Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Encouraging Healthful Dietary Behavior in a Hospital Cafeteria: A Field Study Using Theories from Social Psychology and Behavioral Economics
(2013-09-30)Public policy efforts to curb obesity often adhere to a rational actor model of human behavior, asserting that consumer behavior will change provided proper economic incentives, nutritional information, and health education. ... -
Encyclopaedism in the Mamluk Period: The Composition of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nuwayrī’s (D. 1333) Nihāyat al-Arab fī Funūn al-Adab
(2012-08-03)This dissertation explores the emergence of a golden age of Arabic encyclopaedic literature in the scholarly centers of Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Empire (1250-1517). At the heart of the project is a study of Shihāb ... -
"Endearing Ties": Black Family Life in Early New England
(2016-05-19)This dissertation explores the attempts of Africans, both enslaved and free, to create and maintain families in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. It makes sense of a remarkable array of historical actors: ... -
Ending Research Subject Overexploitation: Methods to Reduce Respondent Overuse and Privacy Violations while Increasing Insights from Data
(2022-11-23)The low price of data collection and use in the Internet age has facilitated collective ir- responsibility, where private companies, academics, and governments all fail to internalize the costs to respondents and other ... -
Endothelial Progenitor Cell Recruitment for Therapeutic Neovascularization using Alginate Hydrogels for VEGF and SDF Delivery
(2014-06-06)Endothelial progenitor cells are potentially useful as a cell therapy for the treatment of ischemic cardiovascular diseases, but clinical outcomes have been limited likely because very few systemically delivered cells reach ... -
Ends of Solidarity: China, Tanzania, and Black Internationalism, 1960-1972
(2022-03-17)At the height of the Cold War, postcolonial state representatives and transnational activists struggled over the premises and boundaries of Afro-Asian unity. This dissertation traces the making and unmaking of 1960s ... -
Enduring Images: Mourning and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Marcel Proust, Roland Barthes, Hervé Guibert)
(2021-07-12)This dissertation studies the intersection of writing, mourning, and aesthetics in twentieth-century French literature. I examine how the act of beholding aesthetic objects is represented in writing as a way to suspend the ... -
Enemies in Agreement: Domestic Politics, Uncertainty, and Cooperation between Adversaries
(2014-10-21)Adversarial agreements, such as the nuclear weapons treaties, disarmament zones, or conventional weapons limitations, vary considerably in the information sharing provisions they include. This dissertation investigates why ... -
Enemies of The New: Transhumanism, Blackness, and Fleshless Imaginaries
In a careful exegesis of transhumanism’s leading philosophical and sociopolitical figures (e.g., Max More, Peter Thiel), Daniels shows how deeply (if confusedly) transhumanist discourse imagines itself as pursuing Nietzsche’s ... -
Energetic Beam Processing of Silicon to Engineer Optoelectronically Active Defects
(2012-07-26)This thesis explores ways to use ion implantation and nanosecond pulsed laser melting, both energetic beam techniques, to engineer defects in silicon. These defects are chosen to facilitate the use of silicon in optoelectronic ... -
Energetic Consequences of Thermal and Non-Thermal Food Processing
(2013-03-06)All human societies process their food extensively by thermal and non-thermal means. This feature distinguishes us from other species, and may even be compulsory given that humans are biologically committed to an energy-rich ... -
Energetic Costs of Reproductive Effort in Male Chimpanzees
(2012-09-14)Male reproductive success in many mammals depends on their ability to allocate sufficient energetic resources to mating competition. Such costs are particularly pronounced in species with high levels of sexual body dimorphism, ... -
Energy Allocation to Adolescent Skeletal Growth: Impacts of Insulin and Physical Activity
(2021-05-14)Life history theory dictates that organisms should precisely allocate investment of their limited resources, including energy, to a variety of tasks to serve natural selection’s ultimate goal: reproduction. In adolescence, ... -
Energy Allocation to Skeletal Muscle After Physical Activity: The Role of Interleukin-6
(2023-09-08)Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a multifunctional cytokine with disparate and often contradictory effects. A superficial explanation for this functional diversity is that IL-6 is highly context-dependent and performs a different ... -
Engaging Chiral Cationic Intermediates by Anion-Binding in Asymmetric Catalysis
(2016-01-13)Anion-binding catalysis by dual hydrogen-bond donors such as ureas and squaramides has been demonstrated as a powerful strategy for the development of highly enantioselective transformations involving prochiral cationic ... -
Engineered Biofilms for Materials Production and Patterning
(2016-04-22)Natural materials, such as bone, integrate living cells composed of organic molecules together with inorganic components. This enables combinations of functionalities, such as mechanical strength and the ability to regenerate ... -
Engineered Collisions, Molecular Qubits, and Laser Cooling of Asymmetric Top Molecules
(2023-05-16)In this dissertation, I present studies of molecules for uses in quantum science ranging from quantum computing and ultracold collisions to controlling organic-inspired molecular species. Starting with a diatomic molecule, ... -
Engineered Curli-Expressing Biofilms as a Platform for Biocatalysis
(2015-12-14)Research and innovation in recent years has led to a paradigm shift in the bioengineering community regarding biofilms. Rather than focusing on their negative impact in disease and materials fouling, we, and other groups, ... -
Engineered DNA-Binding Proteins for Targeted Genome Editing and Gene Regulation
(2013-10-08)Engineered DNA-binding proteins enable targeted manipulation of the genome. Zinc fingers are the most well characterized DNA-binding domain and for many years research has focused on understanding and manipulating the ... -
Engineered Materials for Improving Cancer Immunotherapy
(2017-01-11)Immunotherapy, the treatment of disease through targeted activation of the immune system, has recently shown unprecedented clinical success for diverse malignancies. In contrast to traditional cancer treatments, which are ...