Theses and dissertations produced by graduate students affiliated with Mississippi State University's College of Arts and Sciences.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Making milking modern: agriculture science and the American dairy, 1890-1940, Micah Aaron Rueber
Beyond bigger and better: Gilbert White and America's new approach to floodplain management, Brian Edward Rumsey
Climatological variables associated with increased mortality rates for diseases predominant during the cold season, Ashley Johanna Sedorovich
A Baseline Water Resource Assessment for a Proposed Lignite Mine Kemper/Lauderdale Counties, Mississippi, Cale Bradley Sellers
Political Ideology And Ideological (Re)Alignment 1972-2006, Derrick Ryan Shapley
Gender and typology in John Milton's Paradise lost and Lucy Hutchinson's Order and disorder, Lauren Beth Shook
Sunny Lane, Misty Ann Smith
Therapist-aided self-help early intervention program for severe weather fears and phobias, Andrea Stripling
Studies of the upconversion of light by Ru(II) complexes as photosensitizers with anthracene derivatives as emitters, Kullatat Suwatpipat
Quantum Electron Transport through Non-traditional Networks: Transmission Calculations using a Renormalization Group Method, Chris Varghese
Paul Auster's rhizomatic fictions, Gary Matthew Varner
Occurrence and Transformation of Pharmaceutical and Antibacterial Compounds in the Environment, Kusum Santosh Verma
Role of organic matter in formation of stromatolites and micritic ooids from Channing Lake Basin:Rita Blanca Formation; Panhandle, Texas, Brittany Leigh Weeks
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
On the Erdos-Sos conjecture and the Cayley Isomorphism Problem, Suman Balasubramanian
Inequality And Body Mass In Young Adulthood: Sex And Age Differences In Associated Effects, Jamie Lynn Boydstun
Health Care Benefits for State Workers: What Drives the Differences?, Bonnie L. Carew
Climatic variability at Modoc Rock Shelter (Illinois) and Watson Brake (Louisiana): biometric and isotopic evidence from archaeological freshwater mussel shell, Sarah Mistak Caughron
A computational investigation of some polycalicenes as novel nonbenzenoid aromatic molecules and the strange case of the cyclopropenyl anion, Willard Collier
Use of high resolution microscopy (FESEM and TEM) to investigate carbonate precipitates in association with organic matter from hot spring, salt pond, and reef environments, Margaret Elizabeth Corley
Porosity development in Pennsylvanian core from Table Mesa and Rattlesnake Fields, northwestern New Mexico, Jonathan David Culpepper
Optimization of the production of the lantibiotics mutacin 1140 in modified M9 media, Neeti Dahal
Deep water, open water, Kelly L. Daniels
Of all that is seen and unseen, Jordan Adelle Doherty
Mobility and population change in Northeast Mississippi: an object-based seriation of projectile points as a relative paleodemographic indicator, Jason L. Edmonds
Changes In Chinese Policy Toward North Korean Refugees Over The Last Two Decades, Shinhea Eom
An investigation of cumulative precipitation trends prior to Mississippi early season wildfires, Heather Sophia Eschete
Laser Induced Incandescence and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy based Sensor Development, Kemal Efe Eseller
CHO-human hybrid cells as models for human chromosome non-disjunction, Elizabeth Balconi Evans
Walking on the wild side: an examination of a long-distance hiking subculture, Kristi McLeod Fondren
Neuropsychological complaints associated with the non-medical use of prescription psychostimulants, Rachel Elizabeth Ford
The future of energy in Mississippi: policy and politics, Nicholas Luke Fowler
Mathematical Analysis Of The Effect Of Biofilm Upon Porosity And Permeability In Oil-Bearing Sandstone Of The Eutaw Formation In Jasper County, Mississippi, William Keith Funderburk
Nocturnal inversions over the Central Plains of the United States (1960-2009), Karen Marie Galvin
Swinburne and Catholicism: unifying the flesh and the spirit, James Daniel Gillespie
Impacts of city size and vegetation coverage on the Urban Heat Island using Landsat satellite imagery, Gary Daniel Goggins
Gender-motivated bias crimes: examining why situational variables are important in the labeling of hate crimes, Jordan Thore Hertl
Juror perceptions of a woman who killed her abusive husband:effects of wife's psychological diagnosis, husband's history of alcoholism, and documentation of domestic violence, Amanda Spicer Hester
Growing Ethanol: An Analysis of Policy Instrument Selection in the Fifty American States, Erin J. Holmes
Changing currents: interpreting the promise of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Nathan Horn
The Spatial Distribution Of Cn Radicals In The Coma Of Comet Encke, Chandrasiri Albert Ihalawela
Has the education and health relationship changed over time?a panel analysis of age, period, and cohort effects, Wesley Lynn James
Are two heads better than one? The effects of teamwork on criminal profile accuracy, Barbara Kathleen Kaderabek
Relationship between vegetation boundaries and severe local storms in the Delta region of Mississippi, David Paul Keeney
Self-Regulation And Rejection: Effects On Obsessive Relational Intrusion, Roshni Trehan Ladny
Ethnicity and academic achievement by Malaysian eighth grade students, Hui Peng Liew
Analysis of regulatory T cell activation markers in feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV)-infected and control placenta samples from early and late term pregnancy, Nikki Nikkia Lockett
Across the Deep South:a linked story collection, James Maroney
Stable carbon isotope and niche breadth analysis of animal bone from Pocahontas Mounds (22HI500) and Lyon's Bluff, Robert Linder McCain
Intercategory and interbasin comparison of storm surge height, Ashley Nicole McDonald
Maternal Attributions for ADHD: Predicting Treatment Choices, Treatment Acceptability, and Treatment Satisfaction, Lindsey Leigh McKay
Bile-induced damage in Listeria monocytogenes, Megan Elisa Merritt
Spatial Dispersion of the Fungus Aspergillus Flavus in Corn Ears: A Spatial Analysis of Ubiquitin Mrna, Leif Saxon Mylroie
Innovative Separation Methods, Patrisha Julian Pham
Biogeochemistry Of Microbial Mats From A Hypersaline Pond And Reef Biofilm From A Modern Coral Reef, The Bahamas, Mary Keith Puckett
The Virgin of Guadalupe Comes to Mississippi: Social Stressors and Ways of Coping Among Hispanic Im/Migrants, Mary Rebecca Read
A Deep South suburb: the republican emergence in the suburbs of Birmingham Alabama, Benjamin W. Robbins
Displacing race: white resistance and conservative politics in the civil rights era, Stephanie Renee Rolph
The Ecology of Cactoblastis Cactorum (Berg) (Lepidoptera:pyralidae) in Florida, Kristen Erica Sauby
"A PBS mind in an MTV world": teaching teenagers meteorology by placing a weather forecast on MTV and the creation of the concert forecast, Victoria Leigh Shaw
One body and one spirit: Presbyterians, interdenominationalism, and the American Revolution, William Harrison Taylor
Solvent methods in coupled-cluster theory, Kanchana Sahan Thanthiriwatte
Efforts toward understanding dietary components and the reproductive behaviors and limitations of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), Erin Donivan Trueblood
The Ghosts of Guilt and Betrayal, Leslie Abigail Voller
Racial Exemplars And Their Effects On The Race-Implicit Association Test, Ashley Ann Walker
Juror Perceptions in a Rape Trial: Influence of Complainant Substance Use and Juror Education about Consent Laws and Rape Myths, Anna Catherine Warren
Blood knot, William Nicholas White
Predictors of paternal commitment and paternal involvement among low-income African American fathers, Deadric Treandis Williams
Analysis of extratropical transition of cyclones in the north Atlantic Ocean using geostationary satellite imagery, Amy Rebecca Wood
Balancing Opinions: The Effects on an Individual's Romantic Relationship When Third Parties' Opinions Collide, Brittany Lauren Wright
Infinite semipositone systems, Jinglong Ye
Long-term trend analysis of climatic factors influencing autumn-winter migration of mallards in the Mississippi flyway, Christina Elizabeth Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
An Examination Of Adult Age Differences In Implicit And Explicit Memory For Prescription Drug Advertisements, L Ty Abernathy
Music despite everything, Leslie Elizabeth Adams
Categorization of soil suitability to crop switchgrass at Mississippi, US using geographic information system, multicriteria analysis and sensitivity analysis, Eduardo Fernando Arias
Synoptic conditions necessary for convective extreme precipitation training events, Ryan Patrick Aylward
Elemental analysis of Marksville-style prehistoric ceramics from Mississippi and Alabama, Keith A. Baca
The selection for sedentary settlement patterns in east-central Mississippi, Weston Everett Baconchulte
Guest Intercalation Into Metal Halide Inorganic-Organic Layered Perovskite Hybrid Solids And Hydrothermal Synthesis Of Tin Oxide Spheres, Nilantha Bandara
A 17-year assesment of changes in biomass in the south of Chile, using Landsat satellite images, Fredy A. Bernales
Terminal-occupation community patterns at Lyon's Bluff (22OK520) in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi:sedimentological, molluscan, artifactual, and geophysical evidence, S Marshall Bierly
NMR Structure Calculation of the Halophilic Binary hvDHFR1:folate Complex, Arezue Fatemeh Bekrai Boroujerdi
Effects of offender/victim alcohol consumption and type of rape on mock juror decisions, Megan Glenn Brown
Derivitives of petroleum hydrocarbons upon reaction with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in a laboratory environment, Nancy Rebecca Buell
An investigation of the relationship between class I railroad employment and TEU traffic at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, California: 1997-2006, James Augustus Burt
Assessing impact of instruction treatments on positive test selection in hypothesis testing, Daniel Wade Carruth
On A Slow Boat To Democracy: The Democratization Of Hong Kong And The Factors Hindering It, James Clapper
Aggressive responses to provocation in a relationship context, Kellie Nichole Clark
John Calvin: an educational innovator or a reflector of society, Jim Llewellyn Codling
Petrography of the Cook-Mccormick core, Eutaw Formation, Heidelberg field Mississippi and relationship to Microbial Permeability Profile Modification, Krystal Marie Collins
Two particle studies: 1) a microscopic evaluation of "clay mimics" + their intercalates, and 2) synthesis and characterization of metal halides with ammonium cations, Christina Elizabeth Costinogan
The impact of an auditory task on visual processing:implications for cellular phone usage while driving, Ginger Wigington Cross
Neuropsychological test scores as an indicator of cluster B personality disorder characteristics, Ronald H. Dallas
Educational video impact on preservice teacher knowledge, opinions, and referral attitudes regarding Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Brandon Shane Davis
Reading Nature, Reading Eve: Reading Human Nature in John Milton's Paradise Lost, Maria Lynn Dunser
Energy expenditure and mortuary practices at Lyon's Bluff, 22OK520: an evolutionary approach, Lorien Stahl Elmore
Beauty standards: negotiations of social life among African American college women, Sheena Kaori Gardner
