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 2023
The cost of voting categorized: A comprehensive review, Landon Brady
Relationships between heat alerts, extreme heat days, and heat related mortality within the contiguous United States over the last decade, Maggye Jo Brand
Changes in paleobiodiversity across the K-Pg boundary in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Joshua Broussard
Host-acquired virus genes support an ancient antiviral role of the piRNA pathway in dipterans, Rebecca Christian
Self-referential processing and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Amanda Collins
We built this country for free – using a phenomenological approach for (re) imagining Mississippi Black small-scale farmers, Destiny Denise Crockett
Protecting the vulnerable: Tornado sheltering and communication of public shelters with a case study from the COVID-19 pandemic, Craig Douglas Croskery
“I tell it like it is, then how it could be”: Public discourse and public administration in popular American music since the 1990s, Kristen Dechert
An investigation into transcription fidelity and its effects on C. elegans and S. cerevisiae health and longevity, Olivia S. Dinep-Schneider
Race, gender, and inheritance: The experience of Black farmers in Mississippi, Gbenga Idowu Elufisan
Mortality, survivorship, and institutionalization: demographic analysis of the Mississippi State Asylum in context, Taylor A. Emery
Evaluating the immunogenicity of colonization proteins of S. pneumoniae for identification of vaccine candidates, Isidora Fereday
Employee job satisfaction of public sector professionals: The roles of public safety work and public service motivation, Victor Flomo
Automated mapping of oblique imagery collected with unmanned vehicles in coastal and marine environments, Jacob B. Freeman
Radiative alpha capture on carbon-12, Ling Gan
The influence of marsh edge and seagrass habitat on summer fish and macroinvertebrate recruitment to a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal system, Rebecca Lea Gilpin
Object itineraries of metal artifacts from the Stark Farm Site Complex (22OK778), Madeleine Marie Hale
Evaluating the relationship between methane seeps and seafloor geomorphology on the northern US Atlantic margin, Gabriel Hernandez
Geospatial integrated urban flood mapping and vulnerability assessment, MD Tazmul Islam and
Examining food insecurity among Mississippi community college students, Laura Jean Kerr
Evaluation of occidiofungin activity on yeast-hyphae morphogenesis and biofilm formation by Candida species, Rabina Kumpakha
Role of fungal ARV-1 protein in sterol metabolism and pathogenicity of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica, Soumyadip Kundu
Oxidation resistance of an atomically flat Cu(111) surface: A first-principles study, Bipin Lamichhane
Anxiety, depression, and fear of dependency in middle and older adults, Darby D. Mackenstadt
Compromised health: Examining growth and health in a Late Antique Roman infant and child cemetery, Sierra Malis
Morphological and structural characterization of shortening landforms on Mars, Leta McCullough
Is a test the best?, Giulia Ronnette McDonald
Using Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) information to estimate convective turbulence, Elizabeth Rose Moore
The definition of a Black man: the entanglement of race, sexuality, and space, Michael Moore
Variational and adaptive non-local image denoising using edge detection and k − means clustering, Shiraz Mujahid
The effects of impulsivity on psychological problems in emerging adults: Moderation by parental discipline and gender, Richard K. Nelson Jr.
Characterization of isomeric states in neutron-rich nuclei approaching N = 28, Timilehin Hezekiah Ogunbeku
Verification of the localized aviation MOS program (LAMP) at major US airports for IFR conditions, Mackenzie O'Rourke
Transition metal-catalyzed functionalization of carbon-hydrogen bonds in alkenes, Xiaolin Qian
Design and synthesis of donor-acceptor-donor xanthene-based near infrared I and shortwave infrared (SWIR) dyes for biological imaging, Chathuranga Rathnamalala
The Silent Grave: A geophysical investigation of the Brush Arbor Cemetery in Starkville, Mississippi, Kathryn Cassidy Jean Rayburn
Limits of tectonic reactivation on Mars using Earth analogue analysis and numerical modeling, Jonathan Rich
Investigating the role of plant traits and interactions in emergent wetland nutrient removal, Andrew Ryan Sample
Advancements in time resolved spectroscopy and nonlinear microscopy, Bryan Semon
Analysis of weather-related flight delays at 13 United States airports from 2004-2019 using a time series and support vector regression, Caroline E. Sleeper
Tornado outbreak false alarm probabilistic forecasts with machine learning, Kirsten Reed Snodgrass
Comet nuclei activity simulation using percolation theory on comet 67P/Churyumov– Gerasimenko, Ahmad Sohani
Pairing and rotation-induced nuclear exotica in covariant density functional theory, Saja Teeti
Probing the biophysical interactions between autolysin proteins and polystyrene surfaces, Radha Paramee Wadduwage
Quantifying seasonal and annual precipitation variability on San Salvador Island, Bahamas using surface observations and satellite estimates., John Bryson Wells
Quantum computers for nuclear physics, Muhammad F. Yusf
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The chemistry and catalytic activity of dehydrogenative silylation and hydroboration of complexes bearing semirigid ligands with group 14 elements, Niroshani S. Abeynayake
The nexus among disasters, social vulnerability, subsidiarity assistance, and government finance in the U.S., Aisha Sarah Ahmadu
A multi-method exploration of health disparities and COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the United States, S M Asger Ali
Polyaniline-derivatives based on poly (heterocyclic diphenylamine) with improved electrochemical stability and processability, Mohammed Noifa Almtiri
Time to set aside 19th century tools and move to the future: Testing the Portable Osteometric Device against the osteometric board., Eric H. Anderson
Procedures for genetic modification of Miscanthus x giganteus, a biomass crop, Anjali Arpan
Phosphorus enriched modified-Douglas fir biochar as a soil amendment, Beatrice Arwenyo
An investigation of geostationary satellite imagery to compare developing and non-developing African easterly waves, Jenna Bartlett
Towards a model of support: Redefining the focus of early parenting, Keancelar E. Birge
Interpolating and dominating sequences, Ethan Black
Structural and biological analysis of faults in basalts in Sheepshead Mountains, Oregon as an Earth analogue to Mars, Allison Bohanon
Mitigating the shrink-swell capacities of the Yazoo Clay through application of lime and biochar, Austin Alan Brister
Cause for alarm: Punk rock, politics, race, and the problem of irony in modern America, Colin Shea Campbell
White savior projects: An examination of the Antitrafficking Social Movement, Jennifer A. Cheek
Department of longing, Anthony Gabriel Coffman
Use of consumer grade small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) for mapping storm damage in forested environments, James Dewey Cox
Testing competing theories to develop a linguistic assessment on online extremist content, Matthew Dean
Assessing the functional impacts of acquired syphilis in industrial England, Cassandra Marie Seda DeGaglia
Molecular basis of viroid RNA-templated transcription, Shachinthaka D. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage
The mathematical foundation of the musical scales and overtones, Michaela DuBose-Schmitt
Contextual creativity: The role of ambiguity in creative cognition, Sarah K. C. Dygert
An investigation of sea-breeze driven convection along the northern Gulf Coast, Caitlin Ford
A novel test of emotion recognition bias using dynamic facial morphing, Michael R. Gallagher
A novel Chebyshev wavelet method for solving fractional-order optimal control problems, Ghodsieh Ghanbari
The Fermilab SpinQuest Experiment: Commissioning and plans toward production, Nuwan Chaminda Gunawardhana Waduge
Analysis of comet rotation through modeling of features in the coma, Ien Harris
Workers of iniquity: Stories, Isaac Huckaby
Immobilization of uranium and iodine by calcium phosphate minerals, Angel L. Jimenez-Arroyo
Effects of mass death on community structure and ecosystem function, Abby Kimpton Jones
Precise measurement of the nuclear dependence of the EMC effect in light nuclei, Abishek Karki and Abishek Karki
Defining viable solar resource locations in the Southeast United States using the satellite-based GLASS product, Jolie Kavanagh
Parent-child relationships and parental distress as moderators between chronic illness and psychological problems in emerging adults., Abigail Kukay
What is distress tolerance? A mixed methods investigation into distress tolerance and its measurement, Alisson Nicole Schultz Lass
Surficial geologic mapping of the Starkville 7.5-Minute United States Geological Survey Quadrangle 33088D-7 in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Jonathan Leard
Losing longleaf: Forestry and conservation in the Southern Coastal Plain, Fraser Livingston
Quantifying numerical weather and surface model sensitivity to land use and land cover changes, Hossein Lotfi
School violence is more than physical: Examining predictors of school climate using a national school-to-prison pipeline survey, Michayla Mack
The emerging value of the viroid model in understanding plant responses to foreign RNAs, Junfei Ma
Perfectionism, alcohol intoxication, and deliberate self-harm in men and women, Lissa N. Mandell
Borderline personality disorder and suicide risk: The role of emotional vulnerability, parental invalidation, and adverse childhood experiences, Chandler Jayne McDaniel
Step-growth polymerization of perfluoro-vinyl ether, -cycloalkenes, and -acyclic alkenes with bisphenols containing variable polycyclic aromatic cores, Karl Mpumbwa Mukeba
Individual differences in structure learning, Philip Newlin
Rock-fluid interaction and the incorporation of cations into calcite during recrystallization in multiple hydrothermal systems., Van Anh Nguyen
An inventory and analysis of human remains from the Aklis Site (12VAm1-42) curated at Mississippi State University, Kaelyn Olson
Geologic mapping of the Sparta 7.5-minute quadrangle in northern Mississippi via remote sensing, traditional geologic survey, and applied geospatial information systems methods, Rayford Dean Parnell
