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 2015

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Modeling Intrastate Air Travel: A Case Study of the State of Florida, Kai Liao

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At the Intersection of Human Agency and Technology: Genetically Modified Organisms, James Libengood

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Florida's Bright Futures Scholarship Program: The Effects of Losing Merit-Based Financial Aid on Persistence, Robert Laws Liddell

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Visual SLAM and Surface Reconstruction for Abdominal Minimally Invasive Surgery, Bingxiong Lin

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Coherent Digital Holographic Adaptive Optics, Changgeng Liu

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Spatiotemporal Sensing and Informatics for Complex Systems Monitoring, Fault Identification and Root Cause Diagnostics, Gang Liu

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Patient Populations, Clinical Associations, and System Efficiency in Healthcare Delivery System, Yazhuo Liu

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Aldehydic C-H Amination Reactions via Co(II)-Based Metalloradical Catalysis and Construction of Novel Chiral meso-Amidoporphyrin Ligands, Christopher Lee Lizardi

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Historical and Current Population Patterns of the Staghorn Coral (_Acropora cervicornis_) in Dry Tortugas National Park, Kaitlyn Lizza

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Mainstreaming Green Infrastructure: The Nexus of Infrastructure and Education Using the Green Space Based Learning (GSBL) Approach for Bioretention Plant Selection, Ryan Charles Robert Locicero

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The Meaning of Stories Without Meaning: A Post-Holocaust Experiment, Tori Chambers Lockler

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The Effect of an Alcohol Cue on a Risk Taking Task, Patrick Mcgee Logan

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A Planar Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model for Cantilevers Experiencing Combined Endpoint Forces and Uniformly Distributed Loads Acting in Parallel, Philip James Logan

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Organized Crime in Insurance Fraud: An Empirical Analysis of Staged Automobile Accident Rings, Chris Longino

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Quantifying the Interaction of Wildlife and Roads: a Habitat and Movement Approach, Rebecca Whitehead Loraamm

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Validity of a Nonspeech Dynamic Assessment of Phonological Awareness in Children from Spanish-speaking Backgrounds, Bianca Angelica Loreti

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Interleaved Effects in Inductive Category Learning: The Role of Memory Retention, Alex MacKendrick

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Effects of Nicotine on a Translational Model of Working Memory, David Alderson Macqueen

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Development of Orally Bioavailable 4(1H)-Quinolones and 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroacridin-9(10H)-ones with Potent Anti-malarial Activity, Jordany Richarlson Maignan

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Comparison of Gastropod Assemblages from Natural and Phosphate Mine Lakes of Central Florida, William A. Mailand

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Assessment of Soil Transmitted Helminth Infection (STHI) in School Children, Risk Factors, Interactions and Environmental Control in El Salvador., Sharad Suryakant Malavade

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Associations between Social Determinants of Health and Adolescent Pregnancy: An Analysis of Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Sarah Britney Maness

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Effects of Solids Retention Time and Feeding Frequency on Performance and Pathogen Fate in Semi-continuous Mesophilic Anaerobic Digesters, Nathan Daniel Manser

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Exploring the Role of Intracellular Aminopeptidases in Staphylococcus aureus Pathogenesis, Devon Nicole Marking

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Half Empty/Half Full: Absence, Ethnicity, and the Question of Identity in the United States, Ashley Josephine Martinez

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Informing the Design and Deployment of Health Information Technology to Improve Care Coordination, Diego A. Martinez

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Understanding How Young People Experience Risk with Online-to-Offline Sexual Encounters: A Second Qualitative Phase for the CH@T Project, Elizabeth Vp Marwah

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Kinematic Control of Redundant Mobile Manipulators, Mustafa Mashali

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Beauty is Precious, Knowledge is Power, and Innovation is Progress: Widely Held Beliefs in Policy Narratives about Oil Spills, Brenda Gale Mason

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'She Shall Not Be Moved': Black Women's Spiritual Practice in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, and Home, Rondrea Danielle Mathis

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Documenting Perceived Effectiveness of Community-Based Health Promotion Coalitions: A Grounded Theory Approach, Alyssa Brooke Mayer

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Effects of a Brief Relaxation Intervention on Stress-Related Eating, Laura Lynn Mayhew-Purcell

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Looking at Levels of Medicalization in the Institutional Narrative of Substance Use Disorders in the Military, Chase Landes Mccain

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Improving Elementary Teachers’ Well-Being through a Strengths-Based Intervention: A Multiple Baseline Single-Case Design, Mollie Marie Mccullough

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Fear Conditioning and Extinction in Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Joseph F. Mcguire

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Relational Agency, Networked Technology, and the Social Media Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing, Megan M. Mcintyre

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Interpreting Bronze Age Exchange in Sicily through Trace Element Characterization of Ceramics Utilizing Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF), Erin Marie Mckendry

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Effect of Dosage of Non-Chloride Accelerator versus Chloride Accelerator on the Cracking Potential of Concrete Repair Slabs, Thomas F. Meagher

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Prediction of the Optimum Binder Content of Open-Graded Friction Course Mixtures Using Digital Image Processing, Yolibeth Mejias De Pernia

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The Relationship between Social Networks, Exchange and Kids’ Food in Children’s Peer Culture, Stephanie Tillman Melton

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Consumer Perception and Anticipated Adoption of Autonomous Vehicle Technology: Results from Multi-Population Surveys, Nikhil Menon

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Like Blood from a Stone: Teasing out Social Difference from Lithic Production Debris at Kolomoki (9ER1), Martin Menz

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Molecular and Phenotypic Studies Validating the Role of the Ecdysone Receptor in the Human Parasite Brugia malayi, Amruta Mhashilkar

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Ironic Masculinity and Femininity: Do Contextual Factors Reverse Attributions Based on Gender Stereotyped Behaviors?, Kenneth S. Michniewicz

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Understanding Climate Change and Sea Level: A Case Study of Middle School Student Comprehension and An Evaluation of Tide Gauges off the Panama Canal in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, Juan Carlos Millan-Otoya

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Assessment of the impact of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder on Type 1 Diabetes, Kellee Miller

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Learning Preferences of Commercial Fishermen, Robert W. Miller

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The Role of Social Support in the Disclosure and Recovery Process of Rape Victims, Jessica Nicole Mitchell

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The Detection and Quantitative Analysis of Endocannabinoids and Endogenous Fatty Acid Amides in Apis Mellifera and Tribolium Castaneum, Perry Robert Mitchell Jr.

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Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials Based on Oxyanion Linkers for Selective Adsorption of Polarizable Gases, Mona Hanafy Mohamed