Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Correlational Harmonic Metrics: Bridging Computational and Human Notions of Musical Harmony
(2015-04-08)The goal of this paper is to show that traditional music information retrieval tasks with well-chosen parameters perform similarly using computationally extracted chord annotations versus ground-truth annotations. Using a ... -
Cortical plasticity mediates behavioral hypersensitivity following noise-induced sensorineural hearing loss
(2023-04-28)The sensory periphery is specialized to transduce environmental stimuli into interpretable signals carried up afferent sensory pathways. It would follow that damage to these sensory receptor cells would result in a loss ... -
Corticothalamic circuits for active listening
(2021-01-21)Layer 6 corticothalamic neurons (L6 CTs) are the largest component of the corticofugal projection system and one of the largest classes of projection neuron in the brain. However, the contribution of L6 CTs to brain function ... -
Cosmic Extremes: Probing Energetic Transients With Radio Observations
(2018-05-11)With the advent of sensitive facilities like the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and planning well underway for vastly more powerful wide-field interferometers like the Square Kilometer Array, the study of radio astrophysical ... -
Cosmic Laboratory of Particle Physics
(2023-06-01)Cosmological observations have entered the era of precision, unlocking its tremendous power as a particle physics laboratory, aiding our search for physics beyond the Standard Model. The great power of cosmology comes from ... -
Cosmopolitan Romance: The Adventure of Archaeology, the Politics of Genre, and the Origins of the Future in Walter Scott's Crusader Novels
(2015-08-28)Romanticism is the only literary-historical period defined by its privileged relation to a single genre: romance. This dissertation reorients our understanding of Romanticism’s posture toward the problem of origins, which ... -
Cosserat Model for Robotic Catheter Systems
(2017-07-14)Tendon-driven robotic catheters are capable of precise execution of minimally invasive cardiac procedures including ablations and imaging. However, these procedures require accurate modeling of not only the catheter and ... -
Counsel and Command: An Address-Dependent Account of Authority
(2016-09-14)In this dissertation I develop an account of the concept of authority and the distinction between theoretical and practical authority in terms of their proper forms of interpersonal address. I then exploit the difference ... -
Counter-Republics of Letters: Politics, Publishing, and the Global Novel
(2023-09-08)The international literary field centered in New York is a politicized space, with a progressive cosmopolitan orientation. The dominant position in the field sees world literature—and the global novel in particular—as an ... -
Counting Stars: Developing Probabilistic Cataloging for Crowded Fields
(2018-05-09)The depth of next generation surveys poses a great data analysis challenge: these surveys will suffer from crowding, making their images difficult to deblend and catalog. Sources in crowded fields are extremely covariant ... -
Coupled Spins in Diamond: From Quantum Control to Metrology and Many-Body Physics
(2016-05-16)The study of quantum mechanics, together with the ability to coherently control and manipulate quantum systems in the lab has led to a myriad of discoveries and real world applications. In this thesis we present experiments ... -
Coupled-resonators on thin-film lithium niobate: Photonic multi-level system with electro-optic transition
(2023-05-02)A photonic coupled-resonator system offers exciting opportunities for investigating fundamental physics and enables broad technological applications. This is due to their unique properties: support of multiple photonic ... -
Coupling and Parallelization in Statistical Inference
(2021-01-19)This thesis considers the design of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) estimators using couplings. Couplings play an important part in Markov chain theory, and in recent decades they have also taken on a central role in ... -
Coupling Plasmonic Cavities to Quantum Emitters
(2017-09-08)Nano-plasmonic devices can have a wide variety of applications that rely on strongly enhanced optical fields confined well below the diffraction limit. The applications could be surface-enhanced Raman scattering, nanoscale ... -
Coupling the small GTPase Rab3 to the Synaptic Vesicle Cycle
(2013-10-08)Coupling the small GTPase Rab3 to the Synaptic Vesicle Cycle -
Courting Trouble: a Qualitative Examination of Sexual Inequality in Partnering Practice
(2017-05-11)Sociology recognizes marriage and family formation as two consequential events in an adult’s lifecourse. But as young people spend more of their lives childless and unpartnered, scholars recognize a dearth of academic ... -
Covalent Inhibition of Pro-Apoptotic BAX
(2023-06-01)BCL-2-associated X protein (BAX) is a promising therapeutic target for activating or restraining apoptosis in diseases of pathologic cell survival or cell death, respectively. In response to cellular stress, BAX transforms ... -
Covariate-Dependent Nonparametric Mixture Models
(2016-06-22)This work investigates the problem of learning nonparametric mixture models in the presence of external covariates of interest. This modeling problem is relevant whenever one wishes to explore the underlying structure of ... -
Covers of an Elliptic Curve E and Curves in ExP1
(2015-04-30)We describe the hyperplane sections of the Severi variety of curves in ExP1 in a similar fashion to Caporaso—Harris’ seminal work. From this description we almost get a recursive formula for the Severi degrees—we get the ... -
Cracking the Case of Antarctic Ice Shelf Rifting
(2023-08-29)The stability of the ice shelves that float at the fringes of Antarctica may be the key to determining the future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) and its contribution to sea level rise. Fracture exerts a fundamental control ...