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A Showcase of scholarship, research, and creativity at the university of southern mississippi

    Content Posted in 2025

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    2025 Nominee Bookmarks: 3rd-5th Grade

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    2025 Nominee Bookmarks: 6th-8th Grade

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    2025 Nominee Bookmarks: 9th-12th Grade

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    2025 Nominee Bookmarks: PreK-2nd Grade

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    2026 Magnolia Book Award Nominations, Magnolia Book Awards

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    A Comprehensive Performance Comparison of Machine Learning and Federated Learning for Intrusion Detection in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks Using CAN-Bus Data, Tim Leonhardt

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    Addressing the Gap: A Comparative Case Analysis of the First Week of School in Two Second-Grade Classrooms, Madeline Roberts

     

    A Decade of SMIRC: What Now and What Next?, Josh Cromwell

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    Advancing Digital Teaching Literacy: The M-PRAE Model for Large-Scale Enhancement of Primary and Secondary School Teachers, Youru Xie, Wan Xia, Caoyin Li, and Yi Qiu

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    A Formula for Center Creation, Ashley Rich

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    A Linguistic Analysis of the Language Surrounding Witchcraft in France from the 16th to 20th Centuries, Kaleigh Landers

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    A “Little” Solution to a Big Problem: A Documentary About the Hattiesburg Pocket Museum, Savannah Humber

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    American Girl(hood): Gender Performance, Tween Media, and Social Media Content, Mary Carol Dassau

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    An Educational Framework for the Disruptive Technologies and their Integration in the UN SDGs Curriculum, Tulsi Pawan Fowdur and Aishani Radhakeesoon

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    A New Deep-Sea Species of Genus Bathybirubius Senna, 2010 (Crustacea, Peracarida, Amphipoda) Associated with Bathyal Sediments from The Bay of Campeche, SW Gulf of Mexico, Manuel Ortiz, Ignacio Winfield, and Sergio Cházaro Olvera

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    An Introduction and Examination of Firm-on-Firm Activism, Martha Jimena Paredes Villela

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    Archival Literacy Principles as Facilitated by University Websites: A Webometric Content Analysis, Abigail Bowers

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    A Rose by Any Other Name: Impressionism as Definition and Aesthetic in the Music of Claude Debussy, Erin Smith

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    A Social Learning Analysis Study: Social Presence in Online Discussions’ Network Interactions, Hoda Harati, Chih-Hsiung Tu, Cherng-Jyh Yen, Yingying Liu, Nesma Raghab Nasr, and Jennifer Werner

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    A Spectroscopic Survey of Atmospheres of Super-Earths, Luke Brust

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    Assessing the Accuracy and Precision of Crime Scene Measurements Obtained from Apple LiDAR Scans, Jason Ang

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    A Survey on Faculty Summer Compensation in Accounting, Abby Box

     

    Balancing Open Access and Ethical Responsibility: The Sensitivity of Sharing Endangered Species Data, Shavon Stewart

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    Bases of Influence: Military Installations and Partisan Realignment in the American South, Regan Steen

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    Benthic and Epibenthic Invertebrate Assemblages Associated with Estuarine Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Differ Between Native and Invasive Plants, Marissa Hall, Kathryn O'Shaughnessy, Bethany Kiley, Ashley McDonald, Taber Faurie, Zoey Hendrickson, Anna Reimer, Samantha Smith, and Charles Martin

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    Bethel Lodge and Palmer’s Hall in Mississippi, 1849-1869, Arthur Palmer Hudson

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    Beyond the Desk: Expanding Library Reach with Passive Programming at Your Patron's Pace, Dee Hare and Leigh Hood

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    Book Reviews, Albert D. Kirwin, George E. Allen, and William Faulkner

     

    Breaking News: Adding Campus Newspapers to Your IR, Michelle Emanuel

     

    Building a Research Data Catalog, Amy Reese

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    Cache-Augmented Generation in RAG Pipelines: Fast and Memory-Efficient Approach to Multi-Agent Knowledge Query Systems, Yaju Gopal Shrestha

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    Cellular Telemetry for Real-Time River Flow Velocity Data from Fluvial Acoustic Tomography Loggers, Joshua Lee Seymour

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    Census of Claiborne and Warren Counties, Mississippi Territory, 1810, Madel Jacobs Morgan

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    Coastal CUBEnet: an integrated observation and modeling system for sustainable Northern Gulf of Mexico coastal areas, Steve Stanic, Jerry D. Wiggert, Landry Bernard, Jason McKenna, Vishwamithra Sunkara, James Braud, and Arne Diercks

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    Coleen Salley Storytelling Award Keynote, Jos Holman, Jos Holman

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    Common Snook in Mississippi, Nancy J. Brown-Peterson

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    Comparing Urban and Rural Mississippi Residents’ Health Literacy of Sexually Transmitted Infections, Leah Tucker

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    Complete Issue - Volume 13, Issue 1, Arthur Palmer Hudson, John L. Cotter, Magdalen Eichert, R.A. McLemore, and Madel Jacobs Morgan

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    Consumer Perceptions and its Influence on the Sport of Rodeo, Sierra Hayden Greene

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    Controlling Anti-Asian Conduct On College Campuses: Can Including Ethnic Studies Programs Help?, Hani Morgan

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    Crazy or Hungry: Oral Accounts of Continuity and Change In a Mississippi Gulf Coast Commercial Fleet, Natalie Brooke Roberts Cruthirds

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    Creating Homes and Constructing Girlhood: Spatial Negotiations of the Island In Girls' Castaway Novels, 1892-1989, Amy Marie Hicks

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    Culturally Relevant or Cultural Cover: Understanding ACUE’s Fostering a Culture of Belonging, Drew Le

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    December 2024 Library News, University Libraries

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    Designing Diverse, Disability-Friendly Spaces: Crafting Accessible STudy and Computer Rooms for All, Fawn Ussery

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    Determining the Influence of a Low-Head Dam on Macroinvertebrate Communities in the Bouie River, Natalie Santiago

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    Development and Characterization of a Pro-Angiogenic Peptide Amphiphile for Deep Dermal Burn Healing via Spray Delivery, Loria DiMartino

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    Digital Transformation: The Need for a Sustainable Green Culture in African Higher Education Institutions, Cheryl Akinyi Genga and Sunday Samson Babalola

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    Discovery and Description of a Novel Mode of Oviposition in the Mosquito Genus Culex, Liz Wynne

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    Diversity in Manga, Tori Hopper

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    Divine Condemnation and Psychological Flexibility: Viewing Psychological Distress through a Religious Lens, Abby Chittenden

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    Downtown Hattiesburg: In History and Memory, Joseph Reosti

     

    Down with the Tyranny of Bean Counting: Setting Goals and Measuring Outcomes with USU's IR, Erica Finch and Connor Murphy

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    Drawing the Line: One Cartoonist's Journey into Visual Storytelling, Marshall Ramsey

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    Dr. Monette’s Observations on Emerald Mound.pdf, John L. Cotter

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    Dynamic Key-Based Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for Internet of Drones, Zain Chaudhary

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    Editorial Commentary to the Special Issue on “Transformative Educational Technologies: Innovations across Disciplines and Contexts”, Richard Chen Li, Simon K. S. Cheung, and Lam For Kwok

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    Effectiveness of Multimodal Communicative Practices in Higher Artistic Education: An Analysis of Contemporary Approaches, Mariia Tkach, Alla Kozyr, Mykhailo Mymryk, Nadiia Holubytska, and Iryna Khomych

     

    Empowering Student Voices: Expanding Inclusion and Faculty Engagement with Student Collections, Cindy Gruwell and Andii Johnson

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    Engaging scientific sense-making: An analysis of participation within informal science interaction, Spencer Barbier

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    Engaging Student Curiosity to Propel Development of Literacy Skills, Jo Hackl

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    Environmental Risks from Tourism Carbon Emissions in China, Wei Tu, Wei Wang, Qin-Pu Liu, Ming-Hsiang Chen, and Mark Beattie

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    Establishment of Structure-Property-Processing Relationships for Design of Sprayable Hydrogels and Amyloid/PEO Electrospun Composites, Xianjun Wang

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    Evaluating the Implementation of an Evidence-Based Discharge Checklist on 15-Day Hospital Re-admissions for Heart Failure in a VA Setting, JOANN LATHON

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    Evaluation of STE(A)M Education: An Analysis of Research and Practices from 2014 to 2023, Billy T.M. Wong, Kam Cheong Li, and Mengjin Liu

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    February 2025 Library News, University Libraries

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    Filipino Music in the Sphere of Multicultural Music Education: A Survey of Preservice Teachers, Lauren Johnson

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    Finding a Choreographic Relationship Between Music and Dance Performance, Grace Dugas

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    From Heuristic Approach to Agile Mindset, Miloslava Cerna, Anna Borkovcová, and Simon K.S. Cheung

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    Funding, Programming, and Community Engagement: How the Mississippi Humanities Council Can Benefit Libraries, Katie Molpus and Tonja Murphy

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    Gender Moderation on Students’ Adoption of WhatsApp for Learning-Support Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa, Douglas Yeboah, Paul Nyagorme, Brandford Bervell, Godfred Yaw Koi-Akrofi, and Awo Esaah Bempong

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    General Keynote, Carmen Agra Deedy, Carmen Deedy

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    General Keynote, Ezra Jack Keats Panel, Ezra Jack Keats Foundation

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    General Keynote, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Susan Bartoletti

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    General Keynote, Will Hillenbrand, Will Hillenbrand

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    Globally Adaptive Exponential Integrators for Stiff Systems of ODEs, Anzhelika Vasilyeva

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    Got Paper??, K.E. Hones

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    Gulf and Caribbean Research Volume 35 Reviewers, Mark S. Peterson

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    Historical News and Notices, Arthur Palmer Hudson, John L. Cotter, Magdalen Eichert, R.A. McLemore, and Madel Jacobs Morgan

     

    "I Don't Tend That Part of My Garden": The Self-Archiving Practices of Arts and Humanities Scholars, Lindsey Skaggs, Rachel Scott, and Colby Cilento

     

    I Know What You Did Last Summer: A Look at the New Administrative Features and Updates in the Figshare Platform, Andrew Mckenna-Foster

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    Impacted by Incarceration: How Libraries Can Support Children and Families Affected by the Legal System, Ramona Caponegro and Ashlynn Koontz

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    Implementation of Smart Training on Construction Site Safety : A Case Study in Hong Kong, Yan Wai Chan, Kwan Keung Ng, and Simon K.S. Cheung

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    Implementing Storytelling into the Elementary School Classroom: A Best Practice Guide with Adaptable Lessons, Cali Reinhart

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    Improving Consistency of Quality-of-Life-Assessments In Schizophrenia Patients Through Structured Education For Healthcare Providers, Dorothy Stewart

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    Improving Hypertension Outcomes Through Biweekly Text Message Interventions, Patricia Thompson

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    Inclusivity in Story Time: A Beginner's Toolbox, Annaliese Melvin

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    Influence of Glycopolymer Structure on Amphiphilic, Hybrid, Linear Branched Block Copolymer Properties for use in Biomedical Applications, Kevin Green

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    Influence of Head Sway on the Availability of Visual Information in an Affordance Task, Ron Dickson Jr.

     

    Institutional Repositories: Looking Back and Moving Forward, Sue Gardner, Andii Johnson, Colleen Lyon, Yumi Ohira, Kaleena Rivera, and Emily Stenberg

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    Investigating the Effects of Workload Management Strategies on Nurse Practitioner Burnout and Job Satisfaction, Erica G. Smith

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    It’s Not a Phase, It’s a…Musical?: The Innate Theatricality of the Emo Movement of the 2000s, Kylie Alyssa Price

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    January 2025 Library News, University Libraries

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    Judgement and Doom: Apocalyptic Anxiety and Rhetoric in Anglo-Saxon England, Lauren Coghlan

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    Knighted Pawn's Tour, Morgan Wilson

     

    Learning to Let Go: Weeding for Sustainability in a Mature Repository, Jeffrey M. Mortimore and Nathan Banks

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    Let's Write a Story!, Linda Williams Jackson

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    Letters from the Periphery: L.E. Faulkner’s Crusade Against Communism, Cameron Melendez

     

    Marian Allen: Founder of the Laurel-Jones County Black History Museum and Art Facility, Marian Allen

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    Mathematical Melodies: The Exploration of Music Using Fourier Signal Analysis, Courtney Francois

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    Measuring Emotion in Education Using GSR and HR Data from Wearable Devices, Qian Dong, Qingyun Wang, and Rong Miao

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    Medallion Session, LeUyen Pham, LeUyen Pham

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    Media and Attitudes: GLP-1 Medications for Weight Loss, Wiio Meinheit

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    Mississippi in 1950, R.A. McLemore and Nannie P. McLemore

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    MLC's Special Collections and Your Library, Charlie Simpkins

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    New Observations of Common Snook, Centropomus undecimalis, in Mississippi Coastal Waters, with a Summary of Local Records, Tiffany A. Weidner, William C. Tilley, Brooke Doucet, Angelos Apeitos, Eric A. Saillant, James S. Franks, and Jeremy M. Higgs

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    Observations of Lateral Salinity Variability at a Deltaic-Bay Transition Zone, Mobile Bay, Alabama, Clara Oxford, Brian Dzwonkowski, and Josh Goff

     

    One Search or One System? Weighing Cross-Platform Discovery Against All-in-One Repositories, Elizabeth La Beaud

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    Paralympic Athletes’ Perspectives on Necessary Factors to Improve the Health and Performance Among Team USA, Heather Thornhill

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    Prescription for Change: Tackling Inappropriate Antibiotic Use in Urgent Care Settings, Lachundra Mosley

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    Privacy-Aware AI-Based Agricultural Monitoring Using Internet of Drones, Md Benozir Hossain

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    Programming on the Fly: Building a Programming Toolkit for Rainy Days, Kandice Evans and Katie Grice

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    Promoting Engaging Reading Experiences with Physical Activities, Tori Hopper

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    Proving Concept Through Podcasting, Brett Harris and Adam Trest

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    Public Building Accessibility: An Expanded Access Analysis Metric, Carolyn Wilkinson

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    Quasipseudometric Value Functions with Dense Rewards, Khadichabonu Valieva

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    Reducing Transactional Distance in A Hybrid-Flexible Learning Environment in Higher Education: Interaction and Engagement Despite Asynchronous Communication, Natalie C. Nussli and Kevin Oh

     

    Refocusing Open Access Marketing and Education Efforts in Response to Local Perceptions, Julie Shedd and Megan Bean

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    Relationships Between the Social Deprivation Index and Mental Health Outcomes in Sexual and Gender Minority Adults, Bea Twilbeck

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    Replication of “Assessing the Student Nurses’ Knowledge of Oral Health Care”, Heaven McNalty

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    Review-A Girl's Life in New Orleans: The Diary of Ella Grunewald, 1884-1886, Blake Denton

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    Review-Charleston Horse Power: Equine Culture in the Palmetto City, Blake Denton

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    Sands of Change in the Mississippi Delta: How Local Newspapers Prevent News Deserts from Silencing Their Communities, Sophia H. LaPalme

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    Sedimentary Characteristics of Flood Deposits in Coastal and Fluvial Environments: Examples from Washover Fans (North Carolina, USA) and Floodplain Deposits (Mississippi, USA), Shara Gremillion

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    Sensory Programming at Your Library: Creating Meaningful, Hands-On Learning Experiences Through Imaginative (and Messy) Play, Aimee Ardonne

     

    Showcasing Excellence with Digital Commons, Christa Johnson-Perkins

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    Sibship Analysis of Fall and Spring Spawn Gulf Sturgeon Eggs in the Choctawhatchee River, Florida, Lyric McCullouch

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    Sliding Window Method for Simulating Action Potentials in Axons, Hayden Reed

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    SLIS Lecturer Keynote, Jamie Naidoo, Jamie Naidoo

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    Smart Education across Academic Disciplines: A Systematic Literature Review, Billy T.M. Wong, Kam Cheong Li, and Mengjin Liu

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    Social Patterns in Physical Infrastructure: Associations between Socioeconomic Status and Walkability, Kaylee Coursey

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    Some Implications Arising From Robert J. Walker’s Participation in Land Ventures, Magdalen Eichert

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    Strangers Into Neighbors: Engaging Community Conversations That Matter, Gloria McEwen Burgess and Meridith Wulff

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    Supplementation of Magnesium Glycinate: Testing the Acute Effects of Magnesium Glycinate on the Stress Levels of College Students, Meagan Bubeck

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    Tailoring the morphology of block copolymers via solvent-vapor annealing, Bayleigh Madelin Loving

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    Taking a Whole-School Read to the Next Level to Help Students Create Cross-Curricular Connections, Build Empathy, Grit and Resilience, and Strengthen the Overall School Community, Jo Watson Hackl

     

    Taking Control: Acquiring, Migrating, and Assessing the University's Institutional Repository, Challen Wright

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    Teaching Story Structure Like an Author, Heather C. Morris and Hallie Christensen

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    Technical Difficulties: An Investigation of Problematic Social Media Usage and Well-Being of Emerging Adults, Sarah Swan

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    Teen Takeover: Trendy Programs for Teen Audiences, Beth Shamley

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    Ten Years of SMIRC (2015-2025): Reflections on the Changing Nature of Repository Librarianship, Jeanne Pavy

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    The Contributions for Bassoon With Piano Accompaniment and Orchestral Accompaniment of Eugene Bozza with Analyses of Representative Solo Compositions, Denise C. Rogers Rowan

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    The Effect of a Peptide Targeting Ligand on Transfection Efficiency of Polymeric Nanoparticles to Dendritic Cells, Anthony Radka

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    The Effect of Gender on Career Success in Remote Work Settings in the Accounting Profession, Ashlyn Roche

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    The Effect of the Black Ink Red Ink Testing Method on Anxiety Levels, Test Performance, and Note-Taking Behavior among College Students, Peyton Murphy

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    The Effects of a River Closure on a Snook (Centropomus spp.) Nursery Community in the Rio Grande River, Texas, Ethan Getz, Perry Trial, Catherine Eckert, and Joel Anderson

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    THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19 ON EDUCATORS IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI, Alexis Papp

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    The Factors that Affect USM Student Experience in the General Chemistry Classroom, Emma Dickerson

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    The Impact of Hazardous Noise Levels on the Hearing Mechanism of Marching Band Students, Margaret Westbrook

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    The Interplay Between Attribution Bias and Psychotic-like Experiences: The Role of Social Media, Jordan Leggett

     

    The Long and Short of It: IR Considerations for Today and Tomorrow, Christopher Stewart, Bonnie Bennet, and Donna Rose

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    The Numerical Method for Finding All the Zeros of a Function f (x) on an Interval [a,b], Franissa Simon

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    The Sexual Assault Survivor Experience of Medical Forensic Examinations, Brielle Simonsen

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    The Southern Miss Bower Academic Center: A Recent Academic Library-Athletics Partnership, Blake Denton

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    This is How We Roll: How a Trolley Got a Second Life to Take the Library to its Community, Karyn Walsh and Ethan Glenn

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    Those Lost in the Wood, Emily JoAnne Rutland

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    Transcendental Blooms: Margaret Fuller and the Radical Language of Flowers, Jenna McClain

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    Transcriptional Analysis of Inflammatory Responses of Mouse Trophoblast Stem Cells to Interferon Gamma, Arnaz Maryam Tariq

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    Tuning the Morphology of Triblock Copolymers via Homopolymer Blending, John F. Searles

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    University Libraries Annual Report 2023-2024, University Libraries

     

    Using Configurable Entities in DSpace 7.2, Anne Shelley

     

    Using IR for CUREs: Collaborating with Educators to Preserve Undergraduate Projects on an Institutional Repository, Zachary Stein and Roxanne Bourque

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    Utilization of Quantitative Monitoring to Promptly Detect and Reduce the Occurrence of Residual Paralysis in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, Kathryn Elizabeth Nokes and Erin Moran Travis

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    Vietnamese EFL Lecturers’ Perceptions of the Role of ChatGPT in Facilitating Language Acquisition Among Their Students, Thanh Thao Le, Phuong Hoang Yen Dr, Trut Thuy Pham, Ngoc Bao Chau Tran, and Thi Thuy Linh Nguyen

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    Walking Within the Pages: Using Storywalks to Enhance Literacy Engagement, Charlie Simpkins and Elisabeth Scott

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    What Can You Do with One Book?, Karen Konnerth

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    Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story: A Comparative Analysis of the Representations of American Serial Killers in News and True Crime Media, Jenelle Walters

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    Words that Mend: Finding Heart, Hope, and the Transformative Power of Writing Poetry, Kim Johnson and Margaret Simon

 
 
 

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