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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Iron-Virus Interactions: Development and Testing of the Ferrojan Horse Hypothesis, Chelsea Bonnain

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The Effects of Mortality Salience on Interest in Death (and Life) Among High Openness Individuals, Patrick Boyd

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Linking Sleep and Aggression: The Role of Response Inhibition and Emotional Processing, Melanie L. Bozzay

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Exploring New Teacher Beliefs: Identity, Home-life, and Culture in the Classroom, Frederick B. Bradley III

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[X]splaininggender, race, class, and body: Metapragmatic disputes of linguistic authority and ideologies on Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr, Judith C. Bridges

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Economies of Salvation in English Anchoritic Texts, 1100-1400, Joshua Edward Britt

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The Teacher Evaluation Conundrum: Examining the Perceptions of Special Education Teachers, Gordon Brobbey

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Cultivating Educators’ Critical Consciousness of Learning and Language Needs in Emergent Bilinguals, Alta Joy Broughton

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A Tall Ship: The Rise of the International Mercantile Marine, Jeffrey N. Brown

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Habitat Suitability Index Model of the Florida Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis pratensis) in West-Central Florida, Courtney E. Buck

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DNA Barcoding of Fish Eggs in the Gulf of Mexico, Makenzie Burrows

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Supporting Persons with Dementia in Communicating their Care Preferences, Vanessa L. Burshnic

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Nanoparticle Synthesis for Glucose-Loaded Mesoporous Silica and Sucrose Hydrolysis Strategies for Bioanalyte Detection Applications using a Personal Glucose Meter, Xiomar Emauel Bustos Perez

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Animal-Assisted Therapy to Increase Independent Reading forChildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Taylor L. Butts

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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