Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Conjuring the Masses: The Figure of the Crowd in Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
(2012-10-22)This dissertation argues that the figure of the crowd in literature and visual culture constitutes a crucial component in the emergence and construction of the cultural, political, and historical values of modern China. ... -
Connecting Both Sides of the “Admission Desk”: Contextual Data from High School Counselors and Factors Influencing Its Quality
(2023-05-08)In recent years, selective colleges have embraced the use of contextual data in their holistic assessments of undergraduate applicants. Background data about students’ school and home environments can enable admission ... -
The Connection between Microphysical Morphology and Atmospheric Particle Phase Transitions
(2013-02-11)The phase of atmospheric particles can influence heterogeneous chemistry, cloud formation, and radiative forcing. Sulfate particles ranging from sulfuric acid to ammonium sulfate are the largest contributor arising from ... -
Connectivity and computations in higher-order olfactory neurons in Drosophila
(2014-06-06)Understanding how odors are encoded in the brain is of fundamental importance to neurobiology. The first two stages of olfactory information processing have been relatively well studied in both vertebrates and invertebrates. ... -
Consequences of Caspase Inhibition in Differentiating Myoblasts
(2017-09-07)The apoptotic caspases are proteases that mediate the process of programmed cell death. Canonically, their activation is a point of no return; however, the disruption of myoblast differentiation resulting from caspase ... -
Consequences of Government Provision and Regulation of Health Insurance
(2012-11-07)The first two chapters of this dissertation concern the effect of public catastrophic insurance programs. In the first chapter, I show how these programs, which only protect against large health shocks, induce advantageous ... -
Conserved Genetic Modules Controlling Lateral Organ Development: Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 and ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 Homologs in the Lower Eudicot Aquilegia (Columbine).
(2013-09-18)Development in multicellular organisms relies on establishing and maintaining gene expression profiles that give cells identity. Transcription factors establish gene expression profiles by integrating positional, temporal, ... -
Constituents at the Gate: European Political Parties and the Representation of Migration-Background Communities
(2015-01-15)This dissertation looks at migrant-background voters in Germany and the Netherlands to explain variations in descriptive representation in these two countries, and to find mechanisms which may explain the broad variations ... -
Constrained Bayesian Optimization and Applications
(2015-05-17)Bayesian optimization is an approach for globally optimizing black-box functions that are expensive to evaluate, non-convex, and possibly noisy. Recently, Bayesian optimization has been used with great effectiveness for ... -
Constrained Portfolios and Asset Prices
(2022-05-11)In this Thesis, I focus on analyzing constrained investors' trading behavior and its asset pricing implications. In the first Chapter, we focus on analyzing the effect of investors' expectations on market dynamics. ... -
Constraining Subduction Zone Processes Through Local, Regional, and Global Chemical Systematics
(2015-04-08)Subduction zones recycle material from Earth’s surface into the mantle, and are an important means of continent building. The subduction system serves as a stamp, imprinting the distinct chemical characteristics of our ... -
Constraining the Evolution of Galaxies over the Interaction Sequence with Multiwavelength Observations and Simulations
(2013-10-18)Interactions are crucial for galaxy formation and profoundly affect their evolution. However, our understanding of the impact of interactions on star formation and activity of the central supermassive black hole remains ... -
Constraints on Electromagnetic Parity Violation in the Cosmic Microwave Background using BICEP3
(2023-12-11)Conservation of parity in the electromagnetic (EM) force is a generally accepted assumption for the Standard Model of physics. This need not be true, however, and a number of frameworks have been invented which predict ... -
Constraints on Global Carbon Cycling, Basin Formation, and Early Animal Evolution During the Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian
(2015-09-25)Within this dissertation, I document different time intervals during the Neoproterozoic through the early Cambrian (1000 – 525 Ma), one of the most dynamic and non-uniformitarian intervals in the history of the Earth. This ... -
Constraints on protosolar planetary disk formation from the potassium-isotope compositions of the chondritic meteorites
(2022-03-17)Potassium isotopes unveil some of the early geological activities and processes in the early solar system. Due to its relative volatile and mobile characteristics, the chemical and isotopic composition of K in chondrites, ... -
Constructing Goddesses: Gender and Politics in Flavian Epic
(2023-05-15)This dissertation focuses on the intersection between divinity, gender, and ideology in Flavian Rome and reveals a shift in the portrayal of Venus, Minerva, Diana, and Juno in the epics of the Flavian period (Valerius ... -
Constructing Kallipolis: The Political Argument of Plato's Socratic Dialogues
(2016-05-18)This dissertation examines the political argument of Plato’s Socratic dialogues. Common interpretations of these texts suggest, variously: (1) that Socrates does not offer much in the way of a political theory; (2) that ... -
Constructing Stable Matchings Using Preference Elicitation Through Prices and Budgets
(2016-07-06)Eliciting complete preference information is difficult in many two-sided matching markets. First, there may be a very large number of options to rank. In addition, preference elicitation may require interviews that are ... -
Constructing Stillness: Theorization, Discovery, Interrogation, and Negotiation of the Expanded Laboratory of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
(2022-11-23)What if someone asked you to keep a four-kilometer-long ruler absolutely still so that you could measure deformations of length of ~1x10^-18m using light? On September 14, 2015, physicists and engineers at the Laser ... -
Construction of an atlas of the mouse and human mammary glands using mass cytometry
(2021-07-12)The mammary gland is a remarkably dynamic organ which develops largely postnatally and whose terminal differentiation is reversible. Three epithelial lineages are known to comprise the postnatal mammary gland: basal/myoepithelial ...