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2020 Women's Tennis Fact Book, Ole Miss Athletics. Women's Tennis Jan 2020

2020 Women's Tennis Fact Book, Ole Miss Athletics. Women's Tennis

Women's Tennis

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Southern Register. 2020.1 (Winter 2020), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture Jan 2020

Southern Register. 2020.1 (Winter 2020), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

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A Diverse View Of Science To Catalyse Change: Valuing Diversity Leads To Scientific Excellence, The Progress Of Science And, Most Importantly, It Is Simply The Right Thing To Do. We Must Value Diversity Not Only In Words, But Also In Actions, César A. Urbina-Blanco, Safia Z. Jilani, Isaiah R. Speight, Michael J. Bojdys, Tomislav Friščić, J. Fraser Stoddart, Toby L. Nelson, James Mack, Renã A. S. Robinson, Emanuel A. Waddell, Jodie L. Lutkenhaus, Murrell Godfrey, Martine I. Abboud, Stephen O. Aderinto, Damilola Aderohunmu, Lučka Bibič, João Borges, Vy M. Dong, Lori Ferrins Jan 2020

A Diverse View Of Science To Catalyse Change: Valuing Diversity Leads To Scientific Excellence, The Progress Of Science And, Most Importantly, It Is Simply The Right Thing To Do. We Must Value Diversity Not Only In Words, But Also In Actions, César A. Urbina-Blanco, Safia Z. Jilani, Isaiah R. Speight, Michael J. Bojdys, Tomislav Friščić, J. Fraser Stoddart, Toby L. Nelson, James Mack, Renã A. S. Robinson, Emanuel A. Waddell, Jodie L. Lutkenhaus, Murrell Godfrey, Martine I. Abboud, Stephen O. Aderinto, Damilola Aderohunmu, Lučka Bibič, João Borges, Vy M. Dong, Lori Ferrins

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Pharmacy Matters - December 2019/January 2020, University Of Mississippi. School Of Pharmacy Jan 2020

Pharmacy Matters - December 2019/January 2020, University Of Mississippi. School Of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Matters Newsletters

Featured stories: "Ole Miss Pharmacy Surpasses $1 Million in Private Support," "Pharmacy Center Working to Improve Heart Health in Jackson," "Ole Miss Pharmacy Holds Inaugural African American Visit Day"


The Effects Of Eligibility Complexity And Incentive Structure On Taxpayer Behavior, Joshua Lee Simer Jan 2020

The Effects Of Eligibility Complexity And Incentive Structure On Taxpayer Behavior, Joshua Lee Simer

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Policymakers often use tax incentives to encourage desirable taxpayer behavior, and researchers from multiple disciplines provide evidence that these incentives lead to behavioral change. A new stream of literature focuses on the factors that affect the extent to which tax incentives achieve this goal, with specific emphasis on the factor of complexity. This study expands this literature by investigating the effect of eligibility determination complexity and tax incentive structure on the relationship between incentives and taxpayer behavior. Based on the findings from research on the take-up of social benefits, I predict and find some evidence that taxpayers are more likely …


Social Distance, Stigma, And Help-Seeking: An Exploration Of Autism Beliefs In The Southern United States, Christian Shannon Courson Jan 2020

Social Distance, Stigma, And Help-Seeking: An Exploration Of Autism Beliefs In The Southern United States, Christian Shannon Courson

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Stigma has been associated with physical and mental health conditions and their treatment long before formal care systems. Negative perceptions within the lay community, such as stigma and social distancing, negatively impact individuals with autism and their families. The purpose of this study was to explore factors associated with autism stigma among laypeople in the Southern United States. Specifically, the study explored how demographics, knowledge, and familiarity are related to social distancing and stigma, and how these factors relate to beliefs about and intentions of help-seeking. Using a lay sample (N=108) of rural Southern towns, survey data was collected in …


Formulation Development Of Curcumin-Piperine Solid Dispersion Via Hot-Melt Extrusion To Enhance Solubility And Bioavailability Of Curcumin, Abdulmajeed Althobaiti Jan 2020

Formulation Development Of Curcumin-Piperine Solid Dispersion Via Hot-Melt Extrusion To Enhance Solubility And Bioavailability Of Curcumin, Abdulmajeed Althobaiti

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Curcumin has been known to have a variety of biological activities in different diseases, including inflammation, cancer, and diabetes. The limited bioavailability of curcumin is due to its low solubility and extensive metabolism, rendering curcumin unusable as an oral therapeutic agent. The aim of the study is to enhance the solubility and bioavailability of curcumin by preparing curcumin-piperine solid dispersion (SD) utilizing the hot-melt extrusion technique. Three physical mixtures with different ratios were prepared as following: F1 (5% w/w piperine, 15% w/w curcumin, 80% w/w Soluplus®), F2 (10% w/w piperine, 30% w/w curcumin, 60% w/w Soluplus®), and F3 (15% w/w …


The Ole Miss, University Of Mississippi Jan 2020

The Ole Miss, University Of Mississippi

The Ole Miss (1897-)

The Ole Miss Annual, 2020


Do These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends? Social Norms, Alcohol, & Sexual Cyberbullying, Anandi C. Ehman Jan 2020

Do These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends? Social Norms, Alcohol, & Sexual Cyberbullying, Anandi C. Ehman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sexually aggressive behavior is well-documented among college students. However, little is known about the role technology may play in facilitating this behavior. Given that social norms have been established as a useful framework for understanding problematic and risky behavior in college students, the current authors sought to determine whether this theory might also provide insight into the use of technology to facilitate sexually aggressive behavior. Thus, this work sought to determine whether sexually aggressive behavior which occurs through the use of technology and social media, henceforth known as sexual cyberbullying, mediated the relationship between perceived social norms of sexually aggressive …


Sec Athletics And Engagement Of Fans, John Harrison Rowland Jan 2020

Sec Athletics And Engagement Of Fans, John Harrison Rowland

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is one of the premiere affiliate conferences of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Sports of all kinds have, for some time, engaged fans in multiple ways with the advent of social media enabling new forms of engagement. One of the most popular social media platforms for fan engagement is Twitter. This study is one of the first to explore how SEC teams use Twitter to interact with fans. After downloading Twitter data from all SEC baseball and football accounts, engagement was established. Engagement was defined as retweets plus favorites. With engagement defined and used as …


Lidocaine Mucoadhesive Film Fabrication Using Fused Deposition Modeling 3d Printing, Mohammed Yahya Alyahya Jan 2020

Lidocaine Mucoadhesive Film Fabrication Using Fused Deposition Modeling 3d Printing, Mohammed Yahya Alyahya

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Hot-melt extrusion and 3D printing are among the recent means of processing techniques adopted in the pharmaceutical industry. These technologies are used as a method of preparing solid dispersions develop complex shapes that are difficult to be obtained using other means of production. In the current research work, many formulations loaded with lidocaine HCl were prepared and extruded using 11mm twin-screw extruder. The extrudate filaments were then fed into a fused deposition modelling (FDM) printer to fabricate mucoadhesive films meant to buccal applications to manage local pain within the oral cavity that requires the intervention with local anesthetics. The printed …


Approaches To Alleviate The Vigabatrin Induced Retinal Toxicity, Anitha Police Jan 2020

Approaches To Alleviate The Vigabatrin Induced Retinal Toxicity, Anitha Police

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Safety of therapeutics is one of the primary concerns during the treatment of any ailments. Most of the toxic effects of drugs occurs due to accumulation of drug in organs, which is dependent on the dosage of the drug. The ideal therapy should minimize the risk of causing adverse events at the same time elicit intended therapeutic effects. Vigabatrin (VGB) is an antiepileptic drug used primarily in the treatment of infantile spasms and it acts by inhibiting gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) transaminase thereby increasing inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA levels. At therapeutic doses, VGB accumulates in retina leading to peripheral visual …


Service-Learning, Comcore, And The Secondary English Classroom: A Mixed Methods Study, Kimual Snow Jan 2020

Service-Learning, Comcore, And The Secondary English Classroom: A Mixed Methods Study, Kimual Snow

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT The prevalence of high-stakes, standardized testing, along with the emergence of the ComCore State Standards has decreased teachers’ capacity to establish and implement authentic learning opportunities for students in 21st century secondary English classroom. In a progressive literacy environment, teachers must commit to real-world learning that allows students to navigate complex informational texts without sacrificing high curriculum standards. A number of qualitative studies reveal how service-learning has been used in various classrooms to address deficiencies in student motivation and engagement, which in turn, sought to increase students’ academic outcomes. However, few provide the quantitative evidence that administrators want to …


The Charger: A Case Study Of Leadership Decisions And The Oxford High School Student Newspaper, R. J. Morgan Jan 2020

The Charger: A Case Study Of Leadership Decisions And The Oxford High School Student Newspaper, R. J. Morgan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This case study uses qualitative interviews with administrators, advisers, former editors, and others, along with researcher observations and more than 50 years of archival documents to construct a comprehensive portrait of the history, successes, and challenges of the student newspaper program at Oxford High School, and how administrative decision making has affected that success and vice versa. The OHS student newspaper, called the Charger since the late 1980s, has consistently ranked at or near the top of the best high school newspapers in Mississippi and has at times been named one of the top high school newspapers in the nation. …


Development Of A Liposomal Formulation For Brain Targeting, Ziru Zhang Jan 2020

Development Of A Liposomal Formulation For Brain Targeting, Ziru Zhang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The blood-brain barrier (BBB), formed by the endothelial cells of the brain capillaries, inhibits the penetration of many therapeutic compounds into the brain. Liposomes, which have unique physicochemical characteristics, have been widely investigated for the drug delivery system across BBB. In the current study, FITC-dextran was used as a model drug that encapsulated in a liposomal formulation to investigated its ability to overcome the blood-brain barrier for targeted brain delivery of therapeutic agents. Here, non-targeted liposome (NT LPs) and RVG-modified liposome (RVG LPs) were prepared. The NT LPs and RVG LPs were about 97 and 101 nm in diameter with …


Awareness Of Peace Journalism Among Bangladeshi And Ethiopian Journalists, Sima Rani Bhowmik Jan 2020

Awareness Of Peace Journalism Among Bangladeshi And Ethiopian Journalists, Sima Rani Bhowmik

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

News is a vital element to keep people informed. Though the orientation of the stories is often debated over whether it is based on facts or lies. In a polarized society, it may not be the event that contributes to violence, but how the event is reported. Here is where the role of peace journalism comes in where reporters or news managers can shed light on structural and cultural causes of violence. It is in this context that this study attempted to investigate the level of awareness of peace journalism among Bangladeshi and Ethiopian journalists. To this end, the researcher …


Role Of Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Receptor In The Regulation Of Astrocyte Structure, Function And Cognition, Disha Prabhu Jan 2020

Role Of Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Receptor In The Regulation Of Astrocyte Structure, Function And Cognition, Disha Prabhu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Levels of Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-1) are reduced in several neurological disorders, including aging and neurodegeneration. Aged animals have reduced IGF1 signaling and exhibit impairment in cognition. Supplementing rodents with IGF-1 reverses some of the cognitive deficit, suggesting that IGF-1 signaling could potentially be targeted to ameliorate cognitive decline in older adults. For this, a thorough understanding of the mechanisms by which IGF-1 regulates the function of various cell types in the brain is needed. A majority of studies have focused on the effects of IGF-1 regulating neurons. However, astrocytes that form roughly about 40% of brain mass also …


Comparing The Variability Of Natural Sand To The Variability Of Sand Containing A Simulant Land Mine, Anna Marie Mcwhirter Jan 2020

Comparing The Variability Of Natural Sand To The Variability Of Sand Containing A Simulant Land Mine, Anna Marie Mcwhirter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Understanding the relationship between excitation sources, buried target (i.e., buried hazard, land mine, acoustic article) response, and soil properties is fundamental to improve laser-ground-vibration sensing methods. This project investigates the natural soil’s behavior under acoustic stimuli and compares soil behavior with a buried target through geostatistical methods. Vibrational velocity of sand is measured with an LDV in a confined box filled with and without a buried target. Geostatistical calculations were performed on standardized data (e.g., background velocity and with-target velocity) sets to observe spatial variability. The standardized background velocity is mean 0 and variance of 1, while the addition of …


The Southern Front: Gay Liberation Activists In The U.S. South And Public History Through Audiovisual Exhibition, David Hooper Schultz Jan 2020

The Southern Front: Gay Liberation Activists In The U.S. South And Public History Through Audiovisual Exhibition, David Hooper Schultz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project expands upon the historical work done in the master’s thesis “The Carolina Gay Association, The Southeastern Gay Conferences, and Gay Liberation in the 1970s South,” and builds on its work through an examination of public history’s impact for LGBTQ+ southerners. The audiovisual exhibit, both physically and online, investigates queer southern activism within the context of the Carolina Gay Association and its subsequent conferences, the Southeastern Gay Conferences. The public history work uncovers how activists remember their own involvement within the organization and how they were connected to national conversations surrounding gay liberation. The photography portion of the project …


Holding Space: Learning From A Black Art Organization, Tierney Anne Bamrick Jan 2020

Holding Space: Learning From A Black Art Organization, Tierney Anne Bamrick

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Minority-led nonprofit organizations are marginalized in the United States arts sector, analyses of which rely heavily on data from dominant, often White-led institutional arts organizations. This study seeks to understand the experience of a minority-led arts organization in that context. I ask, what does artistic practice – both creative and organizational – look like for this organization? And what are the implications of that practice for the arts sector more broadly? Drawing on over a year of ethnographic work with The Network, a Black-led arts organization in a southern U.S. city, I argue that their asset-focused treatment of place, their …


Building Efficacy In Early-Career Teachers: An Applied Research Study On The Role Of Professional Development On Teacher Efficacy, Duncan Gray Jan 2020

Building Efficacy In Early-Career Teachers: An Applied Research Study On The Role Of Professional Development On Teacher Efficacy, Duncan Gray

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Teacher efficacy is closely connected to student achievement and teacher retention. The applied research explored how rethinking certain aspects of professional development would impact the efficacy of the teachers in an upper elementary building. The research program included two distinct components. School administrators redesigned after school professional development sessions in order to allow teachers to facilitate their own learning and lead sessions on areas of interest. The second component was a structural model that alloearly-career educators to visit other classrooms. Both of the components shosome promise for increasing teachers’ sense of efficacy, but the response from the after-school sessions was …


The Influence Of Screw Configuration And Other Mechanistic Approaches On The Morphology And Release Of Drugs From Polymeric Matrices Utilizing Hot-Melt Extrusion Technology, Joseph Morott Jan 2020

The Influence Of Screw Configuration And Other Mechanistic Approaches On The Morphology And Release Of Drugs From Polymeric Matrices Utilizing Hot-Melt Extrusion Technology, Joseph Morott

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Twin-screw extrusion, often referred to as Hot-Melt Extrusion within the pharmaceutical industry, is an efficient, continuous and solvent-free process that has been investigated extensively for its solubility enhancement applications, and, to a lesser degree, for its potential to replace more conventional “batch” technologies. The research contained herein focuses on the latter of these with attention paid to the effects of screw configuration. In this research, the twin-screw extrusion process was utilized to produce taste masked formulations of a BCS I API, which necessitated the prevention of amorphous phase formation. The resulting granules were subsequently incorporated into an immediate release orally …


Narrative Identity In Online Spaces: Selves In 280 Characters Or Less, Adam Louis Paul Jan 2020

Narrative Identity In Online Spaces: Selves In 280 Characters Or Less, Adam Louis Paul

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The internet age has alloindividuals a degree of self-expression that is more expansive than any other period in history. Through the emergence of social networking sites (henceforth SNS), individuals can tell their stories to their entire social network with unparalleled ease. It is difficult to overstate how far-reaching the implications of this form of widespread communication are with respect to interpersonal communication. Despite this, little work has been done considering how we should think about self-presentation on SNS. The goal of this paper is two-fold: (1) I will defend the position that our narrative identities are constituted by a set …


Determination Of The Gyro-Electric Reflection And Transmission Coefficients In The Fused Quartz Itop Cherenkov Particle Id Detectors At The Belle Ii Experiment, Michael Jeandron Jan 2020

Determination Of The Gyro-Electric Reflection And Transmission Coefficients In The Fused Quartz Itop Cherenkov Particle Id Detectors At The Belle Ii Experiment, Michael Jeandron

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The thesis presents new results for the reflection and transmission coefficients for Cherenkov photons in a strong magnetic field at the interface between the fused quartz of and the surrounding nitrogen gas within the iTOP particle detector, a sub-system of the Belle II experiment. The iTOP is a component of the particle identification system at Belle II which distinguishes between kaons and pions in final states after collision. These coefficients are important in understanding how photons propagate through the iTOP taking into consideration polarization at the reflection and transmission interfaces in the Belle II magnetic field because the polarization affects …


Learning Lineage And The Problem Of Authenticity In Ozark Folk Music, Kevin Lyle Tharp Jan 2020

Learning Lineage And The Problem Of Authenticity In Ozark Folk Music, Kevin Lyle Tharp

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT Thorough examination of the existing research and the content of ballad and folk song collections reveals a lack of information regarding the methods by which folk musicians learn the music they perform. The centuries-old practice of folk song and ballad performance is well-documented. Many Child ballads and other folk songs have been passed down through the generations. Oral tradition is the principal method of transmission in Ozark folk music. The variants this method produces are considered evidence of authenticity. Although alteration is a distinguishing characteristic of songs passed down in the oral tradition, many ballad variants have persisted in …


Formulation And Optimization Of Fingolimog Hydrochloride Nanoemulsion, Rama Avinash Kashikar Jan 2020

Formulation And Optimization Of Fingolimog Hydrochloride Nanoemulsion, Rama Avinash Kashikar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The goal of the present study was to develop a nanoemulsion (NE) system for efficient and prolonged delivery of Fingolimod Hydrochloride (FTY720; FT), to the posterior segment of the eye through the topical route. FT is a sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor agonist, an immunosuppressive agent. FT loaded NE (FT-NE) formulations were prepared with the homogenization method, using Soybean oil as lipid, Tween® 80 and Poloxamer 188 as surfactants. FT-NE were optimized based on particle size, zeta potential (ZP), Polydispersity Index (PDI) and assay. optimized FT-NE formulation were further evaluated for in vitro release and transcorneal in comparison with FT solution (FT-S) formulation, …


How Newspapers' Social Media Editors In Bangladesh Use Official Social Media Accounts, Ahmed Shatil Alam Jan 2020

How Newspapers' Social Media Editors In Bangladesh Use Official Social Media Accounts, Ahmed Shatil Alam

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For the last several years, the newspaper industry in Bangladesh has been using social media for disseminating news and connecting with readers. But the question remains how the social media journalists are using these social media accounts and what roles they perform every day in the newsrooms. This exploratory study sheds light on both issues through the lens of the Gatekeeping Theory. Following interviews with 13 social media journalists who worked for 11 national newspapers in Bangladesh, the study found that the overall traditional gatekeeping roles of these journalists had undergone substantial changes as they were heavily concerned about audience …


Beautiful And Terrible In The Face: Reconfiguring The Southern Beauty Myth Through The Short Fiction And Autobiographical Writings Of Eudora Welty, Katherine Elizabeth Howell Jan 2020

Beautiful And Terrible In The Face: Reconfiguring The Southern Beauty Myth Through The Short Fiction And Autobiographical Writings Of Eudora Welty, Katherine Elizabeth Howell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

From her personal appearance as the “ugly duckling” of southern literature, to her narrative preoccupations as a writer of grotesques, Eudora Welty has been critically separated from the realm of southern beauty and femininity. Drawing textual evidence from Welty’s strategic invocation of beauty acts and products in her short fiction and autobiographical writings, this thesis insists upon Welty’s lifelong stake in beauty culture, as it is practiced by southern women across the socioeconomic spectrum. Across her body of short fiction—a substantial portion of which was first published in women’s fashion magazines—Welty details the ways in which beauty, as expressed through …


It's A Cis-Gendered Man's World: How Drag Kings Define Good Drag In Their Fight To Be Seen As The Best Performers, Madison Shappley Jan 2020

It's A Cis-Gendered Man's World: How Drag Kings Define Good Drag In Their Fight To Be Seen As The Best Performers, Madison Shappley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research is based on field observations in Ridgeville, a Southern city, at an LGBTQ bar, that I call Rainbow Bar and on in-depth interviews with Rainbow Bar drag performers. Through my study at Rainbow, I set out to answer: 1) What do drag kings consider to be “good drag” for themselves and for other kings?; and 2) Who is considered to have the best drag? And who determines what the best drag is? I found that Ridgeville drag kings felt as though they had to work harder than Ridgeville queens in their drag. To have good drag, Ridgeville kings …


Here, Now, Gabrielle Maria Dinger Jan 2020

Here, Now, Gabrielle Maria Dinger

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My work explores the transformation of one’s self through the observation, collection, and exploration of nature. I am drawn to the moments that prompt change within each of our lives, and how these moments alter our interpretation of our surroundings. Although I am interested in creating a universal conversation about our interactions in nature, the work I create focuses on my own experiences. Through the exploration, collection, and alteration of objects, I create art for the viewer to investigate and contemplate their own interactions with nature. Through the act of exploration, my curiosity for the natural world and keenness for …