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Dissertations from 2024

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PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH EXAMINING ADMINISTRATORS AND SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS' PERCEPTION, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE OF THE MISSISSIPPI SPECIAL EDUCATION GROWTH RUBRIC, Tricia Pittman

Dissertations from 2023

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DESIGN OF BIOINSPIRED PEPTIDES AND GLYCOPOLYMERS FOR CONTROLLED DRUG LOADING AND RELEASE, Hannah Abernathy

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A Computational Kinetics Model To Quantify Radiation Induced Chemical Products Of Atmospheric Gas Mixtures, Patrick Ables

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WATERBORNE POLYURETHANE DISPERSION COMPOSITES: CONNECTING NEAT FILM MORPHOLOGY TO FILLER LOCALIZATION BEHAVIOR, Garrett Abrahamsen

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PERUVIAN MUSICAL ELEMENTS IN SELECTED PERUVIAN PIANO COMPOSITIONS BY DUNCKER LAVALLE, AYARZA DE MORALES, AND E. VALCÁRCEL ARZE, gonzalo aguilar

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Chaos is Not Rational: Nursing Leadership and Intuition in Disaster Preparedness and Response, Sarah Banks

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A STUDY ON VIVIAN FINE’S CHAMBER CONCERTO FOR CELLO AND SIX INSTRUMENTS, Andrea Beltran Landers

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Harbingers: Stories, Jamie Benner

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SENSING THE RHIZOSPHERE: MICROBIAL TRANSCRIPTOME RESPONSES TO ROOT EXUDATES AND REDOX-ACTIVE METABOLITES, Ankita Bhattacharyya

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RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN THE STRONG BLACK WOMAN SCHEMA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO HEALTH BEHAVIORS AND PERSEVERANCE, Raegan Bishop

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Meta-Analysis of Effective Instruction Delivery, Halley Blanchard

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HARAMED AND DANGEROUS: A THEMATIC EXAMINATION OF MUSLIM WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION IN WE ARE LADY PARTS, Reham Bohamad

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HUMAN CAPITAL FLIGHT: DETERMINANTS OF OUT-MIGRATION DECISIONS AMONG MISSISSIPPI’S COLLEGE GRADUATES, Felicia M. Bowens

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Soft Goodbyes Through Broken Veils, Clayton Bradshaw

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Toughest Men in the South, Greatest Athletes in the World: Gender, Race, and Modernity in Southern Wrestling, Sean Buckelew

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EXPLORING EMPLOYEES’ PERCEIVED FAIRNESS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL PROCESS AND THE INFLUENCE ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION, Cherica Buckner

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The Influence of Childhood Familial Dysfunction on Emotional Well-Being and Substance Use Behaviors in Young Adults, Margaret Bullerjahn

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K-12 Principals and Special Education: A Study of Mississippi Principals’ Knowledge of Special Education Policies and Procedures, Jodi Cameron-Polk

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Understanding the Structure and Dynamics of Conjugated Polymers by Deuteration and Neutron Scattering, Zhiqiang Cao

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Motherlines, Mary Christensen

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A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FDI INFLOWS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY AT THE COUNTRY LEVEL, Jeff Cohu

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Origin and Structure of the First Sharp Diffraction Peak of Amorphous Solids, Devilal Dahal

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The mediating influence of organizational trust on the relationship between transformational leadership and job satisfaction in the virtual workplace, Angela Daniels

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Good Grief, Corinne Dekkers

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​​The Effects of Viewpoint, Motion, and Affordance Priming on Perceptual Learning of Feelies​, Catherine Dowell

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Perceived Gender Norm Adherence in Women as Function of Sex-Typical Facial Features and Surname Decisions, Kelsey Drea

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DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SINGLE-CHAIN NANOPARTICLES, VITRIMERS, BOTTLEBRUSH AND COMB POLYMERS, Logan Dugas

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The Effects of Stepped Care on Burnout for University Counseling Center Clinicians, Madison Estrada

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An Examination of Organizational Influences on Coach Decision Making, Arien Elizabeth Faucett

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The "Othering" of America: How the Strategic use of Crisis and Ressentiment Succeeded in the Trump era, Laura J. Franklin

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REACTIVE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF POLYURETHANES: SIMULTANEOUS POLYMERIZATION AND 3D PRINTING, Aynslie Fritz

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Longitudinal follow-up of Yezidis displaced by ISIS genocide to a host village in Iraq, Jordan Greaser

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THE EFFECTS OF LECTURE CAPTURE DESIGN ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN AN ONLINE, ASYNCHRONOUS NONMAJORS BIOLOGY COURSE, Melissa Ann Gutierrez

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The Helicopter War: Unraveling the Myth and Memory of a Vietnam War Icon, Hayley Hasik

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AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS’, INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT STAFF, AND ADMINISTRATORS’ ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS CONCERNING DATA, DATA-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT., LaShandra Antionette Hodge-McClure

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Gold(I)-Hydroarylation in Polymer Modification – Alkynes and Alkenes with Unexpected Reactivity, Samuel B. Hunt

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AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT, MENTORING, AND ANTICIPATED TURNOVER AMONG MILLENNIALS, Keiasha Hypolite

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The K-5 Teacher Experience of Distance Instruction during School Closures due to COVID-19, Rose Jenkins

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Does Convenience Come with a Price? The Impact of Remote Testimony on Expert Credibility and Decision-Making, Ashley Jones

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Post-racism as Ideology: Character Construction and Placement, & Narrative Structure in Dear White People, Mphatso Kaufulu

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AN EXPLORATION OF FACULTY-TO-FACULTY BULLYING IN NURSING EDUCATION: THE PREVALENCE, WHO IS BULLYING WHOM, AND INTENT TO LEAVE, Pamela Kemp

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The Impact of Social Determinants of Health and Acculturation on Quality of Life in Older Chinese American Adults with Chronic Pain: A Quantitative Study, Chi Lam

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Mating Burrows in the Fiddler Crab Leptuca pugilator: How a Key Resource is Contested, Constructed, and Shared, Zachary Michael Lane

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Social Media Usage and Self-Esteem: The Moderating Role of Media Literacy, Comparison Tendency, and User Motivation, Feng LI

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THE SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND UTILIZATION OF FUNCTIONALLY DIVERSE ROMP-BASED BOTTLEBRUSHES, Cheyenne Liu

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Flourishing in a Non-Traditional Workplace Using Technology-Assisted Imagery, Wendi Lord

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COMPARING THE EFFICACY OF TWO INCLUSIVITY INTERVENTIONS ON WILLINGNESS TO INVEST IN FEMALE- VERSUS MALE-LED STEM AND NON-STEM COMPANIES, Alicia Macchione

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FRIEDRICH WARNECKE: TOWARD A NEW EDITION OF AD INFINITUM, Elton Machado

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LGBTQ+ ADULTS DURING POST-BREAKUP APPRAISALS: UNDERSTANDING ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION COPING MECHANISMS FOLLOWING THE TERMINATION OF A NON-HETEROSEXUAL ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP, Nur E Makbul

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Connecting Social and Ecological Systems in Small-Scale Fisheries in the Philippines, Sara Eisler Marriott

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THE SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST & EMOTIONAL LABOR, STRESS, AND COMPASSION FATIGUE, Patricia Martin

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Two Mothers and a Tara, Apoorva Mittal

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Time's Violence, Matthew Moniz

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Nursing Faculty Perceptions of Stress, Coping, and Intent to Leave the Profession in the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic: A Quantitative Study, LynLee Morgan

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Where have all the surgical nurses gone? Staffing Shortages in Surgical Departments Post COVID-19 Shutdowns, Phoenix Neal

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NOTE-TAKING IN COLLEGE MATHEMATICS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GUIDED NOTES AND INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN COLLEGE ALGEBRA, Verlonda Neal

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Empowerment Agents: How Student Affairs Professionals Facilitate the Persistence of Undocumented Students, Tiffany Paige

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Deciphering Description: A Study of the Works of Joseph Conrad, Autumn Pearson

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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL AND MEDIA DISCOURSE ON IMMIGRATION DURING THE TRUMP ERA, Daleana Phillips

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Development of Graphene and Graphene Derivative Advanced Functional Additives: Mechanism and Application in Asphalt Formulations and Thermal Interface Management Materials, Dana Pinson

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Predictors of Relational Aggression in Women Across Adulthood, Alison Poor

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TRANSPORTATION MANAGERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION WITHIN LOGISTICS CLUSTERS, Stephen McDonald Puryear

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THE MOBILITY OF LONG-LIVED RADIOISOTOPES AND THEIR BURIAL IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT, Neil Redmond

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Spectral Multistep Methods for the Scalable Simulation of Time-Dependent Phenomena, Bailey Rester

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The Influence of Diamine Curing Additives on the Network Architecture of Phthalonitrile Thermosetting Polymers, Tyler J. Richardson

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The Effect of Sulfonamides Structural and Reactive Properties Examined through Difunctionalization of Alkenes, Gavin Rustin

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EFFECTS OF MEMBRANE COMPONENTS ON THE OLIGOMERIZATION OF AMYLOID-β (Aβ) IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE, Jhinuk Saha

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USING IMAGERY PRACTICE TO IMPROVE AIRLINE PILOT SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, Brian Christopher Sajdak

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Novel Corrosion Detection Methods for Understanding Polymer Model Coatings During Immersion, Christopher Scanlon

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The Lived Experiences of ICU, Med-surg, and ER Nurses in the United States Attempting to Breastfeed During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Amy Seay

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Predicting Attrition Among Human Anatomy and Physiology I Students in Community Colleges, Benjimen Sessums

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CHARACTERIZATION OF TICK AND HOST-ASSOCIATED FACTORS LINKED TO INDUCTION OF ALPHA-GAL SYNDROME., Surendra Raj Sharma and Surendra Raj Sharma

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MISSING VALUE IMPUTATION FOR SINGLE OMICS AND MULTI-OMICS DATA, meng song

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A Multiscale Linkage Between Riverscape and Fish Community Coevolution, Loren W. Stearman

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Magnetic Interactions in Open-Shell Conjugated Polymers, Michael Steelman

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All My Gods Are Dead, John Constantine Tobin

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There are Five of Us, Elizabeth Trueblood

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"If These Walls Could Speak": Judson College and the Formation of the New Baptist Woman, 1838-1930, E.Gabrielle Walker

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Research Disposition, Research Support, and Research Self-Efficacy (RSE) in the Field of Education, Leadon D. Williams

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Please Don’t Stop the Music: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Black Protest Music Released Between 2013-2022 as a Response to #BlackLivesMatter, Melissa Williams

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ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS, SELF EFFICACY, JOB SATISFACTION, AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF SCIENCE AND MATH TEACHERS IN ALABAMA, Andrew N. Wood

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INTERESTS AND DECENT WORK’S ACCOUNT OF WELL-BEING AND JOB PERFORMANCE IN A LOWER SOCIAL CLASS SAMPLE, Benjamin J. Wright

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A TALE OF TWO DIAGONALIZATIONS: METHODS TO DIAGONALIZE A 1-D PIECEWISE CONSTANT INDEFINITE SCHRÖDINGER OPERATOR, Sarah Wright

Dissertations from 2022

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Meta-Analysis of Daily Behavior Report Cards, Meleah Ackley

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DELINEATING THE EXOCYTIC FUSION MACHINERY REQUIRED FOR MAST CELL EXOCYTOSIS, Pratikshya Adhikari

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Examining Workplace eLearning Programs Using Persuasive Learning Design: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, David Akanbi

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Hydrolytically Degradable Thermosets with Tunable Degradation Profiles via Ketal-Based Crosslinks, Benjamin Alameda

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A PREDICTIVE MODEL OF COMPLETION AT MISSISSIPPI’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES, Richard Baker

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How System Efficacy Affects Risk Perception: Comparison of the United States, Iran, and China throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic, Nazanin Bani Amerian

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Importance of Alkyl Substitution on the Molecular Architecture and Thermomechanical Performance of Glassy Polybenzoxazine Networks, Bernardo L. Barea-López

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USING NUDGES TO INCREASE ENGAGEMENT WITH SUICIDE PREVENTION RESOURCES IN AN ONLINE SAMPLE OF UNITED STATE MILITARY VETERANS, Brian W. Bauer

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FACTORS IMPACTING MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM COMMUNICATION AND PATIENT-CENTERED COMMUNICATION ALONG THE CANCER CARE CONTINUUM, Jessica Beckham

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RECEPTOR-DOPED ORGANIC TRANSISTORS: TRANSDUCING ANION BINDING FROM MIXED IONIC-ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT, Anthony Benasco

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GUN CONTROL LAWS AND POLICIES REPORTED INFLUENCE ON THE ATTITUDES OF FACULTY AT MISSISSIPPI UNIVERSITIES, David Besancon

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THE PRESENCE OF RELATIONAL TRUST IN TEACHER-PRINCIPAL RELATIONSHIPS AND THE CORRELATION OF TEACHER INTENT-TO-PERSIST AND TEACHER EFFICACY, Maryum Bilal

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From The Shadows of Incarceration to Higher Education: Associated Invisible Identity Development of College Students with Incarcerated Parents, Andrea Blake

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Brenno Blauth’s Compositional Style Elements: A Study on the Sonata for Flute and Piano, T.5., Thiago Bohm Bottega

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Examining and Exploring Social Constructs, Conflict Management Style, and Workplace Conflict Among Workers in the United States, Keith Boyd

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POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF MANAGING BIODIVERSITY AND NATURAL RESOURCES ACROSS INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES, Dillon Brown

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Seeing Children’s Futures Through Rose Colored Glasses: Does Optimism Bias toward Reproduction Discourage Anti-Natalism?, Faith L. Brown