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Theses from 2022

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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

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“I Shall Watch Their Progress”: The Observer Effect and Information Theory in Literary Systems, Michael L. Shohet

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Characterizing Bacterial Communities Across a Nutrient Gradient Over Winter Months, Emily Jin Searles Stone

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Towards Secure and Verifiable Computation of KNN Queries in Outsourced Environments, Gowri Pandian Sundarapandi

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The Comparison of Utilizing Functional Electrical Stimulation Device Versus Ankle Foot Orthosis Brace and the Effect on Participants’ Activities of Daily Living After a Cerebrovascular Accident, Cynthia Victoria Vlad

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Effect of Natural Environment Training and Discrete Trial Training on Adaptive Behaviors, Amelia Yanchik

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Servant Leadership Relationship to Emotional Demands, Stress, and Well-Being of the Leader, Laura Yang

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Cyclic Sulfones from Double Conjugate Addition of Rongalite, Hao Zong

Theses from 2020

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Tension Within Immigrant Identity in South Asian and Asian Characters in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Everything I Never Told You, and Disgraced, Dania Abdelsalam

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Synthesis of Amide and Sulfonamides as PDE11 Inhibitors, Noor Abouchakra

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Joint Use of Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) and Advanced Reduction Process (ARP) for Alleviation of Leachate Organic Matter (LOM), Ali Albalgane

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Euripides : Suppliant to the Divine Feminine, Liz Amato

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Discovery of Single-Stranded DNA Aptamers for the Detection of Ranavirus, Allyssa Angel

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Bounds for the Number of Independent and Dominating Sets in Trees, Daniel K. Arabia

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Re-envisioning Sections of Anything Goes to Address Gender Identity, Laurena Barros

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Question-Asking in Conversational Tasks : A Gender Comparison, Courtney Bell

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Design of Strips with Geometry Shapes and Mathematical Analysis, Somia Benali

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Manuel Puig y los espacios queer : Una tercera lectura de la realidad, Matthew Berg

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Size Does Matter : Exposure and Effects of Microplastics on the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica), Erika Bernal

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Transcriptomic Identification of Venom Candidates in the Clinging Jellyfish Gonionemus vertens, Alorah D. Bliese

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Testing Multiple Climate Stressors at the Cold Range Limit of a Marine Calcifier, Christian R. Bojorquez

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Parenting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder : Child Symptom Behaviors, Stigma, and Parental Stress among Minorities and Non-Minorities, Kayla Renee Breeden

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Beliefs and Perceptions of Millennials Pertaining to Climate Change and Sustainability, Rae Cade

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Impacts of Forest Fire on Stream Sediment : A Chemical Analysis of the 16 Mile Fire in Delaware State Forest, Pennsylvania, USA, Bernadette Rosario Calderon

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Paleoenvironment Reconstruction of the Eocene Southeastern Tethys Using Geochemistry of Sedimentary Rocks, Liliana Calderón Convers

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Determining the Relative Activities of Wild-Type Mycobacterium tuberculosis Indole-3-Glycerol Phosphate Synthase and Mutants E57A and E219A With an Investigation Into the Relationship Between Wild-Type Mycobacterium tuberculosis IGPS Activity and pH, Thomas Emmanuel Candela

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"A" is for Ambivalence : Hester Prynne's Conflicted Response to Motherhood in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Stephanie Morecraft Carlson

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“Mutually Exclusive” : Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Caitlin Moran Casey

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Response to Phototaxic Stimulation in Relation to Sex and Reproductive State in the Urban Adapted Mosquito, Culex pipiens f. molestus, Karen M. Catalina

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The Evolution of Latin Jazz Music and Dance : Under the Skin, Teresa Perez Ceccon

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Preparation and Crystal Structures of Racemic and Quasiracemic Imidazole or N-Methyl Imidazole Copper Complexes Containing Substituted N-Benzoylalanines, Emily Catherine Chong

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“Life Swarms with Innocent Monsters” : the Monstrosity of Gender Inversion in Bram stoker’s Dracula, Natalie Diane Cottrill

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Bullying, Resilience, and Victimization : An Investigation Among Special Needs High School Students, Sandy Dawoud

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Simulation Based Inference in Epidemic Models, Tejitha Dharmagadda

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The Effect of Metabotropic Glutamate 5 Receptors Stimulation on Delayed Non-Match to Odor Performance in Long-Evans Male Rats, Stacy Jesus Duarte

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Beloved : An Immersive Theater Experience, Caitlin Dutton-Reaver

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The Antiviral Effects of Embelin on HSV-1 in Cultured Vero Cells, Tony Elias

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The Expression of Circadian Rhythms in the Non-Diapausing Mosquito Culex pipiens f. molestus, Natalie Rachel Epstein

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Lineage and Legacy : Horton Through the Ailey Lens, Then and Now, Lakey Evans-Peña

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Control of Secondary Extinctions in Stochastic Food Webs, Dunia M. Fernandez

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Identification and Quantification of Black Carbon Particulates in Urban River Sediments Involving a Multi-tiered Analytical Approach, Anastasia Figueroa

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The Spaces Between : Reimagining and Rebuilding Sokolow’s Slaughter of the Innocents, Samantha Géracht