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Synthesis, characterization, and photophysics of symmetric and unsymmetric CCC-NHC pincer platinum halide complexes and derivatives
A series of 24 new photoluminescent symmetric and unsymmetric CCC-NHC pincer Pt complexes was synthesized and characterized, including collection of their 195Pt NMR chemical shifts. In total 18 new X-ray crystal structures, ... -
Whitewashing our children's education: Examining segregationist school choice in the rural South
In response to the national desegregation of schools from 1954-1976, white communities across the country formed segregationist academies to provide a privatized education to white children. In this study, I examined why ... -
Evaluation of APEX for Simulating the Effects of Tillage Practices in tropical soils
Tillage practices on agricultural fields have an impact on not only the amount of soil erosion from the fields, but also on the hydrologic and other environmental characteristics of the land. This erosion takes away soil ... -
Soil moisture stress effects on soybean vegetative, physiological, and reproductive growth and post-harvest seed physiology, quality, and chemical composition
With the increasing scarcity of water resources, soil moisture stress is the single most threat to global soybean production causing extensive yield losses. The objectives of this study were to investigate soil moisture ... -
Characterization of mutations in the receptor binding site of influenza A viruses determining virus host, tissue, and cell tropisms using systems biology approaches
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) cause occasional pandemics and seasonal epidemics, thus presenting continuous challenges to public health. Vaccination is the primary strategy for the prevention and control of influenza outbreaks. ... -
Stress-buffering of social support on depressive problems: Moderation by parental depressive problems
The impact of parental depressive problems on children’s depressive symptoms has been widely studied. The Stress Buffering Hypothesis states that social support acts as a protective factor between the impacts of stress ... -
The influence of single nucleotide polymorphisms in taste receptor gene TAS2R38 on eating behavior and body composition
Taste impacts the palatability and intake of food, which is influenced by several factors such as cultural and genetic factors. Individual variations in taste perception may be important risk factors for poor eating habits ... -
The developers and the independents: white Mississippi cattle producers’ perspectives on government farm programs and success
In this thesis, I explore how white producers of U.S. agriculture’s top commodity—cattle—understand participation in government farm programs. As such, the central research question guiding this research is: how do white ... -
Using internal state variables to model shear influenced plasticity and damage effects of high velocity impact of ductile materials
A physically motivated Internal State Variable (ISV) constitutive model is extended to account for shear influenced void evolution for predicting damage behavior in ductile solids. The revised ISV model is calibrated for ... -
False memories in recognition memory: Recollection or familiarity?
False recollection refers to the retrieval of contextual information associated with an event that has not occurred. For instance, during a recognition task, one might identify a nonstudied word presented at test as old ... -
A functional analysis of the defense response of Glycine max as it relates to parasitism by the plant parasitic nematode Heterodera glycines
The soybean cyst nematode (SCN), Heterodera glycines, a plant parasitic pest, causes severe yield losses of soybean (Glycine max). Although a number of studies have identified various genes that function in defense, including ... -
Morpho-physiological, yield, and genetic characterization of indica rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes for salinity and drought tolerance
The occurrence of phenotypic and genotypic diversity is the key factor in crop improvement including abiotic stress tolerance. The focal objectives of this study were to evaluate and characterize 74 tropical indica rice ... -
Using molecular dynamics to quantify biaxial membrane damage in a multiscale modeling framework for traumatic brain injury
The current study investigates the effect of strain state, strain rate, and membrane planar area on phospholipid bilayer mechanoporation and failure. Using molecular dynamics, a 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine ... -
Media Framing in Southeastern Conference Football
Media framing is present in everything one observes on social media. In athletics, mainly collegiate football, media framing goes into each and every detail that goes out to the public. With Power 5 sports, such as the ... -
The impact of custodial grandparenting on levels of cognition in a longitudinal sample of grandparents raising grandchildren
There are currently 2.7 million grandparents raising grandchildren in the United States. As grandparenting has become more prevalent, concerns have surfaced regarding the effect of additional caregiving responsibilities ... -
Evaluating clinicians’ differential diagnostic decisions for ICD-11 psychotic disorders
The ICD is currently under revision and this study is the first phase of the electronic field trials for ICD-11 for psychotic disorders. The present study compared ICD-10 and ICD-11 with regards to changes made to the ... -
The effect of bacterial supplementation on black soldier fly larval growth and development
With a growing human population, food insecurity is becoming a worldwide problem. As the search for sustainable sources of protein continues, black soldier fly larvae come to the forefront as a partial solution. Full of ... -
Adaptation, accessibility, and creative autonomy in Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones series
Though feminist scholars criticize Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones series as they feel that Bridget’s diary minimizes her work, close analysis reveals that Bridget’s work is equally important to her as her relationships. ... -
Effects of carbon-based nanomaterial on curing time and bonding strength of polyvinyl acetate adhesive cured through radio frequency
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were dispersed into polyvinyl acetate (PVAc ) adhesive cured by radio frequency (RF) to investigate their loading effects on PVAc adhesive curing time and lap shear bond strength performance. Main ... -
Understanding how Pin1-substrate interactions modulate affinity and inter-domain dynamics
Pin1 is an essential peptidyl-prolyl isomerase (PPIase) that catalyzes cis-trans prolyl isomerization in proteins containing phosphorylated serine/threonine-proline motifs (pSer/Thr-Pro). It has an N-terminal binding domain ...