Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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q-deformed Interacting Particle Systems, RSKs and Random Polymers
(2016-04-28)We introduce and study four $q$-randomized Robinson--Schensted--Knuth (RSK) insertion tableau dynamics. Each of them is a discrete time Markov dynamics on two-dimensional interlacing particle arrays (these arrays are in ... -
QCVis: A Quantum Circuit Visualization and Education Platform for Novices
(2021-06-03)QCVis is a quantum circuit visualization and education platform for novices. The rapid growth of the quantum computing field surpasses the educational capacity of existing systems, which makes novices particularly in need ... -
The Qing Invention of Nature: Environment and Identity in Northeast China and Mongolia, 1750-1850
(2012-10-18)This dissertation studies the nexus of empire, environment, and market that defined Qing China in 1750-1850, when unprecedented commercial expansion and a rush for natural resources – including furs, pharmaceuticals, and ... -
Qualitative Themes and Associations Between Parental Feeding Behaviors and Youth Body Image Among Black and Latino Caregivers
(2024-05-06)Background: Emphasis on parenting for healthy eating habits has increased with increased attention to rising rates of childhood obesity globally. Prior research has primarily focused on the impact of food parenting behaviors ... -
Quality Control of Translation Factors
(2022-12-22)Protein synthesis is a remarkably error prone process, necessitating protein quality control pathways to recognize and resolve these abnormal events. In chapters 2 and 3, I examine downstream steps in the ribosome-associated ... -
Quality of Life, Health-Related Stigma, and the Social Context: Longitudinal Analyses of PLWHA in Uganda and a Literature Review
(2012-11-06)The dissertation examines the experience of living with stigmatized health conditions in the social context. The first paper examines the dynamic, bi-directional relationship between social support and HIV-related stigma. ... -
Quality-based payment in health care: Theory and practice
(2013-10-18)Quality-based payment in healthcare—also known as pay-for-performance—is a popular policy intervention aimed at improving healthcare quality. However, there has been little theoretical work characterizing the ... -
Quantification of fish locomotor performance to understand adaptive evolution
(2023-08-22)Adaptive evolution is often understood as a connection from genotype to phenotype to performance to fitness. While each of these elements represent valuable fields of study when considered individually, it is only by ... -
Quantification of Methane Emissions from Discrete Sources
(2024-05-08)Various point source methane quantification approaches enable comprehensive estimation of methane emissions, which is essential for effective methane monitoring and mitigating strategies. This study uses remote sensing ... -
Quantifying and Modeling Dynamics of Heat Shock Detection and Response in the Intestine of Caenorhabditis Elegans
(2018-04-26)The heat shock response is the organized molecular response to stressors which disrupt proteostasis, potentially leading to protein misfolding and aggregation. While the regulation of the heat shock response is well-studied ... -
Quantifying and Screening Dynamic Phenotypes in Bacteria
(2021-07-12)Many intracellular components display heterogeneous dynamics in space and time, with individual cells transiently deviating from average behavior. Flow cytometry and other snapshot-based methods not only fail to resolve ... -
Quantifying Disease Dynamics in Post-Disaster and Acute Epidemic Settings Using Passively Collected Data
(2021-09-09)In Chapter 1 we evaluate the spatial and temporal spread of COVID-19 with varying lockdown parameters informed by mobility patterns derived from mobile phone data. Early in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, mobility data sources ... -
Quantifying Effects of Automated Noise Auditing Notices and Decision Structuring on Noise, Accuracy, and Fairness in Human Decision-Making
(2022-05-23)Subjective decision-making by a single human decision-maker is pervasive in modern society; the effects of these decisions in domains like criminal justice are extremely significant. Prior work has aimed to improve human ... -
Quantifying Localizations and Dynamics in Single Bacterial Cells
(2012-11-19)Levels of macromolecules fluctuate both spatially and temporally in individual cells. Such heterogeneity could be exploited for bet hedging in uncertain environments, or be suppressed by negative feedback if perturbations ... -
Quantifying Methane Emissions Using Satellite Observations
(2014-02-25)Methane is the second most influential anthropogenic greenhouse gas. There are large uncertainties in the magnitudes and trends of methane emissions from different source types and source regions. Satellite observations ... -
Quantifying Patterns of Morphological Diversity
(2013-10-18)One of the central questions of biology is how shape is formed by the interaction -
Quantifying Sources of Variation in High-throughput Biology
(2015-05-07)One of the central challenges in systems biology research is disentangling relevant and irrelevant sources of variation. While the relevant quantities are always context dependent, an important distinction can be drawn ... -
Quantitative analysis of clonal architecture across the human cerebral cortex using somatic mutations
(2021-07-12)The human cerebral cortex shows remarkable functional specialization into regions devoted to motor, sensory, or visual functions, and these functional areas correlate with dramatic differences in cellular composition, or ... -
Quantitative Analysis of DNA Repair and p53 in Individual Human Cells
(2013-03-18)The goal of my research was to obtain a quantitative understanding of the mechanisms of DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair, and the activation of the tumor suppressor p53 in response to DSBs in human cells. In Chapter ...