Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Episodes at the End of Landscape: Hudson River School to American Modernism
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the dissolution of landscape painting as a major cultural project in the late nineteenth-century United States. As a genre aligned with the goals of nation building, landscape maintained a ... -
Episodic Retrieval: Functions and Measurement
(2022-05-10)A growing body of evidence indicates that people imagine specific experiences by retrieving and recombining elements of their episodic memories, a process often referred to as episodic simulation. As a result, episodic ... -
Epistasis and Pleiotropy in Evolving Populations
(2016-07-25)In the era of high-throughput genome sequencing, it has become possible to measure the genetic changes that drive evolution. These direct observations enable us to test both qualitative and quantitative hypotheses about ... -
Epistasis, Pleiotropy, and Evolutionary Dynamics
(2021-07-12)The advent of technologies for expedient nucleic acid sequencing, synthesis, assembly, and editing has opened up new vistas for exploring the genetic causes and consequences of evolutionary dynamics. In particular, it has ... -
Epistemología Criolla, Práctica Poética y Soberanía Simbólica en la Nueva Granada: El Desierto Prodigioso y Prodigio del Desierto de Pedro de Solís y Valenzuela
(2014-06-06)This work seeks to relocate El desierto prodigioso y prodigio del desierto (1650 ca.) within the discursive net of 17th Century Spanish Empire, and to make visible its agendas within the context of the New Kingdom of ... -
An Epithelial-Mesenchymal Gene Regulatory Network that Controls Tooth Organogenesis
(2013-02-25)Many vertebrate organs form via the sequential, reciprocal exchange of signaling molecules between juxtaposed epithelial (E) and mesenchymal (M) tissues. For example, the instructive signaling potential for tooth development ... -
Epstein – Barr Virus Evasion of Intrinsic and Innate Immune Pathways During the Viral Lytic Cycle
(2023-05-12)Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) persistently infects most people worldwide and causes infectious mononucleosis. It is associated with 200,000 cancers per year and a major multiple sclerosis trigger. EBV colonizes the B-cell ... -
Equity Market Views and Digital Technology Investment in Non-IT Firms
(2022-05-12)Motivated by the increasing investment in digital technologies, such as analytics, big data and artificial intelligence technologies, in non-IT firms, this dissertation studies the role that equity markets play in the ... -
Equivariant Deep Learning Interatomic Potentials
(2023-06-01)Simulating the quantum-mechanical behavior of matter is at the core of the computational design of novel molecules and molecules. First-principles methods provide high fidelity, but scale poorly with the number of electrons, ... -
Equivariant Weiss Calculus and Loops of Stiefel Manifolds
(2016-05-18)In the mid 1980s, Steve Mitchell and Bill Richter produced a filtration of the Stiefel manifolds O(V ;W) and U(V ;W) of orthogonal and unitary, respectively, maps V -> V ⊕W stably split as a wedge sum of Thom spaces defined ... -
Erbium quantum gas microscope
(2021-01-20)Quantum gas microscopy of dipolar atoms is a promising opportunity to expand upon previous quantum simulations of neutral atoms in optical lattices. Erbium atoms interact via the long-range magnetic dipole-dipole interaction, ... -
Error and Uncertainty in Differential Equations Using Neural Networks
(2022-05-23)Neural networks have been shown to be a flexible class of models, and there has been a recent surge in research focusing on their applications to solve differential equations. Since the solutions generated by these networks ... -
Essays at the Intersection of Development and Education Economics
(2015-04-21)This dissertation uses tools from economics to study three different aspects of educational markets in the developing world. In chapter 1, I analyze how competition among private schools in Pakistan affects student outcomes ... -
Essays at the Intersection of Environment and Development Economics
(2015-05-11)The three essays in this dissertation explore how households in Southern Africa interact with and rely upon environmental resources. The first chapter examines the relationship between irrigation dam placement and local ... -
Essays at the Intersection of Environmental and Development Economics
(2018-05-13)Air pollution levels in many developing countries are critically high and hazardous to human health. This dissertation studies interventions and policies to reduce air pollution in India. The first chapter focuses on ... -
Essays Exploring Urban Violence
(2016-08-18)Despite continued interest in understanding the problem of urban violence in the United States, fundamental scholarly and policy-relevant questions remain regarding the nature of urban violence, its consequences, and the ... -
Essays in Access to Civil Justice
(2014-06-06)In this three-article dissertation, I explore access to civil justice issues from several dimensions. Existing data tells us that poor households are significantly less likely than moderate- and high-income households to ... -
Essays in Applied Econometrics and Education
(2014-06-06)This dissertation consists of three essays. First, we explore the implications of correlations that do not vanishing for units in different clusters for the actual and estimated precision of least squares estimators. -
Essays in Applied Economics
(2022-09-16)This dissertation consists of three exercises in economics. -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2014-06-06)This dissertation contains three chapters. Each applies the tools of applied microeconomics to questions in labor economics, the economics of education, and social economics, respectively. In the first chapter, which is ...