Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
Competition and Coexistence in Yeast Experimental Evolution
(2016-05-19)Natural selection gives rise to biodiversity by purging the less-fit among variants that are too similar (a principle known as character displacement), but to predict how fit or different an organism needs to be to survive ... -
Competition and Selection in Health Insurance Markets
(2015-05-08)Competition in US health insurance markets is low and has declined in recent years. Insufficient competition is often assumed to increase plan premiums or decrease benefit quality, but the latter has been difficult to ... -
Competition in Digital Markets: Role of Data and Network
(2022-09-15)This dissertation studies how resources like proprietary data or market factors such as network interconnectivity influence the barrier to entry into digital markets, and analyzes their impact on the competitiveness and ... -
Competition, Character Displacement, and Ecological Release in Anolis lizards
(2021-09-01)The addition or subtraction of species in a community can alter the ecology and evolution of resident species. As human-mediated introductions and extinctions have become commonplace, understanding the consequences of ... -
Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Bio-electronic Interface for Cell-based Phenotypic Drug Screening
(2021-07-12)Microelectrode Array (MEA) has been widely researched and with some commercial usage in measuring electrical properties and behavior of cardiac and neuronal networks, thanks to its low cost and parallelism compared to ... -
Complete Homogeneous Varieties via Representation Theory
(2016-05-02)Given an algebraic variety $X\subset\PP^N$ with stabilizer $H$, the quotient $PGL_{N+1}/H$ can be interpreted a parameter space for all $PGL_{N+1}$-translates of $X$. We define $X$ to be a \textit{homogeneous variety} if ... -
Complex Care: Health, Bureaucracy, and Neo-Welfarism in Los Angeles County
(2021-07-12)Over the past 20 years, healthcare organizations in the United States have focused increasing attention on controlling costs by providing extra services and support to “the sickest and most marginalized” patients. While ... -
Complex Forms of Structural Variation in the Human Genome: Haplotypes, Evolution, and Relationship to Disease
(2015-01-15)Genomic mutations arise in many forms, varying from single base pair substitutions to complicated sets of overlapping copy number variants (CNVs). While each type of variation contributes to phenotype, complex structural ... -
The complex geometry of Teichmüller space
(2014-06-06)We study isometric maps between Teichmüller spaces and bounded symmetric domains in their Kobayashi metric. We prove that every totally geodesic isometry from a disk to Teichmüller space is either holomorphic or anti-holomorphic; ... -
Complex rank 3 vector bundles on complex projective 5-space
(2021-05-13)This work concerns two aspects of the study of complex rank $3$ topological vector bundles on complex projective five-space. The first aim is to classify such bundles: to give complete, computable algebraic invariants. ... -
Complexity in Mutualisms: Indirect Interactions With Multiple Parties
(2015-09-23)Ant-plants provide ants with rewards such as housing and food in exchange for protection from herbivores. These protection mutualisms are complex webs of both direct interactions, such as ants feeding on host plant extrafloral ... -
Complexity Reduction for Near Real-Time High Dimensional Filtering and Estimation Applied to Biological Signals
(2016-05-20)Real-time processing of physiological signals collected from wearable sensors that can be done with low computational power is a requirement for continuous health monitoring. Such processing involves identifying underlying ... -
Complexity, Algorithms, and Applications of Programmable Quantum Many-Body Systems
(2021-05-14)Advances in the programmability of quantum many-body systems have stimulated the development of novel computational and scientific applications. In this dissertation, we address a few fundamental and practical questions ... -
Complications in Causal Inference: Incorporating Information Observed After Treatment is Assigned
(2014-06-06)Randomized experiments are the gold standard for inferring causal effects of treatments. However, complications often arise in randomized experiments when trying to incorporate additional information that is observed after ... -
Component-Based Syntheses of Trioxacarcins
(2014-06-06)The trioxacarcins are structurally complex, highly oxygenated bacterial isolates that potently inhibit the growth of human cancer cells in culture as a consequence of their ability to alkylate guanosine residues of duplex ... -
Composable Enhancements for Gradual Assurances
(2017-07-12)This dissertation presents three enhancements to software components that increase the trustworthiness and usability of the systems they comprise. The enhancements are composable: they are local to the components they ... -
Compositional routes to (non)intersectivity
(2022-05-13)This dissertation is concerned with a particular instance of ambiguity in natural language, between intersective and nonintersective interpretations of certain adjectives. Adjectives like good display a consistent alternation ... -
Comprehensive Approaches to Identifying the Targets of Natural and Synthetic Antibodies Using Microarray DNA Synthesis and High-Throughput Sequencing
(2015-09-24)The incredible flexibility and specificity of the humoral immune response is dependent on the highly diverse repertoire of naïve and affinity-matured antibodies. Utilizing and understanding the power of this response ... -
Compressed Sensing for Chemistry
(2016-05-05)Many chemical applications, from spectroscopy to quantum chemistry, involve measuring or computing a large amount of data, and then compressing this data to retain the most chemically-relevant information. In contrast, ...