Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Ether Lipid Biosynthesis Promotes Lifespan Extension and Enables Diverse Prolongevity Paradigms
(2022-05-10)Biguanides, including the world’s most commonly prescribed drug for type 2 diabetes, metformin, not only lower blood sugar, but also promote longevity in preclinical models. Epidemiologic studies in humans parallel these ... -
Ethical Formation in the Works and Life 'Brug Smyon Kun Dga' Legs Pa
(2015-09-25)This dissertation explores the ethical formation of persons depicted by the 15th century text entitled the Liberation Life Story of Drukpa Kunley (‘Brug pa kun legs kyi rnam thar). My analysis examines the Drukpa Kunley ... -
Ethics Amidst Uncertainty: Essays on Global Health Priority Setting
(2024-03-12)Global health actors must allocate limited resources. For instance, non-governmental organizations must decide which public health interventions to prioritize, research funders must decide what grants to make, and governments ... -
Ethics and Religion in a Classic of Sanskrit Drama: Harṣa's Nāgānanda
(2013-10-17)Dissertation Advisor: Parimal G. Patil Elon Goldstein -
The Ethics of Physician Collaboration in Conditions of Uncertainty
(2014-06-06)Patient care often involves collaboration among physicians from different areas of specialization and diverse institutions. Moral quandaries can arise if collaborators do not have common ethical standards to guide their ... -
Ethnic and Status Identity in Qing China: The Hanjun Eight Banners
(2018-05-12)This dissertation is focused on the Hanjun, the ethnically Han component of the Qing dynasty’s Eight Banner System. The liminal status of the Hanjun – part of the banner system, which was closely associated with a Manchu ... -
Ethnic Cleansing as Military Strategy: Lessons From Lebanon, 1975-1990
(2016-05-12)The Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990 is widely viewed as a canonical example of ethnic cleansing where violence separated a previously intermixed country into Christian and Muslim enclaves. In contrast, I introduce new data ... -
Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State
(2023-03-14)This dissertation aims to reconcile the persistence of ethnic inequalities in expansive welfare state regimes. I argue that, in response to changes in labor demand and patterns of job polarization that have followed the ... -
Ethnicity, Ethnogenesis and Ancestry in the Early Iron Age Aegean as Background to and through the Lens of the Iliad
(2015-05-16)The prevalence of orality in the 8th/7th centuries BCE and the inherent limits of oral memory, in the wake of centuries of illiteracy, invalidate the conventional premise that the archaizing world of the Iliad somehow ... -
An Ethnography of Brand Piracy in Guatemala
(2013-01-02)An important dimension of contemporary capitalism is the global spread of intellectual property rights law, drawing new attention by governments and media to the unauthorized copying of fashion brands. In this dissertation, ... -
The Ethos of Language and the Ethical Philosophy of Odysseus Elytis
(2014-06-06)My dissertation deals with the ethical philosophy of the Greek poet and Nobel Prize winner Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996). Responding to the "ethical turn" in literary scholarship, I scrutinize the notion of ethos and ethics, ... -
European Illusions: Political Economy and War From Rousseau to the French Revolution
(2015-09-23)This dissertation is about the impact on Enlightenment political thought of the elimination of Poland from the map of Europe. It is about how the partitions of Poland (1772-95) affected the thinking of every major European ... -
Evaluating Access to Care and Health Outcomes in Public and Private Insurance
(2021-07-12)The objective of this dissertation is to evaluate whether changes in insurance coverage and provider decision making are associated with changes in the use of health care services and health outcomes. Paper 1: Due to the ... -
Evaluating blocking indices and investigating eddies’ response to static stability
(2020-09-15)This dissertation addresses two problems in the mid-latitude jet dynamics, namely evaluating indices of blocking anticyclone and investigating eddies' response to static stability. Changes in frequencies of blocking ... -
Evaluating Health Interventions Over Time: Empirical Tests of the Validity of the Single Interrupted Time Series Design
(2016-08-29)Single interrupted time series (ITS) is a quasi-experimental evaluation design used frequently in the health policy literature. This manuscript investigates the validity of single ITS through two within-study comparisons ... -
Evaluating Intended and Unintended Consequences of Health Policy and Regulation in Vulnerable Populations
(2013-03-18)The objective of this dissertation is to evaluate whether two different types of policy interventions in the United States are associated with health service utilization and economic outcomes. Paper 1: The number of ... -
Evaluating Legal Interventions Designed to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes
(2016-09-12)Relatively recent recognition of the significant burden of behavioral health disorders has elevated their status as public health issues in need of population-level interventions. This dissertation focuses on evaluating ... -
Evaluating Lineups and Complementary Play Styles in the NBA
(2017-10-13)NBA coaches and general managers are tasked with building lineups and rosters that maximize their chances of winning. Further, basketball is a team sport where interactions between the players in a lineup can be integral ... -
Evaluating novel glucose-lowering therapies in first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes
(2021-05-13)Type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients have increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) due to chronic hyperglycemia and prevalent cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity. CVD affects approximately one-third of the T2D ... -
Evaluating Polygenic Risk Scores for Risk-Stratified Screening: Development and Validation of Risk Prediction Models for Breast Cancer and Venous Thromboembolism
(2022-09-09)Improving risk prediction is critically important for diseases such as breast cancer, for which current age-based screening guidelines lead to excess screening among older women and missed diagnoses among younger women, ...