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 2025
Exploring the conceptualization of climate change and gender in NGO intervention: an intersectional analysis of NGO work in rural northern Ghana, Ubaida Abdallah
Global attractivity of positive solutions of higher order nonlinear difference equations and its applications, Abdulaziz Almaslokh
The civilization of slavery vs. that of freedom: The Civil War and Reconstruction as an ideological struggle, Heath M. Anderson
Transcription fidelity in the face of oxidative damage, Eastilan Gyiwah Appiah
Rapid kinetic fluorogenic quantification of malondialdehyde in ground beef, Keshav Raj Bhandari
Building flood resilience in Mississippi: Readiness gaps index and insights from spatial analysis., Udit Bhatta
Enhancing soybean seed protein content via Arabidopsis QQS gene, and commercial soil influence on plant development, Ethan Brister
A tale of four cities: The effect of job specialization on employee turnover within Mississippi’s local police departments, Wesley Bunch
American officer administration development and its effects on conduct, 1900-1970, David R. Burford
Direct taxation, the British economy, and the transformation of the British fiscal state, 1783-1865, John Burrow
Remote sensing of coastal acidification: UAS and satellite-based estimation in the Mississippi Sound and landscape change impact assessment, Mohammed Omar Sahed Chowdhury
Do depressive symptoms moderate the mediating role of executive function between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity symptoms and functional impairment?, Nicole Colón Bosques
Real-time enhanced tornado warning product guidance based on tornado debris signature height and population density, Alexander Cooke
Spectral methods and wavelets in quantitative finance problems, Davood Damircheli
Governance of online civil society organizations: A perspective from public administration by conducting a case study of the Villoux Server System, Tyler B. Daniel
Negative emotion and extreme speech in Russian-language social media posts during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Matthew Curtis Dean
Computational modeling of environment-driven molecular interactions in biological systems, Senal Delwakkada Liyanage
Nuclear transparency of photoproduced Rho-0 Mesons., Bhesha Raj Devkota
Spatiotemporal ecology of Mycobacterium ulcerans and mycolactone functions in French Guiana and Southeastern United States aquatic environments, Magdalene Dogbe
Predicting mesoscale rapid-onset drying patterns in Michigan, Rebecca P. Economides
Assessment of water quality and remediation of heavy metals in a coastal system, Christiana Fumnanya Eziashi
Missing data in agriculture and survival studies, Zhou Fang
Quantifying sea surface temperature patterns in the eastern tropical Pacific and downstream impacts on precipitation and tornado outbreaks in the United States, Jason Paul Finley
Synthesis of morphology and molecular data to describe and reassess species relationships in Amoebozoan amoebae, Nicholas W. Fry
Measuring emotional biases in attention and memory in individuals who fear happiness, Michael R. Gallagher
Unraveling exoplanetary signatures from stellar activity: A journey beyond the known in RV mass measurements of K dwarf planets, Claire Susanne Geneser
Structure-property relationships of phenothiazine-based polyaniline derivatives, Hari Giri
Influence of horizontal grid spacing on numerical weather prediction simulations of clear air turbulence, Kailah Rose Gordon
The Lucky Ones, Lily Grado
Toward social equity in Black maternal health in Mississippi, Brittany L. Gray
The influence of incorrectly labelled AI-generated images on subjective feelings of truth and memory, Tanner McKenzie Grubbs
Atmospheric turbulence education effects on flight anxiety, Megan A. Hanna
Understanding how NWS meteorologists tailor hazardous weather messaging to core partners and identify local vulnerabilities, Allison Camille Harvey
Learning race in the faith: An ethnographic study of a white Southern Baptist youth group, Courtney Heath
A cloud of witnesses: Captivity among the Society People of colonial Pennsylvania, Jenifer L. Ishee
Multi-scale assessment of Chlorophyll-a and Net Primary Productivity in coastal waters: Integrating advanced in situ observations, remote sensing imagery, and data driven GeoAI techniques, Mohammad Shakiul Islam
The social in the spiritual: Non-theistic spirituality in 12-step addiction recovery, Steph Jacobs
Russia in the MENA Region: Why do states draft defense cooperation agreements with non-contiguous states?, Laurel Jayes
‘Cog in the machine’ or social being? How digital communications affect social capital development in higher education institution workplaces., Daphne Abigail Knox
Women’s empowerment and health outcomes: A multi-country test of validity and influence on maternal and child well-being, Robert Bugri Kolbila
Apatite entrapment of iodine for nuclear waste disposal applications, William E. Laird
Just do something: Framing a movement to fight fascism, Heather-Ann Layth
Mississippi River Pre-loess Terrace Deposits: Distribution of aggregate resources, Jonathan Leard
Older adult men’s well-being: The impact of masculinity and negative perceptions of aging, Darby D. Mackenstadt
Exploring the use of a Random Forest in correcting GFS Tropical Cyclone landfall errors, Victoria Grace Maxwell
From tree rings to streamflow: reconstructing the hydroclimatic history of the Mississippi River Basin over the past millennia, Brandon McDaniel
Netflix and Kill: the role of true crime consumption in the development of acquired capability for suicide, Chandler Jayne McDaniel
Family matters: how caregiver influence and internal locus of control relate to academics, Maia McLin
Gatekeeper training and knowledge acquisition: Comparison of three measures, Jose Israel Menjivar Jr
Inductively heated platinum electrodes, Jayamini madumali Mudugamuwa hewage
Spatial variability of Heat Mortality Rate relationships in Arizona at Primary Care Area level, Ria Mukherjee
The role of ENSO diversity in modulating tornadic activity in the United States, Davis Boyd Newton
Irrelevant information in geometry questions: Figuring it out with figures, Phuc Xuan Nhi Nguyen
Toward organizational resilience in the US federal bureaucracy, Michael Akomeah Ofori Ntow
Advanced monitoring of turbidity in the Mississippi Sound: A machine learning-based approach integrating unmanned aircraft systems, satellite observations, and land use analysis, Abduselam Mohammed Nur
Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques– innovations in lifetime data analysis and missing value imputations, Tobias Omondi Oketch
In good times & bad: measuring ambivalence in custodial grandparents, Marin Gail Olson
Earth analogue analysis of volcanic/tectonic interactions with applications to venusian stresses, Michael Ortigoza
Genomics insights into the biogeography and evolution of Galapagos Iguanas using RADseq and WGSeq techniques, Cecilia Paradiso
Enhancing chemical synthesis for sustainability and process monitoring utilizing group ten metal catalysis, Amanda M. Perkins
A mathematical theory of epitaxial growth, Brock C. Price
“Sometimes the world don’t give you what you need”: Black motherhood and kinship as resistance to necropolitics in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage, Hailey N. Reeder
Unraveling quantum properties of novel two-dimensional systems using a first-principles approach, Binod Regmi
Investigations into fluorescence of fluorene dimers: linker impacts and tuning potential through substituent addition, Abigail R. Ressler
Elemental incorporation by calcite growing on the substrate in modified seawater solution, Mustafa Rezaei
From Handle With Care to broader school-community partnerships that promote trauma knowledge, safety, and children’s resilience, Jenna E. Russo
Integrating case studies with meteorologists’ insight: Assessing meteorologists’ perception and utilization of composite indices, Brianna Marie Salazar
Electronic structure and reactivity of pyrazine(diimine) complexes with first-row transition metals: insights into proton reduction and a comparative study with pyridine(diimine) complexes, Daniela Sanchez Arana
Synthesis and reactivity of heterobimetallic ruthenium and rhodium complexes incorporating aromatic N-heterocycles and group 13 metals, Gabriela Sanchez Lecuona
Structural determinants of global sustainability outcomes: A multinational, multidisciplinary analysis, Camica N. Sanderson
Ecology and management of alligatorweed (Alternanthera philoxeroides) and an associated thrips biological control agent (Amynothrips andersoni), Samuel Alec Schmid
Anxiety, stress, and depression as a predictor of established vaping among high school students, Autumn Schneider
Site formation processes and lithic analysis of the Swag site (38AL137), John Nathan Shores
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised: Short Form in college-attending emerging adults, Lydia Stanhope
The smooth Toeplitz algebra, Jonas Morris Stuart
“It just builds character”: Building the Bullying Myths Scale, Jessica Weiss Utley
Shifting Sands: Moving from Reality to Unreality, Aaron Waterson
An examination of potential occupational horizons and site integrity through site formation processes at Aklis, St. Croix, Jesse Weaver
The Bioarchaeology of Care in an asylum population: studying health-related caretaking in the Mississippi State Asylum, Hannah D. Willis
An investigation into the inclusivity, methodology, and education of severe weather in K-12 schools, Stephen Holden Wooten
Microvertebrate fossils of the Middle Mississippian Ste. Genevieve Formation, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, USA, Alyssa Wurtz
Evaluating rainfall sensitivity over land to tropical cyclone parameters using idealized WRF, Madison C. Yawn
Modifiers as floating information: A case against seamless modifier integration, Jaden Zinn
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Synergistic adsorption of Pb (II) from aqueous solution using calcined biochar-bentonite clay hybrid, Azeezat Faderera Abdul-raheem
Analysis of glacier changes in the western United State: assessing area, volume, and albedo changes, Bernard Latif Abubakari
Exploring single particles through optical trapping and advanced laser spectroscopy techniques, Haifa Hassan Alali
Analysis of positive solutions for classes of nonlinear boundary value problems, Bandar Alreshidi
Individual differences in attention processes and creative thinking, Berna Altunisik
Engineering functionalized nanomaterials for targeting and ablating biofilms on surfaces, Dhanush Lakmal Yapa Amarasekara
Survival analysis in the presence of independent or dependent censoring, Sakie Jaladha Arachchige
