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Theses from 2019
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
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
Interplay of DGAT1, PDAT1 and DGAT2 Enzymes in Plant Triacylglycerol Assembly, Anushobha Regmi
The Influence of Socioeconomic Status and Subjective Social Status on the Career Development of College Students, Dylan Richard
Antioxidant Genes in Apis mellifera, Their Implication in Pesticide Detoxification, Nicholas Rinderer
The Song Style of Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Analysis of Four Songs, Rachel Rogers
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
Sequence Stratigraphy of Campanian-Maastrichtian Strata in Eastern Alabama, David Simmons
Mississippi’s First Statewide Teachers’ Strike, Emily Doyne Smith
Vulnerable Narcissism, Self-Criticism, and Self-Injurious Behavior: Emotion Regulation as a Moderator, Philip Stoner
Rhetoric, Legislation, and the Felony Offender, Cyrus Taylor
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
Increasing Teachers' Use of Behavior Specific Praise Via a Smart Watch, Kristi White
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 Muheel Momit 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