USF Sarasota-Manatee Campus Research Expertise Database

• To identify and address system barriers to hearing healthcare utilization in vulnerable populations
• To develop culturally-competent hearing health education resources for older adults with low English proficiency or other language preferences
• To determine how healthcare policy impacts hearing healthcare utilization

• To understand how hospitality businesses use or want to use Big Data in their operations.
• To understand how micro breweries collaborate on product development
• To understand and discover new uses for hops in culinary applications
• To understand how experiential learning can close the gap between academia and industry, which will better prepare students for industry

• Study the relationships between employee commitment and work-related outcomes, especially job performance and turnover.
• Develop and test theory on workplace resilience at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
• Contribute to a deeper appreciation of the proper use of advanced research statistics.

• Promote healthy and successful relationships by better understanding what psychological attributes of individuals and relationships facilitate pro-relationship behaviors,
• Promote physical and mental health and well-being through human-animal interactions, especially as it relates to attachment to pets,
• Explore the role of commitment across a variety of domains (e.g., natural environment, religion) to better understand the central tenets of the concept.

• To validate a customizable framework for Big Data adoption in business organizations
• To identify the key elements in optimizing supply chains resulting in sustainable business processes
• To understand the impact of Agility as a psycho-social trait in software projects and organizations
• To understand the context and the granularity of Big Data analytics in order to embed the analytics at the right level in business processes

• To understand the effect of corporate income taxes on firms financial reporting behavior.
• To understand the sensitivity of executive compensation to firm performance.
• To understand how does executive compensation incentives affect financial reports and firm stock performance.
• To understand how financial intermediaries process firms’ financial reports.
• To explore the effects of organizational characteristics such as corporate governance and resiliency on firm performance.

Assist taxpaying consumers to  increase and retain their own earned wealth and utilize to best purpose they self determine

• To understand the cognitive and social mechanisms that influence the jury deliberation process and ultimately jury decisions.
• To uncover and explain the mechanisms responsible for pretrial publicity’s influence on jurors’ decisions, with the goal of informing the legal system on effective ways to remedy or reduce bias associated with exposure to pretrial publicity.
• To understand how pretrial publicity influences jury deliberations and whether jurors can be counted on to correct for bias and memory errors during deliberations or instead transfer bias and induce memory errors in other jurors.
• To understand how individual differences of defendants and jurors may influence juror decision making and the jury deliberation process.

To facilitate life participation and communication facilitation in persons with aphasia following stroke

Applications of communication, signal processing, and data analysis in cybersecurity, big data, networking, and other physical sciences.

• To assess theories of crime and delinquency, to examine stalking victimization and perpetration,
• To explore the predictive accuracy of existing risk instruments, and to advocate for evidence-based practice in the field of criminal justice.

• To understand the social-environmental impact of climate change.
• To understand public opinion about different environmental issues.

To study geometric actions of infinite groups on spaces which share their geometry, particularly reflection groups and groups partially generated by involutions

• To understand the interaction of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Social Cybersecurity
• Use evidence-based methods to explore data originating in educational context to address questions pertaining to student success
• To investigate factors leading to gender gap and racial gap in IT
• To translate big data sets into interactive meaningful visualizations that meet the specific user needs.

• To develop conceptual frameworks that will inform research methods to better understand the impact of arts integrated learning contexts on diverse learners.
• To develop evidence based implementation methods for arts integration with diverse learners.
• To understand how the creative process and vulnerability transforms pre-service teachers’ dispositions, feelings, and values.
• To develop evidence based methods for training professionals and parents in positive behavior intervention supports to increase the successful inclusion of children and youth with exceptionalities in general education classrooms and in community settings
• To understand how developing a posture of cultural reciprocity in pre-service and in-service teachers impacts the success of their students with exceptionalities

To understand how race and racism impact crime the criminal justice system and legal formations.

• To assess the primary stressors associated with informal/home caregiving for dementia patients
• To identify ageist or biased attitudes in human services/social work personnel
• To provide evidence-based clinical treatment knowledge and skills to practitioners working with individuals who engage in hoarding and compulsive acquiring behaviors

• Identify how psychological processes interact with people’s religious and spiritual beliefs to promote health benefits versus harmful consequences (e.g. prejudice, extremism)
• Understand how different religious faiths and how religious / spiritual beliefs in different cultures relate to differences in how people think
• Apply dynamic systems theories to develop models useful for understanding complex social issues such as destructive conflicts
• Develop data analysis techniques to quantify dynamic properties

• To understand the entrepreneurial processes in developing economies and the interactions with environmental factors.
• To evaluate the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in developing economies.
• To understand the components of business models that bring logical and internal consistent approach to business ventures in developing economies
• To understand reconciliation of environmental and economic performance to improve corporate sustainability

To identify principles and processes and develop applications around youth purpose education and positive youth development.

• To assess the relationship between health/illness and crime
• To identify the factors that influence inmate misconduct
• To explore the effect of correctional programming on behavior
• To evaluate the efficacy of community-based interventions/programs

• To discover elements that contribute to resilience and positive development for child refugees and family survivors of war.
• To provide information and teaching strategies for teachers of resettled refugees.
• To compare international policies and practices intended to support resettled refugee families, thereby engaging the international community to consider alternative positive strategies.
• To examine challenges and promising practices that are specific to women and girl survivors of war.

• To illuminate the history of the modern, and particularly the 20th-century, world by explaining its preoccupation with—and very often its misunderstanding and misappropriation of—Greco-Roman antiquity.
• To explore the economic roles of females and enslaved persons in ancient Roman society.
• To explain ancient concepts of athleticism and their application to modern-day sport.

• Development of current conjectures in my master’s thesis – into theorems.
• Rejuvenate regression with a new way of modeling-depending on response variable(s).
• Formulate my app of weather progresses.

To research issues related to: civic particpation, housing, transportation, outdoor spaces, employment, communication & information, community supports, and social participation.

Development of fermentation science with food and beverage tracks, concentrations, including an exploration of potential impacts on the following:

• Students
• Departments
• Colleges
• USFSM

Synergy within the USF system (e.g., engagement with USFSP Brewing Arts Program and Brewing Certificate)
Faculty and student research opportunities (e.g., yeast)
Industry collaborations and development*

• Innovation
• Startups
• Local economy

• To determine the extent of cognitive deficits in animal models of alcohol dependency.  Specifically focusing on behavioral flexibility and reversal learning.
• To determine the impact of chronic alcohol exposure on orbitofrontal cortex function.
• To determine the involvement of dopamine and glutamate interactions in animal models of alcohol dependency

• To understand whether and how a firm’s CSR policy can increase firm value and reduce cost of capital and what CSR activities are valued by stakeholders and financial market
• To understand what national  institutional factors influence firms’ financial policy
• To understand the merits of specific corporate governance and CSR instruments, contingent on environmental uncertainty

To understand the organizational and individual factors that drive employee stress, engagement, and well-being

• To determine the most effective practices for eliminating the academic achievement gap.
• To develop a professional development protocol for achieving teacher cultural competence.
• To understand the dynamics of effective academic, social and emotional support systems in high poverty, high risk and culturally diverse schools.
• To expose the societal effects of the reduction and elimination of social studies education from the public school curriculum.

• To understand the ways in which social inequalities affect the well-being of individuals, particularly in the workplace;
• To understand the relationships between worker identity and self-concept and workplace emotional experiences;
• To identify moderators of the effects of negative workplace experiences on worker well-being

To develop tools, methods, practices, and theories that help organizations to be more effective.

Understand the effects that tourism has on an economy

• To understand why do people adopt radical beliefs, and why do some people choose to engage in violence to further those beliefs while others do not.
• To understand the common threads that exist among cases of domestic radicalization and terrorism in the context of Middle East and Western world.
• To develop evidence based methods in responding to radicalization, and preventing terrorism.

• Develop algorithmic solutions to solve hard business problems like scheduling, knapsack, cutting stock, traveling salesman, … etc
• Develop and apply advanced modeling, optimization, and simulation approaches for Supply Chain improvements
• Apply analytics (statistical, multivariate, data mining, machine learning, IT tools …) for decision making to improve business and industry, and society at large
• Apply statistical and quantitative techniques for quality improvement, productivity improvement, and improvement of products and services

• To understand the level of efficiency with which financial, betting, and prediction markets operate.
• To determine why corporations invest resources into socially responsible activities.
• To estimate the financial and competitive value of NCAA athletes to their universities.
• To evaluate the frequency with which corruption occurs in sports betting markets.

• Environmental criminology and communities and crime: where crime occurs, and what explains crime patterns
• Victimization and offending: causes of victimization and prevention strategies
• Evaluation of crime prevention initiatives with quasi-experimental designs

• To identify resiliency factors for children and adults — why do some people adapt and thrive during and after hardship while others do not?
• To identify ways communities can mobilize to address persistent social problems such as family violence, crime, drug abuse, etc.
• To identify ways to better help students achieve academic and personal goals

To be a prolific and well-known scholar in the field of early modern literary studies, where “prolific” and “well-known” are relative to the level of research support provided by my home institution.

• To understand the representation of age and aging in literature
• To understand how drama both reflects and constructs cultural norms about age and aging
• To understand how theatre can be a tool in fighting ageism

To demystify the writing process and the keys to accomplishing business and technical prose

• To understand why extremist & terrorist movements emerge and how they evolve
• To analyze factors that drive engagement in both violent and non-violent extremism
• To understand how religion intersects with conflict in different parts of the world.