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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 2023 2023

Methadone Patients in Vietnam: Substance Use Patterns, Reasons for Entering Treatment, and Methadone-Related Attitudes, Tram Hoang Huyen Tran

Assessing the Relationship Between True Crime Documentary and Podcast Consumption, Fear of Crime, and Protective Behaviors, Lauren A. Tremblay

Interdependency between Water and Road Infrastructures: Cases and Impacts, Shihab Uddin

Observed Error Monitoring as an Index of Theory of Mind, Kipras Varkala

Hurricanes and Tropical Storms’ Impact on Water Quality in Lake Okeechobee, Florida, Daniela Vasquez Diaz

Framing, Emotion, and Contradiction in the Tampa Bay Times’ Climate Change Coverage, Madison Veeneman

Intimate Conversations: A Mixed-Methods Study of African American Father-Adolescent Sexual Risk Communication, Shanda A. Vereen

Developing New Strategy toward Ruthenium and Gold Redox Catalysis, Chenhuan Wang

I'll Make a Man Out of You: Precarious Manhood Beliefs among Heterosexual-Cisgender Men and Queer Men, Serena L. Wasilewski

Restoration and Modification of a Sputter Tool for the Deposition of a ZnO Guiding Layer via RF Sputtering, Matthew Watson

Histone Deacetylase 8 is a Novel Therapeutic Target for Mantle Cell Lymphoma and Preserves Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxic Function, January M. Watters

The Negotiation of Emotions: Teachers’ Emotional Expression Management in the ELA Classroom, Erika Watts

Police Officers’ Perceptions of Gunshot Detection Technology, Courtney L. Weber

Gold-Catalyzed Diyne-ene Cyclization: Synthesis of Hetero Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons and 1,2-Dihydropyridines, Jingwen Wei

Using Social Network Analysis to Measure and Visualize Student Clustering Within Middle and High Schools, Geoffrey David West

Evaluating Video Feedback to Improve eSports Performance in Street Fighter V, Romel C. White

The Contextualization of Socioscientific Issues in an Age of Accountability, Karrie A. Wikman

Assessment of ISO Heart Rate Method to Estimate Metabolic Rate, Karl Williams

Clinically Applied Anthropology: A Syndemic Intervention., Jason W. Wilson

Exploration of Shared Passenger Urban Air Mobility – Integrated Network Design, Operation Scheduling and System Configuration, Zhiqiang Wu

Development of Antiviral Peptidomimetics, Songyi Xue

Prepare for, Respond to, Recover, and Learn from Disasters: Using Data-Driven Methods to Model and Understand Disaster Resilience, Jinwen Xu

EEG Classifier Validation Methods for Neuroprosthetic Hand Development, Keigo Yamauchi

Quantifying the Effectiveness of Night Vision Detection: A Comparative Study of Visible Light, Night Vision, and Thermal Images, Feng Yeh

Automated Approaches to Enable Innovative Civic Applications from Citizen Generated Imagery, Hye Seon Yi

Spatial Mismatch between Electric Vehicles (EVs) and EV charging stations in Florida, Chuang Yin

From Other and From World: Expanding the Current Model of Existential Isolation, Roger Young Jr.

Rehabilitation Technologies to Abate Infiltration in Sanitary Sewers, Steve Youssef

Temporal and Spatial Properties of Orientation Summary Statistic Representations, Jacob S. Zepp

Adsorption of Long and Short Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) onto Granular Activated Carbon and Porous Organic Polymers, Yan Zhang

The Rise of Text Analysis: Using Machine Learning to Explain the Variation in Going Concern Accuracy, Yimei Zhang

Adiabatic Temperature Rise and Durability Performance of Slag Blended Concrete, Hai Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Boredom, Interoceptive Ability, and Emotional Eating, Erica Ahlich

Two Essays in Applied Microeconomics: Retirement, Income Inequalities, and other Economic Indicators of Health and Life Satisfaction, Zahra Akbari

New Developments in Statistical Optimal Designs for Physical and Computer Experiments, Damola M. Akinlana

An Analysis of International Soccer Fans’ Knowledge of Qatar, Perceptions of Qatar’s Country Image, and Intention to Support the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Taleb Al-Adbah

A Descriptive Exploratory Case Study of University of Central Riyadh Collaboration with Public Schools in Preparing Teachers, Arwa Alazwari

Building a Mentor-Mentee Maturity Model, Leroy A. Alexander

Using Movie Clips to Understand Vivid-Phrasal Idioms’ Meanings, Rasha Salem S. Alghamdi

Adapting the Montessori Method in Saudi Early Childhood Classrooms, Lila A. Alhashim

Do Auditors Respond to Changes in Clients’ Analyst Coverage? Evidence from a Natural Experiment, Mohammad Alkhamees

Environmental Transmission of Career Interests Through a Genetic Lens: Understanding the Confounding Around Parental Occupation, Tyler Allan

Saudi Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices Regarding Digital Technology in Early Years Education: A Qualitative Case Study, May Mohammed Alyaeesh

Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry: A Program Evaluation on University-Industry Collaboration, Lan Reneé Amboy-Biller

Sports and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Building A Better Framework For Sustainable Sports Operations, Austin Anahory

The effects of temperature and oxygen availability on aerobic performance in three coastal shark species; Squalus acanthias, Carcharhinus limbatus, and Carcharhinus leucas, Alyssa M. Andres

Interpreting 9/11: Religious or Political Event?, Fadime Apaydin

Integration of Sustainability into Higher Education Policies: A Case Study of the University of South Florida, Mehmet Z. Apaydin

Effects of Downdrag on Pile Performance, Malaak Omelia Araujo

Stochastic Models for Resilience Assessment and Improvement, Weimar Ardila Rueda