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Naloxone Accessibility Across Mississippi, Emily Gravlee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Background/Objectives

Despite widespread standing orders allowing pharmacies to dispense naloxone under protocol or without a prescription, there is substantial variation in naloxone availability and cost geographically. This study geospatially assessed naloxone availability and cost across community pharmacies within Mississippi. Additionally, this study examined the association of county-level characteristics, including rurality, race, household income, overdose numbers, and percent uninsured, with naloxone availability. This study aims to inform health policymakers about effectiveness of current naloxone standing orders, and to guide potential interventions for improving naloxone accessibility at the community-level.

Methods

This study was a “mystery shopper” telephone census of naloxone availability and …

Going Green – The Relationship Between Medical Marijuana Policy Implementation And Opioid Prescribing Patterns, Tyler James Dunn

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Objectives

The objectives of this dissertation are: 1) To measure the prevalence of medical marijuana use in the U.S. and to identify predictors of medical marijuana use; 2) To measure opioid prescribing patterns among Medicare beneficiaries within states following the implementation of medical marijuana policies and to compare opioid prescribing patterns among Medicare beneficiaries residing within these states compared to individuals within states without medical marijuana policies in place; and 3) To determine if racial disparities exist in the effect of medical marijuana policy implementation on opioid prescribing patterns among Medicare beneficiaries.

Methods

A retrospective secondary database analysis was conducted …

Teacher Perceptions Of Practices Which Impact Job Satisfaction And Retention, Chiqueta Daniels

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Identifying teachers’ reasons for leaving the field of education and monitoring retention indicators to address and remedy the problem is critical for school leaders and policymakers in recruiting and retaining high-quality educators. Understanding teachers’ experiences and opinions can facilitate practices and protocols to increase retention. The study aimed to investigate perceptions of successful and departing teachers on school leadership practices, which impact teacher retention in rural public schools in Mississippi. By conducting a research study on teachers’ lived experiences, school leaders can explore options and construct recruitment, mentoring, and collaboration practices to encourage retention, which gives teachers a sense of …

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 …

Using Adaptive-Choice Based Conjoint Analysis To Explore Attributes Important In Performance For Division 1 College Football Players, Michaela Marie Slatniske

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Interdisciplinary teams are essential in the care of collegiate athletes. However, interdisciplinary teams may be composed of members who place utility in key athletic attributes differently. To better understand the differences in utilities various members place on athletic attributes, this study explored the relative importance of attributes in wide receivers (WR), and part-worth utilizes among levels of an attribute through an Adaptive Choice Based Conjoint (ACBC) study. Interdisciplinary team member involved in the care of college football players, including athletic trainers (ATs), ball coaches (BCs), strength and conditioning coaches (S&C), and sports dietitians (SN) were identified from 131 D1 collegiate …

Exploring Non-Covalent Interactions With Quantum Chemical Tools, Morgan Perkins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Computational quantum chemistry is an excellent tool for probing properties of all types of chemical systems that are not easily accessible via experimental work. In particular, computational chemistry can be used to develop a better understanding of non-covalent interactions, which are important to a variety of chemical and biological processes. This work focuses primarily on complexes held together by hydrogen and halogen bonding, investigating their relationship to each other and, in a few projects, providing data that can be used for experimental identification of the different configurations. Additionally, comparisons are made between complexes containing first-row elements (e.g. fluorine) and their …

Dye And Redox Shuttle Interactions To Promote Fast Electron Transfer In Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Abeysinghe Mudiyanselage Dinesh Bandara Nugegoda

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Harnessing the sun's power using dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) is a possible answer to address the energy challenge. Increasing the performance of DSC devices by increasing the rate of productive electron transfers is critically essential. In this regard, to increase the rate of electron transfers from the redox shuttle to the dye, a strategy of coordinating the redox shuttle through non-covalent interactions such as Lewis acid-Lewis base interactions, π-stacking interactions, and halogen bonding interactions to the dye are considered. DSC devices were fabricated using newly synthesized dyes and redox shuttle pairs to study each strategy. The performance of the devices …

Achieving Record Photocurrent: Strategies For Harvesting And Utilizing Low Energy Photons In Organic Dye-Sensitized Photovoltaics, Jonathon Watson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An urgent challenge limiting the improvement of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) technology is the availability of chromophores capable of harvesting the full spectrum of solar irradiation; this is especially evident at longer wavelengths. Therefore, the achievable power conversion efficiency (PCE) is effectively capped due to limited photocurrent generation. Molecular design strategies involving proaromaticity and cross-conjugation are employed in this work to facilitate access to low-energy near-infrared (NIR) photons. Utilizing the ubiquitous Donor–p-spacer–Acceptor (D–p–A) architecture, these concepts are studied by incorporating an indolizine donor (RR13 and RR14), and thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine (allowing additional substitution for cross-conjugation, JW1) and thieno[3,4-b]thiophene (AP25) p-spacers. The sensitizers …

On Airborne Tire Wear Particles Along Roads, Labeling Microplastics With Fluorescent Dyes, Microplastics In Wastewater Treatment Plant And Beach Sand, And Microplastic-Mercury Affinity, Zhiqiang Gao

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Microplastics (MPs) with sizes of 1 μm to 5 mm that are intentional manufactured or result from fragmentation of large plastic debris are widely recognized as a global pollutant. The distributions and concentrations of MPs in environmental and biological systems as well as their toxicity are not well understood. This dissertation details five studies providing new insight and methods on (1) the occurrence and characteristics of airborne tire wear particles (TWPs) along roads, (2) manufacturing and labeling of MPs with fluorescent dyes, (3) fate of MPs in a secondary wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) at the University of Mississippi, (4) distribution …

Interval Delivery Of 5ht2a Agonists Using Multilayered Polymeric Films, Mehjabeen Hossain

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

There is an urgent unmet medical need to develop therapeutic options for the ~50% of depression patients suffering from treatment-resistant depression, which is difficult to treat with existing psycho- and pharmaco-therapeutic options. Classical psychedelics, such as the 5HT2A agonists, have re-emerged as a treatment paradigm for depression. Recent clinical trials highlight the potential effectiveness of 5HT2A agonists to improve mood and psychotherapeutic growth in treatment-resistant depression patients, even in those who have failed a median of four previous medications in their lifetime. Moreover, microdosing could be a promising way to achieve long-term alleviation of depression symptoms without a hallucinogenic experience. …

The Ole Miss, University Of Mississippi

The Ole Miss (1897-)

The Ole Miss Annual, 2022

Codification Of Statements On Standards For Attestation Engagements, As Of January 2012, Numbers 1 To 17, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

AICPA Professional Standards

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2 Poems, Gabriella Graceffo

Yalobusha Review

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Quality Check., Nate Hoil

Yalobusha Review

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Full Issue, Journal Editors

Yalobusha Review

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Front Matter, Journal Editors

Yalobusha Review

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Imposter Syndrome, Lizzie Frank

Yalobusha Review

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Leo Season, Leah Yacknin-Dawson

Yalobusha Review

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

What World, What Things, Gillian Leichtling

Yalobusha Review

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Lovie, Annie Vitalsey

Yalobusha Review

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Chaotic Order, Joshua Nguyen

Yalobusha Review

A Conversation with Joshua Nguyen

Orange-Peeled Laments, Kan Ren Jie

Yalobusha Review

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The Milk Thief, Joe Milazzo

Yalobusha Review

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2 Poems, Katherine Franco

Yalobusha Review

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Raw, Madeline Simms

Yalobusha Review

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After Christopher Wool, Untitled, 1991, R. J. Lambert

Yalobusha Review

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Guide To Common Shallow Sponges Of St. Thomas, Usvi, Deborah Gochfeld, M. Cristina Diaz

Faculty and Student Publications

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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.