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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Characterization of Borrelia Turicatae Transmission and Dissemination from the Arthropod Vector, William K. Boyle
Examining the intra-organizational differences among municipal employees: an empirical investigation of public safety workers in the municipal workforce, Joseph J. Breen
The Updip Limit of the Smackover Formation in Clarke County, Mississippi, Benjamin Breland
Geologic Analysis of the Upper Jurassic Cotton Valley Formation in Jefferson County, Mississippi, James Michael Brooke
Parenting in Same-Sex Parent-Child Dyads: Effects on Emerging Adults in a Southern Sample, Kimberly R. Brown
Analysis of Classes of Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems on Exterior Domains, Dagny Grillis Butler
The Tolerant Social Norm Effect: are Norms of Tolerance More Powerful than Prejudicial Norms?, Rachael E. Carroll
Experimental Assessment of Butomus Umbellatus L. Growth and Expansion Using a Mesocosm Approach, Christian Carter
Synthesis and Characterization of Pani-Coated Vgcnfs and Evaluation of its Use for Corrosion Inhibition, Maria Concepcion Cebada-Ricalde
Analyzing Predictors of Bullying Victimization at School, Hatice Cecen Celik
Microtubule Dynamics, Kinetochore Number, and Kinetochore Distribution in Cells Undergoing Mitosis with Unreplicated Genomes, Manuella Rossette Clark-Cotton
Invested or Invasive?: Applying the Investment Model to Understanding Obsessive Relational Intrusion, Katherine E. Collier
Verification of Post-glacial Speleogenesis and the Origins of Epigene Maze Caves in New York, Max P. Cooper
Risk Perceptions of Hurricane Track Forecasts, Idamis Del Valle-Martínez
Understanding Racial Differences in College Student Departure, Reid Garber Dickerson
Identification Methods and Chemometric Analysis of Mammalian Volatile Biomarkers, Shamitha Asoka Dissanayake
Woodrow Wilson's Lasting Impact on the Development of Federal Budget Practice and Theory, Tyson Michael Elbert
Factors Affecting Identity Development and Organizational Involvement among Multiracial College Students, Sheena Kaori Gardner
Diffusive Gradients in Thin Film (DGT): a Proposed Method to Find Geochemical Predictors of Sediment Oxygen Demand, Jonathon Michael Geroux
Intensification as a Survival Strategy for Early Settlers on the Tombigbee National Forest, Jessica L. Gisler
Representing Puertorriquenidad: Puerto Ricans in the New York Times, 1948-1958, Bianca Paola Gonzalez
The Importance of Synoptic-Scale Processes in Diagnosing Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification in the Atlantic Basin, Alexandria Danielle Grimes
Improved Methods for the Analysis of Estrogen Residues in Environmental Aqueous Matrices, Sameera Ranmal Gunatilake
"Shadow Of My Mind": Women and Nationalism in James Joyce's Fiction, Carolyn Ellen Hogan
Some Chance to Distinguish Ourselves: Junior Officers and the Mexican War, Brady Lamar Holley
The Development of Next Generation Architectures for -N-Heterocyclic Carbene Pincer Ligands, Tyler Owen Howell
Trauma as Evangelical Anti-Abortion Strategy: A Qualitative Study of Post Abortion Groups and the Personhood Amendment in Mississippi, Jonelle Henry Husain
Guardians of Historical Knowledge: Textbook Politics, Conservative Activism, and School Reform in Mississippi, 1928-1982, Kevin Boland Johnson
An Investigation of Geochemical Evidence for Three Paleo-Environments, John Paul Jones
Influence of Coastal Processes on Speleogenesis and Landforms in the Caribbean Region, Patricia Kambesis
Picture Superiority Effect and its Detrimental Effect in Memory Updating with Road Signs, Eumji Kang
Biomass to Biofuel: Catalysis, Monitoring, and Utilization of Biochar, Bidhya Kunwar
Bahamian Quaternary Geology and the Global Carbon Budget, Erik Bond Larson
Predicting Flank Margin Cave Collapse in the Bahamas, Orry Patrick Lawrence
Petroleum Releases from Underground Storage Tanks in Northwest Indiana: Successful Remediation Techniques and Implications of Cost Effectiveness, Richard Jason Lenz
The Renaissance of Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, Vu Hoang Le
Thermodynamic Characterization of Linker Histone Binding Interactions with ds-DNA, Venkata Ramana Machha
Defining Environmental Characteristics of Sea Breezes along the U.S. Gulf Coast, Janice Maldonado Jaime
Geologic Controls of Sand Boil Formation at Buck Chute, Mississippi, Seth M. Martin
Got Shame?, Scott Alden Mathers
Meaning of Justice for Mississippians with Regard to Health Care Pricing, Di Miao
Interactions of Organothiols with Gold Nanoparticles in Water, Mohamed Siyam Mohamed Ansar
Safe Spaces, Rachel Brianne Mordecki
Assemblage, Jessica S. Moseley
Investigations of Macro and Micro Scale Void Spaces: Preservation, Modeling and Biofilm Interactions, Athena Marie Owen Nagel
An Investigation into the Impacts of Land-Use/Land-Cover on Cloud-To-Ground Lightning Activity, Nathan Oneal Owen
Corporal Punishment: Associations with Alcohol Use and Abuse in Emerging Adults, Mary Ward Pollard
Proton-Proton Scattering in Lattice Effective Field Theory, Pranaam Ravi
Insights on Protein Structure and Dynamics from Temperature-Dependent Molecular Dynamics and Normal Mode Analysis, Habib Ur Rehman
Studies in Acceptor-Acceptor-Donor Cyclopropanes, Yahaira De Bary Reyes
Speleothem Strontium Concentrations in Eogenetic Carbonates, Nicole Marie Ridlen
Action Control and the Relationship between Anhedonia, Anxiety, and Unconscious Inhibition of Positive Information, Taban Salem
Parental and Offspring Psychopathology: Can Parents with Problems be Effective?, Courtney P. Sparks
Using Teleconnection Indices to Predict Tornado Outbreak Frequency in the Us, Kent Harris Sparrow
Quantification and Analysis of Mortuary Practices at Morton Shell Mound (16IB3), Iberia Parish, Louisiana, Jessica Caroline Stanton
The Crucifixion of Marriage Equality: Analyses of Protestant Christian Subcultures, Ethan C. Stokes
The Influences of Geologic Depositional Environments on Sand Boil Development, Tara Wildlife Lodge Area in Mississippi, Ryan Charles Strange
An Examination of the Predictors of General Recidivism, Violent Recidivism, and Property Recidivism among Juvenile Offenders, Megan Suzanne Stubbs-Richardson
A Climatology of Prescribed Burn Day Criteria for the Southeastern US, Brandon Harold Sylvester
A Multi-Decadal Remote Sensing Study on Glacial Change in the North Patagonia Ice Field Chile, Lucy Korlekwor Tetteh
The Social and Political Resiliency of Communities and Implications for Disaster Policy: A Case Study of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Tonya Thornton-Neaves
Evaluation and Quantification of Modern Karst Features as Proxies for Paleokarst Reservoirs, Ryan Travis
Synthesis, Characterization, and Photophysical Properties of Scs Bis(N-Heterocyclic Thione) (Nht) Pd and Pt Complexes, Virginia E. Tyson
Detecting Heat Waves: Comparison of Various Heat Wave Definitions with Excess Mortality, Lance Elliott Watkins
An Assessment of Weather-Related Risk Associated with Early Corn Planting in Mississippi, Teri Lynnette Watkins
Associative Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria and their Potential to Support the Growth of Bioenergy Grasses on Marginal Lands, Jayani Jeewanthi Wewalwela
Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Bio-Fuels, Hevagamage Rangana Thilan Wijayapala
Electrochemical Studies of Hexahapto-Dibenzo[A,E]Cyclooctatetraene Complexes of Chromiumtricarbonyl and Cationic Manganesetricarbonyl, Jarquees Williams
Investigation of the Beneficial Effect of Enterobacter Cloacae Strain JD6301 on Mice Challenged with Escherichia Coli O157:H7, Jessica Grissett Wilson
Synthesis of Bio-Based Polymers Containing D-Isosorbide by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization, Chinni Yalamanchili
Assessing NMR-based Studies of Denatured Proteins using Non-random Structural Ensembles, Yue Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: Osteological Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains from the Bluff Creek Site 1LU59, Roger Taft Alford
Identification of Acid Volatile Sulfides as a Predictor of Sediment Oxygen Demand and Comparison of the Degree of Pyritization between Weeks Bay, AL and Old Tampa Bay, FL, Erin Leigh Anderson
Possible Causes of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor and its Association with Male Infertility, Wael Ahmed Badran
Student and Instructor Perceptions of the Use of Online Translators in English Composition, Caroline L. Baker
Inbreeding and Heterozygosity-Fitness Correlations in a Small, Isolated Population of Turks and Caicos Rock Iguanas, Cyclura Carinata, Jamen W. Berk
The Mechanism by Which Oximes Reactivate Cholinesterases Inhibited by Organophosphates, Manikanthan Hari Naga Venkata Bhavaraju
On the Automorphism Groups of Almost All Circulant Graphs and Digraphs, Soumya Bhoumik
Parenting and Disruptive Behavior: The Role of Parental Involvement, Jessica Louise Billups
Errors in Judgment: Investigating the Ultimate Attribution Error in Perceptions of Interracial Relationship Outcomes, Abigail D. Blaney
The British and German Presses in the Age of Empire, Kathryn R. Bruton
Investigation of Parent Source Material in Smith County, Mississippi, Kayla Jean Calhoun
Evaluation of the Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Hurricanes on Wildfires in Southeast Louisiana, Richard Carley
A Morphological and Genetic Study of Taxonomy and Evolutionary Divergence in Xanthisma Gracile and Xanthisma Spinulosum, Lavanya Challagundla
Do Social Norms or Self-Interest Rule? Comparing the Power of Social Norms and Targets of Prejudice on Symbolic Prejudice in a Group Discussion, William Thomas Cockrell
The Effect of Molecular Crowding on the Stability of Human c-MYC Promoter Sequence i-motif at Neutral pH, Jingjing Cui
A Wind Resource Assessment of the Mississippi Delta, Jessica Dealy
Assessment of Reservoir Quality and Potential Impact of Sequestered Carbon Dioxide in Diverse Lithological Reservoir Units, South Central, Mississippi, USA, Assonman D. Degny
Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Activity of Silica Supported Bimetallic Copper Catalysts for Organic Oxidation Reactions and the Study of Benzylation of Triketones, Nuwan Dileepa De Silva
Social Network Influence on Dependence Within Romantic Relationships, Chelsea Nicole Ellithorpe
The Importance of Choice: Natural Birth and Midwifery in Northeast Mississippi, Colleen Elmer
The Effects of Proposed Changes to Alcohol Use Disorder in DSM-5, Taylor English
Investigation of the Variability of Extreme Tornado Climatology, Tory Farney
States and Federal Environmental Policy: A Hierarchical Linear Model of CAA And CWA Implementation, Nicholas Luke Fowler
A Voice Raised from the Dirt, Lisa Beth Fulgham
Parenting and Emerging Adult Adjustment: The Role of Parental Discipline and Consistency, Courtney Boushe Golding
Salt Marsh Sediment Biogeochemical Response to the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout (Skiff Island, LA, and Cat Island, Marsh Point and Saltpan Island, MS), Calista Lee Guthrie
