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 2011
Development of a Shore Profile Algorithm for Tidal Estuaries Dominated by Fine Sediments, Kimberly Collins Pevey
Research Universities as Engines of Economic Growth: How Do Research Universities Impact Regional Economic Growth?, Stephanie Arnette Pink
A Minimum Spanning Tree Based Clustering Algorithm for High throughput Biological Data, Harun Pirim
The effects of personal and parental religiosity on psychopathology, Leah Ferrari Power
Traumatic brain injury: modeling and simulation of the brain at large deformation, Raj Prabhu
Modeling Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) habitat with geographic information systems, Joby Michelle Prince
Novel approaches in monitoring and determining the relationships between pre- and post-hatch metabolic parameters in progeny of young broiler breeders, Radhakrishna Pulikanti
An investigation of institutional investor and firm heterogeneity, Muhammad Arif Qayyum
Development of Sub Models for a Phenomenological Investigation of Diesel Engine Combustion, Lu Qiu
Industrial timberland transactions in the United States: firm financial performance, timber supply, and welfare implications, Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman
Assessment and Prediction of Streambank Erosion Rates in a Southeastern Plains Ecoregion Watershed in Mississippi, John Jairo Ramirez Avila
Effectiveness of Crop Reflectance Sensors on Detection of Cotton (Gossypium Hirsutum L.) Growth and Nitrogen Status, Tyson Brant Raper
Pet awareness with students (P.A.W.S.): the development of age appropriate materials for teaching public health education to children, Joel Dillard Ray
An open virtual testbed for industrial control system security research, Bradley Galloway Reaves
Effects of Aging and Crystal Attributes on Particle Size Distributions in Breakage Experiments in Stirred Vessels, Sheena Magtoya Reeves
Incorporation of an energy equation into a pulsed inductive plasma acceleration model, Jarred Paul Reneau
Activated Sludge as Renewable Fuels and Oleochemicals Feedstock, Emmanuel Durante Revellame
An Economic Analysis Of Health, Savings, And Labor In Relation To Gender, Comfort Febisola Ricketts
Perceptions and utilization of riparian forest buffers by farming interest located in the Big Sunflower Watershed, Hall Royal Roberts
Effects of Porcine Relaxin Hormone on Motility Characteristics of Boar Spermatozoa during Storage, Juan Camilo Rodríguez Muñoz
Modeling And Optimization Of Nano-Enhanced Polymer Composite Structures Under Uncertainty, Mohammad Rouhi
Soil-microbe-volatile organic compound (SMVOC) analysis and authentic science inquiry into gas chromatography for a general chemistry laboratory class, Christopher Vincent Ruhs
Geographic Information System (GIS) Simulation of Emergency Power Production from Disaster Debris in a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) System, Christopher Shannon Ryals
Modeling of Transport Phenomena and Macrosegregation during Directional Solidification of Alloys, Udaya Kumar Sajja
Bobbie Ann Mason's Postsouthernism: The Decline of Religion in Four Stories from Shiloh and Other Stories, Katherine Brantley Salter
Machine learning and mapping algorithms applied to proteomics problems, William Shane Sanders
Row spacing and population density effect on seed yield of okra and seed oil as a source of biodiesel, Tyler Neal Sandlin
Examining impact analysis for planning (IMPLAN) analysis of waterfowl hunting and the logging industry in Mississippi, Xiana Tamilu Santos
Uncertainty visualization of ensemble simulations, Jibonananda Sanyal
Antipathies and attribution:the effects on self-esteem, self-efficacy, and task persistence, Caroline Ruth Saxon
Measurement of Trace Environmental Contaminants Using Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy, Susan Theresa Scherrer
Development of a Short Range Tracking System using an Inertial Measurement Unit, James Casey Shackelford
Examination of Mississippi fourth and eighth grade students' reading performance on the Mississippi Curriculum Test, Mississippi Curriculum Test 2, and National Assessment of Educational Progress, Shundria Summers Shaffer
Kenaf bast for fiber reinforced polymer composites, Jinshu Shi
Dual-Fueling Concepts: a Comparison of Methane and Propane as Primary Fuels with Biodiesel and Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel as Separate Pilot Fuels, Nicholas Thane Shoemaker
A phenomenological model for dynamic recrystallization, Jason Mark Simmons
Initial Estimation of Forest Inventory Sizes for Timber Sales from Easily Observed Stand Attributes, Joshua Philip Skidmore
Biological Community Evaluations Of Potential Black Pine Snake (Pituophis Melanoleucus Lodingi) Habitat In Mississippi, Clinton Porter Smith
A Comparison of the Effects of Heat Stress on Milk and Component Yields and Somatic Cell Count in Holstein and Jersey Cows, Daniel L. Smith
A proteomic approach to profiling the pipping muscle of the broiler embryo, Adebayo Oluwaseun Sokale
Chemistry of Cyclic Ketene-N,O-Acetals, Yingquan Song
A Nonlinear Mixture Autoregressive Model For Speaker Verification, Sundararajan Srinivasan
Absolute Number Density Measurement of OH Radicals in Low Temperature Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas using Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy, Nimisha Srivastava
Diversity And Ecology Of Bean Pod Mottle Virus In Mississippi, Ronald Christian Stephenson
Cross-Entropy Approaches To Software Forensics: Source Code Authorship Identification, James Thomas Stinson
Effect Of Hunting Frequency On Duck Abundance, Harvest, And Hunt Quality In Mississippi, Elizabeth Anne St James
Effects of In-Situ Biosparging on Pentachlorophenol (Pcp) Degradation and Bacterial Communities in Pcp, Carrlet Elizabeth Stokes
Knights, Puritans, and Jesus: Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and the archetypes of American masculinity, Wilm K. Strawbridge
Variability Of Sediment Nutrients And Benthic Macro-Invertebrates In Recreational Fishing Ponds, Tyler James Stubbs
Added critical flashover voltage by fiberglass crossarm to 15 kV polymer suspension insulator, Shravani Talabathula
Sheet-stamping process simulation and optimization, Cynthia M. Tamasco
Epigenetic regulations in cell wall degradation and regeneration in Oryza sativa, Feng Tan
A genomic and transcriptomic analysis of wood decay and copper tolerance in the brown rot fungus Fibroporia radiculosa, Juliet D. Tang
Thermostability Of Sweet Whey As Influenced By Thermization And Addition Of Enzymatic Hydrolyzate Of Caseinate, Jingming Tao
Examining One Traditional Classroom and One Progressive Classroom for the At-Risk Middle School Student: A Case Study of Two Rural Redesign Programs, Alvin Centrell Taylor
A study of completers and non-completers in online professional development courses, Michelle Kelly Taylor
Evaluation of an urban environmental education program to assess attitudes and knowledge of high school students toward white-tailed deer, Jessica Lynn Tegt
A Drawing in of Air, Jessica Jane Temple
Growth Response of Mixed Native Grass Stands to Simulated Grazing In Mississippi: Forage Yield and Species Dynamics, Vitalis Wilbald Temu
Trustworthy Computing Approach for Securing Ad Hoc Routing Protocols, Vinay Thotakura
Resource Analysis of Small-diameter Tree Above-ground Biomass in Mississippi, Mohan P. Tiruveedhula
Effects of driving torques on screw withdrawal resistance from wood-based composites, Onder Tor
THE EFFECT OF MATERIAL AND PROCESSING ON THE IMPACT STRENGTH OF VAPOR-GROWN CARBON NANOFIBER/VINYL ESTER COMPOSITES, Glenn William Torres
Structure Property Relations and Finite Element Analysis of Ram Horns: A Pathway to Energy Absorbent Bio-Inspired Designs, M W (Michael Wesley) Trim
Modeling and Verification of a Multi-section Continuum Robot, Krishna Turlapati
Functional Complementation Analysis of Fungal RTG2 Homologs in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Ercan Selcuk Unlu
A Case Study of the State Takeover of the Sunflower County School District, Paula Allen Vanderford
A GIS model to rapidly predict probability of hurricane damage, Ryan Christopher Vaughan
Spectroscopic Investigations of Solid Uranyl Compounds and of Tissue-Engineered Myocardial Scaffolds, Guangjun Wang
Multi-Agent Cooperative Control via a Unified Optimal Control Approach, Jianan Wang
A model-based approach for automatic recovery from memory leaks in enterprise applications, Zimin Wang
Ethics instruction in community college leadership programs: southern perspectives, Nikisha Green Ware
Metamemory and Eyewitness Memory: Will the Accessibility Heuristic be used to predict Memory for Details of a Complex Event?, Kathryn Meredith Webster
Detection And Classification Of Buried Radioactive Materials, Wei Wei
Understanding Consumer Responses to Endorser Failures, Lauren Allyn White
Role of reactive oxygen species in Glioblastoma multiforme microsatellite instability, Kortney Lynnette Wilkinson-Busha
Landsat-derived Stand Structure Estimation for Optimizing Stratified Forest Inventories, David Wade Wilkinson
The Effect of Dietary Changes on Microbial Populations within the Gastrointestinal Tract of the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda Melanoleuca), Candace Lareine Williams
Parametric analysis of a small circular phased-array radar antenna, Erik Martin Williamsen
A study of structural integrity of type A (I) lantibiotics via chemical modification and mutagenesis, Shawanda Wilson-Stanford
Effectiveness of the Barton Reading and Spelling System: A Qualitative Case Study Investigation, Melissa Lane Wise
Factors affecting late adolescent delinquent behavior, Tiffany R. Woodcock
Formulation and Sensory Evaluation of Gluten-Free Muffins Containing Flax, Adam Michael Woodyard
Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm For Optimal Operation Of Reconfigurable Distribution Grids, Wenqin Xue
Dimensionality reduction for hyperspectral imagery, He Yang
Synthesis, Characterization and Catalytic Studies of Carbon-Based Nano Materials, Qiangu Yan
Optimal Operation Of Multi-Terminal Vsc Based Mvdc Shipboard Power System, Sandeep Yeleti
Micromechanically based multiscale material modeling of polymer nanocomposites, Jaesang Yu
Constructing Spatial Weight Matrix Using Local Spatial Statistics And Its Applications, Weiming Yu
Electrical aging of 15 kV EPR cables energized by ac voltage with switching impulses superimposed, Anand Umeshlal Zanwar
Welfare-to-work transition in the TANF era: evidence from Mississippi, Xuhui Zeng
Expression, purification, and antimicrobial activity of avian beta-defensin-2, -6, and -12, Li Zhao
PCA and JPEG2000-based Lossy Compression for Hyperspectral Imagery, Wei Zhu
Fatigue and fracture testing and analysis on four engineering materials, Brett Martin Ziegler
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Biomass-To-Biofuels' Supply Chain Design And Management, Ambarish Madhukar Acharya