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USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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.

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

An Exploratory Analysis of the Ecological Validity of a Performance-Based Assessment of Attention, Eun- Yeop Lee

Social network web sites and intra-organizational relationships: Using Facebook to build employee relationships at Serena Software, Rianna K. Lee Sing

Statistical and Data Mining Methodologies for Behavioral Analysis in Transgenic Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease: Parallels with Human AD Evaluation, Ralph E. Leighty

Investigation into the rate-determining step of mammalian heme biosynthesis: Molecular recognition and catalysis in 5-aminolevulinate synthase, Thomas Lendrihas

Student reflections: The impact of dual enrollment on transitions to a state university, Theresa Lyvette Lewis

Afro-Colombian welfare: An application of Amarty Sen's Capability Approach using multiple indicators multiple causes modeling - MIMIC, Paula Lezama

The political ecology of intestinal parasites among Nicaraguan immigrants in Monteverde, Costa Rica, Jason D. Lind

Detailed Stratigraphy and Geochemistry of Lower Mount Rogers Formation Metavolcanic Units Exposed on Elk Garden Ridge, VA, Meghan Marie Lindsey

Initial identity level and cooperation in face-to-face and computer-mediated contexts, Matthew C. Lineberry

Nanostructure morphology variation modeling and estimation for nanomanufacturing process yield improvement, Gang Liu

Synthesis and characterization of a novel Poly(methyl methacrylate) Composites using Copper-4, 4'- Trimethylenedipyridine Metal-Organic Framework as Fillers, Shisi Liu

Maternal knowledge, attitudes and practices and health outcomes of their preschool-age children in urban and rural Karnataka, India, Angela Lloyd

Growth of 3C-SiC on (111)Si using hot-wall chemical vapor deposition, Christopher Locke

A new understanding of sophistic rhetoric: A translation, with commentary, of Mario Untersteiner's "Le origini sociali della sofistica", Elisabeth LoFaro

Character strengths and virtues of young internationally adopted Chinese children: A longitudinal study from preschool to school age, Troy Loker

Condition / recondition: Reconstruction of the city and its collective memory, C Lopez

From maiden to whore and back again: A survey of prostitution in the works of William Shakespeare, Tiffany Lowden Messerschmidt

At what cost?: Spanish neutrality in the First World War, Carolyn S. Lowry

Multiple approaches to the validation of the scores from the study anxiety inventory, George Douglas Lunsford

The neoconservative war on modernity: The Bush Doctrine and its resistance to legitimation, Ben Luongo

Mixture distributions with application to microarray data analysis, O'Neil Lynch

Correlates of attitudes toward behavioral health services among older primary care patients, Nancy Bridger Lynn

The Babel paradox, Michel Machado

Architecture of materialism: A study of craft in design culture, process, and product, Logan Mahaffey

Advanced Transceiver Algorithms for OFDM(A) Systems, Hisham A. Mahmoud

Photography's creative influence on Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass and what Alice found there, Bridget Mahoney

Cardiovascular risk factors for mild cognitive impairment, Michael Malek-Ahmadi

Agricultural nonpoint source pollution management: Water quality impacts of Balm Road Treatment Marsh, Hillsborough County, Florida, Sarah J. Malone

Functional characterization of cytochrome b5 reductase and its electron acceptor cytochrome b5 in Plasmodium falciparum, Lucio Malvisi

Incorporating solar technology to design in humid subtropical climates, Andres Mamontoff

Facial skin motion properties from video: Modeling and applications, Vasant Manohar

The Preference of Protein Powders Among Adult Males and Females: A Protein Powder Taste Study, Joshua Manter

Heat transfer enhancement of spray cooling with nanofluids, Christian David Martinez

Using staff management procedures to improve staff adherence with a toileting program at an intermediate care facility for individuals with developmental disabilities, Paula A. Matos

Program satisfaction, school climate perceptions, and psychoeducational experiences in college preparatory programs: A comparison of Caucasian and ethnic minority students, Yanique T. Matthews

Cars, collisions, and violence in Southern literature, Bryan Thomas McCabe

A novel antibody based capture matrix utilizing human serum albumin and streptococcal Protein G to increase capture efficiency of bacteria, Christie Renee McCabe

The daily show: Journalism's jester, Mark R. McCarthy

The Daily Show: Journalism’s Jester, Mark R. McCarthy

Goal Attainment On Long Tail Web Sites: An Information Foraging Approach, James A. Mccart

Foraminiferal responses to arsenic in a shallow-water hydrothermal system in papua new guinea and in the laboratory, Bryan McCloskey

"Desirable images": Sexual mapping in William S. Burroughs's Naked lunch and Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren, Patrick McGowan

'Adding wisdom to their natures': British colonial educational practices and the possibility of women's personal emancipation in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Buchi Emecheta's Joys of motherhood and Tsitsi Dangrembga's Nervous conditions, Megan McIntyre

The financial literacy of university students: A comparison of graduating seniors' financial literacy and debt level, Vandeen M. McKenzie

"RE-Homing": Sustaining housing first, Jennifer McKinney

A cavity-backed coplanar waveguide slot antenna array, James W. Mcknight

Trophic enrichment patterns of δ¹³C in organic matter of molluscan shell: Implications for reconstructing ancient environments and food webs, Julie McKnight

Toward understanding low surface friction on quasiperiodic surfaces, Keith McLaughlin

The Development of a Human Polyomavirus Quantitative PCR Assay to Assess Viral Persistence, Water Quality, and Human Health Risks, Shannon M. McQuaig

Choice and discovery: An analysis of women and culture in Flora Nwapa's fiction, Mary D. Mears