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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The Use of Proteomic Techniques to Study the Physiology and Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus, Frances Rivera

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Geographic Variation in Life History Tactics, Adaptive Growth Rates, and Habitatspecific Adaptations in Phylogenetically Similar Species: The Eastern Fence Lizard, Sceloporus undulatus undulatus, and the Florida Scrub Lizard, Sceloporus woodi, Travis R. Robbins

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Evaluation of Deep Geologic Units in Florida for Potential Use in Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, Tina Roberts-Ashby

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The Lived School Experiences of a Select Group of Female Adolescents Labeled Emotionally/Behaviorally Disordered, Anna Robic

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Testimony of Trauma: Ernest Hemingway’s Narrative Progression in Across the River and into the Trees, Kathleen K. Robinson

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The Third Realm: Suburban Identity through the Transformation of the Main Street, Alberto Rodriguez

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The Relationship between Life Satisfaction and Substance Use in Adolescence, Leeza Rooks

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Enhancing Virus Surveillance through Metagenomics: Water Quality and Public Health Applications, Karyna Rosario-Cora

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Multi-Elemental Chemical Analysis of Anthropogenic Soils as a Tool for Examining Spatial Use Patterns at Prehispanic Palmarejo, Northwest Honduras, Kara A. Rothenberg

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Clinical Decision-Making in Aphasia Therapy: A Survey of Perceived Levels of Evidence for Common Treatment Approaches, Erin T. Rowe

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"Speaking" Subalterns: A Comparative Study of African American and Dalit/Indian Literatures, Mantra Roy

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Architecture and Compiler Support for Leakage Reduction Using Power Gating in Microprocessors, Soumyaroop Roy

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Hydric Life: A Nietzschean Reading of Postcolonial Communication, Elena F. Ruiz-Aho

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Factors Affecting the Process of Clinical Decision-Making in Pediatric Pain Management by Emergency Department Nurses, Teresa A. Russo

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Adolf Hitler – America’s First Black President and Other Oval Office Demons: The Right-Wing Rhetorical Assault On Barack Obama’s Health Care Plan, Daniel Ruth

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Prioritizing Those Who Follow: Servant Leadership, Needs Satisfaction, and Positive Employee Outcomes, Kristin N. Saboe

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A Generalized Framework for Automatic Code Partitioning and Generation in Distributed Systems, Viswanath Sairaman

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Filtration Efficiency of Surgical Masks, Erin Sanchez

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School Psychologists Engagement in Parent Training/Education Activities with the Parents of Children with Chronic Behavior Problems, Rebecca K. Sarlo

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Comparison of Various Methods to Compute Access Density and Proposing a Weighted Methodology, Meeta Saxena

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Impact of Tank Material on Water Quality in Household Water Storage Systems in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Cynthia Anne Schafer

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More Than Bows and Arrows: Subversion and Double-Consciousness in Native American Storytelling, Anastacia M. Schulhoff

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Carbon Nanotube Enhanced MALDI MS: Increasing Sensitivity Through Sample Concentration, Joshua Schumacher

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Dynamics of Teacher Self-Efficacy: Middle School Reading and Language Arts Teacher Responses on a Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale, Kimberly Ann Schwartz

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The Relationship Between Knowledge and Beliefs About Human Papillomavirus, Acceptance of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine, and Intentions to Practice Safer Sex Behaviors Among Female College Students, Theresa Scorcia-Wilson

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Using the Prevent-Teach-Reinforce Model With Families of Children With Autism, Kacie M. Sears

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An Assessment of Microevolutionary Change among Prehistoric Florida Populations through the Analysis of Craniometric Data, Samantha M. Seasons

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Surface-Bonded Sol-Gel Sorbents for On-Line Hyphenation of Capillary Microextraction with High-Performance Liquid Chromatography, Scott S. Segro

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The Effect of Color Congruency and Involvement on Non-Profit Organizational Messaging, Claire Selius

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From Airport to Spaceport: Designing for an Aerospace Revolution, Paula Selvidge

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Visualizando la Conciencia Mestiza: The Relation of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Mestiza Consciousness to Mexican American Performance and Poster Art, Maria Cristina Serrano

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Between Agency and Accountability: An Ethnographic Study of Volunteers Participating in a Juvenile Diversion Program, Marc R. Settembrino

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Malaria in Prehistoric Sardinia (Italy): An Examination of Skeletal Remains from the Middle Bronze Age, Teddi J. Setzer

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Fluorescence Molecular Tomography: A New Volume Reconstruction Method, Stephen Joseph Shamp

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Characterization of Cannabinoid Receptor 2 Transcript Expression in B Cells, Tracy Sherwood

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An Investigation on Radiometric Measurements of Subterranean Heat Sources, Rakesh Shirodkar

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Modeling Swelling Instabilities in Surface Confined Hydrogels, Abiola Shitta

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You can’t always get what you want, but does it matter? The relationship between prechild preferences and post-child actual labor division fit and well-being, Kristen M. Shockley

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Ensemble Learning With Imbalanced Data, Larry Shoemaker

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Properties of Carbon Nanotubes Under External Factors: Adsorption, Mechanical Deformations, Defects, and External Electric Fields, Yaroslav Shtogun

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Molecular Mechanism of AGC Kinases in Human Malignant, Shaokun Shu

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An Analysis of the Travel Patterns and Preferences of the Elderly, Sujan Sikder

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Artemisia Gentileschi : The Heart of a Woman and the Soul of a Caesar, Deborah Anderson Silvers

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Understanding the Interaction Between Blood Flow and an Applied Magnetic Field, Francy L. Sinatra

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Nearshore Marine Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Southwest Florida during the Pliocene and Pleistocene, Jennifer Leigh Sliko

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Effects Of Ozone On Blood Components, Daniela Sloan

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The Female Colonizer and Othered Woman in Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, and Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, Lindsay L. Sloan

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University and Community College Administrators’ Perceptions of the Transfer Process for Underrepresented Students: Analysis of Policy and Practice, Ruth C. Slotnick

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Photothermal Studies of Carboxymyoglobin, Meagan Small

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The Distribution and Population Dynamics of the Golden Mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) at Its Southern Range Periphery, Sarah A. Smiley