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All Montclair State University theses starting with 2010 can be found below. Print theses from before that date are being digitized based on the availability of funding, and may be listed below. All print and electronic theses and dissertations that have been cataloged can be found by searching the Library catalog.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Predictive Biomarkers Demonstrating the Effect of Levels of Copper and Zinc from Exposure to World Trade Center 9/11 Particulate Matter on Human Esophageal Cells in vitro, Rossara Nunez

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Before Talkies : The Voice of Gesture, Lauren Baine Ohmer

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Exploring the Role of Social Support, Ethnic Identity, and Psychological Empowerment on Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Black & Hispanic Female Adolescents, Ijeoma Opara

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Examining a Hypothyroid Model of Depressive Symptoms in Mice: Tests of Behavioral Measures, Hannah S. Ovadia

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Student's Explicit and Implicit Attitudes Regarding Breastfeeding in Public : Analyzed Through FaceReader™ Technology, Kaitlin Doherty Overgaard

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Supporting In-Service Literacy Teacher Reflective Practice Through Graduate Coursework : A Qualitative Study of Building Literacy Teacher Reflective Practice in a Masters Reading Course and In-Service School Contexts, Gary V. Pankiewicz

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Inhibition of HSV-1 Binding by EGCG-Stearate, Valerie Paschalis

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"Pure language" : Authenticity, Punk Ideology, and Belonging in A Visit from the Goon Squad, Kimberly Plaksin

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Commonsense Knowledge in Sentiment Analysis of Ordinance Reactions for Smart Governance, Manish Puri

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Least Action Principle Applied to a Non-Linear Damped Pendulum, Katherine Rhodes

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“A Present Tense People, Modern, Relevant, Alive” : Writing Against Erasure in Tommy Orange’s There There, Greg Riggio

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Evaluating the Relationship Between Depression, Perceived Stress, Sleep Quality, and Lure Discrimination, Jessica Rothberg

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Microbial Community, Functioning, and Its Relationship with Heavy Metals in an Urban Brownfield, Jay Prakash Singh

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The Impact of Deicing Materials on the Middle and Lower Passaic River Basins, New Jersey : A Geostatistical and Hydrochemical Analysis, Peter Joseph Soriano

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Glauconite Formation in Late Eocene ODP Site 696 Sediment in West Antarctica, Abbey States

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Data Mining and Predictive Policing, Chanté L. Stewart-Wallace

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Assimilating Mathematical Thinking to the Learning of Shadows, Taheeda Shwana Street-Conaway

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Curcumin and Hispolon as Potential Antibacterial Agents, Haleigh Elizabeth Sullivan

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Dark Triad Unleashed : Examining Trait-Activating Effects on Counterproductive Work Behavior, Danielle Tarantino

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Light Addressable Electrode for Neurotransmitter Sensing, Irina Michelle Terrero Rodríguez

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Indole-3-glycerol Phosphate Synthase Ligand Binding Interactions, Oshane Thomas

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You Can Go Your Own Way : Examining the Pathways of College Student Leaders, Margaret Judith Toich

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Perceptions of Age, Maturity, and Self-Control, Nicole S. Troy

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Effects of Astragaloside IV on GSK-3β and S6K1 Phosphorylation in C2C12 Muscle Cells, Kyle James Tuohy

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Ecocriticism and the Trans-Corporeal : Agency, Language, and Vibrant Matter of the Environmental “Other” in J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Garrett Van Curen

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Targeted Resequencing of CRISPR Cas9 Mediated ICER Knockout in SK-MEL-24 Cells, Justin Wheelan

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Statistical Modeling of Count Data with Over-Dispersion or Zero-Inflation Problems, Chengxin Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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The Antimicrobial Activity of Lipophilic Green Tea Polyphenols on S. mutans and the ESKAPE Pathogens, Mathew Milad Abtahi

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Music Therapists’ Experience with Resistance in an Inpatient Psychiatric Setting, Mark E. Ackerman

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Analysis of Daily Precipitation Data from Selected Sites in the United States, Sahar Ahmed

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An Assessment of Daily Plain Water Intake Level and Its Association with Total Energy Intake Among College Students, Maria Alanazi

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Dynamics of Coupled Particles in a Time-Dependent, Double-Gyre Flow, Manuel Albrizzio

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Lessons from Isadora : Re-Examining a Century Old Creative Process to Create New Movement and Expression, Rebecca Allen

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Interlace Polynomials of Cycles with One Additional Chord, Jhonny Almeida

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An Enthalpy Model for the Dynamics of a Deltaic System Under Base-Level Change, William Anderson

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“An Eye Opener” : The Meaning of Latin@ College Students’ Experiences in a Bilingual Latin@ Family Class, Gloria A. Andrade

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How Do Culturally Responsive School Counselors Make Meaning of the Challenges They Face in Meeting the Needs of a Diverse Student Population and Enact Effective Practices?, Frank Andrisani

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The Effect of Dark Personality Traits and Cultural Logics on Counter-Productive Work Behaviors, Anastasia I. Angelbeck

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Green Tea Polyphenol EGCG-S as an Antimicrobial Agent, Theresa Renee Aponte

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Inertial Particle Transport by Lagrangian Coherent Structures in Geophysical Flows, Alexa Aucoin

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Resolving the Populist Paradox : Politics, Perception, and Identity in the United States, Pierre Avalos

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The Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Urban Brownfield Soils, Jennifer Rosalia Balacco

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The Culture of Nondisclosure of Sexual Abuse, Veronica R. Barrios

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State of Mind : A Poststructural Analysis of Governmentality and Teacher Education Professionalism Using Policy Texts, Todd A. Bates

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Establishing a Method to Detect Fragile X CGG Repeats within the FMR1 Gene of Embryo Trophectoderm Biopsies, Jenna Bedard

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Evaluating the Success and Monitoring the Usage of Wildlife Crossing Structures in Bedminster, NJ, Nicole Heather Bergen

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How is Fanfiction Framed for Literacy Education Practitioner Periodical Audiences : Media Frame Analysis (2003 - 2013), Drew Emanuel Berkowitz

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Learning to Teach Physics : Exploring Teacher Knowledge, Practice, and Identity, Nellista E. Bess

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Collaborative Teacher-Driven Professional Development : The Documented Journey of a Practitioner Action Research Teacher Study Group, Brenna D. Bohny

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Is the Trail-Following Behavior of Juvenile Physa acuta Influenced by Kinship and Familiarity?, Tiana Bonventre

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Economic and Environmental Assessment of Advanced Biofuels : Adoption Under Uncertainty, Farmer Willingness, and Land Use Implications, Pralhad Burli

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Drume Mi Negrita : A Choreographic Spiritual Journey of the Goddess Yemaya, Beatrice Capote

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Seasonal Switching Affects Bacterial-Fungal Dominance in an Ecological System, Kristin Carfora

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The Dispersion Process for Particles on Graphs, Adam Cartisano

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Developing and Validating the Teacher Self-Efficacy for Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Inclusive Classrooms (TSE-ASDI) Scale, Corinne Gaffney Catalano

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Benefits of a Nutrition Education Program on a Community of Developmentally Disabled Adults, Rory Kathleen Coleman

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Shakespeare and the "Two Masters" In and Around Joyce, Robert Conklin

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Make Way : Jazz Dance in Motion Through Preservation and Towards Innovation, Lisa Harvie Covin

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An Eye-Tracking Investigation of Facial Affect Recognition in Traumatic Brain Injury and Healthy Individuals, Joseph Walter DeAngelis

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Candy Sharing and Chip Firing Games on Graphs, Joseph DeGaetani

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Tortillas y Lagrimas (Tortillas and Tears), Elisa De La Rosa

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A Phylogenetic Analysis of Extinct and Extant Pan-Alcidae (Charadriiformes: Aves), Alexandria A. DiGiacomo

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Exploring Female Genital Mutilation Practice Among West African Immigrants in the United States: A Community-Based Participatory Action Research Study, Kani Diop

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The Differences of Musical Self-Expression and the Interrelationships Within Group Music Improvisation Between Japan and the United States, Rieko Eguchi

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Community Music Therapy and El Sistema : Addressing the Empowerment Needs of Marginalized Individuals and Their Communities, Virginia Carolina Eulacio-Guevara

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Presence of Cofactor NADPH Slows Down the Dissociation of Methotrexate from Dihydrofolate Reductase from Bacillus stearothermophilus, Ryan Seamus Foley

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Life Cycle Analysis of Sugarcane Bagasse and Switchgrass under Dilute Phosphoric Acid Pretreatment and Simultaneous Saccharification and CoFermentation, Michael C. Fowler

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Mercury Contamination in Benthic Biota and Sediments within the New York Bight Wind Energy Area, Jordan Francis Gilruth

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Garden Path Sentence Processing as a Measure of Belief Updating, Alexis Diana Grant

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Portraits of Adolescents As They Navigate the Competitive, College-Going, and Affluent Culture, Kathleen L. Grant

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Constructing Meaning in Movement Through its Relationship to Music : A Choreomusical Response to the Sarabande, Lauren Grant

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The Study and Analysis of Historic Allegheny Woodrat (Neotoma magister) Sites, Elizabeth Grietzer

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Crawling Through Life : The Counseling Experiences of Women Who Have Placed a Child for Adoption, Elliotte Sue Harrington

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The Stability of Tea Polyphenols as a Food Additive and Its Effect on Streptococcus mutans, Chia-Liang Huang

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Bridging Gaps Between Conservation Action and Policy on Small Island Developing States – Case Analog of The Republic of Mauritius, Pricila Iranah

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The Relationship Between Professional Development Engagement and Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy, and Athletic Identity in College Students Vs. College Student Athletes, Ashley E. Janosko

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Understanding the Flow Structure of Low Reynolds Number Flows, Albert Jarvis

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The Use of Philosophy With Children as a Pedagogical Practice, Igor Jasinski

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Behavioral Response of Adult and Larval Wood Frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) to a Common Road De-Icer, NaCl, Dylan Jones

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Classifying Controversiality in Article Data, Kateryna Kaplun

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Gravitational-Wave Memory from Black Hole and Neutron Star Mergers, Matthew Karlson

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Leadership Developmental Readiness : Furthering Our Understanding of This Multi-Dimensional Construct, Quinn E. Knudsen

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La liberté et les deux visages de la France : de la délégitimation de la démocratie franc̦aise, Michael Kolodziejski

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Elucidation of Substrate Binding to Photolyase from Sulfolobus solfataricus Using Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, Amanda Rose Kuerzi

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Novel Bryophyte Auxin Conjugate Amidohydrolases from Physcomitrella patens and Marchantia polymorpha and Their Role in the Evolution of Auxin Metabolism, Stephanie Lyn Kurdach

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Rethinking Teaching in STEM Education in a Community College : Role of Instructional Consultation and Digital Technologies, Shelley Chih-Hsian Kurland

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Magic Squares of Squares of Order Three Over Finite Fields, Giancarlo Labruna

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Cultivating Success : How Two General Education Teachers Created Inclusion Classrooms for Their Students, Natalie A. Lacatena

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Measuring Early Emergence of Self-Awareness in Infants Using Eye Tracking, Melanie Lawrie

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Geochemical and Sedimentological Analysis of Marine Sediments from ODP Site 696 and Implications for the Onset of Antarctic Glaciation, Allison Paige Lepp

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Impacts of Drainage Basin Characteristics on Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Communities in the Upper Passaic River, Michael J. Levinson

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The Effect of Thematic Improvisation and Lyric Analysis on Classroom Performance in an Adolescent with a Behavioral/Emotional Disorder, Brandon K. Madsen

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The Non-additive Effect of Food and Wine in the Spanish Diet on Total Antioxidant Capacity of the Spanish Mediterranean Diet, Carol Majkrzak

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“The Unwelcome Truth” : Arthur Miller’s The Crucible as Satirical Political Allegory, Deanna Marie Mattia

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The Reported Experiences of Adult to Adult Bullying in K-12 New Jersey Public Schools, Julia R. Mazzarella

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Evidence of POGO Transposable Elements in the Atlantic Bay Nettle (Chrysaora chesapeakei) Genome, Jonathan C. Medina

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Using Eye-Tracking to Explore Preference for High Value Visual Stimuli, Joseph C. Melon

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A Population Characterization of Allegheny Woodrats (Neotoma magister) In the Hudson River Palisades of New Jersey, Amanda Menasion

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Flawed to Start : The Inconsequence of Action in the Novels of Brian O’Nolan, Christopher M. Mitchell

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Biological Factors in the STEM Gender Gap, Yamina Nater-Otero