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From Piecemeal to Configurational Representation of Faces
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1977)Unlike older children and adults, children of less than about 10 years of age remember photographs of faces presented upside down almost as well as those shown upright and are easily fooled by simple disguises. The development ... -
From Pixels to Physics: Probabilistic Color De-Rendering
(IEEE, 2012)Consumer digital cameras use tone-mapping to produce compact, narrow-gamut images that are nonetheless visually pleasing. In doing so, they discard or distort substantial radiometric signal that could otherwise be used for ... -
From Police Power to Policed Schools: Racial Ideologies, Urban Schooling, and the Carceral Landscape of Chicago, 1888 - 1920
(2023-05-15)In contemporary discourse about the relationship between schools and the criminal legal system (generally referred to as the school-to-prison pipeline), a bright line is often drawn between the nurturing, supportive school ... -
From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the Challenges of Preserving Digital Social Science Data
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)Social science data are an unusual part of the past, present, and future of digital preservation. They are both an unqualified success, due to long-lived and sustainable archival organizations, and in need of further ... -
From Probes to Therapeutics: Chemical Biology Studies of Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) and Cereblon
(2020-01-22)Although there is still discussion surrounding the exact definition of the field, chemical biology is generally described as the development and deployment of a chemical toolbox to manipulate biological systems. The two ... -
From Program to Practice: Unpacking the Impacts of Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators
(2020-09-10)Despite increasing demands for high-quality early childhood education programs, programmatic quality across the United States’ broad early education sector remains inconsistent. To encourage early educators to implement ... -
From Protest to Rebellion? Institutions and Protest Escalation in Autocracies.
(2015-09-22)Major exogenous shocks, which increase the vulnerability of autocratic regimes, present a unique opportunity for citizens to rebel against their hegemons. Yet in practice, we observe significant variation in protest ... -
From Ratification to Compliance: Quantitative Evidence on the Spiral Model
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From Recusatio to Commitment: The Evolution of the Virgilian Programme
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From Reduplication to Ablaut: The Class VII Strong Verbs of Northwest Germanic
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From Reform to Revolution: the Transformation of Cuba’s Education System, 1959–62
(2016-09-21)This thesis examines the transformation of Cuba’s educational system from 1959 to 1962 as a case study for the limits of liberal reforms during the Cold War. It explores the birth of the revolutionary state and society, ... -
From Rings to Smoke: the quest to uncover a mechanism of turbulence
(2021-04-01)The equations of motion that govern the dynamics of fluid flows--the Navier-Stokes equations--were formulated nearly two centuries ago. In that time, we have made immense advancements in the ways that we understand these ... -
From Siraf to Sumatra: Seafaring and Spices in the Islamicate Indo-Pacific, Ninth-Eleventh Centuries C.E.
(2013-10-08)This dissertation is a study of early Islamicate commerce in natural luxuries of the tropical Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Rim, such as spices, ambergris and pearls, between the ninth and eleventh centuries C.E. I ... -
From Social Data to Neural Networks: Robust Decision-Making in Machine Learning
(2021-09-13)In this thesis we develop algorithms to control and understand the behavior of a system despite erroneous, noisy or otherwise problematic input. In our first line of work, we focus on the decision-making for social data ... -
From Stars to Galaxies: Unveiling Their Properties, Connection, and Evolution With Next Generation Stellar Models
(2018-05-11)Many areas of astrophysics spanning orders of magnitudes in physical scales—from exoplanets to high-redshift galaxies—are deeply rooted in our interpretation of light emitted by stars. Thus the importance of a well-tested ... -
From stripe to checkerboard ordering of charge-density waves on the square lattice in the presence of quenched disorder
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From system F to Typed Assembly Language
(Association for Computing Machinery, 1998)We motivate the design of a statically typed assembly language (TAL) and present a type-preserving translation from System F to TAL. The TAL we present is based on a conventional RISC assembly language, but its static type ... -
From the Bench to the Field in Low-Cost Diagnostics: Two Case Studies
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)Despite the growth of research in universities on point-of-care (POC) diagnostics for global health, most devices never leave the laboratory. The processes that move diagnostic technology from the laboratory to the field—the ... -
From the Brothel, to the Body: The Relocation of Male Sexuality in Japan's Prostitution Debate, 1870-1920
(2012-10-23)This dissertation argues that the Japanese debate over prostitution regulation between the 1870s and the 1910s saw a fundamental shift in the construction of male sexuality as a political tool. Before the turn of the century ... -
From The Cover: A simple physical model for scaling in protein-protein interaction networks
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005)It has recently been demonstrated that many biological networks exhibit a “scale-free” topology, for which the probability of observing a node with a certain number of edges (k) follows a power law: i.e., p(k) ∼ k -γ. This ...