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Um Lands $1.2 Million Grant To Benefit Math Teachers, Elizabeth Mccormick Feb 2016

Um Lands $1.2 Million Grant To Benefit Math Teachers, Elizabeth Mccormick

University of Mississippi News

Center for Mathematics and Science Education kicks off Project C4 to enhance classroom efforts


Um Opens Search For Vice Chancellor For Diversity And Community Engagement, Staff Report Feb 2016

Um Opens Search For Vice Chancellor For Diversity And Community Engagement, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Committee established to find qualified candidate


February 26, 2016, The Daily Mississippian Feb 2016

February 26, 2016, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


Um Hosts Statewide Robotics Competition, Nathan Weber Feb 2016

Um Hosts Statewide Robotics Competition, Nathan Weber

University of Mississippi News

Center for Mathematics and Science Education hosts fourth FIRST Tech Challenge


Board Of Trustees Honors Faculty, Staff Representatives, Caron Blanton Feb 2016

Board Of Trustees Honors Faculty, Staff Representatives, Caron Blanton

University of Mississippi News

Tributes part of IHL observance of Black History Month


Walter D. Williams, Jr., Walter D. Williams, Jr., Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives. Feb 2016

Walter D. Williams, Jr., Walter D. Williams, Jr., Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Born in Alabama and reared in Florida, Walter D. Williams, Jr., then joined the U.S. Air Force and served twenty years all over the world before retiring and settling in Alaska. He now works as a nutrition specialist in rural Alaska.


February 3, 2016, The Daily Mississippian Feb 2016

February 3, 2016, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


February 1, 2016, The Daily Mississippian Feb 2016

February 1, 2016, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


Stem Faculty Focus On Improving Instruction, Edwin Smith Jan 2016

Stem Faculty Focus On Improving Instruction, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

UM workshop participants aim to enhance teaching in new and nontraditional spaces


Um Among Nation's Top 25 For Online Graduate Degrees In Education, Andrew Mark Abernathy Jan 2016

Um Among Nation's Top 25 For Online Graduate Degrees In Education, Andrew Mark Abernathy

University of Mississippi News

Ole Miss programs climb 10 spots in new U.S. News rankings


Applied Statistics Course Offerings: Spring 2016, University Of Mississippi. Graduate School Jan 2016

Applied Statistics Course Offerings: Spring 2016, University Of Mississippi. Graduate School

GMAS Course List

No abstract provided.


The Porosity And Permeability Distribution Of The Shoal Grainstone And Thrombolitic Facies Of The Smackover Formation In Little Cedar Creek And Brooklyn Fields In Southwestern Alabama, Devin Thomas Jan 2016

The Porosity And Permeability Distribution Of The Shoal Grainstone And Thrombolitic Facies Of The Smackover Formation In Little Cedar Creek And Brooklyn Fields In Southwestern Alabama, Devin Thomas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Smackover Formation is the most prolific hydrocarbon producer in Alabama, with the Little Cedar Creek and Brooklyn Fields being the two largest producers in Alabama. Unlike other Smackover fields Little Cedar Creek Field and Brooklyn Field production is the result of two reservoirs, known as the shoal grainstone and thrombolite (microbial) boundstone. Even with the success of the Smackover Formation, geographic trends of the porosity and permeability are problematic because production is affected. The distribution of the facies also plays a role in the porosity and permeability. The objective of this study is to delineate porosity and permeability trends …


The View From Ventress - 2016, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts Jan 2016

The View From Ventress - 2016, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

Special Section: Collabortions. To better understand the world and to tackle its complex problems, collaboration between disciplines offers a critical path forward. Faculty research and teaching interests to give students multidisciplinary educational opportunities. In this special section, we present the latest offerings in the College—two new minors, a new integrated fine arts course, and integrated science courses—along with a glimpse of the other multidisciplinary majors and minors.


Brain Drain Or Brain Gain? Cognitive Skill Training With Novice Video Game Players With Casual Video Games, Sean Hollis Jan 2016

Brain Drain Or Brain Gain? Cognitive Skill Training With Novice Video Game Players With Casual Video Games, Sean Hollis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Video game playing (vgp) has become a popular and widespread form of entertainment over the past two decades. This form of media is now popular with children, adolescents, and adults alike. While most early research on the effects of vgp focused on the relation of violence in video games and expressions of aggression, more recent research has begun to explore possible beneficial effects of vgp. Study results have been inconsistent, with some suggesting that vgp may improve various cognitive skills such as spatial skills, attentional skills, executive control, and problem solving. Other studies refute or qualify these findings. Additionally, different …


Temperature And Pressure Effects On Elastic Properties Of Relaxor Ferroelectrics And Thermoelectrics: A Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy Study, Sumudu Tennakoon Jan 2016

Temperature And Pressure Effects On Elastic Properties Of Relaxor Ferroelectrics And Thermoelectrics: A Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy Study, Sumudu Tennakoon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Relaxor ferroelectric lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMN-PT) material exhibits exceptional electromechanical properties. The material undergoes a series of structural phase transitions with changes in temperature and the chemical composition. The work covered in this dissertation seek to gain insight into the phase diagram of PMN-PT using temperature and pressure dependence of the elastic properties. Single crystal PMN-PT with a composition near morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) was investigated using a resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS) methodologies in the temperature range of 293 K - 800 K and the pressure range from near vacuum to 3.4 MPa. At atmospheric pressure, significantly high acoustic …


Identifying Values: Comparing Four Methods Of Values Identification, Emmie Hebert Jan 2016

Identifying Values: Comparing Four Methods Of Values Identification, Emmie Hebert

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Values have been described, from a behavioral perspective, as “freely chosen, verbally constructed consequences of ongoing, dynamic, evolving patterns of activity, which establish predominant reinforcers for that activity that are intrinsic in engagement in the valued behavioral pattern itself “ (Wilson & DuFrene, 2009). Emerging research supports the psychological benefits of interventions with a values component. However, there has been little experimental research that explores systematic methods of getting participants and psychotherapy clients to identify their values. This study evaluated four methods of identifying values by comparing within-subject ratings of participant-generated values stimuli. Participants were undergraduate students at the University …


Characterization Of Charge Accommodation In Biologically Important Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters, John Thomas Kelly Jan 2016

Characterization Of Charge Accommodation In Biologically Important Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters, John Thomas Kelly

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The underlying motivation of chemical physics and physical chemistry is to understand naturally occurring chemical and physical processes from the nanoscopic molecular level to the macroscopic condensed phase. Over the past half-century, experimentalists have developed a number of laser-based analytical techniques to bridge the gap between the bulk phase and the single molecule. Here, we look at bulk phase and gas phase clusters to compare the local hydrogen-bonded network. To better understand the role noncovalent interactions have on biologically relevant building blocks in a natural environment, we compare the microhydration of gas phase cluster ions to condensed phase spectra. The …


Advancement Of Understanding In Physical Science And Reduction Of Mathematical Anxiety Through The Use Of Supplemental Mathematics Material, James Chadwick Roberson Jan 2016

Advancement Of Understanding In Physical Science And Reduction Of Mathematical Anxiety Through The Use Of Supplemental Mathematics Material, James Chadwick Roberson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if supplementary mathematics materials (created to be complementary to a physical science course) could provide a significant change in the attitudes and performance of the students involved. The supplementary text was provided in the form of a booklet. Participants were students in a physical science class. Students were given surveys to evaluate existing knowledge of physical science, mathematics skill, and mathematics anxiety in the context of a science class. Students were divided into control and experimental groups by lab section, with the experimental group receiving a supplemental booklet. At the end of …


Contribution Of Shallow Geology To Hydrocarbon Seep Formation In Green Canyon Block 600, Samantha Lynn Lucker Jan 2016

Contribution Of Shallow Geology To Hydrocarbon Seep Formation In Green Canyon Block 600, Samantha Lynn Lucker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Green Canyon Federal Protraction area in the Gulf of Mexico is rich in hydrocarbons. The movement of the Sigsbee salt escarpment in green canyon has resulted in a complex bathymetric profile and extensive shallow faulting that has allomigration of hydrocarbons to the surface creating cold seep sites. Green Canyon block 600 (gc600) contains multiple naturally occurring, active hydrocarbon seeps. Multi-beam bathymetry, backscatter, and polarity preserving chirp data were collected for gc600 to study the development of these naturally occurring seeps. Using these data, the structure and sedimentation of the first fifty meters can be studied in relation to the …


Cyclostratigraphy And Sedimentation Of The Cenomanian-Turonian Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Christian Gilbert Kunhardt Jan 2016

Cyclostratigraphy And Sedimentation Of The Cenomanian-Turonian Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Christian Gilbert Kunhardt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A cyclostratigraphic and geochemical analysis was conducted on the basal high resistivity zone of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale to determine if orbital forcing is apparent in mineralogical data suites. Geochemical data suites obtained via x-ray diffraction from five cored wells located near the southern Mississippi/Louisiana border were used in the study. The results were used in concert with previously published insolation and biostratigraphic data and unpublished stable carbon isotope data to determine sedimentation rate, to identify and correlate the cretaceous oceanic anoxic event 2 (OAE 2) recovery period within the studied interval, and to determine the possible mechanisms of orbital …


Raft Polymerization Of Ph-Responsive, Diblock Copolymers For Nucleic Acid Delivery Vehicles, Annie Katherine Mcclellan Jan 2016

Raft Polymerization Of Ph-Responsive, Diblock Copolymers For Nucleic Acid Delivery Vehicles, Annie Katherine Mcclellan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Since the development of gene therapy, a variety of non-viral nucleic acid delivery vehicles have been prepared and studied for their transfection efficiencies. Recently, polymeric gene delivery vehicles have gained popularity for their low immunogenicity and high transfection efficiency. With the advent of controlled radical polymerization (CRP) and more specifically reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization, it is now possible to develop well-defined polymers with predicted molecular weights and architectures. The work presented here focuses on the RAFT polymerization of a family of amphiphilic, cationic copolymers to be utilized for nucleic acid delivery. These copolymers are composed of a stabilizing …


Gas Exchange Of Hg Over Wetlands, Effect Of Biochar And Activated Carbon On Hg Emissions From Soil, And Seasonal Concentrations Of Hg In Rain, Divya Nallamothu Jan 2016

Gas Exchange Of Hg Over Wetlands, Effect Of Biochar And Activated Carbon On Hg Emissions From Soil, And Seasonal Concentrations Of Hg In Rain, Divya Nallamothu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant with human-health and ecological impacts. Gaseous Hg exchange between the atmosphere and aquatic or terrestrial surfaces serves as an important, but not well understood, route for Hg to enter and exit ecosystems. To better understand the role of gaseous Hg exchange in the biogeochemical cycling of Hg, we investigated Hg0 fluxes over natural wetlands (Sky Lake) and artificial wetlands (UM Field Station) using a dynamic flux chamber and an Hg vapor analyzer based on atomic fluorescence (Chapter 1). We also examined the effect of activated carbon and biochar on Hg emissions from soils for …


Gold And Silver Alloy Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization And Atomic Structure, Chanaka Kapila Kumara Jan 2016

Gold And Silver Alloy Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization And Atomic Structure, Chanaka Kapila Kumara

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Nanotechnology is an emerging field of science with applications in digital electronics, medicine, catalysis and energy. Gold nanoparticles are nanomaterials that have less than 100 nm at least in one dimension. The composition and the structure/geometry of the nanoparticles determine the chemical properties and reactivity. Modern research focus on method development in atomically monodisperse nanoparticle synthesis. This dissertation describes the method development for synthesis and isolation of atomically precise gold and gold-silver alloy nanoparticles and their comprehensive characterization and atomic structure investigation. Chapter one offers an introduction to the synthesis and isolation methods. These nanoparticles can be represented in the …


Robust Nickel Catalysts Supported By Biaryl-Bridged Pyridyl-N-Heterocyclic Carbenes For Carbon Dioxide Reduction To Value-Added Products, Hunter Allen Dulaney Jan 2016

Robust Nickel Catalysts Supported By Biaryl-Bridged Pyridyl-N-Heterocyclic Carbenes For Carbon Dioxide Reduction To Value-Added Products, Hunter Allen Dulaney

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, but also represents a readily accessible C1 feedstock for conversion to solar fuels and value-added chemicals. However, CO2 is relatively inert and very negative voltages or strong chemical reductants are comfor its conversion. An additional challenge lies in achieving these reactions in water where aqueous protons are utilized selectively for CO2 reduction rather than hydrogen generation. Our strategy for CO2 reduction involves the design of new homogeneous catalysts with tunable geometries and polyaromatic frameworks with increased delocalization to lower overpotentials for catalysis. We report a family of biaryl-bridged pyridyl-N-heterocyclic carbene-based ligands and their corresponding …


Multi-Scale Nanoindentation For Characterization Of Oil Shales, Zachary N. Miller Jan 2016

Multi-Scale Nanoindentation For Characterization Of Oil Shales, Zachary N. Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Studies of the effects of polishing techniques, scale of nanoindentation, and petrophysical properties were conducted on both Woodford and Tuscaloosa Marine Shale. Polishing procedures include both an in-house developed, mechanical sample preparation protocol as well as ion beam milling. The elastic modulus and hardness of each mechanically polished sample was found to have larger value than those that were ion-milled. Additionally, at low loads, the samples resulted in having high standard deviation. This high deviation was found to be significantly reduced by testing at higher loads. The variations in results between mechanically polished and ion beam milled samples is believed …


Validation Of Integrated Coast-Ocean Model Cche2d-Coast And Development Of Wind Model, Afshin Gazerzadeh Jan 2016

Validation Of Integrated Coast-Ocean Model Cche2d-Coast And Development Of Wind Model, Afshin Gazerzadeh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The eastern and southern coastlines of the United States are two of the most cyclone-prone areas of the world. The effects of tropical cyclones vary mainly depending on wind intensity and geological features of the coast that it is crossing. Higher winds potentially generate higher storm surges and consequently larger floods occur along the coastlines. Therefore, it is critical to accurately predict winds, storm surge, and waves associated with a hurricane. In the present study, an integrated coastal and ocean process model, CCHE2D-Coast, is validated by assessing the model’s capabilities in simulating coast-ocean circulations driven by the astronomical tides on …


Obstacle-Aware Wireless Video Sensor Network Deployment For 3d Indoor Space Monitoring, Zhonghui Wang Jan 2016

Obstacle-Aware Wireless Video Sensor Network Deployment For 3d Indoor Space Monitoring, Zhonghui Wang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In recent years wireless video sensors networks (WVSNs) have emerged as a leading technology for monitoring 3D indoor space in campus, industrial and medical areas as well as other types of environments. In contrast to traditional sensors such as heat or light sensors often considered with omnidirectional sensing range, the sensing range of a video sensor is directional and can be deemed as a pyramid-shape in 3D. Moreover, in an indoor environment, there are often obstacles such as lamp stands or furniture, which introduce additional challenges and further render the deployment solutions for traditional sensors and 2D sensing field inapplicable …


The Effect Of Hyperparameters In The Activation Layers Of Deep Neural Networks, Clay Lafayette Mcleod Jan 2016

The Effect Of Hyperparameters In The Activation Layers Of Deep Neural Networks, Clay Lafayette Mcleod

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Deep neural networks (DNNs), and artificial neural networks (ANNs) in general, have recently received a great amount of attention from both the media and the machine learning community at large. DNNs have been used to produce world-class results in a variety of domains, including image recognition, speech recognition, sequence modeling, and natural language processing. Many of most exciting recent deep neural network studies have made improvements by hardcoding less about the network and giving the neural network more control over its own parameters, allowing flexibility and control within the network. Although much research has been done to introduce trainable hyperparameters …


Teachers' Perceptions Of School Leaders' Behaviors And The Relationship To Student Growth/Achievement, Kimberly Dawn Smith Waller Jan 2016

Teachers' Perceptions Of School Leaders' Behaviors And The Relationship To Student Growth/Achievement, Kimberly Dawn Smith Waller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem under investigation for this quantitative study focused on the responses of K-12 public educators about school leadership effectiveness and fairness and the culture of school organizations, with special attention to the relationship between working conditions and student achievement/growth. A sample of 5,912 (n=5,912) educators’ responses was used for the study. The data collected were publicly available, archival data from the responses reported by the Teaching Empowering Leading Learning Tennessee Survey. The original survey consists of the following eight research-based constructs: time for planning, facilities and resources, community support and involvement, management of student conduct, teacher leadership, school leadership, …


The Effects Of Homogeneous Differentiation On Reading Achievement: Within-Class Grouping Versus Between-Class Grouping, Sharon Suzanne Liddell Jan 2016

The Effects Of Homogeneous Differentiation On Reading Achievement: Within-Class Grouping Versus Between-Class Grouping, Sharon Suzanne Liddell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this quasi-experimental, ex-post facto study was to determine through quantitative analysis of longitudinal data, the effects of homogeneous differentiation on reading achievement. Specifically, the study sought to determine the achievement differences in reading of students who were taught using a within-class grouping method or a between-class grouping method. The study population consisted on students from a Mississippi school district who began first grade from the 2006–2007 school year through the 2009–2010 school year. Students who had been assessed over a three-year on the DIBELS, STAR, and the MCT2 assessment were eligible for inclusion in the study. A …