Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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A General Curriculum for Meta-Learning
(2022-05-23)Meta-learning is an effective method for few-shot learning, building transferable machine learning models that generalize to new contexts with relatively little new data. Given this limited data, a natural path to improve ... -
A general strategy to construct small molecule biosensors
(2017-05-10)Biosensors for small molecules can be used in applications that range from metabolic engineering to orthogonal control of transcription. Despite their broad utility, it remains a longstanding challenge to rapidly create ... -
A genomics love story: Tying the knot between micro- and macroevolution in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
(2021-08-24)Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death globally. Understanding the population dynamics and evolution of TB’s causative agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) over short time-scales in-host (micro-evolution) ... -
A Global View of Translation in Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Infected Cells
(2018-01-19)Infection of mammalian cells with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) results in the inhibition of cellular translation, while viral translation proceeds efficiently. This host “shutoff” is mediated by multiple mechanisms. ... -
A Grand Journey of Statistical Hierarchical Modelling
(2017-05-03)This thesis presents three research reports composed by the candidate and his collaborators on different perspectives and applications of statistical hierarchical modelling, which seeks to connect the observed quantities ... -
A Graphical Theory of Musical Pitch Spelling
(2018-06-29)Based on the conventions of staff-based music notation, musical passages that sound alike can often be written down in multiple ways, with each representation being considered a different "pitch-spelling". In this thesis, ... -
A Hall of Mirrors: Film Regulation and Industry Strategy in Colonial Korea, under Empire and its Aftermath
(2020-11-23)How does a colonized country’s embattled film industry respond to an imperial directive to nationalize cinema? And how should we understand the films that were produced by this industry? These are the central questions ... -
A Hierarchical Modeling Approach to Understanding Tropospheric Ozone
(2021-06-17)Tropospheric ozone is crucial for the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere and for surface air pollution. Today, a number of uncertainties exist regarding the behavior of ozone, which greatly reduces our ability to make ... -
A Hobbit's Guide to Neurodevelopment; An Unexpected Journey into the Innate
(2023-12-11)Brain development presents a remarkable case of biological self-assembly: the intricate, yet reproducible, circuitry of our mind arises from a tapestry of local cell decisions. Similar processes are ubiquitous across ... -
A Lamp on Śivayoga: The Union of Yoga, Ritual, and Devotion in the Śivayogapradīpikā
(2023-05-15)This dissertation centers around the study of a lesser-known Sanskrit yoga treatise from south India entitled the Śivayogapradīpikā, or the “Lamp on Śivayoga.” The text was written by an author named Cennasadāśivayogin, ... -
A Life for Freedom: German Anarcho-Syndicalism and Transnational Antifascism, 1918-1951
(2022-09-09)This dissertation investigates the “long” history of interwar German anarcho-syndicalism and its international connections, from the German Revolution in November 1918 until the crystallization of a new global order at the ... -
A Lighting-Invariant Approach to Local Shape from Shading
(2021-05-04)Shape from shading is a classical problem in computer vision, in which the depth field of an object or a scene is reconstructed from a pattern of intensities in an image. This can be thought of in some sense as the inverse ... -
A Living Extracorporeal Device for Proximal Tubule Reabsorption
(2017-07-14)Currently, 700,000 patients suffer from end-stage renal disease (ESRD) with treatment costs over $42B in the US, yet the 5-year survival of patients on dialysis is only 35% while that of full-organ transplantation is over ... -
A Market for Impact
(2023-06-30)There are two fundamental problems in philanthropy: 1) information aggregation, to allow for the broad assessment of the wide range of charities, and 2) incentive alignment, to better incentivize philanthropists to donate ... -
A Markov Approach to Modeling Baseball At-Bats and Evaluating Pitcher Decision-Making and Performance
(2016-06-21)The author models baseball at-bats using absorbing Markov chains, formed based on pitch-by-pitch data for 90 pitchers from the 2015 season. These matrices are used to reverse-predict performance statistics that compare ... -
A Method for Fast Single-Network Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning Interatomic Potentials
(2023-06-30)Deep learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for predicting molecular and materials properties with high accuracy. A common shortcoming shared by deep learning neural networks, however, is that they only produce point ... -
A method for identifying predictive markers of mental illness in social media data
(2017-02-14)Undiagnosed mental illness poses a significant health risk. In-person screenings to identify individuals at-risk of mental illness are expensive, time-consuming, and often inaccurate. This report presents an array of ... -
A method of preparing individual excited eigenstates of small quantum many-body systems
(2021-11-16)Any quantum-mechanical system can be conveniently described in terms of a powerful set of states called eigenstates, which each possess a fixed energy and collectively encode crucial insights into the system's character ... -
A Modular and Standardized Pipeline for the Design and Fabrication of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Multilayers
(2024-03-12)The development and deployment of DEAs has been severely limited by the slow and laborious design and manufacturing pipeline used to produce them. I have developed several elements of a pipeline that accelerates design and ... -
A Molecular Trigger for Sea Anemone Stinging
(2021-05-17)Understanding the mechanisms by which cells detect, integrate, and respond to distinct sensory cues is of fundamental importance to biological systems. Cnidarians, such as jellyfish, hydroids, and sea anemones, use specialized ...