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Physical And Chemical Trace Evidence From 3d-Printed Firearms, And Use Of A Quadcopter For Targeted Sampling Of Gaseous Mercury In The Atmosphere, Oscar Beauchamp Black Jan 2019

Physical And Chemical Trace Evidence From 3d-Printed Firearms, And Use Of A Quadcopter For Targeted Sampling Of Gaseous Mercury In The Atmosphere, Oscar Beauchamp Black

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My forensic research resulted in the first peer-reviepaper to address the forensic challenges presented by 3D-printed polymer firearms. The work involved a systematic approach to the analysis of evidence stemming from 3D-printed firearms filling a critical void in current forensic knowledge. We used DART-MS to characterize the polymer evidence left behind by 3D-printed firearms as well as an evaluation of pre-existing firearm and toolmark techniques and fingerprint analysis. We demonstrated that 3D-printed firearms leave behind characteristic polymer residue on cartridge cases bullets and the receiving surface which can be identified using DART-MS. The culmination of the work includes a database …


Students’ Perceptions And Strategies For Success In An Associate Degree Nursing Program, Theresa Hargett Jan 2019

Students’ Perceptions And Strategies For Success In An Associate Degree Nursing Program, Theresa Hargett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The three-manuscript dissertation is based on perceptions and personal strategies of successful third-semester nursing students about retention interventions at Holmes Community College Associate Degree Nursing Program on the Grenada Campus. Retention and attrition of nursing students is a current area of concern at Holmes Community College in the Associate Degree Nursing Program. Understanding adaptations that led third-semester students in the ADN program to be successful in their first-year is the focus of this study. The research questions seek to answer second-year, third-semester students’ perceptions of their first-year experiences of faculty interventions and personal strategies applied for success. Understanding adaptations and …


Of Mules And Mamas: Four Women, Africana Mothering, And Resistance, Ebony Olivia Lumumba Jan 2019

Of Mules And Mamas: Four Women, Africana Mothering, And Resistance, Ebony Olivia Lumumba

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The black woman’s humanity is unjustly linked to domestic responsibility and, thus, the traditional constraints of mothering. The roles of the mother and the created archetype of the mammy often become marred with the latter role overtaking the former—leaving black children without full benefit and access to their biological maternal parent. With the pervasive threat to black lives present in spaces all over the globe, for women of the African Diaspora, simply deciding to accept the role of a mother to a life that is physically, socially, and economically under siege is revolutionary. Considering this, the act of mothering, especially …


Ethics In 21st Century Art Conservation: Confederate Monuments, Kate L. Hoffman Jan 2019

Ethics In 21st Century Art Conservation: Confederate Monuments, Kate L. Hoffman

Honors Theses

This paper explores the ethics surrounding the conservation of damaged confederate monuments, specifically as educational tools for understanding their place in society and memory over time. Much of this research has been conducted through the use of contemporary news sources and memory studies scholarship on account of the recent influx of interest towards the monuments and their controversies in the 21st century. The ultimate purpose of this paper is to provide an unbiased source of material for future scholarship in memory studies towards confederate monuments, for if damages dealt to the monuments are repaired, that portion of their physical history …


Computational Modeling And Simulations Of Condition Deterioration To Enhance Asphalt Highway Pavement Design And Asset Management, Zul Fahmi Bin Mohamed Jaafar Jan 2019

Computational Modeling And Simulations Of Condition Deterioration To Enhance Asphalt Highway Pavement Design And Asset Management, Zul Fahmi Bin Mohamed Jaafar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A nation’s economy and prosperity depend on an efficient and safe transportation network for public mobility and freight transportation. A country’s road network is recognized as one of the largest public infrastructure assets. About 93 percent of 2.6 million miles of paved roads and highways in the United States (U.S.) are surfaced with asphalt. Longitudinal roughness, pavement cracking, potholes, and rutting are the major reasons for rehabilitation of asphalt roads. Billions of dollars are required annually for the maintenance and rehabilitation of road networks. If timely maintenance and rehabilitation are not performed, the pavement damages inflicted by heavy traffic repetitions …


Zoning Policies In The United States: An Inquisition Into The Inequities And Solutions, Caroline Heavey Jan 2019

Zoning Policies In The United States: An Inquisition Into The Inequities And Solutions, Caroline Heavey

Honors Theses

This research examined the real estate zoning laws in the United States and their impact. Zoning policies regulate land use by codifying land parcels. These zoning policies dictate what type of construction, commerce, activity, etc., can happen where in a community. These policies are intended to protect the common welfare and provide a stabilizing force in the real estate market to protect property values and create predictability. Nevertheless, these policies sometimes fall short of these goals and cast inequities into the community. By focusing on residential zoning policies, the researcher was able to examine these resulting inequities. The researcher utilized …


The Latino South: Race And Racialization, Brittany M. Brown Jan 2019

The Latino South: Race And Racialization, Brittany M. Brown

Honors Theses

Taking into consideration the South’s historic black-white racial binary, this multi-media research project documents the place-specific experiences of 23 Latinos living in Oxford, Mississippi, using anthropologic methods. A digital archive accompanies the written thesis. Through interdisciplinary methods, this research examines and seeks to understand how the Latino community is conforming to or challenging the staunch view of race and identity in the U.S. South, where race is and has always been at the forefront of culture and society. Through knowing the history of race in the South and understanding the black-white racial binary, the presence of Latinos is creating space …


Before Disaster Strikes: An Analysis Of Emergency Management Planning, Reagan Moody Jan 2019

Before Disaster Strikes: An Analysis Of Emergency Management Planning, Reagan Moody

Honors Theses

I have always been inspired by the outpouring number of volunteers that arrive to the scene of a natural disaster, ready to help in any way possible. With or without adequate training, these people arrive with warm hearts and helping hands. I admire their valiant efforts, however, it has prompted me to ask the question: If our citizens can respond so quickly in times of adversity, how are city governments preparing spontaneous volunteers for emergency management planning? The intent of this thesis is to properly evaluate the emergency management plans implemented in the cities of Baton Rouge, LA, Spokane, WA, …


Endowments Expand Mike Overstreet's Legacy At Um, Tina H. Hahn Dec 2018

Endowments Expand Mike Overstreet's Legacy At Um, Tina H. Hahn

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.


Improving Mental Health And Substance Abuse Treatment In Juvenile Detention Facilities, Harvard Law School Mississippi Delta Project Nov 2018

Improving Mental Health And Substance Abuse Treatment In Juvenile Detention Facilities, Harvard Law School Mississippi Delta Project

Delta Directions: Publications

Mental health and substance abuse treatment services are an essential component of a well-functioning rehabilitative juvenile justice system. These services are especially important in juvenile detention facilities, which contain a disproportionate number of juveniles suffering from mental illness due to the association between such issues and delinquency and the relative lack of services in the community.


Fall Meeting Of The Council Of The American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants, October 21-23, 2018, Fernandina Beach, Florida, With Index, Volume 2, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Council Oct 2018

Fall Meeting Of The Council Of The American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants, October 21-23, 2018, Fernandina Beach, Florida, With Index, Volume 2, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Council

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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Fall Meeting Of The Council Of The American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants, October 21-23, 2018, Fernandina Beach, Florida, Volume 2, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Council Oct 2018

Fall Meeting Of The Council Of The American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants, October 21-23, 2018, Fernandina Beach, Florida, Volume 2, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Council

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.


September 5, 2018, The Daily Mississippian Sep 2018

September 5, 2018, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


August 20, 2018, The Daily Mississippian Aug 2018

August 20, 2018, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


March 1, 2018, The Daily Mississippian Mar 2018

March 1, 2018, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


The Interface Between Exercise Of State Power And Personal Powerlessness: A Study Of Police Perceptions Of Factors Impacting Professional Practices, Danielle Watson, Francis D. Boateng, Nathan W. Pino, Paula Morgan Feb 2018

The Interface Between Exercise Of State Power And Personal Powerlessness: A Study Of Police Perceptions Of Factors Impacting Professional Practices, Danielle Watson, Francis D. Boateng, Nathan W. Pino, Paula Morgan

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

No abstract provided.


The Holy Trinity: Religion, Identity, And International Law In Egypt, Henry Owen Stonnington Jan 2018

The Holy Trinity: Religion, Identity, And International Law In Egypt, Henry Owen Stonnington

Honors Theses

This thesis investigates the contradiction between Egypt's international legal obligations to protect religious freedom and its state practice. Chapter 1 gives a brief history of the relationship between religious freedom and state authority in the Roman, Islamic, and Holy Roman Empires and the early formations of international legal protections of freedom of religion in the wake of the Thirty Years War and then WWI centuries later. Chapter 2 looks at the formation and content of the current international standards of religious freedom, focusing on the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political …


Brutus, Cassius, Judas, And Cremutius Cordus: How Shifting Precedents Allowed The Lex Maiestatis To Group Writers With Traitors, Hunter R. Myers Jan 2018

Brutus, Cassius, Judas, And Cremutius Cordus: How Shifting Precedents Allowed The Lex Maiestatis To Group Writers With Traitors, Hunter R. Myers

Honors Theses

In either 103 or 100 B.C., a concept known as Maiestas minuta populi Romani (diminution of the majesty of the Roman people) is invented by Saturninus to accompany charges of perduellio (treason). Just over a century later, this same law is used by Tiberius to criminalize behavior and speech that he found disrespectful. This thesis offers an answer to the question as to how the maiestas law evolved during the late republic and early empire to present the threat that it did to Tiberius' political enemies. First, the application of Roman precedent in regards to judicial decisions will be examined, …


The Impact Of Mass And Active Shooting Incidents On Residential Real Estate Values, Claire Sherman Jan 2018

The Impact Of Mass And Active Shooting Incidents On Residential Real Estate Values, Claire Sherman

Honors Theses

Gun control as a response to gun violence is currently at the forefront of political debate in the United States. The foundation of this paper revolves around crime and real estate supported by background literature detailing external effects on real estate prices to set up the framework for the research on mass shootings and residential real estate values. The findings in this paper are based on 73 events involving mass shootings in the United States from 1996 to 2015. I find that the effect of mass shooting events plays a significant role in the decline in real estate values following …


November 6, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Nov 2017

November 6, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


September 27, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Sep 2017

September 27, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


September 20, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Sep 2017

September 20, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


A Discourse On The Remodeling Of Ila Model Law On National Space Legislation, Sandeepa Bhat B., Arthad Kurlekar May 2017

A Discourse On The Remodeling Of Ila Model Law On National Space Legislation, Sandeepa Bhat B., Arthad Kurlekar

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


“It’S Dangerous Business . . .”: The Possible Effects Of The Space Resource Exploration And Utilization Act Of 2015 On Planetary Defense, Marshall D. Mckellar May 2017

“It’S Dangerous Business . . .”: The Possible Effects Of The Space Resource Exploration And Utilization Act Of 2015 On Planetary Defense, Marshall D. Mckellar

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


April 19, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Apr 2017

April 19, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


February 17, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Feb 2017

February 17, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


Succeeding King: Ralph David Abernathy, Sclc, And The Long Civil Rights Movement, Scott Blusiewicz Jan 2017

Succeeding King: Ralph David Abernathy, Sclc, And The Long Civil Rights Movement, Scott Blusiewicz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as America’s most prominent civil rights activist during the late 1950s and the 1960s. Due to his eloquent speeches and ability to organize large-scale nonviolent protests, King inspired numerous individuals to participate in a grassroots movement for equal rights. After earning two landmark victories with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, King and his SCLC colleagues shifted the focus of their work to improving economic opportunities for America’s poor citizens. To combat poverty, King planned an ambitious …


To Donate Is Glorious: The Ccp, Chinese Civil Society, And The Wenchuan Earthquake, James Joseph Demarshall Ii Jan 2017

To Donate Is Glorious: The Ccp, Chinese Civil Society, And The Wenchuan Earthquake, James Joseph Demarshall Ii

Honors Theses

Through the examination of charitable contributions in the wake of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, this paper strives to comment on donation tendencies among individuals in Mainland China. The data analysis portion of this paper employs the use of both binary logistic and linear regression models to determine the effects of carefully discerned influential variables on an individual's donation decision and extent of donation respectively. Said variables were chosen by a combination of their frequency in preexisting research and speculative causal theory. In addition to the importance of obvious demographic and economic indicators, findings suggest that political status has a pronounced …


An Analysis Of Entrepreneurial Education In The Criminal Justice System, Austin Powell Jan 2017

An Analysis Of Entrepreneurial Education In The Criminal Justice System, Austin Powell

Honors Theses

Currently, American federal and state prisons release more than 600,000 offenders each year that contribute to the estimated 70 million or more Americans that have some form of criminal record. By holding a criminal record, successful reentry for offenders are difficult because the criminal record serves as a barrier to public benefits. There are many correctional education programs designed to help offenders while in prison to overcome these barriers. Entrepreneurial education programs are becoming more popular, due to the positive recidivism and post-release employment results. The purpose of this study is to compare entrepreneurial education to other programs while analyzing …


Um Volunteers Working At Career Expo In Tupelo, Edwin Smith Oct 2016

Um Volunteers Working At Career Expo In Tupelo, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Three-day event designed to help junior high school students focus on opportunities