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Undergraduate Catalog, 2014-2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Undergraduate Catalogs

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“It’S Like We Are Free”: An Analysis Of Soccer-Based Programming In A California Prison, Lillian S. Barrett-O'Keefe

Pitzer Senior Theses

The concept of space goes well beyond just buildings and infrastructure; it can represent feelings of attachment and belonging, it can interact with us and generate meaning. The built environment is not just the “backdrop” of our lives, but rather it plays a major role in them. In the state of California prisons have become a prominent element of our communal landscape, now housing 2.4 million Americans today. This paper explores prisons as a rich site of analysis in terms of how our built environment affects our daily lives. In order to delve into this analysis, I will explore sport-based …

Missing Voices, Hidden Fields: The Gendered Struggles Of Female Farmworkers, Keiko A. Budech

Pitzer Senior Theses

Known for its fertile soil and ideal climate, California has been one of the most agriculturally productive areas in the world. Often left out of this picture are the farmworkers who make it possible. Within this farmworker community, females are a sub-class that has been even more marginalized. This thesis investigates the gendered aspects of fieldwork and exposes female leadership working towards changing these specific struggles, such as sexual harassment in the fields, domestic abuse, pesticide exposure, and the perpetuation of submissive gender roles in the household and workplace. An in-depth case study of Lideres Campesinas, a community- based grassroots …

A Mother's Paradox: Choosing A Birthing Method In The 21st Century, Jenae Franklin

Pitzer Senior Theses

Investigating childbirth, one of the biggest moments of a woman’s life, this thesis examines the reasons behind women’s preferred birthing methods. This research explores the fundamental decisions women make during the birthing process: the amount of prenatal care mothers will receive, the type of health care provider they will use, picking the place of delivery, views on technological and medical interventions, and outlooks on natural childbirth. In addition to an extensive literature review, in-depth interviews with mothers, midwives, and obstetricians are used to examine the various controversies of childbirth. This thesis begins with a review of the transition from midwives …

Dentistry In Ancient Rome: Direct Evidence For Extractions Based On The Teeth From Excavations At The Temple Of Castor And Pollux In The Roman Forum, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

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A Seed In Skokloster Castle, Sweden: Searching For The Origins Of Eight Susquehannock Artifacts, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

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John Skickett (1823? - After 1870): A Lenopi Descent Basketmaker Working In Connecticut, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

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Influence Of Gender And Muscle Architecture Asymmetry On Jump And Sprint Performance, Gerald T. Mangine, David H. Fukuda, Michael B. Lamonica, Adam M. Gonzalez, Adam J. Wells, Jeremy R. Townsend, Adam R. Jajtner, Maren S. Fragala, Jeffrey R. Stout, Jay R. Hoffman

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Muscle architecture is a determinant for sprinting speed and jumping power, which may be related to anaerobic sports performance. In the present investigation, the relationships between peak (PVJP) and mean (MVJP) vertical jump power, 30m maximal sprinting speed (30M), and muscle architecture were examined in 28 college-aged, recreationally-active men (n = 14; 24.3 +/- 2.2y; 89.1 +/- 9.3kg; 1.80 +/- 0.07 m) and women (n = 14; 21.5 +/- 1.7y; 65.2 +/- 12.4kg; 1.63 +/- 0.08 m). Ultrasound measures of muscle thickness (MT), pennation angle (PNG), cross-sectional area (CSA), and echo intensity (ECHO) were collected from the rectus femoris (RF) …

Death And Disability In A Younge Phase Community, Michael W. Spence, Lana J. Williams, Sandra M. Wheeler

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Roffelsen is an early Younge phase mortuary component in southwestern Ontario. The single burial feature is a pit containing the articulated skeletons of seven successively buried individuals, ranging in age from a few months to late middle age. All had been stripped of soft tissues, except for the connecting tissues that maintained their articulation. Most also had a disk cut from the cranium and a hole drilled near bregma. All but the Want display various forms of developmental failure of the outer and middle ear and the petrous portion of the temporal bone. The pit was apparently the burial facility …

"It's Not About You": Exploring The Liminal Experiences Of Graduate Forensic Coaches, Christopher Paul Outzen

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The following document is a capstone thesis project focusing on the unique experiences of graduate forensic coaches through lens of liminality, a performance theory used to describe a sense of being between social identities when going through a rite of passage. The author contends that this liminal experience has unique characteristics which are important to consider in the context of identity and forensic culture. In order to gather data, the author utilized qualitative, semi-structured interviews with current graduate forensic coaches. The resulting interviews were interpreted using a process of open coding to determine key themes of the experience. The author …

Ancient Maya Regional Settlement And Inter-Site Analysis: The 2013 West-Central Belize Lidar Survey, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Jaime J. Awe, John F. Weishampel, Gyles Iannone, Holley Moyes, Jason Yaeger, Kathryn Brown, Ramesh L. Shrestha, William E. Carter, Juan Fernandez Diaz

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

During April and May 2013, a total of 1057 km(2) of LiDAR was flown by NCALM for a consortium of archaeologists working in West-central Belize, making this the largest surveyed area within the Mayan lowlands. Encompassing the Belize Valley and the Vaca Plateau, West-central Belize is one of the most actively researched parts of the Maya lowlands; however, until this effort, no comprehensive survey connecting all settlement had been conducted. Archaeological projects have investigated at least 18 different sites within this region. Thus, a large body of archaeological research provides both the temporal and spatial parameters for the varied ancient …

Quantifying Ancient Maya Land Use Legacy Effects On Contemporary Rainforest Canopy Structure, Jessica N. Hightower, A. Christine Butterfield, John F. Weishampel

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Human land use legacies have significant and long-lasting ecological impacts across landscapes. Investigating ancient ( > 400 years) legacy effects can be problematic due to the difficulty in detecting specific, historic land uses, especially those hidden beneath dense canopies. Caracol, the largest (similar to 200 km(2)) Maya archaeological site in Belize, was abandoned ca. A.D. 900, leaving behind myriad structures, causeways, and an extensive network of agricultural terraces that persist beneath the architecturally complex tropical forest canopy. Airborne LiDAR enables the detection of these below-canopy archaeological features while simultaneously providing a detailed record of the aboveground 3-dimensional canopy organization, which is …

Bioarchaeological Assessment Of Diet And Changes In Femoral And Humeral Stable Isotopic Values Among Subadults At Medieval Alytus, Lithuania., Katherine Page

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Establishing a chronology of variation in isotopic values can reveal frailty associated with biological and social age, as well as highlight individuals who vary from typical patterns. Although general dietary characteristics and infant feeding practices were previously unknown for subadults excavated from the cemetery at Alytus, Lithuania (14th-18th centuries), previous research concludes that Alytus' subadults experienced high rates of physiological, metabolic, non-specific stress, in addition to specific diseases like tuberculosis. To investigate nuanced relationships between diet and mortality, nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes from the femoral and humeral midshaft diaphyses of 70 subadults (32 weeks gestation to16 years) were analyzed. …

Comparison Of Traditional Educative Delivery To Online Education In United States History As Measured By Florida's End-Of-Course Examinations In A Large Urban School District In Central Florida, William Wilson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Student participation in online courses has been growing steadily for the past decade, and the trend appears to continue the growth in this form of instructional delivery method for the foreseeable future (iNACOL, 2012). To date, little research exploring student success rates exists in the social studies. This particular study was conducted to examine what differences, if any, existed in the End-Of-Course (EOC) scores of 11th grade United States history students who took the course in a traditional, face-to-face format versus students who took the same course online through Florida Virtual School. For this study, proper permission was received from …

Dermatoglyphic Features In Patients With Multiple Sclerosis, Vedat Sabanciogullari, Seyda Cevik, Kezban Karacan, Ertugrul Bolayir, Mehmet Cimen

Neurosciences

Objective: To examine dermatoglyphic features to clarify implicated genetic predisposition in the etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: The study was conducted between January and December 2013 in the Departments of Anatomy, and Neurology, Cumhuriyet University School of Medicine, Sivas, Turkey. The dermatoglyphic data of 61 patients, and a control group consisting of 62 healthy adults obtained with a digital scanner were transferred to a computer environment. The ImageJ program was used, and atd, dat, adt angles, a-b ridge count, sample types of all fingers, and ridge counts were calculated. Results: In both hands of the patients with MS, the …

Anxiety Of The Unknown In Art: Xu Bing's A Book From The Sky, Abigail Sease

Undergraduate Research Awards

Discusses Xu Bing's A Book from the Sky, an art installation piece composed of books, scrolls and banners written in pseudo-Chinese characters. The author posits that the purpose of the piece is to reflect the viewer's anxieties about the comprehension of language and information back onto themselves. The author's entry essay for the 2014 Undergraduate Research Awards is included.

Playing For Peace: Building Relationships Between Ugandan And Refugee Youth Through Football3 At Soccer Without Borders Uganda, Jean-Christophe Moran

Capstone Collection

This paper describes and analyzes a soccer tournament for Ugandan and refugee youth based on the principles and practices of football3, an established methodology for using soccer as a means of dialogue and resolution of conflict across differences. The goal of this tournament to was build relationships between Ugandan and refugee youth at Soccer Without Borders Uganda. This tournament was held in 2013 in Kampala under the auspices of Soccer Without Borders Uganda and involved training of staff. The implementation of football3 demonstrated that this methodology could have a positive impact on uniting refugee and Ugandan youth while providing participants …

A New Theory For Patent Subject Matter Eligibility: A Veblenian Perspective, Austen Zuege

Cybaris®

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The Daily Gamecock, Monday, October 20, 2014, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

October

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Quarterly Reporter - January 2014, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Sport Diver Newsletters

Contents:

Nate Fulmer Joins the Division..... p.1
January Quarterly Reports..... p.2
Arkhaios Film Festival..... p.2
Upcoming Events..... p.3
SDAMP News..... p.3
March Artifact Identification Workshop..... p.4
Hobby Diver of the Quarter..... p.4
3rd Annual Oyster Roast..... p.5
Raising Underwater Archaeology Above Water..... p.6
Feature Hobby Diver Article..... p.7
Georgetown Exhibit..... p.7
Ears and Sinuses: Injuries and Management..... p.8
The Next Step in the H.L. Hunley Submarine Conservation Treatment..... p.8
Here's to 2013!..... p.10
Letters to the Editors..... p.11
Notes from the Editor..... p.11

Paleoindian In Cowasee: Time, Typology, And Raw Material Selection, Albert C. Goodyear

Faculty & Staff Publications

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His 4930 : Public History: Meaning & Method, History

Approved Course Proposals

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Soc 3000 : Sociology Of Sport, Sociology And Anthropology

Approved Course Proposals

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Ele 4770 : Teaching Science And Social Science In The Primary Grades (K-3), Ec/Ele/Mle

Approved Course Proposals

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The Midway In The Museum: Arcades, Art, And The Challenge Of Displaying Play, Jennifer Dewinter

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Arcade games are increasingly being presented in museum spaces for both contemplation and play. By placing arcades into the museum, curators are creating narratives about the history of games, about the cultural value of these artifacts, and increasingly, about the artistic merit of computer games. However, when arcades enter the museum space, a tension arises between the critical distance demanded by museums—a distance needed to contemplate the curatorial vision of an object—and the closeness and irreverence demanded by play. To this tension, I argue museum spaces bring together these contemporary objects as part of a discourse concerning a postmodern anxiety …

After Life History: An Interview With Raiford Guins On His "Game After: A Cultural Study Of Video Game Afterlife", Samuel Tobin

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Raiford Guins is a professor of culture and technology in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at Stony Brook University, he is also a curator of the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection there. In his new book Game After, Guins draws on both of his professional roles, bringing a curator’s concerns to game and design history and a historian’s and critic’s attention to bear on game collections and collectors. Game After arrives at critical moment in the study of games, one in which the status of games themselves, as well as the means and methods best …

Shooting Down The Highway: William Lucas And Route 66 In New Mexico, Jason Stuart

New Mexico Historical Review

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Higher Education, Higher Costs: An Income-Contingent Approach, Catherine Hensly

Undergraduate Research Awards

An examination of different methods of paying for higher education with an emphasis on an income-contingent approach. The paper applies this method to a real-world institution, Radford University in Virginia. The limitations of this method and gender disparities in higher education are also considered. The author's entry essay for the 2014 Undergraduate Research Awards is included.

Report, Library Services And Resources In Support Of The College Of Education, January 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

All-Library Assessments Reports, Summaries & Misc Reports

A report assessing library collections that support the College of Education programs. Included is a list of electronic journals.

Wearing Different Hats: Micro Role Transitions In Two Contexts, Opal Man-Ching Leung

2014

Individuals make transitions between roles everyday as they move from home to work to other settings. This dissertation extends the work of Goffman (1959), Hall & Richer (1988), and Ashforth et al. (2000, 2001) on the topic of micro role transitions, which are the "frequent and usually recurring transitions, such as the commute between home and work" (Ashforth et al., 2000: 472). While the context of most of the research on micro role transitions has typically been focused on the work-home boundary (e.g. Rothbard et al., 2005; Nippert-Eng, 2008; Greenhaus & Powell, 2006; Hall & Richter, 1988), the three studies …