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Theses from 2024
Promoting Preschool Teachers’ Maintenance and Generalization of Behavior-Specific Praise Through Multitiered Consultation, Claudia Abril Ochoa
The Emerging Impacts of Tourism on The Economy of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Comparative Study of Oil and Tourism, Dania Abu Jabal
Women’s Rights in Limited Democracies: Comparative Study of Femicide in Turkey and Bulgaria, Elif Acarlar
The Vascular Flora of Marion County, Mississippi, Amos Adams
Peripheral Vascular Function in Young Adults with Increased Risk of Cardiometabolic Disease, Ryan S. Aultman
YouTube Influencers in Bangladesh: Analyzing Message Strategies of Sponsored Ads in Vlogs, Monira Begum
Remembering, Forgetting, and Artifact Deposition in Late Prehistoric Florida, Andrew Bowen
Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, Rachel Broome
Chaucer’s Lists and the Parson’s Priests: Heresy, Censorship, and The Parson's Tale, Samantha Burleson
Exploring Autistic Individuals’ Perspectives of Social Skills Interventions, Sarah Butt
Salinity Tolerance of Flowering Rush, Butomus umbellatus, Andrew Coomes
Vaccines at the Intersection of Religion and Politics, Charles Downey
"Doing Their Own Thing": The Impact of Second-Wave Feminism at the University of Southern Mississippi, Sarah Drivon
Shaping the Supreme Court, Evelyn Danielle Guerra
Gestalt Language Processing in Accredited Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs, William Harris
Tides of War: Privateering, The British Economy, and The Winning of the American Revolution, 1772-1783, Michael Andrew Howell
Identifying New Potential Breeding Pond Sites for the Dusky Gopher Frog in Southern Mississippi, Shelbie Kellum
Satellite Image Analysis and Sidewalk Classification using Deep Learning Models, Subeksha Khanal
Effects of Increasing Cycling Cadence on Post-Cycling Gait Velocity: An Experimental Study, Nitu Lama
The Communicative Experiences of Potential New Members (PNMS) in Greek Life Recruitment, Ashley Lankford
Development of a Flow Cytometry Method for the Identification and Enumeration of Enterococcus faecalis, Riza Magbitang
An Examination of the Strong Start Intervention to Support the Pro-Social Behaviors in At-Risk Head Start Students, Merrick McEvoy
Assessing The Impacts Of Grazing By Piney Woods Cattle And Controlled Burning On The Herbaceous Layer In An East Gulf Coastal Plain Longleaf Pine Woodland, William McFarland
How Speech-Language Pathologists Account for Self-Determination Across the Progression of Dementia, Emilee McGahee
Evaluating Technology Delivered Repeated Reading with Diverse Learners, Kayla McVay
Effects of Identity and Competency-Based Rejection and Acceptance on Online versus Face to Face Reaffiliation Preferences in Adults, August Namuth
The Assessment of Autonomic Function in Young Adults with an Elevated Risk of Metabolic Syndrome, Ta'Quoris Newsome
Investigating the Response of the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) to Low Dissolved Oxygen Conditions, Abiola Obafemi
The Impact of Target Sex Typicality on Participant's Willingness To Engage in Prosocial Behaviors, Olajuwon Olagbegi
Biometric Assessment of Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) from Recreational and Commercial Fisheries in Mississippi, USA, Nimah Folake Osho-Abdulgafar
On an Unshakeable Foundation: An Archaeological Investigation of the Postemancipation Black Community of Bass Street, the Church They Built, and the Lasting Identity They Formed in Nashville, Tennessee, Clélie Elizabeth Cottle Peacock
The Relationship Between Overparenting, Psychological Needs Satisfaction, and Alcohol Use on Risky Sexual Behavior, Melanie Prater
Black Women in Hattiesburg During World War II: War Work and Community Activism on the Home Front, Jerra Runnels
Understanding The Variability Of Circulation And Water Quality At Experimental Oyster Leases In The Mississippi Sound Using A High-Resolution Nested Modeling Approach, Shihab Hossain Saran
Assessing the Independent Role of Moral Foundations In Attitudes Toward Various Justifications For Abortion, SABA SHAHID
Cost-Risk Analysis of the ERCOT Region Using Modern Portfolio Theory, Megan Sickinger
Molecular Characterization of Stress Response in Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera), Faizan Tahir
Investigation of the Microbiome of a Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) for Crassostrea virginica Larvae, Isabelle Townsend
Under The Root, Gaven Wallace
Outside Influence and Troop Deployment, Cara Wilson
Theses from 2023
HYDROTHERMAL FLUID TRANSPORT PATHWAYS ALONG FRACTURES AND VEINS AT BROTHERS VOLCANO, SOUTHERN KERMADEC ARC, Robert Atnip
HOW SEWAGE POLLUTION AFFECTS DISTRIBUTION AND LIFE HISTORY TRAITS OF THE SOUTHERN HOUSE MOSQUITO, CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS, Catherine Dean Bermond
Predicting Suicide Risk Among Youths Using Machine Learning Methods, Saswati Bhattacharjee
Comparative Analysis of Rhizosphere and Endosphere Microbiome of Different Blueberry Species (Vaccinium sp.), Niladri Bhowmik
I Was Looking for God: A Study of Wehrmacht Personnel and their Personal Relationships with Religion, Christopher Bishop
A PROOF OF CONCEPT FOR DETECTION OF PALATO-LINGUAL CONTACT WITHOUT INTRAORAL ELECTRODES IN A HUMAN PARTICIPANT, Amitava Biswas
SOCIAL ANXIETY AND RELATIONAL AGGRESSION IN THE PEER RELATIONSHIPS OF COLLEGE WOMEN, Summer Boggs
PREDICTIVE ABILITY OF A 3D BODY SCANNING MOBILE APPLICATION FOR METABOLIC HEALTH RISK, Caleb Brandner
The Implications of Sexual Assault Awareness on Sexual Overperception Bias, Zach Buckner
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN RUMINATION, THOUGHT CONTROL, AND SUICIDAL THINKING, Morgan Buerke
BEYOND THE CLINIC: MODIFIED INTERNET-DELIVERED PARENT-CHILD INTERACTION THERAPY, Terreca Cato
The Examination of a Teacher Mentorship Intervention on Junior Teachers' Stress and Self-Efficacy, Cagla Cobek
AN EXPLORATION OF SYMPTOM SEVERITY AND SUICIDAL IDEATION WITHIN A SEX ADDICTION SAMPLE, Emily A. Cordova
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACTS OF TOPOBATHYMETRIC DATA ON STORM SURGE MODEL PREDICTIONS, Sydni Crain
HIDE AND SEEK: AN EXPLORATION OF ANTIPREDATOR AND PREDATOR AVOIDANCE MECHANISMS IN ORTHOPODOMYIA SIGNIFERA IN RESPONSE TO PREDATION FROM TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS, Nathaniel Dahlberg
Freckled Darter (Percina lenticula) And Other Fishes’ Usage Of Wood Pile Habitat, Noah Daun
MULTISPECIES USE OF VARIOUS HABITATS IN THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND WITH AN EMPHASIS ON FUTURE OYSTER REEF CONSTRUCTION, Austin Draper
CHARACTERIZATION AND ESTIMATION OF MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN USING MACHINE LEARNING, Boluwatife Faremi
Disability Identity in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Letters, Jackson Fields
Geospatial Business Location Implications for Mississippi-Based Nissan Group Changing to Electrical Vehicle (EV) Production, Sudheer Galla
Whose Woods These Are: Human-Environment Relationships Among Stakeholders of South Mississippi's Longleaf Pine Ecosystem, Helen Greene
Habitat use of Gulf Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi) in Pascagoula River holding areas and in estuarine and marine environments including Ship Island, Mississippi and Mobile Bay, Alabama, Elizabeth M. Greenheck
Estimation of Angular Response Curves Using a Phase Differencing Bathymetric Sonar, Kandice Gunning
Porotic Hyperostosis and Cribra Orbitalia in the Adult Population of Tipu, Miranda Hahn
The Relationship Between Religiosity and Tobacco Use in a Mexican Spanish Speaking Sample in the United States, Lauren Hales
Using Behavior BINGO to Increase Academically Engaged Behavior in a General Education Elementary School Population, Faith Elizabeth Hamilton
The role of emotion regulation and alexithymia in the relationship between sleep and social functioning, Lillian A. Hammer
Caregiver Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Education and Training: A Survey of Caregiver and SLP Perspectives, Michelle Hasenkampf
The King and His Court: The Culture of Royal Power and the Creation of the Angevin Empire Under Henry II, Joseph Jarrell
Annotation of Non-Model Species’ Genomes, Taiya Jarva
College Athletes as Endorsers: A Study of NIL Advertising, Zach Johnson
Determining the Refractive Index of Phytoplankton via Direct Measurement of Cellular Structures, Michael Kamowski
ESTIMATION OF QUANTITATIVE GENETIC PARAMETERS OF THE EASTERN OYSTER (CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA) IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, Heather King
IDENTIFICATION OF SPRING AND FALL SPAWNED EGGS AND THE GENETIC DISTINCTION OF GULF STURGEON IN THE CHOCTAWHATCHEE RIVER, ALABAMA-FLORIDA, Nicholas Lamey
Examining the Effect of Positive Greetings at the Door on Student Academic Engagement and Disruptive Behavior, Abigail Lawson
Effects of Increased Shoe Collar Height and Limb Dominance on Landing Knee Biomechanics in Collegiate Volleyball Players, Lindsey Legg
NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE PALEOVEGETATION OF THE ANCIENT UNDERWATER FOREST LOCATED IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO, Karla Lizarraga Garcia
Beginnings of the Nuevo South: Mexican Migration in 1970s and 1980s Mississippi, Isabel Loya
THE CLASSROOM PASSWORD GROUP CONTINGENCY WITH RANDOMIZED REINFORCERS, Emily Maxime
GENETIC PARAMETERS FOR HEAT AND SALINITY STRESS TOLERANCE IN NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO EASTERN OYSTER, CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA, Paul McDonald
ASSESSING DYNAMICS AND TRENDS OF CO2 FLUX ON THE LOUISIANA SHELF, Claire McGuire
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY DYSFUNCTION AND AGGRESSION IN A SAMPLE OF AT-RISK YOUTH, Chloe O'Dell
The mental health of LGBTQ+ graduate students: Examining the role of lifestyle factors, Lindsey Ostermiller
BENTHIC HABITAT MAPPING OF MOUNTAIN TOP BANK WITHIN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO THROUGH INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL AND VISUAL DATA ANALYSIS, Bethany Pertain