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 2013

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Does the Use of Personally Relevant Stimuli in Semantic Complexity Training Facilitate Improved Functional Communication Performance Compared to Non-Personally Relevant Stimulus Items among Adults with Chronic Aphasia?, Stephanie Karidas

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Nano-Magnetic Devices for Computation, Dinuka Karunaratne

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Trends in the Contracting out of Local Government Services, Cristiane Carvalho Keetch

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Ten Thousand Years of Prehistory on Ocheesee Pond, Northwest Florida. Archaeological Investigations on the Keene Family Land, Jackson County, Caitlin Kelley

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The Perception of Emergency Department Physicians Regarding Economic and Regulatory Factors Impacting Management of Drug Seeking Patients, Sharon Susanne Kelley

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Do Changing Reference Levels affect the Long-Term Effectiveness of Incentive Contracts?, Lee Michael Kersting

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Bayesian Estimation of Panel Data Fractional Response Models with Endogeneity: An Application to Standardized Test Rates, Lawrence Kessler

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Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Film Structures, Supriya Ashok Ketkar

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Climate, Neo-Spinozism, and the Ecological Worldview, Nancy M. Kettle

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Perceptions of Workplace Mentoring Behaviors for Lifelong Career Development, Lynne A. Key

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Fabricating and Characterizing Physical Properties of Electrospun Polypeptide-based Nanofibers, Dhan Bahadur Khadka

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A Study on the Optimization of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Md Imran Khan

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Continuous Electrowetting in Passivating and Non-passivating Systems, Mehdi Khodayari

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Human Intention Recognition Based Assisted Telerobotic Grasping of Objects in an Unstructured Environment, Karan Hariharan Khokar

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Optimized Correlation of Geophysical And Geotechnical Methods In Sinkhole Investigations: Emphasizing On Spatial Variations In West-Central Florida, Henok Gidey Kiflu

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Two Essays on Mergers and Acquisitions, Dongnyoung Kim

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Two Essays on Politics and Finance, Incheol Kim

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Effect of Solids Retention Time on the Denitrification Potential of Anaerobically Digested Swine Waste, Maureen Njoki Kinyua

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Rurality and Intimate Partner Homicide: Exploring the Relationship between Place, Social Structure, and Femicide in North Carolina, Amelia Kirkland

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A Rheological Examination of Polymer Composites: Including Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, Viable Polyurethane Alternates, and Contact Lens Hydrogels, Bernard Knudsen

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Associations of Perceived Stress, Sleep, and Human Papillomavirus in a Prospective Cohort of Men, Stephanie Kay Kolar

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The Effects of Caloric Preload and Dietary Restraint on Smoking and Eating Behavior, Michelle Kovacs

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Monsters Under the Bed: An Analysis of Torture Scenes in Three Pixar Films, Heidi Tilney Kramer

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Media that Objectify Women: The Influence on Individuals' Body Image and Perceptions of Others, Ross Krawczyk

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Argumentation as a Lens to Examine Student Discourse in Peer-Led Guided Inquiry for College General Chemistry, Ushiri Kumarihamy Kulatunga

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English Language Teachers' Learning to Teach with Technology through Participation in an Online Community of Practice: A Netnography of Webheads in Action, Derya Kulavuz-Onal

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Efficient and Private Processing of Analytical Queries in Scientific Datasets, Anand Kumar

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Environmental and Energy Saving Technologies of Vinyl Chloride Production, Mykola Kurta

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The role of acquired capability as a differentially-specific risk factor for disordered eating and problematic alcohol use in female college students: A measure development and validation study, Christa D. Labouliere

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Connecting Pixels to People: Management Agents and Social-ecological Determinants of Changes to Street Tree Distributions, Shawn Landry

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The Man Behinf the Mask: A Principal's Search For a Moral Leaderhip Purpose, James Franklin Lane

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Citizens United, the Marketplace, and Influence, Corin Shanti La Pointe-Aitchison

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The effects of scaling on bite force and suction index in the eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), Nicholas Patrick Larghi

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Exercise Barriers in Cancer Survivors: A Multi-Dimensional Approach, Morgan Lee

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Detecting Aberrant Responding on Unidimensional Pairwise Preference Tests: An Application of based on the Zinnes Griggs Ideal Point IRT Model, Philseok Lee

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A Novel Method For Watermarking Sequential Circuits, Matthew Lewandowski

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Physiological and Behavioral Mechanisms of Range Expansion in the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), Andrea Lyn Liebl

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Synthesis of Titanium Dioxide Photocatalyst with the Aid of Supercritical Fluids, Haitao Li

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An Analysis of Self-Directed Learning of First-Year, First-Generation College Students, Patricia Lynne Linder

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The Strange Life And Stranger Afterlife Of King Dick including His Adventures in Haiti and Hollywood With Observations On The Construction Of Race, Class, Nationality, Gender, Slang Etymology And Religion, Alan Thomas Lipke

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Hydraulic Evaluation of a Community Managed Wastewater Stabilization Pond System in Bolivia, Louis Lizima

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Counselor Discomfort with Sexual Issues and Supervisory Role, Barbara LoFrisco

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Learning From Voices of Diverse Youth: School-based Practices to Promote Positive Psychosocial Functioning of LGBTQ High School Students, Troy Nicholas Loker

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Toward More Composable Software-Security Policies: Tools and Techniques, Daniel Lomsak

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A Case Study of Jamaican Children's Lived Play Experiences, Carol Ann Long

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OCBs and Strain: The Moderating Role of Control, Kevin Loo

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Factors Associated with Fear of Breast Cancer Recurrence Among Survivors, Jean Marie Lucas

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Self-Control, Attitudinal Beliefs, and White-Collar Crime Intentions, Melissa Anne Lugo

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Eschatology in a Secular Age: An Examination of the Use of Eschatology in the Philosophies of Heidegger, Berdyaev and Blumenberg, John R. Lup, Jr.

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The Performance of the Linear Logistic Test Model When the Q-Matrix is Misspecified: A Simulation Study, George T. Macdonald