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From Design to Production: Applications of Polymer and Protein Nanofibers for Regenerating Tissue
(2018-09-25)Designing wound dressings that restore cutaneous wounds to their original, healthy structure remains a clinical and engineering challenge. In the absence of external intervention, adult wound healing is an inherently slow ... -
From Digital to Physical: Computational Aspects of 3D Manufacturing
(2013-10-18)The desktop publishing revolution of the 1980s is currently repeating itself in 3D, referred to as desktop manufacturing. Online services such as Shapeways have become available, making personalized manufacturing on cutting ... -
From DNA sequence recognition to directional chromosome segregation: Information transfer in the translocase protein SpoIIIE
(2014-06-06)Faithful chromosome segregation is essential for all living organisms. Bacterial chromosome segregation utilizes highly conserved directional SpoIIIE/FtsK translocases to move large DNA molecules between spatially separated ... -
From Duty and for the Sake of the Noble: Kant and Aristotle on Morally Good Action
(Oxford University Press, 2008)Aristotle believes that an agent lacks virtue unless she enjoys the performance of virtuous actions, while Kant claims that the person who does her duty despite contrary inclinations exhibits a moral worth that the person ... -
From Dynamics on Surfaces to Rational Points on Curves
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From Dynasty to Nation: A Historiography of the Dueling Portraits of Nguyễn Huệ and Nguyễn Ánh
(2024-01-29)This dissertation is an exercise in historiographical exegesis to explore the dynamics of the evolving reconstruction of the lives and afterlives of Nguyễn Huệ 阮惠 (1753-1792) and Nguyễn Ánh 阮暎 (1762-1820) who dominated the ... -
From Each: Essays in the Theory of Productive Justice
(2013-03-08)A just society must provide a range of goods: police protection, education, medical care, legal representation, to name only a few. But how should a just society organize production of these goods? To ask this question is ... -
From electrons to finite elements: A concurrent multiscale approach for metals
(American Physical Society, 2006)We present a multiscale modeling approach that concurrently couples quantum-mechanical, classical atomistic, and continuum mechanical simulations in a unified fashion for metals. This approach is particularly useful for ... -
From Erdos-Renyi to Achlioptas: The Birth of a Giant
(2018-06-29)In this paper, I give an exposition on the emergence of the giant component, the sudden appearance of a component of order Θ(n) beyond a critical threshold in random graph processes. Drawing from the language of statistical ... -
From estimand selection to adaptive and robust estimation for causal inference: applications in clinical epidemiology
(2022-09-06)In causal inference research, subtle differences in the choice of estimand can have major implications for identifiability and interpretation. When observational data is used to estimate the chosen causal effect, an adaptive ... -
From Financial Crash to Debt Crisis
(American Economic Association, 2011-08)Newly developed historical time series on public debt, along with data on external debts, allow a deeper analysis of the debt cycles underlying serial debt and banking crises. We test three related hypotheses at both "world" ... -
From GRID to gridlock: the relationship between scientific biomedical breakthroughs and HIV/AIDS policy in the US Congress
(International AIDS Society, 2013)Introduction: From the travel ban on people living with HIV (PLHIV) to resistance to needle exchange programmes, there are many examples where policy responses to HIV/AIDS in the United States seem divorced from behavioural, ... -
From High School to Work in Japan: Lessons for the United States?
(University of Chicago Press, 1998)Youth employment problems have received considerable public and scholarly attention in the United States in recent years. A chief concern is the worsening situation of high school‐educated youth versus their college‐educated ... -
From Hopping to Ballistic Transport in Graphene-Based Electronic Devices
(2013-10-08)This thesis describes electronic transport experiments in graphene from the hopping to the ballistic regime. The first experiment studies dual-gated bilayer graphene devices. By applying an electric field with these dual ... -
From Idea to Product - Translating Knowledge between the Lab and the Clinic
(2012-09-12)This dissertation is composed of three essays looking at innovation at Academic Medical Centers. It tries to empirically explore the problem of translating knowledge from the laboratory bench to the clinic and from the ... -
From Illness as Culture to Caregiving as Moral Experience
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From Insurgent to Incumbent: State Building and Service Provision After Rebel Victory in Civil Wars
(2018-05-14)How do rebel organizations govern when they gain control of an internationally recognized state? I advance an organization-level theory, arguing that ideology affects recruitment, socialization of fighters and followers, ... -
From Knots to Narratives: Reconstructing the Art of Historical Record Keeping in the Andes from Spanish Transcriptions of Inka Khipus
(Duke University Press, 1998)Based on a close examination of Spanish translations and transcriptions of "readings" of Inka khipus (knotted-string recording devices) by native "knotkeepers/makers" during the sixteenth century, I make suggestions about ... -
From Mashtots' to Nga'ara
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From Memory to Mastery: Accounting for Control in America, 1750-1880
(2013-02-11)From Memory to Mastery charts the development of commercial numeracy and accounting in America and the English-speaking Atlantic world between 1750 and 1880. Over this period, accounting evolved from a system of recordkeeping ...