Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Déjala Correr: The Sonic Infrastructure of Sociality on Colombia's Caribbean Coast
(2023-09-07)This dissertation centers on the city of Barranquilla, Colombia, located on the country's northern Caribbean Coast, and the musical technologies that are ubiquitous sites of entertainment, musical interest, and social ... -
Dharma in Common: Yuanzhao and the Resurgence of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval East Asia
(2021-11-16)This dissertation utilizes a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective to uncover how intellectual and material exchange between China and Japan led to monastic revival movements in both countries. Grounded in the ... -
Diachronic Poetics and Language History: Studies in Archaic Greek Poetry
(2013-02-12)The broad objective of this dissertation is an interdisciplinary study uniting historical linguistics, classical philology, and comparative poetics in an attempt to investigate archaic Greek poetic texts from a diachronic ... -
Diagnosing Prevailing Trends and Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 at the County-level
(2021-06-17)Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant amount of research on the dynamics of the disease and its unique effects on different locations. There remains a lot to learn about the spatial and ... -
Diagnosing Uncertainty: Cystic Fibrosis, Disease Definitions, and Diagnostic Challenges in Medicine
(2022-09-15)This dissertation examines why diagnostic uncertainty persists in medicine and the impact of such uncertainty on patients and families. Using cystic fibrosis (CF) as a case study, this work explores the unexpectedly complex ... -
Diagnostic Tools in Missing Data and Causal Inference on Time Series
(2018-05-16)This thesis is divided into two self-contained parts. The first part focuses on diagnostic tools for missing data. Models for analyzing multivariate data sets with missing values require strong, often unassessable, ... -
Diamond Based Optical Components for High Power Laser Applications
(2016-10-28)Diamond is a particularly attractive material for nanoscale technologies and bulk optics due to its exceptional material properties. Optically, diamond has a relatively high refractive index (2.4) and a wide bandgap of ... -
Diamond nanophotonic quantum networks
(2021-03-31)A coherent interface between optical photons and long-lived matter qubits can form the basis for a broad range of quantum technologies. I will describe the realization of such an interface using inversion-symmetric ... -
Diamond platforms for nanoscale photonics and metrology
(2014-06-06)Observing and controlling solid state quantum systems is an area of intense research in quantum science today. Such systems offer the natural advantage of being bound into a solid device, eliminating the need for laser ... -
The Dictator's Modernity Dilemma: Theory and Evidence From South Korea
(2016-05-18)Under what conditions are political institutions more or less effective at neutralizing opposition forces? To date, political scientists have generated conflicting evidence about the effects of economic development and ... -
Die poetische Struktur des Unbewussten Zur Verdichtung des psychologischen Vokabulars im langen 19. Jahrhundert
(2023-11-21)The following dissertation explores the evolution and transformation of psychological language and discourse throughout the long 19th century. The term "Verdichtung" stands central to the investigation, capturing dual ... -
Die Vermessung „Neu-Seellands“: Schreibweisen der Psychologien in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Jahrhundertwende
(2012-09-14)Focusing largely on the analysis of the representations of feelings and thoughts of literary characters or even the hidden “desires” of their authors, literary criticism for the most part has neglected to discuss the ... -
DIET, LIFESTYLE, AND CANCER: FROM PREVENTION TO SURVIVAL
(2022-11-23)According to the American Cancer Society, at least 42% of newly diagnosed cancers in the US in 2022 could potentially be prevented, including the 18% of all cancers caused by obesity, alcohol intake, poor nutrition, and ... -
Diet, Metabolomics, and Colorectal Cancer Risk
(2021-07-12)Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in 2020 globally. In the United States, although the estimated 2021 CRC incidence only ranks fourth among all cancers, ... -
Dietary Patterns and Major Chronic Diseases
(2022-11-23)Dietary improvement may lower the risk of developing chronic diseases and associated mortality. Despite the existence of several disease-oriented dietary recommendations, the superior diets for general health and specific ... -
Dietary Restriction-Induced Longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans: Mediated by Stress Defense, NAD\(^+\)-Dependent Mechanisms and a Respiratory Shift
(2014-06-06)Dietary restriction (DR), or the reduction of food consumption without malnutrition, is the most conserved method of preventing or reversing age associated diseases. It is also the most conserved method of increasing ... -
Dietary supplements, dietary patterns, and prostate cancer prevention
(2023-06-01)Dietary supplements are widely used among men in the US. The effect of vitamin and mineral supplements on the risk of non-communicable diseases in ‘generally healthy’ populations is controversial. Current guidelines conclude ... -
Differential fluorescence-based genetic screens to identify novel Listeria monocytogenes virulence determinants
(2015-01-23)Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive, facultative intracellular pathogen that causes gastroenteritis, which in the young, the elderly, and the immunocompromised can progress to severe invasive disease with high ... -
Differential Innate Immune Stimulation Elicited by Adenovirus and Poxvirus Vaccine Vectors
(2014-02-25)Vaccines are one of the most effective advances in medical science and continue to be developed for applications against infectious diseases, cancers, and autoimmunity. A common strategy for vaccine construction is the use ... -
The Differential Privacy of Bayesian Inference
(2015-04-08)Differential privacy is one recent framework for analyzing and quantifying the amount of privacy lost when data is released. Meanwhile, multiple imputation is an existing Bayesian-inference based technique from statistics ...