Kean University

Phage Genomics and Bioinformatics in Therapeutic Development: Evidence Limits, Validation Gates, and Translational Decision-Making

Background/Objectives: Antimicrobial resistance has renewed interest in live therapeutic phages, including engineered candidates and defined phage cocktails, as antibacterial strategies. However, clinical translation requires evidence extending beyond phage isolation and computat...

A peer-based reflexive study on counselor educator social justice advocacy

This study explored the lived experiences of counselor educators who strive to integrate social justice advocacy (SJA) amidst systemic challenges. While SJA is an important function in the field, actualizing this vision often involves tension, resource strain, and professional ri...

Scaling the Unsustainable? Technical Architecture, Energy Sustainability, and Scalability Constraints in Multinational AI Data Center Megaprojects

The contemporary expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) rests on a wager that computational scaling laws will keep converting additional compute into additional capability. This dissertation asks whether the physical infrastructure required to sustain that wager is technically...

Scaling the Unsustainable? Technical Architecture, Energy Sustainability, and Scalability Constraints in Multinational AI Data Center Megaprojects

The contemporary expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) rests on a wager that computational scaling laws will keep converting additional compute into additional capability. This dissertation asks whether the physical infrastructure required to sustain that wager is technically...

PREVALENCE AND CONSEQUENCES OF STREET BEGGING AMONG CHILDREN IN OGBOMOSHO METROPOLIS

This paper examined the prevalence of street begging among children in Ogbomosho Metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria, together with the level of awareness of social protection policies and the consequences that child begging holds for the children involved and for the wider community....

CAUSES AND STRATEGIES FOR CURBING CHILD BEGGING IN OGBOMOSHO METROPOLIS, OYO STATE, NIGERIA

This paper investigated the causes of curbing begging among children in Ogbomosho Metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria, and the strategies available for curbing the practice. Anchored on Strain Theory, the paper adopted a descriptive survey design and combined a structured questionnair...

PREVALENCE AND CONSEQUENCES OF STREET BEGGING AMONG CHILDREN IN OGBOMOSHO METROPOLIS

This paper examined the prevalence of street begging among children in Ogbomosho Metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria, together with the level of awareness of social protection policies and the consequences that child begging holds for the children involved and for the wider community....

Embargoed Publication - To Be Published After 2026-09-03

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Dream Doulas: Cultivating DreamSpaces through Radical, Holistic Pedagogy

Drawing on Hersey’s (2022) articulation of DreamSpace, we explore how classrooms can be cultivated as sites where dreaming is protected, honored, and mobilized in service of collective restoration and liberation. Anchored in our experiences as Black women scholar-practitioners, t...

Doctrinal Alignment Between American Democratic Socialism and Marxist Communism: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Policy Positions and Their Anticipated Political, Economic, and Social Consequences

Public debate increasingly equates American democratic socialism with Marxist communism, yet this equation is rarely subjected to systematic, evidence-based measurement. This dissertation examines the degree to which the documented policy positions of the Democratic Socialists of...

Correcting Misrepresentation: Igala Names as Evidence Against External Narratives of Negative Meaning

Abstract Names are never neutral; they carry the weight of a people's culture, history, and self-understanding, yet unfamiliar names are routinely misread, diminished, or dismissed by those standing outside the culture that produced them. It is this problem that motivates this pa...

Intergenerational Transmission of Igala Naming Practices amid Religious and Educational Change

Abstract Personal naming among the Igala people of Kogi State has long functioned as a repository of ancestral memory, theological conviction and linguistic artistry, yet this inheritance now confronts the twin pressures of religious conversion and Western-style schooling, a tens...

Personal Names as Repositories of Communal History and Circumstance among the Igala People of Kogi State

Abstract Personal names among African communities function as durable instruments of memory, holding within a single word the conflict, migration, reconciliation and communal occurrence that shaped the moment of a child's birth; this premise underlies the paper, Personal Names as...

Personal Names as Repositories of Communal History and Circumstance among the Igala People of Kogi State

Abstract Personal names among African communities function as durable instruments of memory, holding within a single word the conflict, migration, reconciliation and communal occurrence that shaped the moment of a child's birth; this premise underlies the paper, Personal Names as...

The Establishment of Communist Governments: A Comparative-Historical and Quantitative Analysis of Onset Mechanisms Across the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Global South

This dissertation asks how communist governments were established across roughly thirty polities between 1917 and 1979, and why some of the resulting party-states endured for decades while others collapsed within a generation. Its organizing premise is that “communist takeover” i...

Intergenerational Transmission of Igala Naming Practices amid Religious and Educational Change

Abstract Personal naming among the Igala people of Kogi State has long functioned as a repository of ancestral memory, theological conviction and linguistic artistry, yet this inheritance now confronts the twin pressures of religious conversion and Western-style schooling, a tens...

Correcting Misrepresentation: Igala Names as Evidence Against External Narratives of Negative Meaning

Abstract Names are never neutral; they carry the weight of a people's culture, history, and self-understanding, yet unfamiliar names are routinely misread, diminished, or dismissed by those standing outside the culture that produced them. It is this problem that motivates this pa...

The Establishment of Communist Governments: A Comparative-Historical and Quantitative Analysis of Onset Mechanisms Across the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Global South

This dissertation asks how communist governments were established across roughly thirty polities between 1917 and 1979, and why some of the resulting party-states endured for decades while others collapsed within a generation. Its organizing premise is that “communist takeover” i...

Sovereignty, Silence, and the Cycle of Violence: International Response, Intervention Failure, and Impunity Dynamics Across 16 Genocidal Regimes

For seventy-eight years the international community has repeated the promise of “never again,” yet genocide has recurred with grim regularity. This dissertation asks why the architecture of international accountability has expanded across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries...