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Exploring Extensions Of Traditional Honeypot Systems And Testing The Impact On Attack Profiling
This thesis explores possibilities for extending the features of honeypot systems to decrease the chance of an attacker discovering that they have compromised a honeypot. It is proposed that by extending the period of time ... -
Exploring Feedback Mode Redundancy in Handheld Scanning Tasks
This study was conducted to determine whether or not combining feedback modes resulted in improved operator performance, given a specific task and environment. A common industrial handheld scanner with multiple feedback ... -
Exploring Math Anxiety as It Relates to Math Achievement, Gender, and Race
Students’ mathematic achievement has not met national, state, or local expectations for decades. The No Child Left Behind Act mandated that by school year 2013-2014, all students in public schools across the nation are to ... -
Exploring the 'Moment Of Knowing' and Double-Consciousness in Nella Larsen's Passing
This essay explores early twentieth century African American literature to investigate issues related to identity formation. It uses W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks to ... -
Exploring the Demography and Dental Anthropology of the Mississippi State Asylum Skeletal Sample (22Hi859) (1855-1935)
In 2013, Mississippi State University recovered 67 individuals from the Mississippi State Asylum Cemetery (1855-1935) in Jackson, Mississippi. The first goal of this research was to investigate heterogeneous frailty and ... -
Exploring the immunosuppressive properties of various agents in the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis models of multiple sclerosis
One of the major focuses for our lab involves examining the immunosuppressive properties of various agents and receptors in the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) model of multiple sclerosis (MS). This ... -
Exploring the possibility of free floating features in visual working memory
A critical question in the study of human perception is whether information in visual working memory is stored as complete, bound-up objects, or as collections of un-bound visual features. Here I test whether the location ... -
Exploring the Relationship between Volunteer Motives, Satisfaction, Commitment, and Intention to leave the Mississippi Master Gardener Program
The purpose of this study was to explore and to examine the relationship among Mississippi Master Gardeners’ characteristics, motives for volunteering as a Master Gardener, satisfaction serving as a Master Gardener, ... -
Exploring the Relationships Between Political Culture in Education Policy Practices and Outcomes in the American States
Education policy and funding is, and has historically been, the purview of the individual states. Each state developed its own education system and did so within the specific historical contexts unique to that state. ... -
Exploring the reliability and validity of the Human Spirituality Scale scores with older adults in independent living facilities
(Mississippi State UniversityDepartment of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education., 2008-04-01)This study sought to extend the findings of previous research about the construct of spirituality–as measured by the Human Spirituality Scale (HSS) developed by Wheat. To expand the research across the entire adult life ... -
Exploring the Role of Dopamine in Stress Response and Aging in Drosophila Melanogaster - Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Dopamine (DA) is a catecholamine that is involved in several neural functions such as modulation of locomotor behaviors, arousal states to appetitive aversive learning and memory. The relationships between DA, stress ... -
Exploring the role of host species and abiotic factors on epiphytic bacterial communities in prickly pear cactus
The microorganisms that live in and on a host (the microbiome) influence host phenotype, health, and behavior in plants and animals. However, the effects of the host and environment on the composition of microbiome communities ... -
Exploring the Role of the Family CEO in Firm Innovation: A Capability-Based Perspective
Family firms are ubiquitous around the world. Family involvement in family businesses gives rise to unique features that not only make family firms behave distinctively from their non-family counterparts but also lead to ... -
Exploring the utility of brief functional analyses procedures for individuals with CHARGE syndrome
(Mississippi State UniversityDepartment of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and FoundationsCollege of Education, 2019)A critical step in addressing problem behavior is identifying the function of problem behavior, or reason for engaging in the problem behavior, using functional analysis (FA). Individuals with CHARGE Syndrome engage in ... -
Exploring the vaginal microbiome in relation to pregnancy status and reproductive performance in Brangus heifers
Most research evaluating the effects of the reproductive tract microbiota on reproductive performance has been done in humans, thus far. In bovids, reproductive microbiota research is not as advanced, with preliminary ... -
Exploring United Methodist adults’ racial attitudes and beliefs from a critical race framework to inform outreach efforts with low-income, black youth in Mississippi
Extensive literature has documented The United Methodist Church’s’ (UMC) commitment to social justice. A current focus in the church is working with economically marginalized populations, including the 231,170 Black children ... -
Exporting Reconstruction: Civilization, citizenship, and republicanism during the Grant Administration, 1869-1877
This dissertation examines Ulysses S. Grant’s Reconstruction policy, both the domestic and foreign policies, as an integrated whole. He focused on the broad application of citizenship rights, not only for African Americans ... -
Expression Analysis of MicroRNAs and MicroRNA-like RNAs in Aspergillus Flavus-Infected Aflatoxin Resistant and Susceptible Maize Inbred Lines
Corn (Zea mays) is frequently infected by a soil fungal pathogen Aspergillus flavus. The fungus produces aflatoxins, which cause liver cancer. Maize inbred lines that are resistant to infection by A. flavus have been ... -
Expression Of DNA-Damage Response Genes in Cells Affected by Streptococcus Pneumoniae
Proper regulation of apoptosis during pneumococcal pneumonia is essential for resolution of infection. We hypothesized that reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced during infection causes sufficient DNA damage to alter ... -
Expression, purification, and antimicrobial activity of avian beta-defensin-2, -6, and -12
(Mississippi State UniversityCollege of Veterinary Medicine., 2011-04-01)Total RNA was extracted from chicken oviduct epithelial cells. Avian Beta-defensin (AvBD)-2, -6, and -12 cDNAs were amplified by reverse transcription-PCR and cloned into pRSET A style='mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>, a ...