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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Research investigation into the Ventura River watershed: Geoliteracy, stormwater, and community activity, Julia A. Domenech
Impairment in adult ADHD: Effects of ADHD symptoms, executive function, and sleep, Morgan M. Dorr
"Swamp Thing: Alligators, Symbolism, and the Meaning of Animals in the American South, Nathan Drake
Adversity and resilience training: Trauma-informed care as a universal community intervention, Lediya Dumessa
Understanding shooting bias using a dual mechanisms of control framework, Jaymes A. Durriseau
Exploring the possibility of free floating features in visual working memory, Conne George
Mississippian Period (1000 – 1700 A.D.) wattle and daub construction in the Yazoo Basin: Comparing energy expenditure using context and construction methods, William David Harris
Greening golf: Grass, agriculture, and Pinehurst in the Sandhills, Matthew Himel
Spatial vulnerability analysis and thematic mapping of urban floods: A case study of 100-year floodplain areas of Birmingham, Alabama, Mohammad Khalid Hossain
Genetic structure of the host plant, Chamaecrista fasciculata, and its microbial partners, Mahboubeh Hosseinalizadeh Nobarinezhad
Glacier change assessment of the Columbia Icefield in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Canada (1985 – 2018), Adjoa Dwamena Intsiful
Pneumococcal resistance to granule-mediated killing by human neutrophils, James Howard Jackson
Comparing development definitions of internally displaced communities and the Government: A study of the Chenchu people in the Nallamala forest of southern India, Malavika Jinka Ramamurthy
Quantifying animal movement: Using a power-law to model the relationship between first passage time and scale, Zoë Johnson
Speckle image denoising methods based on total variation and non-local means, Chartese Jones
Longitudinal examination of behavioral markers of positive valence systems and anhedonia, Duncan Jordan
The Big Sandy problem: Projectile morphometrics and cultural transmission at the end of the Younger Dryas in the mid-south, William Joseph
Evolutionary patterns of Amoebozoa revealed by gene content and phylogenomics, Seungho Kang
Computational chemistry investigation of gas-phase structures, infrared spectroscopy, and dissociation pathways of isomeric molecules, Widana Kaushalya
Inheritance, Sam Kealhofer
Interpreting time-resolved spectra and excited state reactivity with computational methods, Robert Lamb
Surface and satellite perspectives on precipitation variability across San Salvador Island, Bahamas, Christana Landress
Meat on the hoof: A zooarchaeological and isotopic investigation of herd management at Khirbet Summeily in the Iron Age, Kara Marie Larson
Nonoscillatory second-order procedures for partial differential equations of nonsmooth data, Philku Lee
Genome editing in kenaf: Initial studies and target gene characterization, Kangqi Li
Modified adsorbents from waste materials for water remediation, Medagama Liyanage Achala Sandamali Liyanage
Thou shall not steal: Assessing demographic and neighborhood predictors of shoplifting through the lens of social disorganization theory, Christina Loftin
Color inconsistencies across hazardous weather watches and warnings: Can standardized visual representation of risk improve public safety?, Caroline Nicole MacDonald
Biophysical characterization of traditional and nontraditional equilibria in metal-biomolecular interactions, Kayla Diane McConnell
The Madden-Julian Oscillation and its relation to tornado outbreaks in the central and eastern United States, Andrew McCormick
A genetic assessment of the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme’s success, and prognosis for the species’ future conservation, Mallory McKinney
Taphonomy of a Late Cretaceous mosasaur specimen from Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Joseph Moffitt
Evaluating the unequal impacts of Hurricane Harvey: A critical GIS analysis in systems of governmental risk assessment and mitigation, Mustafa Ansari Monk
Synthesis and Characterization of Thermally Stable Fully Bio-based Poly(ester amide)s from Sustainable Feedstock, Nuwayo Eric Munyaneza
Latino suicide: Does religious contextual influence vary between Latino men and Latino women?, Sierra L. Nelson
The Rwandan genocide in writing and visuality: memory, violence representations and the Anthropocene., Theophilus Okunlola
The mother-infant dyad: reconstructing maternal nutritional status at Put Dragulina cemetery, Julianne Marie Paige
“No one ever forced them to”: law enforcement perceptions of and experiences with human sex trafficking, Chloe Parker
Biophysical characterization of protein-nanoparticle interactions, Yasiru Randika Perera
Working memory capacity and fluid intelligence: A potential role of analogical transfer, Megan Raden
Phosphate reclamation from water using Douglas fir biochar Fe/Mg-LDH Composites, Sharifur Rahman
Measuring bivariate asymmetry and testing bivariate symmetry, Sheida Riahi
Test-wiseness and background knowledge: Their relative contributions to high test performance, Daniel Bennett Roberson
Dreams: The Emissary of Characterization, Ross Alan Rodgers
Trans men and the criminal justice system: An exploratory analysis examining intersectional experiences, Sarah Rogers
Perspectives on Shame among Palestinian Women, Andrea Sakleh
Exporting Reconstruction: Civilization, citizenship, and republicanism during the Grant Administration, 1869-1877, Ryan Patrick Semmes
Study of 34mCl beam production at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Olalekan Abdulqudus Shehu
A goodness-ofit test for semi-parametric copula models for bivariate censored data, Jimin Shin
On existence and global attractivity of periodic solutions of higher order nonlinear difference equations, Justin B. Smith
The past, present, and future of ecological climate warming experiments, Cori Johanna Speights
Parenting practices and parental religiosity: The context of region and conservatism, Melanie Stearns
Periodic table of ordinary and supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models, Fadi Sun
Controlling Christmas: an environmental history of natural and artificial trees, Aaron Thomas
Gopher tortoises in the Anthropocene: investigating the effects of fire, temperature, and competition on an ecosystem engineer, Weston Curtis Thompson
A molecular and bioinformatic investigation into the phylogenetic relationships and life cycles of amoeboid protists, Alexander K. Tice
Household food insecurity and its determinants in the United States, Sweta Tiwari
American media depiction of terrorism in the U.S after September 11 Attacks, Maria Thuy Trinh
Uranium solubility in high temperature, reduced systems, Noah van Hartesveldt
A study on biogeography and floral trait evolution in Platanthera subgenus Limnorchis (Orchie) using phylogenomic approaches, W I W H M Eranga Hansanee Wettewa
The relationship of attention to comprehension and metacomprehension processes, Aaron Y. Wong
Polarized resonance synchronous spectroscopy for characterization of materials’ optical properties, Xiu Zhu Xu
Near field phenomena in dipole radiation, Zhangjin Xu
Explaining individual and contextual-level determinants of social tolerance and the emotional burden of social intolerance, Ismail Hakki Yigit
Investigating the presence of stellar companions around hot Jupiter host stars using MagAO., Farzaneh Zohrabi
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Stratigraphic Characterization of the Pleistocene Paleodrainage Network in the Western Mississippi Sound, Daniel Adcock
Mississippi Mosquito Blood Meals and Haemosporidians, Jessica Aycock
Human behavioral response to the Younger Dryas in North Alabama: An analysis of the Richard L. Kilborn collection, Robert A. Barlow
Strategy, Implementation, and State-Building Why Governance Failed after the Post-2011 Drawdown of US Forces From Iraq?, Charles Allen Baxter
Run from Cover, Vanessa Wells Beeson
The binding modes of diminazene aceturate with c-MYC G-quadruplexes, Jerrano Bowleg
Revising Women's Agency in a Curtain of Green, Caroline Rebecca Brandon
The Effects of Heteroatoms on Energy Gaps of Conjugated Polymers, Hao Chang
Inferences on the power-law process with applications to repairable systems, Jularat Chumnaul
Drivers of Genomic Divergence during Speciation in Heliconius Butterflies, Jared Cole
Is endorsement of fear of happiness associated with behavioral aversion to reward?, Amanda Collins
Reclaiming feminism in the Shakespearean films of Julia Stiles, Sara Ann Creel
Municipal and agricultural wastewater remediation using modified biochars, Glenn Crisler II
Aziridinations in aqueous solutions using DNA templating; Towards sustainable asymmetric catalysis, Sydnee Elmore
How the Dogface got its color: How genetics and the environment influence color variation within and between species in the Zerene butterfly, Jennifer Fenner
Remote sensing of colored dissolved organic matter using unmanned aerial systems and assessment of the influence of dissolved organic matter on the oyster reefs in the western Mississippi sound, Sudeera Wickramarathna Galapita Pallayapelage
Assessment of new catalysts for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, Ekta Goel
Prediction enhancement through machine learning of North Atlantic tropical cyclone rapid intensification: Diagnostics, model development, and independent verification, Alexandria Grimes
Native to the Soil: Twentieth-Century Agrarian Thought in the Upland South, Alan Harrelson
Illusionary success: modern failures in child welfare, Courtney Harris
The silent epidemic: Disparities and obstacles in obtaining oral care, Heather Hicks
“These Sculptur’d Lines”: An analysis of Protestant burial practices on St. Croix during the Danish Colonial Period (1733-1917), Brittany Higgs
Functional Identity Mediates the Net Effects of Experimental Mass Mortality Events, Mariah Ellen Hodge
How sea surface temperature gradients contribute to tropical cyclone weakening in the eastern north Pacific, Brian Matthew Holliday
Purification and characterization of CopR, a copper(II) dependent transcription factor, Prakash Khanal
Does Grit Protect against the Adverse Effects of Depression?, Jenna Kilgore
