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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Characterization of an Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet Using Optical Emission and Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy, Shane Moore Clark
Assessment Of Emotion Regulation: Strategy Use, Flexibility, And Emotionality, Ashley Coleman
Who does it best? Towards understanding virtual accountability practices in public, nonprofit and private organizations, Asya Besova Cooley
Individual Differences in Creative Cognition, Sarah K. Craig
A Daily Vulnerability in America: Tornadoes on our Highways with a Focus on Controlled Access Highways, Craig Douglas Croskery
Interaction Energies and Electronic Spectra of Fluorene-Receptors Molecules for Carbon Dioxide Detection, Mawuli Deegbey
An Improved Algorithm for Estimating Total Alkalinity in the Northern Gulf Of Mexico, Madhur Devkota
Organic and inorganic contaminants removal from water with engineered biochar, Narada Bombuwala Dewage
Mapping with Modern Prosumer Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Addressing the Geospatial Accuracy Debate, Madison Palacios Dixon
Impairment, executive function, and symptoms: Understanding ADHD in emerging adulthood, Morgan M. Dorr
Regional Stratigraphy and Lithologic Characterization of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale in Southwest Mississippi, Kalli Alyse Dubois
A Network-Based Method for the Analysis of Use and Function in Stone Tool Kits: Implications for Late Prehistoric Settlement Patterning in Northeast Mississippi, Jason Nathaniel Ervin
Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of Grinding Stones Collected by the Shkodra Archaeological Project, Zhaneta Gjyshja
The Role of Early Visual Cortex in Global Motion Processing, Marshall L. Green
Hyperheavy Nuclei in Axial Relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov Calculations, Abhinaya Gyawali
Developing a Short-Form Measure to Predict Illicit Use of Prescription Stimulants, Joanna C. Hachtel
A Study Of The Performance Of D-Wave Quantum Computers Using Spanning Trees, John Spencer Hall
Microbial Succession from a Controlled Death Event following Simulated Mass Mortality, Lindsay K. Harrison
The Cut and The Color Line: An Environmental History of Jim Crow in the Deep South's Forests, Owen James Hyman
Understanding how Pin1-substrate interactions modulate affinity and inter-domain dynamics, Hewa Pathiranalage Dinusha Sanjeewani Jinasena
Modeling and Experimental Calibration of the Corrosion of Rha Steel in Immersion and Salt-Fog Environments, Lydia Anna Jordan
Healthcare Experiences of Transgender Mississippians: A Qualitative Study, Micah D. King
Using the Health Belief Model to Identify Factors that Prevent Non-Prescription Stimulant Use, Brittany A. Kinman
The effect of bacterial supplementation on black soldier fly larval growth and development, Emilia Marjatta Kooienga
Substrate Availability in the Upper Cretaceous Oyster Exogyra Costata, Marvin Kunath
Parent and Child Perceived Coping Socialization during Peer Conflict: A Qualitative Study, Janet W. Kwan
Sequence Stratigraphy of Cretaceous Cycles in the Southern Margin of a Paleozoic Foreland Basin, Black Warrior Basin, Mississippi: a Potential Reservoir for Geologic Carbon Sequestration, Christopher R. Kyler
Computational Studies of Catalysis Bioinorganic, Inorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry, Guangchao Liang
Subsurface Framework and Fault Timing in the Missourian Granite Wash Interval, Stiles Ranch and Mills Ranch Fields, Wheeler County, Texas, Brendan Michael Lomago
Media Portrayals of Police-Involved Deaths in U.S. Newspapers, 2013-2016, Jeannice LaToya Louine
"For I No Liberty Expect To See": Astronomical Imagery and The Definition of the Self in Hester Pulter'S Elegiac Poetry, Tamara Mahadin
Beta Diversity Provides Evidence of Niche Based Assembly in Temperate Forest Understory Assemblages of Mississippi, David Steven Mason
A Comparative Political Biography of Governors Zell Miller and James B. Hunt, Bryan Joseph Mathison
Using Geospatial Techniques to Assess Responses of Black Bear Populations to Anthropogenically Modified Landscapes: Conflict & Recolonization, Jamie Elizabeth McFadden
A New Perspective on Giving-Up Density Experiments and the Landscape of Fear, Jordan D. McMahon
Inhospitable in the Hospitality State: The Mississippi State Hospital in the Jim Crow South, 1865-1966, Michael Thomas Murphy
Evaluation of the Effects of Hurricane Sandy on the Concrete Armor Units on the Cleveland Harbor East Breakwater, Glenn B. Myrick
Investigation of Reactions between Glauconite and Carbon Dioxide, with Implications for Carbon Sequestration, Van Anh Nguyen
Structures and Optical Properties UV-Vis, Fluorescence, and Polarized Resonance Synchronous Spectroscopy Study of Porphyrin Assembly and Disassembly, Buddhini C. Nugaduwa Vithanage
Her Milkshake Brings Out The Girls In Amman: Examining Questions about Sexual Desire and Societal Influences Among Same-Sex Desiring Women in Jordan, Caitlin Marlena Ostrowski
Deep-Basinal Lithium-Rich Brines, Timothy Palmer
Social Inequality in the Early Bronze Age at Bab Edh-Dhra, Jordan, Natalie Patience
False memories in recognition memory: Recollection or familiarity?, Alexis E. Payne
An Assessment of the American Civil War (1861-1865) Period Archaeological Deposits at the Buchanan House Site in Bells Bend, Nashville, Tennessee, Kathryn F. Phillips
An Application of Ridge Regression and LASSO Methods for Model Selection, Katie Lynn Phillips
Prodigal, Shunecy Mantel Pounds
Identifying Patterns of Warm-Season Convective Initiation over Northwest Mississippi, Amanda Marie Raborn
In Situ Induction Heating of Electrodes and Applications, Mohammad Azizur Rahman
A Feel for the Whole: Considering State-Specific Quality Measures for Medicare's Value-based Programs in the Context of Social Risk Factors and Population Health, Kimberly K. Roberts
To Enforce, or Not To Enforce: A Study of Drug Use Vs Drug Dealing in Socially Disorganized Communities, Preston Cody Roberts
Exploration of Experiential STEM Education Programs in Mississippi and Their Use by Mississippi K-12 Educators, Randi Robison
Genetics of Sexually Dimorphic Development of Butterfly Wing Patterns, Luis Fernando Rodriguez Caro
An Experimental Investigation of Causal Explanations for Depression and Willingness to Accept Treatment, Taban Salem
Classification of Recently Discovered Amoeboid Protists, Gabriel Schuler
Spatial distribution of artifacts and site formation at the Lower Town of Mycenae, Ryan Patrick Shears
Urban Landscape Assessment of the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast using Landsat Imagery 1973-2015, Abdalla R. Sherif
Drivers of Wetland Plant Assemblages in the Mississippi River Alluvial Valley, Cory Shoemaker
Quantification of Harmful Algal Blooms in Multiple Water Bodies of Mississippi Using In-Situ, Analytical and Remote Sensing Techniques, Saurav Silwal
Examining the Stigma of Sex Offending in the Media, the Community, and the Prison, Kristen Lynn Stives
Making a Decision to Retreat, Relate, or Retaliate: An Examination of Theoretical Predictors of Behavioral Responses to Bullying in a High School Setting, Megan Suzanne Stubbs-Richardson
Stress-buffering of social support on depressive problems: Moderation by parental depressive problems, Erica Marie Szkody
Safeguarding the health of mothers and children: American democracy and maternal and children's healthcare in America, 1917-1969, Nancy Jane Traylor-Heard
Copper(II) Complexes for Olefin Aziridination and Cyclopropanation: Towards Asymmetric N- and C- Transfer Catalyst, Henry U. Valle
Smoke signals: New Contexts for the Emergence, Spread, and Decline of Effigy Pipes in Southeastern North America, A.D. 1000-1600, Charles Van De Kree
Characterizing the Groundwater Quality of the Upper Pearl River Watershed in Central Eastern Mississippi, Shannon Kirk Vattikuti
Goodness-Of-Fit Test for Hazard Rate, Ralph Antoine Vital
Geological Data Assessment for Reservoir Characterization and Modeling in Siloam field, Clay County, Mississippi USA, Mahnaz Wahidi
Parental Discipline in Emerging Adulthood: The Creation and Validation of the Domains of Young Adult Discipline Scale (Dyads), Courtney S. Walker
Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to Predict Severe Weather Outbreak Severity in the Contiguous United States, Megan Spade Williams
The "Split Gaze" of Refraction: Racial Passing in the Works of Helen Oyeyemi and Zoë Wicomb, Allison Wiltshire
An "[Un]Readiness To Be Touched": The Critique of Sentimentalism in Sensation Fiction, Rachel Vernell Wolfe
Behavior Plasticity Mitigates the Effect of Climate Warming in White-Tailed Deer, Carter L. Wolff
The Trans-Historicity of the Nineteenth-Century New England Novel: Social Injustice and the Puritan Ideological Legacy, Benjamin Michael Woods
Land Cover Types Associated with Warm-Season Convective Cloud Enhancement in Northeastern Mississippi, Crystal Francis Worley
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Digital Holographic Microscopy of Microparticles, Satam Fahad Alotibi
Measurement of Material Thickness using X-Ray Attenuation, Abdullah Riyad Altayar
Engendering Landscape: A Gendered Analysis of Migration to the Buffer Zone of Carara National Park, Costa Rica, Jessica Ann Arends
Time Scale Analysis of a Mathematical Model for Alzheimer's Disease based on the Metal Hypothesis, Eda Asili
Cognitive Processes of Prioritization in Multitasking, Hao Bai
Depositional Systems Analysis of the Kosciusko Formation (Middle Claiborne Group) in Southern Mississippi, Robert Tyler Berry
Characterizing Surface Enthalpy Flux and Ocean Patterns in Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclones, Mason Andrew Clark Bray
Wastewater Remediation Using Modified Biochars, Griffin Allen Burk
Capitalism and Colonialism and the Emergence of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Matthew Dwayne Campbell
Exploring the Relationships Between Political Culture in Education Policy Practices and Outcomes in the American States, Isla-Anne Schuchs Carr
The Role of Military Culture: Military Values and Perceived Stigma as Predictors of Psychological Help-Seeking Propensity, Patricia Maria Cartwright
The Effects of Institutional Structure of Predominantly White Land-Grant Colleges and Universities in the Southeast on African American Graduation Rates in Engineering, Angela Denice Clinkscales Verdell
An Examination of Child Abuse Disclosures in Mississippi: The Effects of Child and Interviewer Characteristics, Morgan Colley
Pellagra Mortality in the Historic Mississippi State Asylum: A Comparison of Skeletal Data and Institutional Records, Michelle L. Davenport
A Study of a Turn of the 20th Century Skeletal Collection from Memphis, TN, Stephen Michael Davis
Authentic Leadership, Research Integrity, and Institutions of Higher Learning: Why Focusing on Departmental Leadership Is Critical for Preserving the Sanctity of Science, Katherine I. Echols
The Influence of Organizational Demographics and Whistleblowing Factors on Employee Perceptions of Procedural Justice, Patrick Clark Exmeyer
