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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 2022 2022

Approach and Avoidance Food Craving: A Dual Cue Reactivity Investigation, Christina Lee Verzijl

“That’s What We Call ‘Aesthetics’”: The Social Construction of Tap Water Mistrust in an Underbounded Community, Abby Vidmar

Ice Deposits in Lava Tubes from West-Central New Mexico as Archives of Past Volcanic Eruptions and Climate Change, Quinton Z. Vitelli-Hawkins

Assisted Living Administrators’ Perspectives of how COVID-19 Affected Direct Care Staff, Carlyn E. Vogel

Informal Communication, Sensemaking, and Relational Precarity: Constituting Resilience in Remote Work During COVID, Tanya R.M. Vomacka

Advanced Analytical Method Development: from Highly-Enrolled Classroom to Data-Intensive Proteomics, Laxmi Sinduri Vuppala

Easing the Postpartum Return to Work: Workplace Resources, Work Interference with Family, and Health Behaviors, Aashna M. Waiwood

Essays on Upper Echelons Research in Sales Management, Hao Wang

Measuring and Improving Student Attitude in College-level Chemistry: A Novel Survey Methodology and Social-psychological Interventions, Ying Wang

Advanced Methods for Railroad Station Operation Decisions: Data Analytics, Optimization, Automation, Yuan Wang

Targeting the Side-Chain Convergence of α-Helical Hot Spots to Design Small-Molecule Mimetics Disrupting Protein-Protein Interaction, Zhen Wang

Dynamic Study of Inverter-based Resources in Weak Grids, Zhengyu Wang

Preventing Variadic Function Attacks Through Argument Width Counting, Brennan Ward

The Effects of Motivationally Enhanced Digital Game-Based Learning on Undergraduate Students’ Learning Motivation, Mathematics Achievement, and Learning Retention in College Algebra, Dennis Ward

Defining the role of Oxidized Mitochondrial DNA in Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Grace Anne Ward

Bioactivity of Suberitenones A and B, Jared G. Waters

Black Cemeteries Matter: The Erasure of Historic Black Cemeteries in Polk County, Florida, Juliana C. Waters

An Anthropology with Human Waste Management: Non-Humans, The State, and Matters of Care on the Placencia Peninsula, Belize, William Alex Webb

Developing Efficient Transition Metal Catalyzed C-C & C-X Bond Construction, Chiyu Wei

Using Online Reviews to Identify How Hotels Can Satisfy Travelers With Pets While Making Money, Sonia Weinhaus

PAD Beyond the Classroom: Integrating PAD in the Scrum Workplace, Jade S. Weiss

Chemical Investigation and Drug Discovery Potential of Terpenoid Secondary Metabolites from Three Deep-Sea Irish Soft Corals, Joshua Thomas Welsch

The Hybridization of Home: Establishing Place Between the Garrison and the Wilderness in Mary Rowlandson's (1682) Captivity Narrative, Brooke M. Weltch

A Case Study in Applied Behavior Analysis: Using Prevent-Teach-Reinforce Strategies to Decrease a Student’s Task Refusal, Kiersten L. Whitaker

Lord of the Z-rings: Uncovering the Role of MraZ and FtsL in Bacillus subtilis Cell Division, Maria Louise White

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH FOLLOWING BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION, Michelle Renee Widows

A Principal's Story of Leadership: The Evolution of School Culture in a School for Gifted Education, Lori Wiley

Interactions between juvenile estuary-dependent fishes and microalgal dynamics, Ian C. Williams

The Specifics of Specific Learning Disability: An Analysis of State-Level Eligibility Criteria and Response to Intervention Practices, Lora M. Williams

Evaluating and Improving a Novel Toolkit for Implementation and Optimization of Lynch Syndrome Universal Tumor Screening, Tara M. Wolfinger

Making a Way: An Auto/ethnographic Exploration of Narratives of Citizenship, Identity, (Un)Belonging and Home for Black Trinidadian[-]American Women, Anjuliet G. Woodruffe

An Edgefield Ceramic Assemblage from the Lost Town of St. Joseph, Northwest Florida, Crystal R. Wright

Assessing Reported Use of Clinical Genetic Counseling Skills, Nicole M. Wright

Phenotypic Variability in iPSC-Induced Cardiomyocytes and Cardiac Fibroblasts Carrying Diverse LMNA Mutations, Jiajia Yang

High-Risk Traffic Crash Pattern Recognition and Identification Using Econometric Models and Machine Learning Models, Runan Yang

Biochar Amended Biological Systems for Enhanced Landfill Leachate and Lignocellulosic Banana Waste Treatment, Xia Yang

X-linked Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 11 Increases Tauopathy Vulnerability in Women, Yan Yan

Measurement in Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics Education: Student Explanations of Organic Chemistry Reaction Mechanisms and Instructional Practices in Introductory Courses, Brandon J. Yik

Passive Radiative Cooling by Spectrally Selective Nanoparticles in Thick Film Nanocomposites, David Allen Young

Study on New Reactivity of Vinyl Gold and Its Sequential Transformations, Teng Yuan

The Use of Social Media by Leaders in Times of Crisis: 2020–21 United States Election Protests, Cagdas Yuksel

Exploration of Energy Efficient Computing for Data-Intensive Applications, Md Adnan Zaman

A Case Study in Applied Behavior Analysis: Increasing Color Receptive Identification Using Positional Prompts, Nicole Zamorano

Improving Robustness of Deep Learning Models and Privacy-Preserving Image Denoising, Hadi Zanddizari

Isotopic Study of the Waters from the Sulphur Springs Catchment, Tampa, Florida, Esra Zengin

Study on New Strategy toward Gold(I/III) Redox Catalysis, Shuyao Zhang

Ocean Eddies and Frontal Zones in the Gulf of Mexico and Straits of Florida, Yingjun Zhang

Research on Stability and Resilience of Modern Power Systems, Yi Zhou

The biological roles of tau protein in the vasculature and the regulation of VEGFR1 signaling by heparan sulfate, Yanan Zhu

Inland Tropical Cyclone Intensity Decay in the Continental United States, Yijie Zhu