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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 castaways: affect, alienation, and authorship in American sitcoms of the 1960s

AuthorDurst, Lawrence Bruce

Date Created2024

Degree Date2024-05

DescriptionThis dissertation reassesses a novel style of American sitcom that emerged in the mid-1960s in which serene depictions of suburbia that had dominated the genre in the late 1950s and early 1960s...

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TitleNew presidential war powers

AuthorNeeley, Alexander J.

Date Created2018

Degree Date2018-05

DescriptionAmerican foreign policy has drastically changed since September 11, 2001. In the decade before that date America was engaged in a series of smaller conflicts, but nothing sustained over a long period...