Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Whose Food?: A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Analysis of Sarasota Farmers Markets, Charles Gillig
PAST ON A PLATE: AN EXPLORATION OF ‘HEIRLOOM’ CULTIVARS AS POLITICALLY PALATABLE, Cady Gonzalez
SOCIALIZATION AND REGULATION: CAREGIVER CHARACTERISTICS AND PRESCHOOLERS’ EXPECTATIONS IN NEGATIVE EMOTION-ELICITING SITUATIONS, Allison Gornik
GO LALA GO!: GLOBALIZATION, CONSUMERISM, AND GENDER IN CHINESE ROMANTIC COMEDY, Morgan Southwell Gurr
CREATING A SPOTTED WING DROSOPHILA, DROSOPHILA SUZUKII (MATSUMURA), FRUIT PUREE DIET TO FACILITATE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES, Lynn Marie Gusman
IMAGINING INNOCENCE AND TEMPTATION: THEOLOGY OF THE FALL IN THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA AND THE HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY, Rachael Haensly
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING, NATURAL GAS EXTRACTION AND OIL PRICE, Daniel L. Henderson
Copper(I)-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloadditions for Functionalization of Enzyme Packaged Viral Nanoparticles, Robert Hincapie
PERFECT BODY, PERFECT SACRIFICE: CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE VIRGIN MARTYR BODY, Kailey Holtslander
Restoration by Defecation: Effects of Nutrient Enrichment via Bird Guano on Seagrass Propeller Scar Healing Times, Kelsey Hunt-Dolon
OPIOID ADDICTION AND TREATMENT, Anamaria Husar
“CLASHING IMAGES”: ISSUES OF TOURNAMENT AND IDENTITY IN THE CHIVALRIC LITERATURE OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND, Dmitriy Istomin
RITUAL AND HEALING: EXPLORATIONS OF THE PLACEBO PHENOMENON AND PERUVIAN CURANDERISMO IN IQUITOS, PERU, Victoria Elizabeth Jara
THE MULTIPLICITY OF HERITAGE AT WARM MINERAL SPRINGS, Jodi L. Johnson
GENRE AND INTERTEXTUALITY IN OVID'S HEROIDES, Erin Black Kent
METHODS DEVELOPMENT FOR SPECTRAL SIMPLIFICATION OF ROOM-TEMPERATURE ROTATIONAL SPECTRA, Erin Black Kent
“WE’RE GAY BUT WE’RE NOT SUPER GAY ABOUT IT”: NEGOTIATIONS OF MASCULINITY AND EFFEMINACY ON R/GAYBROS, Rosalind Kichler
EYES, EARS AND GUESSWORK: CREATING ORTHOGRAPHIC AND PHONOLOGICAL MEASURES OF VOCABULARY BREADTH FOR BEGINNING AND ADVANCED SPANISH AND MANDARIN CHINESE SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNERS, Robert Matthew Klinkel
LOUD: CRITICAL PRACTICE OF FILM, SOUNDS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, Liat Krongrad
DOES FRUSTRATION EXPLAIN THE AGGRESSIVE CONSEQUENCES OF VIDEOGAMES?, Daniel Joseph Lane
DIGITAL PRAXIS: A MODEL OWL FOR CRITICAL INTERVENTION IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT, Kyle Larson
REDEFINING FREE SPEECH: THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE 1798 SEDITION ACT, Christopher Lay
SEEING THE LIGHT: SPIRITUALITY EMBODIED, Jessie Leasure
FLUCTUATIONS OF THE BETA RHYTHM: MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND PERIODIC FORCING OF A CORTICAL MICROCIRCUIT, Michael Leone
ANSELM KIEFER’S MEDITATIONS ON MELENCOLIA, Gracie Loesser
Model Legislation as a Tool for Policy Diffusion in the United States, Michael Long
THE MONSTER WITHIN AND WITHOUT: IDENTITY ASSIGNMENT AND CONSTRUCTION IN SLAVE NARRATIVES AND HORROR FICTION, Chelsey Lucas
Analysis of Copy Number Variation Association with GWAS Methylation Data, Jr., Steven Joseph Machusko
The Effects of Chronic Pain on Neurophysiology and Long Term Potentiation, Catherine Martini
CROSS-STRAIT TRADING, DOES ECONOMIC INTEGRATION LEAD TO POLITICAL INTEGRATION?, Tian Ma
TRANSLATING TRISTAN: RECONSIDERING MEDIEVAL TRANSLATIONS OF THE TRISTAN AND ISOLDE STORY, Holly McArthur
CHIRPED-PULSE MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF SMALL MOLECULES, Morgan McCabe
THE EFFECTS OF FISH WASTE NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT ON THALASSIA TESTUDINUM BANKS EX KÖNIG IN SARASOTA BAY, FLORIDA, Kyle McCormick
“AM I STILL LOST?”: CULTIVATING COMPLEX IDENTITIES AND SUBJECTIVITY IN 20th-CENTURY WOMEN'S WRITING ON MADNESS, Molly McCormick
Finsler Structures in the Photon Sector of the Standard Model Extension, Navin McGinnis
A FUSION OF MEDIUMS AND REVERSING EKPHRASIS: USING PHOTOGRAPHY TO RESPOND TO THE POETRY OF GEORGE OPPEN, Taylor Meredith
MISPLACING WHAT MATTERS: ELUCIDATING A COMMON PHILOSOPHICAL MISTAKE, Austin Mooney
myPOD: EXPLORING THE RHYTHMIC VESSEL, Matt Morgan
GROUP RING CRYPTOGRAPHY, Helen Moscardini
NO LEG TO STAND ON: DIFFERENCES IN THE STAND-UP COMEDY MATERIAL OF SUCCESSFUL MALE AND FEMALE COMEDIANS, Juliana Musheyev
I Be Goin Places: Sociolinguistic Assimilation in a Baltimore Boarding School, Kade Doyle Needham
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE ELECTRIC CAR: AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE, Tyler Scott Neumann
FROM SAVING LIVES TO SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS: THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE ON URBAN REFUGEE LIVELIHOODS IN SOUTH AFRICA, Natalie Neville
TROUBLED GROUNDS: FLORIDA’S STAND YOUR GROUND LAW AND THE THREAT OF COVERT RACISM AGAINST BLACKS IN THE UNITED STATES, Alexander Nicoleau
CONFLICT, DIFFERENCE, AND ABJECTION IN POST-9/11 FICTION AND TELEVISION EXAMINING TERRORISTS, Denneillia Nugent
CÓMO SER LATINO EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS: THE FACTORS INFLUENCING ETHNIC IDENTITY CHOICES AMONG SECOND GENERATION LATINOS, Farrell A. Ocasio
“LIKE HAVING A MUSE IN THE ROOM WITH YOU”: THE EXCHANGES OF THE NEW YORK SCHOOL, Jared O'Connor
Cultivating Blossoming and Healing Ecologies via Radical Virtue Ethics con Cariño: Encouraging Learning, Care and Restorative Justice, Andrea Alejandra Ortiz Sotelo
EFFECTS OF FREQUENCY AND DISTANCE OF INTRUDERS ON AGGRESSION OF THREESPOT DAMSELFISH (STEGASTES PLANIFRONS), Grace Otto
EXPLORING ANTHROPOLOGY’S POTENTIAL AS A CATALYST FOR REFORMATION IN AMERICAN PEDAGOGY, Nicole A. Ouellette
REPRESENTATIONS OF AGENCY AND COMMUNION IN NARRATIVES ABOUT THE SELF VERSUS GENDERED OTHERS, Taylor S. Parker
Frog Creek Burial Mound (8MA44): An Addition to the Safety Harbor Period Archaeological Record, Theresa Paschal
FEMININE WILES: PERFORMANCE AND EMBODIMENT BY WEBCAM MODELS, Michelle W. Patteson
PROBING PROTEOMES WITH ALTERNATIVE PROTEASES: LYS-N & ARG-C, Thomas Earle Platé IV
GENETIC DETERMINANTS FOR THE EPIGENETIC SILENCING OF TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENES IN LUNG CANCER, Phillip Edward Pope
UNBUTTONING THE EVERYDAY: MUNDANE MATERIALS TRANSFORMED, Gabriella Powell
THE COMPETITION BETWEEN microRNA 495 AND HuD AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE REGULATION OF mRNA TARGETS INVOLVED IN COCAINE ADDICTION, Alexandra Quezada
ON THE CALORIMETRY OF NANOFLUIDS, Ralf Raud
“I AM AN ISLAND. I AM THE WHOLE WORLD:” PERFORMANCE AND THE FORMATION OF IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY MONOLOGUE DRAMA, Emily Mercedes Rich
RAISING HER VOICE, CHANGING THEIR VOTE: WOMEN’S SUBSTANTIVE REPRESENTATION AND GENDER QUOTAS IN INDIA’S PANCHAYATI RAJ, Laura Robinson
DEFINING BY DIFFERENCE: THE LEGACY OF THE PUDICA GESTURE IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ART, Rachel Robison
Herding Cats, Bounding Spirit Spiritualism, Public Ritual and Spectral Science in Cassadaga, Florida, Dylan Robitaille
CHALLENGING MOTHERHOOD IDEALS: IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT IN RETT MOM BLOGS, Corey Rodda
The Soldier’s Contract: The Institutional Development of U.S. Civil-Military Relations, Blair A. Sapp
“SOME WEIRD BUNCH OF ANTI-REBELS”: POSTMODERNISM AND THE EMERGENCE OF POST-POSTMODERNISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, Trey Sarratt
PREDICTIVE RANKING SYSTEMS FOR AMERICAN COLLEGE FOOTBALL, Kyle Saunders
MATERIALIZING THE ANORECTIC BODY: A DISCOURSE ANALYTIC, PHENOMENOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION, Melayna Schiff
MAKE IT OR BREAK IT: A FORAY INTO THE EATING HABITS OF AUTOTOMIZED STONE CRABS MENIPPE MERCENARIA (SAY 1818), Hannah Schotman
Kinetic Characterization of Embryonic Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase from C. elegans, Derek Schwabe-Warf
UNRAVELING THE REVOLUTION: DISTANCING TRUMAN’S COLD WAR NARRATIVE FROM GUATEMALA’S TEN YEARS OF SPRING, David Scrivener
"If You're Out of Sight, You're Out of Mind": The Criminalization of Houselessness and the Coercive Geography of Class in Sarasota, Florida., Niko Segal-Wright
DEFROSTING THE DISCOURSE: COLD WAR U.S. PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC FROM CONTAINMENT TO DÉTENTE, Anthony Serifsoy
SELECTIVE EXTRACTION OF THE HERBICIDE PROMETON USING MAGNETIC MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED NANOPARTICLES, Suzanne Setti
FROM BEHIND THE MIRROR: PUBLISHING THE WORKS OF ANAÏS NIN, Elizabeth Claire Sheehey
COMMON GROUND AND DISCURSIVE JUSTIFICATION: Approaching the Traditional Epistemological Questions from an Untraditional Angle, Ryan Simonelli
AN EXAMINATION OF POLYNUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHORYLASE’S PROTECTIVE EFFECTS ON ESCHERICHIA COLI MG1655 WITHIN ACTIVATED MACROPHAGES, Jonas Preston Slackman
THE ECONOMICS AND SUSTAINABILITY OF COMPOST AT NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA: A COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, David Smith
EXPLORING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ASSERTIVENESS, HEALTH, AND GENDER IN CHILDREN AGES 6-11, Kelsey Jae Smith
SMALL STEPS BY MANKIND, GIANT LEAPS FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS: STATE-LEVEL FARM ANIMAL WELFARE LEGISLATION, Malorie Sneed
A VISUAL HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPICTION AS SEEN IN THE IMAGERY OF THREE ENGLISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES, Kaitlin Statz
“NO OUTSIDE OF NATURE”: INVESTIGATIONS TOWARD AN ECOPOETICS, Kyla Stevens
EXCESS RETURNS OF DISCIPLINED VALUE INVESTORS: A CASE AGAINST MARKET EFFICIENCY, Matthew Stevenson
MENTAL TOUGHNESS, PERSONALITY, AND BENEFIT FINDING, Maiah Taylor
SEX, POWER, AND MODALITIES OF CARE: THE GENESIS OF BDSM ETHICS, Samuel Thornton
RESISTING CONFESSION IN TWO YOUNG ADULT NOVELS OF IMPRISONMENT, Nicolas Torres
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND AMERICAN VOTER PARTICIPATION: A COMPREHENSIVE CAUSAL MODEL, James Tyer
“So long and thanks for all the fish”: Human interactions with a begging bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and effects of educational efforts, Madelaine Verbeek
CHRIST’S BLOOD AND THE SIDE WOUND AS FOUNTAIN, BODY, MOUTH, AND DOOR: LATE MEDIEVAL DEVOTIONAL IMAGERY IN BRITISH LIBRARY MS EGERTON 1821, Margaret Vincent
Enzymatic Catalysis in b-lactamases: Protonation States of the Catalytic Triad, Kenneth Wang
WALT’S EXCEPTIONAL EMPIRE: FORDISM, HEGEMONY, AND SPECTACLE AT DISNEY, Thayer Z. Warne
MINING FOR EMOTIONS: AN INVESTIGATION INTO EMPATHY AND IMMERSION IN VIDEO GAMES, Jonathan Weinberg
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: UNDERSTANDING POLICY FORMATION, POLICY DIVISION, AND STATE ACTION, Wyatt Weisenberg
SORTING THROUGH THE MUC: A CHARACTERIZATION OF MUC1 IN ACQUIRED CHEMO-RESISTANCE IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER, Alexandria Wells
TRADITION IS BROKEN: ILLEGIBILITY AND AUTHORSHIP IN ELIZABETH BOWEN’S INTERWAR COURTSHIP NOVELS, Taylor Welsh
GARDENS AS EDUCATIONAL TOOLS IN URBAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Michelle Diane Wheat
THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENERAL ANESTHESIA, Andrew Williams
UNDERSTANDING PRODUCTIVITY IN DEVELOPING NATIONS: TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN CHINA AND MEXICO, Katherine Tondreau Williams
QUASI-PERIODICITY IN SCULPTURE, Nathan Wilson