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Dissertations from 2010
If and to What Extent Spirituality Impacts the Leadership Practices of Four African American Superintendents, Christopher James Williams Sr.
Assessing the Need for Community College Baccalaureate Degree Programs in Mississippi, Johannah Bell Williams
Technical Writing Redesign and Assessment: A Pilot Study, Gaye Bush Winter
The Secret Identity of Race: Exploring Ethnic and Racial Portrayals in Superhero Comic Books, Lowery Anderson Woodall III
Determining the Relationship of Human Enteric Viruses in Clinical, Wastewater, and Environmental Samples Utilizing Molecular and Cell Culture Techniques, Jacquelina Susann Williams Woods
Local Radial Basis Function Methods for Solving Partial Differential Equations, Guangming Yao
Assessing the Impact of a Computer-Based College Algebra Course, Ningjun Ye
Synthesis of Functional Copolymers via Aqueous RAFT Polymerization for Bioconjugation and Targeted Delivery of Small Interfering RNA, Adam Wesley York
Rational Design of Self-Assembled Nanostructures Based on Polymers Synthesized via Aqueous Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization, Stacey Kirkland York
Nanomaterials From Biologically Active Molecules: Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition, Min Yu
Folate Receptor-Targeted Delivery of Small Interfering RNA to Cancer Cells, Yilin Zhang
Dissertations from 2009
Sport as a Vehicle for Socialization and Maintenance of Cultural Identity: International Students Attending American Universities, James Taylor Allen
"The Mirror Turn Lamp": Natural-Supernatural in Yeats, Cleston Lee Armstrong III
The Physical Educator's Perception of the Adequate Implementation and Overall Impact of the Healthy Students Act of Mississippi, Carol Johnson Barnes
Adult Student Satisfaction in an Accelerated LPN-RN Nursing Program, Kathy French Batton
Form Blindness Testing: Assessing the Ability to Perform Latent Print Examination by Traditional Versus Nontraditional Students, Dean James Bertram
Understanding the Change Styles of Teachers to Improve Student Achievement, Arlene May Green Bigby
Stories, Ethics and the Interpretation of Meaning: Bearing Witness to Mothers' Stories of Their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Experience, Angela Chisum Blackburn
For the Stadium Vendor, Richard Andrew Boada
Attitudes of Faculty and Students Toward Traditional and Nontraditional Students and the Intergenerational Postsecondary Classroom, Susan Walters Bourland
Source-Message-Receiver in Integrated Marketing Communication: A Study of U.S. Institutional Advancement, Sharee LeBlanc Broussard
Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance: Relationship to Body Image and Exercise Behavior, Kathryn Louise Brown
Determinants of Resident Assistant Job Satisfaction in Privatized University Housing, Jennifer Lynn Casey
Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillos for Guitar: Afro-Cuban Elements and Pedagogical Devices, Carlos Isaac Castilla Penaranda
Investigation of Novel Thiol "Click" Reactions, Justin William Chan
Predictors and Influences of Graduation Rates in Mississippi Public Schools, Donna Rebekah Holden Chiasson
Impact of Preschool Education on Reading Achievement of Kindergarten Through Fifth Grade Students, Melissa Harvey Clark
In Quest of Walter Smith: The Past, Present, and Future Impact of Visual Art in Adult Education, Meredith Amanda Cole
Companionship Through Standard Question and Answer Routines, Ryan Saxon Davidson
Answer Me That, Catherine Davis
Gender, Mathematics, Reading Comprehension and Science Reasoning as Predictors of Science Achievement Among African-American Students at a Historical Black College or University, Consuella Artiemese Davis
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Revised Optimism-Pessimism Scale of the MMPI-2, Ginger Burge DeBrule
Posttraumatic Spiritual Growth: A Phenomenological Study of Cancer Survivors, Ryan Myles Denney
Functional Characterization and Assembly Studies of Carboxysomes in Halothiobacillus neapolitanus, Zhicheng Dou
African-American College Student Attitudes Toward Physics and Their Effect on Achievement, Carl Timothy Drake
Conservation Genetics and Systematics of Several Turtles Species in the Southeastern United States, Joshua Robert Ennen
A Longitudinal Examination of Outcomes Related to Emotional Abuse in Children, Lauren Seale Fryer
Motivated by Money: Students With Academic Scholarships Versus Those Without and Their Emotional Intelligence, Elizabeth Marie Elbert Giroir
An Investigation of the Persuasive Effects of Rhetorical Questions, Message Framing, and the ELM in Promoting Responsible Cell Phone Usage, Robert James Glenn III
Integration of the BSCS 5E Instructional Method and Technology in an Anatomy and Physiology Lab, Tamilselvi Gopal
Teaching Science in Light of World View: The Effect of Contextualized Instruction on the Scientific Compatibility of Religious College Students' World Views, Paula Rae Gossard
Interpersonal Perception of Narcissism in an At-Risk Adolescent Sample: A Social Relations Analysis, Sarah June Grafeman
Comparative Analysis of Representative Marimba Works by Nebojsa Jo Van Zivkovic, Jefferson Lavelle Grant III
Journalism Students, Web 2.0 and the Digital Divide, Mary Elizabeth Green
A Cross-Cultural Study of Intergenerational Communication in Workplace, Yan Guan
Reverse Engineering of Gene Regulatory Networks for Discovery of Novel Interactions in Pathways Using Gene Expression Data, Tanwir Habib
The 2008 United States Senate Elections: A Typology of Negative Themes on Candidate-Sponsored Websites, Erin Brining Hammond
Mathematics Achievement of Regular Education Students by Placement in Inclusion and Non-Inclusion Classrooms and Their Principals' Perceptions of Inclusion, Loretta Rodgers Hartfield
The Relation Among Sleep, Routines, and Behavior in Children With an Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jill Angelique Henderson
"Blessed are the Dead Which Die in the Lord": The Influence of the American Tract Society on the Historical Evolution of American Literary Sentimentalism, Joel Bridges Henderson
Interrelations Among Personality, Religious and Nonreligious Coping, and Mental Health, Jude Martin Henningsgaard
An Assessment of the Impact of a Science Outreach Program, Science in Motion, on Student Achievement, Teacher Efficacy, and Teacher Perception, Phillip Allen Herring
Remote Sensing of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Mississippi Sound and Mobile Bay: Modelling and Algorithm Formation, Dan Martin Holiday
The Effects of Climate Variability on the Structure of the Phytoplankton Community in Tumaco Bay, Colombia, Ingrid Garcia-Hansen Honkala
The Relationships of Learning Style Balance and Learning Dimensions to Self-Directed Learning Propensity Among Adult Learners, Sarah Tullos Hutto
Entropy and Certainty in Lossless Data Compression, James Jay Jacobs
An Assessment of Democratic Policing in the Turkish National Police: Police Officials' Attitudes Toward Recent Police Reforms, Akin Karatay
A Comparative Analysis of Roman Palester's Concertino Pour Saxophone Alto Et Orchestre A Cordes, Brian Donald Kauth
The Projectionist, Travis Keith Kurowski
Classroom Management: Teacher Training, Attitudes and Beliefs, and Intervention Practices, Margaret Catherine Davis Ladner
Student Perceptions of an Effective Learning Environment Across the Dimensions of Synchronous, Asynchronous, and Face-to-Face Instruction, Jarrett Landor-Ngemi
The Relationship Between Calcium Intake, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: The Jackson Heart Study, Marjuyua Lartey-Rowser
Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Time Series Microarray Data, Peng Li
Bridging Functional Genomics and Toxicogenomics Through DNA Microarrays in a Fish Model, Shuzhao Li
Principal Efficacy: An Investigation of School Principals' Sense of Efficacy and Indicators of School Effectiveness, Charles Wayne Lovell
Application of Molecular Modeling in the Noncovalent Dispersion of Carbon Nanomaterials, Praveen Kumar Madasu
Developmental Studies Courses and the Success of Non-Traditional Students at a Major Public University in the Southeast, Charlotte Tagert Matthews
Relationships Among Elementary Teachers' Self-Perceptions of Musical Intelligence, Perceived Value of Instruction Through Music, and Classroom Instructional Practices, Peggy Jo Hubbard McCullough
The Relationship Between Leadership Behaviors, Teacher Collaboration, and Student Achievement, Angela Nix McHenry
Scarred Images: Using Appearance as a Motivator to Reduce Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol, Mary-Theresa McNabb
Molecular Interactions Involved in the Biogenesis of Bacterial Microcompartments, Balaraj Balaram Menon
The Effects of Dolphin Education Programs on Visitors' Conservation-related Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior, Lance Joseph Miller
Design, Synthesis, and Film Formation of Fluorine Containing Colloidal Dispersions, Anuradha Misra
Issaquah in January, Daniel Walter Morris
Perceived Effectiveness of Hall Director Leadership Style on the Satisfaction of Resident Assistants in Mississippi, Rheo Joelyn Avorice Morris
Petticoat Government: Poems and Essays, Tiffany Ann Noonan
Random and Block Copolymers of Poly(dodecamethyleneterephthalamide), Theodore Frank Novitsky Jr.
Matching Time of Day and Preference for Adolescent Achievement, Leisha Moree Parker
The Effects of Differential Negative Reinforcement of Task Engagement on Escape from Academic Tasks, Brett Vivian Mehrtens Prince
The Effect of Holland's Person-Environment Fit on Trait Anger, Interpersonal Conflict at Work, and Workplace Aggression, Aimee Chantelle Pseekos
The Effect of the Alabama Mathematics, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) on Middle School Students' Scores in Mathematics and Science, Toni Boyd Ramey
A Performance Project with an Historical and Analytical Perspective on the Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, Op. 31 by Peter Jona Korn, Brian Sanford Ransom
An Investigation Into the Use of Geospatial Technologies as Part of Disaster Management Efforts Related to the Asian Tsunami of 2004, Robert William Redding Jr.
Selecting Effective Mathematics Interventions in the RTI Process Via Brief Experimental Analyses, Carmen Daniela Reisener
Influence of Functional Components on the Film Formation of Colloidal Dispersions, Kevin Lee Rhudy
Drop Out or Persist? The Influence of Differentiated Instruction and Teacher Behavior on College Freshmen and GED Students, Vera Strickland Robertson
Tuning Pig Liver Esterase Enantioselectivity for the Synthesis of Unnatural Serine and Tyrosine Analogues, Dale Anthony Rosado Jr.
The Music of Jerry Sieg: A Descriptive Catalogue of His Piano Music and an Analysis of the Five Miniatures for Piano, Nuria Mariela Royas
Factors Influencing Nurse Faculty's Job Satisfaction and Intent to Stay, Sally Pulver Ruel
Oceanic-Atmospheric Modes of Variability and Their Effect on River Flow and Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus) Abundance in the Northcentral Gulf of Mexico, Guillermo Humberto Sanchez-Rubio
Factors Influencing the Environmental Quality of the Bay of Saint Louis, Mississippi and Implications for Evolving Coastal Management Policies, Pradnya Ankush Sawant
Preparation and Characterization of Thiol Based Polymeric Materials, Junghwan Shin
The Naming of Strays, Erin Elizabeth Smith