• Organizational culture in the United States automotive industry 

  Doude, Matthew

  Organizational culture is a product of both internal and external factors. Leaders sometimes attempt to change culture using a variety of mechanisms, while the effects of external environment simultaneously exert influence. ...

• International students’ perceptions of challenges; pre to post matriculation in United States’ professional psychology doctoral programs 

  Illapperuma, Chathuri Ranmali

  This study examines how perceptions of various challenges of international students in professional psychology, from different regions in the world, differed from pre to post enrolment. While previous studies have explored ...

• Allelopathy in weedy rice as a genetic resource for developing competitive rice varieties 

  Schumaker, Brooklyn Christine

  Weedy rice is of the same species as cultivated rice, Oryza, and is a common rice weed exhibiting allopathic characteristics. Incorporation of allelopathic traits from weedy rice into cultivated rice may have a positive ...

• Impairment in adult ADHD: Effects of ADHD symptoms, executive function, and sleep 

  Dorr, Morgan M.

  While Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) remains one of the most common psychological disorders diagnosed, current understanding of the disorders expression and factors contributing to impairment in early ...

• Evolution of Fed Cattle Carcass Value 

  Poss, Madeline

  Fed cattle carcass characteristics on the live animal (lean and fat deposition) evolve over time directly impacting weight, quality and yield grades. Given buyer valuation is ultimately based on these characteristics’, fed ...

• Integration of virtual learning in college geology education 

  Cho, Youngwoo

  The geology learning environments in college generally fall into three categories: learning based on lectures, field excursions, and laboratory activities. Engaging students in these environments and developing their ...

• A study on biogeography and floral trait evolution in Platanthera subgenus Limnorchis (Orchidaceae) using phylogenomic approaches 

  Wettewa, W I W H M Eranga Hansanee

  Platanthera is one of the largest genera of temperate orchids and exemplifies a lineage that has adaptively radiated into diverse habitats within North America, Asia, Europe, North Africa, Borneo, and Sarawak. Major centers ...

• Developing models and algorithms to design a robust inland waterway transportation network under uncertainty 

  Nur, Farjana

  This dissertation develops mathematical models to efficiently manage the inland waterway port operations while minimizing the overall supply chain cost. In the first part, a capacitated, multi-commodity, multi-period ...

• A genetic assessment of the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme’s success, and prognosis for the species’ future conservation 

  McKinney, Mallory

  In this study, we used ostensibly neutral microsatellite markers to study genetic variance and heterozygosity of endangered Cyclura lewisi during captive management in the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme. We assessed the ...

• Nonoscillatory second-order procedures for partial differential equations of nonsmooth data 

  Lee, Philku

  Elliptic obstacle problems are formulated to find either superharmonic solutions or minimal surfaces that lie on or over the obstacles, by incorporating inequality constraints. This dissertation investigates simple iterative ...

• Characterizing human receptor-mediated cytotoxicity by staphylococcal bi-component leucocidins in S. aureus pathogenesis 

  Rutter, Jaime

  Staphylococcus aureus employs an array of virulence factors to aid in its pathogenesis. A subset of cytotoxins termed bi-component leucocidins have been characterized as important determinants in the host-pathogen interaction ...

• Pyritic Lignite as a source of iron for soybean as influenced by variety and soil pH. 

  Elvir Flores, Andrea Paola

  Iron deficiency chlorosis (IDC) is a frequent problem in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] production on calcareous soils. Greenhouse and soil incubation experiments were established to evaluate pyritic lignite efficacy to ...

• The impact of brown stink bug (Hemiptera:Pentatomidae) natural and simulated damage on field corn growth and yield 

  Hardman, William Christopher

  Field corn, Zea mays L., is a commonly grown crop in Mississippi. Brown stink bug, Euschistus servus Say, is an insect that can infest field corn. Growers and consultants have expressed concerns of the difficulty in detecting ...

• The effect of FORTIFIED home designation on property value 

  Gould, Leslie

  Due to the serious impact wind damage has on homes in the Gulf Coast region, policy makers, community developers, and homeowners are seeking ways to lessen impacts. One potential tool to increase properties’ resiliency in ...

• Impact of sleep duration, sleep quality, and physical activity on obesity indices among adolescents 

  Thompson, Sarah

  Adolescent prevalence of obesity and at-risk WC has continued to rise worldwide. Sleep duration, sleep quality, and physical activity have been hypothesized as contributing factors to this increase. PURPOSE: This study ...

• Evaluation of economics and management in Mid-South soybean production 

  Turner, Richard

  Two studies were conducted from 2017 – 2019 at Stoneville, MS the first was to determine optimum seeding rates on single and twin row configuration during both late and early planting dates. The second study was to ...

• Investigating the presence of stellar companions around hot Jupiter host stars using MagAO. 

  Zohrabi, Farzaneh

  In this work, we investigate the presence of stellar companions around hot Jupiter systems using data sets from the Clio and VISAO instruments on the Magellan Telescope. We observed eighteen targets of which eleven have ...

• Measuring bivariate asymmetry and testing bivariate symmetry 

  Riahi, Sheida

  The present work generalizes the necessary condition of univariate symmetry of Patil et al. (2012) to the bivariate setting, develops a test of bivariate symmetry based on it, and generalizes the measure of asymmetry ...

• Test-wiseness and background knowledge: Their relative contributions to high test performance 

  Roberson, Daniel Bennett

  When given a multiple-choice test over unfamiliar material, students may score significantly above chance levels. This performance may be explained by prior knowledge of the material or by “test-wiseness,” determining the ...

• Early performance comparison of bareroot and containerized loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L) planting stock: does stocktype, genetics, and time of planting play a key role? 

  Watson, Jason

  Bareroot and containerized loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) were planted in December 2016 and February 2017 to compare performance across four sites in South Carolina and Georgia. Main treatments analyzed for growth differences ...

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