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Theses from 2018
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
What do Work Value Differentiation and Profile Elevation Predict?, Jinhao Chi
Grooming as an Agonistic Behavior in Garnett’s Small-Eared Bushbaby (Otolemur garnettii), Jennie L. Christopher
A Neuroprotective Role for Mir-1017, a Non-Canonical Mirna, Matthew de Cruz
Do Pinnipeds Have Personality? Coding Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) and California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) Behavior Across Contexts, Amber J. de Vere
Women in Predicaments, Jillian Rochelle Etheridge
No Foreign Despots on Southern Soil: The American Party in Alabama and South Carolina, 1850-1857, Robert N. Farrell
Life History of the Non-Native Invasive Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Alexander Q. Fogg
"To Mississippi, Alone, Can They Look For Assistance:” Confederate Welfare In Mississippi, Lisa Carol Foster
A Close Encounter with Death: Narration in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, Erin M. Gipson
A Microdebitage Analysis of the Winterville Mounds Site (22WS500), Stephanie Leigh-Ann Guest
Effects of a Function-Based Peer Management Intervention with Middle-School Students with ADHD, Kate A. Helbig
A Longitudinal Investigation of the Effect of Violent Video Game Play on Capability for Suicide, Claire Houtsma
Austin (22TU549): Mississippian Emergence In the Northern Yazoo Basin, Elizabeth Kay Hunt
The Role of Pain Persistence in the Association Between Negative Urgency and Suicidal Behavior, Hyejin Jin
Unreliable Narrations: Life and Trauma in a Queer Female Body, Leah Beth Johnston
Rethinking Civil Wars: An Overview of Literature and the Syrian Conflict Towards a Structural Definition of Civil War, Mphatso Kaufulu
Towards a Better Understanding of Zebrafish Sleep Behavior, Kanza Musarrat Khan
Effects of Temperature on Growth and Molting in Blue Crabs (Callinectes Sapidus) and Lesser Blue Crabs (Callinectes similis), Abigail Ann Kuhn
The Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Adolescents With Chronic Health Conditions, Catherine Levy
Effects of Wave Action on the Structure of Fish Assemblages Across an Exposure Gradient, Lauren Liddon
Sparking a Dolphin's Curiosity: Individual Differences in Dolphins' Reactions to Surprising and Expectation-Violating Events, Malin Katarina Lilley
Sir Robert Thompson’s Better War: The British Advisory Mission and the South Vietnamese Strategic Hamlet Program, 1961-1963, Richard Sears Lovering
The Effects of Real-Time Visual Performance Feedback Using a Tier Approach for Increasing Behavior Specific Praise on Teachers, Elizabeth Lown
The Effects of Plickers As Response Cards On Academic Engagement Behavior In High School Students, Morgan G. McCargo
Age, Growth, and Reproduction of Vermilion Snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens) in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico, Trevor Dalton Moncrief
Does Personality Similarity in Bottlenose Dolphin Pairs Influence Dyadic Bond Characteristics?, Kelsey R. Moreno
Textural Analysis of Historical Aerial Photography to Determine Change In Coastal Marsh Extent: Site of the Present-Day Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (GBNERR), Mississippi, 1955-2014, Heather Michelle Nicholson
A Multi-Millennial Drought Reconstruction for West-Central New Mexico Using Rocky Mountain Juniper (Juniperus scopulorum, Sarg.), Joshua S. Oliver
Evidence of Multidecadal Recruitment in the Ocean Quahog, Arctica islandica in the Western Atlantic Ocean, Sara M. Pace
Conformation of Transmembrane Segments of a Protein by a Coarse Grain Model, Sunita Subedi Paudel
Overparenting and Emerging Adults' Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Emotional Distress Tolerance, Christopher Michael Perez
The Influence of Perceived Job Flexibility and Spousal Support On the Marital Satisfaction of Parents of Children With Special Needs, Katie M. Perlowski
Comfort Habits, Stephanie L. Phillips
The Influence of Parental Communication About Sexual Health on Quality of Emerging Adult Romantic Relationships, Jaclyn Denise Powers
Sedimentary Characteristics and Nutrient Sequestration of Embanked Floodplains Along the Lower Mississippi River, Mississippi and Louisiana, R M Malitha Rathnayake
Italian Fellas in Olive Drab: Exploring the Experiences of Italian-American Servicemen in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945, Guido Rossi
Reassessment of the Red Drum Stock in Mississippi Coastal Waters: The Role of Ages 3-5 Year-Class Fish, Emily Satterfield
For King and Country: Reconsidering the Great War Soldier in Britain, 1914-1945, Nicholas John Schaefer
When We Were Monsters: Ethnogenesis in Medieval Ireland 800-1366, Dawn Adelaide Seymour Klos
Impacts of Oil Exposure During Early Life Development Stages In Sheepshead Minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus) Under Different Environmental Factors, Danielle Simning
The Legacy of British Rule On LGBT Rights In Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, Zachary Stewart
Women In Wartime Shipyards: Operating A Drill Press Was Like Using An Egg Beater, Carol A. Strohmetz
Lois Lenski, A Friend to Children: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of a Children's Book Author, Stephanie Evans Thomas
Black and Blue: Competing Social Constructions of Police On Instagram and Twitter, Mary Frances Thornhill
Examining Movement Dynamics of the Gulf Menhaden Fishery Using an Individual-based Model, Robert D. Trigg III
"And a sad ditty of this story born": Regeneration through Decay in John Keats's Isabella, Erica Van Schaik
Assessing Career Decision-Making Status: The CASVE Cycle Questionnaire, Brianna J. Werner
The Impact of Fe-Ti Oxide Concentration on the Structural Ridgity of the Lower Oceanic Crust, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge, Daniel Winkler
"There was No Sign of Man in It": Casting Dracula as Posthuman and Valuing the Progressive Vampire, Mary Elizabeth Wolverton
Nick Fury, Will Smith, and Other Black Authority Figures Breaking the Racial Contract in Popular Films of 2000-2015, Solai N. Wyman
The Effect of Boat Type on Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops trucatus) Behavior in the Mississippi Sound, Maria Zapetis
Theses from 2016
Pre- and Post-Partum Whistle Production of a Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Mother-Calf Dyad, Audra Elizabeth Ames
Being with Bees: An Anthropological Study on Human-Animal Relations in Southern Beekeeping, Kori Nadine Armstrong
Reconstitution of Munc18-Dependent Mast Cell Degranulation, Matthew Grant Arnold
An Assessment of Number Representation in the Small-Eared Bushbaby (Otolemur garnettii), Tiffany Aycia Woodard Baker
The Captivity of Opportunity: The Conversation Surrounding Church-Going Hispanic Immigrants, Nicolet Hopper Bell
Determining the Viability of Recent Storms as Modern Analogues for North-Central Gulf of Mexico Paleotempestology Through Sedimentary Analysis and Storm Surge Reconstruction, Joshua Caleb Bregy
The Invisible People of the Invisible Coast: The Resilience of People Experiencing Homelessness to Disasters on the Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi Gulf Coasts, Nicole Elizabeth Callais
Choros N. 10 by Heitor Villa-Lobos: Analyzing the Themes and Compositional Techniques of Brazilian Modernism, Andre Oliveira Campos-Neto
The Effects of Errorless Compliance Training Interventions on Compliance Behavior on Students in the Home and Generalization in the School Setting, Hannah Jeanne Cavell
Effects of Intermittent Pneumatic Compression on Leg Blood Flow and Vascular Function After Spinal Cord Injury, Lena Marie Cialdella
Decolonizing the YA North: Environmental Injustice in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans, Micah-Jade M. Coleman
Growth and Reproduction of Southern Flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico, Morgan Marie Corey
Sex-Related Alcohol Expectancies, Alcohol Consumption, and Risky Sexual Behavior Among African American College Women, Danielle P. Cottonham
"Too Big to Swallow All at Once": Consumption and Posthuman Healing in Ceremony and House Made of Dawn, Matthew Thomas Craft