Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Clarifying the Pathway to Suicide: An Examination of Subtypes of Suicidal Behavior and Their Association With Impulsiveness.
(2015-08-06)Suicide is a leading cause of death around the world. Yet research seeking to uncover the causes of suicide has made little advancement. The purpose of this dissertation is to advance the understanding of one understudied ... -
The Clash of Brothers: Wars to Avoid Diffusion in a Contagious World
(2015-05-18)My dissertation explores macro-level questions in Political Economy. Using the toolbox of Economics, I find a new reason for international conflict: cultural similarity. Two culturally similar nations may have very different ... -
The Clash of Internationalisms: Prometheism, National Communism, and the Fate of the Soviet Borderlands, 1889-1939
This dissertation charts an intellectual genealogy of internationalist visions of the reorganization of the imperial Russian space that were frustrated and foreclosed by the emergence of the Soviet Union between 1917 and ... -
Class, Dismissed: Working-Class Youth and the Evasion of Socioeconomic Inequality in an Affluent Suburb
(2021-07-12)Despite rising income inequality and persistent racial disparities, in many communities, people struggle to talk about inequality. Scholars have found evidence of an aversion to open discourse about race in both the general ... -
Classical and quantum optimization of quantum processors
(2022-05-16)Quantum interactions are strikingly different from their classical counterparts, and they lead to counter-intuitive effects such as quantum entanglement. The advances in quantum science and technology over the past two ... -
Classical Conditioning Alters Short Noncoding RNA Expression in Drosophila
(2015-05-14)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and other classes of short non-coding RNAs regulate essential processes in the development and function of the nervous system. Regulation of miRNAs by neural activity has also been reported. Recently, ... -
A Classical Perspective on Non-Diffractive Disorder
(2016-01-28)The unifying themes connecting the chapters in this dissertation are the profound and often surprising effects of disorder in classical and quantum systems and the tremendous insight gained from a classical perspective, ... -
The Classical-Quantum Correspondence of Polyatomic Molecules
(2016-05-10)In this thesis, we study the classical-quantum correspondence of polyatomic molecules to further understand their rotational and vibrational behavior. More specifically, we focus on two different scenarios: (1) completely ... -
Clausal Deficiency
(2024-01-25)This thesis investigates the syntactic and semantic properties of clauses which are considered to be deficient in some manner, which are often called infinitival or nonfinite clauses. This thesis is concerned with three ... -
CleaN waTer: A Water Filtration System Powered by the Sun and Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Technology
(2016-06-21)The CleaN waTer filtration device strives to effectively and efficiently remove 100% of bacteria from water using solar power. Access to clean water is a common problem for communities throughout the world. Many of these ... -
Clearing Space: Postapartheid liberalism and the evolution of spatial segregation in Johannesburg’s new urban enclaves
(2023-03-14)This study is based on 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Dainfern Golf & Residential Estate and among gated community industry professionals in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is broadly concerned with how the hard ... -
Click Functionalized Polymeric Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
(2016-02-25)ECM-mimicking biomaterial research has driven numerous advances in tissue engineering in recent years, as new developments in polymer chemistry and cell-material interactions have allowed bioengineers to create complex ... -
Climate change alters temperate tree and shrub spring phenology and false spring risk
(2021-08-24)Temperate tree and shrub species are at risk of damage from late spring freezing events. Individuals that initiate budburst before the last spring freeze risk leaf tissue loss, damage to the xylem, and slowed, or even ... -
Climate Change and Health: Implications for Cardiovascular Diseases and Inherently Hot Regions
(2022-06-06)The warming of our planet is unevenly distributed. In inherently hot and hyper-arid countries like Kuwait, temperatures are already soaring to unprecedented record-high levels and not a lot is known about what climate ... -
Climate Change and Inequality in the U.S.: Sociological Analyses of Big Data
(2021-05-11)Anthropogenic climate change is altering the severity, frequency, and spatial patterning of extreme weather in the United States. Sociologists have argued that the resulting disasters exacerbate social inequality, yet ... -
Climate Model Bias Correction: Implementation and Applications
(2023-09-05)This dissertation focuses on the methodology and usage of bias correction methods to understand and address problems stemming from climate model mean state biases over the course of three research chapters. Chapter 2 details ... -
A Climate-friendly Energy Future: Prospects for Wind
(2014-06-06)The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the potential for wind as an alternative energy source to replace fossil fuels and reduce global CO2 emissions. From 1995 to 2007, fossil fuels as the major energy source accounted ... -
Climates on the Move: Climatology and the Problem of Economic and Environmental Stability in the Career of C.W. Thornthwaite, 1933-1963
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the role of climate science in ensuring environmental stability. It traces the career of the climatologist Charles Warren Thornthwaite, beginning with his work as a population geographer for the ... -
Clinical trial data science to advance precision oncology
(2022-04-04)Clinical trials are the most expensive and highest-stakes experiments in biomedicine, and their results determine which therapies are ultimately used to treat patients. While a typical pivotal trial costs millions of dollars ... -
Clogging Mechanisms in Converging Microchannels
(2016-01-29)Many technological and biomedical applications ranging from water filtration and oil extraction to arteriosclerosis and vein thrombosis rely upon the transport of solids in liquids. Particulate matter suspended in liquid ...