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Harbor Notes, March 21, 2014, Jessica Blais

Harbor Notes

The March 21, 2014, issue of Harbor Notes.

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 …

Epibenthic Mobile Invertebrates Along The Florida Reef Tract: Diversity And Community Structure, Kristin Netchy

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Benthic mobile invertebrates are important components of coral-reef diversity and community structure, though, in most cases, their ecological contributions are poorly known. Baseline information on their diversity, prevalence, assemblages, and ecological roles is needed to aid in the conservation of coral-reef habitats. The objectives of this study are to 1) describe diversity and assemblages of epibenthic, mobile invertebrates in shallow water coral-reef communities in Florida, 2) evaluate their ecological roles by reviewing published literature on diet, and 3) measure the degree of linear dependence between mobile invertebrates and scleractinian corals. Underwater surveys were conducted in the summer of 2013 at …

Communication Behavior Study Of Support In The Arts Using The Situational Theory Of Publics And The Theory Of Reasoned Action, Ashleigh Gallant

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Arts in the United States has been a thoroughly studied topic, largely trying to substantiate its value to society, resulting in a plethora of research that positively correlates the arts and a more healthy and successful society. Findings from various studies over the years have shown declines in arts support in the form of funding, advocacy, education, and participation (National Endowment for the Arts, 2009). Additional studies have suggested that millennials are redefining what participation means in the arts, and even the definition of the arts. The primary research question of this study is why are support for the …

Usfsp Senior Presents Research At Osm In Honolulu, March 18, 2014, Jessica Blais

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Dna Sequences Of Troglobitic Nicoletiid Insects Support Sierra De El Abra And The Sierra De Guatemala As A Single Biogeographical Area: Implications For Astyanax, Luis Espinasa, Nicole D. Bartolo, Catherine E. Newkirk

KIP Articles

The blind Mexican tetra fish, Astyanax mexicanus, has become the most influential model for research of cave adapted organisms. Many authors assume that the Sierra de Guatemala populations and the Sierra de El Abra populations are derived from two independent colonizations. This assumption arises in part from biogeography. The 100 m high, 100 m wide Servilleta Canyon of the Boquillas River separates both mountain ranges and is an apparent barrier for troglobite dispersion. Anelpistina quinterensis (Nicoletiidae, Zygentoma, Insecta) is one of the most troglomorphic nicoletiid silverfish insects ever described. 16S rRNA sequences support that this species migrated underground to reach …

Agriculture, Environmental Restoration And Ecosystem Services: Assessing The Costs Of Water Storage On Agricultural Lands In South Florida, Kayla Ouellette

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A large part of the environmental restoration required by the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan calls for more water-storage on lands south of Lake Okeechobee in order to restore the natural water flows of the Everglades watershed. The Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) can be used for increased water storage in order to relieve coastal estuaries of excess water in the rainy season. This water storage can deliver additional ecosystem services of soil retention and reduced CO2 emissions that could compensate farmers for the cost of water storage by increasing long term farm profitability. The goals of this study were 1) to …

Crow's Nest, March 17, 2014, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The March 17, 2014, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Testing The Feasibility Of Bioacoustic Localization In Urban Environments, Blaire O'Neal

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Bioacoustics is a relatively new field of research focused on studying the acoustic signals of vocal animal species. The field has been a topic of interest for many years due its passive approach and avoidance of species-level limitations, such as tracking rare or nocturnal species. It has been used to locate birds in terrestrial environments; however, localization in urban environments remains unstudied. This research aims to fill the gap by attempting to estimate the location of 30 discrete calls in eight unique, urban environments. Sites represented two distinct traffic scenarios: moderate traffic and high traffic. Three system arrays of three …

Still Waters Run Deep: Landscaping Practices, Community Perceptions, And Social Indicators For Stormwater Nonpoint Source Pollution Management In Manatee County, Florida, Ann Rebecca Persaud

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Stormwater nonpoint source pollution (NPSP) is a result of diffuse sources of pollutants transported by rainfall and surface runoff into stormwater ponds and drainage systems before percolating into the ground. In particular, the nutrients found in fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides applied in excess by homeowners and landscapers can cause a range of issues in stormwater ponds from fish kills to eutrophication. As a result, Manatee County, Florida has issued a fertilizer ordinance with best management practices (BMPs) and a fertilizer black out period to reduce NPSP. This study is aimed at capturing the perceptions of residents which affect stormwater NPSP …

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 …

Abstract Volume & Field Guide, 16th International Symposium Of Vulcanology, 2nd Simposio Internacional De Espeleología Galápagos, Ecuador, International Symposium On Vulcanospeleology

KIP Abstracts

Held March 8-15, 2014 Galápagos, Ecuador. Contents: Day by Day -- List of Participants -- Cascajo Cave -- La Llegada Cave -- La Mirador Cave -- Recent Explorations in the Galapagos Islands / Aaron Addison, Cave Research Foundation -- The keokeo lava tube system in Hawaii / Peter Bosted, Tomislav Gracanin, Veda Hackell, Tim Scheffler -- Lavacicles: How many flavors do they come in? / Dave Bunnell -- New Technologies and Approaches to Advance the Search for Volcanic Caves on Other Planets / P.J. Boston -- Lava caves under the city of Auckland, New Zealand / John Brush, Peter Crossley …

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Journal of Public Transportation

No abstract provided.

Forecasting Mobile Ticketing Adoption On Commuter Rail, Candace Brakewood, Francisca Rojas, Joshua Robin, Jake Sion, Sam Jordan

Journal of Public Transportation

Several commuter rail systems are beginning to accept mobile payments, in which tickets are purchased and validated on smartphones. Mobile payments may improve the rider experience while reducing costs and simplifying the fare collection process for rail operators. Before investing in this new ticketing technology, rail operators want to understand rider demand for mobile tickets. To assess the potential adoption of mobile payments, stated preference data from an onboard survey on two commuter rail lines (Worcester and Newburyport/Rockport) in the greater Boston area were analyzed. Binary logit was then used to forecast adoption on all commuter rail lines. Based on …

Evaluating Public Transportation Local Funding Options, Todd Litman

Journal of Public Transportation

This report describes and evaluates 18 potential local funding options suitable for financing public transportation projects and services. They are evaluated according to eight criteria, including potential revenue, predictability and sustainability, horizontal and vertical equity, travel impacts, strategic development objectives, public acceptance and ease of implementation. This is a somewhat larger set of options and more detailed and systematic evaluation than most previous studies. This study discovered no new options that are particularly cost-effective and easy to implement; each has disadvantages and constraints. As a result, its overall conclusion is that a variety of funding options should be used to …

Assessment Of Passenger Satisfaction With Intra-City Public Bus Transport Services In Abuja, Nigeria, Ali Alphonsus Nwachukwu

Journal of Public Transportation

The aim of this study was to investigate passenger satisfaction with the service quality attributes of public bus transport services in Abuja, Nigeria. To achieve this, a survey was conducted between February and July 2011. In 10 sample bus stop areas selected for this study, 300 public bus transport users were randomly selected to elicit their overall satisfaction and factors that influenced their satisfaction in the use of public bus transport services in Abuja using a self-rated questionnaire. Data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and principal component and regression analyses. The results of these analyses showed that passengers …

Since You're Here, Volume 8, No. 3, March 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Since You're Here

The March 2014 issue of the newsletter "Since You're Here."

Harbor Notes, February 21, 2014, Jessica Blais

Harbor Notes

The February 21, 2014, issue of Harbor Notes.

Usfsp Wins Florida Society Of Geographers Awards, February 19, 2014, Jessica Blais

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Ontology Driven Model For An Engineered Agile Healthcare System, Balaji Ramadoss

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Healthcare is in urgent need of an effective way to manage the complexity it of its systems and to prepare quickly for immense changes in the economics of healthcare delivery and reimbursement. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) releases policies affecting inpatient and long-term care hospitals policies that directly affect reimbursement and payment rates. One of these policy changes, a quality-reporting program called Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR), will effect approximately 3,400 acute-care and 440 long-term care hospitals. IQR sets guidelines and measures that will contain financial incentives and penalties based on the quality of care provided. CMS, the …

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.

Pseudokarst Commission Newsletter, No. 24, February 2014, Jan Urban

Pseudokarst Commission Newsletter

Contents: Sandstone Caves from Serra de Itaqueri (South-Eastern Brazil) -- Archimedovskaya Cave -- Caves of Ascension Island: An Introduction -- Water in the Caves of Polish Outer (Flysch) Carpathians (Beskidy Mountains) -- The Exploration of the Caves of the Polica Mountain Range, Polish Flysch (Outer) Carpathians -- Gobholo Cave: A Granit Cave in Swaziland -- "Pseudokarst" during the 16th International Congress of Speleology, Brno, July 21-28th, 2013 -- 13th International Symposium on Pseudokarst, Western Outer Carpathians, Czech Republic, 2015 -- Publications Associated with the Conference "Sandstone Landscapes III," 2012 -- Root Stalagmites in Austria: An Update -- Editorial

Biology Professor Collaborates With Chinese Researcher, January 31, 2014, Tom Scherberger

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Harbor Notes, January 31, 2014, Tom Scherberger

Harbor Notes

The January 31, 2014, issue of Harbor Notes.

Historical Romanian Meteorites: Emendations Of Official Catalogue Records, Dana Lüttge-Pop, Razvan A. Andrei, Nicolae Har

Studia UBB Geologia

With its more than 50,000 valid official and provisory meteorite entries, the online catalogue of The Meteoritical Society, i.e., the Meteoritical Bulletin Database (MBDB) represents the most authorized and primary source of information in the field. Unfortunately, this official reference contains some erroneous geographical information in the case of five historical Romanian meteorites. For Zsadany, the current country information is “Hungary, Bekes county” instead of Romania, Timiş County. For Mezö-Madaras and Tauti, the county affiliations “Harghita” and respectively “Cluj” have to be corrected into Mureş and Arad, respectively. Geographical coordinates for Kakowa and Ohaba require minor corrections, only.

The …

Size, Shape And Spatial Arrangement Of Mega-Scale Glacial Lineations From A Large And Diverse Dataset, Matteo Spagnolo, Chris D. Clark, Jeremy C. Ely, Chris R. Stokes, John B. Anderson, Karin Andreassen, Alastair G. C. Graham, Edward C. King

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Mega-scale glacial lineations (MSGLs) are a characteristic landform on ice stream beds. Solving the puzzle of their formation is key to understanding how ice interacts with its bed and how this, in turn, influences the dynamics of ice streams. However, a comprehensive and detailed characterization of this landform's size, shape and spatial arrangement, which might serve to test and refine formational theories, is largely lacking. This paper presents a detailed morphometric analysis and comparison of 4043 MSGLs from eight palaeo-ice stream settings: three offshore (Norway and Antarctica), four onshore (Canada), and one from under a modern ice stream in West …

Terrestrial And Submarine Evidence For The Extent And Timing Of The Last Glacial Maximum And The Onset Of Deglaciation On The Maritime-Antarctic And Sub-Antarctic Islands, Dominic A. Hodgson, Alastair G. C. Graham, Stephen J. Roberts, Michael J. Bentley, Colm Ó. Cofaigh, Elie Verleyen, Wim Vyverman, Vincent Jomelli, Vincent Favier, Daniel Brunstein, Deborah Verfaillie, Eric A. Colhoun, Krystyna M. Saunders, Patricia M. Selkirk, Andrew Mackintosh, David W. Hedding, Werner Nel, Kevin Hall, Matt S. Mcglone, Nathalie Van Der Putten, William A. Dickens, James A. Smith

Marine Science Faculty Publications

This paper is the maritime and sub–Antarctic contribution to the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics (PAIS) community Antarctic Ice Sheet reconstruction. The overarching aim for all sectors of Antarctica was to reconstruct the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) ice sheet extent and thickness, and map the subsequent deglaciation in a series of 5000 year time slices. However, our review of the literature found surprisingly few high quality chronological constraints on changing glacier extents on these timescales in the maritime and sub–Antarctic sector. Therefore, in this paper we focus on an assessment of the terrestrial and …

Anastasia Romanov : The Secret Notebook, Revision 1, January 8, 2014, Carolyn Meyer, Ted Hipple Young Adult Literature Collection

Hipple Collection of Young Adult Literature Manuscripts

Manuscript material for the novel, Anastasia and her sisters.

Samples Of Additiona To Anastasia, January 8, 2014, Carolyn Meyer, Ted Hipple Young Adult Literature Collection

Hipple Collection of Young Adult Literature Manuscripts

Manuscript material for the novel, Anastasia and her sisters.