Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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American Identities in an Atlantic Musical World: Transhistorical Case Studies
(2013-02-20)This dissertation analyzes the impact of musical transatlanticism on the identities of American communities. I do so through case studies in three time periods: seventeenth-century colonial Massachusetts, the post-Revolutionary ... -
American Lucifers: Makers and Masters of the Means of Light, 1750-1900
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the social history of Atlantic and American free and unfree labor by focusing on the production and consumption of the means of light from the colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century. ... -
The American Mahler: Musical Modernism and Transatlantic Networks, 1920-1960
(2013-09-30)By the 1960s, the music of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler had become an exceptionally--and enduringly--popular part of American concert life. But for much of the twentieth century, the place of Mahler's music in America's ... -
American Maize: Climate Change, Adaptation, and Spatio-Temporal Variation in Temperature Sensitivity
(2015-04-20)Agricultural production is vulnerable to climate change. However, this vulnerability can be reduced by adapting food crops to a hotter climate. Many studies have ignored adaptation when quantifying the effect of climate ... -
American Painting and the Systems of World Ornament
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the work of nineteenth-century American painters Frederic Edwin Church, William Michael Harnett and Albert Pinkham Ryder, and focuses on the relationship between their work in painting and their ... -
American Sacraments: Religion and Ritual in the Early United States
(2022-11-23)“American Sacraments: Religion and Ritual in the Early United States” is a thematic history of nineteenth-century American religion organized around religious practices, particularly the formal, stylized, and controversial ... -
The American Soldier in Jerusalem: How Social Science and Social Scientists Travel
(2016-05-23)The dissertation asks how social science and its tools—especially those associated with the precise measurement of attitudes, motivations and preferences—became a pervasive way of knowing about and ordering the world, as ... -
Americans Changed How They Drive, Yet Gas Tax Regressivity Remained (Mostly) Stable: A Study on How Evolving Relationships of Mileage and MPG with Income Influenced Gasoline Tax Regressivity in America between 1977 and 2017
(2023-06-30)Taxation of gasoline is an integral part in modern-day American life, and its regressivity has important distributional consequences for millions of Americans. By using two different methods to impute household gasoline ... -
Americans on Paper: Identity and Identification in the American Revolution
(2013-10-18)The American Revolution brought with it a crisis of identification. The political divisions that fragmented American society did not distinguish adherents of the two sides in any outward way. Yet the new American governments ... -
Amine-mediated CO2 hydration as a potential carbonic anhydrase alternative in marine Thaumarchaeota
(2021-06-17)Marine Thaumarchaeota are ammonia-oxidizing archaea that make up the predominant group of nitrifiers in the global N cycle and fix bicarbonate (HCO3-) autotrophically via the highly efficient 3-HP/4-HB pathway. Most ... -
An Airborne Infrared Spectrometer for Coronal Observations: Development, Characterization, and First Science Results from the 2017 Solar Eclipse
(2018-09-16)The solar magnetic field enables the heating of the corona and provides its underlying structure. Energy stored in coronal magnetic fields is released in flares and coronal mass ejections and ultimately drives space weather. ... -
An Analysis of the Relationship between Gang Membership, Social Networks, and Crime
(2021-11-16)Criminal activity not only affects the criminal justice system and those in contact with the system, but also is a public health concern for those at risk of victimization, especially gang members. My dissertation research ... -
An Analysis of Using Pedigrees in Family Based Studies and an Exploration of Cancer Risk and Cancer Resistance UsingTwin Studies
(2017-01-18)In the first section of this thesis, we explore the use of family pedigrees in association analysis. Family pedigrees were successfully used in linkage analysis to discover many genes for Mendelian traits, but less successful ... -
An Analytical and Statistical Toolbox for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Biogeochemistry and Source Attribution
(2022-06-06)Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of thousands of anthropogenic chemicals that contain one fully fluorinated methyl (-CF3) or methylene (-CF2-) carbon. Their unique chemistry includes thermal stability, ... -
An Archaeology of Settler Capitalism: Industrialization, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Shell Beads between New Jersey and the Plains, 1750–1900 CE
(2021-04-26)Indigenous artisans of Northeast North America have produced shell beads for thousands of years, including wampum, best known for its place in the 17th century fur trade. By the mid-18th century, Euro-American settlers ... -
An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Predictors and Outcomes of Absenteeism in the Early Years
(2022-09-08)Preschool absenteeism rates are high. Children with higher absenteeism rates perform worse on assessments of literacy, math, and social-emotional skills by the end of a school year and are more likely to be absent in ... -
An Ecological Framework to Support Dual Language Learners in US Preschool Classrooms
(2022-05-10)One-third of U.S-based preschool-aged children speak one or more languages other than English at home. These Dual Language Learners (DLLs) especially benefit from high quality early childhood, and it is now widely acknowledged ... -
An Electronic Health Record Interface for Clinician Use in Inpatient Settings During Rounds
(2018-06-29)In inpatient settings, clinicians visit their patients during morning rounds to go over recent results, patient state, and upcoming plans and goals for the patient’s stay in the hospital. Current electronic health record ... -
An Embodied History of Math and Logic in Russian-speaking Eurasia
(2021-05-14)This dissertation is about logical pluralism, addressed through challenges to logical binarism (true/false), as well as to the binarism that logic itself holds in relation to embodied ways of knowing. The research is ... -
An Exploration of Two-Party Reconciliation Problems
(2018-08-31)This thesis explores various two-party reconciliation problems from a theoretical perspective. We define a reconciliation problem to be one in which Alice and Bob each have some data, and their data is in some problem ...