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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 ... -
Continuous Directed Evolution of Enzymes with Novel Substrate Specificity
(2013-07-05)Methodological advances in directed evolution have already made it possible to discover useful biomolecules within months to years. A further acceleration of this process might make it possible to address outstanding ... -
Contradictions and Coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
(2016-05-09)The subject of this dissertation is the conception of congruity in the narrative of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (Ps-J). A literary study of Ps-J reveals a two-part conundrum regarding congruity in the Targum. First, congruity ... -
Contrapunteo: The Question of "National" Theater in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina and Mexico
(2013-10-18)This project explores the phenomenon of National Theater in both Argentina and Mexico, specifically reevaluating the former's exemplarity and the latter's "failure." I propose that Fernando Ortiz's notion of contrapunteo ... -
The Contribution of Cervicovaginal Microbiota and Hormonal Contraceptives to Genital Inflammation and HIV Acquisition Risk
(2015-05-17)The HIV epidemic persists in many parts of the world, with the majority of new infections occurring through the female genital tract (FGT). The permissiveness of the genital mucosa to HIV is modulated by the integrity of ... -
Contribution of PDZD8 to Stabilization of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) Capsid
(2014-02-25)Following human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) entry into the host cell, the viral capsid gradually disassembles in a process called uncoating. A proper rate of uncoating is important for reverse transcription of the HIV-1 ... -
Contribution of SORL1 in human iPSC-derived neurons and astrocytes to Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis
(2022-09-06)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with heterogeneous etiology as suggested by genetic, neuropathological, and clinical evidence. Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology can serve ... -
Contributions to Design and Analysis of Pediatric HIV Studies
(2023-05-11)Youth with perinatal HIV exposure have demonstrated higher rates of emotional---behavioral problems than the general US youth population. However, more evidence is needed to help target prevention and intervention efforts ... -
Contributions to Imputation Methods Based on Ranks and to Treatment Selection Methods in Personalized Medicine
(2013-02-14)The chapters of this thesis focus two different issues that arise in clinical trials and propose novel methods to address them. The first issue arises in the analysis of data with non-ignorable missing observations. The ... -
Contributions to Quantum Control and Statistical Physics
(2021-05-13)This thesis consists of two parts. The first part is on the complexity of controlling quantum systems. Specifically, we present results on sufficient conditions under which control of quantum systems is efficient. We ... -
Contributions to Scalable Bayesian Computation
(2022-05-10)This manuscript presents four projects related to Bayesian computation in large-scale settings. Each chapter is self-contained, and their respective abstracts are given below. Chapter 1: Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) ... -
Control and Optimization of Soft Exosuit to Improve the Efficiency of Human Walking
(2018-05-03)Researchers have strived to develop lower limb wearable devices to improve the efficiency of human walking, however significant device inertia, kinematic constraints and the lack of optimal control strategies has limited ... -
Control of Drosophila Courtship by Mating Drive
(2018-09-16)Most behaviors are not just actions and reactions, but are the result of self-evaluation and are the means of self-fulfillment. This means that the same external context (e.g. food) can hold different meaning to an animal ... -
Control of HIV-1C Replication Both in Vivo and in Vitro
(2015-05-18)In this study, we established an HIV latency model using pluripotent stem cells in vitro. We found that a HIV accessory protein nef is responsible for full-length HIV silencing in human pluripotent stem cells. This effect ... -
Control of Neurotransmitter Release Properties by Presynaptic Calcium
(2014-06-06)Presynaptic terminals of neurons are optimized for neurotransmitter release, which is tightly controlled by presynaptic calcium. Here, we evaluate the role of calcium influx through voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) ... -
Control of spin dynamics for applications in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
(2013-10-17)Sophisticated electromagnetic pulse sequences that control spin dynamics have been developed in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) over the last few decades. However, due to more and more demanding criteria, such as unknown ...