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Theses from 2020
The Development and Exploration of a Twelve-Factor Model of Motivations for Using Substances, Taylor Altenberger
My Child’s Keeper: Child Vulnerability and Quality of Life on Parental Stress and Grit, Abigail Armstrong
A Change in Fish Assemblages in the Pascagoula River, MS, Sara Barrett
State-Level Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: Assessing Recovery from the 2007 Recession, Nathan Barron
The Role of Potential for Interaction in Parasocial Relationships, Aaron Bermond
Nutrition at Tipu: A Comparative Analysis of Juvenile Health in Maya Populations, Sydnie A. Bianchi
Effect of Unilateral Lower-Limb Amputation on Intact Limb Biomechanics: A Systematic Review, Amanda Boyd
Korngold's Dream States: An Analysis of Transitional Passages in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Opera "Die tote Stadt", Tyler Brandon
The Effects of Optimism on Anti-Natalism, Faith L. Brown
Malaria Risk on Ancient Roman Roads: A Study and Application to Assessing Travel Decisions in Asia Minor by the Apostle Paul, Daniel C. Browning Jr
Effects of Perceived Poverty and Chaotic Living Conditions on Externalizing Problems in At-Risk Adolescents, Margaret Bullerjahn
Containing the Blemmye: Anxiety Towards Congenital Difference in the Old English Wonders of the East, Jessica L. Carrell
Exploring Dissociation as a Facilitator of Suicide Risk Using Virtual Reality, Nicole Caulfield
An Adaptive Approach to Gibbs’ Phenomenon, Jannatul Ferdous Chhoa
Oh, My Stars: A New Map of the Universe in Paradise Lost, Michael R. Coats
“You Must Live, and Show to the World What They Have Been Doing Here”: The Survival of the “Rabbits” of Ravensbrück, Regina Coffey
Willingness to Seek Professional Help for Suicidal Thoughts: The Role of Masculine Norms and Self-Stigma in Service Members, Samantha E. Daruwala
Characterizing ERAD and Antioxidant Response in Ixodes scapularis ISE6 Cells during Borrelia Infection, Latoyia Downs
Maturation Spawning and Larviculture of Atlantic Croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) at Low Salinity, Edithrose Fairweather
ASSESSMENT OF GENETIC DIVERSITY IN LARGETOOTH SAWFISH, PRISTIS PRISTIS, POPULATIONS OVER THE 20TH CENTURY, Ann Fearing
Hate Speech, Habitus, and Identity Signaling on 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Board, Jonathon Geiger
“Never nearer to the goal”: Wordsworth, Sympathy, and the Wandering Jew, Matthew Germenis
Finding Identity Through Survival: The Impact of the Hurricanes in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones, Crystal F. Giles
An Assessment of the use of Photogrammetry in Cranial Metric and Non-Metric Studies, Amy Hair
The Burning of Restoran and Other Stories, Nicole Holtzman
THE IMPACT OF A CASVE-CQ ENHANCED INTERVENTION ON GROUP CAREER COUNSELING OUTCOMES, Kendall L. Klumpp
Investigation on the Morphology of Charge-Transfer Complexes in Low Density Polyethylene, Wade Korf
The Effect of Constant Relative Growth Rate Versus Constant Specific Growth Rate on Oocystis SP, Rachel Kriner
Barriers to Health: Understanding the Barriers Faced by Community Intervention Projects, Vera Landrum
Microplastic Abundance, Distribution and Impacts on Sargassum-Associated Juvenile Fishes in the Gulf of Mexico, Olivia Lestrade
Helmand: The U.S. Marines and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, 2010-2012, Taylor L. Lewis
The Unknown War: Army of the Republic of Vietnam Combat Operations 1962-1963, Justin Major
Sustainable Wastewater Treatment in the American South, Caroline Miles
Assessing the recalibration interval for nearshore sediment assemblages after Hurricane Irma: implications for developing long-term records of overwash deposits, Stephen Mitchell
Musical Forces in the Serial Music of Igor Stravinsky, Adam Moffett
Vegetative Community and Health Assessment of a Constructed Juncus-Dominated Salt Marsh in The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, Nickolas R. Murphy
Do Mosquito Pesticides Harm Their Natural Enemies? Ecological Impacts and Non-Target Effects of Larvicides on Mosquito Predators, Joseph Nelsen
A Time Integration Method of Approximate Particular Solutions for Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations, Cyril Ocloo
Elucidating the Molecular Pathways Involved in the Fitness and Water Stress Response of Pseudomonas synxantha 2-79 in the Plant Rhizosphere, Clint Henry D. Pablo
Interrelationships Among Monorchiid Trematodes with Special Emphasis on Some Northwestern Atlantic Genera, Apryle Panyi
Using Modern Portfolio Theory to Analyze Virgil's Aeneid (or Any Other Poem), David Patterson
Homotopy Analysis Method For Nonlinear Ordinary Eigenvalue Problems, Subagya Perera
Anger, Relational Victimization, and Vengeance in the Context of Relational Aggression, Alison Poor
An Analysis of Dredge Efficiency for Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Commercial Dredges, Leanne Poussard
Mental Healthcare Providers' Personality and Its Relation to Preferences of Client Personality, Taylor R. Rodriguez
Investigating the timing of initial Louann Salt Flow and its relationship with the Gilbertown Fault Zone, Southwest Alabama, Avery Rosenbalm
DNA Methylation Analysis for Tissue and Age Determination for Forensic Human Identification, Lauren Satcher
Freshwater Endmembers Impacting Carbonate Chemistry in the Mississippi Sound, Allison Savoie
Mosquito Communities and Insect-Specific Viruses in a Heterogenous, Urban Landscape in Puerto Rico, Nicole Scavo
Non-Religious Employee's Perceptions of Microaggressions and Their Relationship with Job Satisfaction as Moderated by Calling, Jessica Schultz
Of Filth, Joseph Sigurdson
Nearshore Sedimentology of Eroding Microtidal Estuaries: Bon Secour Bay, Alabama and Perdido Bay, Florida, Jennifer Simpson
Marketing to the New Generations of LGBTQ+ Tourists, George Smith
Effects of infection of the protist parasite, Dermomycoides sp., in dusky gopher frog tadpoles, Jaime Smith
Measuring Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Transracial Adoption, Lillian Spadgenske
Contribution of Submarine Groundwater Discharge to Select Biogeochemical Fluxes in St. Louis Bay, Mississippi, Haley Spaid
Assessing the Nursery-Role Function of Pelagic Sargassum for Juvenile Fishes in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Courtney Stachowiak
Identification of Saliva Using DNA Methylation Analysis for Forensic Use, Elizabeth Staples
Development of an Attenuated Zika Virus by Editing the 5’ Untranslated Region, E. Ashley Thompson
Creative Expression Through the Gift of God: The Intertwining of Creativity and Religion of the Poor Clares in New Orleans, Louisiana, Maureen Tierney
Rapid Implicit Diagonalization of Variable-Coefficient Differential Operators Using the Uncertainty Principle, Carley Walker
Online and Offline Identity Gaps: Cross-Contextual Predictors and Psychological Outcome, Ningyang Wang
Tonal Expectations Defining Narrative Archetypes, Seth Weesner
Thiol-Ene Click Chemistry for Solid State Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion and Parts-Per-Billion Pyrophosphate Sensing in Artificial Seawater, Abagail K. Williams
Diagonalization of 1-D Schrodinger Operators with Piecewise Constant Potentials, Sarah Wright
Theses from 2019
Localized Method Of Approximate Particular Solutions For Solving Optimal Control Problems Governed By PDES, Kwesi Acheampong
Localized Method of Approximate Particular Solutions for Solving Fourth-Order PDEs, Lionel Amuzu
A Machine Learning Approach to Network Intrusion Detection System Using K Nearest Neighbor and Random Forest, Ilemona S. Atawodi
Discrepant Self-Perceptions as Predictors of Rule Violating Behavior Among Juvenile Offenders, Kimberly Barajas
The Ecology and Evolution of the Freshwater Turtles of Southern Mississippi, Gabrielle Berry
Investigating Diel Periodicity in Export Flux in the Gulf of Mexico Using a Particulate Imaging System, Justin Edward Blancher
Effects of Light and Macroinvertebrate Consumers on Detrital Microbial Biofilms in Streams, Cheyenne M. Brady
The Effect of Historic Shipwrecks on Sediment Microbiomes in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Melissa Brock
A Comparison of Social Learning in Domestic Canines, Beatrice Chenkin
Distribution, Abundance, and Trophic Ecology of Anguilliform Leptocephali in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Lillian Collins
Involuntary Signal-Based Grounding of Civilian Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in Civilian Airspace, Keith Conley
Extended-Range Oscillations and the First Sharp Diffraction Peak in Amorphous Silicon: A Systematic Study, Devilal Dahal
Is the Written Component of Tootling Effective? A Comparison of the Group Contingency to a Comparison Writing Procedure, James Derieux
The Variability of High-Frequency Motions and Their Interactions with the Mesoscale on the Mississippi Shelf, Jordan Earls
Acting Black: An Analysis of Blackness and Criminality in Film, Blake Edwards
Horses, Culture, and Trade: The Impact of the Horse on Southeastern Native Nations, 1650-1830, Jacob Featherling
Emotion Reactivity, Emotion Dysregulation, and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury among At-Risk Adolescents: A Multiple Mediation Analysis, Paula N. Floyd
Changes in Antarctic Bottom Water Formation During Interglacial Periods, Samuel Glasscock
Response and Recovery of Horn and Petit Bois Islands, Mississippi, USA to Tropical Cyclone Impacts: 2004 – 2016, Shara Gremillion
Multiple Species of Distinctiveness in Memory: Separating Task Distinctiveness from Statistical Distinctiveness, Matthew Robert Gretz
Estimating Body Mass through Bone Mineral Density Studies Using Dexa (Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry), Kaitlin Harstine
Archaeobotanical Analyses of the Winterville Mounds Site (22ws500) and Other Southeastern Ceremonial Complexes, Dana Hauffe
Krylov Subspace Spectral Methods with Non-homogenous Boundary Conditions, Abbie Hendley
The Evolutionary Diversity and Biological Function of Phenazine Metabolite Biosynthesis in Burkholderia SPP, Samuel Hendry