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Theses from 2019
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
A Content Analysis of Section 1983 Litigation Against Reserve Police Officers, Michael Ryan Broadus
The Conundrum of Causal Reasoning in Elephants, Beri Brown
Political Beliefs, Region of Residence, and Openness to Firearm Means Safety Measures to Prevent Suicide, Sarah E. Butterworth
A Computational Analysis of the Gradient Concentration Profile of DEET and the Mosquito Behavioral Response, Brandon Carver
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 T. Daley
Impact of Prolonged Sitting on Central Hemodynamics: Role of Intermittent Pneumatic Compression Therapy, Anna Kayleigh Downey
Evaluating the Effects of an Independent versus Interdependent Reinforcement Contingency on Teachers' Use of Behavior Specific Praise, Ashleigh E. Eaves
Get To The “Point”: Improving Location Services in Tippah County Mississippi, Haley Feather
Epic Adolescence: Contemporary Adolescence in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Chloe Felterman
Spatial Variation in Basal Resources and Trophic Position of Selected Fishes of the North-Central Gulf of Mexico, Christopher Fleming
Holocene Formation and Evolution of Horn Island, Mississippi, USA, Nina Gal
Revisiting Magee: A Mississippian Mound Center Site, Nicholas Glass
Investigating Possible Scurvy in the Postclassic Maya of Tipu, Emmalea Gomberg
"There was something grotesque": The Application and Limits of Respectability in the Daughters of Bilitis, Elizabeth Diane Greer
The Effect of Changing Appraisals of Current Life Success on Memories of Love Towards Parents, Mario Herrera
The Role of Emotion Regulation in the Relationship between Trait Anger and Relational Aggression, Skylar Hicks
Late Quaternary Evolution and Stratigraphic Framework Influence on Coastal Systems along the North-Central Gulf of Mexico, USA, Robert Hollis
And Then After That, Anything Goes, Jordan James
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
Blazing Worlds, Bethany Kinney
A Meat Paradox: Media's Role in Mitigating the Omnivore's Dilemma, Karyn Camille Lewis
Using Personality Traits to Predict Pectoral Fin Contact Initiation Role in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Riley Paige Macgregor
Pseudomonas/Brachypodium as a Model System for Studying Rhizosphere Plant Microbe Interactions Under Water Stress, Janiece McWilliams
Psychopathic Personality Traits as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Social Intelligence and Relational Aggression, Savannah Merold
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 Ashley Montiforte
The Return of the Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering, Jonathan Moore
The Effect of Spill Contaminants on Marine Biofilms and Microbially-Induced Corrosion of Carbon Steel, Rachel Mugge
Cornerstone of Union Victory: Officer Partnerships in Joint Operations in the West, Aderian Partain
Pathways of Psychopathic Traits to Aggression Through Affective Correlates, Olivia C. Preston
Factors Affecting the Regrowth of Ilex glabra in a Routinely Burned Longleaf Forest, Jaybus Price
Freshwater Invertebrate Assimilation Nutrients from Detrital Biofilms Under Light and Phosphorus Manipulation, Taylor Price