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 2021

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External and Internal Factors of Sports Sponsorship Selling Cycles in North American Professional Sports, Dan Kaufmann

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Building and Characterizing a Lab-Scaled Aquifer Storage and Recovery System, Murat Can Kayabas

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Novel Educational Material for Patients with a Variant of Uncertain Significance (VUS) in a Cancer Risk Gene, Meghan E. Kelley

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Successful Aging in Adults Who Stutter: Exploring Predictors of Physical and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life, Amanda Kelly

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Mechanistic Insight into β-Lactamase Catalysis, Inhibitor Design and Resistance, Michael Trent Kemp

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Microbial Dark Matter: Culturing the Uncultured in Search of Novel Chemotaxonomy, Sarah J. Kennedy

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Mechanisms and Mitigation: Effects of Light Pollution on West Nile Virus Dynamics, Meredith E. Kernbach

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Designing Targeted Mobile Advertising Campaigns, Kimia Keshanian

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Corrosion Rate Prediction in FRP-Concrete Repair, Mohammad A. Khawaja

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Evaluating Daily Systemic Betaine Delivery in Alleviating Dry-AMD Pathophysiology, Dawin Khiev

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On the Application of Recursive Nonlinear State Transformations and Nonlinear Feedback to Enable Continuous Thrust Spacecraft Orbital Rendezvous, Parisa Khosravi

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How Race is Made in Everyday Life: Food, Eating, and Dietary Acculturation among Black and White Migrants in Florida, U.S., Laura Kihlstrom

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Cetacean Maternal Investment: Importance in Conservation Across Species and Drivers for Interspecific Altruism, Christopher Klein

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Criminalizing LGBTQ+ Jamaicans: Social, Legal, and Colonial Influences on Homophobic Policy, Zoe C. Knowles

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Plasma Treatment of High-Density Polyethylene, Linear Low-Density Polyethylene, and Polyvinyl Chloride Geomembranes by Air and Oxygen, Merve Koca Uyar

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Seasonality in Competence to Transmit West Nile Virus for a Widespread Reservoir, Kyle L. Koller

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Spin Coupling in Magnetic Core - Shell Nanoparticles, Corisa Kons

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Fuer Kaiser und Heimat: Svetozar Borevic, South Slav Habsburg Nationalism, and the First World War, Sean Krummerich

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Learning, Planning for, and Reflecting on Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice: A Case Study Investigation of a High School Mathematics Methods Course, Queshonda J. Kudaisi

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Using Developmental Evaluation For Clinical Faculty Development In A New Academic Consortium, Candice Kunkle

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Jewish Early Adolescent Perceptions of their Positive Youth Development, Identity Development, and Purpose, Lauren B. Kurnov

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Revisiting Darwin’s Little Pond as a Method to Liberate Phosphorus from Apatite Under Prebiotic Hadean Earth Conditions, Jennifer Lago

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Use of Biochar and Zeolite for Landfill Leachate Treatment: Experimental Studies and Reuse Potential Assessment, Thanh Thieu Lam

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Examining Evidence of Reliability and Validity in Florida’s Human Trafficking Screening Tool, Monica Landers

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Narratives of Success: How Honors College Newcomers Frame the Entrance to College, Cayla Lanier

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Labor-Based Grading Contracts in the Multilingual FYC Classroom: Unpacking the Variables, Kara Kristina Larson

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Machine Learning for Species Habitat Analysis, Abigail Lavallin

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Exploring the Use of Neural Transformers for Psycholinguistics, Antonio Laverghetta Jr.

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Cultural Values as a Moderator of the Emotion Suppression to Strain Relationship: A Comparison of Two Dominant Theoretical Mechanisms, Roxanne C. Lawrence

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How Enduring is Global Precedence?, Jong Lee

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Success and Sustainability of Sponsored International Development Programs in Education: A Narrative Inquiry, Sara Beth Leikin

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Instructional Experiences: A Case Study of Perceptions of High School American Sign Language Teachers Who are Hearing, Rhonda S. Leslie

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Secure VLSI Hardware Design Against Intellectual Property (IP) Theft and Cryptographic Vulnerabilities, Matthew Dean Lewandowski

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Feasibility of Epoxy Bond Enhancement on High-Strength Concrete, Amanda A. Lewis

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Adaptive Mobile EEG Noise Cancellation Using 2D Convolutional Autoencoders for BCI Authentication, Tyree Lewis

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Fire Severity Effects on Herpetofaunal Diversity in Florida Scrub Communities of the Lake Wales Ridge, Michelle Lindsay

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Improving Environmental Protection: One Imagined Touch at a Time, Luke Ingalls Liska

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Modeling the Ambient Conditions of a Manufacturing Environment Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Yang Liu

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Bone Microenvironmental Control of Skeletal Malignancy, Chen Hao Lo

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Tourism, Education, and Identity Making: Agency and Representation of Indigenous Communities in Public Sites within Florida., Timothy R. Lomberk II

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"25 years later and I'm still here...still positive": Older Black Males' Lived Experiences of Aging with HIV in Hillsborough County, FL, Bernice Kathleen Lopez-McCoy

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The Media Reproduction of Racial Violence: A Content Analysis of News Coverage Following the Death of George Floyd Jr., Keylon Lovett

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Design, Development, and Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Chatbot for Honors College Student Advising in Higher Education, Reginald Saint-Aude Lucien

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Application of Gold Nanoshells for Photothermal Therapy in Lung Cancer Cells, Yva K. Luc

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The Multifaceted Role of CCAR-1 in the Alternative Splicing and Germline Regulation in Caenorhabditis elegans, Doreen Ikhuva Lugano

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Security Attacks and Defenses in Cyber Systems: From an AI Perspective, Zhengping Luo

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Native and Non-native English-speaking Doctoral Students' Strategies to Understand Idiomatics in Comics and Comic Strips, Himelhoch Luz-Aydé

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Mealtimes in Early Childhood Education Centers During COVID-19: A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Responsibilities, Interactions, and Best Practices, Joanna Mackie

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Pregnancy and Fertility Amongst Women with the MTHFR C677T Polymorphism: An Anthropological Review, Caroline A. MacLean

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Remote Sensing and GIS Integration for Amazon Rainforest Wildfires Applications, Cong Ma