Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
Effect of Curvature Squared Corrections to Gravitational Action on Viscosity-to-Entropy Ratio of the Dual Gauge Theory
(2013-03-06)In this thesis we study the properties of strongly-coupled large-N conformal field theories (CFT’s) using AdS/CFT correspondence. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction. In Chapter 2 we study the shear viscosity of strongly-coupled ... -
The Effect of Development and Ecology on the Evolution of Ovary Size in Drosophila
(2015-05-20)How the size of an organ is established and altered during evolution is poorly understood. The ovary of fruit flies of the genus Drosophila serves as an interesting model for understanding organ size evolution, as the ... -
The Effect of Intracavity Field Variation on the Emission Properties of Quantum Cascade Lasers
(2016-09-14)A common and powerful simplification in laser physics is to ignore the spatial dependence of the intracavity field intensity, and instead replace it with its average value. This approach can elucidate many aspects of laser ... -
The effect of quasi-identifier characteristics on statistical bias introduced by k-anonymization
(2015-04-08)The de-identification of publicly released datasets that contain personal information is necessary to preserve personal privacy. One such de-identification algorithm, k-anonymization, reduces the risk of the re-identification ... -
Effect of Vaccination on SARS-CoV-2 Spread
(2023-11-21)The July 2021 Provincetown, Massachusetts, Delta variant outbreak was the first large SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in vaccinated individuals; the Delta wave and the Omicron waves that followed it infected most individuals around ... -
Effective Allocation of Reactive Cholera Vaccines: A One or Two Dose Campaign?
(2015-06-26)Every year for the past five years, over 100,000 cases of cholera have been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). Though cholera is by no means a new disease, its containment in low-income countries has proved ... -
An effective theory on the light shell
(2014-10-21)We describe work on the construction of an effective field theory on a spherical light shell. The motivation arises from classical electromagnetism: If a collision produces charged particles with zero net charge emerging ... -
Effector roles of Granulocytes and B cells during Th2 Inflammation
(2014-06-06)Allergens are complex mixes of proteins and other compounds that have innate signaling capacity leading to Th2 inflammation. Understanding the role of each of these signals is essential to determining what separates allergens ... -
Effectors of cell death in bacterial antiphage defense
(2022-01-14)Bacteria encode many systems to detect and respond to infection with bacteriophages. Cyclic-oligonucleotide based antiphage signaling systems (CBASS) are widespread antiviral systems encoded in approximately 10% of bacterial ... -
Effects of Matrix Mechanics on Secretion of Leukocyte Chemoattractants From Bone-Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
(2016-06-21)Recent advances in biology have revealed that inflammation may be a key link between a number of prevalent diseases including cardiovascular disease and cancer. That hypothesis is strengthened by the fact that inflammation ... -
Efferocytosis is an Innate Antibacterial Mechanism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Control
(2012-12-13)One third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, causing two million deaths annually. The bacteria avoid immune clearance by persisting within macrophages by subverting normal phagosome ... -
Efficiency in warehouse-scale computers: a datacenter tax study
(2017-01-25)Computation has been steadily migrating from isolated on-premise deployments to the datacenters of a small number of large-scale cloud providers. The datacenters powering the cloud, also known as warehouse-scale computers ... -
Efficient Identification and Dissection of Key Neural Circuits Controlling Behavior Across Different Time Scales
(2021-03-31)A fundamental question in neuroscience is how neural networks generate behavior. The lack of genetic tools and unique promoters to functionally manipulate specific neuronal subtypes makes it challenging to determine the ... -
Efficient Object Localization and Scene Registration Using Contour-Enhanced Point Cloud Resampling Techniques
(2018-06-29)In this thesis, I present an efficient implementation of contour-enhanced graph-based resampling of point clouds. I develop both color-blind and color-aware versions of this technique, which I then apply to the problems ... -
Efficient Passive Ranging with Computational Optics
(2022-01-10)Passive ranging is using the measurement of environmental light to estimate the distance of the nearest reflective surface from a viewpoint along a direction without emitting photons. It outputs a two-dimensional depth map ... -
Efficient Reconstruction and Proofreading of Neural Circuits
(2021-05-14)This thesis presents the design and implementation of software technologies for neural circuit reconstruction in light of a need for radical improvements in efficiency and scalability. It focuses primarily on reconstructing ...