Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Abhinavagupta's Portrait of a Guru: Revelation and Religious Authority in Kashmir
(2017-08-31)This dissertation aims to recover a model of religious authority that placed great importance upon individual gurus who were seen to be indispensable to the process of revelation. This person-centered style of religious ... -
Abiotic Influences on Free-Living Microbial Communities in Hydrothermal Vent Ecosystems
(2016-05-18)Hydrothermal vent ecosystems are defined by steep thermal and chemical gradients. Chemosynthetic microorganisms are the primary producers in these systems, utilizing the available chemical energy to support substantial ... -
Abject Legacies: Guilt, Shame, and Transgenerational Trauma
(2022-04-04)The wide-reaching impact of trauma, defined most generally as a delayed, uncontrolled, and repetitious response to an overwhelming event, has been studied in individuals for over a century. Yet the effects of transgenerational ... -
Abortion and postpartum care in the context of new governmental policies: Quantitative assessments of barriers and facilitators to equitable, quality care
(2023-06-01)While pregnant, individuals are susceptible to specific pregnancy-related health outcomes, and at the same time pregnancy can exacerbate pre-existing health conditions and cause other long-term, chronic conditions. Pregnancies ... -
Absolute Hodge Cycles in Prismatic Cohomology
(2021-09-09)In this thesis we construct the notion of absolute Hodge cycles in prismatic cohomology for abelian schemes. We show that they are compatible with their de Rham and p-adic components under comparison isomorphisms. -
Abstract Representations of Attributed Emotion: Evidence From Neuroscience and Development
(2015-05-12)Humans can recognize others’ emotions based on overt cues such as facial expressions, affective vocalizations, or body posture, or by recruiting an abstract, causal theory of the conditions that tend to elicit different ... -
Accelerated Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Radial Acquisition with Compressed Sensing
(2012-12-13)Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique that can visualize internal organs for examination and diagnosis. It is non-invasive and ionizing radiation-free, and provides good contrast between different ... -
Accelerating Discovery in Virtual Chemical Libraries
(2023-05-15)High-throughput virtual screening (HTVS) is an essential workflow in molecular discovery programs that aids researchers in prioritizing compounds for experimental testing within large libraries of molecules. The application ... -
Accelerating drug discovery with quantum chemistry, machine learning, and molecular dynamics
(2023-11-21)Drug discovery is a long and expensive process. Bringing a new drug to market takes an average of 12 years and costs $2.9 billion (USD, 2013). Most new candidates fail during pre-clinical development, and 90% of the remaining ... -
Accelerating Markov chain Monte Carlo via parallel predictive prefetching
(2014-10-21)We present a general framework for accelerating a large class of widely used Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. This dissertation demonstrates that MCMC inference can be accelerated in a model of parallel computation ... -
Accelerating the functional prioritization of gene regulatory biomarkers in acute myeloid leukemia
(2021-07-12)Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a blood malignancy demarcated by skewed hematopoietic differentiation and unregulated cellular proliferation, leading to poor mortality rates among adults. While therapies have been developed ... -
Accelerating the Understanding and Design of Intracellular Biosensors by Massively Multiplexed Experimentation and Machine Learning
(2021-01-06)Recent progress in large-scale DNA synthesis and next-generation DNA sequencing technology have enabled studies of biological processes at a massive scale. These studies can be further coupled to advanced computational ... -
Accountability and Advice in Greek Political Thought
(2013-02-15)This dissertation offers a new reading of Athenian democracy, focusing on the connection between the politics of accountability and the dynamics of political advice. I analyze Athenian institutions, norms, and practices ... -
Accounting for Heterogeneity in Health Decision Analysis
(2023-06-01)This dissertation explores ways to account for heterogeneity in health decision analysis, including: the integration of individual-level risk factors into a chronic disease simulation model, evaluation of personalized blood ... -
Accurately Predicting the Reflectance of Rough Metal Surfaces From One-Dimensional Surface Profile Measurements
(2018-09-25)This thesis investigates the problem of using surface microgeometry measurements to predict the reflectance of rough metal surfaces. Because light cannot penetrate much into metals, the observable reflectance of a metal ... -
The Achievement Gap, Revisited: An Empirical Assessment of What We Can Learn from East Asian Education
(2012-10-23)International mathematics assessments have established students in East Asia as among the best in the world and their U.S. counterparts as mediocre. What is not clear is why this “achievement gap” exists. The last major ... -
Achieving Mechanical Versatility in Robots and Structures Through Laminar Jamming
(2018-09-25)There are two major physical paradigms in robotics---soft robots and traditional rigid robots. Soft robots are made of compliant materials and have excellent adaptivity, robustness, and safety, whereas traditional rigid ... -
Acoustic Source Separation, Contour Classification, and Trajectory Optimization
(2023-05-12)How can we distinguish individual birds singing in a dawn chorus, and thereby improve measurements of biodiversity to aid conservation efforts? What are the key differences between the walking patterns of an unimpaired ... -
Acquiring and Aggregating Information from Strategic Sources
(2016-07-28)This thesis considers, from a theoretical perspective, the design of mechanisms to accomplish the objective described in the title. Two cases of this problem are considered: information as represented by data points in a ... -
An Acropolis in China: The Appropriation of Ancient Greek Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature
(2016-05-17)This dissertation explores the transcultural relationships between modern China and ancient Greece, with a view toward appreciating how Greek philosophical and literary visions have been received, reformulated, and repurposed ...