Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
Constructive Retrieval and Episodic Memory: Cognitive and Neural Evidence
(2017-05-03)Research over the past decade has indicated striking overlap in the cognitive and neural processes that support remembering the past and imagining the future. An experimental tool, the episodic specificity induction, was ... -
Contemporary Contours of National Belonging: Experimental and Survey Approaches for Understanding the Structures of the American Hierarchy
(2023-05-09)Establishing the criteria for belonging and status within the national community is a fundamental social process in contemporary society. Access to symbolic and material resources is determined by one’s status and group ... -
Content Culture: Literature in the Age of Viral Media
(2022-06-06)We are living in the era of “content.” Short, digital ephemera designed for rapid circulation on social media—like listicles, hot-takes, or how-to videos—infiltrate every free minute. Still, literary critics have yet to ... -
Content-Aware Manipulations for Image and Video Collections
(2012-08-17)Digital photography and videography have become ubiquitous. With ever-cheaper and more capable cameras, found in dedicated devices and, increasingly, in multipurpose smartphones and tablets, it is now easier than ever ... -
The Contest for Human Rights: Soviet Soft Power Through Détente, Reform, and Collapse, 1973-1991
(2016-09-19)This dissertation examines Soviet approaches to human rights as a soft power issue across three periods of challenge and innovation: the mobilization of international human rights criticism in the 1970s; the launch by ... -
Contested Boundaries: Evaluating Institutional and Government Authority in Academia and Public Health
(2014-02-25)This dissertation explores tensions between individual freedom and institutional authority. Chapter one examines public perceptions of the legitimacy of "new frontier" public health measures. I present results from a ... -
Contesting Kālīghāṭ: Discursive Productions of a Hindu Temple in Colonial and Contemporary Kolkata
(2014-06-06)This dissertation is an analysis of discursive productions of Kālīghāṭ, a Hindu temple dedicated to the goddess Kālī in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India. It is the most famous temple in what was once the capital of the ... -
Contesting the Greek Past in Ninth-Century Baghdad
(2016-05-16)From the eighth century through the tenth, the ‘Abbāsid capital of Baghdad witnessed the translation, in unprecedented numbers, of Greek philosophical, medical, and other scientific texts into Arabic, often via a Syriac ... -
Contests for control, contests for consumption: Empirical evidence from professional sports on contest theory
(2021-05-17)Contests pervade economic, cultural, and political life. Why is this so? Research in economics and accounting shows that contests can serve as efficient mechanisms for resolving agency problems. In practice, there is also ... -
Context-Dependence in Social Decision-Making
(2021-04-23)Many of society's most significant social decisions involve the joint evaluation of multiple candidates, and yet, we know that decision-makers consistently exhibit violations of rational choice theory when they choose among ... -
Context-Robust Object Recognition via Object Manipulations in a Synthetic 3D Environment
(2021-06-03)The remote control is a small object that does not fly in the air and is generally found on a table, not in the sink. Such contextual regularities are ingrained in our perception of the world and previous research suggests ... -
Contextual Modulation of Early Visual Processing and the Role of Cortico-Cortical Feedback
(2016-05-14)How does the brain form a useful representation of its external environment from the astoundingly complex patterns of sensory signals it receives? This question has motivated the field of systems neuroscience for decades. ... -
Contingency and Necessity: A Musical Offering
(2021-05-14)Contingency and Necessity: A Musical Offering Abstract This dissertation consists of the eight musical scores making up the respective work series of Georgic, Secundum Surdum, and Agnus. In addition, the score of ... -
The Contingent Effects of Prior Ties on Network Dynamics: Essays on the Formation and Dissolution of Interorganizational Relationships in the Venture Capital Industry
(2015-05-11)This dissertation comprises three empirical chapters that investigate the limits of prior interorganizational ties in explaining patterns of tie formation and tie dissolution of interorganizational relationships in the ... -
The Continued Creation of Communities of Practice – Finding Variation in the Western Zhou Expansion (1046-771 BCE)
(2016-05-04)This work explores the question of when and how China became Chinese by studying state sponsored colonial expansion and intercultural interactions during the Western Zhou period (1046-771 BCE). Because Confucius and his ... -
Continuities and discontinuities in working memory representations of collections over ontogeny
(2014-10-23)Working memory, or the ability to maintain and manipulate information such that it can be used to guide behavior, is known to be severely capacity limited, in most circumstances, to about 3-4 objects. Both infants and ... -
Continuities of Change: Conversion and Convertibility in Northern Mozambique
(2014-10-21)Recent scholarship on Africa gives the impression of a singular narrative regarding Pentecostalism, that of inexorable rise. Indisputably, Pentecostalism's "explosion" throughout the global South is one of today's more ...