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High School Students’ Descriptions Of How Smartphones Affect Their Online Learning During Covid-19, Tiffany K. Southwell

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In March of 2020, many schools including the high school where I teach in the southwest United States, shut down and moved all students to online learning due to a coronavirus. At the time, this virus (referred to as COVID-19) was just starting to pose a significant threat to the United States, yet had already claimed lives in other parts of the world including Europe and China. In an effort to slow spread of the virus, many school districts in the United States closed school buildings and abruptly shifted to online learning.

My inquiry was designed to discover how my …

Mental Illness Diagnosis And The Construction Of Stigma, Katie Lynn Walkup

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation explores how mental health legislation and related policy documents contribute to identification, diagnosis, and stigmatization. Using a mixed methods approach including content and stylometric text analysis with R as a heuristic for close and critical reading, I demonstrate how these documents normalize mental health concerns as a public threat. To do this work, I analyze how the Florida Mental Health Act (Chapter 394) and the Florida Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act (SB 7026) circulate and sustain dominant narratives about mental illness. I trace where these narratives are distributed into Florida school districts’ mandatory mental health …

Crow's Nest, March 22, 2021, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The March 22, 2021, issue of the Crow's Nest.

The Weekly Challenger, March 18, 2021, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The March 18, 2021, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Weekly Challenger, March 4, 2021, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The March 4, 2021, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Weekly Challenger, February 4, 2021, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The February 4, 2021, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Emergency Communications Deficiency Locator, Austin Collins

Undergraduate Journal of Mathematical Modeling: One + Two

The Bi-Directional Amplifier (BDA) is the newest edition to Life Safety in the state of Florida. The Florida Fire Prevention Code (NFPA 1) section 11.10.1 states that “In all new and existing buildings, minimum radio signal strength for fire department communications shall be maintained at a level determined by the authority having jurisdiction (Committee NFPA 1: Fire Code 2018). That authority having jurisdiction for our local Tampa Bay area is the Hillsborough County Fire Rescue department and they have posted their own requirements along with the Florida Senate for emergency communication standards. All existing “Hi-rise” buildings, 75 feet tall …

Students' Perceptions Of Career And Academic Advising In College Learning Communities, Kelly M. Hallas

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine if community college students in differing learning communities had different perceptions of their career and academic needs and whether students in different learning communities perceived their career and academic advisor as meeting these needs (i.e. are they satisfied with their advising). In addition, this study examined the variables of gender, ethnicity, and enrollment status and their relation to students’ needs and satisfaction across learning communities.

The Community College that provides the backdrop for the inquiry has recently transitioned to Academic and Career Learning Communities. This institution defines its communities as similar majors …

The Weekly Challenger, October 1, 2020, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The October 1, 2020, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Weekly Challenger, September 17, 2020, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The September 17, 2020, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Weekly Challenger, September 3, 2020, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The September 3, 2020, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Using Microtransit Electric Low Speed Vehicles As A Means For Improving Quality Of Life In Miami-Dade County, Cutr

Research Reports

The services provided by public transportation systems increase the mobility and accessibility options of a community. In addition, transit improvements are one of the transportation demand strategies for enhancing community livability, as they offer affordable transportation alternatives and help reduce traffic congestion. They can provide access to employment, health, educational, and other services that improve the livability of communities. Therefore, implementing additional public transportation services will foster economic development and offer residents, workers, and visitors a full range of transportation choices that will result in an improved quality of life. The transportation services provided by local communities help in the …

The Weekly Challenger, July 9, 2020, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The July 9, 2020, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Weekly Challenger, June 25, 2020, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The June 25, 2020, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Weekly Challenger, June 11, 2020, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The June 11, 2020, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Covid-19 Pandemic And The Power Of Numbers, Jessica Ancker

Numeracy

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a deluge of news coverage of quantitative concepts. In this viewpoint, we provide examples of effective and poor quantitative communication by the professional news media as well as social media communicators. Effective examples include a number of online animations and engaging interactive simulations. Examples of poor quantitative communication include the widespread reporting of raw numbers rather than rates, failing to address uncertainty, not providing sufficient context for numbers, and not discussing the implications of false negative and false positive diagnostic test results. Educators can draw from this body of news to develop compelling quantitative literacy …

Tools And Methods For Distributed Spatial Control Of Swarms Via Multiplex Information Networks, Tansel Yucelen, Dzung Minh Duc Tran

USF Patents

A method and system for distributed spatial control of a formation of vehicles includes receiving at a first formation vehicle via a peer-to-peer communication interface, direction of travel and formation density information that indicate a course of travel for the first vehicle while travelling as a member of the formation of vehicles. The peer-to-peer formation density information indicates a distance to maintain from other neighboring formation vehicles. A formation vehicle self-navigation command is generated for navigating the first vehicle when travelling in one dimensional, two dimensional, or three dimensional space as a member of the formation of vehicles. The self-navigation …

Tools And Methods For Distributed Spatial Control Of Swarms Via Multiplex Information Networks, Tansel Yucelen, Dzung Minh Duc Tran

USF Patents

A method and system for distributed spatial control of a formation of vehicles includes receiving at a first formation vehicle via a peer-to-peer communication interface, direction of travel and formation density information that indicate a course of travel for the first vehicle while travelling as a member of the formation of vehicles. The peer-to-peer formation density information indicates a distance to maintain from other neighboring formation vehicles. A formation vehicle self-navigation command is generated for navigating the first vehicle when travelling in one dimensional, two dimensional, or three dimensional space as a member of the formation of vehicles. The self-navigation …

Cutr Connections [May 2020], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Report, Business And Finance, Effective 2018, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Administrative Unit Reports

A report with outcomes and objectives, means of assessment, findings, and use of findings for Business and Finance at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Socially Aware Network User Mobility Analysis And Novel Approaches On Aerial Mobile Wireless Network Deployment, Ismail Uluturk

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Service demand patterns for wireless networks are evolving with the technological developments in areas such as personal computing, unmanned vehicles, and internet-of-things, where increasing mobile service demand is one of the significant challenges introduced. In addition to these new intrinsic dynamics, natural disasters and societal upheaval are also disrupting the conventional patterns of network demand. Situations like damaged infrastructure due to a natural disaster or large numbers of displaced people caused by political strife and social upheaval demand flexible, rapidly deployable network architectures. The increasing demands of next-generation communication services are straining the capabilities of the traditional approach of the …

Cutr Connections [April 2020], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Nostalgia And (In)Authentic Community: A Bataillean Answer To The Heidegger Controversy, Patrick Miller

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Heidegger’s relationship with Nazism has been debated since the 1930s. In the late 1930s, Georges Bataille wrote an incomplete text that would have added to these debates, “Critique of Heidegger: Critique of a philosophy of fascism.” I draw on this fragment and Bataille’s writings from this era in order to develop a fuller critique of Heidegger and his relationship to fascism. This expanded critique completes the promise of Bataille’s original fragment, offering a full Bataillean criticism of Heidegger and displaying the connections between his philosophy and Bataille’s understanding of fascism. This critique hinges on Heidegger’s concept of authenticity and community, …

Report, Admin And Finance, Effective 2018, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Administrative Unit Reports

A report with outcomes and objectives, means of assessment, findings, and use of findings for campus units related to administration and finance at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Units included are Business and Finance; Campus Computing; Facilities Services; Human Resources; and Police Services.

Implementing The Class Pass Intervention Within Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions And Support, Nicole Harris

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Disruptive behavior is a challenge to classroom management for many teachers. Behavior such as calling out, getting out of seat, and off-task during instructions interfere with instructional time and have negative impacts on student learning. The Class Pass Intervention (CPI) is an antecedent-based intervention that has proven effective in decreasing disruptive behavior and increasing academic engagement for students of various ages and skill levels. This study aimed to expand the literature on CPI as a Tier 2 intervention within Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports by targeting three elementary age students with or at-risk for emotional and behavioral disorders, who …

Crow's Nest, February 24, 2020, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The February 24, 2020, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Exploration Of Factors Associated With Perceptions Of Community Safety Among Youth In Hillsborough County, Florida: A Convergent Parallel Mixed-Methods Approach, Yingwei Yang

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Introduction: Youth perceived safety is not only linked to crime and violence in a neighborhood but is also associated with health risk behaviors and certain neighborhood characteristics. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to measure the co-occurring effects of individual and community risk factors by conducting a secondary data analysis using structural equation modeling (SEM) and to explore reasons for youth feeling safe/unsafe in their community using photovoice methodology.

Methods: Syndemic theory/model served as the theoretical framework to guide this mixed-methods study with a convergent parallel design. The quantitative strand (first manuscript) utilized an existing dataset collected from middle …

The Weekly Challenger, January 16, 2020, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The January 16, 2020, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Weekly Challenger, December 12, 2019, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 12, 2019, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Agenda And Reports, Juvenile Welfare Board Regular Board Meeting, November 14, 2019, Juvenile Welfare Board Of Pinellas County

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Agenda for the November 14, 2019, meeting of the Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County's regular Board. Includes reports and presentations to review before the meeting.