Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
A Morphological Typology of Non-Root Alternations: Invasion, Suppletion, and Allomorphy
(2023-08-29)This dissertation investigates analogy, with the goal being to establish an empirical and theoretical basis for determining which factors influence analogical changes. It centers on an understudied set of phenomena known ... -
A Multi-resolution Hard Attention Model to Select Regions of Interest on Whole Pathology Slide Images
(2022-05-23)With drastic improvements in the performance of neural networks and computer vision algorithms, deep learning-based imaging analysis models have been applied to a wide variety of fields. Along with this expansion, many ... -
A nanophotonic device as a quantum network node for atoms in optical tweezers
(2023-04-12)Platforms consisting of neutral atoms individually trapped in arrays of optical tweezers have achieved important milestones in quantum simulation and quantum computation. With access to programmable Rydberg interactions, ... -
A nanophotonic quantum interface for atoms in optical tweezers
(2022-05-10)Realizing an efficient quantum optical interface for multi-qubit systems would enable their quantum network integration and the scaling-up of the qubit number via distributed quantum computing. This thesis presents the ... -
A Neural Framework for Low-Shot Learning
(2017-07-14)There has been a growing interest in developing machine learning models that are capable of low- shot learning, the machine learning problem of learning from little data. Progress on low-shot learning has important practical ... -
A New Aminoglycoside Antibiotic Effective Against NpmA-Expressing Escherichia coli
(2024-01-29)Dissertation Advisor: Professor Andrew G. Myers Matthew Peszko A New Aminoglycoside Antibiotic Effective Against NpmA-Expressing Escherichia coli Abstract Aminoglycoside antibiotics (AGAs) are pseudo-oligosaccharide ... -
A New Solidarity: Race, Diversity, and the Development of Modern Harvard, 1869-1969
(2024-03-12)Few would associate America’s university modernizers, serving between the Civil War and World War II, with present-day attempts to make universities more diverse and inclusive. They were, however, in many ways, pioneers ... -
A new world life: Stories of progress in the Age of Revolution
(2022-09-09)This is a dissertation about autobiographical writing in the Revolutionary period in the Americas and Europe. A new world life explores the use of autobiographical writing as part of progressive movements and ideology ... -
A Noncanonical Role of MCL-1 in Cell Cycle Progression
(2022-06-06)Myeloid cell leukemia 1 (MCL-1) is an anti-apoptotic BCL-2 family protein implicated in the development, maintenance, and chemoresistance of human cancer. MCL-1 is one of the most frequently amplified genes across a broad ... -
A Novel Method for the Production of Single-Stranded DNA for Demand-Meeting Applications in DNA Nanotechnology, Biological Imaging, and Genome Editing
(2020-09-25)Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) has numerous applications in the fields of DNA nanotechnology, biological imaging, and synthetic biology. While the costs of commercially available, chemically synthesized ssDNA have drastically ...