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The Use Of Artificial Neural Networks To Describe And Predict The Presence Of Harmful Algae In The Indian River Lagoon, Florida, Erin L. Faltin
The Use Of Artificial Neural Networks To Describe And Predict The Presence Of Harmful Algae In The Indian River Lagoon, Florida, Erin L. Faltin
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Harmful algal blooms are a natural phenomenon of growing global concern. Dense blooms of single celled phytoplankton can have wide reaching effects on both the aquatic ecosystem and surrounding economies. This study constructed artificial neural network models of the northern Indian River Lagoon, Florida, using an existing dataset. Models attempted to both describe and predict chlorophyll a, as an indicator of total algal biomass, or Pyrodinium bahamense, a dinoflagellate known to bloom and produce the paralytic shellfish toxin saxitoxin in the lagoon. Descriptive models used current data while predictive models used time-lagged data as input. Further analyses were conducted on …
The Victorian Man: Re-Defining And Re-Negotiating Masculinity In Brontë And Gaskell, Sylvia Crowhurst
The Victorian Man: Re-Defining And Re-Negotiating Masculinity In Brontë And Gaskell, Sylvia Crowhurst
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
The subject of this thesis is to investigate the representation of contrasting patterns of strong versus weak masculinity during Britain's Industrial Revolution in three Victorian novels by women writers, specifically Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1848), Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1854). Charlotte Brontë identifies and tames the masculinity in her Byronic hero in favor of a Victorian man who is gentler in nature and whose characteristics still possess masculinity and manliness as viewed by social conventions, but who also considers his wife an equal. Brontë challenges the traditional masculine and dominant ideologies which existed …
The Endless Pier: A Study Of Iconic Architecture Via The St. Petersburg Pier, Kyle W. Pierson
The Endless Pier: A Study Of Iconic Architecture Via The St. Petersburg Pier, Kyle W. Pierson
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Over the course of more than a century, the St. Petersburg Pier has become the visual symbol of the city. During that period, the pier has gone through three distinct iterations. First came a functional pier for cargo and passengers. In the 1920s, a grand Mediterranean Revival-style Million Dollar Pier was built. In 1967, it was torn down. In the 1970s, a strikingly modern Inverted Pyramid was built on the same spot. Today, the city seeks a new pier that would be “iconic.” However, the meaning of the term has not been made clear by city leaders. By studying the …
Scientific Novels And ‘Lady Novelists’: Nature And Nurture In Austen’S Pride And Prejudice And Gaskell’S Wives And Daughters, Ashlie Flanigan
Scientific Novels And ‘Lady Novelists’: Nature And Nurture In Austen’S Pride And Prejudice And Gaskell’S Wives And Daughters, Ashlie Flanigan
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
This thesis explores the Darwinian concept of nature and nurture as found in 19th century British Fiction, specifically Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters. Austen identifies and explores the traits of her characters that are innate and learned, and considers the connection between those traits and indicators of class difference known as gentility. Gaskell uses the concept of natural and natured behaviors to explore the social construction of masculinity and femininity, and how those constructions evolve. Analyzing these novels for early scientific thought helps modern day readers understand how evolutionary science, primarily considered a masculine …
"I Do Not Know How To Fulfill Those Demands": Rethinking Jesuit Missionary Efforts In La Florida, 1566-1572, Saber Gray
"I Do Not Know How To Fulfill Those Demands": Rethinking Jesuit Missionary Efforts In La Florida, 1566-1572, Saber Gray
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Florida was the first Jesuit destination in the Spanish Americas. At the time of the enterprise (1566-1572), the Society of Jesus was under increasing pressure to provide Jesuits for both foreign missions and colleges. Jesuit correspondence and letters from Florida and Cuba officials reveal the regional nature of the Florida Jesuit enterprise and the colony’s role within the Society as a whole. The Florida Jesuits moved frequently and freely between Florida and Cuba and planned to found a college in Havana to benefit both the children of Florida caciques and Havana residents. However, due to the lack of local support …
Winter-Dominated Little Ice Age Cooling In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico Determined From Mg/Ca In Planktonic Foraminifera, Rita Marie Crouch
Winter-Dominated Little Ice Age Cooling In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico Determined From Mg/Ca In Planktonic Foraminifera, Rita Marie Crouch
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Reconstructing late Holocene sea-surface temperature (SST) establishes a baseline for preindustrial climate change, which has important applications for climate models and forecasts to predict current anthropogenic influences. The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) (~900 to 1300 AD) and Little Ice Age (LIA) (~1400 to 1800 AD) are the two most recent preindustrial climate change extremes. Mean-annual SST changes in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) during this time period are well known, but the seasonal distribution of these changes are not. This study presents the first paired record showing seasonal distribution of temperature changes over the past millennium in the northern …
New Governance In The New South: Can Changes In Water Policy Foster A Shift From A ‘Culture Of Consumption’ To A ‘Culture Of Conservation’ And Introduce Sustainability To Metropolitan Atlanta And The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (Acf) River Basin?, Andrew Cullen Hayslip
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
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We Women: From The Age Of Aquarius To The Coming Of Age: An Intimate Look At The Challenges Of Aging In America Through The Eyes Of Pinellas County Women, Christine S. Melecci
We Women: From The Age Of Aquarius To The Coming Of Age: An Intimate Look At The Challenges Of Aging In America Through The Eyes Of Pinellas County Women, Christine S. Melecci
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
The following interviews with self-defined women of the counter-culture constitute a shared auto-ethnographic experience. This experience serves as an illustration of the events that defined us during our teen years in the late 1960s, and speaks to our intention to challenge the negative perceptions we face as senior citizens. We are aware of bleak scientific and media forecasts as the roughly seventy-six-million of us in the baby boom generation continue to impact Social Security and healthcare costs, as well as the overall economy. Although we are pleased to anticipate living longer, healthier lives; due to plummeting 401K and IRA accounts, …
Sterilization And The Mass Media: Representations Of Women In The California State Prison System (2006-2010), Ashley Barbara Jasper
Sterilization And The Mass Media: Representations Of Women In The California State Prison System (2006-2010), Ashley Barbara Jasper
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
My research analyzes how mass media, specifically mass media journalism, represents women who are incarcerated and their reproductive rights. Grounded in an ideological rhetorical analysis of articles published from the top fifteen United States news sources on permanent sterilizations that occurred in California women’s prisons from 2006-2010, this paper explores how language both creates and reinforces the segregation of women who are incarcerated from the remainder of society. Drawing on media and sociological theories, this analysis begins by examining the diction choices made by news media to convey how the women were asked to receive sterilizations, as well as how …
An Analysis Of Wetland Mitigation Success In Hillsborough County, Florida 2000-2007, Leigh Ann Elgin
An Analysis Of Wetland Mitigation Success In Hillsborough County, Florida 2000-2007, Leigh Ann Elgin
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Wetlands provide many functions to the environment including flood storage, water filtration/purification, foraging, nesting, and recreation opportunities. Wetland mitigation is the practice of replacing wetlands that are impacted by development. Wetland mitigation may take place on-site, off-site, or through a mitigation bank. Many authors including Dahl (2013), Robb (2002), Hallwood (2006), and Kihslinger (2008) report that wetland mitigation is not functioning as it was intended as wetland acreage is still being lost. Dahl (2013) found that freshwater vegetated wetlands in the lower 48 United States declined by 300,000 acres between 2004 and 2009. Many argue this continued loss is due …
“…A Bolshevik, A Negro And A Gun”, Nadine Allan-Vaught
“…A Bolshevik, A Negro And A Gun”, Nadine Allan-Vaught
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
This thesis reveals how a system of changing social positions structured in various private and public spaces provides a social arena for authors, Charlotte Brontë in Jane Eyre, Wilkie Collins in The Moonstone, Ida B. Wells in A Red Record and Claude McKay in his poem “If We Must Die,” to frame the racial struggles of their particular culture and time. These cross-cultural resources establish a wider, contextual stage from which to understand the complex atmosphere of race and violence out of which the transatlantic racial riots of 1919 emerged. Few scholars engage in such comparative analyses. “A Bolshevik, a …
Assessing The Impact Of Untreated Sewage On The Coral Reef System Off The Coast Of Caye Caulker, Belize: Applying The Foram Index, Kristen Lynn Emrich
Assessing The Impact Of Untreated Sewage On The Coral Reef System Off The Coast Of Caye Caulker, Belize: Applying The Foram Index, Kristen Lynn Emrich
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Human raw sewage pollution is one of several environmental concerns in coastal waters of Belize. This study utilizes foraminiferal assemblage distribution in combination with fecal sterols to determine the presence of human sewage and its effects on a coral reef system off the coast of Caye Caulker-Belize. A total of 125 sediment samples were collected off the coast of Caye Caulker. Fecal sterol concentrations (coprostanol), grain analysis (mud percent), foraminiferal ecological indices (species richness, density, and diversity), foraminiferal assemblages, and the FORAM Index (FI) were assessed. Coprostanol analysis showed higher concentrations nearest the eastern shore of Caye Caulker, with lower …