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Critical Terrorism Studies Since 11 September 2001: What Has Been Learned? Edited By David Miller, Jessie Blackbourn, Rani Dhanda And Helen Dexter. New York, Nt: Routledge, 2014., Mark Roberts

Journal of Strategic Security

Critical Terrorism Studies Since 11 September 2001: What Has Been Learned? Edited by David Miller, Jessie Blackbourn, Rani Dhanda and Helen Dexter. New York, NT: Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-83852-8. Graphs. Tables. Sources cited. Index. Pp. viii, 144. $137.75.

Recreational Segregation: The Role Of Place In Shaping Communities, Iyshia Michelle Lowman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Institutionalized racial segregation in the United States has had a significant impact on many aspects of American culture. Segregation was practiced in every aspect of public life, even in areas of recreation. For those labeled as "nonwhite," even going to the beach was legally restricted. The events between the 1950s and 1960s at Homestead Bayfront Beach in Homestead, Florida are evidence that social stratification based on the social categorization of race has a significant effect even today. This research examines how legalized segregation in the past impacted society and contributed to the development of a place and identity at Homestead …

Obesity And Dining Out: An Exploration Of Dietary Trends In Urban Malaysia, Sylvia S. Lim

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Economic growth has spurred rapid urbanization in Malaysia and triggered changes in diet, lifestyle, and disease trends. National studies show that a third of Malaysia's population is overweight/obese while household expenditures on dining out grow. In metropolitan Kuala Lumpur (KL), residents navigate concepts of nutrition, body weight, and health as they dine out. Using the biocultural framework, this study examined links between body weight, diet, income, street food consumption, and nutritional knowledge through the perspectives of consumers and vendors. Altogether, 77 participants were recruited for this three-phase research. In the first phase, a survey was administered to 60 participants recruited …

Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Undergraduate Council Meeting, March 26, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. Undergraduate Council

USF St. Petersburg Undergraduate Council

Minutes from the March 26, 2014, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Undergraduate Council.

Digital Modeling And Non-Destructive Technological Examination Of Artifacts And Safety Harbor Burial Practices At Picnic Mound 8hi3, Hillsborough County, Florida, James Bart Mcleod

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This project reexamines field notes and artifacts from a Works Progress Administration excavation of the Picnic Mound (8Hi3), a Safety Harbor-period burial mound located in Hillsborough County, Florida. The goals are to reconstruct burial practices digitally using a Geographic Information Systems approach to test Ripley Bullen's model of Woodland and Safety Harbor burial practices, and demonstrate ways that modern technologies can be used to provide new information from past investigations. This thesis also presents new information from a pXRF study about prehistoric ceramic manufacturing in the Tampa Bay area, and discusses additional archaeological resources associated with the Picnic Mound. This …

Cultivating Change: Negotiating Development And Public Policy In Southern California's Wine Country, Laurel Dawn Dillon-Sumner

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the Temecula Valley, California, neoliberal development policies were implemented that had the potential to bring drastic changes to this semi-rural area, renowned for its wine production and idyllic setting as a wine tourism destination. In order to better understand the contested nature of these development plans, I conducted ethnographic and key informant interviews and public policy analysis research with policy-making officials, local residents and other stakeholding groups that formed in opposition to the planned expansion. This applied anthropology of policy was uniquely situated to explore the tensions between various stakeholders. This thesis serves to propose interventions that could have …

Beyond Performance: Rhetoric, Collective Memory, And The Motive Of Imprinting Identity, Brenda M. Grau

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reconsiders Maurice Halbwachs' theory of collective memory in terms of rhetoric. My purpose is to examine specifically how fading generations conform the present to the past as they fight to maintain and defend their collective identities. Although rhetoric and memory studies have often focused on the complex matters of national collectives, Halbwachs was also concerned with the individual and his or her interaction among those groups that matter in everyday living and memory's role in generational shifts that slowly transform culture. Halbwachs' theory helps determine exactly how attempts at conflict resolution are sometimes guarded defenses against threats to …

Agenda, General Education Day, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, March 21, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda from the March 21, 2014, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

Pathways Of Embodiment: Drug Use Among Adolescents In Popay[Aacute]N Colombia, Sarah Louise Fishleder

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This research examines the interrelated biological and cultural factors that determine pathways by which recreational drug use is manifest to addiction in the lives of youth aged 12-18 in Popay[aacute]n, Colombia. It utilizes existing data from mixed methods research conducted between 2004-2005 examining epidemiological risk factors, drug use, perceptions about drugs, and a biological phenomenon of the brain known as incentive salience. Perceptions and experiences related to drugs were gathered using structured methods. MDS and hierarchical plots of drug perceptions are presented in order to demonstrate the power of culture and expectation on perception and choice. Structural equation modeling was …

Communication As Yoga, Kristen Caroline Blinne

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, I am in conversation with the following questions: How can individuals and communities teach and learn to engage more peacefully, nonviolently, and compassionately with each other? Further, how can one practice a style of communication that helps at least one person suffer less each day? In asking these questions, my goal has been to imagine as well as attempt to actualize a world where individuals and communities work together to create less suffering in each other's lives by first developing compassionate awareness of our interconnectedness, then "waking up" not only to our own divinity but also to …

Is Sickle Cell Trait As Benign As Is Usually Assumed?, Carroll Nicole Flansburg

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

Introduction Sickle cell trait carriers may experience sickling events, which can cause severe health problems. Some sickle cell haplotypes contain genetic modifiers that are associated with increased levels of fetal hemoglobin, which is resistant to sickling. The aim of this study is to determine if sickle cell trait individuals who do not carry these modifiers are more likely to experience sickling episodes than those who do carry the modifiers.

Methods: Participants were eligible for inclusion in this study if they were male, 18 years of age or older, a sickle cell trait carrier, and had previously played any level …

Assessing Attachment Process Among Early Institutionalized Orphans In Burkina Faso, Africa, Clarisse Barbier

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

The focus of this thesis is early attachment among institutionalized infant orphans. Previous research has pointed towards attachment problems in dysfunctional institutions, but did not take a comparative approach to understanding attachment. The present research was conducted in an orphanage in Kaya, a little town located in the Center North Region of Burkina Faso, Africa. The 22 children at the institution were aged four months to five years and were mostly from the Mossi ethnicity. Using mixed psychological and anthropological methods such as behaviors checklist, attachment questionnaires, and participant observation, this research indicates that orphans do not display evident …

Student Identity Considerations And Implications Associated With Socioscientific Issues Instruction, Mitchel James Ruzek

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this investigation was to explore how aspects of identity, perceived levels of controversy, and the strength of a student's attachment to their controversial identity relate to conceptual understanding and knowledge acquisition during socioscientific issues (SSI) based instruction in a biology classroom. The knowledge gained from this study will have the capacity to enhance our understanding of the role that attachment to identity plays during SSI negotiation. Additionally, insight was gained into the role played by aspects of identity in conceptual understanding of scientifically controversial topics during SSI based instruction.

This study contributed to the existing knowledge base …

Monthly Report, Online Learning And Instructional Technology Services, March 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Online Learning And Instructional Technology Services

Department Report and Publications

A report with breakdowns for what services the Online Learning and Instructional Technology Services provided in March 2014.

Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, February 21, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda and minutes from the February 21, 2014, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

Organizing Disability: Producing Knowledge In A University Accommodations Office, Shelby Forbes

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

As it is generally conceived, knowledge belongs to the individual: we imagine how a lightbulb suddenly illuminates above the scientist's head, a muse whispers in the philosopher's ear, cogs slide into place as wheels turn in the thinker's mind, and, "Eureka!" an idea is born. As an individualistic experience, knowledge is secure in the repository of the mind, a "steel trap" as it is so often referred, which can only be breached by the most sophisticated and precise methods. From these popular representations of knowledge, one can extrapolate further to conclude that knowledge is not made, it is received. All …

Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, February 7, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda and minutes from the February 7, 2014, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

2012-2013 Annual Accountability Report: University Of South Florida St. Petersburg, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The 2012-2013 Annual Accountability Report for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg approved by the Board of Trustees on December 5, 2013 with revision in February 2014. Includes sections on financial resources, personnel, enrollment, undergraduate education, graduate education, and research and economic development.

Report, Annual Accountability Report 2012-2013, February 2014, State University System Of Florida. Board Of Governors

Accountability Reports

The 2012-2013 annual accountability report for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Board of Trustees approved the report on December 5, 2013 with a revision in February 2014. The report is split into two sections: executive summary and data tables.

Monthly Report, Online Learning And Instructional Technology Services, February 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Online Learning And Instructional Technology Services

Department Report and Publications

A report with breakdowns for what services the Online Learning and Instructional Technology Services provided in February 2014.

Anthropology, 2014-2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2014-2015 for the Bachelor's of Arts in Anthropology.

Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2014-2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2014-2015 for Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.

Goodbye To All That! : An Accomplished Teacher's Last Year In The Chicago Public Schools: Juried Ethnodramatic Performance For The 35th Annual Ethnography In Education Forum The University Of Pennsylvania Graduate School Of Education Philadelphia, Pa March 1, 2014, Charles Vanover, Andrew Babson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

This session uses verbatim theatre techniques (Favorini, 1995; Saldaña, 2011) to expand stories from four narrative interviews shared by an accomplished, middle school teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. These stories were spoken the summer after the teacher’s tenth year and describe students she cared for and the challenges of her work. Audience members are given excerpts from the verbatim texts that make up the playscript when they walk in the door, and they are asked to use this material to discuss the show’s guiding question before and after the performance: “Can a teacher care too much and instruct too …

Preserving The Oral History Of Modern America : A Collection Development Initiative At The University Of South Florida, St. Petersburg, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Goodbye To All That!: Juried Ethnodramatic Performance For The 35th Annual Ethnography In Education Research Forum, University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., Charles Vanover, Andrew Babson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Vanover, C. & Babson, A. (2014). Goodbye to All That! : A Teacher’s Last Year in the Classroom. Juried performance for the 35th Annual Ethnography in Education Forum, University of Pennsylvania. Performance by Alexandra Miletta, Mercy College, Brandi Slider Weekley, West Virginia University & Charna Lacey, Saint Mary’s Public Schools. Score and musical performance by Andrew Babson, University of Pennsylvania. Written and Directed by Charles Vanover, University of South Florida Saint Petersburg. March 1, 2014, 4:30-5:15 pm Room 121 GSE

This session uses verbatim theatre techniques (Favorini, 1995; Saldaña, 2011) to expand stories from four narrative interviews shared by an …

Annual Report, Public Services Department, 2011-2012, Tina Neville, Kaya Van Beynen

Library Department and Committee Reports

Annual report for the Public Services Department of the Nelson Poynter Library at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for period July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.

Annual Report, Technical Services And Collection Development Department, 2013-2014, Patricia C. Pettijohn, Kaya Van Beynen

Library Department and Committee Reports

Annual report for the Technical Services and Collection Development Department at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Nelson Poynter Memorial Library for the period July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014.

Linking Rainforest Ecophysiology And Microclimate Through Fusion Of Airborne Lidar And Hyperspectral Imagery, Eben N. Broadbent, Angélica M. Zambrano, Gregory P. Asner, Christopher B. Field, Brad E. Rosenheim, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, David E. Knapp, David Burke, Christian Giardina, Susan Cordell

Marine Science Faculty Publications

We develop and validate a high-resolution three-dimensional model of light and air temperature for a tropical forest interior in Hawaii along an elevation gradient varying greatly in structure but maintaining a consistent species composition. Our microclimate models integrate high-resolution airborne waveform light detection and ranging data (LiDAR) and hyperspectral imagery with detailed microclimate measurements. We then use modeled microclimate and forest structural and compositional variables to explain variation in spatially explicit measurements of leaf traits, including gas exchange and structure. Our results highlight the importance of: (1) species differences in leaf traits, with species explaining up to 65% of the …

External Program Review, History, 2014, Randall Miller, Theophilus C. Prousis

Academic Learning Compacts

The 2014 external program review for the Bachelor's of Arts in History by Randall Miller and Theophilus Prousis. Included as supplemental files are a self-study and a supplemental report.

Annual Report, Public Services Department, 2012-2013, Tina Neville, Kaya Van Beynen

Library Department and Committee Reports

Annual report for the Public Services Department of the Nelson Poynter Library at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for period July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013.