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Theses from 2022

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Finding Balance: A Content Analysis of how Newspaper Authors Framed Simone Biles Before, During, and After the 2020 Olympic Games, Hadley Howell

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TROPHIC ECOLOGY OF SAILFISH LARVAE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO: AN ANALYSIS OF DIET, PREY AVAILABILITY, PREY QUALITY, AND INFLUENCES ON LARVAL GROWTH, April Hugi

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Upland Migration of Coastal Marshes as a Response to Sea Level Rise and Fire Management: Past, Present, and Predicted, Devin Jen

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A META-ANALYSIS OF ANTECEDENT EXERCISE ON CHILDREN’S CLASSROOM BEHAVIORS, Chelsea Johnson

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Assessing the effect of negative mood states on valence-dependent belief updating, Aleksandr Karnick

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SEDIMENTARY CHARACTERISTICS AND ASSOCIATED CARBON AND NUTRIENTS OF OVERBANK SEDIMENTS DEPOSITED DURING THE 2018, 2019, AND 2020 FLOODS IN EMBANKED FLOODPLAINS ALONG THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI, Rachel Kelk

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The Politicization of School Reopenings: Media Coverage of Teachers Unions, Sarah King

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INVESTIGATING THE CONTRIBUTION OF MARINE VIRUSES TO OPTICAL BACKSCATTER IN THE <0.2 µM FRACTION OF SEAWATER, Kacey Mae Lange

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INVESTIGATION OF DEAD OCEAN QUAHOGS (ARCTICA ISLANDICA) SHELLS ON THE MID-ATLANTIC BIGHT CONTINENTAL SHELF, Alyssa LeClaire

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Message Convergence in Information Seeking and Decision Making among Adult Children Regarding their Parent's Diagnosis, Collyn Leggett

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Emotions in Work and War: Comparisons of Emotional-Cultures of New Deal CCC Enrollees and WWII U.S. Army Enlistees, 1933-1945, Maeve Losen

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Reinforcement Actor-Critic Learning As A Rehearsal In MicroRTS, Shiron Manandhar

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Large Scale Disease Modeling, Walker Mattox

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"Yours For Freedom": The Life and Legacy of Civil Rights Leader Victoria Gray Adams, Meridian McDaniel

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Evaluating the Effects of Mindfulness Practice on Attentional Control and Episodic Memory, Jacob M. M. Namias

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THE PLAGUE AND THE PARTHENON: CRUSADE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISEASE IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN, John Mark Nicovich

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THERE’S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL (UNTIL CORONAVIRUS COMES AROUND), Jessica Payne

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Celestial Bodies and Other Stories, Emily Prehn

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Understanding Biogeochemical and Physical Controls on Methane Air-Sea Exchange Fluxes in the Pacific Ocean, Sarah Raney

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Success Factors of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Post Early Intervention, Kate Roberts

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Effects of shoreline development and freshwater discharge on nekton assemblage and trophic structure in a northern Gulf of Mexico estuary, Glenn Schumacher

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A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE COURTNEY-ANDERSON CEMETERY, Lauren Scott

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The Thin Ideal and Body Positivity: How Do Influencers Affect Female Instagram Users?, Jeralynn Servos

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"Conserving" The Middle Ground: Tennessee's Unionist Press in the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861, Michael Singleton

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A LOOK AT MORALITY IN CONNECTION TO MARGINALIZATION AND DISABILITY IN JANE AUSTEN’S MANSFIELD PARK, Sara Snyder

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THE INFLUENCE OF SPATIALHETEROGENEITY ON OCEAN QUAHOG (ARCTICA ISLANDICA) POPULATION DYNAMICS ALONG THE MID-ATLANTIC BIGHT, Jillian Sower

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A Comparison of Natural, Living, and Hardened Shorelines Ability to Prevent Coastal Erosion and Maintain a Healthy Ecosystem, Gabrielle Spellmann

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INFLUENCES OF YOUTUBE ADVERTISING ON YOUNG ADULTS: A SOCIAL IDENTITY PERSPECTIVE, Nathakorn Srithong

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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

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Effects of Pier Shading on Salt Marsh Plants in Mississippi, Daniel Taylor

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Investigation of DNA Variability and Phylogenetic Relationships of Perlesta (Plecoptera: Perlidae) in Mississippi, James C. Valentine and Mac H. Alford

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Stability of Universal Screening Over Time: An Examination of the Student Risk Screening Scale, Rebecca Wagner Lovelace

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Validation in Vietnam: Motivations and Experiences of Vietnam Veterans who Returned to Vietnam as Tourists, Brian Washam II

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Examining the Association Between Fictive Kin Care, Parental Attachment and Emotional Distress in College Students, Roxanne Watts

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Impacts of the Poultry Industry In Mississippi, Sara Watts

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POPULATION GENETICS OF COWNOSE RAYS, RHINOPTERA SPP. IN THE WESTERN ATLANTIC, Helen Weber

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Structure-Property Evaluation of the Dielectric Properties of Radar Absorbing Materials in Free Space, Dane Wedgeworth

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EXAMINING THE MODERATING EFFECTS OF ADULT SOCIAL SUPPORT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADVERSE EXPERIENCES AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT, Zachary Wilde

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Reassessment of Species Boundaries and Phylogenetic Relationships in the Desmodium ciliare complex (Fabaceae) Using Morphological and DNA Data, Joshua Wilkinson

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Like My Voice, Now Yours, Megan Wilkinson

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INFIDELITY AND THE BIOECOLOGICAL PROTECTIVE FACTORS FOR MENTAL HEALTH: A LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION, Lindy Williams

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Recovery from Minor Tropical Cyclones: the Response of Faith-based Organizations and Government Agencies to Minor Tropical Cyclones in Biloxi, Mississippi, Camilla Witherspoon

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Intermittent Standing and Prior Exercise as Strategies to Prevent Arterial Stiffening That Can Arise From Prolonged Sitting, Alexander Wright

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USING DEEP LEARNING AND UAV IMAGERY TO DETECT ELKHORN CORAL IN ST. CROIX’S EAST END MARINE PARK, Samuel Wyatt

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CRISIS COMMUNICATION IN THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA CONFLICT: USE OF FACEBOOK BY UN HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS, Rubaiya Zannat

Theses from 2021

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Higher Command: An Examination of African American Leadership in the Vietnam Era, Amanda Abulawi

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Matching Equation: Teacher Rates of Praise and Reprimands, Meleah Ackley

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A Deep Learning-Based Automatic Object Detection Method for Autonomous Driving Ships, Ojonoka Erika Atawodi

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A Modified Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Method for Approximating the Scattering Amplitude, Samson Ayo

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The Effects of Using Behavioral Skills Training in Teaching Non-ABA Professionals to Implement Discrete Trial Training: A Meta-Analysis, Lindsey Bernard

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Racial Bias in Pain Perception and Treatment Among Healthcare Pre-Professionals, Raegan Bishop

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The Effects of Parent-Implemented Demanded Eye Contact as a Component of EID on Child Compliance, Halley Claire Blanchard

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Determining Subgroups That Exist Among US Firearm Owners, Allison Eileen Bond

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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

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An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Music Theory Resources for the Middle and High School Choral Classroom with Alignment to Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards, Amanda M. Brandon

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Acquaintances and Other Stories, Morgan E. Brewer

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Effects of Religiosity and Self-Control on At-Risk Adolescent Substance Use and Delinquency, Lauren Burns

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Population Parameter Estimation and Stable Isotope Analysis of Gulf Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi) in the Pascagoula River, Alfonso Cohuo

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An Analysis of Nobuo Uematsu’s Linear Structures: The Score of Final Fantasy VI’s Opera, Daniel Comeaux

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Underrepresentation of Women in American Politics, Lindsey Crane

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Different Class: The Creation of the Premier League and the Commercialization of English Football, Colin Damms

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For Cause and Countries: Initial, Sustaining, and Combat Motivation in the Royal Air Force Eagle Squadrons, 1940-1942, Timothy DeFazio

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The Effects of Vertical Diel Thermocline Movement on the Settling of Marine Snow in a River Influenced Marine Environment, Nadine Doiron

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Mitigating Negative Perceptions Due to Gender Norm Violation Through Adherence to Another Prevalent Gender Norm, Kelsey Drea

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A Multigrid Homotopy Method For Computing Eigenfunctions of Differential Operators With Two-Dimensional Heterogeneity, Chelsea Drum

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Haunted and Hunted: The Gothic and the Ghostly in The Light and Asylum, Adam Dunnells

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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and the Microbiomes of Two Benthic Species, Samantha Ells

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Media Frames and Abortion Issue Polarization, Shianne Galuska

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A Collection of Misfits, Kayla Gates

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Trophic Ecology of Mesopelagic Fish Larvae and Juveniles in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Emily Gipson

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Spatial and Seasonal Patterns of Above- and Belowground Vegetation Biomass and Potential Drivers in the Pascagoula River Delta, MS, Evan Grimes

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Structural Re-orientation of Magmatic Fabrics and Layering in the Lower Oceanic Crust: Hole GT1, Wadi Tayin Massif, Samail Ophiolite, Justin Guillot

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An Assessment of the Diverse Freshwater Turtle Fauna of Mississippi, Lucas Haralson

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Small-Scale Resuspension and Redistribution of Surface Sediments in the Northeast Gulf of Mexico, Austin Harris

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PRIVACY-AWARE AND HARDWARE-BASED ACCLERATION AUTHENTICATION SCHEME FOR INTERNET OF DRONES, Tom Henson

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“Man-Cub They Call Me”: Mowgli’s Constructed Childhood in Kipling’s Jungle Books, David Hii

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Women Under Colonial Coverture: Divorce, Property Rights, and Inheritance in Early Massachusetts, Sarah Anne Hogue

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Comparison of Supported Liquid Extraction and Solid Phase Extraction of Methamphetamine from Urine and Method Validation by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, Taylor Hood

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“Precios perle wythouten spotte”: Accepting the Unknowable in Pearl, Jana Ishee

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Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Glycodendrons Through Small Molecule and Linear Polymer Models, Molly Jones

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Of Metal, Paper and Light: Stories, Joseph Labernik

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An Evaluation of Activity in a Colonial Maya Cemetery Using Femoral Cross-Sectional Analysis, Casey LeJeune

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Mass Analysis and Raw Material Sourcing as Metrics of Poverty Point's Socio-Political Organization, Jeffrey Lewis, Jr.

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The Effects of Sexual Surrogacy on Satisfaction, Happiness, and Well-Being, Ryan Liu-Pham

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Blind Walking, Corley Longmire

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Paradoxes of the Heart and Mind: Three Case Studies in White Identity, Southern Reality, and the Silenced Memories of Mississippi Confederate Dissent, 1860-1979, Billy Loper

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RISK PERCEPTION AND RESPONSE AMONG INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI, Elida Lopes Souza Rocha

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Comparing the Efficacy of Two Affirmation Interventions to Reduce Stereotype Threat Effects on Women’s Math Performance, Alicia Macchione

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Evaluating Marsh Restoration Success Using Structural and Trophic Metrics on Deer Island, MS, Emelia Marshall

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Helping the Shoe to Fit, Amber Martin

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The Shortcomings of Maize: Using Tipu to Assess Maize Consumption and its Impact on Stature and Limb Proportions Among the Maya, Peter Mercier

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Depressive Symptoms and Marijuana Outcomes in College Students: The Mediating Role of Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana, Nicholas Militello

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“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

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How Historic Shipwrecks Influence Dispersal of Deep-Sea Microbiomes, Rachel Moseley

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Little Bodies, Little People: Conflating the Child and the Dwarf in The History of Sir Thomas Thumb, Hannah Mummert

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The Effects of Segmenting Worksheets on Independent Seatwork with Elementary Students Delivered in a Remote Manner Using Parents as Interventionists, Lauren Peak

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Assessing the Rates of Post-Depositional Change Within 2004 Indian Ocean Sediments: Implications for Long-Term Records of Paleotsunamis, Lillian Pearson

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When Time Shall Surrender: Disability, Crip Time, and John Clare's Language of Annihilation, Ian Pittman

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On a Stochastic Model of Epidemics, Rachel Prather

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Storms and Stories, Ryan Price