Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Painting Death with the Colors of Life: Funerary Wall Painting in South Italy (IV-II BCE)
(2013-09-26)This dissertation examines the cultural, political, and artistic role of polychrome wall painting from funerary contexts in South Italy during the critical period that spans the crisis of Greek hegemony and the consolidation ... -
Painting in Between: Gender and Modernity in the Japanese Literati Art of Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
(2016-07-12)This dissertation investigates the aesthetic and conceptual transformations of literati art—a dominant mode of both being and representing in the East Asian cultural sphere that experienced unprecedented popularity in early ... -
Pairing Purpose with Profit
(2021-07-12)In recent years, companies that pursue both social and commercial goals have been on the rise. These companies have significant potential for social and economic impact and are emerging amidst increased pressure and ... -
Paleomagnetic and Geochronologic Constraints on the Neoproterozoic Tectonics and Climate of the Western Margin of Laurentia
(2017-05-16)This dissertation focuses on three unique but complementary projects related to Neoproterozoic (1000-542 Ma) tectonics and climate of western North America (Laurentia). I have 1) isolated paleomagnetic evidence for crustal ... -
Paleomagnetic records of a mobile lithosphere and dipolar geodynamo by the Paleoarchean
(2024-05-06)Plate tectonics dominate the geodynamics of the modern Earth’s surface, segmenting the surface into mobile plates whose differential motions are responsible for the physiography of our planet and for constructing the ... -
Palladium-Catalyzed Arene Functionalization via Single-Electron Reduction of Selectfluor
(2016-08-26)Palladium-catalysis is commonly used in the functionalization of aromatic rings, ranging from prefunctionalized substrates such as aryl metals or aryl (pseudo)halides to the direct functionalization of aromatic C–H bonds. ... -
Pan Documentary and the Ecologies of Reality Production in Contemporary China
(2023-06-01)Under the increasingly fundamental situation where our entanglement with media has denied our access to objective realities and detached reflections, how is documentary making possible? And what does it mean for understanding ... -
Panacea: Making the World’s Biomedical Information Computable to Develop Data Platforms for Machine Learning
(2022-05-23)The marriage between healthcare and artificial intelligence systems has long been coveted — by computer scientists and medical researchers alike — as a grand challenge to progress the frontier of health. Given the explosion ... -
Pangenome Alignment: An Improved Method to Accurately Map Telomeric Long-Reads and Its Application in the Analysis of Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) Positive Cells
(2023-06-30)The ability to accurately align telomeric DNA sequencing reads is crucial to understanding a variety of biologically significant pathways notably including cancer proliferation and tumorigenesis. This thesis aims to assess ... -
PaperMaps: Using Title Keywords for Visual Exploration of Academic Citation Networks
(2021-06-04)Scientific progress relies on the discovery and synthesis of relevant academic papers. Surveying topics of interest and understanding their development in terms of specific papers is an important part of this process. Yet, ... -
Papers on and Around the Access Problem
(2013-10-18)The three papers which make up this dissertation form part of a larger project, which aims to solve the `access problem' for realism about mathematics by providing a clear and plausible example of what a satisfying explanation ... -
Paracelsus Goes East: Ottoman “New Medicine” and its Afterlife
(2020-09-15)This dissertation investigates how early modern Ottoman medical scholars viewed the concept of novelty and how it manifested itself in the socio-political domain. Appearing in the mid-seventeenth century and maintaining ... -
The Paradox of Adversity: New Left Party Survival and Collapse in Latin America
(2014-02-25)Political parties are the basic building blocks of representative democracy. They reduce information costs for voters, enhance executive accountability, and contribute to democratic governability by facilitating legislative ... -
Parallelism and Epistasis in the de novo Evolution of Cooperation between Two Species
(2014-06-06)Resolving the genetic and mechanistic bases of complex biological behaviors remains a central challenge in the post-genomic era. Among these is the emergence of interspecies cooperation, a feature common across levels of ... -
Parametric resonances in Floquet materials
(2022-01-18)In this thesis I explore the consequences of parametric resonance in Floquet materials, i.e. matter with periodically varying properties in time, and show that they give rise to universal features in experimental observables ... -
Parental Preconception and Maternal Pregnancy Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Exposure and Child Health Outcomes
(2023-09-12)Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are widely used in a variety of products people are exposed to daily including food packaging, medical products, and personal care products which has resulted in ubiquitous human ... -
Parental Support of Children’s Math Learning in the Early Home Environment: A Cross-Cultural Investigation Comparing Families in China and the United States
(2024-05-31)Math proficiency is increasingly paramount in this era of scientific innovation and advancing technology, challenging educators and developmental psychologists to find efficient approaches to support children’s math learning. ... -
Parenting and Early Language Development of Young Children in South Korea
(2021-05-10)Following the social interactionist and language socialization theories, language development research points to the importance of parents’ role in shaping children’s early experiences and their development. Although there ... -
Parents and Sages as Agents of Culture in the Babylonian Talmud
(2022-05-16)This dissertation explores how the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) portray parents as involved in cultural transmission. Earlier scholarship has claimed that the rabbis sought to replace parents and the home as the ... -
Part- and Full-Time Re-Employment Probabilities Over Unemployment Duration and the Business Cycle
(2015-06-26)This paper considers how the probabilities of transitioning from joblessness to part- versus full-time work change with the duration of joblessness and labor market conditions. Using 1996-2013 Survey of Income and Program ...