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Theses from 2022

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Secure Retrieval of Encrypted Similar Documents using Bloom Filters, German Guzman

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Muslim Young Adult Graphic Novels : Destabilizing Perceptions, Sidra Habal

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Into the Roach’s Mouth: Beyond the Postmodern Discourse on Silence in Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H., Eman Halimeh

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Feeding Preference of the Sea Urchin Arbacia punctulata for Algal Turf Over Kelp in a Degraded Kelp Forest Ecosystem, Kenneth J. Hamel

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Ascending from Dust : The Ring Shout, Morgan Hawkins

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Breath and Intention : An Exploration of Movement Clarity Within the Ballet Form, Rebecca Herrin

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Resisting Dominican Motherhood across Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Ana Hilario

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“To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth” : Hauntology and Memory in the Films of Alejandro Gonzalez lnarritu, Elizabeth Denny Hook

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Caliban the Savage : Shakespeare’s Critique of Colonialist Misappropriation of Indigenous Identities, Leonard Aquil Hughes

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Cas9 gRNA and Homologous Recombinant Plasmid Integrate Inducible HA-N-ICER in the AAVS1 Locus of SK-MEL-24 Cells, Douglas Job

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間 Between Heaven and Earth - An Immersive Installation, Jennifer Leung Johnson

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Distributed Energy Resources : An Assessment of New Jersey’s Clean Energy Future, Mary Elizabeth Kenny

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SecREP : A Framework for Automating the Extraction and Prioritization of Security Requirements Using Machine Learning and NLP Techniques, Shada Khanneh

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Parasite Variability in the Invasive Crayfish, Faxonius rusticus, in Northern New Jersey, Nathan Martin Klunk

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Does Target Race Moderate the Effect of Trustworthiness on Face Memory?, Sharon Ada Kobinah

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Susceptibility to Online Disinformation, Ryan Christopher Lesica

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Something Borrowed, Something New : A Cognitive and Experiential Exploration of the Creative Process, Joyce Lo

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Independent Dominating Sets in Unicyclic Graphs, Rachel Lopez

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Turning Tadpoles: Effects of Salinity and Lateralization on Hyla versicolor Escape Behaviors, Victor LoPiccolo

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Percussive Roots : Cross-Cultural Connections and Honoring Heritage, Jacob Madsen

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Spatial Distribution and Recruitment of the Botrylloides violaceus and Botryllus schlosseri Tunicates in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, Kaitlyn Maguire

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An Investigation Towards the Synthesis of a Novel Conformationally Restricted Ethylenediamine Scaffold, Fanny Mai

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Assessment of Digital Imaging Flow Cytometry in its Application of Harmful Algal Blooms Monitoring, Melissa Mazzaro

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Coming Out : An Exploration of Fassinger’s Model of Sexual Identity Through Jazz Dance, Michael McCarthy

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"Neither Here Nor There" : Migrant Women and the Cycle of Cultural Masculine Superiority, Fiorella Medina

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Literary Women : A Choreographic Exploration of Characters in Feminist Fiction, Jacqueline Millán

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Magic Squares of Squares of Order 5 Modulo a Prime Number, Imani L. Mosquera

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Evaluation of Kappa Opioid Receptor Specific Compounds and Their Effect on PTSD-Like Behavioral Activity, Daniel Murnock

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The Wide-Reaching Appeal of Fan Fiction and Its Merits in Popular Culture, Summer Nawaz

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The Eye’s Construction of Power in Richard II, Julius Caesar and Macbeth, John O’Brien

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A Network-Based Analysis of Student Learning Trajectories and Andragogical Design, John Kerry O’Meara

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Forecasting Electricity Load in New Jersey with Artificial Neural Networks, Erik W. Raab

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Plasticized : A Dance Film, Claudio Ribeiro da Silva

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Examination of Social Cognition Impairments in Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury through the Awareness of Social Inference Test performance, Brea Lenae Rivera

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The Independence Polynomial of a Graph at −1, Kyle Robbins

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(Re) Membering Forwards : Excavating and Embodying Cultural Memory, An Afro-Diasporic Dance Film Rendition, Rosalinda Rojas

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Can Patent Trolls be Stopped Without Interfering with an Individual’s Property Rights?, Talar Sahagian

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Literary Machiavellianism, the Vice Figure, and the Jewish Character : Anti-Semitic Perceptions in The Jew of Malta and The Merchant Venice, Allison Schaechter

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A Study on Wind Farms in New Jersey : Life Cycle Assessment and Acceptance of Wind Farms by the Tourists, Nawal Shoaib

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Gender roles in natural resource use in Madagascar, Sarahana Shrestha

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Isolation : A Dansical Film of Storytelling and Collaborative Exploration, Lauran Stanis

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“The Delta is Filled Up With Death” : Death As Avoidance and the Construction of White Identity in Lewis Nordan’s Music of the Swamp, Sarah Sturm

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In the Cities, There is Violence : Do Higher Levels of Police Militarization Correlate with Police Use of Lethal Force?, Brennan B. Sumner

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Green Tea Polyphenols EGCG-S and P-EGCG Containing Formulations Effectively Inhibit Growth and Biofilm Formation of ESKAPE Bacteria, Calvin William Taylor

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Science Literacy Skills of First-Generation and Underrepresented First-Year Students and The STEM Pioneers Intervention, Rebecca Sarah Katherine Thompson

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The Susceptibility for Recreational Boating to Serve as a Vector for Harmful Algal Blooms, John Michael Thraen

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Leadership Style on Shared Leadership and Team Performance Via Followership Style, Pasquale Alexander Tosto

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Screen Time, Sleep, and Anxiety, Michael Edward Turner

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Evaluation of Ranavirus Major Capsid Protein Gene Sequence Mutations in United States East Coast Frog and Tadpole Populations, Erin Marie Tyll

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Frequency of Multiple Sclerosis as a Function of Handedness, Melissa Villafana

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Be Apart or Be A Part : An Exploration of the Circle Dance Form as a Means for Human Connection and Healing, Stephanie R. White

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Servant Leadership Oriented Leadership Development for Leaders on the Autism Spectrum : An Exploratory Study, Nikita Elizabeth Williams

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Isolation and Analysis of Single-stranded DNA Aptamers for the Detection of Ranavirus, Stephanie Zapata

Theses from 2021

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Fingerprint Classification Using Transfer Learning Technique, Aseel H. Aloweiwi

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Deep Learning for Electricity Forecasting Using Time Series Data, Hanan Abdullah Alshehri

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Code Ownership : Plagiarism and Use, Alexis Nicole Amore

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Having Her Dinner and Eating It Too : Edna’s Last Dinner Party, Brielle Babiar

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Effects of Microcystis aeruginosa on New Jersey Aquatic Benthic Macroinvertebrates, Stephanie Beck

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A Secure and Verifiable Computation for k-Nearest Neighbor Queries in Cloud, Salma Yahya Bokhary

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Facial Recognition and Face Mask Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques, Mira M. Boulos

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Gender Differences in Communication : A Task-Oriented Corpus Analysis, Bimash Budha

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Extinction of Species Due to Deterministic and Stochastic Interactions in Food Webs, Claire M. Burke

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Effects of Inducible cAMP Early Repressor (ICER) on Herpes Simplex Virus -1 (HSV-1) Replication, Rosalina Caba

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Utilizing Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (EGFP) as a Reporter Gene to Study the Nuclear/Cytoplasmic Localization of the Transcriptional Repressor ICER, Melissa Cabral

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Time of Flight and Fingerprinting Based Methods for Wireless Rogue Device Detection, Daniel Chege

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Investigating the Effects of Catalytic Activity in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Indole-3-Glycerol Phosphate Synthase in Wildtype, N189L, And E57D Variants, Sarah S. Cho

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Human-Robot Collaboration Using Commonsense Knowledge in Smart Manufacturing Contexts, Christopher Joseph Conti

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Attribute Framing Effect as a Function of Selective Auditory Frequency Amplification, Nicole Marie DeSimone

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Mastery Behavior and Brain Injury in Infancy, Kiyana S. Dunston

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Vertical Metal Distributions in Brownfield Soils Drive Enzyme Activities and Plant Success, Eshariah N. Dyson

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Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn and “Bloodchild” : From Human to Posthuman, Nicole Fields

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Detecting Bots Using a Hybrid Approach, Edmund Kofi Genfi

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Investigating the Effects of Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms on the Vulnerability to Shell Disease of Northern Red-Bellied Turtles (Pseudemys rubriventris) in New Jersey, Stephanie Getto

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Marital and Maternal Mourning : Gravesite Domesticity in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “Epitaphs”, Alexis Grainger

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When Leaders and Followers Do Not Hold Similar Constructions of Leadership : How Followers are Impacted by Conflicting Leadership Expectations, Christine Griffith

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A Whole New (Eastern) World: Ramy Youssef’s Role in the Undoing of Orientalism in Modern-Day Media, Mary Hanna

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Assisting Humans in Human-Robot Co-Carry Tasks Using Robot-Trusting-Human Model, Corey Hannum

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Identification of Ice-rafted Debris in the Weddell Sea to Characterize Glaciation at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition, Josie Horowitz

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Fast and Secure Friend Recommendation in Online Social Networks, Raiyan Hossain

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A Film of Many Colors : Neoliberalism, Capitalism, and Climate Change in Rango, Sierra Javras

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Computational Analysis to Study the Efficiency of Shear Activated Nano-Therapeutics in the Treatment of Atherosclerosis, Nicholas Jefopoulos

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Wound and Weight : “Cumbrous Flesh” and Pain in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d, John Robert Jenkins

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Towards Machine Learning-Based Demand Response Forecasting Using Smart Grid Data, Matthew S. Johnson

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Freudian Melancholy and Bodily Mutilation in “Little Snow White” and “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”, Valmira Kaba

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Coastal Onlap/Offlap Amplification due to Organic Sediment Accumulation and Degradation : Implications for Sea Level Reconstruction, Norjmaa Khosbaatar

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Upstream Propagation of Sea-Level Signals in Fluvio-Deltaic Environments : Time-Lags, and the Dynamics of the Fluvial Surface, Madeline Pianta Kollegger

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Does Racial Bias in Size Perception Extend to Women?, Eliana Legelen

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The Effects of Ketamine Administration on Novel Object Placement and Hippocampal AMPA Receptor Expression in the Male Long Evan Rats, Ruchael McNair

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Effects of Differing Environmental Conditions on Bacteriophage Jenika, Gerard Nasser

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Effect of Tropical Cyclones on Coastal Marine Ecosystems, Xenia Neal

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I’m the Leader! How Shared Leadership Leads to Territoriality, Catrina MaryJane Notari

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A Comparison of Metagenomic Sequencing Using Targeted 16S and Whole Genome Shotgun NGS on Microbial DNA Samples, Adam Daniel Parker

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Impact of COVID-19 on Residential Waste Streams of Montclair Township, Jeanne Huguette Perrine

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Interlace Polynomials of Certain Graphs, Cheyenne Petzold

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Reflections of a Broken Mirror : An Analysis of the Mirror Motif in The Famished Road, Mama Day, and Us, Samira Pigford

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The Island Remembers : Land Memory, Collective Memory & Trauma in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, Justine Prusiensky

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Salvaging the Utopia : Posthumanism, Feminism, and Anti-Patriarchal Language in Kathy Acker’s In Memoriam to Identity, Fe Lorraine Agustin Reyes

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Bipartite, Size, and Online Ramsey Numbers of Some Cycles and Paths, Eliyahu Schudrich

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“True Darkness and True Womanness” : A Study of Sisterhood in Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women, Jessica Schwartz

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The Impact of the Translation of the Quran on Shakespeare’s Plays, Rania Shair