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 2010

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Dewey's Pragmatism and the Great Community, Philip Schuyler Bishop

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Design and Evaluation of a Green BitTorrent for Energy-Efficient Content Distribution, Jeremy H. Blackburn

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An Ecology of Performance: Gregory Bateson's Cybernetic Performance, Daniel Matthew Blaeuer

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Using Virtual Environments as Professional Development Tools for Pre-Service Teachers Seeking ESOL Endorsement, Rebecca J. Blankenship

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Architecture as Canvas, Monika Blazenovic

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Melville’s Unknown Pathology: The Humoral Theory of Disease and Low Grade Lead Poisoning in Bartleby the Scrivener, Gerard Bogin

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Travel Assistance Device on the Bus Riding Behavior of Individuals with Disabilities, Arica J. Bolechala

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A Microwave Radiometer for Close Proximity Core Body Temperature Monitoring: Design, Development, and Experimentation, Quenton Bonds

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Consumable Process Development for Chemical Mechanical Planarization of Bit Patterned Media for Magnetic Storage Fabrication, Joseph T. Bonivel Jr.

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Body Depilation among Women and Men: The Association of Body Hair Reduction or Removal with Body Satisfaction, Appearance Comparison, Body Image Disturbance, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptomatology, Michael Scott Boroughs

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Gender and Cocaine Use Influence the Expression of Urinary Markers of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress, Marie Meagher Bourgeois

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Evaluation Assessment of Metropolitan Ministries “Uplift U™” Program and Preliminary Analysis of Collected Data, Robert D. Bowers

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The Novel Use of Recombinant Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF) to Reverse Cerebral Amyloidosis and Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Models: Insights from the Investigation of Rheumatoid Arthritis as a Negative Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease, Timothy David Boyd

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Founding Fathers: An Ethnic and Gender Study of the Iliadic Aeneid, Rob Brannon

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A Case Study of School-Based Leaders’ Perspectives of High School Dropouts, John J. Brown Jr.

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Priming Expectancies: Effects on Neurophysiological Indices of Expectancy Violations and Drinking Behavior, Tyler Brumback

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Self-Potential Response to Rainfall Changes Over Plugged and Unplugged Sinkholes in a Covered-Karst Terrain, Peter B. Bumpus

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Faculty Perspectives on Doctoral Student Mentoring: The Mentor‘s Odyssey, Carol A. Burg

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System Identification in Automatic Database Memory Tuning, Tiffany Burrell

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Gadamer and Nāgārjuna in Play: Providing a New Anti-Objectivist Foundation for Gadamer’s Interpretive Pluralism with Nāgārjuna’s Help, Nicholas Byle

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Structural Diversity in Crystal Chemistry: Rational Design Strategies Toward the Synthesis of Functional Metal-Organic Materials, Amy J. Cairns

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A Case Study Examining the Impact of Adventure Based Counseling on High School Adolescent Self-Esteem, Empathy, and Racism, Chris Cale

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Where Christ Dies Daily: Performances of Faith at Orlando‘s Holy Land Experience, Sara B. Dykins Callahan

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Contemporary Afro-Cuban Voices in Tampa: Reclaiming Heritage in “America’s Next Greatest City”, Linda M. Callejas

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Constraining the Geometry and Evolution of the Maneadero Basin, Baja California, Mexico, Sean Callihan

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An Iterative Feature Perturbation Method for Gene Selection from Microarray Data, Juana Canul Reich

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Foraging Decisions of Nocturnal Mice Under Direct and Indirect Cues of Predation Risk, Robbin G. Capers

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Kinematic and Experimental Evaluation of Commercial Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arms, John William Capille Jr.

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Through the Lens of a Global Educator: Examining Personal Perceptions Regarding the Construction of World-Mindedness, Kenneth T. Carano

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Residual Stress Analysis in 3C-SiC Thin Films by Substrate Curvature Method, Jose M. Carballo

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Examination of the Effect of Child Abuse Case Characteristics on the Time a Caseworker Devotes to a Case, Christopher J. Card

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A Roof Runoff Strategy and Model for Augmenting Public Water Supply, Robert Carnahan

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Examining the Interface between Alcohol Expectancies, Psychophysiological Reactivity to Alcohol Picture Cues, and Risk for Substance Use Disorders, Ashlee C. Carter

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Influence of Crosslink Density on Swelling and Conformation of Surface-Constrained Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) Hydrogels, Ryan S. Cates

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Alien Encounters and the Alien/Human Dichotomy in Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Andrei Tarkovsky‘s Solaris, Keith Cavedo

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Noise and Multipath Characteristics of Power Line Communication Channels, Hasan Basri Çelebi

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Asian Indian Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Schooling: An Analysis of Social and Cultural Capital, Susan Chanderbhan-Forde

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Use of Model Compounds to Study Potential Removal of Pharmaceuticals Using Octolig®, Wen-shan Chang

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Gatekeeping and Citizen Journalism: A Qualitative Examination of Participatory Newsgathering, Amani Channel

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Does Patient Dementia Limit the Use of Cardiac Catheterization in ST-Elevated Myocardial Infarction?, Marianne Chanti-Ketterl

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Neuroprotection with Anesthetics in Two Models of Cerebral Ischemia, Rafael Eduardo Chaparro Buitrago

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Modeling and Predicting Taxi Times at Airports, Arjun Chauhan

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Comparison of Safety Performance by Design Types at Freeway Diverge Areas and Exit Ramp Sections, Hongyun Chen

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The Conversion of Low-Grade Heat into Power Using Supercritical Rankine Cycles, Huijuan Chen

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Examining the Relationship Between Work-to-Family Conflict and Parenting Behavior, Eunae Cho

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Application of Luminescence Sensors in Oxygen Diffusion Measurement and Study of Luminescence Enhancement/Quenching by Metallic Nanoparticles, Sanchari Chowdhury

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Exploring the Human Interactivity with a Robot to Obtain the Fundamental Properties of Materials, William L. Christian

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Articulating Social Change in Puerto Rico: Environmental Education as a Model for Youth Socio-Political Development and Community-Led School Reform, Federico Cintrón-Moscoso

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Low Documented Risk Cesarean Sections and Late-Preterm Births: The Florida Experience, Heather Breeze Clayton

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The Relationship Between FAM5C SNP (rs10920501) Variability, Metabolic Syndrome, and Inflammation, in Women with Coronary Heart Disease, Jennifer L. Cline