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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A Quantitative Examination Of Factors That Aid In The Persistence And Academic Success Of Black Male Initiative Participants, Timothy J. Fair
Analysis of Suspended Particulate Matter Concentrations in Weeks Bay, Alabama Using Landsat Imagery, Devon Lee Flickinger
What my Mother Never Told Me about Birth, Jessica Ann Flowers
Containerizing containment: The Automation and Globalization of the National Security Waterfront, 1945-1997, John Douglas Forrest
Experimental Development of Paleoproxies : Investigation into Anaerobic Conditions and the Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Precursor for Carbonate Minerals, Brittany M. Garner
Effect of Water Hardness on Adsorption of Lead from Aqueous Solution using Douglas Fir Biochar, Dhara Gogri
Religion and Bereavement: Is It Different for Survivors of Suicide Loss?, Courtney Boushe Golding
Effecting Organizational Change at the Macro Level of Professions, Robert Anthony Green
Assessing Tornado watches for Accuracy, Impacts on Daily Activities, and Potential Economic Impacts, Barrett Frank Gutter
Winter Weather Hazards: Injuries and Fatalities Associated with Snow Removal, Christa Robyn Haney
Examining the Influence of Encoding Versus Retrieval Factors on Metamemory, Lauren W. Harris
By Degree: A History of Heat in the Subtropical American South, Jason Hauser
White Trash Girl, Ciera Marie Higginbotham
A Reconciled Estimation of the State of Cryospheric Components in the Southern Andes and California Using Geospatial Techniques, Pushkar Inamdar
Quantum Dragon Solutions for Electron Transport through Single-Layer Planar Rectangular, Godfred Inkoom
Identification of Rtg2P Functional Domain Involved in Retrograde Signaling in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Jian Jiang
Assessing Updating of Affective Content as a Potential Endophenotypic Predictor of Depressive Symptoms, Duncan Gage Jordan
Stratigraphic Variability of the Desmoinesian Marmaton Group across the Lips Fault System in the Texas Panhandle Granite Wash, Southern Anadarko Basin, Patrick Daniel Jordan
Transcriptome-Wide Prevalence of Selection Among Wild Populations of Helianthus Annuus (Common Sunflower), Michael Emmett Kartje
Douglas Fir Biochar for Water Remediation, UPA Gayanthi Akila Karunanayake
Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage and pH Ultramicroelectrodes, Hadi Khani
Stories like that Get Twisted, Isabelle N. Lang
Does the Hispanic Paradox Extend to Morbidity Changes from 1997-2015?, Randall Brent Lee
Classification and Significance Assessments of Occupations on the Ackerman Unit of the Tombigbee National Forest, Mississippi, Mary A. Madden
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
