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Theses from 2020
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
Their Culture Against Them: The Assimilation of Native American Children Through Progressive Education, 1930-1960s, Jamie Henton
Fracture Analysis of the Lower Oceanic Crust, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge, Trent Jackson
Evaluating Alternate Management Strategies for Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico, Nathaniel Wallace Jermain
The Effects of Aqueous Atorvastatin on Steroidogenesis of Xenopus laevis at Environmentally Relevant Concentrations, Jeremy Johnson
Vocal Response of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to a Novel Stimulus, Lindsey Johnson
The Thiol Specific Antioxidant (TSA1) Gene is Required for Survival in Macrophages and Oxidative Stress Resistance in Histoplasma Capsulatum, Lauren Kennedy
Effects of Water Table Depth and Edaphic Characteristics on Plant Diversity in a Southern Mississippi Pitcher Plant Bog, Patrick Kirby
Influence of Varying Inorganic Nutrients Supply on Ergosterol and Glucosamine Concentrations and Biomass Nutrient Stoichiometry in Ectomycorrhizal Fungi, Stephanie S. Koury
The Road to Recovery: Injured Athlete's Perspectives on Recovery Through Social Support, Brooke Kuhn
Organized Chaos: Daily Routines as a Potential Mechanism Linking Household Chaos and Child Behavior Problems, Kristy L. Larsen
Multi-Point Flux Approximations via the O-Method, Christen Leggett
Werewolves: A Three-Dimensional Content Analysis of Films from 1980-2014, Jennifer Lewis
What's Cookin'?: An Analysis of Food as a Method of Control in the Penal System, Zoe Livengood
A Case Study of Police Use of Force on Juveniles in a Southeastern Police Department, Kayce Lowe
Exploring the Moderating Effects of Aggression on the Relationship Between Negative Urgency and Suicidal Desire, Rachel L. Martin
Posture Affects Affordance Perception of Reachability in Virtual Reality, Hannah Masoner
Online Political Participation: Evaluation of the Changing Effects Over Time, Gabriel Davis May
A Linear Approach to John Adams' Recent Works, Olivia Maynard
Terrorism And Organized Crime: An Analytical Study From An International Law Perspective, Leila Mejdoubi
Maize and Bone: An Evaluation and Expansion of a Proposed Model for the Differential Diagnosis of Pellagra in Human Remains, Myra G. Miller
Zika Message Analysis, Alexandria Phipps
Geographical Analysis of Offender Vulnerability: Modeling Coastal Hazards and Social Disorganization in Southern Mississippi, Ashleigh Nicole Price
The Fighting Blue Ridgers: Combined Arms Capabilities of the US Army's 80th Infantry Division in World War II, 1944-1945, Brannon Price
Human Agent Transfer from Observations, Sneha Racharla
Elevated ADHD Symptoms as a Predictor of Rule Violations among Male Juvenile Offenders, Kathleen Lolley Ramsey
“The Monster of Her Own Creation”: Freud’s Seduction Theory and Algernon Blackwood’s Jimbo: A Fantasy, Kristina Schluter
The Quiet Classroom Game with an Indiscriminable Contingency in a High School, Stefanie Schrieber
Within, Without: Stories, Erika Olivia Shoup
Are You Happy? Local Economic Development in Northern Thailand, Katherine Sorensen
Spool, Mary Spooner
Acute Cardiovascular Response to Low-Load Unilateral, Bilateral, and Alternating Resistance Exercise with Blood Flow Restriction in the Lower Body, Daphney Stanford
Processing Speed for Action and Semantic Memory, Tyler A. Surber
Hope for Struggling School Districts, Mary D. Travis
Predicting College Students' Career Interests To Be a Police Investigator Rather Than a Patrol Officer, Alyssa Viator
Team Learning from Human Demonstration with Coordination Confidence, Syamala Nanditha Vittanala
Detecting Coastal Marsh Change from Aerial Imagery using Spectral and Textural Methods: Pascagoula River Estuary, Mississippi, 1955-2014, Margaret Claire Bell Waldron
More than Gal Pals: Female Romantic Friendships in Northanger Abbey, Katherine Waldrop
The Quiet Cafeteria Game, Mary Ware
Structure/Property/Processing Relationships in Poss-Modified High Temperature Thermoplastic Composites, Mitchell Woellner
First Set, Alfonso Zapata
GOGO: An Improved Algorithm to Measure the Semantic Similarity Between Gene Ontology Terms, Chenguang Zhao
Theses from 2018
A System For Conducting Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements On Gas Mixtures Exposed To Alpha Radiation, Patrick Ables
Parental Attachment and Adult Attachment: The Moderating Role of Dispositional Forgiveness and Gratitude, Christian Ammons
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