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Theses from 2011
Blueberry Fruit Development and Splitting, Carrie Lee Witcher
Theses from 2010
Restoration, Resistance, and Reconstruction: Liberty at Last in Clarke County, Virginia, 1865-1879, Kyle Allen Ainsworth
Predictive Habitat Model for the Snapping Shrimp Genus Alpheus in the Coastal Southeastern United States, Laura Catherine Anderson
Influence on Career Development: Dysfunctional Career Thoughts, Perfectionism, and Career Decision Self-Efficacy, Lindsay Marie Andrews
An Open Management and Administration Platform for IEEE 802.11 Networks, Biju Raja Bajracharya
Renewable Source Thermoplastics, Travis Palmer Ball
The Use of Time-Out With and Without Escape Extinction to Reduce Escape Maintained Noncompliance, Shelly Renee Benshoof
A Validation Study of the Competitive Prosocial/Aggression Continuum Task, Alexander Mark Biondolillo
Urban Crime in Latin America: A Case Study from Medellín, Colombia, Brian Kenneth Blickenstaff
"For Such is a Friend Now": Reflection and Revision in Shakespeare's Comic Friendships, Leah Rainell Boudreaux
Avoiding Confirmation Bias through Awareness and Training, Jon Stacy Byrd
"Civilized My Syphilized Yarbles": Culture, Economy, and Deviant Youth Subcultures in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, Emily Joy Carpenter
Comparison of the Biological Attributes, First and Second Level of Detail of Friction Ridge Skin of the Palms and Fingers, Kelley Bryant Counts
Utility of Feeding Priority as a Measure of Dominance in Garnett's Bushbaby (Otolemur garnettii), Kyle Daniel Edens
A Parameterization Study of Short Read Assembly Using the Velvet Assembler, Alex Christopher Elliot
Mississippian Feasting Strategies In the Lower Mississippi Valley: Archaeobotanical Analysis of Two Features From Winterville Mounds (22WS500), Diana Boney Flosenzier
Do Adolescents' Perceptions of the Consequences of Their Behavior Mediate the Link Between Psychopathy-Linked Personality Traits and Problem Behavior?, Matthew David Guelker
Reproductive Behaviors of Male and Female Blackspotted Topminnows, Fundulus olivaceus, Melissa Ann Gutierrez
Comparison of Extraction Techniques for Δ-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol from Urine, Ashlyn Christine Harmon
Application of Check In-Check Out as a Targeted Intervention to Increase Appropriate Behavior in At-Risk High School Students, Lauren Lestremau Harpole
Antrim to Ayrshire, Eric Jude Hatcher
Gulf Sturgeon of the Pascagoula River: Post-Katrina Assessment of Seasonal Usage of the Lower Estuary, Jeanne-Marie Dawn Havrylkoff
Classifications and Designations of Metric Modulation in the Music of Elliott Carter, Jason Adam Hobert
Variation in Social Behavior Throughout the Estrous Cycle of a Captive Killer Whale Orcinus orca, Kristina Marie Horback
Reproductive Life History of Fundulus jenkensi and Comparative Development of Five Sympatric Fundulid Species, Eric Thomas Lang
Site Fidelity and Association Patterns of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus in the Mississippi Sound, Angela D. Mackey
Disappointing Shades, Ann Shivers McNair
An Investigation of the Classroom Component of Positive Behavior Intervention and Support System on Appropriately Engaged Behavior, Kathryn Marie Menousek
Does Health Anxiety Moderate the Effects of Mortality Salience On Worldview Defense?, Toni Brooke Merkey
An Examination of Aggressive Behavior in Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Aduncus), Lauren Elizabeth Miller
Explaining the Variability of Free-Living and Attached Bacterioplankton Abundances in the Bay of St. Louis, Mississippi, Allison K. Mojzis
Burrowing Behavior of the Fiddler Crab Uca panacea in Relation to Food Availability, Jennifer A. Mraz
The Additive Effects of Components of an Intervention Package Targeting Compliance in Children With Hearing Impairments in a Classroom Setting, Laura Lynne Needelman
A System for Measuring Radiation Induced Chemical Products in Atmospheric Gases Using Optical Detection Methods, Tyler Webster Reese
The Catastrophic Position of the Judenräte: Self-Serving Collaborators or Honorable Martyrs?, Meghan Kerry Waldow
Examining Locus of Control and Attributional Style as Contributing Factors in the Narcissism-Aggression Relation, Marion Tam'eca Wallace
An F4-Style Involutive Basis Algorithm, Miao Yu
Theses from 2007
Fecundity and Survival of the Calanoid Copepod Acartia tonsa Fed Isochrysis galeana (Tahitian Strain) and Chaetoceros mulleri, Angelos Apeitos
Theses from 2001
Poetry and the State: The Politics of Nabat Tradition in Kuwait, Abdullah Alajmi
Theses from 2000
A Descriptive Study of the Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression by Nurse Practitioners, Polly T. Vick
Theses from 1989
Behavioral Determination of a Geomagnetic Senstivity in the Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus (Cetacea, Onotoceti), Alene A. Minchew
Theses from 1978
Ecology and Life History of the Speckled Madtom, Noturus leptacanthus (Ictaluridae), Kathleen E. Clark
Theses from 1966
American Reaction to European Economic Unification, William Ashurst Ward