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 2019

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Increasing Engagement and Academic Performance of Children with Autism SpectrumDisorder and Attention Difficulties: Do Fidget Spinners Help?, Melanie Byrne B.S.

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Validating the Construct of Resiliency in the Health Literacy and Resiliency Scale (HLRS-Y) with the Child and Youth Resiliency Measure (CYRM-28), Mercedes N. Cambric

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Three Theorists on Religious Violence in an Islamic Context: Karen Armstrong, Mark Juergensmeyer, and William T. Cavanaugh, Ayse Camur

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Leadership Advocacy, Ethical Negotiations, and Resignations to High-Stakes Assessment: A Pilgrimage, Jennifer Galbraith Canady

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The Effects of a Daily Behavior Report Card Intervention: Inclusion of a Peer Mediator Component, Deanna Canfield

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Taking an “Ecological Turn” in the Evaluation of Rhetorical Interventions, Peter Cannon

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A Communication-Centric Framework for Post-Silicon System-on-chip Integration Debug, Yuting Cao

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Locating a New Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program, a Framework for a University Campus, Douglas H. Carter

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Investigating Student Conceptual Understanding of Structure and Function by Using Formative Assessment and Automated Scoring Models, Kelli Patrice Carter

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Fractional Random Weighted Bootstrapping for Classification on Imbalanced Data with Ensemble Decision Tree Methods, Sean Charles Carter

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Investigating the Proteinaceous Regulome of the Acinetobacter baumannii, Leila G. Casella

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American Converts to Islam: Identity, Racialization, and Authenticity, Patrick M. Casey

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"It's Not Addiction Until You Graduate": Natural Recovery in the College Context, Breanne I. Casper

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The Efficacy of Comedy, Mark Anthony Castricone

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Online and Self-Directed LearningReadiness Among Hospitality and Tourism College Students and Industry Professionals, Muhittin Cavusoglu

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Dating Application Facilitated Victimization: An Examination of Lifestyle-Routine Activities, Self-Control, and Self-Efficacy, Vanessa Centelles

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The Activity and Structure of Cu2+-Biomolecules in Disease and Disease Treatment, Darrell Cole Cerrato

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Illuminating Changes in Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions about Teaching Elementary Mathematicsin an Introductory Methods Course, Elaine Cerrato

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Experimental Results of a Model Reference Adaptive Control Approach on an Interconnected Uncertain Dynamical System, Kemberly Cespedes

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Authentication and SQL-Injection Prevention Techniques in Web Applications, Cagri Cetin

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Ecological Responses of Seascape Heterogeneity, Dinorah H. Chacin

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Assessing the Effects of Observational Conditioning and Response-Contingent Pairing on Increasing Vocalizations in Children with ASD, Sydni Chance

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‘If He Hits Me, Is That Love? I Don’t Think So’: An Ethnographic Investigation of the Multi-Level Influences Shaping Indigenous Women’s Decision-Making Around Intimate Partner Violence in the Rural Peruvian Andes, Isabella Li Chan

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Model of a Sulfur-based Cyclic Denitrification Filter for Marine Recirculating Aquaculture Systems, Zhang Cheng

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Exploring the Equity Performance of Bike-Sharing Systems with Disaggregated Data: A Story of Southern Tampa, Zhiwei Chen

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Understanding Employee Engagement: An Examination of Millennial Employees and Perceived Human Resource Management Practices, Danielle J. Clark

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Species Abundance, Spatial and Vertical Distributionsof Large Heteropods (Pterotracheidae and Carinariidae)in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Kristine A. Clark

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Past hydroclimate and vegetation variation in Romania inferred from isotopic geochemistry and pollen of cave bat guano, Daniel Martin Cleary

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Phase Evolution and Dynamic Behavior in Materials with Noncollinear Spin Textures, Eleanor M. Clements

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Students' Perceptions on Alternative Break Experiences and Selecting an Academic Major in a Four-Year College, Bianny Fernández Collado

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International Teaching Assistants’ Perceptions of English and Spanish Language Use at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Edward G. Contreras Santiago

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Blaxploitation’s Revolutionary Sexuality: Rethinking Images of Male Hypersexuality in Sweetback & Shaft, Austin D. Cook

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Life as a Reluctant Immigrant: An Autoethnographic Inquiry, Dionel Cotanda

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Exploration of Gratitude in Cardiovascular Health: Mediators, Medication Adherence and Psychometrics, Lakeshia A. Cousin

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Plasticity in Animated Children’s Cartoons: The Neoliberal Transforming Bodies and Static Worlds of OK KO and Gumball, Rachel E. Cox

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Hierarchical Self-Assembly and Substitution Rules, Daniel Alejandro Cruz

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Foreign Language Teaching Assistants' Development: How do their ideal language teacher selves unfold over time?, Jhon Alvaro Cuesta Medina

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“It’s A Broken System That’s Designed to Destroy”: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Healthcare Providers’ Stories About Race, Reproductive Health, and Policy, Brianna Rae Cusanno

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Functional Characterization of the Ovarian Tumor Domain Deubiquitinating Enzyme 6B, Jasmin M. D'Andrea

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Tales of Trafficking: Performing Women's Narratives in a Sex Trafficking Rehabilitation Program in Florida, Jaine E. Danlag

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Relationships between Major, Performance, Time on Academic Activities, Social Activities, and Gender of First-Year Traditional Students, Denise Darby

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Intrinsically Disorder Proteins and Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions in Neurodegenerative Diseases, April Lynn Darling

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A Study on the Influence of Instructional Mentors on Novice Teachers in High-Needs Schools, Dodi Palkovic Davenport

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Quantifying the Friedreich Ataxia Rating Scale and the Functional Performance Measures, Chelsea Rene Davis

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MTSS Implementation in High Schools: Expert and Stakeholder Perspectives, Julie Daye

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Mapping Reward Values to Cues, Locations, and Objects: The Influence of Reward Associations on Visual Attention, Constanza de Dios

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Teachers and Administrators Explain How and Why Teachers Change Instructional Methods in a Pre-K Through Eight Catholic School, Judith A. Deeley

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William of Ockham's Divine Command Theory, Matthew Dee

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Using the Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Secondary (PTR-SEC) Model for High School Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Deanna Deenihan

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Meaning and Monuments: Morality, Racial Ideology, and Nationalism in Confederate Monument Removal Storytelling, Kathryn A. DelGenio