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Portrait Of A Queen With Dirty Martini, Covered In Cat Hair, Natalie Tombasco

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Applied Statistics Course Offerings: Spring 2021, University Of Mississippi. Graduate School

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Elucidating The Interfacial Interactions Between Biomacromolecules And Functionalized Pamam-Based Materials For Biomedical Applications, Briana L. Simms

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) is a dendrimer structure with a polypeptide backbone architecture. It has been utilized in a wide variety of applications but has found significant utility in biomedical applications. PAMAM has been studied extensively due to its globular structure that is similar to proteins found in the body. The branched architecture and overall size provide a favorable environment for host-guest interactions and allows for the loading of small molecules for therapeutic delivery. Although PAMAM has many benefits for use in the area of therapeutic delivery, a primary area of concern for this molecular architecture is the terminal amines that serve …

Writing For A Purpose: Understanding Second Language Chinese Writing Through A Functional And Social Perspective, Lin Zhu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Writing in second Chinese writing is viewed as one of the least used skills in classroom practice for educators (Kubler, 1997). While writing research has emphasized the importance of regarding writing as a social activity, mainstream writing instruction and task design remain to decontextualized and monologic (Liu, 2015). This dissertation examines through a sequence of one-year long email writing tasks, how novice to intermediate level Chinese learners develop their writing competence. The current study first adopts the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics by presenting the use of ideational, interpersonal, and textual resources to explore the trajectory of their meaning-making capacity …

Surface And Interfacial Phenomena Between Soil And Oil, Md Firoz Ahmed

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Crude oil and motor oil spills on land have severe environmental consequences that pose threats to both humans and natural resources. It is particularly important to know the flow behavior of oils to protect terrestrial ecosystems from this kind of damage. The spreading kinetics, contact angle (CA), and droplet baseline studies of crude oil and motor oils were investigated over several realistic soil-based matrices composed of topsoil (silt-dominant), sand, clay, and moisture. It was found that with an increase in moisture content (MC), the spreading area decreased, and initial spreading time increased for all given oil. The initial CA generally …

A Spectroscopic And Quantum Chemical Investigation Into The Noncovalent Interactions And Charge Accommodation Of Biomolecules And Their Building Blocks In Various Environments, Ashley Elizabeth Williams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As optical measurements have grown increasingly more precise with the rage of the technological revolution, the computer’s ability has matched in computing speed to produce accurate quantum chemical predictions of systems ranging from the atomic to multi-molecular levels. Application of spectroscopy in the investigation of the structure and function of biomolecules and their building blocks has a rich literature background, with applications among cancer research, charge transfer and energy storage, and drug design and delivery. The focus of this dissertation is thus a quantum chemical and/or spectroscopic investigation of a series of biomolecules which include the vibrational band positions of …

Solubility Measurements Of Hydrophobic Solutes In Supercritical Carbon Dioxide And Subsequent Impregnation Into Paper Substrates For Surface Modifications, Arghavan Beheshtimaal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Supercritical Fluids (SCFs) have received a great deal of attention for their various applications in chemical, biochemical, pharmaceutical, and materials processing. In this study, we investigate surface modification to paper substrates using supercritical impregnation (SCI) techniques, with applications in food packaging. One of the key factors required for this study is understanding the solubility of hydrophobic solutes in supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2). Polar compounds are poorly soluble in scCO2 due to their lack of polarity and frequently co-solvents are also introduced to enhance solubility. In this study, the maximum solubility of alkyl ketene dimer (AKD)/n-heptane and vegetable wax (VW)/n-heptane solutions …

The Effect Of Deontic Anger On Political Attitudes Toward Immigration And Redistribution, Nichole Gligor

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Findings in political science suggest that negative emotions play a significant role in our understanding of 1) which factors affect our political attitudes (e.g. Brader 2006) and 2) which factors motivate our political behavior (e.g. Lamprianou and Ellinas 2019; Miller 2011). Further, anger has been established as a negative emotion that significantly affects both political attitudes (e.g. Brader 2006) and political behavior (e.g. Lamprianou and Ellinas 2019; Miller 2011). However, there is evidence to suggest that we are motivated differently by three established types of anger (i.e. personal, empathic, and deontic) (Batson et al. 2007), and so each type of …

"Beyond The Lines": A Reassessment Of Civil War Prisons, Beth Kruse

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“Beyond the Lines”: A Reassessment of Civil War Prisons, challenges the historical interpretations of Civil War military prisons. Specifically, it analyses the political, social, and economic conditions of these systems by not only adding omitted gender, class, and race scholarship but flushing out the power dynamics between these group and military administrations. The re-examination of primary source material by reading against the grain to find overlooked insights reveals these sources not only provide a wealth of information about omitted groups, but that they have been misinterpreted. Additionally, applying the concepts of historical memory establishes how the Lost Cause shaped not …

Dependency-Based Reactive Change Propagation Design Pattern Applied To Environments With High Unpredictability, João Paulo Oliveira Marum

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Transitional turbulence is a period of chaotic or unreliable variation in the state of a software system that results from changes in the system’s interconnected components. During these periods of instability, an external observer of the system’s state may “see” erroneous results. This is a problem that can affect visual user interfaces such as those in virtual and augmented reality applications and desktop or Web GUIs. In this research, we study two different reactive applications developed in C# on .NET. We reduce the transitional turbulence by augmenting the base applications with a dependency-graph-based event scheduling approach. The first study investigates …

On Domination And Bondage Numbers Of Some Classes Of Graphs, Andrew Pham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Given a simple finite graph G=(V,E), a vertex subset D ? V(G) is said to be a dominating set of G if every vertex v ? V(G)-D is adjacent to a vertex in D. The domination number of G, denoted ?(G), is the minimum cardinality among all dominating sets of G. In a network, the domination number determines the minimum number of sites required to dominate the entire network at a minimum cost. The bondage number of a graph G is the minimum cardinality among all edge sets B such that ?(G-B) > ?(G). The bondage number may serve as a …

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First Generation Law Students: Barriers To Success, Melissa Jones

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A significant population of higher education students are first generation students; students who come from a home where neither parent has completed a bachelor’s degree (Vasil & McCall, 2018). These first generation students experience a gap of education, knowledge, and support which creates a persistent problem of unequal access to higher education for first generation students (MacLachlan, 2017). This unequal access shows itself in barriers faced by the students coming from these first generation backgrounds of interconnected, heightened risk factors (Gardner, 2013).

This dissertation was completed using qualitative analysis to interview six first generation college graduates in the juris doctor …

Isolation Of Marker Compounds From Copaiba Essential Oil And Mimosa Pigra For Quality Evaluation Of Dietary Supplements, Mohammed Hawwal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Natural products have been used as a primary means of treating illness since ancient times, and they remain an important pool of U.S. FDA approved drugs. Approximately 33% of all current pharmaceutical medications discovered between 1981 and 2014 are either natural products or derived from natural products (Newman and Cragg 2016). The process of isolating specialized metabolites from medicinal plants has led to the development of particularly important medicines worldwide (Rakotomalala, Agard et al. 2013) such as Taxol® from Taxus brevifolia Nutt. (Taxaceae) and salicylic acid from the bark of Salix spp. This research is composed of five chapters; the …

When Men Are The Victims: Factors Affecting Rape Victim Blame & Bystander Aid, Shilpa Boppana

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Rape is a widespread problem, particularly on college campuses. While most research has focused on female victims, male victimization is more common than previously thought. Studies reveal that gender may play an important role in rape myth acceptance, as male victims of rape committed by female perpetrators are often perceived as more responsible for being raped and less traumatized than in cases with male perpetrators. Rape myth acceptance is associated with victim blame, as individuals who accept rape myths are more likely to attribute responsibility to rape victims for the assault. Rape myth acceptance and victim blame both influence bystander …

Cross-Layer Optimization On Wireless Visual Sensor Networks For 3d Indoor Monitoring: A Top-Down Approach, Zhonghui Wang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As one of the latest advances in wireless sensor network (WSN), wireless visual sensor network (WVSN) bears a number of distinct features compared to its predecessor, mainly due to its directional visual coverage on the sensing field. This also renders previous solutions proposed for WSN may not work well for WVSN. For example, k-coverage has been introduced to WSNs for fault tolerance and high monitoring quality by omni-directional sensors but becomes incapable to cope with the directional coverage of sensors in WVSNs. Moreover, compared to scalar data in WSNs, visual data are much larger, difficult to aggregate and usually streamed …

Engineer Micro- And Nano-Sized Polymeric Particles For Drug Delivery Using Advanced Multivariate Statistical Tools, Bhavani Prasad Vinjamuri

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Particulate drug delivery systems are gaining considerable attention in recent years due to increasing advantages for an effective delivery of therapeutics. Application of advanced particle engineering technologies in polymeric drug delivery systems has shown to improve the efficacy of a drug substance by maintaining stable levels in the blood when compared to traditional parenteral drug products. However, development of these products is a complex multifaceted process with numerous challenges. Formulation development scientists need to comprehend and control a range of unit manufacturing operations along with the formulation composition for a successful product. Therefore, the objective of this project is to …

Serving Motherhood: Analyzing The Balance And Justice Of Foodwork In The Lives Of Working Moms, Kaitlyn Paige Hall

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis focuses on the foodwork that working mothers do at work and at home in order to support and provide for their families. It explores how women in low-paid food service jobs talk about and manage the work of feeding their families at home and customers at work in order to better understand the gender dynamics of this work and the conditions necessary to achieve “work-family justice”—structural solutions to work/family conflict. The study is based on qualitative semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 12 mothers who are between the ages of 24 and 43 from Mississippi and Arkansas. While some held …

Influences Of Alumina Particles On Hydroxyl Macrostate Estimates In A High-Speed, Reacting Flow, Jonathan Herlan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Line-of-sight spectral observations in the near ultraviolet regime are made of the high-speed afterburning exhaust plume from a lab-scale rocket simulator which reacts gaseous H2 with gaseous O2. In the plume, afterburning results from energetic, unspent fuel (H2) reacting with the external Air. Hydroxyl (OH) is a dominant intermediate product in the reaction zone and is probed using broadband, near UV absorption spectroscopy to estimate the macrostate parameters of the exhaust plume. Molecular energy transition data from the HITRAN online database is used to model the absorption spectra as a bivariate function of the macrostate parameters temperature, T, and molecular …

Effectiveness Of Seismic Bearings On A Typical Isolated Two-Column Rc Bridge Pier Located In North Mississippi, Hemant Raj Joshi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The 2020 ASCE infrastructure report card has assigned a letter grade of D- for bridges in Mississippi based on poor to fair condition ratings with many approaching the end of their useful service lives. Bridges in northern Mississippi lie up to 100 miles from the New Madrid Fault and fall into the Region 3 Seismic Performance Category defined by AASHTO. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of commercially available bridge bearings on a common bridge pier type used in northern MS under the combined action of superstructure gravity and lateral seismic loads. The use of …

Revitalization In The Alabama Black Belt: Cultivation Of A New Civic Hegemony In Rural Main Street America, Martha Grace Lowry Mize

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

One Alabama Black Belt community has sought to re-imagine itself as a future affluent space for new families, tourists, and diasporic communities—despite regional challenges—by supplanting traditional discourses and centering a new civic hegemony within local revitalization efforts. This research and thesis draws upon qualitative ethnographic methods: participant observation and interviews conducted in Marion, Alabama. Located in Perry County, Marion has approximately 3,000 inhabitants, the majority of whom are African-American. Marion was designated as a Main Street Community (June 2017) and began a series of revitalization initiatives to increase community pride and project confidence about future growth. The National Main Street …

Understanding Willingness Towards Deprescribing Among Older Adults With Osteoporosis, Queenie Paltanwale

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Objectives: To describe and identify the socio-behavioral factors predicting willingness towards deprescribing among older adults with osteoporosis.Design, Setting, and Participants: For this population-based survey study of US Medicare beneficiaries, data was obtained from the Medication Attitudes Module distributed to the participants in Round 6 (2015) of the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Our study population consisted to respondents who were diagnosed with osteoporosis in round 6 or earlier and who responded to the Medication Attitude Module. Main outcome and Measures: Response to the statement “I would like to reduce the number of medicines I am taking” was the main …

Relevance Of Personality In Perceptions Of Abusive Supervision: A Multilevel Analysis, Jaime Leigh Williams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to determine the relevance of personality of both the supervisor and subordinate in the perception of abusive supervision. A report published in 2014 found that 27% of U.S. workers – comprising over 65 million people – have claimed to suffer from some form of abusive behavior perpetrated by their leaders, such as repeated intimidation, humiliation, and verbal abuse (Workplace Bullying Institute; Zoeby International, 2014). However, researchers have not determined whether the differences in the perceptions of abusive supervision is driven by the cognitive biases of the individual subordinates or the trait driven behaviors of …

Osteoporosis Knowledge, Health Communication, And Prevention Behaviors Among College Students: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Male And Female College Students, Kaitlyn Ashley Armstrong

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Osteoporosis is a chronic degenerative bone disease affecting roughly 53 million Americans. Attainment of peak bone mass during young adulthood plays an essential role in osteoporosis prevention, and specific behaviors affecting the achievement of peak bone mass include adequate intake of dietary calcium and participation in weight-bearing physical activity. Prior research has established the links between knowledge and health communication, particularly parental communication, with engaging in healthy behaviors such as adequate calcium intake and physical activity among college students, less is known about how these relationships manifest in this population for osteoporosis prevention. Exploring additional factors such as self-efficacy that …

School Of Pharmacy Intellectual Property Report Fy21, Second Quarter Report - Revised July 6, 2021, Soumyajit Majumdar

U. S. Patents, School of Pharmacy

School of Pharmacy Intellectual Property Report FY21, Fourth Quarter Report (as of 12/31/2020) - Revised July 6, 2021

School Of Pharmacy Intellectual Property Report Fy21, Third Quarter Report - Revised July 6, 2021, Soumyajit Majumdar

U. S. Patents, School of Pharmacy

School of Pharmacy Intellectual Property Report FY21, Third Quarter Report (as of 3/31/2021) – Revised July 6, 2021

The Undoing, Mason Wray

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A collection of poems.

Masculinity And Cold War Fairy Tales: Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Barthelme, And Ross Macdonald, Susan E. Wood

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the use of fairy-tale allusions to explore masculinity in four novels published during the Cold War period. This notable focus on men and masculinity held in common across these four novels from four different decades is interesting because it suggests that the shift in focus to women and feminist ideals in fairy-tale revisions of the 1970s and after is even more stark a shift than has yet been recognized by scholars. This dissertation finds that Eudora Welty’s novella The Robber Bridegroom (1942), Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita (1955), Donald Barthelme’s novel Snow White (1967), and Ross Macdonald’s novel …

Removal Of Heavy Metals From Water Using Natural Bauxite, Hashindra Kumari Herath

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Bauxite, the principal ore of aluminum is a potential low-cost sorbent to treat heavy metal-contaminated water. This work studied the ability of raw bauxite to adsorb Pb2+, Cu2+ , Ni2+, and Co2+ ions in natural waters and the dependency of the sorption efficiency on the initial metal ion concentration in water, contact time, the ‘type’ of bauxite, and the effect of coexisting metals. Goethite-rich (B1) and kaolinite-rich (B2) bauxites were sampled in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Single element and multi-element (ME) solutions were prepared by introducing the metals at concentrations of 10, 100, and 500 ppb in lake water. The solutions …

Enhanced Electrochemical And Light-Driven Co2 Reduction By Incoporating Pendant Functionality In The Second-Coordination Sphere Of Molecular Catalysts, Sayontani Sinha Roy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

With the increase in global population and rapid industrialization, a gigantic amount of greenhouse gases is being released into the atmosphere each year. The catastrophic effect of these accumulated greenhouse gases is driving global climate change and adversely impacting our ecosystem. Popularizing the traditional renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind energy) can mitigate the problem by cutting down anthropogenic CO2 emissions, which is the major contributor to this global problem. However, the intermittent nature of these energy sources is problematic to reliably power society throughout the year. Therefore, converting CO2 to various value-added chemicals with the aid of …