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Combined Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements In Top-Antitop Quark Production At The Tevatron, Cdf Collaboration, D0 Collaboration, S. Bhatia, J. L. Holzbauer, J. Kraus, B. Quinn

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First Search For Nontensorial Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars, Ligo Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, M. Afrough, M. Cavaglià, C. Cocchieri, K. L. Dooley, D. Trifirò

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Search For The Pair Production Of Third-Generation Squarks With Two-Body Decays To A Bottom Or Charm Quark And A Neutralino In Proton–Proton Collisions At S=13tev, Cms Collaboration, J. G. Acosta, S. Oliveros

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Debby Webster, Debby Webster, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Debby Webster is currently the Nutrition Services Director for Rainier School Districts in Rainier, OR. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Nutrition from Central Washington University, and has had a passion to feed students her whole career. Debby has worked in all sizes of districts from large to small, and had the pleasure of working as a consultant for the state agency doing nutrition analysis for SMI reviews. Debby is a member of the Oregon USDA Foods and Procurement Advisory committee and is active in several professional organizations. She has been training School Nutrition Professionals for over …

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Measurement Of The Τ Michel Parameters $\Bar{\Eta}$ And $\Xi\Kappa$ In The Radiative Leptonic Decay $\Tau^- \Rightarrow \Ell^- \Nu_{\Tau} \Bar{\Nu}_{\Ell}\Gamma$, Belle Collaboration, R. Kroeger

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

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Stellar Binary Black Holes In The Lisa Band: A New Class Of Standard Sirens, W. Del Pozzo, Alberto Sesana, Antoine Klein

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Education Edge 2018, University Of Mississippi. School Of Education

Education Newsletters

Cover Story: Making Marks: How SOE students and alumni partner with the Marks Project in the Mississippi Delta

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The View From Ventress - 2018, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

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Cover Story: Home of the Brave. As military veterans arrive on campus, the University of Mississippi—one of only four SEC institutions designated a Purple Heart Campus by the National Order of the Purple Heart—welcomes them with resources and assistance.

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Impact Of Human Disturbance On The Behavior And Physiology Of The Endangered Ringed Sawback Turtle (Graptemys Oculifera), Jessica Mary Heppard

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Turtles are one of the most threatened taxa worldwide. In addition to direct anthropogenic impacts such as hunting and pollution, unintentional indirect human disturbance affects poikilothermic turtles by disrupting thermoregulatory basking behavior. In this thesis I assess the behavioral and physiologic impacts of high boat traffic, reductions of basking structures, and environmental factors on basking behavior, rates of disturbance, thermoregulation, parasite load, shell condition, and population recruitment in two populations of the endangered ringed sawback (Graptemys oculifera), also known at the ringed map turtle, on the Pearl River outside Jackson, MS. Basking behavior was influenced by availability of basking structures, …

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Increasing Access To High-Impact Practices: A Case Study On Internships At The University Of Mississippi, Kristina Phillips, Jennifer Saxon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation-in-practice case study aimed to assess internships opportunities at the University of Mississippi (UM) to determine potential barriers for access among African American students and students with low socioeconomic backgrounds. Internships are a high impact practice, as identified by the American Association for Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) that provide students with tangible, real-world experience to prepare for careers after graduation. Experiential learning theories (Kolb, 1984; Dewey, 1938) and high-impact practices (Kuh, 2008) establish the importance of student engagement outside of traditional classroom settings. The patterns and frequency of internship participation are not clear for University of Mississippi students. Research …

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Experimental Investigation Of Impurities And Their Effect On Acousto-Electric Properties Of Lithium Niobate, Chandrima Chatterjee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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A Framework For Assessing Water Quality, Prioritizing Recovery Potential, And Analyzing Placement Of Best Management Practices, Tadesse Animaw Sinshaw

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Motivated by the U.S. EPA goals, this research developed a framework to support identification and restoration of nutrient-impaired water bodies. The study objectives were developing total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) prediction models, evaluating the impact of social indicators on assessing recovery potential, and developing a spatial decision support system for choice and placement of best management practices (BMPS). An artificial neural network was used to develop TN and TP predictive regional models for U.S. lakes using easily measurable and cost-effective variables. The performance of models was superior for regions trained with larger datasets and/or regions with lower temperature …

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A Study Of Computational Problems In Computational Biology And Social Networks: Cancer Informatics And Cascade Modelling, Christopher Ma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

It is undoubtedly that everything in this world is related and nothing independently exists. Entities interact together to form groups, resulting in many complex networks. Examples involve functional regulation models of proteins in biology, communities of people within social network. Since complex networks are ubiquitous in daily life, network learning had been gaining momentum in a variety of discipline like computer science, economics and biology. This call for new technique in exploring the structure as well as the interactions of network since it provides insight in understanding how the network works and deepening our knowledge of the subject in hand. …

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Multiobjective Reservoir Optimization Using Genetic Algorithm, Seyma Tiryakioglu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates the optimization of energy generation in a multipurpose reservoir. The objective functions and the constraints for the multiobjective optimization of reservoir operation for maximization of energy production involve the solution of a set of nonlinear equations governing pressure flow in penstock and turbine system and the hydropower generation. The hydropower generation also requires operational rules that define how the reservoir storage volume must be used at different storage levels. For these reasons, the present thesis uses genetic algorithm (GA) functions available in Matlab to perform the multiobjective optimization of hydropower energy production. Multiobjective optimization is based on …

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Examining Factors Related To Teacher Turnover In Mississippi School Districts And The Relationship Between Teacher Experience, Teacher Turnover, And Student Achievement, Angela Wheeler - Bass

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Armatures For Success: Advancing Racial Equity For Funeral Service Technology Students, Angela Massey Hopper

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this descriptive, exploratory action research study, using both qualitative and quantitative methods, was to identify students at risk of failure on a post-graduate licensure exam and to develop and implement improvement models to improve exam performance. The participants were alumni of the funeral service technology program at Northwest Mississippi Community College. African American graduates of this vocational course failed at increasingly disparate rates above Caucasian graduates in the national board licensing examination, despite commensurate post-secondary scholastic achievement. The quantitative research portion of the study statistically analyzed student performance measures in funeral service classes to reveal areas of …

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Bases In Spaces Of Regular Multilinear Operators And Homogeneous Polynomials On Banach Lattices, Khazhak Varazdat Navoyan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For Banach lattices E1,…, Em and F with 1-unconditional bases, we show that the monomial sequence forms a 1-unconditional basis of Lr(E1,…, Em;F), the Banach lattice of all regular m-linear operators from E1×···× Em to F, if and only if each basis of E1,…,Em is shrinking and every positive m-linear operator from E 1×···×Em to F is weakly sequentially continuous. As a consequence, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for which the m-fold Fremlin projective tensor product E1⊗ |π|··· ⊗|π|E m (resp. the m-fold positive injective tensor product E1⊗|ϵ|··· ⊗ |ϵ|Em) has a shrinking basis or a boundedly complete basis. …

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The Influence Of Self-Prescribed Knee Bracing On Walking In Healthy Adults, Lauren Luginsland

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The knee is one of the most commonly loaded anatomical joints in the human body due to maintaining an upright posture. Increased joint loading can lead to various injuries which can either be treated surgically or non-surgically including immobilization by bracing. Numerous studies have looked at functional knee bracing post-operative surgery creating a gap within the literature analyzing non-operative functional knee braces within a healthy population. Commonly prescribed functional knee braces such as the Ossur Rebound® have been prescribed by physicians, but also available over-the-counter for self-prescription to assist with injury prevention, stabilization, and protection. Previous studies have looked at …

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Crystalline Salt Formation Of An Acidic Drug Indomethacin Using Hot Melt Extrusion Technology, Mustafa Bookwala

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Although salt formation is the most ubiquitous and effective method of increasing the solubility and dissolution rates of acidic and basic drugs, it consumes large quantities of organic solvents and is a batch process. Herein, we show that the dissolution rate of indomethacin (a poorly water-soluble drug) can be increased by using hot melt extrusion of a 1:1 (mol/mol) indomethacin:tromethamine mixture to form a highly crystalline salt, the physicochemical properties of which are investigated in detail. Specifically, pH–solubility studies demonstrated that this salt exhibited a maximal solubility of 19.34 mg/mL (>1000 times that of pure indomethacin) at pH 8.19. …

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L2 Teachers' Efficacy: The Impact Of Professional Development, Nino Jakhaia

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This quasi-experimental explanatory sequential mixed-methods study examined the impact of a 25-hour professional development on English as a foreign language (L2) teachers’ sense of efficacy in writing instruction in the country of Georgia. It also explored the links between teachers’ beliefs about teaching writing, self-efficacies in instructional strategies, and the professional development. A convenience sampling technique was used to select teachers for participation in the professional development. The quantitative data was collected through the teacher efficacy scale. The qualitative methods in the form of semi-structured questions about efficacy were used to enhance the data by examining teachers’ perceptions of the …

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Mississippians In Physics: Perspectives And Practice In A Search For Physics Excellence, Paul D. Rogers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This mixed-method study represents a broad evaluation of the physics views of Mississippi physics students and physicists, along with an analysis of graduate school data, in a search for answers which might improve physics education in Mississippi. Descriptive statistics were calculated using data from eight graduate degree programs (from Fall 2003 through Full Summer 2012) at the University of Mississippi. This was done to find the percent of graduate degrees in each degree program which were awarded to in-state residents. It was found that of the eight University of Mississippi graduate degree programs in the study, two programs awarded a …

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A Song Of Confusion And Annoyance: Kant On The Beauty Of Absolute Music, Ryan Walton Turner

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Kant's evaluation of music in the Critique of Judgement stands as a blemish on an otherwise appealing system of judgments of beauty and of assigning aesthetic worth. In order to resolve this tension, I will present an argument in three parts. First, I will delve further into Kantian judgments of beauty to provide solid contextual grounds for why he draws his conclusions about music and will further elaborate on his various positions concerning music. Second, I will look at a few potential answers for the problem of music given by others in the philosophy of music and briefly evaluate their …

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A New Gini Correlation Between Quantitative And Qualitative Variables, Xin Dang, Dao Nguyen, Yixin Chen, Junying Zhang

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On Mutual Information Estimation For Mixed-Pair Random Variables, Aleksandr Beknazaryan, Xin Dang, Hailin Sang

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A Quantitative Evaluation Of The Htc Vive For Virtual Reality Research, Ethan Luckett

Honors Theses

The equipment typically used in virtual reality (VR) research, including head-mounted displays (HMDs) and motion capture systems, has traditionally been prohibitively expensive. The recent increase in the availability of consumer-grade VR equipment has greatly lowered the barrier to entry for VR research. The equipment typically used for research can cost upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, but the consumer-grade HTC Vive system offers an HMD with room-scale tracking for less than $500. In order for scientific studies to be properly conducted using the Vive, its tracking must be well understood. This study measures the accuracy and drift in the …

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Investigation Of Vibrational Signatures Of Nitrobenzenes Enhanced By Argyrophilic Interactions, Hailey Reed

Honors Theses

This investigation studies the interactions between various nitroaromatic high energy density materials (HEDMs) and a pair of silver atoms (Ag2). Additionally, we examine the changes in frequency, infrared (IR) intensities, and Raman activities induced by the Ag2 unit as the complexes form. Full geometry optimizations of the isolated HEDM molecules as well as complexes where Ag2 is bound to various argyrophillic sites of these compounds have been carried out along with the corresponding harmonic vibrational frequency computations using the M06-2X density functional with a correlation consistent triple-Î¶ basis set augmented with diffuse functions on all atoms and a relativistic pseudopotential …

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Targeting Metastatic Breast Cancer With Statin Drugs And Coq10, Jacob Thrasher

Honors Theses

Statin drugs are commonly prescribed to lower cholesterol levels in patients, but recently statins have been under investigation as a potential anti-cancer drug. Statins are HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors and subsequently inhibit the mevalonate pathway and cholesterol synthesis. Since cholesterol trafficking is vital in the growth and metastasis of cancer, statin drugs are being studied to explore their effects on cancer cells. CoQ10, one of the products from the mevalonate pathway, also has shown some potential anti-cancer properties, but its use to combat cancer is controversial. While some studies have shown that CoQ10 supplements can be synergistic with other cancer treatment …

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Correlation Of Sand Reservoirs Of The Lower Tuscaloosa Formation In The Smithdale And East Fork Fields In Amite County, Mississippi, Alexandra Warren

Honors Theses

The Upper Cretaceous Lower Tuscaloosa Formation has been a major hydrocarbon producer in southwest Mississippi since the 1940s, with discovered oil reserves in the billions of barrels. The mid-Cenomanian unconformity underlying the Lower Tuscaloosa created an extensive network of incised valleys. The transgressive sequences that occurred during the deposition of the Massive and Stringer Sand Members filled the incised valleys with sediments, due to the low accommodation space, and this created a series of stacked channel sand deposits. The Smithdale and East Fork oil fields located in Amite County, Mississippi produce from the Stringer Sand Member of the Lower Tuscaloosa. …

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Out Of The Margins: Mississippi English Language Learner Curriculum Practices And Their Implications, Alexis Smith

Honors Theses

This thesis concerns itself with Mississippi school's effectiveness in educating the state's budding, primarily Spanish-speaking, immigrant population. I answer three questions: 1) How does Mississippi English language curriculum require state socialization of its students? 2) How does its curriculum provide for effective language learning practices? And 3) Does Mississippi EL curriculum provide for the magnified existence of immigrant students, or does, and how does, state curriculum continue to push immigrant students into the margins? Using inductive qualitative analysis, I explore both Mississippi Department of Education's ELL program guidelines and individual district plans.

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The Development And Optimization Of An Ethylbenzene Process, Aynslie Fritz

Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis was to optimize a pre-existing vapor phase ethylbenzene process, and to develop a base case liquid phase ethylbenzene process. A brief introduction is included to present an overview of process optimization and suggest common strategies to employ. While optimizing the vapor phase process, discrete optimization was performed to determine the local optima for multiple unit operations by comparing their net present value to that of the base case. After optimization, an $81.5 million increase in net present value was obtained. When developing the liquid phase ethylbenzene process, Antoine's Equation, Raoult's Law, the first law of …

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Combined Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements In Top-Antitop Quark Production At The Tevatron, Cdf Collaboration, D0 Collaboration, S. Bhatia, J. L. Holzbauer, J. Kraus, B. Quinn

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

First Search For Nontensorial Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars, Ligo Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, M. Afrough, M. Cavaglià, C. Cocchieri, K. L. Dooley, D. Trifirò

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

Search For The Pair Production Of Third-Generation Squarks With Two-Body Decays To A Bottom Or Charm Quark And A Neutralino In Proton–Proton Collisions At S=13tev, Cms Collaboration, J. G. Acosta, S. Oliveros

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

Debby Webster, Debby Webster, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Measurement Of The Τ Michel Parameters $\Bar{\Eta}$ And $\Xi\Kappa$ In The Radiative Leptonic Decay $\Tau^- \Rightarrow \Ell^- \Nu_{\Tau} \Bar{\Nu}_{\Ell}\Gamma$, Belle Collaboration, R. Kroeger

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

Stellar Binary Black Holes In The Lisa Band: A New Class Of Standard Sirens, W. Del Pozzo, Alberto Sesana, Antoine Klein

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

Education Edge 2018, University Of Mississippi. School Of Education

Education Newsletters

The View From Ventress - 2018, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

Impact Of Human Disturbance On The Behavior And Physiology Of The Endangered Ringed Sawback Turtle (Graptemys Oculifera), Jessica Mary Heppard

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Increasing Access To High-Impact Practices: A Case Study On Internships At The University Of Mississippi, Kristina Phillips, Jennifer Saxon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Experimental Investigation Of Impurities And Their Effect On Acousto-Electric Properties Of Lithium Niobate, Chandrima Chatterjee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Framework For Assessing Water Quality, Prioritizing Recovery Potential, And Analyzing Placement Of Best Management Practices, Tadesse Animaw Sinshaw

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Study Of Computational Problems In Computational Biology And Social Networks: Cancer Informatics And Cascade Modelling, Christopher Ma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Multiobjective Reservoir Optimization Using Genetic Algorithm, Seyma Tiryakioglu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Examining Factors Related To Teacher Turnover In Mississippi School Districts And The Relationship Between Teacher Experience, Teacher Turnover, And Student Achievement, Angela Wheeler - Bass

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Armatures For Success: Advancing Racial Equity For Funeral Service Technology Students, Angela Massey Hopper

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Bases In Spaces Of Regular Multilinear Operators And Homogeneous Polynomials On Banach Lattices, Khazhak Varazdat Navoyan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Influence Of Self-Prescribed Knee Bracing On Walking In Healthy Adults, Lauren Luginsland

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Crystalline Salt Formation Of An Acidic Drug Indomethacin Using Hot Melt Extrusion Technology, Mustafa Bookwala

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

L2 Teachers' Efficacy: The Impact Of Professional Development, Nino Jakhaia

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mississippians In Physics: Perspectives And Practice In A Search For Physics Excellence, Paul D. Rogers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Song Of Confusion And Annoyance: Kant On The Beauty Of Absolute Music, Ryan Walton Turner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A New Gini Correlation Between Quantitative And Qualitative Variables, Xin Dang, Dao Nguyen, Yixin Chen, Junying Zhang

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

On Mutual Information Estimation For Mixed-Pair Random Variables, Aleksandr Beknazaryan, Xin Dang, Hailin Sang

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

A Quantitative Evaluation Of The Htc Vive For Virtual Reality Research, Ethan Luckett

Honors Theses

Investigation Of Vibrational Signatures Of Nitrobenzenes Enhanced By Argyrophilic Interactions, Hailey Reed

Honors Theses

Targeting Metastatic Breast Cancer With Statin Drugs And Coq10, Jacob Thrasher

Honors Theses

Correlation Of Sand Reservoirs Of The Lower Tuscaloosa Formation In The Smithdale And East Fork Fields In Amite County, Mississippi, Alexandra Warren

Honors Theses

Out Of The Margins: Mississippi English Language Learner Curriculum Practices And Their Implications, Alexis Smith

Honors Theses

The Development And Optimization Of An Ethylbenzene Process, Aynslie Fritz

Honors Theses