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Dissertations from 2022
THE ROLE OF MATE SEEKING MOTIVES, STATUS ACQUISITION MOTIVES, AND DARK PERSONALITY IN PREDICTING RESPONSES TO AN AGGRESSION-PROVOKING SITUATION, Savannah Merold
The Expanding Marine Built Environment and Biofilm Formation Processes, Rachel Mugge
Aryl Ether Ketone Polybenzoxazines and Carbon-Carbon Composites from Furan-Containing Polybenzoxazines, Joseph Murphy
A Look at the Effectiveness of High School Chemistry Curriculum in Preparing Students for ACT, Shanna Nesser
The Knowledge and Attitudes Of Oncology Nurses On Advance Directives, Bailey Nettles
Characterization of Sea level Changes along the Louisiana/Florida Shelf Using High Frequency (HF) Radar Data and Sea level Measurements, uchenna nwankwo
CLASSROOM CLIMATE, CULTURE, PARENTING SKILLS, AND STUDENT GRIT, Karen Ochoa
THE EFFECTS OF SEGMENTING WORKSHEETS AND BEHAVIOR SPECIFIC PRAISE ON INDEPENDENT SEATWORK WITH ELEMENTARY STUDENTS, Lauren Peak
CHARACTERIZING ENDOGENOUS DICER PRODUCTS TO UNRAVEL NOVEL RNAI BIOGENESIS PATHWAYS, Jacob Oche Peter
The Expansionist Cause: Union Civil War Commemorations as Weapons of Colonization in the American West, Lindsey Peterson
SELF-EFFICACY AND BURNOUT AMONG MISSISSIPPI MILD/MODERATE SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS, Stacey Anne Price Frye
EXAMINING P3 AND N2 AMPLITUDES FOLLOWING SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND PROVOCATION IN COLLEGE STUDENTS WITH HIGH AND LOW NARCISSISTIC TRAITS, Kathleen Ramsey
THE SEARCH FOR NEUTRALITY: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE USE IN HIGHER EDUCATION TITLE IX SEXUAL MISCONDUCT POLICIES, Cristin Reynolds
Secondary School Administrators, Teachers, and Students' Perspectives on Reducing Recidivism in Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs, Chrissell Rhone
USING CONTINGENT PRAISE TO INCREASE VISUAL ENGAGEMENT IN AN ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: AN EYE TRACKING STUDY, Andrew Rozsa
EXPLORING PERCEPTIONS ABOUT AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS IN PREPARING WORSHIP PASTORS FOR SERVICE, Phillip Sandifer
COMPARING TOP INDUSTRY DEMANDS FOR TALENT TO GENERAL STUDIES CURRICULUM FOR COMPETITIVE JOB ACQUISITION, Gregory Sansone
DESIGNING DYNAMIC AND DEGRADABLE POLYMERIC MATERIALS WITH THIOL-X CHEMISTRIES, Reese Sloan
The Role of Traumatic Experiences in Developing Nocturnal Panic Attacks, Nicole S. Smith
APPLICATIONS OF SIMULATION ANALYSIS TO GENERATE REFERENCE POINTS AND EVALUATE MANAGEMENT CONTROL RULES IN THREE EASTERN US FISHERIES, Laura Solinger
Embattled Learning: Education and Emancipation in the Post-Civil War Upper South, Lucas Somers
Anti-Human Trafficking Training for Law Enforcement: An Assessment of Practice in a Southern State, Patricia Ann Southerland
The Impact of a Five-day Number Sense Intervention on High School Student's Quantitative Reasoning Skills and Self-efficacy, Rebecca Steele-Mackey
A Case Study in Resiliency: How a University Survived a Pandemic, Mary Ellen Stewart
Testing Barriers to Non-Suicidal Self-Injury With College Students: Narcissistic Traits as Moderators, Philip Stoner
Patient Portal Use and Patient Education Materials Access among Mississippi Adult Residents, Anna K. Swann
AN OVERVIEW OF DAVID MASLANKA'S "HOSANNAS" AND ITS DEDICATEE, GARY GREEN, Justin Swearinger
PARTICULAR PAINS, PARTICULAR SUFFERINGS: USING SISTA CIRCLE TO EXPLORE BELONGINGNESS AS A FACTOR AFFECTING THE ACADEMIC PERSISTENCE OF BLACK, WOMEN DOCTORAL RECIPIENTS AT PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS IN THE SOUTH, Jasmine Denise Thornton
REVISITING THE ECONOMIC VOTER HYPOTHESIS: ELECTORAL VOLATILITY AND ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY IN LATIN AMERICA (1997-2018), Charles Tibedo
Unsuitable for Framing: Race, Representation and Recoding Hurricane Maria in the Age of Trump, David Tisdale
Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Resistive Embodiment, Crystal Veronie
A New Model for Predicting the Drag and Lift Forces of Turbulent Newtonian Flow on Arbitrarily Shaped Shells on the Seafloor, Carley R. Walker, James V. Lambers, and Julian Simeonov
Self-Compassion and Perceived Readiness for Practice Among Baccalaureate Nursing Students: A Mixed-Methods Study, Laurie A. Walter
The COVID-19 Experience: An Intensive Care Nursing Perspective, Adrianna Watson
IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING TO INCREASE TREATMENT INTEGRITY FOR CHECK-IN/CHECK-OUT WITH AN ELECTRONIC DBRC, Caitlyn Weaver
Copolymer microphase separation, properties, and applications, Daniel Weller
THE VALUE OF INTERNSHIPS IN DEVELOPING SOCIAL CAPITAL FOR IMPROVING EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES: A MIXED METHODS APPROACH, Cory Wicker
DIGITAL EQUITY: DIFFICULTIES OF IMPLEMENTING THE 1:1 COMPUTING INITIATIVE IN LOW-INCOME AREAS, Demetric D. Williams
To Fathom The Fast River, Chloe Wofford
MEDIA NARRATIVE COMPETITION BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CHINA DURING COVID-19, ZHENZHU ZHANG
APPLICATIONS OF TAO OF BASS, Vol. I, IN ORCHESTRAL AND SOLO DOUBLE BASS REPERTOIRE, Santiago Zorrilla de San Martin
Dissertations from 2021
Water Elites’ Perceptions of Water Security in the Middle East and North Africa Region, Ghaleb Akari
Using Native Ads in Public Relations Campaigns: A Study of Instagram Influencers in Kuwait, Ahmad Alhaidar
Obstacles to the Implementation of Criminal Justice Reform, Matt Allen
Framing Difference: A Content Analysis of Disability Coverage in Saudi Arabia Newspapers, Majedah Alsewaiah
A Re-Examination of the Motivations for Using Substances Questionnaire: Motives for Alcohol and Simultaneous Alcohol and Marijuana Use, Taylor Altenberger
On the Treatment of Bilinear Forms Involving Matrix Functions as Perturbations of Quadratic Forms, Keelia Altheimer
Attachment Quality Across Contexts: The Mediating Role of Cognitive-Affective Traits, Christian Ammons
The Role of Elevation as a Control on Salt Marsh-Upland Ecotones Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Carlton P. Anderson
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AMONG FOUR–YEAR HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES: A GEOGRAPHIC AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE, Kori Nadine Armstrong
Development and Initial Evaluation of the Assessment of Teacher Expectations and Practices (ATEP), Kimberly Barajas
The Relationship Between Shared Decision-Making and School Climate, Sara Bardwell
Decision-Making by Community College Administrators on Satellite Campuses of Mississippi Community Colleges, Raymunda Barnes
Barriers and Enablers to Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as Perceived by Change Agents in the Workplace, Shanda Barrett
EPOXY CURING: PARAMOUNT OR TRIVIAL? A CURE PATH DEPENDENT INQUIRY, Jared Bates
Granulins in Norm and Neurodegenerative Pathologies, Anukool Bhopatkar
Microplankton Dynamics in the River-Dominated Mississippi Bight, Adam D. Boyette
Personal and Organizational Characteristics Impacting Employee Self-Efficacy, Justin Chandler
Synthesis and Self-assembly of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers for the Fabrication of Non-spherical Polymersomes, Tamuka Chidanguro
Mobbing and Job Satisfaction Among Registered Nurses in Mississippi, Brenda Collins
Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: Does Gender Matter?, Sarah Crane
Barriers, Enablers, and Strategies Influencing Female Leaders' Career Advancement in the Nuclear Industry, Anesa Davis
Controlling degradation with force and light, Brad Davis
The Compliance Training for Children Model on Child Compliance: A Meta-Analysis, James Derieux
Fallen Matter: A Novel, Noah Devros
Performer’s Guide to Three Miniatures for Tuba and Piano by Anthony Plog, Steven Dixon
An Exploration of the Two-Generation Approach for Single Mother Degree or Certificate Attainment, Chiquila N. Dolison
Gender and Cross-Cultural Invariance of Attitudes Toward Statistics Among Non-STEM Undergraduate Students, Mihili Edirisooriya
The Application of Motivational Design to Office Hours Conducted within Fully Online Courses, Mark P. Ferguson
The Impact of Mississippi’s K-3 Literacy Initiative Professional Development, Billie Fick
This Was the World and I Was King: Land and Identity in Scottish Children's Literature of the Golden Age, Rodney Fierce
The Constant Unfamiliar: A Collection of Stories, Rachael Fowler
COVID-19 & University Stakeholders: A Faculty Perspective, Torie Fowler
Atomic Oxygen Resistant Low Earth Orbit Stable Polymer Matrix Composites Employing Phenylphosphine Oxide Epoxy-Amines, Witold Fuchs
AN ANALYTICAL GUIDE TO GONZALO VIDAL’S SUITE DE LA POSTGUERRA [POST-WAR SUITE], Jairo Garcia Valencia
Put the Pedal to the Metal: Exploring the Resources of the Modern Electric Vibraphone, Andrew Dean Gilstrap
Efficient Denoising Of High Resolution Color Digital Images Utilizing Krylov Subspace Spectral Methods, Eva Lynn Greenman
Discrete Moving Target Defense Application and Benchmarking in Software-Defined Networking, charan gudla
Dicer Represses Antiviral Innate Immunity Pathways in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells, Chandan Gurung
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPAL SUPPORT AND FIRST-YEAR TEACHER JOB SATISFACTION, Beau Hannah
Boosting Degree Attainment: A Mixed Methods Examination of an Adult Degree Completion Initiative, Hannah Harrison
Patterns of Habitat Use and Trophic Structure in Turtle Grass (Thalassia testudinum)-Dominated Systems Across the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Christian Hayes
The Effect of Token Economies on Student Behavior in the Preschool Classroom: A Meta-Analysis, Lynda B. Hayes
EMPLOYEES' EXPECTATIONS OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON ANTICIPATED VOLUNTARY EMPLOYEE TURNOVER AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT, Candace Johnson
The Relationship between School Principals’ Servant Leadership Attributes and Teacher Morale, George Larry Johnson
Analysis of a Rough-Toothed Dolphin (Steno bredanensis) Introduction in a Human Care Setting, Lindsey Johnson