USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations is a collection of completed and approved graduate works. These works are collected through the Office of Graduate Studies submission process and are approved by the Faculty, Student, and University of South Florida. You can search the entire collection below or you may browse by College here.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Metabolites as a Biomarker of Exposure to Oil in Demersal Fishes Following the Deepwater Horizon Blowout, Susan Susan Snyder

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Improving Consistency of Goal Attainment to Increase Physical Activity, Elizabeth Anne Solley

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Religiosity, Spirituality, and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults in an Active Living Community, Monica D'adrianne Solomon

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Is More Always Better: Comparing the Effects of Single and Multiple Learning Channels on Academic Performance, Samantha Ann Spillman

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Long-Term Mindfulness Meditation: Anxiety, Depression, Stress And Pain, Is There A Connection For Public Health?, Sara Spowart

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Hail Formation in Florida, Matthew Stanley

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Creativity-Based Music Learning: Modeling the Process and Learning Outcomes in a Massive Open Online Course, Nicholas Michael Stefanic

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Longitudinal Quantitative Analysis of Gait and Balance in Friedreich's Ataxia, Jeannie B. Stephenson

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Striving for Success in an Uncertain Environment, Sandra Stershic

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Photonic Crystal-Based Flow Cytometry, Justin William Stewart

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The Relationship Between Living Learning Communities and Student Success on First-Year and Second-Year Students at the University of South Florida, Mark Martin Stier

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Applying Public Relations Theory to Assess Service-Learning Relationships, Karen Strand

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Mantle-crust Interaction in Granite Petrogenesis in Post-collisional Settings: Insights from the Danubian Variscan Plutons of the Romanian Southern Carpathians, Ciprian Cosmin Stremtan

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EFFECTS OF COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, COUNTRY ANIMOSITY AND FOREIGN PRODUCT USAGE EXPERIENCES ON PRODUCT JUDGEMENT: A STUDY OF CHINESE CUSTOMERS, Cong Sui

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Using Multimedia Social StoriesTM to Enhance Prosocial Behavior of At-Risk Preschoolers, Daniella Suric

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Masculinity, After the Apocalypse: Gendered Heroics in Modern Survivalist Cinema, Sean Michael Swenson

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Muscling Consumers to Optimal Option Differentiation: The Influence of Incidental Muscular Sensations on Option Differentiation, Courtney Szocs

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Caribbean Traditions in Modern Choreographies: Articulation and Construction of Black Diaspora Identity in L'Ag'Ya by Katherine Dunham, Viktoria Tafferner-Gulyas

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The Effect of Ovulation as a Male Mating Prime on Drinking and Other Mating Behaviors, Robin Tan

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Physical and Mental Health Status of Adults with Serious Mental Illness Participating in a Jail Diversion Intervention, Robin Telford

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Impact of Self-Monitoring and Video Feedback on Staff Implementation of Natural Environment Teaching for Children with ASD, Heatherann Tenowich

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Rising Above a Crippling Hermeneutic, Luke Steven, Carlos, Armando Thompson

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Craniometric Ancestry Proportions among Groups Considered Hispanic: Genetic Biological Variation, Sex-Biased Asymmetry, and Forensic Applications, Meredith L. Tise

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Negative Reinforcement in Infant Care Simulation: Alternative Caregiver Responses to Prevent Child Abuse, Miriam Tye

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"Wake Up the Knowledge That You Have": An Assessment of Community Food Security in Fellsmere, Florida, Susan Marie Tyler

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Investigation of Enhanced Titanium and Zinc Oxide Semiconductors for the Photodegradation of Aqueous Organic Compounds, Innocent Udom

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RNA Detection Technology for Applications in Marine Science: Microbes to Fish, Robert Michael Ulrich

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Developing an Animal Model of Polysubstance Abuse in Adolescence: The Role of NMDA Receptors in Alcohol/Cocaine Reward, Adriana Rebecca Uruena-Agnes

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Developing an In-season Predictor of Commercial Landings for Quota Monitoring in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mary Janine Vara

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"They're Our Bosses": Representations of Clients, Guardians, and Providers in Caregivers' Narratives, Dina Vdovichenko

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A Hybrid Privacy-Preserving Mechanism for Participatory Sensing Systems, Idalides Jose Vergara

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Organic Fluids and Passive Cooling in a Supercritical Rankine Cycle for Power Generation from Low Grade Heat Sources, Rachana Vidhi

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Nanodiamond Based Composite Structures for Biosensing Applications, Pedro Javier Villalba

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Development and Assessment of Self-explaining Skills in College Chemistry Instruction, Adrian Villalta-Cerdas

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Guaman Poma's Legacy: Snapshots of Globalization, Identity, and Literacy through the Urban Amazonian Indigenous Intellectual Lens, Roger Maurice Villamar

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Characterization of Waste Anesthetic Gas Exposures to Veterinary Workers in the Tampa Bay area, Kyle Vogel

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Drinking Water in the Developing World: Sources of Fecal Contamination in Pitcher Pump Systems and Measurement Alternatives, Meghan Wahlstrom

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Design and Validation of an Evaluation Checklist for Organizational Readiness for Evaluation Capacity Development, Connie F. Walker-Egea

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Hermes, Technical Communicator of the Gods: The Theory, Design, and Creation of a Persuasive Game for Technical Communication, Eric Walsh

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Substance Abuse Prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: Exploration of Guiding Theoretical Underpinnings and Theoretical Fit in Practice, Margaret L. Walsh

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Two Essays on Investment, Bin Wang

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Performance Evaluation and Integrated Management of Airport Surface Operations, Qing Wang

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Investigation of Energy Alignment Models at Polymer Interfaces, Wenfeng Wang

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Performance and Power Optimization of GPU Architectures for General-purpose Computing, Yue Wang

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Exploration of Electrodeposition of Aluminum-Nickel Alloys and Multilayers in Organic Chloroaluminate Ionic Liquids, Ammar Bin Waqar

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Teaching with the End in Mind: A Teacher's Life History as a Legacy of Educational Leaders, Daryl Adam Ward

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A Novel Role for NF-κB in Proximal T Cell Signaling, Crystina Bronk Watson

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Spatial and Temporal Extent of a Subsurface Hydrocarbon Intrusion Following the Deepwater Horizon Blowout, Kathleen Watson

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Assessing the Impacts of Unrestricted Pesticide Use in Small-Scale Agriculture on Water Quality and Associated Human Health and Ecological Implications in an Indigenous Village in Rural Panam[aacute], Sarah Louise Watson

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Perceived Discrepancies in Men's Motivations for Gender-Conforming Behaviors and Romantic Relationship Outcomes, Jonathan Robert Weaver