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Theses from 2013
The Effect of Social Networking on Grief, Heather Margaret Gianatassio
Solving the World's Problems: Walker Percy's Cultural Critique in Love in the Ruins, Jeremy Ryan Gibbs
Settlement, Mobility, and the Organization of Technology at the Clark Lake Site (22SH535): A Small-Scale Woodland Settlement, Michelle Renee Hammond
Synthesis and Study of Stimuli-Responsive Fluorescent Polymeric Thin Films for Early Corrosion Detection by Directly Monitoring Iron Dissolution from Steel Substrates, Kevin William Harman
An Examination of Media Accounts Before and After School Shootings: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Articles Pertaining to Firearms on Campus, John Ronald Harrington
Convergence of Life History Phenotypes in Two Species of Topminnows, Fundulus notatus and Fundulus olivaceus, Jared Aubin Harris
Response of CYP1A and VEGF in Cyprinodon variegatus When Exposed to Source/Dispersed Oil and Hypoxia, Bryan Matthew Hedgpeth
Stimulant Use, Associated Psychopathology, and Eating Disordered Symptomatology, Tiffany Ann Hopkins
Topological Network Alignment Based on Graphlet Degree Signature, Shengai Jin
Scenic City, Joshua Michael Johnson
The Limitations of Democratic Peace, Anthony Glenn Jordan
Maladaptive Personality Traits and Sex Addiction Profiles, Jonathan Knute Jore
Design of Functional Benzoxazine Materials Via Thiol-Mediated Reactions, Matthew James Jungman
Adolescent Narcissism and Prosocial Behavior as a Function of Peer, Parent, and Self-Perception, Rebecca Lynn Kauten
Influence of Parenting Styles and Protective Behavioral Strategies on College Students' Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Consequences, Saarah Danielle Kison
Automated Filtering and Attribution of Archive Bathymetry Based on A Priori Knowledge, Rodney Wade Ladner
The Development and Use of a Color Discrimination T-Maze Learning Task in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Elizabeth Ann Lamb
A Critical Examination of Green Economic Development as a Post-Disaster Recovery Approach: The Case of Greensburg, Kansas 2007-2012, David Edgardo Leiva
Characterizing the Persistence of Sewage Enterococci in Mississippi Coastal Waters, Kimberly Anne-Marie Lewis
Mississippi's First Annual Farm to School Week: Evaluation of School Participation, Kelsey Jean Lingsch
Cretaceous and Paelogene Stratigraphy of Forrest County, Mississippi, Joel Kenneth Loeffler
From Corporal to Corporate: Defining the Body Politic in the Twenty-First Century, Ashley Estelle Lord
Comparison of Liquid-Liquid Extraction and Solid Phase Extraction of Mephedrone, Brittany Simone Love
Net Productivity On Artificial Reefs In the Mississippi Sound Estimated From Settlement Plate Measurements, Viviana Mazzei
Seasonal and Diurnal Behavioral Patterns of Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, That Exhibit High Site and Low Site Fidelity to Mississippi Sound, Shauna Marisa McBride
Growth and Carboxysome Composition of the Csosia Pore Mutants of Halothiobacillus neapolitanus, Jenifer Milam
Debating the Ideal Soviet Woman: Public Discussions of Gender and Morality in Khrushchev's Russia, Chelsea Jo Miller
Alcohol Consumption and Unwanted Sexual Experiences Among College Females: The Mediating Role of Protective Behavioral Strategies, Kayla Darlene Moorer
Molecular Detection of Tick-Borne Pathogens Associated With Ixodid Tick Species Infesting Migratory Songbirds and Ruminants, Nabanita Mukherjee
Age, Growth, Mortality, and the Effects of Trawling on Mortality of the Longspine Porgy, Stenotomus caprinus, Cher Marie Newman
Drive-By Geography: Perceptions of Urban Growth and Land Use in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Courtney Shea Norville
Lincoln: Reformer or Revolutionary? An Analysis of Lincoln's Legacy as Compared to the Political Ideals of the Amerian Revolution, Hayley Elizabeth Patterson
Comparison of Stated Iron Concentrations Between Name Brand and Generic Children's Multivitamins, Ashlea Nicole Pettengill
The Role of Hardiness, Family Hardiness, and Parenting Self-Efficacy on Parenting Stress in Adoptive Parents, Erica Danielle Raisanen
Legislated Landscape: A Comparison of New Deal Farm Communities in Hattiesburg, McComb, and Tupelo, Mississippi, Joy Delaine Rhoads
Do Gender, Delinquent Peer Affiliations, and Parenting Practices Moderate the Relation Between Callou-Unemotional Traits and Delinquency, Nicole Rivera-Hudson
Direct Chain-End Functionalization of Living Polyisobutylene With Phenoxyalkyl(meth)acrylates, Conor Patrick Roche
Anticipated Life Role Salience and Career Decision-Making Difficulties, Emily A. Schedin
Victims of Liberty: Virginia's Response to Loyalists and Loyalism in Williamsburg, 1770-1781, Stephanie Anne Seal
Sensitivity and Species Specificity of Bisulfite Modification and Pyrosequencing Technology Used to Identify Tissue-Specific DNA Methylation Patterns in Common Biofluids Foudn in Crime Scenes, Sitara Christian Shirwani
Interactions Between Protozoan Prey (Phylum protista) and Their Mosquito Predators (Order Diptera, Family Cuclicidae) Prey Size and Predator Behavior Effects, Jeffrey Jay Skiff
Development of a Genetic Monitoring Program for Stock Enhancement of Mississippi Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), Carly Renee Somerset
Loyalist or Patriot: The Precarious Position of Edmund Randolph, 1774-1786, Tanisha Jean Staten
From Servitude to Freedom: Gender, Labor, and Domestic Relations, Elizabeth Michelle Talbot
From Individual Trauma to Global Healing: An Ecopsychological Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Sarah Marie Taylor
Melancholia & Metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Kristin Lasheaú Teston
Comparative Analysis of Antiviral Responses in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells and in Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Jundi Wang
Narratives by Six Year Old and Nine Year Old Boys: Brute: Institutional, and Non-Institutional Mental Facts, Adam Craig Whipple
Religious Fundamentalism and Death Penalty Attitudes: Towards a New Operationalization of the Constructs, William H. Whited
Assessing Respiration Rates and Nutrient Dynamics of Aritifical Reef Biofilms and Bacterioplankton in the Mississippi Sound, Lynn Elizabeth Wilking
Renewable Ocean Energy Site Selection Using a GIS: Gulf Coast Potential, Thomas Paul Wissing
Friction Ridge Dysplasia and Its Preponderance in the Afghanistan Population, Chelsea Elyse Woullard
The Influence of Extended Cure on Mechanical Performance of Aerospace-Grade Film Adhesives, Ryan Marcus Young
Wireless Cooperative Communication and Networking, Yi Zhu
Theses from 2012
The Relationship Between Parent Nutrition Knowledge Level and Child Weight Status, Jameshyia Shandria Ballard
"Where the Deepening Thunders Call": Voice in Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Loren Percy Bishop
Designing and Developing an Alternative Implementation of the Digital Bathymetric Database, Variable Resolution (DBDB-V), Donald Lester Brandon Jr.
What Doesn't Count and Other Short Stories, Jennifer Jill Brewington
Analysis Methods and Characterization of the Electrical Properties of Nanostructured Particle-Containing Polymer Thin Films, Steven Lee Bunkley
Zifazah: A Scientific Visualization Language for Tensor Field Visualizations, Haipeng Cai
Life History of the Southern Kingfish, Menticirrhus americanus, from the North-Central Gulf of Mexico, Samuel Dee Clardy
Improved Numerical Quadrature over General Two-Dimensional Domains Utilizing Curvature Based Domain Decomposition, Eva Lynn Comino
Christianity, the Duty to Assist Others, and Supererogation, Billy Max Condrey Jr.
Social Status Inflation, Narcissism, and Aggression: The Role of Peer Victimization as a Potential Moderator, Laura Ashley Cook
Marginalization of Mothers in the Market: A Comparative Study of the Limits and Opportunities for Public Policy, Jennifer Mary Crosslin
Distant Neighbors: Negotiating Space and Urban Development in a Southern Mississippi Community, Kelly Jo Davila
A Bloody Yesteryear and a Brighter Tomorrow: Late Cold War Anti-Heroes in the 1980s Graphic Novels of Alan Moore and Frank Miller, Jeremy Andrew DeFatta
Comparison of Commercial DNA Extraction Kits with That of Organic Extraction Procedures Using Simulated Forensic Evidence Samples, Denise Nicole Dent
Mass Spectrometry Based Free Radical Induced Fragmentation Study of Chemically Modified Cysteine Containing Peptides, Veronika Vitalyevna Dubniakova
A Place Like Home, Tabitha Denae Epperson
Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in High Intensity Minimal Exchange Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) Raceways, John Henry Francis
Bacterioplankton Production in the Western Mississippi Sound and the Role of Photosynthetic Extracellular Release as a Driver of Bacterial Production, Amy Michele Glover
Exploring Parenting as a Predictor of Criminogenic Thinking Among College Students, Rose Angeline Gonzalez
"Bloom In the Moonshine": Imagination As Liberation In Anne of Green Gables, Paige M. Gray
Improved Detection Methods for Selected Vibrio Species in the Marine Aquatic Environment, Kimberly Jordan Griffitt
The Effects of DRO and DRA for Increasing Academic Engagement and Decreasing Disruptive Behavior of Elementary Students in General Education Classrooms, Jonna Lea Halphen
Cross-Cultural Contact on Ship Island, Mississippi: An Analysis of the French Warehouse Site Ceramic Assemblage from an Aboriginal and Engendered Perspective, Barbara Thedy Hester
Assessing the Functional Accuracy and Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information: A Comparison of Open Street Map and Navteq Road Datasets, Brett William Hode
Photo-Poetics: Photographic Narratives in the New Journalism, John David Hosemann Jr.
Effects of Hurricane Disturbance on the Stopover Ecology of Intercontinental Landbird Migrants in Coastal Louisiana, Emily Johanna Lain
Approximation of Elements of Exponentials of Differential Operators With Rational Quadrature, Daniel Elwood Lanterman
The Effect of POSS Modified Montmorillonite On Elastomer Nanocomposites, Elana Celeste Lewis
Mode Water in the Sea of Japan: A Study on the Reproducibility of Mode Water in the Data-Assimilating Regional Navy Coastal Ocean Model, Lea Kristen Locke
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Particulate and Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter Absorption in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Ashley Ann Lojek
Friend-Zone With Benefits: The Parasocial Advertising of Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Anette Lueck
Profession of Faith: Congressional Websites and Religious Expression in the 112th Congress, Molly Jaye McGuffee
Evaluating Macrobenthic Indicators of Organic Enrichment and Hypoxia Within the Coastal Mississippi Hypoxic Zone, Daneen P. Menke
Producing Data to Support the Detection and Understanding of Early On-Set Corrosion in Accelerated Weathering, Stephanie Suzanne Messer
German POWs, Biopolitics, & the Piney Woods: Using Foucault to Analyze Resistance at Camp Shelby's POW Camp During World War II, Patricia Lynn Miller-Beech
The Effects of the Good Behavior Game With General Education High School Students, Rachel R. Mitchell
Phase Speciation of Carbohydrates and Dioxins in Rivers and Coastal Waters in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Kusumica Mitra
William Colmer and the Politics of the New Deal Labor Legislation 1933-1940, Zachary Wyatt Moulds
Identifying and Characterizing Non-Coding RNAs in the Dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, Helen Namataka
Protective Behavioral Strategies and Their Relationship With Negative Alcohol Consequences Among Intercollegiate Athletes, Jeremy James Noble
A Comparison of Two Boundary Methods For Biharmonic Boundary Value Problems, Jaeyoun Oh
Determining the Trophic Role of Gulf Menhaden (Brevoortia patronus) Using Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes, Zachary Olsen