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 2015

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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Face-to-Face Orientations, Instructor Verbal Immediacy Behaviors, and Persistence in Online Courses, Donald Painter, Jr.

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Undergraduate College Students’ Attitudes About Internet-based Mental Health Interventions, Kathleen Palmer

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Design, Fabrication and Analysis of a Paver Machine Push Bar Mechanism, Mahendra Palnati

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A Comparative Study of Formal Verification Techniques for Authentication Protocols, Hernan Miguel Palombo

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Direct Solutions to Perceptual Organization Problems, Ravi Kumar Panchumarthy

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Utilizing Systems Level Approaches to Identify Key Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in BRAF Mutated Melanoma, Kim H.T. Paraiso

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Dissolved Nutrient Distributions in the Gulf of Mexico Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Ashley Ann Parks

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Sexual Functioning and Body Image in Younger Breast Cancer Survivors, Carly Lynn Paterson

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Nearest Neighbor Foreign Exchange Rate Forecasting with Mahalanobis Distance, Vindya Kumari Pathirana

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Trust in People and Trust in Technology: Expanding Interpersonal Trust to Technology-Mediated Interactions, Evgeniya Evgenieva Pavlova Miller

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Feeling at Home with Grief: An Ethnography of Continuing Bonds and Re-membering the Deceased, Blake Paxton

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Perspective from Two Professions: Two professionals Making Meaning of the Clinical Educator Role, Tara Payor

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Synthesis Techniques for Sub-threshold Leakage and NBTI Optimization in Digital VLSI Systems, Shilpa Pendyala

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Cognitive Load of Registered Nurses During Medication Administration, Sarah Faith Perron

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"In Heaven": Christian Couples' Experiences of Pregnancy Loss, Grace Ellen Peters

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Understanding the Role of Colloidal Particles in Electroporation Mediated Delivery, Alisha Peterson

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Development and application of web-based open source drug discovery platforms, Yuri Pevzner

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Myths and Miracles in Mexico City: Treatment Seeking, Language Socialization, and Identity among Deaf Youth and their Families, Anne Elaine Pfister

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Theoretical Investigations of Gas Sorption and Separation in Metal-Organic Materials, Tony Pham

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Applications of Optical Properties from Nanomaterials for Enhanced Activity of a Titania Photocatalyst under Solar Radiation, Jon W. Pickering

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Finding a Home: Latino Residential Influx into Progress Village, 1990-2010, Christopher Julius Pineda

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Dynamic Phasor Based Analysis and Control in Renewable Energy Integration, Lakshan Prageeth Piyasinghe

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Mid-Holocene Speleothem Climate Proxy Records from Florida and Belize, Anna L. Pollock

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Multiple Stain Histology of Skeletal Fractures: Healing and Microtaphonomy, John Wellington Powell

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Landscape Legacies of Sugarcane Monoculture at Betty's Hope Plantation, Antigua, West Indies, Suzanna M. Pratt

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Risk and Resiliency Factors at School Entry: Relations to Academic and Behavioral Outcomes in Early Adolescence, Krystle Kuzia Preece

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The Archaeology of the McKinnie Site (8JA1869), Apalachicola River Valley, Northwest Florida: Four Thousand Years in the Backswamp, Eric D. Prendergast

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Sarah Sze's "Triple Point": Modeling a Phenomenological Experience of Contemporary Life, Amanda J. Preuss

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A Depiction of Women in Tennessee with Low Literacy Skills and Their Access to Higher Education and Employment, Rebecca Puig

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Assessment of Public Health Risks Associated with Petrochemical Emissions Surrounding an Oil Refinery, Erin L. Pulster

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Investigаtiоn оf 3D Structures оf γ-AAрeрtide bаsed Peрtidоmimetics, Qiao Qiao

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Help! I have to teach math: The nature of a preservice teacher's experiences enacting mathematics instruction in a final internship, Lori Rakes

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Low-Power and Robust Level-Shifter with Contention Mitigation for Memory and Standalone Applications, Kenneth M. Ramclam

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Evaluating Corrosion Resistance of Reinforcing Steel in a Novel Green Concrete, Andrea Carolina Ramirez

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Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrochemical Properties of Polyaniline Thin Films, Soukaina Rami

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Development of the Professional School Social Work Survey: A Valid and Reliable Tool for Assessment and Planning, Catherine E. Randall

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How luck and fortune shape risk-taking behaviors, Andrea Yvonne Ranieri

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Evaluation of Low-Cost Low Impact Development Practices in Southwest Florida for the Control of Urban Runoff, Laura Kathren Rankin

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Optimization and Control for Microgrid and Power Electronic Converters, Vahid Rasouli Disfani

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Hepatic Nutrient and Hormonal Regulation of the PANcreatic-DERived Factor (PANDER) Promoter, Whitney Ratliff

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Effect of Timely Treatment on Malaria Gametocytemia in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Miguel Reina-Ortiz

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“You Better Redneckognize”: White Working-Class People and Reality Television, Tasha Rose Rennels

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Spatially-Weighted Ethnic Density and Residential Segregation: Effects on Health Status among Older Mexican Americans, Sung Han Rhew

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Now, We Hear Through a Voice Darkly: New Media and Narratology in Cinematic Art, James Anthony Ricci

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Function of Long Noncoding RNAs in Breast Cancer, Edward J. Richards

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Clinical and Criminal Justice Outcomes in the Jail Diversion and Trauma Recovery (JDTR) Program, Daniel Harold Ringhoff

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RF MEMS Resonators for Mass Sensing Applications, Ivan Fernando Rivera

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The Impact of Lingual Resistance Training in Two Individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Case Series, Raele Donetha Robison

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An Empirical Comparison of the Effect of Missing Data on Type I Error and Statistical Power of the Likelihood Ratio Test for Differential Item Functioning: An Item Response Theory Approach using the Graded Response Model, Patricia Rodriguez De Gil

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Auteurs at an Urban Crossroads: A Certain Tendency in New York Cinema, Rene Thomas Rodriguez