Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Early Pregnancy Plasma Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Maternal Cardiometabolic Health
(2024-03-12)Cardiovascular disease, a condition significantly impacted by overall cardiometabolic health, is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. Studying environmental exposures during windows of elevated ... -
Early-Stage Non-Conventional Hardware Accelerator Discovery via Optimization Methods and Compiler Analysis
(2024-01-26)In the post-Moore era, where we witness the diminishing returns of traditional transistor scaling, a pivotal transition in accelerator design methodologies has been necessitated to continually enhance power, performance, ... -
Earth-abundant water-splitting catalysts coupled to silicon solar cells for solar-to-fuels conversion
(2014-10-21)Direct solar-to-fuels conversion can be achieved by coupling semiconductors with water-splitting catalysts. A 10% or higher solar to fuels conversion is minimally necessary for the realization of a robust future technology. ... -
Earthquake Characteristics as Imaged by the Back-Projection Method
(2013-02-15)This dissertation explores the capability of dense seismic array data for imaging the rupture properties of earthquake sources using a method known as back-projection. Only within the past 10 or 15 years has implementation ... -
Easy Freshness with Pequod Cache Joins
(2015-01-14)This thesis presents the design of Pequod, a distributed, application-level Web cache. Web developers store data in application-level caches to avoid expensive operations on persistent storage. While useful for reducing ... -
Eating Behaviors in Adolescence and Young Adulthood and Adult Cardiometabolic Disease Risk
(2024-03-12)Cardiometabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes (T2D), hypertension, and high cholesterol, are significant public health concerns. Understanding risk factors and mechanisms of disease progression can shape prevention ... -
Echoes of Early Irish Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
(2015-05-07)This study traces the cultural interplay between Irish and Old English literary landscapes. Combining an ecocritical approach to reading representations of the landscape with a comparatist perspective, each chapter shows ... -
Echoes of the Child in Latin American Literature and Film
(2015-05-04)This dissertation explores the rhetoric of childhood to comprehend how Latin American literature and film signify childhood. It furthermore analyzes the figure of the child as a rhetorical device in the construction of ... -
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora
(2017-05-08)This dissertation focuses on the music and dance practices of Greek refugee and migrant families from the historical region of Aeolia or Western Anatolia (the Aegean coast of present-day Turkey and the island of Lesvos), ... -
Ecological Patterns and Processes in Sarracenia Carnivorous Pitcher Plant Fungi
(2012-10-31)The kingdom Fungi is taxonomically and ecologically diverse, containing an estimated 1.5 million species. Fungi include decomposers, pathogens, and plant and animal mutualists. Many fungi are microorganisms, and the processes ... -
Ecological pressures affecting malaria transmission: sex, insecticides, and Wolbachia in Anopheles mosquitoes
(2021-09-08)Anopheles mosquitoes are the only vectors of malaria, a disease that kills over 400,000 people each year. In malaria-endemic regions, interventions aimed at the mosquito vectors through the use of insecticides have been ... -
Ecology and evolution of the African ant acacia, Vachellia drepanolobium, and its multiple symbionts
(2021-05-14)Ant-plants provide food rewards and housing for resident ant colonies, and in exchange, the workers protect their host plant from herbivores and pathogens. The specific outcomes of these symbioses are highly context-dependent, ... -
Ecology and Evolution of the Ferns of Moorea and Tahiti, French Polynesia
(2016-09-12)Ferns are the only major lineage of land plants with haploid (gametophyte) and diploid (sporophyte) stages that can grow separately from each other for extended periods. Gametophytes, as the sexual stage, are critical to ... -
Ecology and Evolution Within the Oral Microbiome
(2021-07-12)Bacteria inhabit every known ecosystem, from deep-sea hydrothermal vents to plant surfaces. The human body represents one such microbially-dominated ecosystem with the identity and function of human-associated microbiota ... -
The Ecology of a Healthy Home: Energy, Health, and Housing in America, 1960-1985
(2013-03-06)On November 7, 1973, President Nixon asked Americans to lower their home thermostats to a national average temperature of 68 degrees. On February 2, 1974, over half of the gas stations in the New York City area closed after ... -
Economic Origins of War and Peace
(2012-10-31)Why do wars happen, and what do societies fight over? Why are international relations sometimes fearful and aggressive and other times harmonious? I show that these questions can be fruitfully explored by importing some ... -
Economic Theory and Statistical Learning
(2016-05-18)This dissertation presents three independent essays in microeconomic theory. Chapter 1 suggests an alternative to the common prior assumption, in which agents form beliefs by learning from data, possibly interpreting the ... -
EDIFICES HOST SPECTERS
(2023-05-01)This dissertation brings together eight musical works composed during my seven years of doctoral studies at Harvard, from 2016 to 2023. Displayed chronologically, they trace a kind of submergence and resurgence: In the ... -
Education, Inequality, and Intensive Parenting in China
(2022-06-06)This dissertation addresses why education has remained intensive, unequal, and exam-oriented in China despite extensive government efforts at reform. Existing studies on these issues focus either on the top-down public ... -
Effect of Blocking on Incentive Compatibility of Experiments
(2017-07-14)This thesis considers the problem of incentive-compatible experimental design, the challenge of designing experiments when the treatments are applied by self-interested agents. Each agent strategically selects the version ...