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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Biopolitics in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Waiting for the Barbarians: Archives of Bodily Movements in Modernity, Gregory Marcus
Time Frame for Transitive and Reciprocal Inferences, Ross Allen McCool
Testing the Life History Approach: Assessing Cultural Bias in Archaeological Mussel Shell Assemblages in the Tombigbee River Drainage, Sarah Kate McKinney
An Analysis of Signaling Processes Leading to a Defense Response in Soybean, Brandon Trey McNeece
Establishing the Structure Function Relationship of Polypyridyl Ruthenium and Berenil-type Compounds in the Formation of Complexes with B-DNA and/or G-quadruplex DNA, Clinton Gregory Mikek
"A Grave Subject:" Hollywood Cemetery and the Ideology of Death in Mid-nineteenth Century America, Kelli Brooke Nelson
In the Light of the Artifacts: Understanding Another Domestic Area from the Iron II Occupation, Tell Halif, Latif Oksuz
Electrolyte Interactions with Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles in Water, HA Ganganath Sanjeewa Perera
Diagnostic Accuracy: The Role of Symptom Severity and Functional Impairment, Destiny Lynn Peterson
Explaining Mental Health Stigma through Controllability, Just World Beliefs, and Social Dominance Orientation, Katherine F. Peterson
Confirmatory Factor Analyses of the Parental Authority Questionnaire: Southern Influences on its Validity, Mary Ward Pollard
Development of a Portable Laser-Induced Fluorescence Sensor, Adam Oswalt Powers
Cultural Model of Infant Feeding Among Women in Rural and Urban Bangladesh, Rumana Rahman
Novel One-Pot Syntheses of Uracils and Arylidenehydantoins, and Analysis of Xylitol in Chewing Gum by Gc-Ms, RM Suranga Mahesh Rajapaksha
Death in the Gobi: a Case Study of Skeletal Trauma from the Hets Mountain Cave in Mongolia, Christina Marie Ramazani
A Survey of Nearby M-dwarfs with Robo-AO, Amy Elaine Ray
Phosphorus Occurrence and Origin in the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer in Northwestern Mississippi, Claire Elise Rose
Funny Story True Story, Elisabeth Rupp
Analysis of the Role of the Jackson Prairie in Prehistoric/Protohistoric Settlement Patterns using Survey Data from the Bienville National Forest, Jennifer Ivy Ryan
Application of Non-Targeted Volatile Metabolomics in Plant Pathology, Jinyan She
Influence of Land Use, Land Cover, and Hydrology on the Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) in Multiple Aquatic Ecosystems, Shatrughan Singh
Multicomponent Ligand Interactions with Colloidal Gold and Silver Nanoparticles in Water, Wumudu Dilhani Siriwardana
Woodland Settlement Pattern Changes in the North Central Hills of Mississippi, Joseph Smith
GIS-based Evaluation of Landslide Susceptibility for Eastern Tennessee, Sara Ann Smith
How to Join a Cult in the 21St Century, Sarah Jessica Sones
Differentiating Single and Multiple Suicide Attempters: What Nightmares Can Tell Us, Katrina Joy Speed
Transmission of Religiosity from Parent to Child: Moderation by Perceived Parental Psychopathology, Melanie Stearns
Using Biochar Electrodes for Brackish Water Desalination, Hellen Stephanie
Imaging Calcium Carbonate Crystallization in Association with Organic Compounds, Maurice Philip Testa
Sources of Ensemble Forecast Variation and their Effects on Severe Convective Weather Forecasts, Erin Amanda Thead
The Mysterious Mounds: Indian Mounds And Contested American Landscapes, Nicholas Andrew Timmerman
Does Prior NSSI Moderate the Relationship between Alcohol Intoxication, Pain, and Deliberate Self-Harm?, Matthew A. Timmins
Don't Worry ; It's Only a White Lie, Annie Trinh
Deprotonation as a Unified Pathway for Organothiol Binding to Citrate- and Borohydride Reduced Gold Nanoparticles, Sandamini Heshani Alahakoon Ulpanhewa Vidanalage
Effective Field Theory For Halo Nuclei, Akshay Vaghani
Examining Gendered Patterns of Techniques of Neutralization Using Fictional Crime Dramas, Lauren Michel Vasquez
Behind the Screen: Composing Academic Identity in the Digital Age, Michelle Lee Wait
Discrete Fourier Transform on Global Data Analysis, Wenshuang Wang
"Deep" South: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and Environmental Knowledge, 1800-1974, Alyssa Diane Warrick
Public Service Motivation: Have financial Incentives Strengthened the Motivation of Mississippians?, Alexander G. Washington
Severe Weather Parameters and their Effectiveness on Forecasting Tropical Cyclone Induced Tornadoes, Jonathan Curtis Weaver
Schizoaffective Disorder: Do Clinicians' Conceptualizations Match DSM-5 Criteria?, Christopher Allen Webb
Race, Drugs, and Sentencing: A Quantitative Analysis of Sentencing Outcomes for Federal Cocaine and Methamphetamine Drug Offenses, Makeela Johari Wells
Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer Analysis of the Pylos Linear B tablets, Billy B. Wilemon
Genetic diversity among and between Rivercane, Arundinaria Gigantea, Canebrakes assessed by Microsatellite Analysis, Jeremi Scott Wright
A Biophysical Investigation of Calcineurin Binding to Calmodulin, Dinesh Kumar Yadav
Assessment of Remotely Sensed Image Processing Techniques for Unmanned Aerial System (Uas) Applications, Christopher Michael Zarzar
Toward a Molecular Mechanism of Phase Separation in Disordered Elastin-Like Proteins, Yue Zhang
Role of Rap1a in AGE/RAGE-mediated Signaling in Type II Diabetes Mellitus, Jia Zhao
Field Methods, Sampling Strategies, Historical Documents, and Data Redundancy: A Study of Historic Tenant Farmsteads in Leflore County, Mississippi, Jayson Jon Zoino
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Chiral -NHC Transition Metal Complexes and Catalytic Activity, Gopalakrishna Akurathi
Increasing Student Achievement by Supporting Metacognition, Nathan William Alexander
Holding Performance Measures Accountablefor Social Equity: A Polycentric Approach to Evaluating American Higher Education, Tracey L Norden Baham
Faster-X Evolution in the Speciation of Heliconius Butterflies, Margarita Baquero
The Reconstruction and Analysis of Oral Microbiome Composition Using Dental Calculus from the Mississippi State Asylum (1855-1935), Jackson, Ms, Jonathan Robert Belanich
A Reinterpretation of the Chanak Crisis through the Lens of the Eastern Question, Ali Benek
Mexican and Central American Emigration: Exploring Recent Motivations and Challenges of the Migrant Child Arriving to the U.S, Frank (Frank Edward) Bradford
O Narrator!: Narrative, Rhetoric, and Justice in Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale, Caitlin Josephine Branum
Maximizing the Informal Education of Death Valley National Park Ichnofossils, Curt Burbach
Circulant Digraph Isomorphisms, Elias Cancela
Discrimination of the Formation and Intensity of Progressive Derechos Based on the Environmental Conditions of Simulated Events, William Lawrence Churchill
Electrochemical Studies of Nickel/Sulfuric Acid Oscillating Systems and the Preparation and Testing of Copper Coupled Microelectrode Array Sensors, David Quentin Clark
Natural Population Dynamics of Rock Iguanas in the Bahama Archipelago, Giuliano Colosimo
Analytical Analysis of Groundwater Availability in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Brandon Crabtree
Generating Predictive Inferences when Multiple Alternatives are Available, Edward Andrew Cranford
Thermal Variation and the Built Environment of Jackson, Mississippi, Peter Jay Crank
Relationship between Air Mass Type and Emergency Department Visits for Migraine Headache across the Triangle Region of North Carolina, Christopher James Elcik
Nocturnal Tornado Outbreak Climatology, Alexander M. Elmore
Sensitivity of Physical Parameterization Schemes to Stochastic Initial Conditions in WRF Tornado Outbreak Simulations, Michelle Anne Elmore
Anisotropic Quadrilateral Mesh Optimization, Joseph Timothy Charles Ferguson
Examining Age Differences in Metamemory for Emotional Words, Samuel Ethan Flurry
An Examination of the Hydrological Environment in Choctaw County Mississippi since 1995, with a Focus on an Area Surrounding an Industrial Complex established in 1998, Jeremy Keith Foote
Isotopic Study of Diet during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages at Mitrou and Tragana Agia Triada, Greece, Stephanie Fuehr
Interactions of Organodithiols with Gold and Silver Nanoparticles in Water, Manuel Gadogbe
Investigating Late Woodland-Period Aquatic Catchments through Freshwater Mussel Assemblage Composition, Sarah K. Gilleland
Ineradicable Pasts: The Force of Historical Trauma in Robert Penn Warren's Flood and Bessie Head's A Question of Power, Lisa Rene Gooden-Hunley
Bureaucratic Response in an Era of Rapid Change: the Implementation of Strategic Habitat Conservation within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Heather Lea Hanna
Analyzing the Influence Oxygen Deprivation has on the Capability of Listeria Monocytogenes to Induce Listeriosis in Gerbils, Jillian Leigh Harris
Who Speaks for the Enslaved? Authorship and Reclamation in Octavia Butler's Kindred, Antoinette Daineyell Hayden
Chronology and acculturation in the Choctaw homeland, 1650-1850, Marcus Hayes
Cultural Ambassadors: American Academics in the Soviet Union, 1958-1991, Kayla Brooke Hester
Analysis of ATP Synthase Super-Complex Assembly and Mitochondrial Morphology in Pcp1 Mutants, Mary Elizabeth Huddleston
Assessing the Transfer of Interruption Handling Skill to Novel Task Contexts, Winston Edward Jones
Political Trust and Presidential Voting: a Changing Political Environment Inducing the End of Traditional Politics in the United States, Brett Stephen Juraszek
Investigating the Utility of Age-Dependent Cranial Vault Thickness as an Aging Method for Juvenile Skeletal Remains on Dry Bone, Radiographic and Computed Tomography Scans, Kelly R. Kamnikar
Mental Illness in Starkville, MS: A Cultural Consensus Analysis of the Public Conceptions of Mental Illness, Curtis Andrew Kennett
Budgetary Choice and Impact on Economic Growth: Lessons from U.S. State Government, Sung Chan Kim
Dogma and Dixie Roman Catholics and the Southern Confederacy during the American Civil War, Gracjan Anthony Kraszewski
The Numerical Solutions of Fractional Differential Equations with Fractional Taylor Vector, Vidhya KrishnasamySaraswathy
Rhodium Catalyzed Coupling of In Situ Generated Alpha-Lactams with Indoles and Synthesis and Surface Immobilization of Bis-Corannulene Molecular Receptors, K G Upul Ranjan Kumarasinghe
Utilization of Outdoor Resources to Enhance Understanding of Geosciences, Sarah Radencic Lalk
Hill-Fort Sites and Tumuli in the Shkodra Plain Region of Northern Albania: A Geospatial Perspective, Dora Jane Lambert
Journey to the Unconscious: An Examination of Paths to Enlightenment in Hermann Hesse's Works, Victoria B. Lee
Molecular Parentage of Radical Species in the Comae of Comets, Benjamin Kyle Lewis
Investigating "Lithic Scatter" Variability: Space, Time, and Form, Kate M. Manning
An Assessment of the Effects of Parental Incarceration on Intragenerational and Intergenerational Mobility, Timothy E. McClure
