Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Can I Afford this Kindness? Sense of Security and Empathy, Julian Hunter
JUDGING WITH A SNIFF: CAN HORSES ASSOCIATE SCENTS WITH TRAINED BEHAVIORS?, Aiden Juge
SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS: AN AUDIO-ONLY MUSICAL, Laila Kalantari
Utilizing Geospatial Data as a Means to Detect Undersea Scars, Thomas Kane
CANNABINOIDS AS A POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT FOR INFLAMMATORY SKIN DISORDERS AND TOPICAL PHYTOCANNABINOID FORMULATION CONSIDERATIONS, Hannah Korentur
Holding Fast to the Formless: A Rhizomatic Inventigation, Max Kucera
CLUSTERING HEART DISEASE PATIENTS USING MACHINE LEARNING, Rain Kwan
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON THE FEEDING BEHAVIOR AND PARASITIC LOAD IN Pomacea paludosa (Say) AND Pomacea insularum (D'orbigny), Benjamin LaFond
Heidegger and the Question Concerning Technology, Elias Latimer
Rage and Glory: The Foundations of an Empire: Optimist and Pessimist Interpretations of Vergil’s Aeneid, Robert Lawlor
ACCESSIBLE USABILITY: DISTINGUISHING TWO FIELDS OF WEB DEVELOPMENT, Ty Lazarchik
MEASURING MORALITY, Jennifer Lin
BREAKING THE GAY-STRAIGHT BINARY THROUGH THE BISEXUAL EXPERIENCE IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE, Asia Lord
SAINT OR SEDUCTRESS? REPRESENTATIONS OF COUNTESS MATILDA OF TUSCANY IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY, Emily Lovett
ARTIFACTS OF A BYGONE TIME: STEPHEN SONDHEIM AND PASTICHE, Rose Mack
HOW SOCIAL IS SOCIAL MEDIA : AN ANALYSIS OF PERSONALITY, SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS ON INSTAGRAM AND MOTIVATIONS FOR INSTAGRAM USAGE, Melissa Mahadeo
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND METROLOGY IN PHYSICS, Matthew Mancini
PERSONIFIED WISDOM: ISSUES OF GENDER, POWER, AND DIVINITY IN EARLY JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN WISDOM LITERATURE, Falon Mansfield
TREE TRACE RECONSTRUCTION: SOME RESULTS, Thomas Maranzatto
EFFICIENCY OF SPIDER BLOCK (POLY SHRUB) AS AN ESTUARINE FISH AGGREGATING DEVICE, Jaci Martinez
“HOW DO YOU EXPERIENCE LANGUAGE, ART, AND THE BODY?”: AN EXPLORATION OF TRAUMA AND INDIVIDUALIZED THERAPEUTIC POSSIBILITIES, Cait Matthews
GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT’S LEGACY: REPRESENTATION AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE, Azure Maxwell
THE LIMITS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION ON CONSCIOUSNESS: CURATING BUDDHISM, Pamela McCabe
IDENTIFICATION AND COMPARATIVE GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN GENES IN XENOPUS BOREALIS, Robyn McCartan
INSTITUTIONAL INJUSTICE IN WEST COCONUT GROVE: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MIAMI’S FIRST BAHAMIAN COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Lindsay McElroy
La Nueva Sandinisma: How Women’s Political Representation Aids in Sustaining Nicaragua’s Current Dictatorship, Tirza Morales
EFFICIENCY OF THE MIAMI SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE MARKET, Johnathan Morrison
PERFORMANCE ART AND THE DISRUPTION OF COLONIALISM IN MUSEUMS, Evan Murdoch
NO MAN’S WASTELAND: A CRITICAL GENEALOGY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE, Aubrey Neher
The State of Becoming: Constructing Masculine Heroes in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Miles Newmyer
ANALYSIS OF PAPAIN CONTENTS IN OVER-THE-COUNTER PAPAYA ENZYME SUPPLEMENTS, Chau Ngo
LAND CAPITALIZATION IN DYNAMIC TIEBOUT MODEL WITH AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES, Young Keun Oliveira
BETTER YOU, BETTER US, BETTER TODAY: HOW TO BE GOOD, NOT BAD, Jesus Olive
THE THEORY OF IDEAL LABOR COMPENSATION BASED ON HISTORICAL METHODS, Clinton Overton
BUILDING SOFT POWER: CHINA’S INITIATIVES TO LINK ITS DIASPORA TO THE HOMELAND THROUGH TOURISM, Aliaksandra Panfilovich
AGENCY AND TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION IN THE INTERNET, Ariel Parets
GOETHITE (α-FEOOH) AND DEUTERATED GOETHITE (α-FEOOD): SYNTHESIS AND VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY, Tyler Parke
The Effect of Bee Venom on the Treatment of Muscular Dystrophy in Caenorhabditis elegans, Kelsey Patterson
THE CANTERBURY TALES: HOW GENDERED NARRATIVE AUTHORITY SHAPED MEDIEVAL SOCIETY’S PERCEPTIONS OF WOMEN, Maria Penaloza
“Somos Seres Humanos. Merecemos Vivir Dignamente”: Coloniality and Human Rights in the Face of Family Separation, Olivia Pertierra
THE EFFECTS OF TERM LIMITS ON LEGISLATIVE POLARIZATION AT THE SUBNATIONAL LEVEL, Sebastian Plank
UV-Visible Spectral Differences of Globin Proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans, Jared Plasencia
Raspberry Pi Granular Synthesizer, Dylan Purvis
TOWARDS A NEO-FOLK STORYTELLING TRADITION, Prince Quamina
THE USE OF SPECULATIVE FICTION IN CONSTRUCTING GENDER IDENTITY, Claire Quin
THE LOCAL CONSUMER FOOD ENVIRONMENT OF SARASOTA, FLORIDA: AN ASSESSMENT OF ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOOD CHOICES BY MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME, Elizabeth Ramsamooj
A SURVEY OF MODERN ASTRONOMY, Meghan Retaleato
CIRCUS LYFE : A NARRATIVE LIFE SIMULATION GAME, Erik Ridd
THE ROLE OF COCA IN INDIGENOUS CULTURES OF THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS OF COLOMBIA, Salua Rivero
Integrating RAARR (Robust Automated Assignment of Rigid Rotors) into AUTOFIT: Progress and Prospects, Arianna Rodriguez
PREY CAPTURE AND RELATED BEHAVIORS OF THE BIG CLAW SNAPPING SHRIMP, ALPHEUS HETEROCHAELIS (Say, 1818) (Crustacea; Decapoda; Alpheidae), Lauren Rodriguez
MODELING OF TWO NANOPARTICLE SYSTEMS IN GLASS, Rivka Romano Diaz
THE EFFECTS OF REPRESSION ON RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND PRACTICE IN SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA, Eshel Rosen
“FOODWAYS AT TWIN OAKS INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY”: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF EATING, WORKING, AND GROWING TOGETHER, Amaranth Sander
ON THE OUTSIDE: INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, SELF-TRANSFORMATION, AND ALIENATION IN FILM AND LITERATURE, John Sapp
GLITCH HEALING, Zachary Schoenblatt
Making It Real: Shanzhai Culture in China, Kearsten Sehr
A Preliminary Survey of Macroinvertebrates Inhabiting Southwest Florida Storm Drain Inlets, Natali Shafer
A PHILOSOPHY OF CHANGE: COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF RISING SEA LEVELS, Olivia Siegel
A Precis of an Undergraduate Education in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, Nika Sigua
ANALYZING THE EFFECT OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES ON THE CATALYTIC RATE OF C. ELEGANS CYTOPLASMIC MALATE DEHYDROGENASE, Melissa Simmons
EPISTEMIC LIMITATIONS AND ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: A VIRTUE BASED APPROACH, Hannah Sine
CHINA’S AVANT-GARDE LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION: GE FEI, Shannon Smith
THE END OF HISTORY? FAR-RIGHT AUTHORITARIAN PARTIES IN EUROPE AND THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS, James Stewart III
SEDUCTION, SECRETS, AND SUPERIORITY: A STUDY OF BLUEBEARD AND MODERN RETELLINGS FROM ANGELA CARTER AND JOYCE CAROL OATES, Amanda Suits
The Other Side of Paradise: An Exploration of the Masculine Crisis within the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tyler Thompson
Footprints In The Atmosphere: Quantitative Analysis of Carbon Emissions to Identify the Potential of Community Climate Action, Meredith Todd
RARE EVENT DETECTION OF SOMATIC PDGFRB ACTIVATING VARIANTS IN A MOSAIC AND ANEURYSM PATIENT, Daphne Salime Toglia
MAPPING THE SEASONAL ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF MARINE DEBRIS ON LIDO BEACH AND SIESTA BEACH: AN ANNUAL GIS STUDY, Raquel Valdes
Tales from the Sarasota Bay: An Informal Environmental Education Approach to Teaching Students from Sarasota County about Their Local Ecosystems, Camila Vallejo
APPOINTMENTS WITH PEER TUTORS IN THE WRITING CENTER REDUCE EVALUATION ANXIETY IN STUDENTS, B. Van Aken
THERMAL COMFORT THROUGH VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE, Maria Van Allen
QUEER AND A MASTERPIECE, Kayden Van Antwerp
THE FIRE, THE FOREST, AND THE WITNESS WATCHING IT: MITSKI MIYAWAKI’S PHYSICAL AND MUSICAL EMBODIMENT OF GENDER, ASIAN AMERICAN IDENTITY, AND AUTONOMY, Hayley Vanstrum
BIOFUEL PRODUCTION: A REVIEW OF THE INDUSTRY AND EXPERIMENTAL OPTIMIZATION OF TERMINAL ALKENE PRODUCTION, Gina Vazquez
PAN YULIANG’S EXPLORATION, CREATION, AND RECLAMATION OF HER IDENTITY, Amanda Vorce
AN EXPLORATION OF CENSORSHIP RESISTANT DECENTRALIZED APPLICATIONS, Benjamin Weisman
DRIVEN TO DISTRICTING: Analyzing Redlining, Interstates and School District Segregation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lana Wetherald
PUT YOUR STRANDS IN THE AIR: AN EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DNA AS A TOOL IN BIODIVERSITY MONITORING, Sarah Wilhide
An Observational and Spatial Analysis of Red Tide Events from Pinellas to Lee County Between 2000-2018, Justin Williams
ADOPTION OUT OF FOSTER CARE: USING SUBSIDIES AS A MEANS TO INCREASE ADOPTION RATES, Kaeli Williams
IMPLEMENTING MORE BIOLOGICALLY PLAUSIBLE NEURAL NETWORKS WITH MULTIPLE WEIGHTS IN NEAT, Elan Works
Cryptozoological Tourism, Savannah Worthington
CREATING A DATA VISUALIZATION OF THE TRANSITING EXOPLANET SURVEY SATELLITE (TESS) DATASET, Tali Zacks
WHY DO YOU STREAM?: AN ANALYSIS OF NEEDS BEING MET VIA TWITCH STREAMING IN COMPARISON TO FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS, Caitlin Zarzeczny
POSITIVE VIBES ONLY, Samantha Zellner