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TitleIdentifying the best context for CCTV camera deployment
AuthorPiza, Eric L.
Date Created2012
Degree Date2012-05
DescriptionCCTV has become a mainstream crime prevention mechanism around the world. Despite the popularity of the technology, evidence of CCTV’s crime prevention capabilities is inconclusive. Little research...
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TitleAir pollution, meteorology and public health in New Jersey
AuthorRoberts-Semple, Dawn
Date Created2012
Degree Date2012-05
DescriptionAir pollutant concentrations vary with local meteorological conditions and can have deleterious effects on human health. This dissertation adapts an integrated approach to improve understanding about...
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TitleAn analysis of internationally exported vehicle thefts in two high-risk cities
AuthorBlock, Steven
Date Created2012
Degree Date2012-05
DescriptionMotor vehicle theft costs the United States billions of dollars each year in direct and indirect losses. More specifically, vehicle theft in areas near borders and ports has been cited as a...
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TitleMeasuring the effectiveness of an alternative education collaborative in improving student outcomes in Newark, New Jersey
AuthorGenao, Soribel
Date Created2010
Degree Date2010
DescriptionAn increasing concern in public administration is the development of effective collaborative approaches to public problems through partnerships between government, private and nonprofit organizations....
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TitleFolk feminism: the women of the American folk revival
AuthorMahmassani, Addie
Date Created2022
Degree Date2022-10
DescriptionThis dissertation approaches the American folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s from a feminist perspective, offering the concept of folk feminism as an analytical framework for...
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TitleThe immanent American fantastic: immanence and liminality in contemporary U.S. fantastic literature
AuthorCiccolo, Drew J.
Date Created2022
Degree Date2022-10
DescriptionThis dissertation is a study of “the American fantastic,” i.e. the literary fantastic in an American context. I suggest that conceiving of the fantastic in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and...
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TitleShootings and crime places
AuthorXu, Jie
Date Created2011
Degree Date2011-05
DescriptionThis dissertation presents a systematic approach to identify the determinants of gun shooting and forecast the distribution of gun shooting. Using frameworks of opportunities theories and social...
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TitleEducating students about AIDS through art
AuthorGrosso, Ashley
Date Created2011
Degree Date2011-05
DescriptionThis dissertation evaluates the effects and implementation of an education program aimed at increasing knowledge and changing attitudes about HIV and AIDS among high school students. Using a...
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TitleHybrid governance and network management in the globalizing metropolis
AuthorRuffin, Fayth Anese
Date Created2010
Degree Date2010
DescriptionThis is a transnational, socio-legal, comparative embedded case study of four business improvement districts (BIDs), two in Cape Town, WC, RSA and two in Newark, NJ, USA in the context of...