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Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for one-dimensional p-Laplacian with nonlinear and intergral boundary conditions, Xiao Wang

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A review of calcineurin biophysics with implications for cardiac physiology, Ryan B. Williams

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Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Urban Properties in Tampa Due to Climate Change, Weiwei Xie

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Some new anomaly detection methods with applications to financial data, Zhicong Zhao

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Occupied: The Civilian Experience in Montélimar, 1939-1945, Cameron Zinsou

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Toward improved characterization of biologically relevant isomeric and isobaric ions on mass spectrometry-based platforms, Baku Acharya

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A host-guest system for determining residue contributions to protein adsorption on nanoparticles by NMR, Md Siddik Alom

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Analysis of positive solutions for singular p-Laplacian problems via fixed point methods, Trad Haza Alotaibi

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Electrolyte interactions with ligand functionalized gold nanoparticles, Sumudu Athukorale

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Pain tolerance as a mediator of aggressive behavior, Nathan Barclay

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Improved recall for information reread on tests provides support for the test question effect, Kevin Barnes

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Metagenomic sequencing, microbiome reconstruction, and analysis of ancient North and Central American dental calculus, Jonathan Belanich

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Genetics of a color polymorphism in Heliconius doris, Caleb Benson

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Development of the Pet-Related Events and Tasks Scale (PETS), Courtney Bolstad

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The assessment of Solanum lycopersicum cv. Micro-Tom tomato fruit antioxidant content and capacity under differing temperatures, irrigation regimes, and light hours, Tineka Burkhead

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Electrochemical characterization of fluoropolymers and aromatic compounds for corrosion protection applications, Eugene B. Caldona

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Assessment of coastal watershed erosion potential using geographic information systems and expert input for decision support, John H. Cartwright

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Integration of virtual learning in college geology education, Youngwoo Cho

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Electrochemical studies of external forcing of periodic oscillating systems and fabrication of coupled microelectrode array sensors, David Clark

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Identifying Specific Difficulties Predicted by Emotion Regulation Strategy Use and Related Facets, Ashley Steverson Coleman

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Students' perceptions of School Resource Officer quality and school safety, William Cooper

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C–N bond formation using copper complexes, James Cope

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Physiological consequences of adverse early-life experiences: A skeletal investigation of frailty and resilience within an institutionalized sample using a modified version of the Skeletal Frailty Index (SFI), Ashley Dafoe

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Nations Imagined Online: A Case Study of the Villoux Server System, Tyler Daniel

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Removal of molybdenum from contaminated water using Douglas fir biochar/iron oxide composites, Naba Krishna Das

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Spatial analysis of a Chesapeake Bay sub-watershed: How land use and precipitation patterns impact water quality in the James River, Kristina Delia

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Developing a new atmospheric dispersion index for the southeastern United States, Brian Anthony DeVeau

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Investigations on mechanisms of survival and pathogenesis of Mycobacterium ulcerans in polymicrobial environments, Laxmi Dhungel

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Evaluating various socio-economic factors and their effect on tornado knowledge in Mississippi and Alabama, Jacob E. Dickey

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Exploring the role of host species and abiotic factors on epiphytic bacterial communities in prickly pear cactus, Taylor Didesch

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Research investigation into the Ventura River watershed: Geoliteracy, stormwater, and community activity, Julia A. Domenech

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Impairment in adult ADHD: Effects of ADHD symptoms, executive function, and sleep, Morgan M. Dorr

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"Swamp Thing: Alligators, Symbolism, and the Meaning of Animals in the American South, Nathan Drake

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Adversity and resilience training: Trauma-informed care as a universal community intervention, Lediya Dumessa

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Understanding shooting bias using a dual mechanisms of control framework, Jaymes A. Durriseau

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Optimization of marsh terracing as a wetland restoration technique: Mitigation of cohesive sediment erosion by waves associated with frontal passage, Joseph French

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Exploring the possibility of free floating features in visual working memory, Conne George

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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

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Super-resolution microscopy development for the detection of nano-structures and confocal study of the structural damage in gut cell nuclei due to total body irradiation, Mehedi Hasan

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Quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance techniques to investigate bacterial metabolites and protein competition kinetics on various nanoparticle surfaces, Rebecca Hill

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Greening golf: Grass, agriculture, and Pinehurst in the Sandhills, Matthew Himel

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Spatial vulnerability analysis and thematic mapping of urban floods: A case study of 100-year floodplain areas of Birmingham, Alabama, Mohammad Khalid Hossain

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Genetic structure of the host plant, Chamaecrista fasciculata, and its microbial partners, Mahboubeh Hosseinalizadeh Nobarinezhad

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Glacier change assessment of the Columbia Icefield in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Canada (1985 – 2018), Adjoa Dwamena Intsiful

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Pneumococcal resistance to granule-mediated killing by human neutrophils, James Howard Jackson

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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

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Quantifying animal movement: Using a power-law to model the relationship between first passage time and scale, Zoë Johnson

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Speckle image denoising methods based on total variation and non-local means, Chartese Jones

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Longitudinal examination of behavioral markers of positive valence systems and anhedonia, Duncan Jordan

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The Big Sandy problem: Projectile morphometrics and cultural transmission at the end of the Younger Dryas in the mid-south, William Joseph

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Evolutionary patterns of Amoebozoa revealed by gene content and phylogenomics, Seungho Kang

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Computational chemistry investigation of gas-phase structures, infrared spectroscopy, and dissociation pathways of isomeric molecules, Widana Kaushalya

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Inheritance, Sam Kealhofer

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Interpreting time-resolved spectra and excited state reactivity with computational methods, Robert Lamb

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Surface and satellite perspectives on precipitation variability across San Salvador Island, Bahamas, Christana Landress

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The mediating effect of gratitude and social support: Exploring the relation between religiosity and psychological well-being in a national sample, Ethan Lantz

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Meat on the hoof: A zooarchaeological and isotopic investigation of herd management at Khirbet Summeily in the Iron Age, Kara Marie Larson

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Nonoscillatory second-order procedures for partial differential equations of nonsmooth data, Philku Lee

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Genome editing in kenaf: Initial studies and target gene characterization, Kangqi Li

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Modified adsorbents from waste materials for water remediation, Medagama Liyanage Achala Sandamali Liyanage

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Thou shall not steal: Assessing demographic and neighborhood predictors of shoplifting through the lens of social disorganization theory, Christina Loftin

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Color inconsistencies across hazardous weather watches and warnings: Can standardized visual representation of risk improve public safety?, Caroline Nicole MacDonald

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Biophysical characterization of traditional and nontraditional equilibria in metal-biomolecular interactions, Kayla Diane McConnell

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The Madden-Julian Oscillation and its relation to tornado outbreaks in the central and eastern United States, Andrew McCormick

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A genetic assessment of the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme’s success, and prognosis for the species’ future conservation, Mallory McKinney

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Taphonomy of a Late Cretaceous mosasaur specimen from Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Joseph Moffitt

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Evaluating the unequal impacts of Hurricane Harvey: A critical GIS analysis in systems of governmental risk assessment and mitigation, Mustafa Ansari Monk

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Synthesis and Characterization of Thermally Stable Fully Bio-based Poly(ester amide)s from Sustainable Feedstock, Nuwayo Eric Munyaneza

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Latino suicide: Does religious contextual influence vary between Latino men and Latino women?, Sierra L. Nelson

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The Rwandan genocide in writing and visuality: memory, violence representations and the Anthropocene., Theophilus Okunlola

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The mother-infant dyad: reconstructing maternal nutritional status at Put Dragulina cemetery, Julianne Marie Paige

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“No one ever forced them to”: law enforcement perceptions of and experiences with human sex trafficking, Chloe Parker

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Biophysical characterization of protein-nanoparticle interactions, Yasiru Randika Perera

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Measuring the effects of veteran employment in government service: a public-private examination of veteran women and minority representation, veteran wage differentials, and explanatory factors, Matthew L. Peterson

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Working memory capacity and fluid intelligence: A potential role of analogical transfer, Megan Raden

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Phosphate reclamation from water using Douglas fir biochar Fe/Mg-LDH Composites, Sharifur Rahman

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Measuring bivariate asymmetry and testing bivariate symmetry, Sheida Riahi

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Test-wiseness and background knowledge: Their relative contributions to high test performance, Daniel Bennett Roberson

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Dreams: The Emissary of Characterization, Ross Alan Rodgers

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Trans men and the criminal justice system: An exploratory analysis examining intersectional experiences, Sarah Rogers

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Perspectives on Shame among Palestinian Women, Andrea Sakleh

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Exporting Reconstruction: Civilization, citizenship, and republicanism during the Grant Administration, 1869-1877, Ryan Patrick Semmes

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Study of 34mCl beam production at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Olalekan Abdulqudus Shehu

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A goodness-ofit test for semi-parametric copula models for bivariate censored data, Jimin Shin

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On existence and global attractivity of periodic solutions of higher order nonlinear difference equations, Justin B. Smith

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The past, present, and future of ecological climate warming experiments, Cori Johanna Speights

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Parenting practices and parental religiosity: The context of region and conservatism, Melanie Stearns

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Periodic table of ordinary and supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models, Fadi Sun

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Synthesis, co-polymerization, and carbonization of Mono-ortho-diynylarene (MODA) and Bis-ortho-diynylarene (BODA) Monomers targeted for Carbon-Carbon Composites, Solomon Tesfaye

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Controlling Christmas: an environmental history of natural and artificial trees, Aaron Thomas

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Gopher tortoises in the Anthropocene: investigating the effects of fire, temperature, and competition on an ecosystem engineer, Weston Curtis Thompson

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A molecular and bioinformatic investigation into the phylogenetic relationships and life cycles of amoeboid protists, Alexander K. Tice

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Household food insecurity and its determinants in the United States, Sweta Tiwari

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American media depiction of terrorism in the U.S after September 11 Attacks, Maria Thuy Trinh

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Uranium solubility in high temperature, reduced systems, Noah van Hartesveldt

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A study on biogeography and floral trait evolution in Platanthera subgenus Limnorchis (Orchie) using phylogenomic approaches, W I W H M Eranga Hansanee Wettewa

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The relationship of attention to comprehension and metacomprehension processes, Aaron Y. Wong

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Polarized resonance synchronous spectroscopy for characterization of materials’ optical properties, Xiu Zhu Xu

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Near field phenomena in dipole radiation, Zhangjin Xu

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Explaining individual and contextual-level determinants of social tolerance and the emotional burden of social intolerance, Ismail Hakki Yigit