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The Unity Of Hobbes’S Philosophy: Science, Politics, And God?, Zachary Vereb Aug 2022

The Unity Of Hobbes’S Philosophy: Science, Politics, And God?, Zachary Vereb

Faculty and Student Publications

This paper re-examines the dispute concerning Hobbes’s religious beliefs in light of his natural philosophy. First, I argue that atheistic readings of Hobbes can be more plausibly defended provided interpreters make use of a methodological unity thesis. Second, I suggest that theistic readers of Hobbes have good reason to favor the autonomy thesis. I conclude by highlighting how a re-examination of the theism dispute motivates reconsideration of the role of Hobbes’s natural philosophy and scientific methodology vis à vis politics. Maintaining the unity thesis as a methodological device can shed important light on the politics and methods of Leviathan. More …


Rule Learning And Swarm Intelligence Techniques For Feature Selection Optimization, Tina Gui Aug 2022

Rule Learning And Swarm Intelligence Techniques For Feature Selection Optimization, Tina Gui

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In mathematics and computer science, solving an optimization problem is to find the best solution from all possible outcomes. In this dissertation work, two kinds of algorithms are considered to address the problems in Microarray Analysis, Numerical Optimization and Wireless Sensor Networks. In gene expression analysis and classification, feature selection is an important process of selecting the optimal subset of relevant features or useful data for further study and prediction. The main objective of feature selection is challenging due to the large search space, computational time, imbalanced samples, and quality of the selected drivers. It is necessary to construct a …


Impact Of Institutional Support For Research And Development At An R1 University, Joy Tatum Shideler Aug 2022

Impact Of Institutional Support For Research And Development At An R1 University, Joy Tatum Shideler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study utilizes a correlational research design to identify the relationship, if any, between institutional and external support of research and development (R&D) at an R1 University Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education R1: Very High Research Activity Doctoral University in the southeastern United States of America. Initial analyses of institutional and external R&D expenditures as reported in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey from 2015 through 2020 did not identify any relationships between institutionally and externally funded R&D expenditures. Additionally, initial regressions were directionally split with positive correlations in 14 fields and …


Measurement Of Inclusive Upsilon(4s) To Upsilon(1s) Decays At Belle Ii, Justin Wade Guilliams Aug 2022

Measurement Of Inclusive Upsilon(4s) To Upsilon(1s) Decays At Belle Ii, Justin Wade Guilliams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Using data collected by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider, a measurement of the branching fraction for inclusive $\Upsilon(4S)$ decays to $\Upsilon(1S)$, where $\Upsilon(1S)$ decays to $\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$, is investigated. A similar study has not been conducted for decades. Such an inclusive measurement may be compared to the sum of exclusive branching fractions in order to check the completeness of the known exclusive decays. A disparity between the measured exclusive decays and the inclusive measurement would be suggestive of additional decay modes that are accessible beyond naive expectations. This analysis is further extended to include measurements of …


Clay Beds Preserved In High-Energy Gravel Deposits On Crowley’S Ridge, Northeastern Arkansas, U.S.A.--Origin And Significance From A Lithofacies And Mineralogical Perspective, Trevor John Dempsey Aug 2022

Clay Beds Preserved In High-Energy Gravel Deposits On Crowley’S Ridge, Northeastern Arkansas, U.S.A.--Origin And Significance From A Lithofacies And Mineralogical Perspective, Trevor John Dempsey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Upland Complex (UC) on the southern half of Crowley’s Ridge in Northeastern Arkansas is a 2.6 to 0.2 Ma high-energy, braided sand and gravel containing two thin zones of clay preserved near the top of the UC. Minimum age of the clay was acquired from overlying Brown and Foreman (2012) thermoluminescence ages and maximum age was acquired from Odom et al. (2019) Al/Be age of the basal UC. This project aims to discern if these clay layers formed from pyroclastic material and if so, what the provenance of the parent material is. The investigation of the clay layers included …


3d Reinforced Composite Face Sheets And Functionally Graded Polymeric Foam Cores For Blast And Impact Hazard Mitigation, Suman Babu Ukyam Aug 2022

3d Reinforced Composite Face Sheets And Functionally Graded Polymeric Foam Cores For Blast And Impact Hazard Mitigation, Suman Babu Ukyam

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Lightweight sandwich structures are being used in aeronautics, marine, automotive, and offshore structural applications considering their high specific strength and stiffness along with energy absorption features. Sandwich structures comprise of face sheets typically made of aluminum or fiber-reinforced composites bonded to core materials like metallic foams, honeycomb, polymeric foams or balsa wood having a cellular structure. One main limitation of composite material face sheet is the absence of fibers in thickness direction, which greatly reduces damage tolerance and impact resistance. Current research is focused on investigating the dynamic behavior of sandwich structures having composite laminates with 3D reinforcement as face …


Teaching In A Remediation Nation: Exploring Journalism And Mass Communication Faculty Perceptions Of Their Professional Practice, Andrew Mark Abernathy Aug 2022

Teaching In A Remediation Nation: Exploring Journalism And Mass Communication Faculty Perceptions Of Their Professional Practice, Andrew Mark Abernathy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Research shows many new college students may be remedial in English language arts or mathematics (Jaggers & Bickerstaff, 2018). For faculty in journalism and mass communication (JMC) fields, teaching struggling student writers can be especially challenging as these students may not have the fundamental knowledge to build applied writing skills upon. Thus, this lack of readiness for collegiate writing poses challenges to not only these students’ academic success, but also their transition into media professions. Embedded remediation—an alternative to traditional, prerequisite remediation—is one strategy that JMC faculty can use to support struggling student writers. This dissertation explores how JMC faculty …


Announcing The 2022 Induction Of Members Into The Accounting Hall Of Fame, American Accounting Association Aug 2022

Announcing The 2022 Induction Of Members Into The Accounting Hall Of Fame, American Accounting Association

Accounting Hall of Fame Brochures

No abstract provided.


Design And Fabrication Of Additively Manufactured Arm Cast Using Topology Optimization, Tereza Janatova Aug 2022

Design And Fabrication Of Additively Manufactured Arm Cast Using Topology Optimization, Tereza Janatova

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The traditional approach to casting non-operative arm fractures involves fully covering a large portion of the forearm, often including a portion of the palm. The use of gypsum plaster and plaster materials often results in cutaneous problems or in more severe cases swelling, pressure sores, or deep vein thrombosis. Other disadvantages include the weight, time it takes to harden, or the damage in contact with water. The objective of the project is to create a durable but breathable custom-made design for an arm brace that will replace the traditional solutions by overcoming their disadvantages. Several research groups and companies provide …


Development And Evaluation Of Performance Models For Asphalt, Concrete, And Composite Pavements Using Machine Learning, Rulian Ferreira De Almeida Barros Aug 2022

Development And Evaluation Of Performance Models For Asphalt, Concrete, And Composite Pavements Using Machine Learning, Rulian Ferreira De Almeida Barros

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Transportation infrastructures account for a considerable portion of public investments, which serve as the backbone of a country’s economy by providing essential services to businesses and people. In the United States, public investments in transportation infrastructure assets represent trillions of dollars. The U.S road network consists of about 4 million miles, being the world’s largest, longest, and biggest transportation system. Paved roads account for 2.6 million miles, and 93% of them are surfaced with asphalt. However, a portion of the paved roads consists of asphalt overlaid concrete pavements, also known as composite pavements. When concrete pavements start to fail, they …


Novel Applications Of Hot Melt Extrusion For Developing Oral Solid Dosage Forms With Improved Solubility, Permeability, And Stability, Dinesh Nyavanandi Aug 2022

Novel Applications Of Hot Melt Extrusion For Developing Oral Solid Dosage Forms With Improved Solubility, Permeability, And Stability, Dinesh Nyavanandi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In today's world, with an increasing patient population, the demand for pharmaceutical medications is increasing enormously. However, pharmaceutical industries are continuously failing to meet market and patient populations' demands. Poor solubility of the drug substances is the major roadblock affecting the pharmaceutical industries in meeting the market demand and revenue. Around 70-80% of the new chemical entities within the developmental pipeline are claimed to be poorly soluble, affecting the oral bioavailability. Improving the solubility of drug substances by preserving their stability and physiological action is the primary prerequisite for developmental scientists. The underdeveloped manufacturing process with various limitations is another …


Preparation And Characterization Of 3d Printed Bioadhesive Delivery Systems, Mohammed Yahya Alyahya Aug 2022

Preparation And Characterization Of 3d Printed Bioadhesive Delivery Systems, Mohammed Yahya Alyahya

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Drug delivery systems are evolving as pharmaceutical excipients and the manufacturing technologies evolve. Recently, 3D printing was introduced as a promising and versatile manufacturing technology of solid dosage forms from liquid, semi-solid, and solid intermediates. This work presents two examples of employing hot melt extrusion and fused deposition 3D printing technology to fabricate bioadhesive delivery systems loaded with miconazole. The first project shows a successful fabrication of four intraoral mucoadhesive film formulations, the formulations consist of different ratios of Eudragit RS, Hydroxypropyl cellulose EF (HPC EF), and Hypromellose HME 15LV. After the HME and 3DP fabrication of the films, the …


Investigating The Acoustic Properties Of Polymer Microspheres Suspended In Gelatin, Alexander Orlin Denette Aug 2022

Investigating The Acoustic Properties Of Polymer Microspheres Suspended In Gelatin, Alexander Orlin Denette

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Recent advancements in materials science have produced materials that exhibit properties with values outside of naturally observed ranges. These properties are driven by overlapping, low order resonant modes, and are limited to small response ranges close to harmonic frequencies. This study aims to see if the same properties can be recreated with high order resonant modes from distributions of small scatterers. A method for holding random distributions of scatterers in space was created, and two types of acoustic measurements were taken. Resonant frequencies and their scattering order were identified, and the resulting scattered fields were resolved.


Exploratory Analysis Of Effects Of Data On Adversarial Perturbations, Hamza Ali Zafar Aug 2022

Exploratory Analysis Of Effects Of Data On Adversarial Perturbations, Hamza Ali Zafar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In recent years, the amount of data being produced has increased tremendously. This data has allowed us to create and train machine learning models that are being used nowadays. Though these models have proven to be very effective in classification and regression problems, they do have a vulnerability. This vulnerability is exploited by adding adversarial perturbations to the original data or in the deployed model. These adversarial attacks are done by making minute changes to the data to confuse the machine learning model. This can lead to models’ misrepresentation and drop the accuracy. For the span of this paper, I …


Testing Emotion Regulation As A Functional Transdiagnostic Construct, Enoch Sackey Aug 2022

Testing Emotion Regulation As A Functional Transdiagnostic Construct, Enoch Sackey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The polythetic criteria of the DSM and ICD generate high amount of symptom heterogeneity as there are clusters of symptoms within various diagnostic category that are heuristically similar, resulting in multiple, often confusing, ways of describing sequelae of symptoms presentation. This is because the DSM and ICD classification systems were developed based on the neo-Kraepelinian framework for classifying physical illnesses, which assumes that the underlying architecture of psychopathology, which manifest in disorder symptoms, are distinct and specific. Based on this, the categorical approach to describing psychopathology has been described as purely conceptual artefact with no empirical basis in research or …


Post-Newtonian Dynamics Of Eccentric, Spinning Binary Black Holes And The Associated Gravitational Waveforms, Sashwat Tanay Aug 2022

Post-Newtonian Dynamics Of Eccentric, Spinning Binary Black Holes And The Associated Gravitational Waveforms, Sashwat Tanay

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In 2015, the gravitational wave (GW) era of astronomy began. The binary black hole (BBH) system being the primary source of GWs, are at the center stage of GW astronomy. The matched-filtering method of detection of GWs requires accurate modeling of the BBH system and the associated GWs. With the increasing sensitivity of the GW detectors, we need to push our GW models to even higher accuracy in the future. There is also a need to make these models as fast as possible to implement so as to allow for hundreds of detections in a year. This is where the …


Search For The Radiative Penguin Decays B0 → Ks0 Ks0 Γ In The Belle Experiment, H. B. Jeon, K. H. Kang, H. Park, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, S. Al Said, D. M. Asner, H. Atmacan, T. Aushev, R. Ayad, V. Babu, S. Bahinipati, P. Behera, K. Belous, J. Bennett, F. Bernlochner, M. Bessner, V. Bhardwaj, B. Bhuyan Jul 2022

Search For The Radiative Penguin Decays B0 → Ks0 Ks0 Γ In The Belle Experiment, H. B. Jeon, K. H. Kang, H. Park, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, S. Al Said, D. M. Asner, H. Atmacan, T. Aushev, R. Ayad, V. Babu, S. Bahinipati, P. Behera, K. Belous, J. Bennett, F. Bernlochner, M. Bessner, V. Bhardwaj, B. Bhuyan

Faculty and Student Publications

We report results from the first search for the rare penguin-dominated decay mode B0→KS0KS0γ, which can result from the production of tensor mesons f(1270) and f′(1525) in association with a photon. The search uses the full data sample of 772×106 BB¯ pairs collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. No statistically significant signals are observed in the KS0KS0 invariant mass range 1 GeV/c2


Search For Z′ →Μ+Μ- In The Lμ-Lτ Gauge-Symmetric Model At Belle, T. Czank, I. Jaegle, A. Ishikawa, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, H. Aihara, D. M. Asner, T. Aushev, R. Ayad, V. Babu, S. Bahinipati, P. Behera, J. Bennett, F. Bernlochner, M. Bessner, V. Bhardwaj, B. Bhuyan, T. Bilka, J. Biswal Jul 2022

Search For Z′ →Μ+Μ- In The Lμ-Lτ Gauge-Symmetric Model At Belle, T. Czank, I. Jaegle, A. Ishikawa, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, H. Aihara, D. M. Asner, T. Aushev, R. Ayad, V. Babu, S. Bahinipati, P. Behera, J. Bennett, F. Bernlochner, M. Bessner, V. Bhardwaj, B. Bhuyan, T. Bilka, J. Biswal

Faculty and Student Publications

We search for a new gauge boson Z′ that couples only to heavy leptons and their corresponding neutrinos in the process e+e-→Z′(→μ+μ-)μ+μ-, using a 643 fb-1 data sample collected by the Belle experiment at or near the ϒ(1S,2S,3S,4S,5S) resonances at the KEKB collider. While previous searches for Z′ performed a data-based estimation of the initial state radiation effect, our search for the Z′ is the first to include effects due to initial state radiation in the signal simulated samples that were used in estimating the detection efficiency. No signal is observed in the Z′ mass range of 0.212-10 GeV/c2, and …


B ¯ →D (∗)ℓ X ¯ Decays In Effective Field Theory With Massive Right-Handed Neutrinos, Alakabha Datta, Hongkai Liu, Danny Marfatia Jul 2022

B ¯ →D (∗)ℓ X ¯ Decays In Effective Field Theory With Massive Right-Handed Neutrinos, Alakabha Datta, Hongkai Liu, Danny Marfatia

Faculty and Student Publications

We calculate the complete differential decay distributions for the B meson decays, B¯→D(∗)ℓX¯, to a massive right-handed (RH) neutrino in the low-energy effective field theory (LEFT) framework. We find that a massive RH neutrino does not introduce any new angular structures compared to the massless case, but can cause significant distortions in angular observables. We study the phenomenology of low-energy four-fermion operators permitted by the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) extended with RH neutrinos (SMNEFT). We show that to explain the positive value of the difference in forward-backward asymmetries, ΔAFBAFBμ-AFBe, tentatively inferred from Belle data, the RH neutrino must …


Issue 397: June 30-July 14, 2022, The Local Voice Jun 2022

Issue 397: June 30-July 14, 2022, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

No abstract provided.


Liberal Arts Professors Honored For Excellence In Teaching, Research, Edwin B. Smith Jun 2022

Liberal Arts Professors Honored For Excellence In Teaching, Research, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Award recipients span the college's disciplines


University Officials Mark High Point In New Stem Facility, Edwin B. Smith Jun 2022

University Officials Mark High Point In New Stem Facility, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Ceremony marks topping out of the Center for Science and Technology Innovation


Um, Northwest Community College Partner For Dual Degree Program, Edwin B. Smith Jun 2022

Um, Northwest Community College Partner For Dual Degree Program, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Inaugural cohort being registered for innovative alliance between two institutions


Save, Gamble, Or Both? The Relationship Between Premium Bond Sales And Lottery Sales In The United Kingdom, Kaden Seth Grace Jun 2022

Save, Gamble, Or Both? The Relationship Between Premium Bond Sales And Lottery Sales In The United Kingdom, Kaden Seth Grace

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

Four out of every ten Americans are unable to pay for an unexpected $400 bill out of their savings accounts. To ameliorate this problem, one policy to incentivize saving is a Prize-Linked Savings Account (PLSA). Unlike a traditional savings account that pays out a consistent rate of return, a PLSA pools the interest on all deposits and distributes the returns in randomly drawn prizes (similar to a lottery). However, PLSAs remain illegal in many areas due to a concern that the introduction of a private or public PLSA could cannibalize revenue from an existing state-sponsored lottery, thus restricting the state’s …


"The Revolution Will Be Community Grown": Food Justice In The Urban Agriculture Movement Of Detroit, James C. Tolleson Jun 2022

"The Revolution Will Be Community Grown": Food Justice In The Urban Agriculture Movement Of Detroit, James C. Tolleson

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


Art As Distraction: Rocking The Farm, Daniel W. Ingersoll, Kathleen Butler Ingersoll Jun 2022

Art As Distraction: Rocking The Farm, Daniel W. Ingersoll, Kathleen Butler Ingersoll

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

Monumental architecture, massive statuary, and other art forms fascinate Westerners and tend to inspire positive judgments about past cultural virtuosity and sophistication. Like the pyramids of Egypt or the stone masonry of Machu Picchu, the moai (the statues) and ahu (stone platforms supporting moai) of Rapa Nui (a.k.a. Easter Island) have impressed, mystified, and preoccupied the Western cultural imagination since their encounter by Europeans. Explorers, archaeologists, anthropologists, and tourists are drawn to the monumental like moths to light—which is understandable—but that light also blinds. Here a case is made that for Rapa Nui the obsession for the monumental has led …


Teaching Anthropology Through Food, David M. Johnson Jun 2022

Teaching Anthropology Through Food, David M. Johnson

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


“I Didn’T Evolve From No Monkey”: Religious Narratives About Human Evolution In The U.S. Southeast, H. Lyn White Miles, Christopher Marinello Jun 2022

“I Didn’T Evolve From No Monkey”: Religious Narratives About Human Evolution In The U.S. Southeast, H. Lyn White Miles, Christopher Marinello

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


Human Scales, Thomas Brasdefer Jun 2022

Human Scales, Thomas Brasdefer

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


Culture As Information: Not A Shaky Link But A Stable Connection, Robert Shanafelt Jun 2022

Culture As Information: Not A Shaky Link But A Stable Connection, Robert Shanafelt

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.