Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
The Commonwealth as Agent: Group Action, the Common Good, and the General Will
(2013-09-18)In this dissertation, I argue for a Rousseauvian vision of an ideal society: one in which the people constitute a group agent, unified under a collective will, willing action that constitutes the common good. Most have ... -
Community-Attribute Models for Bibliographic Reference Information via Dynamic Graph Evolution
(2016-06-21)We present CAMBRIDGE, the first technique for evolutionary analysis of dynamic graphs via a community-attribute graph model. Community-attribute models have been shown to be superior to models conventionally used for ... -
Companion Imaging Probes and Diagnostic Devices for B-Cell Lymphoma
(2014-10-22)As new therapeutic targets and drugs are discovered for B-cell lymphoma and other cancers, companion diagnostics are also needed to determine target engagement, therapeutic efficacy, and patient segmentation for clinical ... -
Comparative Cognitive Development and Endocrinology in Pan and Homo
(2012-08-23)Key insights into the evolutionary origins of human social behavior can be gained via study of our closest living relatives, bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Despite being equally related to humans, ... -
Comparative Genomics of the Major Histocompatibility Complex in Amniotes
(2013-03-18)The major histocompatibility complex region (MHC) is a multi gene family present in all jawed vertebrates, with a fundamental role in vertebrate immunity. More than two decades of studies have resulted in the characterization ... -
Comparative Safety and Effectiveness of Anticonvulsants Among Older Adults
(2021-09-08)Anticonvulsant use among older adults has increased 200-fold over the past 25 years.1 In our previous work, we estimated that one in eight older adults in the US are currently receiving anticonvulsants.2 The risk of adverse ... -
Comparison and Calibration of Climate Proxy Data in Medieval Europe
(2017-10-13)Two major sources of information on paleoclimate are historical documentary and scientific paleo proxy data. Recently, interdisciplinary research groups have sought to mesh historical and scientific data to gain a ... -
Compensation and Employment Policies in the U.S. Public Sector
(2017-04-27)How do compensation and employment policies distinct to the public sector affect the quality of public services in the United States? I explore labor-market reactions to de-unionization, defined-benefit pensions, and ...