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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 2003 2003

Choral Music Education: A Survey of Research 1996-2002, Amber Turcott

Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance: A Dual-Use Approach with Direct Application to the Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Kristin Broome Uhde

Evaluation Of Pile Driving Lead Section, Kadir Uslu

Modeling Dynamic Interactions in a Software Development Project, Chetan D. Vajre

Characterization Of Obsidian Sources In Pantelleria, Italy, Barbara A. Vargo

"Insolent and Contemptuous Carriages": Re-Conceptualizing Illegitimacy in Colonial British America, John Watkins

Diversity and Production of Phytoplankton in the Offshore Mississippi River Plume and Coastal Environments, Boris Wawrik

Gender Differences In Alcohol Expectancies: Influence Of Context And Specificity Of Items, Andrea Hope Weinberger

Simple Models For Predicting Dune Erosion Hazards Along The Outer Banks Of North Carolina, Lauren McKinnon Wetzell

The Fleeting Effects of Retrieval Cue Attributes in the PIER2 Memory Model, Amie L. Wilbanks

Relative Motion History of the Pacific-Nazca (Farallon) Plates since 30 Million Years Ago, Douglas T. Wilder

Gender Stereotypes of Citizenship Performance, Lisa Wilkinson

Patterns Of 4th Graders' Literacy Events In Web Page Development, Rewa Colette Williams

Dwellness: A Radical Notion of Wilderness, Martin J. Wortman

Scheduling Of 2-Operation Jobs On A Single Machine To Minimize The Number Of Tardy Jobs, Radhika M. Yeleswarapu

Self-interference Handling in OFDM Based Wireless Communication Systems, Tevfik Yücek

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

Effect of Presentation Modality on Predictions of Children’s Communication Ability in the Classroom, Mary Aguila

Deep Ecology and Heideggerian Phenomenology, Matthew Antolick

Extensions of Quandles and Cocycle Knot Invariants, Marina Appiou Nikiforou

The Effects Of Animated Textual Instruction On Learners' Written Production Of German Modal Verb Sentences, Elizabeth A. Caplan

Analysis of States Gun Control Restrictions, Xiaofeng Cheng

System Integration and Testing using Object Oriented Programming based Control, Prashant P. Datar

Physical-Statistical Modeling and Optimization of Cardiovascular Systems, Dongping Du

The Role of Audiology Assistants in a Clinical Setting, Joseph K. Duran

The Diffusion of New Media Scholarship: Power, Innovation, and Resistance in Academe, Judith R. Edminster

Upper Ocean Upwelling, Temperature, and Zonal Momentum Analyses in the Western Equatorail Pacific, Robert William Helber

Computerized Dynamic Visual Acuity with Volitional Head Movement in Patients with Vestibular Dysfunction, Erika L. Johnson

An Examination of the Relationship Between the U-Titer II and Hearing Aid Benefit, Maura Koenig Kenworthy

Informed Consent: Its Origin, Purpose, Problems, and Limits, Nancy M. Kettle

A Comparison of Job Stressors and Job Strains Among Employees Holding Comarable Jobs in Western and Eastern Societies, Cong Liu

Hamlet Haven: An Online, Annotated Bibliography, Harmonie Loberg

Development of an Aural Rehabilitation CD-ROM, Sierra Macdonald

Adapting the SCS Method for Estimating Runoff in Shallow Water Table Environments, Caroline Humphrey Masek

Selection of Clinical Trials: Knowledge Representation and Acquisition, Savvas Nikiforou

Belonging in Parent-School Partnerships: Perspectives of Parents of Middle School Students with Autism, Michael Wayne Riley

The Incidence of Positional Nystagmus in Healthy Participants Revisited, Terri L. Schneider

The goal of this study was to examine differences in the psychological characteristics of patients admitted to the hospital for acute or chronic Myocardial Infarction (MI) or Unstable Angina (UA). Depression, anger, anxiety, curiosity, defensiveness, social support, and coping were evaluated for 165 patients (86 MI and 79 UA), who were tested on the Cardiology Stepdown Ward of Tampa General Hospital. The following psychological measures were administered to these patients: the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI-2), the Rationality/Emotional Defensiveness (R/ED) Scale, the Adult Form of the Coping Responses Inventory (CRI-Adult), the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL), the Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ), the State-Trait Personality Inventory (STPI), and the Structured Clinical Interview (SCID-I) for the DSM - IV. Significantly more chronic patients than acute patients met criteria for depression as measured by the SCID following admission to the hospital, and more UA than MI patients also met these criteria. However, no differences were found between the acute vi and chronic MI and UA patients two weeks prior to admission. Results of this study also indicated that chronic patients and UA patients reported a greater frequency of illness symptoms and tended to cope with their heart disease through avoidant strategies. Chronic patients endorsed higher levels of state and trait anger compared with acute patients, and UA patients were less likely to believe that their illness could be cured or controlled (Control of Cure) than MI patients. Based on the results of this study, it appears that avoidance coping may be an insufficient strategy for addressing negative emotions of chronic patients and UA patients. In addition, perceived lack of control over the success of treatment may be related to depression for UA patients. These findings have important implications for the development and implementation of interventions designed to address perceived control over treatment effectiveness and coping skills for negative emotions in the treatment and rehabilitation of cardiac patients., Gregory J. Spirakis

Public Participation in Environmental Management: Seeking Participatory Equity through Ethnographic Inquiry, John V. Stone

Ammonia Sampling using Ogawa® Passive Samplers, Paul Tate

The Effects of Induced Depressed Mood on Recall of Experiences with Racial Discrimination, Tamra Williams

The Presence of Binaural Interaction Component (BIC) in the Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) of Normal Hearing Adults, Man Sze Wong

Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

THE EFFECT OF MULCHING ON HERBACEOUS WETLAND CREATION AREAS IN WEST-CENTRAL FLORIDA, Christopher J. Anderson

The Relationship Between Self-Perceived Benefit as Measured by the APHAB, COSI and CPHI and the Presence of APD in an Elderly Population, Michelle L. Bleiweiss

Building Online Learning: System Insights into Group Learning in an International Online Environment, Naomi Rose Boyer

Development of an Audiological Test Procedure Manual for First Year Au.D. Students, Patricia I. Carr

RESPONSE OF THE THREATENED SAND SKINK (NEOSEPS REYNOLDS!) AND OTHER HERPETOFAUNAL SPECIES TO BURNING AND CLEARCUTTING IN THE FLORIDA SAND PINE SCRUB HABITAT, Kristie D. Gianopulos

Rainfall-Runoff Modeling in Humid Shallow Water Table Environments, Tatiana X. Hernandez

Effects of Deadline Contingencies in a Web-Based Course on HTML, Tina L. Majchrzak

Creating Healing Spaces, the Process of Designing Holistically a Battered Women Shelter, Lilian Menéndez

Manual Handling Workload and Musculoskeletal Discomfort in Nursing Personnel, Nancy Nivison Menzel