Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Cold War Futurity on Display: New Techno-Environment Staged in South Korea and Japan through Models and Miniatures
(2023-09-11)This dissertation traces how new techno-environments were displayed in cold war Japan and South Korea, especially concerning the intricate temporal senses of futurity in them. It aims to demonstrate the ways in which ... -
Collateral Consequences: How Increased Incarceration Rates Transform Parenting and Partnership in Low-Income Boston Neighborhoods
(2018-05-02)The War on Drugs and subsequent growth of the U.S. prison system has disproportionately affected low-income individuals living in inner-cities. Since the 1980’s, men of color without a high school degree have been ... -
Collective Accountability among the Sages of Ancient Israel
(2013-09-30)The purpose of this dissertation is to consider Israel's biblical wisdom traditions comments on collective accountability in a systematic way. In order to accomplish this, each of five biblical wisdom books--Proverbs, ... -
Collective Construction by Termite-Inspired Robots
(2014-10-21)Construction usually involves careful preplanning and direct human operation of tools and material. Bringing automation to construction has the potential to improve its speed and efficiency, and to enable building in ... -
Collective Dynamics from Heterogeneous Interactions in Socioeconomic Networks
(2021-07-12)Understanding the drivers of human behavior is central to uncovering insights into how our social worlds are shaped. Modeling these social dynamics has widespread applications in computational social science such as driving ... -
Collective Dynamics in Physical and Social Networks
(2016-05-03)We study four systems where individual units come together to display a range of collective behavior. First, we consider a physical system of phase oscillators on a network that expands the Kuramoto model to include ... -
Collective Electronic Phenomena in Layered Metal Oxides: From Static to Dynamic
(2022-01-14)This thesis presents the theoretical, computational and/or experimental studies of the collective electronic phenomena in layered sodium transition-metal oxide (NaTMO2), with the TM being all seven types of 3d-transition ... -
Collisional Cooling and Magnetic Control of Reactions in Ultracold Spin-polarized NaLi+Na Mixture
(2022-03-17)This thesis describes two studies with a mixture of ultracold triplet ground state 23Na6Li molecules and 23Na atoms. The first study is to realize the cooling of ultracold NaLi molecules with Na atoms that efficiently ... -
Colloidal Quantum Dots and J-Aggregating Cyanine Dyes for Infrared Photodetection
(2012-12-13)The emergence of nanostructured semiconducting materials enables new approaches toward the realization of photodetectors that operate in the technologically important near- and short-wave infrared (NIR and SWIR) spectral ... -
Collusion in Knowledge Elicitation for Lending: Deep Learning for Colluders and Collusion Detection
(2022-06-03)Microfinance is an increasingly important tool for poverty alleviation, but it is difficult for lenders to discern the creditworthiness of potential borrowers with limited credit history. To address this challenge, York ... -
Colonial Reformation: Religion, Empire, and the Origins of Modern Social Thought
(2022-05-02)This dissertation tells a new story about the origins of the modern European social sciences. I set out to understand why the founders of French sociology and anthropology, including Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, and Claude ... -
Colony Writing: Creative Community in the Age of Revolt
(2016-05-18)This dissertation studies the impact of a form of literary patronage, domestic writers’ colonies, on U.S. literary production in first half of the twentieth century. I discuss Provincetown, Massachusetts; Taos and Santa ... -
Combating Infertility: Machine Learning for Clinical Decision Support
(2022-06-03)One in eight couples is affected by infertility in the United States. In vitro fertilization (IVF) is the most popular treatment option. Unfortunately, the process is time-consuming (1-2 months), costly (\$12,000-15,000), ... -
Combative Pasts: Politics and Remembering in the Post-Communist Space
(2014-02-25)More than two decades after the Polish Roundtable Agreement inaugurated the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, political conversations in the post-communist space remain remarkably attuned to symbolic and ethical questions. ... -
Combination Antibiotic-Focused Machine Learning Models for Integration into Experimental Workflows
(2022-06-02)Antibiotic resistance is a growing crisis with far-reaching impacts on public and global health [1][2]. With antibiotic resistance impeding the efficacy of antibiotics and the discovery of new antibiotics slowing [2], ... -
Combinatorial Pathway Modulation Toward Ex Vivo Maintenance and Propagation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
(2016-05-18)Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) sustain continuous turnover and maintenance of all blood lineages through organismal lifespan. The extensive regenerative potential of HSCs has been harnessed in transplantation medicine ... -
Combining Datalog and SAT-Based Solving in Code-Reasoning Tools
(2023-09-07)Datalog and SAT solving are powerful forms of automated logic that are both used to reason about the correctness of software. However, they are very different, and they are not typically combined in the same automated ... -
Combining Statistical, Physical, and Historical Evidence to Improve Historical Sea-Surface Temperature Records
(2021-04-23)Sea surface temperature (SST) is a crucial quantity for interpreting past climate variations, yet reconstructing historical SSTs from ship-based measurements is challenging because of varying biases that are on the order ... -
Comic Belief: Religious Irreverence and Irreverent Religion in Cold War America
(2023-01-18)“Comic Belief” identifies evolving standards of humor as both reflections and engines of the cultural changes that reconfigured American institutional Christianity in the half-century following World War II. It contends ... -
The Common Thread: Slavery, Cotton and Atlantic Finance from the Louisiana Purchase to Reconstruction
(2014-02-25)This dissertation focuses on the relationship between cotton, slavery and finance. At its core is a consideration of the Atlantic credit networks that supported the cultivation of cotton across the antebellum South. Planters ...