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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 2002 2002

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

A Tutorial: Use of the WHO ICIDH-2 for Determining Aural Rehabilitation Goals, Nancy Muscato Patterson

Clinical Proficiency Levels Expected at the End of the Second and Third Years in an Au.D. Program, Karen Janine Richardson

A prototypical Computer Museum, Eric Otto Ryder

Safe at Home: Agoraphobia and the Discourse on Women’s Place, Suzie Siegel

THE FORAGING ECOLOGY OF THE JUVENILE GOPHER TORTOISE, GOPHERUSPOL YPHEMUS, Terri Anne Stilson

The Gatun Structure: A geological assessment of a newly recognized impact structure near Lake Gatun in the Republic de Panama, Livio Leonardo Tornabene

A Time Study of Audiological Practice Patterns and the Impact of Reimbursement Changes from Third Part Payers, Melody A. Tucker

Regulation of YY1, a Multifunctional Transcription Factor, Ya-Li Yao

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

The Role of Audiology Technicians in the VA System, John Terry Berardino

Growth and Characterization of ZnO for the Front Contact of Cu(In,Ga)Se2, Rita Bhatt

MODELING COMMUNITY RISK AND VULNERABILITY TO MULTIPLE NATURAL HAZARDS: HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA, Christopher T. Emrich

Survey of Auditory Brainstem Response Referral Criteria, Shannon N. Felder

Evaluation and Treatment of Tinnitus, Renee Lokenberg

We Are Not Victims: Oral Histories of Four Mexican-American Women, Carmen Melendez Maayan

BEANS AND POTS, Deborah K. Nelson

Difference in hearing screening failure rates as a function of ethnicity in well newborns screened at Tampa General Hospital, Sybil N. Prewitt

THE EFFECTS OF SILVICULTURE AND PRESCRIBED BURNING ON HERPETOFAUNA IN FLORIDA SAND-PINE SCRUB, Stig Ravdal

Incidence of Unilateral, High Frequency, Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Shunt Treated Hydrocephalic Children Ipsilateral to Shunt Placement, Susan E. Spirakis

Women, Environment and Development: Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, Evaline Tiondi

Use of the Client Oriented Scale of Improvement as a Clinical Outcome Measure in the Veterans Affairs National Hearing Aid Program, Robert F. Zelski

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

Thermodynamic Model and the Controlling Variables of Phosphate Lattice Loss, Mohammad Abutayeh

Literacy, Technology, and Change: The Gates of Hell, Janice R. Walker

Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998

Knowledge-Guided Processing of Magnetic Resonance Images of the Brain, Matthew C. Clark

Differential Expression of Homing-Associated Cell Adhesion Molecule, Very Late Antigen-4 and L-Selectin in Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Trafficking Between the Marrow and Blood, Caroline Brigitte Fultz

FLORIDA RED TIDES FROM A SCIENTIFIC AND PUBLIC INFORMATION PERSPECTIVE, Kristen M. Kusek

STOCHASTIC METHODS FOR EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL FOR WETLAND REHYDRATION IN COVERED-KARST TERRANES, Christian David Langevin

Acoustic and Perceptual Comparisons of Imitative Prosody in Kindergartners with and without Speech Disorders, Robin Harwell Rodriguez

THE INFLUENCE OF HABITAT VARIATION ON DEMOGRAPHY OF BLUE JAYS (CYANOCIITA CRISTATA) IN SOUTH-CENTRAL FLORIDA, Keith Allen Tarvin

GENETIC VARIATION IN CHRYSOPSIS FLORIDANA SMALL, THE ENDANGERED FLORIDA GOLDEN ASTER, AS REVEALED BY RANDOM AMPLIFICATION FOR POLYMORPHISM DETECTION (RAPD), Laurie Lysle Walker Markham

AN APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN FREEWAY INCIDENT DETECTION, Sujeeva A. Weerasuriya

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

HOMING BEHAVIOR AND ORIENTATION IN THE GOPHER TORTOISE, GOPHERUS POLYPHEMUS, Kevin Michael Connor