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Theses/Dissertations from 2025

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Exploring the conceptualization of climate change and gender in NGO intervention: an intersectional analysis of NGO work in rural northern Ghana, Ubaida Abdallah

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The effect of synthetics kavalactones on sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺ release in healthy and molecular models of diseased cardiomyocytes., Mahmuda Akter

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Global attractivity of positive solutions of higher order nonlinear difference equations and its applications, Abdulaziz Almaslokh

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The civilization of slavery vs. that of freedom: The Civil War and Reconstruction as an ideological struggle, Heath M. Anderson

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Transcription fidelity in the face of oxidative damage, Eastilan Gyiwah Appiah

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Enhancing soybean seed protein content via Arabidopsis QQS gene, and commercial soil influence on plant development, Ethan Brister

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American officer administration development and its effects on conduct, 1900-1970, David R. Burford

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Direct taxation, the British economy, and the transformation of the British fiscal state, 1783-1865, John Burrow

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Remote sensing of coastal acidification: UAS and satellite-based estimation in the Mississippi Sound and landscape change impact assessment, Mohammed Omar Sahed Chowdhury

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Do depressive symptoms moderate the mediating role of executive function between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity symptoms and functional impairment?, Nicole Colón Bosques

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Real-time enhanced tornado warning product guidance based on tornado debris signature height and population density, Alexander Cooke

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Governance of online civil society organizations: A perspective from public administration by conducting a case study of the Villoux Server System, Tyler B. Daniel

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Assessment of water quality and remediation of heavy metals in a coastal system, Christiana Fumnanya Eziashi

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Missing data in agriculture and survival studies, Zhou Fang

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Measuring emotional biases in attention and memory in individuals who fear happiness, Michael R. Gallagher

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Unraveling exoplanetary signatures from stellar activity: A journey beyond the known in RV mass measurements of K dwarf planets, Claire Susanne Geneser

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Influence of horizontal grid spacing on numerical weather prediction simulations of clear air turbulence, Kailah Rose Gordon

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The Lucky Ones, Lily Grado

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Toward social equity in Black maternal health in Mississippi, Brittany L. Gray

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The influence of incorrectly labelled AI-generated images on subjective feelings of truth and memory, Tanner McKenzie Grubbs

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Atmospheric turbulence education effects on flight anxiety, Megan A. Hanna

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Understanding how NWS meteorologists tailor hazardous weather messaging to core partners and identify local vulnerabilities, Allison Camille Harvey

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Learning race in the faith: An ethnographic study of a white Southern Baptist youth group, Courtney Heath

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A cloud of witnesses: Captivity among the Society People of colonial Pennsylvania, Jenifer L. Ishee

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Multi-scale assessment of Chlorophyll-a and Net Primary Productivity in coastal waters: Integrating advanced in situ observations, remote sensing imagery, and data driven GeoAI techniques, Mohammad Shakiul Islam

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Russia in the MENA Region: Why do states draft defense cooperation agreements with non-contiguous states?, Laurel Jayes

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Women’s empowerment and health outcomes: A multi-country test of validity and influence on maternal and child well-being, Robert Bugri Kolbila

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Apatite entrapment of iodine for nuclear waste disposal applications, William E. Laird

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Just do something: Framing a movement to fight fascism, Heather-Ann Layth

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My grandparents raised me: The role of formative individual and family experiences in predicting emerging adult substance use, attachment, and mental health outcomes, Acacia Lopez

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Older adult men’s well-being: The impact of masculinity and negative perceptions of aging, Darby D. Mackenstadt

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Exploring the use of a Random Forest in correcting GFS Tropical Cyclone landfall errors, Victoria Grace Maxwell

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From tree rings to streamflow: reconstructing the hydroclimatic history of the Mississippi River Basin over the past millennia, Brandon McDaniel

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Family matters: how caregiver influence and internal locus of control relate to academics, Maia McLin

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Spatial variability of Heat Mortality Rate relationships in Arizona at Primary Care Area level, Ria Mukherjee

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The role of ENSO diversity in modulating tornadic activity in the United States, Davis Boyd Newton

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Irrelevant information in geometry questions: Figuring it out with figures, Phuc Xuan Nhi Nguyen

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A quantitative analysis of early life flourishing association with caregiver stress using the 2022 National Survey of Children’s Health, Bishop Noble

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Toward organizational resilience in the US federal bureaucracy, Michael Akomeah Ofori Ntow

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques– innovations in lifetime data analysis and missing value imputations, Tobias Omondi Oketch

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In good times & bad: measuring ambivalence in custodial grandparents, Marin Gail Olson

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Earth analogue analysis of volcanic/tectonic interactions with applications to venusian stresses, Michael Ortigoza

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Enhancing chemical synthesis for sustainability and process monitoring utilizing group ten metal catalysis, Amanda M. Perkins

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A mathematical theory of epitaxial growth, Brock C. Price

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

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

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

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

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

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The smooth Toeplitz algebra, Jonas Morris Stuart

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

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

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

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

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

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Survival analysis in the presence of independent or dependent censoring, Sakie Jaladha Arachchige

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Solution synthesis of colloidal strontium zirconium sulfide nanomaterials, Naira Arrykova

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The effects of work-life balance, teleworking, and DEIA on the U.S. federal employee job satisfaction: Towards developing a contemporary needs theory, Latara Marie Arterberry

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The performance of participation in the Medicare Quality Payment Program, Mary Atkinson-Smith

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Polyaniline analogs polymers and nanocomposites coating for corrosion protection applications, Raymond Femi Awoyemi

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Determining the influence of broadcast visuals and messages on the public’s perceptions and intent to shelter in tornado warnings, Kristina Marie Balentine

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Buffering the strained relation between masculinity and social support with self-compassion, Nathan Barclay

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Bridging scales integrating satellite derived with airborne and UAS-collected bathymetry for coastal and inland water management, Md Salman Bashit

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Creating a chronology of Claiborne (22HA501): Revisiting and revising radiocarbon assays of a Poverty Point site, Olivia Catherine Baumgartel

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Here I am, like I am: disability in twentieth-century southern literature, Rachel M. Bell

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Applied Behavior Analysis: Perspectives of Mississippi students before they enter the educational behavioral consulting field, Lauren Ashley Besong

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A study of charge symmetry violation in fragmentation functions extracted from semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions from protons and deuterons, Hem Datt Bhatt

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Parental internalizing problems and emerging adult emotion regulation: Moderation by gender, Madison Alaina Bibbs

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Advances in cluster detection via order statistics, renewal processes and model selection methods with applications to financial forensic statistics, Kwabena Ansong Boateng

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Who’s to blame? A website content analysis of victimization prevention messaging at PWIs and HBCUs, Madeline Brock

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Mass spectrometry of analytes related to sports anti-doping: Mapping gas-phase dissociation pathways, differentiating isomers using in-source collisional activation, and evaluating ion mobility spectrometry for enantiomer separation, Matthew James Carlo

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Sonder, Rheagan Case

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Identifying immunogenic pneumococcal proteins with roles in colonization of human epithelium, Abigail Cassibry

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Stimulus complexity and feature binding in visual sensory memory, Mary F. Catington

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Human behavioral and technological adaptation to the Younger Dryas in the Midsouth: Investigations into the Mississippi projectile point survey, Christopher Dylan Colucci

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The conservation of brain folding mechanics, Amber Cook

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Insights from the past: Does access to unsuccessful problem attempts facilitate restructuring in insight problems?, Emily Ann Williamson Creel

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Biothermodynamics of metal and DNA coordination to the pneumococcal transcription factors AdcR, SczA, and CopR, Alexander James Cutright

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Examining the impact of de-escalation training for rural Mississippi LEOS: Using simulation to assess behavioral outcomes, Deepali Manoj Dhruve

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Unseeing the Seen: Jugha, Larra Myron Diboyan

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The impact of sexual violence, social reactions to disclosure, coping, and intersecting identities on PTSD risk, Sabrina DiCarlo