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 2023

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Patterns in Biodiversity and Community Assemblage in Macrofaunal Fouling Communities on Tampa Bay Floating Docks, Cassidy C. Bell

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An Experimental Study of Negative Performance Feedback: Consideration of a Cognitive Pathway and Individual Difference Factors, Ansley M. Bender

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Insect Classification and Explainability from Image Data via Deep Learning Techniques, Tanvir Hossain Bhuiyan

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Efficacy of Online Social Movements for Sparking Change: The Case of the Missing Murdered and Indigenous Women Movement (#MMIW), Kacy A. Bleeker

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Understanding Graduation Rates by Sex by Evaluating the Quality of Student Interactions with Faculty and Academic Advisors, Michael John Bolen

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Chasing a Moving Target: Examining Shifts in Elementary Teachers' Language and Conceptions of Digital Literacy During Professional Learning, Stephanie M. Branson

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aPKCs role in Neuroblastoma cell signaling cascades and Implications of aPKCs inhibitors as potential therapeutics, Sloan Breedy

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A Critical Analysis of the Graduate Socialization of Racially Minoritized School Psychology Students, Tatiana J. Broughton

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Evolution of Novice Teachers’ Instructional Visions to Teach Elementary Mathematics: A Longitudinal Collective Case Study, Amber Nicole Brown

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Academic Advisors' Perceptions of Implicit Bias in Interactions with Students: An Exploratory Case Study, Bobby A. Brown

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How Some Arboreal Salamanders (genus Aneides) Jump, Glide, and Generate Lift, Christian E. Brown

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An Examination of Racial Disparities in Arrest Across Florida Counties, 1998-2018: A Test of the Racial Threat and Political Representation Hypotheses, Xavier D. Burch

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Of Mētis and Cuttlefish: Employing Collective Mētis as a Theoretical Framework for Marginalized Communities, Justiss Wilder Burry

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Evaluating Foot-drop Interventions for Multiple Sclerosis Using a Multimodal System, Laura Marie Byrnes-Blanco

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The Influence of COVID-19 on Tobacco Racial Health Disparities: Testing the Differential Effects of COVID-19 on Smoking Motivation Variables across Black and White Smokers, Patricia F. Calixte-Civil

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An Evaluation of Measurement Invariance of DSM-5 Borderline Personality Disorder Criteria Across Heterosexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults, E. Elisa Carsten

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Travel and Migration Behaviors of Migrants from Puerto Rico During Disasters, Lauren C. Carter

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On the Performance Enhancement of Beamspace MIMO and Non-orthogonal Multiple Access for Future Cellular Networks, Sinasi Cetinkaya

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The Relationships Between L1, Writing Quality, and Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in L2 Writing, Tuc C. Chau

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The Influence of Psychosocial Factors on Opioid Decision-Making for Cancer-Related Pain Among Breast Cancer Survivors: A Mixed Method Study, Melody Nichole Chavez

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Exploring Time-Varying Extraneous Variables Effects in Single-Case Studies, Ke Cheng

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For Love or Money: Investor Motivations in Equity-Based Crowdfunding, Jason C. Cherubini

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Supervision Needs at 2 and 5 Years Post Traumatic Brain Injury: A Veterans Affairs TBI Model Systems Study, Deveney M. K. Ching

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How the Taiwanese podcast Bailingguo News framed the 2019 Hong Kong movement: A framing analysis of the anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill, Yu-Fei Chiu

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Using the Genetic Counseling Skills Checklist to Characterize Prenatal Genetic Counseling, David A. Cline

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Protein Folding Kinetics Analysis Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Dhanya Dhananjayan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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