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Theses/Dissertations from 2009
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
A Lithium-ion Test Cell for Characterization of Electrode Materials and Solid Electrolyte Interphase, Ekta Goel
Synthesis and selected reactions of 2-alkenylthiazolines, Hua Guo
Multiple positive solutions for classes of elliptic systems with combined nonlinear effects, Jaffar Ali Shahul Hameed
An Investigation of Tropical Rainfall Downwind of Urban Areas along the United States East Coast, Ashley Marie Hayes
Multi-scale evaluation of mechanisms associated with the establishment of a model invasive species in Mississippi: Imperata Cylindrica, D Christopher Holly
Adolescent offenders with and without incarcerated parents: comparison of traumatic experiences and risk factors, Tiffany Atkins Howell
Understanding health inequality through the study of living arrangements, Tzei Hsu
An optical fiber sensor for the determination of hydrogen peroxide, Xueei Hu
Molecular Dynamics Simulations Of Metals, Bohumir Jelinek
Does music piracy influence purchase intention :adapting Ajzen's theory of planned behavior model, Jeremy Jinkerson
Extending Long Term Working Memory Theory to Dynamic Domains: The Nature of Retrieval Structures in Situation Awareness, Mark T. Jodlowski
The Good Villain, David Michael Johnson
The effects of crime drama viewing on psychological profile accuracy for a sexual homicide offender, Terri Leigh Kilgore
Assessing Parent-Child Agreement On An Eating Disorder Symptom Questionnaire, Lindsay Reece Klyce
Increased incidence of risky sexual behavior in college students with a history of familial incarceration, Lacey Loy Leachman
Microfluidic Analysis of Free Amino Acids from Different Fish Species, Chamindu Liyanapatirana
Integrated optical fiber laser Raman sensor for cryogenic application, Appolinaire Tifang Luanje
Developmental Evolution Of Genetic Regulation And Signaling Of The Dorsoventral Axis Of Protostomes And Deuterostomes, Tammy Lynne Malachowski
The Spatial Distribution of Industrial Production and Toxic Releases in the United States, Todd Lee Matthews
Examination of the shared variance of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory - Revised and the Boredom Proneness Scale, Amanda Jane Millsaps
The theoretical application of the dichotomy-duality model to the county government budget process, Steve W. Modlin
Creature comfort: anthropomorphism, sexuality and revitalization in the furry fandom, Matt Morgan
Do community factors influence suicide?an application of strucutral pluralism theory on suicide cases, Rosa Giovanna Nigro
Tutoring instrument flight: patterns of instructor and student communication, Adnan Okdeh
Evaluating Citizen Adoption and Satisfaction of E-government in Mississippi, Craig Paul Orgeron
Headspace solid-phase microextraction of analytes important to biofuels, Maria Cristina Paraschivescu
Electrophoretic And Static Light Scattering Measurements For Equine Serum Albumin, Sapna Bharat Patel
Investigations of the roles of G protein-coupled receptors and receptor tyrosine kinases in metabolic syndrome and cancer, Lakshmi Rajan Pillai
The spatial demography of reported crime: an examination of urban-rural crime articulation and associated spatio-temporal diffusion processes, U.S. 1990 - 2000, Jeremy Reed Porter
Educational Video Impact On College Student Knowledge, Opinions, And Referral Attitudes Regarding Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Nichol Frances Pritchard
Living Without: Stories of Vandler County as told by James Madison Redd, James Madison Redd
Marital Instability In East Asian Societies: A Comparative Study Of China, Taiwan, And South Korea, Susan Lynne Rich
Lessons for a major university: post-Katrina service utilization, needs, and psychological distress in university students, Jessica H. Robbins
Long-Term Trophic Shifts Among Fishes After Extensive Modification Of A Southeastern U.S. River System, Matthew E. Roberts
Review of diagnostic methods in the most cited articles for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, Rebecca Chapman Roberts
Functional Analysis of a ModC Homolog in the Azotobacter Vinelandii Nif-Gene Cluster, Sangeetha Shivaji
Social Capital Determinants Of Environmentalism In Spatial Context, Kim Marie Steil
Mississippi counties' unreserved fund balance: what factors influence change?, La Shonda M. Stewart
Skin picking in a college population :characteristics and comorbidity, Emily Sims Stookey
An Analysis into Relationships that may Exist between Population and the Reported Number of Tornadoes in the Continental United States, Adam Bundick Thomas
An assessment of suspended sediment in Weeks Bay Reserve, Baldwin County, Alabama, using geospatial modeling and field sampling methods, Jamie Cindi Thomason
Christopher Marlowe's Ovid's Elegies and the poetics of subjectivity, Joshua Thompson
Artificial neural networks to detect forest fire prone areas in the southeast fire district of Mississippi, Mohan P. Tiruveedhula
A study of the chronological placement of selected Mississippian-period occupations within the Ackerman unit of the Tombigbee National Forest, Andrew Mickens Triplett
Nmr Backbone Chemical Shift Assignments Of The Hvdhfr1:Nadph Binary Complex, Karthikeshwar Vangala
The Role of Discrimination and Retention Interval on Retrieval Blocking in an Eyewitness Memory Paradigm, Heather Michelle Wolf
The role of implication in eyewitness memory, Jessica Dilan Wood
Synthesis and reactions of cyclic ketene-N,N-acetals, Guozhong Ye
Criminal profile accuracy following training in inductive and deductive approaches, Katherine Chandler Yonge
Part I. Natural Fiber / Thermoplastic Composites: Part II. Studies of Organo-Clay Synthesis and Clay Intercalation by Epoxy Resins, Yongcheng Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
An examination of thermodynamic and sheared environments associated with cool-season tornadoes in the southeastern United States, Todd Andrew Beal
Molecular Processing of Replication Intermediates in Escherichia Coli after DNA Damage, Jerilyn Jalana Belle
Asperger's syndrome and metamemory:how well can one child predict his knowledge of the world around him?, Jacqueline Brooks Bell
Development of fuel and valueded chemicals from pyrolysis of wood/waste plastic mixture, Priyanka Bhattacharya
Nmr Structure and Relaxation Studies of Dhfr from Haloferax Volcanii at High Salt, Bulent Binbuga
