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Dissertations from 2008
A Study to Determine Factors that Inhibit Compliance with Engaging in Recommended Papanicoaou Smear Screenings in African American Women, Valecia Gail Carter-Vaughn
The Principal's Role in Teacher Retention, Sametra Danyal Chisolm
Photopolymerization and Characterization of Crosslinked Thiol-ene Networks and POSS/Thiol-ene Nanocomposites, Tolecia Sharonda Shaunee Clark
An Analysis of the Career Maturity Levels of Intellectually Gifted Adolescents, Yolanda Yvette Baker Cobb
Support Systems, Isolation, and Intended Persistence in Doctoral Education, Casey Nicole Cockrell
"George Bush Doesn't Care about Black People": Hip Hop, Public Discourse and Black Politics in the Early 21st Century, Hazel Bell James Cole
Keeping the Faith: The Public Library's Commitment to Adult Education, 1950-2006, Brenda Weeks Coleman
Post-Disaster Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Significantly Affected College Students Compared to Moderately Affected College Students, Charles Thomas Coleman
Principals' Knowledge of IDEA and Their Implementation of Special Education Services, Karen Smith Collins
An Examination of Napping and Psychosocial Functioning in Preschool Children, Brian Kenneth Crosby
The Effect of the Middle School Concept on Student Achievement in Coastal Mississippi Middle Level Schools, Mary Lee Davis
Student Achievement and Teacher Perception in Small Schools and Large Schools, Frances Irene Dearman
The Effect of Writing as Exposure Therapy on PTSD Symptoms, Daniel Scott DeBrule
Defining Acquaintance Rape: College Students' Perceptions of Sexual Consent and Coercion, Sara Elizabeth Buck Doude
Instrumental Tango Idioms in the Symphonic Works and Orchestral Arrangements of Astor Piazzolla. Performance and Notational Problems: A Conductor's Perspective, Alejandro Marcelo Drago
Knowledge of Pain Management in Older Adults as a Content Area for Continuing Professional Education for Licensed Nurses, Wanda Cleveland Dubuisson
First-First Year Academically Underprepared Students' Judgments of Their Perceived Academic Advising Needs and Preferences and Their Level of Satisfaction and Intention to Persist at The University of Southern Mississippi, Jennifer Lorean Ducksworth
We Become Delicate Boats: Poems and Essays, Deja Anne Earley
A Comparison of Two Distinctive Jazz Trombone Artists, David Steinmeyer and Curtis Fuller, Eddie Lee Elsey Jr.
Perceived Attitude Towards Feedback in Athletic Training Clinical Education, Jessica Lynn Emlich
Differences in Learning Motivations of Professionals and Nonprofessionals Participating in Two South Mississippi Institutes for Learning in Retirement, Constance Marie Farmer
The Role of Racial Attitudes and Identity in Black Client-White Counselor Dyads, Tara Michelle Ferguson
Effectiveness of Before and After-School Tutoring Programs as Measured by the Mississippi Curriculum Test, Patricia Marie Goyette
Perceptions and Knowledge of Special Education Law among Building Administrators in a Selected Georgia School District, Patricia Claire Grasso
Reverse Recruitment: Activation of Yeast Genes at the Nuclear Periphery, Terry Marvin Haley
Effects of Nonfiction Guided Interactive Read-Alouds and Think-Alouds on Fourth Grader's Depth of Content Area Science Vocabulary Knowledge and Comprehension, Tania Tamara Henderson Hanna
Online Delivery at Traditional Institutions: Faculty Concerns and Knowledge about Intellectual Property Rights, La Toya Monique Hart
The Use of Personality Assessments in Designing Environmental Enrichment for Garnett's Bushbabies (Otolemur garnettii), Lauren Elizabeth Highfill
Induction and Peer Coaching Programs in a Middle School Setting, Shanti LaDawn Howard
Investigation of the Interactions of Cationic Polyelectrolytes with Anionic Surfactants: Effects of Polymer, Surfactant and Solution Properties, Lisa Renee Huisinga
Factors Related to Nonacademic Adjustment of Freshmen Students, Nykela Horne Jackson
A Comparative Analysis of Poetic Structure as the Primary Determinant of Musical Form in Selected A Cappella Choral Works of Gerald Finzi and Benjamin Britten, Andrew Malcolm Jensen
The Influence of Career-Technical Student Organizations on Non-Traditional and Traditional Community College Students, Suzanne Lee Johnson
Are the Math Scores of Students Who are Taught Mathematics Utilizing the Methods Endorsed by the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative Affected?, Brenda Elise Jolly
The Rhetorical Strategies of Pregnancy Support Centers Including the Visual Rhetoric of Fetal Ultrasound Technology, Raymond Kyle Jones
Treatment of a Wife's Body in the Fiction of Indian Sub-continental Muslim Women Writers, Hafiza Nilofar Khan
Four Twentieth-Century Mass Ordinary Settings Surveyed Using the Dictates of the Motu Proprio of 1903 as a Stylistic Guide, Jonathan Candler Kilgore
The Perceptions of the Effectiveness of the Phoenix Alternative Program, Jason Dethor Laffitte
Photopolymerization and Characterization of Thiol-enes and Thiourethanes, Qin Li
Yellow Head Virus: Transmission and Genome Analyses, Hongwei Ma
The Relationship Betweeen Dynamic and Chemical Factors on the Morphology in AOT-Water-Polymer Systems, Jolanta Elzbieta Marszalek
Physical Education Content Knowledge and Physical Activity Behaviors of Mississippi High School Students, Christina Leigh Lumpkin Martin
The Influence of Verbal Aggressiveness and Verbal Argumentativeness on College Student Leadership Styles, Jane Anne Mattina
Examination of an Aloe Vera Galacturonate Polysaccharide Capable of In Situ Gelation for the Controlled Release of Protein Therapeutics, Shawn David McConaughy
A Systematic and Taxonomic Review of the Family Pseudotanaidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) Based Primarily on Morphometry Cladistic Analyses, Jerry Alan McLelland
A Performer's Analysis of Eric Ewazen's Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Joseph Daniel McNally III
Health Anxiety and Cognition: Chronic Awareness of Health Concerns or Situational Activation of Latent Dysfunctional Assumptions About Illness?, Desmon Craig Mitchell
Power Base Perceptions of School Administrators at Residential Schools for the Culturally Deaf, Allison Washington Moffett
Synthesis, Propagation Kinetics, and Characterization of D,L-Lactide-Based Polyols and Polyurethanes Therefrom, Scott Joseph Moravek
Synthesis and Characterization of Polymeric Materials Derived From Multifunctional Alkyl a-Hydroxymethylacrylates, Jean-Francois Morizur
Factors That are Associated with Students' Standardized Reading Achievement Scores, Cherie Nichole Mothershead
The Role of MSA in the Global Regulation of Virulence in Staphylococcus aureus, Vijayaraj Nagarajan
NCAA Division I Head Softball Coaches' Confidence, Openness and Stigma Tolerance Toward Sport Psychology Consultants, Laurie Ann Neelis
The Content and Role of Web Sites in Public Relations of Religious Congregations, Jerlen Young Nelson
Rhetoric with Humor: An Analysis of Hispanic/Latino Comedians' Uses of Humor, George Pacheco Jr.
Identification of Two Distinct Glutaminyl Cyclase Isoforms in Drosophila melanogaster, Amanda Thigpen Parker
Factors That Contribute to a Successful Secondary Vocational Education Program in the State of Mississippi, Erin Leigh Parker
Biochemical Characterization of Two Yeast Paralogous Proteins Mth1 and Std1, Satish Pasula
The Effects of Positive Behavior Intervention Support on Office Discipline Referrals, Third and Fourth Grade Reading and Math Scores, and Perceptions of Teachers Regarding Discipline and Safety in Alabama Elementary Schools, Denise Yvonne Pavlovich
Jack Stamp: A Biographical Sketch and Analysis of Symphony No. 1 - "In Memoriam David Diamond", Dawn Anna Perry
Factors Associated with Attitudes Toward Learning in an Online Environment: Transactional Distance, Technical Efficacy, and Physical Surroundings, Jodi Elizabeth Pettazzoni
Perceptions of Sources of Pressure and Reasons for Dismissals of Mississippi High School Head Coaches, Michael Keith Pigott
Homefront, Stacy Elaine Pratt
The Relationship Between the Teacher's Perception of the Principal's Leadership Style and Personal Motivation, Aletta Marie Price
About Love, Kerri Ann Quinn
Composition Programs and Practices in Sweden: Possibilities for Cross-Fertilization with the United States, Birgitta Linnea Sjoberg Ramsey
The Design, Synthesis, and Controlled Polymerization of Cationic and Zwitterionic Norbornene Derivatives, David Allen Rankin
Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy Studies of Nafion, David Walter Rhoades
A History of the Tara Winds Community Band, Jonesboro, Georgia, 1988-2008, Myra King Rhoden
Parliament of Owls, Allison Renee Riddles
Communication, Crisis, and Identity: Dialectical Tensions in Family Narratives about Hurricane Katrina, Laura Poole Rogers
Marathon, Ohio, Alan Guido Rossi Jr.
We'll Hang Ourselves Tomorrow, Samuel Brendan Ruddick
The Pursuit of Competitive Advantage and the Strategic Behavior of Firms in Adopting Self-Service Technology, Timothy David Saur
A Metamorphosis of Thought: Parent Education Based on Transformative Learning Theory in a Title I-Funded Middle School, Ayanna Lichelle Shivers
Shadows Over Goshen: Plain Whites, Progressives and Paternalism in the Depression South, Fred Carl Smith
The Perceptions of Superintendents Regarding the Need for Graduate Business Classes in Educational Leadership, Howard Leland Smith
A Comparison of Reading Interventions Based on Preference to Reading Interventions Identified by Brief Experimental Analysis, Debborah Eda Smyth
Emotional Intelligence as a Non-Traditional Predictor of College Student Retention and Graduation, Larry Austin Sparkman
Luigi Zaninelli: Rehearsing, Performing, and Conducting Selected Works 2005-2008, James Ernest Standland
South Mississippi Public Elementary School Teachers' Implementation of and Attitudes Toward Inquiry-Based Science, Thomas Franklin Sumrall
Fantasy Variations on George Gershwin's Prelude II for Piano: An Analysis and Conductor's Guide, Brian Stevon Taylor
Knowledge-Based Analysis of Genomic Expression Data by Using Different Machine Learning Algorithms for the Purpose of Diagnostic, Prognostic or Therapeutic Application, Venkata Jagan Mohan Thodima
The Relationship Between African American Students' Self-Beliefs and Beliefs about Teachers and Academic Outcomes and Disciplinary Referrals, James Matthew Thompson
Roosting Ecology of Rafinesque's Big-Eared Bat, Corynorhinus rafinesquii, in Southeastern Mississippi, Austin Webb Trousdale III
A Stylistic Analysis of Six Pieces for Solo Piano by Rodion Shchedrin and a Stylistic Analysis of Trespreludiosa Modo de Toccata, Dos Danzas Cubanas, and Estudio de Contrastes by Harold Gramatges, Amanda Virelles del Valle
Attacking Ethos: The Rhetorical Use of Uncertainty in the 2004 Election, Theron Allen Verdon
Raft Synthesis of Water-Soluble, Stimuli-Responsive AB Diblock Copolymers, Ran Wang
Identifying Preschool Students in Need of Early Intervention, Cassie Delso Wells
Gifted Education Exposure in Introductory Special Education Texts: Quantitative Text Content Analysis, Sandra Kay Hansen Wentworth
The Relationship Between Learning Styles and Student Performance on the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test in a Low Performing, Low Socioeconomic-Status School, Joseph Lassale Williams
Metoikos: Modernism's Resident Aliens, Justin Glen Williamson
The Relationship Between Principals' Leadership Self-Efficacy, Student Achievement and School Performance, Robert Louis Williams