supported Homo- and Heterodinuclear Metal Complexes, Ankadage Samantha Ranaweera
The First-Year Principal: An Autoethnography, Michael Burt Ray
Using Cloud to Ground Lightning as a Forecast Tool for Severe Hail, Matthew Reagan
The Role of Cue-Target and Target Relatedness in Metamemory Predictions about Retroactive Interference in Memory, Myra Ann Reid
Generation of Biodiesel and Carotenoids from Rhodotorula Glutinis using Sweet Sorghum Juice, Miriam Llanto Revellame
A Multiscale Modeling Methodology for Composites that includes Fiber Strength Stochastics, Trenton M (Trenton Mitchell) Ricks
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Faith-Based Nutrition Education Program for African American Women, Jenelle Nicole Robinson
The Comparative Effects of Arginine Vasotocin on Reproduction in the Boreal (Bufo Boreas Boreas) and Fowler's (Bufo Fowleri) Toad, Tricia Marie Rowlison
Perceptions of Teachers and Administrators of the Effectiveness of Block Scheduling in Mississippi High Schools, Debra Ann Rush
Evaluation of Wildrye (Elymus sp.) as a Potential Forage and Conservation Planting for the Southeastern United States, Jason Brett Rushing
Establishment Methods of Arundinaria Species for Restoration Purposes, David Pierce Russell
Enhancement and Evaluation of a Rainfall-Runoff Single Event Model, Germania Salazar Mejia
Evidence-Based Uncertainty Modeling of Constitutive Models with Application in Design Optimization, Shahabedin Salehghaffari
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