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George Whitefield Chadwick And Robert Ayres Barnet’S Tabasco, John-Peter Springer Ford

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Until recently George Whitefield Chadwick’s burlesque opera Tabasco (1894) had been largely forgotten. In 2018, however, conductor Paul Mauffray completed a reconstruction of Tabasco that has brought renewed attention to this seldom heard work. Set to a libretto by Robert Ayres Barnet, Tabasco was commissioned as the third in a series of comic operas by the Boston Men’s Army Cadets as fundraiser for the construction of a new armory. This thesis explores the history of Tabasco from its inception through the national tour produced by Thomas Q. Seabrooke’s Comic Opera Company, which would eventually lead to the withdrawal of the …

The Epistemic Obligations Of The Ideal Citizen: A Neo-Aristotelian Solution For Truth-Decay In Democratic Societies, Dakota Shane Layton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Contemporary democratic societies are currently encumbered by the problem of truth-decay. Truth-decay is defined as the following set of interrelated trends:

Blues Is My Business (And Business Is Good?), David N. Larson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This work focuses on the social, political, and economic trends that govern the blues music scene in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Clarksdale is seen as a sort of “ground zero” in the blues world, it is often referred to as, “the land where blues began.” This claim is not without merit but it is not strictly historically accurate. Many of the town’s spokespeople use euphemisms that distort the troubled history of race relations in the town and its music spaces.

This investigation centers around the economic state of the town’s tourism industry, the individuals who act as the town’s promoters, and the …

Face Detection Using Web Images, Chris Zhao

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The current facial recognition algorithms struggle with accuracy on real world cases. Haar cascade based algorithms are fast, but require fine tuning per image in order to achieve the best results. When tasked with images where there are multiple faces at different locations, the current algorithms seem to underreport the number of faces. This study attempts to produce a more accurate classifier through the use of taking the maximum result of multiple Haar cascade classifiers with differing parameters. To do this, a web image scraper was written to gather real world images from Google images and Flickr. These images were …

She Owns It: A Study Of White Women Landowners, Hannah Bullock

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Southeast Missouri is home to some of the nation's most valuable farmland per acre on average. Just twenty-four percent of this agricultural land is in possession of female landowners. This study investigates the experiences of these female producers using Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping in order to understand their decision making process and the barriers that they are confronted with in their social field, as well as their relationship to capital, as women in agriculture. The findings of this study can serve as a needs assessment for this community and can be used to develop solutions that can help this community achieve …

The Impact Of Blended Classroom Pedagogy On Student Gpa In A Community College Stem Course, Sarah Mattox Holt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

America is facing a shortage of STEM workers and colleges must meet the demand by educating qualified graduates. However, attrition rates are high in STEM classes, particularly in minority groups. Blended learning has increased in popularity in higher education over recent years and has the potential to improve current teaching practices. Yet, limited research centers on the success of blended learning implemented in a community college STEM course. This quantitative research study (N=1264) was designed to evaluate student success in the blended learning environment versus traditional environment in an introductory community college biology course for science majors. The study indicated …

Enhancing The Oral Drug Delivery Through Hot Melt Extrusion Techniques, Neeraja Komanduri

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Hot melt extrusion has been developed as a fresh technique for taste masking, in recent years. This method provides many aids as compared to traditional methods like avoiding the use of solvents, continuous manufacturing, ease to scale up, and adaptability to meet the goals of FDA for quality products. This method is useful for various applications like solubility enhancement, abuse deterrence, taste masking, transdermal dosage forms like films, immediate release oral dosage forms. In this work, This technique is explored for its applications using a novel polymer, Kollicoat® Smartseal 100P and its ability to be coupled with FDM 3D printing …

Development Of Local Depot Formulation For Sustained Systemic Delivery Of Proteins, Pranav Ponkshe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Protein therapeutics due to their high potency, high specificity, and desirable profile have gained a lot of traction in the last decade. Though the route of administration is limited to parenteral routes. There are also short half-life and instability issues observed in protein therapeutics making it necessary to develop delivery systems.

In the first chapter interleukin 15 as a cytokine was introduced while the second chapter talks more in detail about the development of a local depot hydrogel formulation for the delivery of recombinant interleukin 15. In vitro stability, and release studies were performed to select the optimum formulation for …

The Ole Miss, University Of Mississippi

The Ole Miss (1897-)

The Ole Miss Annual, 2022

Leo Season, Leah Yacknin-Dawson

Yalobusha Review

Runner-up of the 2021 Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction, judged by Raven Leilani

Chaotic Order, Joshua Nguyen

Yalobusha Review

A Conversation with Joshua Nguyen

Research News, Publications, 2022, Volume 1, Soumyajit Majumdar

Publications (2015-)

Publications that appeared during the period of January 1 through March 31, 2022.

Integrated Report 2022; Adapt + Thrive, Association Of International Certified Professional Accountants

AICPA Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Finding Aid For The Dorothye Quaye Chapman Reed (Mum00799)Collection

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

Collection of correspondence, clippings, photographs, writings, and material pertaining to the life and career of Dorothye Quaye Chapman Reed.

Finding Aid For The Evelyn Uhrhan Irving Collection (Mum00146)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

Correspondence of modern language professor Evelyn Uhrhan Irving with various public officials and media outlets on foreign policy and domestic matters.

Finding Aid For The J.B. Wardlaw Ledgers Collection (Mum00154)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

Ledgers of J.B. Wardlaw who owned the Como Store in Como, Mississippi. The five ledgers do not record specific purchases or other details about transactions. The contents only list names of individuals on accounts and monetary amounts involved. The ledgers may be of genealogical interest for residents of Como and Panola County, Mississippi or to scholars of historical accounting methods.

Finding Aid For The Jamie L. Whitten Collection (Mum00732)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

Jamie L. Whitten represented his Mississippi district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1941 to 1995 and chaired the powerful Committee on Appropriations from 1979 through 1992.

Newsletter, December 2021, Cedar Oaks Guild

Cedar Oaks Guild Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Partnership Prepares Sec Universities For Increase In Spanish Speakers, Shea Stewart

University of Mississippi News

Conference Spanish Consortium launched by two UM faculty members

The Hope And Resilience Of Holly Springs, Janeth Jackson

Fall 2021 Showcase

I am motivated to illustrate the presence, intimacy, and strength of chocolate cities. I use photography to reveal how people and their love and determination play an integral role in a community’s resilience. My photographs highlight Holly Springs’ delightful citizens and their occupations and the traditional and modern localities within the city. This exploration helps me engage with the community in ways most have neglected. My goal is to highlight the significance of a strong community and illustrate how Holly Springs is truly a place of love, kindness, and rich history.

A native of Moss Point, MS, Janeth Jackson is …

Integrated Marketing Communications Program Turns 10, J. B. Clark

University of Mississippi News

Young program one of university's largest, thanks to passionate faculty and alumni

December 2, 2021, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Transmission Studies And The Composition Of Prokaryotic Communities Associated With Healthy And Diseased Aplysina Cauliformis Sponges Suggest That Aplysina Red Band Syndrome Is A Prokaryotic Polymicrobial Disease, Matteo Monti, Aurora Giorgi, Cole G. Easson, Deborah J. Gochfeld

Faculty and Student Publications

Aplysina cauliformis, the Caribbean purple rope sponge, is commonly affected by Aplysina Red Band Syndrome (ARBS). This transmissible disease manifests as circular lesions with red margins and results in bare spongin fibers. Leptolyngbya spp. appear to be responsible for the characteristic red coloration but transmission studies with a sponge-derived isolate failed to establish disease, leaving the etiology of ARBS unknown. To investigate the cause of ARBS, contact transmission experiments were performed between healthy and diseased sponges separated by filters with varying pore sizes. Transmission occurred when sponges were separated by filters with pore sizes ≥ 2.5 μm, suggesting a prokaryotic …

Anharmonic Vibrational Frequencies Of Water Borane And Associated Molecules, Brent R. Westbrook, Ryan C. Fortenberry

Faculty and Student Publications

Water borane (BH3 OH2 ) and borinic acid (BH2 OH) have been proposed as intermediates along the pathway of hydrogen generation from simple reactants: water and borane. However, the vibrational spectra for neither water borane nor borinic acid has been investigaged experimen-tally due to the difficulty of isolating them in the gas phase, making accurate quantum chemical predictions for such properties the most viable means of their determination. This work presents theoretical predictions of the full rotational and fundamental vibrational spectra of these two poten-tially application-rich molecules using quartic force fields at the CCSD(T)-F12b/cc-pCVTZ-F12 level with additional corrections included for …

Leadership Matters: December 2021, University Of Mississippi. Lott Leadership Institute

Student Newsletters

Includes "Open Doors for Others: in other words, Lead", by Morgan Atkins

Framing And Agenda Setting Of The Day Of Republika Srpska And Its 2016 Referendum, Nađa Beglerović, Matthew T. Becker

Faculty and Student Publications

The purpose of this article is to explore broadsheet newspaper framing and agenda- setting of two events using the five- frame model developed by Semetko and Valkenburg (2000). This article provides insight into how the leading broadsheet newspaper within BiH’s Republika Srpska frames relationships between the three main ethnic groups and is the first such study to occur in BiH. By identifying and exploring the most common frames in Glas Srpske during the five -year period (from 31 December 2015 to 30 December 2020), the research is meant to answer the following research questions: How does Glas Srpske frame the …

A Multiwell Plate-Based System For Toxicity Screening Under Multiple Static Or Cycling Oxygen Environments, Ming Yao, Glenn Walker, Michael P. Gamcsik

Faculty and Student Publications

Tumor tissue contains a continuous distribution of static and dynamically changing oxygen environments with levels ranging from physiologically normal oxygen down to anoxia. However, in vitro studies are often performed under oxygen levels that are far higher than those found in vivo. A number of devices are available to alter the oxygen environment in cell culture, including designs from our laboratory. However, in our devices and most other designs, changing the media in order to feed or dose cells remains a disruptive factor in maintaining a consistent hypoxic environment. This report presents a novel 96-well plate design that recirculates the …

Towards Full And Open Access: Challenges And Opportunities For The Legal Interoperability Of Earth Observation Data, Marco Borghi

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Differentially Modulates Glutamate-Induced Toxicity And Stress In Cells Of The Neurogliovascular Unit, Cellas A. Hayes, Brandon G. Ashmore, Akshaya Vijayasankar, Jessica P. Marshall

Faculty and Student Publications

The age-related reduction in circulating levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is associated with increased risk of stroke and neurodegenerative diseases in advanced age. Numerous reports highlight behavioral and physiological deficits in blood-brain barrier function and neurovascular communication when IGF-1 levels are low. Administration of exogenous IGF-1 reduces the extent of tissue damage and sensorimotor deficits in animal models of ischemic stroke, highlighting the critical role of IGF-1 as a regulator of neurovascular health. The beneficial effects of IGF-1 in the nervous system are often attributed to direct actions on neurons; however, glial cells and the cerebrovasculature are also modulated …

Banking Symposium Explores Use Of Technology In Post-Covid Marketplace, Jacquelyn Delavaldene, Sydney Gibson

University of Mississippi News

20th annual event draws one of the largest crowds ever