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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023

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Who We Are: Queerness Within Lockdown, Veda Christine Massanari-Thatcher
Department: Philosophy; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Little Gems: A Poetry Anthology Examining Family Structure and How it Affects Self Discovery Through a Feminist Lens, Kathryn Rose Materick
Department: English

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"Lord, You Make Me Worthy": How Women Priests View Excommunication and Work toward an Inclusive Catholicism, Alysha V. Matson
Department: Religious Studies

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Metabolomics to Predict the Onset of Cardiomyopathy in Patients with Propionic Acidemia, Riley Thomas McErlean
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Finding My Way on Campus: The Effects of Religion and Spirituality on Undergraduate Mental Health, Sharif J. McGee
Department: Psychology

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The Truth Hurts: A Thematic Reading of the Argentinian and Guatemalan Truth Commissions in the Re-Humanization of Victims, Emily Mendoza
Department: Political Science

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Uncovering Unintended Consequences: A Deep Learning Approach to Algorithmic Fairness in Eye Gaze Prediction, Adam P. Meyer
Department: Statistical and Data Sciences

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A Polynucleotide Biosensor for the Prostate Cancer Specific Biomarker PCA3, Christopher Andrew Meyer
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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A Polynucleotide Biosensor for the Prostate Cancer Specific Biomarker PCA3, Christopher Andrew Meyer
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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A Polynucleotide Biosensor for the Prostate Cancer Specific Biomarker PCA3, Jessica Krystal Meyer
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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The Power of Narratives: Exploring the Influence of Propaganda Narratives on U.S. Ethiopian Migrants’ Remittance-Sending Behavior Post 2020 Ethiopia/Tigray Conflict, Alegnta Mezmur
Department: Economics; Global and International Studies

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Effects of Hand Movement on Stress and Anxiety, Marek Mican
Department: Psychology

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Passing on Seeds and the Past: Conservation of Heirloom Vegetable Varieties in Tokyo, Japan, Natsumi Miki
Department: Environmental Studies

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Greening our Cities: The Power of Constructed Wetlands and Rain Gardens in Wastewater Management, Jackeb-Eligah M. Milan
Department: Environmental Studies

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The Effect of Positive and Negative Experiences of Type 1 Diabetics in K-12 Education on Health-Related Quality of Life, Rachel Miley
Department: Psychology

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Examining the Effects of Imposter Syndrome and Social Support on Mental Health Based on Students Generational Status, Stephany Vanesa Miranda
Department: Psychology

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Angel, Take A Dive, Andy Mockbee
Department: English

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Richard Wagner; Ein Mann vor seiner Zeit oder nach seiner Zeit?, Matthew Robert Monge
Department: German Studies

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Analyzing the Effects of DNT1 on the overproduction of Tau within Drosophila Melanogaster, Malik J. Moore
Department: Neuroscience

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Nature Made Me, Nurture Ruined Me: Attitudes of Adolescent Delinquency During Adulthood, Giuliana Morales
Department: Psychology

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According to Plan: An Introspection, Vanessa Morris
Department: Art and Art History

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Differential Expression of OBP23 in Female Aedes aegypti Upon Mating and Blood Feeding, Nosherwan Mughal
Department: Biology

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Differential Expression of OBP23 in Female Aedes aegypti Upon Mating and Blood Feeding, Nosherwan Ahmad Mughal
Department: Biology

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Differential Expression of OBP23 in Female Aedes aegypti Upon Mating and Blood Feeding, Nosherwan Ahmad Mughal
Department: Biology

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Traditional/Local Ecological Knowledge and Its Role in Building Socio Ecological Resilience in the Context of Displaced Communities, Temuul Munkhtur
Department: Environmental Studies

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Predicting the Behaviour of Breast Cancer Cells Through Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Anesu Munyanyi
Department: Mathematics

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Predicting the Behaviour of Breast Cancer Cells Using Data Analytics and Mathematical Modelling, Anesu Munyanyi
Department: Mathematics

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The Truth About Probiotics? - A Study of How Probiotic Bacterial Produced 5-Ht (Serotonin) in the Microbiome of Caenorhabditis Elegans Alters Behavior, Jillian Murray
Department: Biology

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Exploring the Power of Generative Architectures such as GANs, Transformers, and VQGAN+CLIP through the Construction of an Illustrated Storybook Generator, Ussama Mustafa
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics

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A Home for People and Planet: Assessing the Feasibility of Sustainable Affordable Housing by Designing a Proof-of-Concept, Jennifer Teare Mynard
Department: Art and Art History; Environmental Studies

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Architectural Style Changes in Arizona Homes: How a Place Becomes a Home During Different Times Periods, Hayley Nash
Department: Art and Art History

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A Critical Examination of Internal Self-Determination: A Case of Ethiopia, Salem Nega
Department: Global and International Studies

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Becoming HOA: Constructing A Virtual Realistic Webxr Archive To Imagine And Unimagine The HOA Identity In Present-Day Vietnam, Minh Nguyen
Department: Computer Science; History

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Foreign Trade Policy as Contextualized Political Leadership: Analyzing Vietnam's Negotiation and Implementation of the CPTPP and EVFTA, Trong Tung Lam Nguyen
Department: Political Science

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Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis of Customer Reviews for B2C E-commerce Platforms in Vietnam: A Comparative Study of Lazada, Shopee, Tiki, and Sendo, Tuan M. Nguyen
Department: Statistical and Data Sciences

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Considered or Coincidence: Analyzing the Factors Affecting the Likelihood of Hybridization Across Different Populations: A Review, Natalie Nonno
Department: Biology

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Nike's “Equality”: How the Spread of Equality is Halted by the Delivery of Nike's Message and Their Past Controversies, Zak Nowatzke
Department: Communication Studies

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Nike's Equality: How the Spread of Equality is Halted by the Delivery of Nike's Message and Their Past Controversies, Zak Nowatzke
Department: Communication Studies

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An Analysis of Large Language Models in the HealthCare Domain, Bolanle Oladeji
Department: Computer Science

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Working Women: How Early Modern Women Artists Generated Empowering Self-Portraits in Male Dominated Italian Culture, Jessica R. Olson
Department: Art and Art History

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Understanding Viewer’s Reactions to Sports Commentators and What They Bring to the Table During a Broadcast of a NFL Game, Noah J. Olson
Department: Communication Studies

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Alternative Ways to Understanding: Promoting Community Food Sovereignty Through Value-Driven Education, Brendan Ortiz
Department: Environmental Studies

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This Is Not About The Body: Deprioritizing A Corporeal Study of The Hijra, Alex C. Padfield
Department: Religious Studies

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This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us; Do Apis mellifera Colonies Deter Wild Bee Visitation to Urban Pollinator Gardens?, Matthew Pardi
Department: Biology

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Benzo(a)pyrene Induces CYP1A and p53 Expression in Brown Bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus), Gracie Park
Department: Biology

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Utopia Across Time and Space: Could There Ever Be a "Perfect World"?, Ashini Patel
Department: English; Philosophy

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An Investigation of Criticality: Characterizing Motion on a Conical Bead Pile, Davis K. Patterson
Department: Physics

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Les Mourides: Perceptions of Religious Authority and Political Decision-Making, Henry Pellegrin
Department: Global and International Studies; Religious Studies

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Imperialism in Action: A High School Unit Designed to Teach Core Concepts of Imperialism During the Scramble for Africa, Nathaniel Perry
Department: History

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Exploiting Emergencies: Government Corruption and Repression in Post-Disaster Societies, Lark Pinney
Department: Political Science

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Un análisis léxico y sociolingüístico del shesheo en la canción "La Mushasha Shula" de Espinoza Paz, Penelophe Pintor
Department: Spanish

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Divinity's Secret Love Song: An Investigation Into the Relationship Between Humanity and the Divine Through The Lens of Sacred Narratives, Kevin Douglas Poe
Department: Philosophy; Religious Studies

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Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 on Workforce Participation, Separated by Gender, and Income, in the Construction Industry, Mason Poisson
Department: Business Economics

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“They’re a 10, but..”: Exploring the Effects of Romantic Relationships on Black Women, Kennedy Pope
Department: Psychology

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Greedy Gamblers and Bayesian Bandits: A Quantitative ERP, EEG, and Behavioral Analysis of the Iowa State Gambling Task, Noah Pounds
Department: Neuroscience

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Nuclear Power Plays: An Examination of US Opinion on the Nuclear Energy Industry through Film, Samuel William Powers
Department: History

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Racial Preferences in the NCAA Coaching Market: A Study on the Level of Racial Discrimination in NCAA Coaching Employment, and How Density of Hate Groups Can be Used as an Indicator, Scott Presley
Department: Business Economics

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The Necessary Inclusion of Historical Trauma in Trauma-Based Diagnoses and Subsequent Alternative Therapies Informed by Decolonial Philosophy: Indigeneity as a Philosophia Nata Ex Conatu, Alix Joseph Printup
Department: Philosophy; Psychology

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Cubulus: Procedural World Generation Using Marching Cubes, Keeton P. Purvis
Department: Computer Science

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Teaching the Long Civil Rights Movement: A Construction of Lessons That Dive Further In-Depth Than What the Ohio Standards Require, Nicholas Rabaut
Department: Education; History

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Warfarin in Natural Water: A Study of the Photochemical Decomposition and Product Formation, Colton Rambur
Department: Chemistry

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Warfarin in Natural Water: A Study of the Photochemical Decomposition and Product Formation, Colton Rambur
Department: Chemistry

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A Quantification of Spring Ephemeral Pollen Carried on Queen Bumblebees: Implications for Temporal Mismatch Between Plants and their Pollinators, Antonia N. Ramos
Department: Biology

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Analysis of Nonlinear Phase Accumulation from Transformations of the Polarization States of Light in Connection to Quantum Information, Raisa Tasnim Raofa
Department: Mathematics; Physics

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Red Sword-White Canvas: The Past, Present, and Future of the Avant-Garde and Avant-Garde Aesthetics, Ben Read
Department: Art and Art History; Philosophy

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Frustration Nation: Why Leaders Choose Foreign-Imposed Regime Change to Forcibly Overthrow Governments & The Role of Emotions in Foreign Policy Behavior, Gordon Reeves
Department: Political Science

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The Arms Trade Treaty Theoretical Failure or Success?, Izaak T. Rennebeck-Oliveira
Department: Political Science

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Automated Geologic Cross-Section Generation for Ohio Using GemPy, Abigail Rice
Department: Computer Science

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I Lived, I Learned: Communication Theory of Resilience and Adult Children of Parents Who Have Experienced Substance Use Disorder, Douglas S. Richardson Jr
Department: Communication Studies

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“What’s in a name?”: How Just the Word “Autism” affects Autism Stigma, Allison Elnora Ringold
Department: German Studies; Neuroscience

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An Analysis of Drought, Wildfire, and Landslide Activity Across Ventura County, CA, Christopher M. Roche
Department: Earth Sciences

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The Shuck Pit, Matthew Rohlman
Department: English

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Visualizing Constraint Satisfaction Problems Using Swarm Intelligence, Kyle N. Rossi
Department: Computer Science

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Grief Live!: How Performers Can Analyze, Interpret, and Perform Grief on Stage, Amari Royal
Department: Music; Theatre and Dance

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The Emphasis of Gendered Stereotypes by Candidates in Electoral Campaigns, Abigail Grace Rubadue
Department: Political Science

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A Portal to Transcend the Spaciotemporal Realm: A Queer Utopian Schemata for (re)Considering Emotion and Community Formation in 1970s Lesbian Feminist Periodicals, Aspen Rush
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Celestial Bodies and Ancient Maya Women: Shedding (Moon)light on Divine Power, Anna Robinson Russell
Department: Archaeology

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The CFA Zone: An Assessment of Factors Impacting Human Development, Namara Rwakatare
Department: French and Francophone Studies; Global and International Studies

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Assimilation and Identity: Examining the Cultural and Economic Assimilation of Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco, Zineb Sair
Department: Economics

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Supervised Machine Learning on Photo Recognition of Real and Fantastical Images, Ethan O. Samangy
Department: Computer Science

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If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone; If You Want to Go Far, Go Together: Exploring the Institutional Effectiveness of African Regional Organizations From a Peacekeeping Perspective, Stacey Sam
Department: Political Science

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Empowering Healthcare Sustainability: The Economic Impact of Wooster's Community Care Network For Chronic Disease Management, Tyusha Sarawagi
Department: Business Economics; Statistical and Data Sciences

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The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction and its Photo-Sensitive Metal Complex Catalysts, Michael L. Scarberry
Department: Chemistry; Physics

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Heterogeneous Ozonolysis of a Novel Fungicide, Emma Schell
Department: Chemistry

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GOP Jesus and Trump: an Exploration of the Usage of Evangelical Christianity by Donald Trump in the 2016 Election, Fiona Erin Rebbecca Schieve
Department: Religious Studies

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Don't Fight the Fed? An Analysis of the Role of Monetary Policy in the Formation of Bubbles in the Housing Market, Claira E. Schiffrik
Department: Economics

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The Partisan Implications of a Nonpartisan Redistricting Commission: Examining the 2022 Midterm Elections in Michigan, Carter M. Schmidt
Department: Political Science

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Modelling Stable Equilibrium Orientations of a Submerged Dipolar Particle in an Electromagnetic Field, John P. Schmidt
Department: Mathematics; Physics

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Structural Stability of Bovine Serum Albumin upon Adsorption to SOMS Measured by FT-IR, Kylie M. Schmitz
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Sir Skink in The Cold Knight, Adam Schneider
Department: English

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The Online World of Politics: Analyzing the Impact of the Public During #MeToo on Public Policy Using Machine Learning, Robert Doak Schultz
Department: Political Science

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Congestive Heart Failure and Depression: Are medical professionals biased towards CHF patients with depression?, Katie Schumacher
Department: Psychology

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How Should Self-Driving Cars be Programmed: Exploring Intuition, Utilitarianism, and the Moral Machine Experiment, Isaac Schwartz
Department: Philosophy; Statistical and Data Sciences

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Soothed by the Sublime, Janette R. Seaton-Evans
Department: Art and Art History

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Beyond the Game: Examining Health Attitudes from a Collegiate Student-Athlete Perspective, Lucy Segal
Department: Psychology

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From Learning to Leadership: The Influence of Educational Attainment on the Retrospective Job Performance of Modern American Presidents, Andrew Seifert
Department: Political Science

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Toward a Comprehensive Framework for Investigating Copper Dyshomeostasis: The Role of His-Tag Modularity and Alternative Expression Systems in Evaluating Dopamine β-Hydroxylase, Zoë Lee Semersky
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Overlooked Adoptees: The Effects of COVID-19 Racism and Ethnic Identity on the Psychological Well-Being of Chinese Transracial Adoptees in the United States, Zoe E. Seymore
Department: Psychology

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Procedurally Generating a Dungeon for Roguelike Games, Manan Shahi
Department: Computer Science

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Immobilization of Transferrin in Swellable Organically Modified Silica for Remediation of Heavy Metal Ions, Shiropa Shahreen
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology