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The impact of tutors’ metacognitive awareness on students’ metacognitive awareness and academic performance
Metacognitive awareness plays an important role in students’ learning as well as in teaching and tutoring. The goal of this thesis research is to investigate the relationship between academic tutors’ metacognitive awareness, ... -
Predicting threat capability in control systems to enhance cybersecurity risk determination
Risk assessment is a critical aspect of all businesses, and leaders are tasked with limiting risk to the lowest reasonable level within their systems. Industrial Control Systems (ICS) operate in a different cybersecurity ... -
Modeling frameworks to evaluate energy autarky of wastewater treatment systems
This research demonstrates the use of two novel methodologies to evaluate energy autarky status of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in two steps. Step I (analysis 1 and 2) focuses on overall energy performance evaluation ... -
Properties of four domestic hardwood species
This study aimed to evaluate the physical and mechanical properties of red oak (Quercus spp.), white oak (Quercus spp.), hard maple (Acer saccharum) and yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) and compare them to values ... -
Evaluating seed blended refugia in field corn in the Southern U. S.
Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), a pest of cotton that also occurs in field corn, is commonly controlled through the use of foliar-applied insecticides or transgenic crops expressing Bt genes. To prevent the selection of resistant ... -
"Even if the research says it doesn't work, it works:" Teachers' epistemic beliefs and enactment
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers’ availing and nonavailing epistemic beliefs about teaching and learning, with particular focus on beliefs about visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (VAK) learning styles; the ... -
The past, present, and future of ecological climate warming experiments
Predicting the net effect of climate change on communities requires understanding how increasing temperatures alter interactions between predators, herbivores, and plants. Over the last several decades, warming experiments ... -
Refinement and validation of soybean looper (Chrysodeixis includens) (Walker) thresholds in Mississippi soybeans (Glycine max (L.) Merr.)
Experiments were conducted to refine and validate the soybean looper, Chrysodeixis includens (Walker) threshold in Mississippi soybeans, Glycine max. (L.) Merr. Equivalencies between sweep net and drop cloth sampling methods ... -
Total nutrient uptake and partitioning in midsouthern U.S. irrigated soybean
Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] biomass and yield has increased over the past several decades in the midsouthern United States; therefore, a better understanding of the nutrient requirements of the crop is needed. ... -
Color inconsistencies across hazardous weather watches and warnings: Can standardized visual representation of risk improve public safety?
Research has shown the color used to represent threat information can influence perceived risk and how individuals respond to watches and warnings. However, there is no standardized color scheme for hazardous weather ... -
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 ... -
Implementation of fuel reduction treatments on nonindustrial private forests in Mississippi
Fuel reduction treatments are management activities implemented to reduce the quantity of hazardous fuels in forests to decrease the probability of severe and intense wildfires. As nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) ... -
A new traversal method for virtual reality: overcoming the drawbacks of common methods
One of the biggest issues facing VR as a platform is the limitation of the user’s physical space. Not everyone has a lab, empty warehouse, or open space in their home or office, and even if they do, the hardware also ... -
Comparing survival and growth among three different planting stocks of water oak (Quercus nigra) and white oak (Quercus alba) on lands damaged by Hurricane Katrina
Bareroot, conventional containerized, and large potted EKOgrown® seedlings of water oak (Quercus nigra) and white oak (Q. alba) were planted on two Hurricane Katrina damaged sites in south Mississippi. After two growing ... -
Enhancing continuous improvement projects with the Blythe S-curve and multivariate control charts
Successfully implementing continuous improvement and quality methodologies have been challenging over the past century. Challenges occur in managing change in the organization, which can be effectively addressed through ... -
Preliminary investigations into pharmacodynamic monitoring of cyclosporine in cats
Existing pharmacokinetic monitoring tools for cyclosporine fail to correlate with clinical response. In dogs, pharmacodynamic monitoring of nuclear factor of activated T cell (NFAT) regulated cytokines is thought to provide ... -
Airfoil analysis and design using surrogate models
A study was performed to compare two different methods for generating surrogate models for the analysis and design of airfoils. Initial research was performed to compare the accuracy of surrogate models for predicting ... -
Agronomic and physiological responses of resistant and susceptible cotton genotypes to reniform nematode severity and soil nitrogen
Rotylenchulus reniformis (RN) nematode infection has been identified as a major biotic factor limiting cotton yield (~8%) in Mississippi. Cotton researchers are striving to develop resistance to RN and develop management ... -
Impact of shoe design on basketball performance and the application of soft sensors to improve dynamic fit.
This dissertation is composed of four different studies focused on using Human Factors Engineering (HFE) assessment tools traditionally used in industrial settings to evaluate personal protective equipment (PPE) footwear ... -
Understanding state-of-the-art material classification through deep visualization
Neural networks (NNs) excel at solving several complex, non-linear problems in the area of supervised learning. A prominent application of these networks is image classification. Numerous improvements over the last few ...