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Theses from 2022
INDUCED SPAWNING OF CAPTIVE TRIPLETAIL LOBOTES SURINAMENSIS, Nicholas Adams
Influence of Altitude and Scan Angle on UAS-LiDAR Ground Height Measurement Accuracy in Juncus roemerianus Scheele (Black Needle Rush)-dominated Marshes, Michael Amelunke
The Impact of Environmental Variability on Perceptions of Parental Ability From Bodily Cues, Kaitlyn Boykin
The Rhetoric of Blame: A Rhetorical Framing Analysis of Othering and Blame in Historical Health Crises, Colin G. Cameron
TEACHING OLD CALIPERS NEW TRICKS: USING CRANIOMETRICS FOR ANCESTRY ADMIXTURE ESTIMATION VIA FUZZY MATH, Kristi Carnahan
BON APPЀTIT: FAUNAL SUBSISTENCE AT FORT TOMBECBE (1SU7), Sarah Coffey
Yonder, Aaron Cohen
Henry Knox: The American Frontier as a Foreign Policy Arena, 1785-1794, John DeLee
Examining Parenting Practices and Routines as Possible Mediators of Parenting Inflexibility and Child Behaviors, Lauren S. Erp
Analysis of Fossil Pollen from a Pleistocene Cypress Forest Preserved on the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf, Kathryn Joyce Garretson
Sensitivity of a LAMP Assay for Detection of the Dinoflagellate Amyloodinium ocellatum in Simulated Field Conditions and Freeze Tolerance of the Parasite, Robert Gonzales
An Annotated Bibliography of String Method Books and Theory Books for Pre-College String Students, with a Focus on Music Theory Concepts and Sequence Analysis, Rebecca Zou Hale
Mindset matters: The relations between growth mindset and academic and career variables among first-generation college students, Dillon Harper
PREDICTORS OF INTENSIVE SUPERVISION PLACEMENT AMONG COMMITTED YOUTHS WITHIN A MAXIMUM-SECURITY RESIDENTIAL FACILITY, Tiffany Harris
Knowledge and Perceptions of SLP Graduate Students Regarding Multiculturalism, Evy Jewell Hayes
The Validity of The VmaxPro during Countermovement Jump and Back Squat Performance, Hunter Haynes
'AS VIVID AS BLOOD IN A SINK': (RE)READING QUEERNESS AND REPRESSION IN TEJU COLE'S OPEN CITY, Jack Hoda
Assessing the effect of negative mood states on valence-dependent belief updating, Aleksandr Karnick
The Politicization of School Reopenings: Media Coverage of Teachers Unions, Sarah King
Large Scale Disease Modeling, Walker Mattox
"Yours For Freedom": The Life and Legacy of Civil Rights Leader Victoria Gray Adams, Meridian McDaniel
THE PLAGUE AND THE PARTHENON: CRUSADE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISEASE IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN, John Mark Nicovich
THERE’S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL (UNTIL CORONAVIRUS COMES AROUND), Jessica Payne
Celestial Bodies and Other Stories, Emily Prehn
Understanding Biogeochemical and Physical Controls on Methane Air-Sea Exchange Fluxes in the Pacific Ocean, Sarah Raney
Success Factors of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Post Early Intervention, Kate Roberts
The Thin Ideal and Body Positivity: How Do Influencers Affect Female Instagram Users?, Jeralynn Servos
A Comparison of Natural, Living, and Hardened Shorelines Ability to Prevent Coastal Erosion and Maintain a Healthy Ecosystem, Gabrielle Spellmann
INFLUENCES OF YOUTUBE ADVERTISING ON YOUNG ADULTS: A SOCIAL IDENTITY PERSPECTIVE, Nathakorn Srithong
The impact of formal education, specialized training, and offense type on perceptions of employability: Can bias toward hiring a person with a criminal history be mitigated?, Rheanna Standridge
Investigation of DNA Variability and Phylogenetic Relationships of Perlesta (Plecoptera: Perlidae) in Mississippi, James C. Valentine and Mac H. Alford
Examining the Association Between Fictive Kin Care, Parental Attachment and Emotional Distress in College Students, Roxanne Watts
Structure-Property Evaluation of the Dielectric Properties of Radar Absorbing Materials in Free Space, Dane Wedgeworth
Reassessment of Species Boundaries and Phylogenetic Relationships in the Desmodium ciliare complex (Fabaceae) Using Morphological and DNA Data, Joshua Wilkinson
Like My Voice, Now Yours, Megan Wilkinson
Recovery from Minor Tropical Cyclones: the Response of Faith-based Organizations and Government Agencies to Minor Tropical Cyclones in Biloxi, Mississippi, Camilla Witherspoon
USING DEEP LEARNING AND UAV IMAGERY TO DETECT ELKHORN CORAL IN ST. CROIX’S EAST END MARINE PARK, Samuel Wyatt
Theses from 2021
Higher Command: An Examination of African American Leadership in the Vietnam Era, Amanda Abulawi
Matching Equation: Teacher Rates of Praise and Reprimands, Meleah Ackley
A Deep Learning-Based Automatic Object Detection Method for Autonomous Driving Ships, Ojonoka Erika Atawodi
A Modified Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Method for Approximating the Scattering Amplitude, Samson Ayo
The Effects of Using Behavioral Skills Training in Teaching Non-ABA Professionals to Implement Discrete Trial Training: A Meta-Analysis, Lindsey Bernard
Racial Bias in Pain Perception and Treatment Among Healthcare Pre-Professionals, Raegan Bishop
The Effects of Parent-Implemented Demanded Eye Contact as a Component of EID on Child Compliance, Halley Claire Blanchard
Determining Subgroups That Exist Among US Firearm Owners, Allison Eileen Bond
Exploring the Influence of Diurnal Forcing on Tidal Inlet Exchange and the Impact on the movement of Oxygen Depleted Waters in the Mississippi Sound and Bight Region, Courtney Bouchard
Acquaintances and Other Stories, Morgan E. Brewer
Effects of Religiosity and Self-Control on At-Risk Adolescent Substance Use and Delinquency, Lauren Burns
Population Parameter Estimation and Stable Isotope Analysis of Gulf Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi) in the Pascagoula River, Alfonso Cohuo
An Analysis of Nobuo Uematsu’s Linear Structures: The Score of Final Fantasy VI’s Opera, Daniel Comeaux
Underrepresentation of Women in American Politics, Lindsey Crane
Different Class: The Creation of the Premier League and the Commercialization of English Football, Colin Damms
For Cause and Countries: Initial, Sustaining, and Combat Motivation in the Royal Air Force Eagle Squadrons, 1940-1942, Timothy DeFazio
The Effects of Vertical Diel Thermocline Movement on the Settling of Marine Snow in a River Influenced Marine Environment, Nadine Doiron
Mitigating Negative Perceptions Due to Gender Norm Violation Through Adherence to Another Prevalent Gender Norm, Kelsey Drea
A Multigrid Homotopy Method For Computing Eigenfunctions of Differential Operators With Two-Dimensional Heterogeneity, Chelsea Drum
Haunted and Hunted: The Gothic and the Ghostly in The Light and Asylum, Adam Dunnells
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and the Microbiomes of Two Benthic Species, Samantha Ells
Media Frames and Abortion Issue Polarization, Shianne Galuska
A Collection of Misfits, Kayla Gates
Trophic Ecology of Mesopelagic Fish Larvae and Juveniles in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Emily Gipson
Structural Re-orientation of Magmatic Fabrics and Layering in the Lower Oceanic Crust: Hole GT1, Wadi Tayin Massif, Samail Ophiolite, Justin Guillot
An Assessment of the Diverse Freshwater Turtle Fauna of Mississippi, Lucas Haralson
Small-Scale Resuspension and Redistribution of Surface Sediments in the Northeast Gulf of Mexico, Austin Harris
PRIVACY-AWARE AND HARDWARE-BASED ACCLERATION AUTHENTICATION SCHEME FOR INTERNET OF DRONES, Tom Henson
“Man-Cub They Call Me”: Mowgli’s Constructed Childhood in Kipling’s Jungle Books, David Hii
Women Under Colonial Coverture: Divorce, Property Rights, and Inheritance in Early Massachusetts, Sarah Anne Hogue
“Precios perle wythouten spotte”: Accepting the Unknowable in Pearl, Jana Ishee
Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Glycodendrons Through Small Molecule and Linear Polymer Models, Molly Jones
Of Metal, Paper and Light: Stories, Joseph Labernik
An Evaluation of Activity in a Colonial Maya Cemetery Using Femoral Cross-Sectional Analysis, Casey LeJeune
Mass Analysis and Raw Material Sourcing as Metrics of Poverty Point's Socio-Political Organization, Jeffrey Lewis, Jr.
The Effects of Sexual Surrogacy on Satisfaction, Happiness, and Well-Being, Ryan Liu-Pham
Blind Walking, Corley Longmire
RISK PERCEPTION AND RESPONSE AMONG INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI, Elida Lopes Souza Rocha
Comparing the Efficacy of Two Affirmation Interventions to Reduce Stereotype Threat Effects on Women’s Math Performance, Alicia Macchione
Evaluating Marsh Restoration Success Using Structural and Trophic Metrics on Deer Island, MS, Emelia Marshall
Helping the Shoe to Fit, Amber Martin
The Shortcomings of Maize: Using Tipu to Assess Maize Consumption and its Impact on Stature and Limb Proportions Among the Maya, Peter Mercier
Depressive Symptoms and Marijuana Outcomes in College Students: The Mediating Role of Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana, Nicholas Militello
“I’ll Make a Captain Among Ye, and Do Somewhat to be Talk of Forever After”: Female Civic Agency in Sir Thomas More’s Staged Insurrection, Heather Miller
How Historic Shipwrecks Influence Dispersal of Deep-Sea Microbiomes, Rachel Moseley
Little Bodies, Little People: Conflating the Child and the Dwarf in The History of Sir Thomas Thumb, Hannah Mummert
Assessing the Rates of Post-Depositional Change Within 2004 Indian Ocean Sediments: Implications for Long-Term Records of Paleotsunamis, Lillian Pearson
When Time Shall Surrender: Disability, Crip Time, and John Clare's Language of Annihilation, Ian Pittman
On a Stochastic Model of Epidemics, Rachel Prather
Storms and Stories, Ryan Price
Contextualizing a Crisis: Examining Michigan State University Press Releases and the Larry Nassar Scandal, Courtney Robinson
Analyzing the Consistency of Scoring Porotic Hyperostosis From 3D Scans, Carson Rouse
USING PRAISE TO INCREASE VISUAL ATTENDING IN AN ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: AN EYE TRACKING STUDY, Andrew J. Rozsa III
Characterization of the Bacterial Microbiome of Exotic Tick Species Collected from Migratory Birds, Raima Sen
GET INTO IT: UNPACKING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEGEMONIC NORMS AND THE RACE AND GENDER OF POP ARTISTS, Bailey Shelton
Multi-valued Solutions for the Equation of Motion, Darcy-Jordan Model, as a Cauchy Problem: A Shocking Event, Chandler Shimp