Theses and dissertations produced by graduate students affiliated with Mississippi State University's College of Arts and Sciences.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Using NMR Spectroscopy to Investigate the Binding of DNA to the Globular Domain of Histone H1.0, Sri Ramya Tata
A Binding Energy Study of the Atomic Mass Evaluation 2012 and an Updated Beta-Decay Study of Neutron-Rich 74Cu, James L. Tracy Jr
Potential of Unmanned Aerial Systems Imagery Relative to Landsat 8 Imagery in the Lower Pearl River Basin, John William Van Horn
An NMR-based Biophysical Study of Protein-Gold Nanoparticle Interactions, Ailin Wang
Different Estimations of Time Series Models and Application for Foreign Exchange in Emerging Markets, Jingjing Wang
A Biogeochemistry Approach to Geographic Origin and Mortuary Arrangement at the Talgua Cave Ossuaries, Olancho, Honduras, Monica Michelle Warner
Environmental and Growth Rate Effects on Trace Element Incorporation to Calcite and Aragonite: An Experimental Study, Jeremy M. Weremeichik
Domestic Use of Space in an Iron Age house from Tell Halif, Israel, Jared Brian Wilson
Functions of Wetland Plant Assemblages on Water Quality Improvement, Evelyn Louise Windham
PKA-Rap1A Dependent Regulation of Age-Rage Signaling in Type II Diabetes Mellitus, Rebecca Anne Worsham
The Effect of Religiosity on Public Perceptions about Punishment and Public Confidence in the Police and the Justice System: a Comparison between the U.S. and Turkey, Gunseli Ayca Yildirim
U.S. Population Change: The Roles of Amenities and Transportation, Xuan Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
First Principles Calculations of Doped Mnbi Compounds, Sultana Abdullah Ababtin
Design, Synthesis, and Testing of Bis-Corannulene Receptors for Fullerenes Based on Klärner’s Tethers, Peumie Luckshika Abeyratne Kuragama
Towards a Quantitative Understanding of Surface Enhanced Raman Phenomena by Using Internal References, Fathima Suraiya Ameer
I Can't Accept Your "Lifestyle" Because I Love You Mississippi Christians' Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Homosexuality and Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights, Ashley A. Baker
Examining the Effect of Government Structure and Size on the Performance of Mississippi Community Water Systems, Jason R. Barrett
A GIS Analysis of Sidewalk Infrastructure in Starkville, MS, Robert Devon Bise
Groups of Isometries Associated with Automorphisms of the Half - Plane, Job Otieno Bonyo
The Development of Next Generation, Unsymmetrical -Nhc Pincer Ligand Architectures and Metalation to Form Unsymmetrical -Nhc Pincer Ta Complexes, Hannah Killian Box
Disorderly and Inhumane: the United States and the Expulsion of Germans after World War II, Bradley J. Brewer
The Impact of Pyruvate Oxidase (SpxB) on the Release of the Toxin Pneumolysin in Streptococcus Pneumoniae, Joseph Colby Bryant
Rational Bernoulli Functions for Solving Problems on Unbounded Domains, Velinda Remona Calvert
Investigations at Kinlock (22SU526), a Freshwater Mussel Shell Ring in the Delta Region of Mississippi, James Bradley Carlock
Spatial Genetic Structure of Hatchlings of Cyclura Ricordii (Reptilia: Iguanidae) in Pedernales Province, Dominican Republic is Inconsistent with Natal Philopatry, Rosanna Carrerase De Leon
The Effects of Gender, Race, and Grade Level on Interest, Relevance, and Perceived Confidence in Science among Middle School Students in the Deep South, Jennifer Carruth
The method development for synthesizing chiral CCC-NHC Zr pincer complexes, Amarraj Chakraborty
The Vanishing Jury: An Examination of How District Attorneys Perceive Justice, Jacqueline Suzanne Chavez
N-heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Ag(I) and Zr(IV): Ag(I)-Halide Cubane Type Clusters and the Mechanism of Hydroamination with -NHC Pincer Complexes, Wesley D. Clark
Capital And Punishment: Examining Prison's Revolving Door, Amanda Paige Cook
Green Motives: Understanding the Relationship Between Tourism Employment and Migration to La Fortuna, Costa Rica, Sallie M. Dehler
Testing Local Municipality Hiring Procedures and Local Forms of Government: Are Search Engines and Social Media Sites Used to Collect Supplemental Information about Applicants?, Joseph Wayne Denton
Genetic Structure of Rhizobia Associated with Chamaecrista Fasciulata, Hanna Elizabeth Dorman
Adsorption of Organic Contaminants from Aqueous Solution using Biochar, Matthew Essandoh
Analysis Of Complex Volatile Organic Compound Mixtures Using Active Spme-Gc-Ms, Lord Famiyeh
Malaria Parasitemia and Prevalence in the Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus Bicolor), Kayla Marie Fast
An Investigation of Training, Schemas, and False Recall of Diagnostic Features, Rachel Kathleen Foster
Utilization of BIOSCREEN to Calculate Retardation Factor of Petroleum Contaminants, and Biodegradation Rate for a Site in Montpelier, Indiana, Brittany M. Garner
The Keetch-Byram Drought Index and the Geographical Variability in Wildfire Size and Frequency in Eight Natural Areas of the United States, Michael Tobit Gray
Illicit Use of ADHD Stimulant Medications: Gender Differences in Perceptions of Risk, Joanna C. Hachtel
Characterization of the Relationship of Ros and Bcl-2 Family Members during Streptococcus Pneumoniae and Staphylococcus Aureus Challenge, Katie Elizabeth Heath
Thermodynamic Assessment of Metal and Substrate Binding to the Dioxygenase Enzymes: The Energetics of the 2-His-1-Carboxylate Chemistry, Kate Lynne Henderson
Simulation of an Axion Search Experiment, Yipeng Jiang
Demographics and Poverty Spending Attitudes in the Mississippi Poll: 2004-2014, William Case Jorgeson
Universal Four-Fermion Interaction in Lattice Effective Field Theory, Kristopher Katterjohn
Surface-Water and Groundwater Interactions of a Stream Reach and Proposed Reservoir within the Pascagoula River Basin: George County, Mississippi, Courtney Killian
Non-Prescription Stimulant Medication use among College Students: Sharing and Selling Behaviors, Brittany Ann Kinman
The Southern Vowel Shift in the Speech of Women from Mississippi, Whitney Leigh Knight
Socialization of Coping: Influence of Parental Mental Health and Parenting Practices, Janet W. Kwan
Thermodynamic Studies of Zn2+ Binding to Glutathione, Madhubhashini Lakdusinghe
Brothers, Thomas K. Lammert
Investigating Phylogenetic Relationships of Mosquito-Borne Avian Malaria in Mississippi, David Alan Larson
The Influence of Economic and Cultural Factors on Social Cleavage in U.S. Presidential Elections from 1980 to 2008, Young Bin Lim
Multi-Channel Quantum Dragons in Rectangular Nanotubes, Zhou Li
Papua New Guinea: New Approaches to Quantifying Democratic Backslide, Zachary Swain Lyford
An Examination of Net Primary Production in Southern Appalachian Wetlands, Mike Maguigan
Evidence for Age-Dependent Selection in Iguana Delicatissima: Does Inbreeding Depression shape Population Dynamics?, Jessica Leigh Martin
Hybrid functions in Fractional Calculus, Somayeh Mashayekhi
Spatial Pattern Analysis of Agricultural Soil Properties using GIS, Corrin Jared McCarn
Investigating the Relationship between Stream Gauge Stage and Nearby Soil Moisture in a Longleaf Pine Biome, Cheryl S. McLaurin
The Struggle for Health in the Insurance Gap: A Cultural Model of Treatment Seeking among the Working Poor in Tupelo, MS, Avery N. McNeece
Men Like Us, Nicklaus Mears
The Minor Art of Lying, Matthew Alan Morgan
The "Isolated Find" Concept And Its Consequences In Public Archaeology, Jesse Morton
Narcissist Seeking Non-Threat: Narcissists' Self-Evaluation Maintenance Strategies for Social Comparison Threats from Romantic Partners, Alison J. Patev
Count the Rings, Kayla Pearce
Evaluating clinicians’ differential diagnostic decisions for ICD-11 psychotic disorders, Destiny Lynn Peterson
Characterization of the Ability of Yeast Probiotics and Paraprobiotics to Directly Interact with Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria, Gabriel Alviola Posadas
Can Headstart Programs Truly be Effective? Genetic Assessment of Cyclura Collei, The Headstarted Jamaican Iguana, Armed Baba Rasberry
Entropy of Internal Rotations, Chinthaka Nadun Ratnaweera
Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of -NHC Group 9 Metal Pincer Complexes, Sean William Reilly
Impact of Environmental and Cellular Factors on the Bioactivity of a Novel Antifungal, Occidiofungin, Chase Alexander Robinson
Sexual Assault Among College Students: An Examination of Demographic, Contextual, and Behavioral Factors, Sarah A. Rogers
Selection Dynamics in Heliconius Hybrid Zones and the Origin of Adaptive Variation, Steven Grant Shaak
Isolation in the South: Poverty and Transportation Infrastructure in the Black Belt, Derrick Ryan Shapley
A Functional Genomics Analysis of Glycine Max Vesicle Membrane Fusion Genes in Relation to Infection by Heterodera Glycine, Keshav Sharma
Super Violence: Violence, Victimization, and "Doing Gender" in Superhero Comic Books, Anna Elizabeth Smith
An Exploration of Hepatitis Polices and Prevalence in Prison: An Ecological Approach, Kristen Lynn Stives
Investigation of Sense of Place Effects in an Online Learning Environment, Jeanne Lambert Sumrall
Multivariate Analysis of Fungal Volatile Metabolites for Aflatoxigenic Fungi Detection, Dongdi Sun
Action Control, Motivation for Reward, and Deficits in Anticipatory Pleasure, Jessica Christine Swinea
Exploration of the Relationship Between Microbial Dendritic Shrub Structures and Formation of Aragonitic Botryoidal Cement, Maurice Philip Testa
Analysis of Northern California's Potential Geotourist Sites for Effective Informal Geoscience Education that Address the Earth Science Literacy Initiative's Big Ideas, Kimberlie Robin Theis
Stratigraphy, Environments of Deposition, and Mineralogical Characterization of Heavy Minerals from Selected Cretaceous Formations of the Eastern Mississippi Embayment, David Luke Thompson
I Mean to Signify, Jermaine Thompson
Bond Patterns in the Ground States of Quasi-One Dimensional 1/4-Filled Organic Superconductors, Andrew Bryan Ward
Human Carbonic Anhydrase Ii; Preparation, Metal-Substitution, Activity, and Inhibition, David L. Wilson
Is Protein Adsorption Influenced by Gold Nanoparticle Size?, Karen Elizabeth Woods
The Effect of Oxygen on Bile Resistance in Listeria Monocytogenes, Morgan Layne Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Fiber Loop Ringdown Gas Flow and Humidity Sensors, Haifa Hassan Alali
Episodically Defined Categories in the Organization of Visual Memory, Karla B. Antonelli
Spectral Properties of a Class of Integral Operators on Spaces of Analytic Functions, Snehalatha Ballamoole
Water Supply Potential of the Wilcox Aquifers in Lafayette County, Mississippi, John Vernon Banks
Goodbye Town, Kathryn Barber
A Synthetic Approach to the Biflavonoids Chamaejasmine and Isochamaejasmine, Verna B. Baron
Contrasting Environments Associated with Storm Prediction Center Tornado Outbreak Forecasts using Synoptic-Scale Composite Analysis, Alyssa Victoria Bates
Characterization of Sediment Microbial Communities and Analysis of Biogeochemical Responses to Eutrophication in Southeastern Estuaries, Gary Alon Blakeney
A Longitudinal Analysis of Body Mass and Morbidity: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study, Jamie Boydstun
