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Al-Qaida, Boko Haram, And Isis: Tracking The Shift In Women’S Involvement, Anna Therese Beavers Jan 2019

Al-Qaida, Boko Haram, And Isis: Tracking The Shift In Women’S Involvement, Anna Therese Beavers

Honors Theses

This paper discusses the shift in women’s roles in Islamic extremist groups over the last two decades. Focusing on three violent Sunni groups, al-Qaida, Boko Haram, and ISIS, the research aims to fill gaps in United States and global counterterrorism and reintegration efforts by providing a comprehensive, accurate, and timely assessment of the recent change in women’s roles in terrorist organizations, shifting from foundational to limited operational to fully operational. The shift occurred and continues to unfold as several moving parts have fallen into place to create this situation. Women’s desire to participate at a more operational level, the need …


Economic Advancement Across The European Playing Field, Zac Herring Jan 2019

Economic Advancement Across The European Playing Field, Zac Herring

Honors Theses

This project seeks to examine the relationship between economic history, soccer, and economic institutions in countries who have attained varying levels of success on the soccer field and economically. The work of several influential scholars in recent decades has drawn attention to the need for a shift in the goal for economic achievement from industrialization to institutional effectiveness. This study develops a model to further understand the relationship between economic achievement and soccer success. It then includes case studies of three countries from the model in order to further understand the impact of the institutions that have a significant presence …


Jim Silver Comes Home Good Going, David, Bill Minor Dec 2018

Jim Silver Comes Home Good Going, David, Bill Minor

Clippings

Essay looking back on James Silver's tenure at the University of Mississippi, written shortly after he returned to the university to speak years after leaving; Source: unknown; Unknown date


Review Of An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies And New Granada’S Transimperial Greater Caribbean World, Jesse Cromwell Dec 2018

Review Of An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies And New Granada’S Transimperial Greater Caribbean World, Jesse Cromwell

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

No abstract provided.


Ole Miss Army Rotc Turns 100, Michael Newsom Nov 2018

Ole Miss Army Rotc Turns 100, Michael Newsom

University of Mississippi News

Storied program continues to teach vital lessons, prepare future leaders


3 Alumni Honored With Engineering Awards, Edwin B. Smith Apr 2018

3 Alumni Honored With Engineering Awards, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Albert Hilliard, Jeff Rish III and Catherine Grace Norris received recognition at awards banquet


P-Glycoprotein Restricts Ocular Penetration Of Loperamide Across The Blood-Ocular Barriers: A Comparative Study In Mdr1a Knock-Out And Wild Type Sprague Dawley Rats, Akshaya Tatke, Karthik Yadav Janga, Bharathi Avula, Xiangdi Wang, Monica M. Jablonski, Ikhlas A. Khan, Soumyajit Majumdar Mar 2018

P-Glycoprotein Restricts Ocular Penetration Of Loperamide Across The Blood-Ocular Barriers: A Comparative Study In Mdr1a Knock-Out And Wild Type Sprague Dawley Rats, Akshaya Tatke, Karthik Yadav Janga, Bharathi Avula, Xiangdi Wang, Monica M. Jablonski, Ikhlas A. Khan, Soumyajit Majumdar

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

No abstract provided.


A Cytochrome P450 Cyp71 Enzyme Expressed In Sorghum Bicolor Root Hair Cells Participates In The Biosynthesis Of The Benzoquinone Allelochemical Sorgoleone, Zhiqiang Pan, Scott R. Baerson, Mei Wang, Joanna Bajsa‐Hirschel, Agnes M. Rimando, Xiaoqiang Wang, N. P. Dhammika Nanayakkara, Brice P. Noonan, Michael Fromm, Franck E. Dayan, Ikhlas A. Khan, Stephen O. Duke Feb 2018

A Cytochrome P450 Cyp71 Enzyme Expressed In Sorghum Bicolor Root Hair Cells Participates In The Biosynthesis Of The Benzoquinone Allelochemical Sorgoleone, Zhiqiang Pan, Scott R. Baerson, Mei Wang, Joanna Bajsa‐Hirschel, Agnes M. Rimando, Xiaoqiang Wang, N. P. Dhammika Nanayakkara, Brice P. Noonan, Michael Fromm, Franck E. Dayan, Ikhlas A. Khan, Stephen O. Duke

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

No abstract provided.


Jeff Rish's 4 Degrees From Um Result In Long Research Career With Military, Edwin B. Smith Jan 2018

Jeff Rish's 4 Degrees From Um Result In Long Research Career With Military, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Alumnus now teaches engineering course at Florida State


Analysis Of Prehistoric Ceramics From A Fourteenth-Century Native American House, Carter Robinson Site (44le10), Lee County, Virginia, Emily J. Warner Jan 2018

Analysis Of Prehistoric Ceramics From A Fourteenth-Century Native American House, Carter Robinson Site (44le10), Lee County, Virginia, Emily J. Warner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Chiefdoms located on the frontier of the Mississippian world have not been examined in great detail, yet they have the potential to provide evidence for the emergence of hierarchy and the interaction of hierarchical and egalitarian societies. Frontiers can help identify the emergence and maintenance of power in southeastern chiefdoms. Carter Robinson (44le10) is a frontier site that can help understand the degree of interaction between hierarchical and non-hierarchical groups nearby. This thesis will analyze the ceramics at structure 6 based on the 2015 excavation at Carter Robinson located in Lee County, Virginia. The use of attribute and morphological analyses …


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 …


Lost Cause Textbooks: Civil War Education In The South From The 1890s To The 1920s, Earl King Jan 2018

Lost Cause Textbooks: Civil War Education In The South From The 1890s To The 1920s, Earl King

Honors Theses

This thesis analyzes the origins, creation and implementation of Lost Cause history textbooks in the South in the decades following the Civil War and Reconstruction. Directed by secondary source material relating to the topic, primary source materials—magazines, newspapers, board minutes, etc.— were explored to find evidence for the motives of rewriting a history of the Civil War more favorable to the former Confederate states. These motives included the positive reflection of former Confederates by future generations of white Southerners and the advancement of white supremacy in the Jim Crow era. Several textbooks from both northern and southern authors, published in …


Searching Through Debris: A Mass Analysis From The Carter Robinson Mound Site In Lee County, Virginia, Robert Capps Jan 2018

Searching Through Debris: A Mass Analysis From The Carter Robinson Mound Site In Lee County, Virginia, Robert Capps

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Mississippian period is one of the most widely studied periods in the prehistoric Southeast, but there are areas such as the Mississippian frontier that have not been explored in great detail. Carter Robinson is a Mississippian chiefdom located on the frontier in southwest Virginia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. To better understand the people living at this site a mass analysis was conducted to examine the lithic debris left behind by the people living there. The purpose of this thesis is to identify the degree of tool production at Carter Robinson and to identify areas of tool production, …


Social Media Use And Negative Partisanship Among College Students, Savannah Maas Jan 2018

Social Media Use And Negative Partisanship Among College Students, Savannah Maas

Honors Theses

Since the creation of the United States of America, the political climate has vastly changed and adapted, each time period with its own distinct characteristics. Today, the American electorate and Congress are more polarized than ever and negative partisan-ship has become a central characteristic in politics. Partisan identities of voters are more homogenous than ever and approval rates of people's opposing parties are at an all-time low. People's political decisions have begun to be more driven by dislike of the opposing party than support of their own. Social media has also grown over recent years and has begun to play …


Contemporary Terrorism Paradigm: Terrorist Attacks On Transportation Systems, Gabbi Berlanti Jan 2018

Contemporary Terrorism Paradigm: Terrorist Attacks On Transportation Systems, Gabbi Berlanti

Honors Theses

The Contemporary Terrorism Paradigm has been examined in concept, but little research has applied the theory to specific targeting of terrorist organizations. To build on this limited research, the current study analyzed the number of terrorist incidents targeting the transportation infrastructure in North America, Western Europe, and East Asia between 2001 and 2016 to ascertain if the Contemporary Terrorism Paradigm explains the variance between number of incidents and number of casualties. The use of North America, Western Europe, and East Asia created an opportunity to examine vulnerabilities in the transportation infrastructure and identify areas in the United States transportation infrastructure …


A Church Adrift: Virginia's Church Of England, 1607-1677, Katherine Gray Blank Jan 2018

A Church Adrift: Virginia's Church Of England, 1607-1677, Katherine Gray Blank

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Church of England in the Virginia colony is an institution which has been much overlooked in historiography. Traditionally, historians have focused upon the weakness of the church, with its lack of a complete hierarchy and dearth of ministers. These weaknesses, combined with some of the more unsavory attitudes and actions of early colonists, have led many scholars to postulate that religion did not play much of a role in the Virginia colony. While the early colonists did struggle, and the church was weak, historians have overlooked the fact that most Virginians were seventeenth-century Englishmen, and inhabited a world that …


Regrets Regarding Having Never Played Lady Macbeth, Kristina Martino Jan 2018

Regrets Regarding Having Never Played Lady Macbeth, Kristina Martino

Yalobusha Review

No abstract provided.


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, …


Attitudes Towards Plastic Surgery In College Men And Women, Margaret Rose Hovan Jan 2018

Attitudes Towards Plastic Surgery In College Men And Women, Margaret Rose Hovan

Honors Theses

The aim of this study is to determine whether exposure to extreme makeover based reality television programs is related to the attitudes of college-aged individuals towards the acceptability of obtaining plastic surgery procedures and how students view plastic surgery itself. Interviews consisting of closed- and open-ended questions measured the possible influence that exposure to plastic surgery reality television programs, familial experience with plastic surgery and parental attitudes towards plastic surgery, among other factors, have on one's attitudes towards plastic surgery. The data collected were then entered into Qualtrics and analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) or coded …


The Effect Of Participation In Party Politics On Terrorist Organizations: A Case Study Of Hamas And Hezbollah, David Newman Jan 2018

The Effect Of Participation In Party Politics On Terrorist Organizations: A Case Study Of Hamas And Hezbollah, David Newman

Honors Theses

This thesis sought to explore the effect of participation in party politics on terrorist organizations through a comparative case study of Hamas in the Palestinian Territories and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The project was inspired by the existing literature on party-terror linkages and inclusion-moderation theory. The methodology used to test this relationship required analysis of the histories of the two organizations to identify each organization's years of participation and non-participation in party politics. Then, using the data compiled by the Global Terrorism Database, I calculated the average number of terrorist incidents per year across the phases of participation in party politics …


September 29, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Sep 2017

September 29, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


September 18, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Sep 2017

September 18, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


May 3, 2017, The Daily Mississippian May 2017

May 3, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


Aviation & Space Law Bibliography, Andrea J. Harrington May 2017

Aviation & Space Law Bibliography, Andrea J. Harrington

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


Sherds With Style: A Ceramic Analysis From A Protohistoric Site In Oktibbeha County, Mississippi., Allison Smith Jan 2017

Sherds With Style: A Ceramic Analysis From A Protohistoric Site In Oktibbeha County, Mississippi., Allison Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A key part of understanding the lesser known contact period in the Southeastern United States is studying the effects of contact on Mississippian chiefdoms and their descendant population. The Starkville Archaeological Complex is an archaeological pattern of a distinct clustering of contact-era sites in the Blackland Prairie physiographic district of northeast Mississippi. Atkinson (1979) defined these sites as a dispersed settlement pattern with distinct ceramic assemblages associated with European metal. The ceramics are characterized as sandy historic Chickasaw pastes with Mississippian-like distinct curvilinear or angular surface decorations. This thesis is an analysis of the ceramic assemblage excavated in 2016 from …


A “Human Endeavor”: Killing In Contemporary U.S. Combat Narratives, William Mackenzie Jan 2017

A “Human Endeavor”: Killing In Contemporary U.S. Combat Narratives, William Mackenzie

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This PH.D dissertation aims to develop a 3-D numerical model of dam-break flows on movable beds. Three tasks are defined to accomplish the goal of this study. The first task is developing a 3-D hydrodynamic model to simulate dam-break flow on fixed beds with simple geometry and test the water surface tracking technique. This model solves the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations using a finite-difference method on rectilinear, staggered grids. The volume-of-fluid (VOF) technique with SOLA-VOF advection scheme is used to capture the free surface motion. The developed model is tested using several experimental dam-break flows and the VOF technique is …


Diplomacy Of Pirates: Foreign Relations And Changes In The Legal Treatment Of Piracy Under Henry Viii, Jamie Deanna Sessions Jan 2017

Diplomacy Of Pirates: Foreign Relations And Changes In The Legal Treatment Of Piracy Under Henry Viii, Jamie Deanna Sessions

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Evaluating The Success Of Russian Hybrid Warfare In Ukraine, Gage Adam Jan 2017

Evaluating The Success Of Russian Hybrid Warfare In Ukraine, Gage Adam

Honors Theses

This thesis investigates Russia's use of hybrid warfare in Ukraine, and whether the endeavor was successful. In order for Russian hybrid warfare to have been successful, the costs and repercussions of their actions must not outweigh their achieved goals. For this thesis, it was assumed that Russia's goals are: locking NATO and the EU out of Russia's remaining sphere of influence, demonstrating Russian solidarity, gaining territory, and boosting popularity for the current administration. Russia was able to achieve all of these goals with the annexation of Crimea and use of military force in the Donbass region. The costs of these …


The Drier The Land, The Higher The Chance?: An Examination Of The Relationship Between Water Availability And Civil Conflict And Its U.S. National Security Implications, Sailer E. Perkins Jan 2017

The Drier The Land, The Higher The Chance?: An Examination Of The Relationship Between Water Availability And Civil Conflict And Its U.S. National Security Implications, Sailer E. Perkins

Honors Theses

This thesis uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the relationship between water availability and civil conflict through an ethnic conflict lens. It further applies the trends observed in this relationship to United States National Security concerns to provide real-world applications of the knowledge gained. Consisting of quantitative and qualitative parts, this thesis uses logit analysis of data to test for significance in the water-conflict relationship then conducts a case study on Israel and Palestine, Darfur, and ISIS in Iraq to examine how water impacts conflict in true situations. This thesis posits that increased measures of ethnic divisiveness, monopolization of …


The Future Of Isis And Us Counterterrorism: A Study Of Isis, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, And The Us Policy Response, Luke Phillips Jan 2017

The Future Of Isis And Us Counterterrorism: A Study Of Isis, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, And The Us Policy Response, Luke Phillips

Honors Theses

This study is comprised of two parts. Part 1 focuses on ISIS, Boko Haram, and Al-Shabaab, examining the structures, tactics, and motivations of the groups. Each group seeks territory in its respective region. After losing territories, Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab both turned to guerilla attacks and suicide bombing, destabilizing the areas formerly under their control. Having lost much territory, ISIS is already showing signs of behaving more like an insurgency and employing tactics similar to Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab by resorting to attacks on soft targets as it continues to be deprived of territory. Part 2 focuses on the US …