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Theses from 2020
Interplay of DGAT1, PDAT1 and DGAT2 enzymes in plant triacylglycerol assembly, Anushobha Regmi
Theses from 2018
Improving Interview Skills in College Students Using Behavioral Skills and In Situ Training, Laura-Katherine Barker
Life-History Characteristics and Fishery Dynamics of Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico, Corbin Bennetts
The Conundrum of Causal Reasoning in Elephants, Beri Brown
T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land", and Yoga Philosophy, Jessica Cloud
Growth and Reproduction of Atlantic Chub Mackerel (Scomber Colias) in the Northwest Atlantic, Taylor Daley
Impact of Prolonged Sitting on Central Hemodynamics: Role of Intermittent Pneumatic Compression Therapy, Anna K. Downey
Evaluating the Effects of an Independent versus Interdependent Reinforcement Contingency on Teachers' Use of Behavior Specific Praise, Ashleigh Eaves
Get To The “Point”: Improving Location Services in Tippah County Mississippi, Haley Feather
Spatial Variation in Basal Resources and Trophic Position of Selected Fishes of the North-Central Gulf of Mexico, Christopher Fleming
Revisiting Magee: A Mississippian Mound Center Site, Nicholas Glass
"There was something grotesque": The Application and Limits of Respectability in the Daughters of Bilitis, Elizabeth Diane Greer
The Role of Emotion Regulation in the Relationship between Trait Anger and Relational Aggression, Skylar Hicks
Posttraumatic Stress and Hazardous Alcohol Use in College Students: The Moderating Role of Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies, Hallie R. Jordan
Unlonely: A Collection of Short and Nonfiction, Mary Karnes
Regional Variation in Migratory Behavior and Reproductive Output of The Gulf Of Mexico Blue Crab Spawning Stock, Adam Kemberling
A Meat Paradox: Media's Role in Mitigating the Omnivore's Dilemma, Karyn Lewis
Impact of Prolonged Sitting on Cognitive Function: Implications for Cardio-metabolic Risk, Sabina Miller
Automatic Construction of Scalable Time-Stepping Methods for Stiff PDES, Vivian Montiforte
Factors Affecting the Regrowth of Ilex Glabra in a Routinely Burned Longleaf Forest, Jaybus Price
Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Correct Heading Skills to Youth Soccer Players, Laura Quintero
The Curated Chronicles of the American Family: An Ideological Analysis of the Love Taza Blog, Elizabeth Radley
From Dago to White: The Story of Sicilian Ethnic Evolution in New Orleans Amidst the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1905, H. Denise LoPresto Saucier
Linkages between Marsh Fragmentation, Prey Availability, and Blue Crab (Callinectes Sapidus) Abundance and Mortality, Lennah Shakeri
Natural Disasters and Attachment Quality: The Mediating Role of Coping, Alexandra Teller
1300 Years of Snowpack Change for the Sangre de Cristo Mountian Range, Michael Thornton
Vocalizations of North American River Otters (Lontra canadensis) in Two Human Care Populations, Sarah Walkley
Analysis of the Upper Cotton Valley Group in the Northeastern Mississippi Interior Salt Basin, Theresa A. Woehnker
Theses from 2017
Environmentally-Driven Variation in the Population Dynamics of Gulf Menhaden (Brevoortia patronus), Grant D. Adams
Eignefunctions for Partial Differential Equations on Two-Dimensional Domains With Piecewise Constant Coefficients, Abdullah M. Aurko
Exploitation of Land and Labor in Appalachia: The Manipulation of Men in Ann Pancake's Strange as this Weather Has Been, Britani W. Baker
Biodiversity and Phenology of the Epibenthic Macroinvertebrate Fauna in a First Order Mississippi Stream, Jamaal Bankhead
Maligned “Milish:” Mississippi Militiamen in the Civil War, Tracy L. Barnett
The Classroom Password: An Independent Group Contingency Targeting Academic Engagement and Disruptive Behaviors In High School Classrooms, Kayla E. Bates-Brantley
Increasing Novel Vocalizations for Individuals with ASD Using a Voice Output Communication Aide, Shawn Kathleen Bishop
Born to Run: A Grounded Theory Study of Cheating in the Online Speedrunning Community, Christopher G. Brewer
Solitary and Social Object Play in the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), Briana M. Cappiello
What do Work Value Differentiation and Profile Elevation Predict?, Jinhao Chi
Grooming as an Agonistic Behavior in Garnett’s Small-Eared Bushbaby (Otolemur garnettii), Jennie L. Christopher
A Neuroprotective Role for Mir-1017, a Non-Canonical Mirna, Matthew de Cruz
Do Pinnipeds Have Personality? Coding Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) and California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) Behavior Across Contexts, Amber J. de Vere
Women in Predicaments, Jillian Rochelle Etheridge
No Foreign Despots on Southern Soil: The American Party in Alabama and South Carolina, 1850-1857, Robert N. Farrell
Life History of the Non-Native Invasive Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Alexander Q. Fogg
"To Mississippi, Alone, Can They Look For Assistance:” Confederate Welfare In Mississippi, Lisa Carol Foster
A Close Encounter with Death: Narration in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, Erin M. Gipson
A Microdebitage Analysis of the Winterville Mounds Site (22WS500), Stephanie Leigh-Ann Guest
Effects of a Function-Based Peer Management Intervention with Middle-School Students with ADHD, Kate A. Helbig
A Longitudinal Investigation of the Effect of Violent Video Game Play on Capability for Suicide, Claire Houtsma
Austin (22TU549): Mississippian Emergence In the Northern Yazoo Basin, Elizabeth K. Hunt
The Role of Pain Persistence in the Association Between Negative Urgency and Suicidal Behavior, Hyejin Jin
Unreliable Narrations: Life and Trauma in a Queer Female Body, Leah Beth Johnston
Rethinking Civil Wars: An Overview of Literature and the Syrian Conflict Towards a Structural Definition of Civil War, Mphatso Kaufulu
Towards a Better Understanding of Zebrafish Sleep Behavior, Kanza Musarrat Khan
Effects of Temperature on Growth and Molting in Blue Crabs (Callinectes Sapidus) and Lesser Blue Crabs (Callinectes Similis), Abigail Ann Kuhn
The Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Adolescents With Chronic Health Conditions, Catherine Levy
Effects of Wave Action on the Structure of Fish Assemblages across an Exposure Gradient, Lauren Liddon
Sparking a Dolphin's Curiosity: Individual Differences in Dolphins' Reactions to Surprising and Expectation-Violating Events, Malin Katarina Lilley
Sir Robert Thompson’s Better War: The British Advisory Mission and the South Vietnamese Strategic Hamlet Program, 1961-1963, Richard Sears Lovering
The Effects of Plickers As Response Cards On Academic Engagement Behavior In High School Students, Morgan G. McCargo
Age, Growth, and Reproduction of Vermilion Snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens) in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico, Trevor Dalton Moncrief
Does Personality Similarity in Bottlenose Dolphin Pairs Influence Dyadic Bond Characteristics?, Kelsey R. Moreno
Textural Analysis of Historical Aerial Photography to Determine Change In Coastal Marsh Extent: Site of the Present-Day Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (GBNERR), Mississippi, 1955-2014, Heather Michelle Nicholson
A Multi-Millennial Drought Reconstruction for West-Central New Mexico Using Rocky Mountain Juniper (Juniperus scopulorum, Sarg.), Joshua S. Oliver
Evidence of Multidecadal Recruitment in the Ocean Quahog, Arctica Islandica in the Western Atlantic Ocean, Sara M. Pace
Conformation of Transmembrane Segments of a Protein by a Coarse Grain Model, Sunita Subedi Paudel
Overparenting and Emerging Adults' Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Emotional Distress Tolerance, Christopher Michael Perez
The Influence of Perceived Job Flexibility and Spousal Support On the Marital Satisfaction of Parents of Children With Special Needs, Katie M. Perlowski
Comfort Habits, Stephanie L. Phillips
The Influence of Parental Communication About Sexual Health on Quality of Emerging Adult Romantic Relationships, Jaclyn D. Powers
Sedimentary Characteristics and Nutrient Sequestration of Embanked Floodplains Along the Lower Mississippi River, Mississippi and Louisiana, R M Malitha Chanuka Bandara Rathnayake
Italian Fellas in Olive Drab: Exploring the Experiences of Italian-American Servicemen in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945, Guido Rossi
Reassessment of the Red Drum Stock in Mississippi Coastal Waters: The Role of Ages 3-5 Year-Class Fish, Emily Satterfield
For King and Country: Reconsidering the Great War Soldier in Britain, 1914-1945, Nicholas John Schaefer
When We Were Monsters: Ethnogenesis in Medieval Ireland 800-1366, Dawn A. Seymour Klos
Impacts of Oil Exposure During Early Life Development Stages In Sheepshead Minnows (Cyprinodon Variegatus) Under Different Environmental Factors, Danielle Simning
The Legacy of British Rule On LGBT Rights In Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, Zachary Stewart
Women In Wartime Shipyards: Operating A Drill Press Was Like Using An Egg Beater, Carol A. Strohmetz
Lois Lenski, A Friend to Children: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of a Children's Book Author, Stephanie Evans Thomas
Black and Blue: Competing Social Constructions of Police On Instagram and Twitter, Mary Frances Thornhill
Examining Movement Dynamics of the Gulf Menhaden Fishery Using an Individual-based Model, Robert D. Trigg III
"And a sad ditty of this story born": Regeneration through Decay in John Keats's Isabella, Erica Van Schaik
Assessing Career Decision-Making Status: The CASVE Cycle Questionnaire, Brianna J. Werner
The Impact of Fe-Ti Oxide Concentration on the Structural Ridgity of the Lower Oceanic Crust, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge, Daniel Winkler
"There was No Sign of Man in It": Casting Dracula as Posthuman and Valuing the Progressive Vampire, Mary E. Wolverton
Nick Fury, Will Smith, and Other Black Authority Figures Breaking the Racial Contract in Popular Films of 2000-2015, Solai N. Wyman
The Effect of Boat Type on Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops trucatus) Behavior in the Mississippi Sound, Maria Zapetis
Theses from 2016
Pre- and Post-Partum Whistle Production of a Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Mother-Calf Dyad, Audra Elizabeth Ames
Being with Bees: An Anthropological Study on Human-Animal Relations in Southern Beekeeping, Kori Nadine Armstrong
Reconstitution of Munc18-Dependent Mast Cell Degranulation, Matthew Grant Arnold