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Theses from 2014
A Paleopathological Analysis of the Moran French Colonial Cemetery, Jennifer Lynn Funkhouser
Haunted to Death: Subverting Genre and Reader Expectations in Lewis Carroll's Phantasmagoria, Elissa Anne Graeser
Did Money Matter? Interpreting the Effect of Displayed Wealth on Social Relations within an Enslaved Community, Matthew Clark Greer
Land Owners and Law Givers: Relations Between Yeomen and Planters in the South Carolina Back Country during the Early Republic, 1790-1830, Kevin Caldwell Grubbs
Eating, Feeding, and Weight in Early Childhood: Investigation of Child Eating Behaviors and Maternal Feeding Style as Influences on Preschoolers' Body Mass Index, Maren Elizabeth Hankey
Prehistoric Life on the Mississippi Coast: Chronology and Function of Ceramics from Three Shell Middens in the Grand Bay Estuary, Samuel Michael Huey
One Big Puzzle, Two Thousand Tiny Pieces: An Analysis of the Juvenile Remains from the Shady Grove Ossuary, Jaimie Arlene Ide
The Impact of Serotonin and Dopamine on Human Aggression: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Caroline Isabelle Jalain
A Vegetation Analysis on Horn Island, Mississippi, ca. 1940 Using Characteristic Dimensions Derived from Historical Aerial Photography, Guy Wilburn Jeter Jr.
The Ontogeny of Whistle Production in Infant Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) During the First Thirty Days of Life, Brittany Leigh Jones
Taxonomy, Diversity, and Distribution Patterns of Portunid Crab Megalopae in the Northern Gulf of Mexico During Fall of 2003, Carley Rain Knight
Exploring the Glucocorticoid Actions of 1α-Hydroxycorticosterone (1α-OH-B) in the Elasmobranch Fishes, Faith Nichole Lambert
Selling Tradition: Impression Management and Draft Animal Agriculture of a Mississippi Farmstead, Matthew Corbin Lance
Psychopathology and Sexual Addiction as Correlates of Disordered Attachment, Natasha Lisa Laurent
Callous-Unemotional Traits and Empathy Deficits: Mediating Effects of Affective Perspective-Taking and Facial Emotion Recognition, Joyce Hoi Ling Lui
The Effects of Stocking Density and Feeding Frequency on Aggressive and Cannibalistic Behaviors in Larval Hatchery-Reared Spotted Seatrout, Cynosion nebulosus, Christopher Burton Manley
Resident Benthic Fishes of Artificial Reefs in the Mississippi Sound: Effects of Habitat Relief and Subregion, Claire Louise Matten
Effects of Selective Grazing by Microzooplankton on Phytoplankton Composition in a Subtropical Estuary, Amanda Marie McGehee
The Effects of the Tootling Intervention Using Daily Reinforcement, Melissa Bryanne McHugh
The Treatment Utility of Hypothesis-Driven Functional Analysis Methods for Students Whose Behavior is Elevated During Escape, Attention, or Escape-to-Attention Contingencies, Chandler Erin McLemore
The Effects of Olfactory Stimuli on the Behavior of the Far Eastern/Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) in Captivity, Marks Stimson McWhorter
Study of the Structure-Property Relationships That Determine the Effects of Latexes and Starch Containing Latex Emulsions on the Performance of the Barrier Coatings (Sub-coat) for Paper, JoAnna Marie Monfils
The Effects of Contingent Public Praise Used Alone and in Combination with Public Posting on Appropriately Engaged Behavior in Secondary Classrooms, Roderick Delphino O'Handley
Chromatic Thresholds of Regular Graphs with Small Cliques, Jonathan Lyons O'Rourke
A Novel Method for Confirming the Presence of Volatile Reduced Sulfide Compounds via Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy, Krystal Lynne Parker
A Description of Vocalizations and Their Association with Mouthing Behaviors and Social Context in Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Christina Elyse Perazio
The Conservation Genetics of Two Emydid Turtles: Emydoidea blandingii and Malaclemys terrapin, Charlotte Lizana Petre
Refocusing Ecocriticism: Going Deep with Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Ivan Anderson Philippoff
Examination of High School Students' Understanding of Geometry, Brantley Grant Pierce
Propagation of Oligomeric α-Synuclein and Amyloid-β: Implications for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Diseases, Matthew Stephen Planchard
Methane Dynamics in St. Louis Bay, Mississippi, Hannah Marie Roberts
Approximation of the Scattering Amplitude using Nonsymmetric Saddle Point Matrices, Amber Sumner Robertson
Race, Gender, and Deliberative Democracy: Overcoming Oppression through the Theatre of the Oppressed, Jacob Edward Rothschild
A Phenological Study of Bat Communities in Southern Mississippi Caves, Zachary Uriah Roth
Effects of Water Parameters on Container Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Oviposition and Performance, Stephanie Sue Schelble
Self-Assembled Gold Nanoplexes for Cancer-Targeted siRNA Delivery, Yongliang Shi
Minority Health Perceptions in the Lower Mississippi Delta: A Grounded Theory Study Using PhotoVoice Methodology, SaVanna Beth Sims
Dialect Use Within a Socially Fluid Group of Southern Resident Killer Whales, Orcinus orca, Courtney Elizabeth Smith
A Multi-Site Process Evaluation of Three Federal Reentry Courts in a Southern District of Federal Probation, Patricia Ann Southerland
Assessing Landscape Change in Highland Peru with an Emphasis on Tree Cover Change, 1948-2012, Timothy Guy Sutherlin
Model Predictive Control for Temperature Dependent Systems, Felipe Vicente Sylva Prado
Southern Hospitality: A Mississippi Twilight, Pyran Sand Taylor
Intimate Partner Violence: Domestic Violence Service Providers' Perceptions of Male Victims, Bradon Allan Valgardson
The Application of P-Bar Theory in Transformation-Based Error-Driven Learning, Bryant Harold Walley
Collected Short Stories, Arthur Ross Walton
Because a Fire, A Lover's Quarrel: Poems, Clifton Clyde Ward
Jackson's Flying Dutchmen: The Significance of the Royal Netherlands Military Flying School, Samuel Howard Ward
A Tale of Two Cities: Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi During the American Civil War, Ruth Poe White
Predictors of Major Commitment, Anna Jill Womack
Exploration of Biophysical Interactions Associated with Mesoscale Variability in the Central Gulf of Mexico, Katharine Celeste Woodard
An Evaluation of Metric Methods of Race Differentiation in the Human Pelvic Girdle for the Application of Expert Witness Testimony, Laura Natalie Yurka
Theses from 2013
Determining Hydrocarbon Distribution Using Resistivity, Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Southwestern Mississippi, John Edward Allen Jr.
Manufacturing Exports and Job Creation: A Case Study of Mississippi, Daniel Assamah
Are Fingerprints Really Individualized Evidence? A Meta-Analytic Study, Jonathan Dillon Barber
The Oaks: Interpretation and Analysis of the Support Structures of a 19th Century Urban Farmstead, Justin Dwayne Beavers
Hope for Better Things, Nicholas William Benca
Variations of Vibrio Populations in Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, Aquaculture Raceways, Tracy Rene Berutti
Conservation Genetics of Gar (Atractosteus spp.), Sandra Elizabeth Bohn
Mitochondrial DNA Control Region Sequence Polymorphisms from a South Indian Population Sample: A Forensic and Phylogenetic View, Robin Gwydion Bombardi
Primary Productivity Distributions Along the River-Dominated Shoreline of the Bay of St. Louis, MS Estuary, Adam Douglas Boyette
Why I Killed the Draft Horse: The Golden Bough, Robert Frost, and "Progress", Eugene Charles McGregor Boyle III
Madness, Scalawagery, and Reconstruction: Dr. William M. Compton and Civil War Era Politics, Eugene Allan Branstiter
An Insight Into the Microbial Diversity and Expression of Cysteine Protease Inhibitors (Cystatin) in Rickettsia parkeri Infected Amblyomma maculatum, Khemraj Budachetri
Sandcastles in the Sand: Liminality at the Seashore in Carolyn Wells's Marjorie at Seacote, Olivia Jeanne Bushardt
The Tweet Delete of Congress: Congress and Deleted Posts on Twitter, Theresa Loraine Cardenas
Role of Electric Utility Companies in Economic Development Within Deregulation, Jessica Alys Cheeks
Solutions of Matrix Equations, Thir Raj Dangal
The Effects of Angiogenic Growth Factors on Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation to Vascular Cell Fates, William Anthony D'Angelo
Analysis of Post-Cranial Traits for the Assessment of Biological Distance among Temporally Distinct New World Populations of African Descent, Claire Marie Dansereau
Family Structure and Child Emotion Regulation Difficulties as Important Factors in the Relation Between Maternal Depression and Child Externalizing Behaviors, Kristy Marie DiSabatino
The Effects of Snowmelt Percolation on Stratified Pollen Records: A Cooler Study, Michael Edward Ewing
Waves of Change: Tourism and Vulnerability in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, Matthew Lee Fahrenbruch
Sedimentary Characteristics of an Estuarine Marsh System and the Roles of Storm Overwash, Micro-tidal Currents, and Organic Production: Big Branch Marsh, Louisiana, John Andrew Sebastian Fleming
Inconspicuous but Indispensable: Charles Anderson Dana as Assistant Secretary of War, Aaron Edward Foster
Spring Landbird Migration along the Northern Coast of the Gulf of Mexico: Multi-Scaled Investigation of Stopover Ecology Within an Urbanized Landscape, Jill Marie Gautreaux
Conservation Genetics of Threatened Gopher Tortoises, Gopherus polyphemus: An Assessment of Genetic Variation and Parentage in Two Populations in South Mississippi, Angela Huang Getz
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