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Dissertations from 2012
Polymer Surface Engineering Via Thiol-Mediated Reactions, Ryan Matthew Hensarling
The Relationship Between Student Achievement of At-Risk Students and the Georgia Performance Standards in Mathematics, Loralee Ann Hill
Literacy: Parent Training in the Elementary Educational System, Mattie Darlene Mathis Hill
Personality Assessment in African Elephants (Loxodonta africana), Kristina Marie Horback
Assessment of a University Faculty Development Program on Speaking and Writing Pedagogy Through Direct Measurement of Student Learning Outcomes, Julie Gissendanner Howdeshell
Using the Good Behavior Game to Decrease Disruptive Behavior While Increasing Academic Engagement with a Headstart Population, Brandy Marie Hunt
The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Effectiveness Among Sponsored Research Administrators, Ventez Derrell Jones
Effects of Hypoxia and 4-tert-octylphenol on Gene Expression Profiles of the Sheepshead Minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus), Arthur Alan Karels
Practitioners or Researchers: Ed.D. or Ph.D.? An Analysis of Educational Leadership Doctoral Programs, Michael Dwyane Kennedy Jr.
Development of a Scale to Measure Local Residents' Perceived Social Impacts of Hosting Large-Scale Sport Events, Wonyoung Kim
Assessing a Culture of Innovation Leadership on the Human Capital in Healthcare, Cheryl Zipay Kirby
Roadblocks to Integrating Technology Into Classroom Instruction, Courteney Lester Knight
An Analysis of the Impact of Continuous Progress Curriculum on Student Achievement, Jessica LaRae Ladner Taylor
Interactive Whiteboard Use: The Catalyst of Student Achievement, Tenneille Terrell Lamberth
"When the Eternal Can Be Met": Bergsonian Time in the Theologies of C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden, James Corey Latta
Anxiety in Children/Youth with Bowel and Bladder Dysfunction and Their Parents: Impact of Medical, Educational, and Psychosocial Factors, Leslie Cristen LaVergne
The Impact of a Direct Care Training Program on the Self-Efficacy of Newly Hired Direct Care Employees at State Mental Health Facilities, Marcus Wayne Lewis
Teacher Perception of Their Initial Traditional or Alternitive Teacher Training Program, Daphne Yolanda Lowe
A Performer’s Guide to Six Song Cycles Composed Between 1959 and 2010 by Mississippi Composers, Sarah Hogrefe Mabary
Modern Approaches for Multifunctional Hydrolyzying Thiol-ene Networks, Nicole Marie Mackey
Leadership Styles and School Performance: Is There a Gender Difference in Expectations for Teachers, Iris Denise Magee
Increasing Positive Interactions Between Staff and Individuals with Disabilities: The Impact of Training on Acquisition and Maintenance, Kimberly Anne Martell
WJ Julian: His Life and Career with Emphasis on His Tenure as Director of Bands at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1961 to 1993, John Tilford Martin
The Relationship Between Schools Utilizing Positive Behavior Interventions and Support Programs and Student Achievement, Lori Herrington Massey
Closing the Achievement Gap: A Study of Leadership Behaviors of Principals at Title I Distinguished Schools, Liss Althea Maynard
Determinants of Tax Effort: A Cross Country Analysis, Mark Alan McCoon
High-Stakes Testing and Its Relationship to Stress Levels of Coastal Secondary Teachers, Sheneatha Lashelle Alexander McDaniel
Criminal Justice Students' Perceptions of Restorative Justice: A Study of Demographic Variables and Restorative Justice Values, Lana Adelaide McDowell
What Professional and Personal Strategies Do Successful Principals Possess to Cultivate a School Culture that Promotes Academic Success in a Blue Ribbon School, Carlos LaTeetha McKinney
The Use of Humor for Emotion Management on the Job: An Exploration of 911 Communication Centers, Jennifer Dell McLaughlin
Teacher Attitudes Toward the Use of Accommodations in the Classroom and on Standardized Tests, Michele Penny Meadows
Mortality Salience and Worldview Defense, Toni Brooke Merkey
Leading Through Crisis: Competencies for Effective Sport Security Professionals, Steven Gerald Miller
An Examination of Perceived Stress Levels and Coping Styles Among Rural Law Enforcement Officers, Marcos Luis Misis
Nobody's Boy, Linda Maria Mobley
America Reads-Mississippi Future Teacher Corps: A Study of Program Completers' Perception of Factors Influencing the Decision to Become and Remain Classroom Teachers, Deborah Green Moore
A Study of SATP Scores and Principals’ Perceptions for Traditional and Alternate Routes to Teacher Certification, Eddie Eugene Moore
The Effects of Increased Accountability Standards on Graduation Rates for Students With Disabilities, Mitzie Lee Moore
Seeing the Chemistry Around Me – Helping Students Identify the Relevance of Chemistry to Everyday Life, Tracy Lynn Moore
Tripping With Stephen Gaskin: An Exploration of a Hippy Adult Educator, Gabriel Patrick Morley
Teacher Certification and Student Achievement, Patricia Lewis Moss
Family Experiences and Children With Autism Who Use Speech Generating Devices, Rebecca Elizabeth Mullican
The Impact of Celebrity Endorser Type and Source Credibility on the Advertising Attitudes and Purchase Intentions of Indian Rural Consumers, Sidharth Muralidharan
Factors Related to Student Performance in Statistics Courses in Lebanon, Hiba Salim Naccache
The Relationship Between Middle School Teachers’ Perceptions of Principals’ Transformational Leadership Practices, Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy and Student Achievement, Antwane LaJacques Nelson
The Relationship Between Academic Optimism and Academic Achievement in Middle Schools in Mississippi, LaQuanta Murray Nelson
The Impact of Teacher Demographics on the Overrepresentation of African American Males in Special Education in a Coastal School District, Myrick Lamon Nicks
Empirical Identification of Axis I and Axis II Symptom Subtypes of Sex Addiction Using Lateny Profile Analysis, Maria Isabel Nino de Guzman
Genetic Variation in Potentially Virulent Vibrio parahaemolyticus From the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Nicholas Felix Noriea III
Community College Students' Perceptions of Effective Communication in Online Learning, Donna Alice Hill Parker
Classroom Management Styles: The Differences Among Traditionally-Licensed Teachers Who Were Formally Paraprofessionals and Alternatively-Licensed Teachers, Caterria Beasley Payton
The Impact of the No Child Left Behind Act and School Choice on Student Achievement, Wendy Ruddell Pettett
Slavery and Empire: The Development of Slavery in the Natchez District, 1720-1820, Christian Pinnen
The Effects of School-Home Notes on Teacher Reports of Academic Productivity and Disruptive Classroom Behaviors of Middle School Students, Nichol Frances Pritchard
A Conductor’s Guide to the Poetic and Musical Style of the Cante Jondo Based on the Work of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Romancero Gitano, Op.152, for Choir and Guitar with Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Poema del Cante Jondo, Elsa Patricia Ramierz-Hacker
Planned Parenthood Takes On Live Action: An Analysis of Media Interplay and Image Restoration Strategies in Strategic Conflict Management, Leslie Lynn Rasmussen
Management of Biological and Chemical Constituents for the Advancement of Intensive, Minimal-Exchange, Biofloc-based Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) Aquaculture, Andrew James Ray
Interviewing Practices of Principals and the Role that Biases May Have on the Hiring Process, Lisa Ann Redmon
The Effects of Teacher Praise on Engagement and Work Completion of Students of Typical Development, Brandon Joseph Richard
Retaining Urban Middle School Teachers: An Investigation of Influencing Factors, JacQueline Elaine Richardson
A Pedagogical Guide and Argument for Using the Harmonic Series in Teaching Beginning and Intermediate Level Horn Students, Patrick James Richards
Unnecessary Evil: An Examination of Abu Ghraib Torture Photographs as Postcolonial Resistance Rhetoric, Patrick Gerhardt Richey
Teacher and Administrator Perceptions of In-School Suspension Programs on Changing Student Behavior and Academic Success in Schools, John Scott Rimes
A Study of the Effect of Appreciative Inquiry on Student-Course Engagement and Attendance in the Community College, Frances Virginia Turner Robbins
Employee Racial Discrimination Complaints: Exploring Power Through Co-Cultural Theory, Leslie Yvette Rodriguez
An Examination of Mississippi Public School Teachers' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Their Professional Development Experiences in Raising Student Achievement, Daniel Martin Rushing
Molecular Network Development of a Thermosetting Epoxy-Amine Polymer, Christopher Michael Sahagun
Jimmy Carter’s Post-Presidential Rhetoric: Faith-Based Rhetoric and Human Rights Foreign Policy, Daniel Eric Schabot
Parenting Stress, Behavior, Treatment Satisfaction, and Hope in Caregivers of Children with Developmental Disabilities, Paige Cristin Schultz
Positive Peer Reporting and Positive Peer Reporting Combined With Tootling: A Comparison of Interventions, Julie Christine Sherman
Quarry Light and Other Stories, Claudia Lois Smith
Financial Communication in Romantic Relationships, Joy Nichole Smithson
What Makes Finzi Finzi? The Convergence of Style and Struggle in the Life of Gerald Finzi and in His Set Before and After Summer, op. 16, Trevor Dangerfield Smith
Administrators and Teachers' Perceptions of Key Components of the School Improvement Grant, Willis Anthony Smith
Further Validation of the Child Routines Questionnaire: Child Self Report, Christina Binder Stabler
The Cultural Complex of Innocence: An Examination of Media and Social Construction of Missing White Woman Syndrome, Sarah Land Stein
"If It Ain't Broke, Break It": How Corporate Journalism Killed the "Arkansas Gazette", Donna Lampkin Stephens
A Study of the Leadership Code and Employee Engagement, Richard James Stewart
Is There a Relationship Between Ninth Grade Transitional Programs and At-Risk Student Achievement?, Susan Marie Stoddard
ADHD in Young Boys: A Correlational Study Among Early Childhood Educators in Louisiana, Jessica Hart Stubbs
Do Teachers Modify Classroom Instruction and Management Plans Based on Student Gender, Mitchell Raymond Stubbs
Professional Learning Communities, Self Efficacy, and Collaborative Learning in the Elementary School, Diana Provancha Sweigart
A Comparison of Institutional Climates in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa, Juanyce Deanna Taylor
Teacher Perceptions Regarding Positive Behavior Intervention Support, LaWanda Joy Singleton Thornton
Microstructure, Vacancies and Voids in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon, Rajendra Timilsina
Evaluating the Interpersonal Nature of Humor: Mapping Humor Styles Onto the Interpersonal Circumplex, Jessica Erin Vaughan
A Holy Curiosity: Transformative Self-Directed Learning to Breakthrough New Knowledge in the Case of Einstein, Deanna Lynn Vogt
Do At-Risk Students Benefit When Novanet is Used for Credit Recovery?, Rebecca Lynn Volkerding
Chasing Until the Wheels Fall Off: Developing a Typology of High-Risk Police Pursuits in Georgia, Lee Miller Wade
The Effectiveness of a District-Wide Training Initiative on Determining Preparedness of Educational Leaders in a Large, Southeastern Louisiana School System, Jeanne Bordelon Wagner
Marine Fungi of U.S. Gulf of Mexico Barrier Island Beaches: Biodiversity and Sampling Strategy, Allison Kathleen Walker
The Effect of the Parent Liaison on Latino Student High School Completion and Parent Involvement, Jeanne Thompson Walker
African American Male Elementary Teachers' Perceptions on Factors that Influence Their Retention and Attrition: A Qualitative Study, Lemanski Chante' Walker
Narcissism and Interpersonal Relationships: Examining the Use of Prosocial and Coercive Behavior Strategies Among Adolescents in a Residential Setting, Marion Tam'eca Wallace
Implications of the No Child Left Behind Legislation on Career and Technical Education, Thomas Kyle Wallace
The Wanderers and Other Stories, Courteney Danielle Watson