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.

Follow


Theses/Dissertations from 2023

PDF

Analysis of OSTDS failure potential due to Sea-Level Rise and other inundation factors: An integrated Geo-Spatial Analysis, Alec Colarusso

PDF

A Qualitative Study of Facilitators and Barriers Perceived by Black Students and Their Effect on Advanced Placement Course Enrollment in High School, Austin R. Cole

PDF

The Great Resignation: An Exploration of Strategies to Combat School Bus Driver Shortages in the Post-COVID-19 Era, James E. Cole Jr.

PDF

Evaluating the Prevent-Teach-Reinforce Secondary Model for Individuals with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Christine Colón

PDF

The Relationship between First-Year Expectations and Persistence for Students who Self-Identify as Having Not Declared a Major, Shane Combs

PDF

The Invisible Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Boys and Their Barriers to Access to Services, Amanda L. Connella

PDF

A Simple Synthetic Example of the Benefits of Coincident Ground Penetrating Radar and Seismic Data Acquisition for Shallow Lunar Exploration, John Coonan

PDF

Labile Dissolved Nickel (Ni) Concentrations in the North Pacific, Calyn M. Crawford

PDF

The 'Charm and Distinction' of Proverbs: The Duality of the Gem Analogy in Erasmus's Adagia, Blythe Broecker Creelan

PDF

Case Study and Fidelity Assessment Development for the Family Intervention Specialist (FIS) Program, Areana Cruz

PDF

Distinct Nrf2 Signaling Thresholds Mediate Lung Tumor Initiation and Progression, Janine M. DeBlasi

PDF

Comparing mortality in response to simulated climate change in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius, and the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, Haley Depner

PDF

Protein Folding Kinetics Analysis Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Dhanya Dhananjayan

PDF

Entanglements of Teenage Food Security Within High School Pantries in Pinellas County, Florida, Karen T. Díaz Serrano

PDF

The Applicability of the Postmortem Submersion Interval Estimation Formula for Human Remains Found in Subtropical Aquatic Environments, Kara L. DiComo

PDF

Do Industries' Political Profiles Affect Their Portfolio Return Performance?, Shaddy S. Douidar

PDF

Multi Segment Finite Element Analysis of the Lumbar Spine, James J. Doulgeris

PDF

Improving Interview Skills through Virtual Reality with Behavior Skills Training for Students with Disabilities, Garrit DuBois

PDF

Online news portrayal during the COVID-19 health crisis and journalism's role in misinformation in the U.S., Michou Ducilon

PDF

Mechanisms Contributing to Hydrogen-Influenced Early Failure of Bridge Tendons, David Dukeman

PDF

Early Agricultural Lives: Bioarchaeological Inferences from Neolithic and Early Copper Age Tombs in the Central Po Valley, Italy, Christopher J. Eck Jr.

PDF

Nation-Building, Ethnic Boundary Making, and Situational Nationalism: Why did Montenegro become more divided and less 'Montenegrin'?, Muhammed F. Erdem

PDF

Evaluation of the Humoral Immune Responses to Plasmodium vivax Circumsporozoite Protein (CSP)-based Pre-Erythrocytic Vaccine Candidates, Jack Esquenazi

PDF

The Development of a Behaviorally Based Mentoring Workplace Scale, Christina N. Falcon

PDF

Affordances and Limitations of Molecular Representations in General and Organic Chemistry, Ayesha Farheen

PDF

An Empirical Analysis of Sentiment and Confidence Regarding Interest Rates in Disclosures of Public Firms in the U.S. Fintech Sector, James J. Farley

PDF

Institutional and Individual Approaches to Change in Undergraduate STEM Education: Two Framework Analyses, Stephanie B. Feola

PDF

Brain-Inspired Spatio-Temporal Learning with Application to Robotics, Thiago André Ferreira Medeiros

PDF

Evaluating the Effects of Academic and Social Breaks on Off-Task Behavior in a College Classroom, Allison K. Fisher

PDF

The Process of Government in Clearwater, Florida, Picot deBoisfeuillet Floyd

PDF

LGBTQ+ Inclusivity in the Implicit and Explicit Social Studies Curriculum: A Descriptive Exploratory Study in Teacher Self-Efficacy, K. B.F. Francis

PDF

Reframing Resistance, Resilience, and Racial Equity in Maternal Health: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Paternal Involvement and the Racial Disparity in Severe Maternal Morbidity, Marshara G. Fross

PDF

Evaluating the Accuracy of Inertial Measurment Units in Detecting Gait Parameters for Lower Limb Prosthesis and Orthosis Users, Bryce Fuller

PDF

Autonomous Professional Learning through Practitioner Inquiry: A Study of Growth Plan System Experiences, Daina Kelly Gaputis

PDF

Metachronal Locomotion: Swimming, Scaling, and Schooling, Kuvvat Garayev

PDF

A Church of the People: Coptic Church Building and Direction in Central New Jersey, Bishoy Garis

PDF

English Use in Italian Contexts: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Language Ideological Discourses, Antonella Gazzardi

PDF

A Novel Jazz Music Curriculum for Young Children: Results of A Pilot Study, Jazmin D. Ghent

PDF

Motivations for Planning: Uncovering the Inhibitors to the Adoption of Comprehensive Financial Planning for Business Owners, Daniel R. Gilham

PDF

Examining the Role of Executive Functions on the Intention-Behavior Gap of Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy Use, Becky K. Gius

PDF

Relationship Between Demographic Characteristics and Internship Participation of Senior Undergraduate International Students, Timothy W. Gjini

PDF

Untangling the Phenomenon of Teacher Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Voices of Secondary ELA Teachers, Jenise Gorman

PDF

An Examination of Reward-Based Crowdfunding Performance and Success, Matthew Alan Grace

PDF

Bookends: Freemasonry in Russia, Past and Present, James Patrick Greene

PDF

Thermodynamic frustration of TAD2 and PRR contribute to autoinhibition of p53, Emily Gregory

PDF

Evaluating Methods for Improving DNN Robustness Against Adversarial Attacks, Laureano Griffin

PDF

What on earth are we doing (?): A Field-Wide Exploration of Design Courses in TPC, Jessica L. Griffith

PDF

Applications in Opioid Analysis with FAIMS Through Control of Vapor Phase Solvent Modifiers, Nathan Grimes

PDF

Music as an Instructional Modality to Increase Attending Behavior of Elementary Students, Zachary Grossman

PDF

Exploring the Impact of Eddies on Southern Ocean Biogeochemical Structure using BGC-Argo Float Observations, Nicola J. Guisewhite