Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Crafting Monasticism: an archaeohistory of monastic labor and identity in western Europe ca. 400-800
(2023-11-21)Across Western Europe in the period from 400 to 800 AD, new religious settlements spread across the crumbling Roman landscape of cities, villas, and farms. By the end of this period, these new Christian monasteries and ... -
Creating a Season: Tourism, Sexuality, and Imaginations of Beirut
(2016-09-21)This dissertation is an ethnographic and historical investigation into questions of sexuality, sensuality, mobility, and tourism in the context of Beirut, Lebanon. The work explores affective atmospheres and the conditions ... -
Creating an Accessible Network of Life-Saving Medical Devices
(2017-07-14)This paper consists of the design and implementation of a software platform empowering users to quickly find autoinjectors and defibrillators in emergencies by leveraging both crowdsourcing and the Internet of Things (IoT). ... -
Creating for Creatives: A Humanistic Approach to Designing AI Tools Targeted at Professional Animators
(2021-06-04)Creative endeavors have long been thought to be a uniquely human form of expression, something that could never be truly replicated by artificial means. However, as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop, both ... -
CREATING TRUSTED SYSTEMS IN UNTRUSTED ENVIRONMENTS
(2021-09-27)This dissertation illustrates how to improve the security and privacy of user data in modern Internet services. Three specific domains are examined: client-side IoT deployments, server-side application stacks, and middlebox ... -
Creciendo juntos: Cultural Pathways in Mexican-Origin Childrens Spanish and English Oral Language Development in Early Childhood
(2023-08-17)This dissertation helps elucidate the cultural pathways linked to Latinx children’s early Spanish and English oral language development and contributes to the field’s understanding of within-group variability in bilingual ... -
Creed, Belief, and the Common Folk: Disputes in the Early Modern Maghrib (9th/15th-11th/17th c.)
(2020-11-23)This dissertation examines the attitudes and arguments of Muslim scholars in the early modern Maghrib toward the creedal convictions of the broader, non-elite populace. Its particular focus is the career and legacy of a ... -
Criminal Justice, Self-Sufficiency, and the Life Course: Social and Economic Insecurity After Incarceration and Conviction
(2018-05-11)This dissertation examines previously unexplored aspects of the socioeconomic wellbeing of individuals who have passed through the American criminal justice system, expanding upon prior work both substantively and temporally. ... -
Crisis Archives: Assemblage, Interaction, Participation
(2015-09-24)This study investigates a form of cultural production defined by the gathering of crisis-related media into public web environments. While it is clear that the many varieties of “digital crisis archives” can exhibit novel ... -
Crisis Capital: Industrial Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1865-Present
(2016-05-18)“Crisis Capital” offers a local history of global capitalism and a global history of local economic development, exploring how the global movements and political struggles of industry, labor, and capital created, destroyed, ... -
CRISPR-Cas: Development and applications for mammalian genome editing
(2014-06-06)The ability to introduce targeted modifications into genomes and engineer model organisms holds enormous promise for biomedical and technological applications, and has driven the development of tools such as zinc finger ... -
Crisscross cooperativity for robust synthesis of molecular hierarchies
(2022-01-18)To what extent is it possible to program molecules to self-assemble into increasingly complicated arrangements? While structural DNA nanotechnology has provided tools for scientists and engineers to self-assemble approximately ... -
Critical Inquiries into Language Ideologies and Pedagogies in a Linguistically Diverse, Reform-Minded Urban Middle School
(2022-05-12)Research underscores that hegemonic stances toward non-mainstream languages and language varieties are prevalent in the larger educational landscape and have potential to cause harm for linguistically diverse student ... -
Critical period plasticity and sensory function in a neuroligin-3 model of autism
(2013-10-08)Extensive experience-dependent refinement of cortical circuits is restricted to critical periods of plasticity early in life. The timing of these critical periods is tightly regulated by the relative levels of excitatory ... -
CRKL Is an Important Regulator of PI3K Signaling in PTEN-Deficient Tumors
(2013-09-25)In response to signals mediated by receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), G protein-coupled receptors or oncogenes, the two ubiquitously expressed isoforms of class IA phosphatidylinositol-3-kinases (PI3Ks), \(p110\alpha\) and ... -
Cross and Book: Late-Carolingian Breton Gospel Illumination and the Instrumental Cross
(2013-02-15)Crosses made in metal, paint, or stone stand at a singular intersection of past, present and future in the early medieval period. The historical cross of Golgotha is the source of such manufactured crosses’ form and power. ... -
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages, c. 500 – c. 1000
(2016-05-18)Early medieval Europe is not well known for its crowds, unlike Antiquity or the later Middle Ages. After sixth-century demographic and urban decline, crowds were smaller, less spontaneous, and easier to control than in ... -
Crowdsourcing and Engaging Employees in Innovation: Three Field Studies
(2021-05-14)This dissertation examines how crowdsourcing ideas, which opens up the opportunity to innovate, can engage employees to solve organizational problems. Across three field studies, I investigate: employees’ responses to being ... -
Crystal Growth on One-Dimensional Substrates: Plateau-Rayleigh Crystal Growth and Other Opportunities for Core/Shell Nanowire Synthesis
(2015-05-11)Nanowires hold significant promise for both fundamental studies and technological applications ranging from energy conversion to electronics to biological sensing. The detailed understanding of nanowire synthesis and the ... -
Crystal-Liquid Transitions Studied With Colloids in an Electric Bottle
(2016-05-18)In this thesis, we have presented the experimental investigations on the crystal-liquid transitions in a colloidal system. Colloids behave as big atoms, thus they are good model systems to study the dynamics of condensed ...