Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Games and Decision Under Uncertainty
(2016-05-12)This dissertation presents three independent essays in microeconomic theory. Chapter 1 (co-authored with Akitada Kasahara) studies the implications of gradual adjustment in strategic interactions, relative to the one-shot ... -
GaN/InGaN Microcavities and Applications
(2015-05-12)Semiconductor micro- and nano-cavities are excellent platforms for experimental studies of optical cavities, lasing dynamics, and cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). Common materials for such experiments are narrow bandgap ... -
Garden Work: The Horticultural Formation of American Literature, 1850-1930
(2014-10-21)Garden Work argues that American literature's sense of form developed as part of an ongoing theoretical conversation with the field of garden design. Of particular significance to American writers was a horticultural ... -
Garment Poetics: Costureras in Los Angeles' Garment Industry
(2021-05-17)Garment Poetics explores forms of resistance amongst Mexican and Salvadoran women who work(ed) in Los Angeles, California’s garment industry. Through the theoretical framework of women of color feminism, I turn to union ... -
Gas-Particle Interactions of Organic Aerosol
(2021-11-16)Atmospheric organic aerosols play significant roles in climate, air quality, and human health. Quantitative understanding and predicting the gas-particle interactions of organic aerosols and their role in particle formation ... -
Gasdermin-E mediates mitochondrial damage in axons and neurodegeneration
(2023-09-06)Mitochondrial dysfunction and axon loss are hallmarks of neurologic diseases. Gasdermin (GSDM) proteins are executioner pore-forming molecules that mediate cell death, yet their roles in the central nervous system (CNS) ... -
Gaussian Processes for Time-Varying Treatment Effects
(2021-06-23)Gaussian Process (GP) models have gained popularity for their flexibility to handle correlation among data sampled from the Gaussian Distribution. The correlation frequently characterizes time-dependent data, such as step ... -
GDF11 Expression and Roles during Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis
(2020-11-23)Growth differentiation factor 11 (GDF11) is a TGFβ superfamily member that acts as a critical negative regulator of developmental neurogenesis. However, very little is known about the CNS expression and functions of ... -
Gender and Computer Science at Harvard
(2017-07-14)In recent years, students and faculty at Harvard have made a wide range of efforts to foster gender diversity in computer science. These efforts are likely responsible for a recent increase in female concentrators, but ... -
Gender and Depression: Three Perspectives from Low-and Middle-Income Settings
(2020-11-19)Mental health disorders are a major contributor to the global burden of disease. The vast majority of mental health research is conducted in high income settings and may not translate to low-and middle-income countries ... -
Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Biodiversity Discourse
(2022-07-28)This dissertation examines the role of gender and sexuality in discourses surrounding the biodiversity crisis that threatens the future of most known species, including humans. I examine the gendered rhetoric that biodiversity ... -
Gender Differences in Professional Advancement: The Role of Goals, Perceptions, and Behaviors
(2016-05-19)Women are significantly underrepresented in senior-level positions within organizations. A great deal of research has provided evidence that both demand-side factors (e.g., bias and discrimination) and supply-side factors ... -
Gendered Measures & Outcomes: An Intersectional Investigation of Intergroup Religious Discrimination
(2022-09-16)Religious discourse in social psychology often erases issues of intersectionality by centering a single-axis framework, discounting the ways in which social identities intertwine with each other and broader systems of ... -
Gendering the Shinto Priesthood in Postwar Japan
(2022-05-17)This dissertation uses archival and ethnographic research to examine how the entrance of women into the Shinto priesthood in 1946 precipitated the formation of a gendered priesthood. Although more than 16% of the priesthood ... -
Gene Expression and CD4+ T Cell Susceptibility to SIV
(2016-09-08)HIV and its simian counterpart SIV infect CD4+ T cells; however, not all CD4+ T cells are equally vulnerable to infection. Despite decades of research, a complete molecular description of a CD4+ T cell susceptible to ... -
Gene expression programs in the nose
(2024-03-12)Sensory processing in the nose filters the external olfactory world and supports a wide variety of olfactory behaviors that are fundamental to life. Natural odor stimuli are complex mixtures of volatile chemicals that ... -
Gene expression regulation from the nucleus to the mitochondria
(2021-01-08)Gene expression links genotype to phenotype; it is the fundamental mechanism by which genomic information stored in DNA is functionalized into RNA and, eventually, protein. Gene expression is a complex process, tightly ... -
Gene-Drug Interactions and the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
(2013-03-18)The evolution of antibiotic resistance is shaped by interactions between genes, the chemical environment, and an antibiotic's mechanism of action. This thesis explores these interactions with experiments, theory, and ... -
Genealogies of Survival: Christianity, Judaism, Sovereignty
(2017-01-03)This dissertation attends to survival as a notion of critical historical urgency. It begins with the observation that survival is a foundational but largely unexamined theme within the field of Jewish Studies, arguing that ...