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Dissertations from 2021 2021

Structural Origin Of Thermal, Mechanical Properties And Morphological Behaviors Of Semiconducting Polymers, Song Zhang

Human 5’-tailed Mirtrons are Processed by RNaseP, Mohammad Farid Zia

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Predicting Political Development after United States Military Assistance: Evidence from Case Study Analysis, Susan Rae Alaniz

Organizational Stressors as Predictors of Burnout, Kristen Albritton

Microcelebrity Endorsement of Public Relations Campaigns for Nonprofit Organizations: A Study of Snapchat in Saudi Arabia, Sami Altuwayjiri

Before the Snakes Came, Garrett Ashley

Mississippi Teachers' Perception of Performance Evaluation Feedback and Its Influence on Teaching Practices and Student Outcomes, Joanna Barnes

An Analysis and Stylistic Comparison of Five Works for Unaccompanied Tuba by John Stevens, Tracy Bedgood

Impulsivity as a Trait Predictor in Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Jennifer Bertucci

International Trade in Health Services: Assessing the Patterns of Trade in Global Healthcare Delivery, Tawnya Bosko

Core Subject Integration in the K-6 Music Classroom, Rose Bowe

The Principal and Teacher Evaluation: A Study of Influencing Pressures, Andy Brock

Public Relations Education in Mississippi Today: Perceptions and Realities, Gail Brown

The Ecology and Evolutionary History of Two Musk Turtles in the Southeastern United States, Grover Brown

The Effects of Culturally Competent Messaging on Willingness to Engage in Firearm Means Safety, Sarah E. Butterworth

Boystown: Stories, Justin Carmickle

Instructor Perspectives and Jazz-Related Courses for Undergraduate Music Majors at NASM Accredited Colleges and Universities, David Carter

Bulk Properties Correlated to the Hydrogen Bond Organization in Dendrimers, Hyperbranched Polymers, and Linear Polymers, Beibei Chen

Agonistic Grooming in Multiple Lemur Species, Jennie L. Christopher

Self-Regulated Learning Instruction’s Relationships with Teacher Subject Area, Teacher Beliefs, and Teacher Efficacy, Jeffrey Coggin

Al-Baghdadi and the Art of Terrorist Persuasion, Bandar Dawshi

A Survey of Modern Companion Pieces Outlining Specific Compositional Similarities Between Ralph Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem and Mack Wilberg's Requiem Aeternam and Let Peace Then Still the Strife, Joel Dunlap

Using Two Reinforcement Contingencies to Alter Teachers' Rates of Praise, Ashleigh Eaves

Nadia Boulanger’s Fantaisie Variée Pour Piano Et Orchestre a Study of a Significant Unpublished Piece, sarah elias

An Examination of Parental Locus of Control, Stress, Social Support, and Depression Among Parents of Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities, Brandi Ellis

Well-being Indicators, Social Globalization, and Unaccompanied Child Migration from Central America, Lucia Farriss

Storm Chasers, Bryana Fern

Examining Preservice Teachers’ Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Differentiating Instruction for Educating Gifted Learners, Marla Freitag

A Post Implementation Review of Transformational Change Initiatives in Higher Education, Allison Gillespie

A Narrative Case Study of Transfer Students in Instrumental Music Education, Ashley Glenn

Practical Adhesion Measurements in Organic Coatings; Advancing Understanding and Mechanical Methods Development, Diana Gottschalk

Discipline-Culture and Instructional Practices: An Integrated Leader's Role, Joe L. Griffin

A View From Above: Alternative Perspectives on Smallholder Livelihoods and Agrobiodiversity Conservation in Northern Ecuador, Chris Hair

The Roles of Violence Exposure and Gender on the Relationship Between Adolescent Psychopathic and Conduct Disorder Traits and the Capability for Suicide, Tiffany Harrop

A Study of Information Bots and Knowledge Bots, Amartya Hatua

The Face of Intervention: Military Humanitarianism During the 1965 Dominican Crisis, Wesley Hazzard

Memories of Emotions of First Consensual Sexual Encounters, Mario Herrera

Romantic Relational Aggression Among College Students: A Moderated Mediation Study of Attachment Style, Romantic Jealousy, Mate Value, and Relationship Investment, Skylar Hicks

Career and Technical Education Teachers’ Attitudes Toward and Their Participation in Technology-Based Professional Development Training in Mississippi’s High School Districts, Natalie N. Hill

Food for Thought: Stories, Allyson Hoffman

Non-Traditional Church Involvement as a Life-Course Turning Point: Qualitative Interviews with Religious Offenders, William Hunter Holt

The Role of Masculinity in the Development of Capability for Suicide, Claire Houtsma

Student-Athlete Success: An Examination of Parenting, Grit, Academic Success, and Mental Health Outcomes, Jackson Howard

Open-Shell Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Polymers with Intrinsic Electrical Conductivity, Lifeng Huang

An Examination of the Influence of Multi-scale Processes and Connectivity on the Population and Assemblage Dynamics of Headwater Fishes, Josh P. Hubbell

Machine Learning Approaches for Improving Prediction Performance of Structure-Activity Relationship Models, Gabriel Idakwo

An Investigation of the Impacts of Traditional, Virtual, and Hybrid Biological Laboratories on College Students’ Achievement and Motivation to Learn Biology, Shavonda Jackson

The Role of Acculturation and Acculturative Stress in the Association Between Generational Status and Factors Related to Suicide Among South Koreans in the United States, Hyejin Jin

A Library of Low Molecular Weight Fluorescent Probes for the Detection of Cu(II) and Fe(III) Ions, Ashley Johnson

Praying in Bedlam, David Johnson

Transformers: The Relationship between Instructor and Course Persistence among Community College Students, Jairus L. Johnson

A Performance Guide to Wallace Stevens' Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird as Set by Louise Talma, Meredith Melvin Johnson

Hemodynamic Response During Sedentary Behavior in Black/African American and White Males, Raymond Jones

Diversity and Inclusion: Examining the Lived Experiences of LGBTQ Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the Bible Belt, Steven Jones

The Influence of Emotional Intelligence Training on College Student Employee Workforce Readiness, Wynde Jones

Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Alcohol Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Drinking Motives and Protective Behavioral Strategies, Hallie R. Jordan

Work-Life Balance: Perceived Differences of Teleworkers and Non-Teleworkers, Christian Paul Lagarde

Reaction on the Right: Conservative Forces in American Higher Education in the Era of the New Left, 1967-1970, Lauren Lassabe

Framing Death and Suffering: An Examination of Photographs of Dead and Dying during the U. S. Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War, Richard Anthony Lewis

A Study of Select World-Federated International Piano Competitions: Influential Factors in Performer Repertoire Choices, Yuan-Hung Lin

Establishing Electronic Structure Control in Open-Shell Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers, Alex London

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Head Start Teachers Behavior Specific Praise, Elizabeth Lown

Traits of Character That Facilitate Formation of Exemplary Nurses in Bachelor of Science Nursing Programs, Jean Marks

Exploring the Maladaptive Cognitions of Moral Injury, Rachel L. Martin

Watching Disability: A Discourse Analysis of Representations of Disabled Characters in Scripted Television Programs, Wilbur Martin

A Parametric Analysis of Opportunities to Respond on Academically Engaged Behavior, Morgan G. McCargo

Living on Campus is Beneficial: Studying the Impact of Student Involvement Through Living-Learning Communities, Stephen R. McCay

Developing a Systematic Approach for Teaching Beginning Improvisation Using the Concert Percussion Ensemble, Ian McClaflin

Teacher Beliefs and the Intent and Current Use of Movement as it Influences Students With and Without ADHD, Kimberly McQuagge

Teacher Training, Beliefs, and Use of a Constructivist Learning Environment Supported by Instructional Technology, Rachel Mercer

A Dynamic F5 Algorithm, Candice Mitchell

Empirical Studies of Deep Learning on Information Diffusion on Social Networks and Collective Task Learning for Swarm Robotics, Trung T. Nguyen

Political Public Relations Agenda-Building: A Content Analysis of the US 2016 Presidential Campaign Speeches, Tweets and News Stories, Emmanuel Nwachukwu

Cost-Effective GNSS Hardware for High-Accuracy Surveys and Its Prospects for Post-Processed Kinematic (PPK) and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) Strategies, Johnson Olusegun Oguntuase

A Management Strategy Evaluation of the Impacts of Interspecific Competition and Recreational Fishery Dynamics on Vermilion Snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens) in the Gulf of Mexico, Megumi C. Oshima

Effect of Selfsame Microparticles on Epoxide Amine Network Formation and Matrix Mechanics, Travis Palmer

Editing the Double Bass Concerto of Antonio Scontrino, Roberto Pineda

The Haitian Diaspora as Human Capital and Agents of Change: Perceptions and Attitudes of the Haitian Diaspora as an International Development Actor, Alain Pompilus

Variable Compact Multi-Point Upscaling Schemes for Anisotropic Diffusion Problems in Three-Dimensions, James Quinlan

Childbirth and Control Behind Bars: A Descriptive Qualitative Analysis of the Maternal Perception of Control in Women Who Have Given Birth While Incarcerated, Lorin Raines

Woman on Canvas, Jessica Ramer

An Examination of the Relationship Between Sports Participation and Financial Accessibility for First-Generation African-American Students at Selected Mississippi Colleges and Universities, Theresa Rash

Impact of Transformational Leadership Behaviors of Administrators as Predictors of High Performing and Low Performing Schools in Mississippi, Audra Rester

Agoreography, Jonathan Riccio

Brief Intervention with Holland’s Theory and Vocational Calling: Three Conditions with Pre-Existing Calling status as a Covariate, Nathan Ross

An Atomistic Study of the Effects on Mechanical Properties and Bonding Interactions of Carbon Nanofillers in Nylon 6 Nanocomposites, Michael Roth

The Construction of Childhood in Late Eighteenth-Century and Early Nineteenth-Century American Fairy Tale Chapbooks, Jennifer Roy

Experiences of Implementing Developmental Education Redesign in Mississippi Community Colleges: An Administrators’ and Faculty’s Perspective, James Rush

A Focus Group Study Of Adult American Males On Hemodialysis as Captured Through Photovoice, Donna Sanders

Chemoenzymatic Study of CoA-Linked RNA in Bacteria, Krishna Sapkota

The Mediating Effects of Drinking Refusal Self-Efficacy on the Associations between Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies and Alcohol Use Outcomes, Kray Scully

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Potential Drivers in the Aquatic Environments, Shuo Shen

An Econometric Analysis of Bilateral Import Demand in South Africa, Christopher Smith

Merging Two Scales: A Comprehensive Measure of Physical Appearance-Related Social Anxieties, Kimberly Smith

A Performance Guide to Keith Gates's Song Cycle, The Barren One, Analynn Sober

The Disappearance of Fat Youth in YA Literature, Mary Stephens

A 3D Image-Guided System to Improve Myocardial Revascularization Decision-Making for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease, Haipeng Tang

GED Participants’ Beliefs and Experiences of Play as a Multi-Domain Approach to Increasing Adults’ Success in the State of Mississippi, Latisha Taylor

Natural Disasters and Attachment Quality: The Mediating Roles of Self-Compassion and Positive Mental Health, Alexandra Teller

Technology Effectiveness in Teaching Statistics: Best-Evidence Meta-Analysis, Zita Tiamuh