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Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes
(2015-03-06)This dissertation examines the early phylogenetic divergences of the phylum Platyhelminthes using molecular sequence data, with an emphasis on the placement and evolutionary significance of several enigmatic and largely ... -
Isoprene Photooxidation via the Hydroperoxyl Pathway
(2015-01-23)Photooxidation of isoprene has a large influence on the oxidation capacity of the atmosphere and is a significant source of secondary organic material (SOM) of atmospheric particles. A quantitative understanding of isoprene ... -
It Takes Brains: Germline and Somatic Mutations in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
(2016-05-05)The human brain can be affected by many diseases during its development, and human genetics studies can illuminate the genetic etiology of these diseases, which is critical for understanding disease pathophysiology, improving ... -
The Italian Graphic Novel: Reading Ourselves, Reading History
(2013-08-12)This study seeks to unravel the intricate connection between a selection of graphic novels, the moments in which they were created, and the process of weaving an Italian cultural history. It analyzes graphic novels and ... -
Itch and insensitivity to pain in an Nav1.7 mutant mouse model
(2021-09-07)Gain-of-function mutations in Nav1.7, a peripheral neuron-specific voltage-gated sodium channel encoded by the gene Scn9a, have been implicated in several genetic pain conditions in humans. These include inherited ... -
It’s Black and White: Preventing radiation-induced hair graying
(2023-11-21)Melanocyte stem cells (MeSCs) and their differentiated melanocyte progeny are responsible for providing pigment to the hair and skin. Dysfunction of MeSCs, therefore, can result in white hair formation and occurs for a ... -
“It’s Like Being Alive:” Unknowable Krump Dance and Black Fugitivity as a Utopian Practice
(2023-06-01)After six years of ethnographic research with a group of Black male Krump dancers from the larger L.A. area I have come to see and understand their dance practice in counterintuitive ways – as fugitive and utopian. Fully ... -
Jefferson's Map, Douglass's Territory: The Black Reconstruction of Enlightenment in America, 1773-1865
(2022-05-12)Generations of scholars have examined “the Enlightenment” as a plurality of variegated eighteenth-century movements led by white European and American intellectuals who were generally devoted to the principles of reason, ... -
A Jester with Chameleon Faces: Laughter and Comedy in North Korea, 1953-1969
(2014-06-06)This dissertation is a study of ordinary North Korean people who have persevered in the face of tremendous social, political, and economic trials throughout their country's modern history and a tribute to their unflagging ... -
Jet Physics at High Energy Colliders
(2013-10-17)The future of new physics searches at the LHC will be to look for hadronic signals with jets. In order to distinguish a hadronic signal from its background, it is important to develop advanced collider physics techniques ... -
Jets and Metastability in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
(2016-01-15)I give a high level overview of the state of particle physics in the introduction, accessible without any background in the field. I discuss improvements of theoretical and statistical methods used for collider physics. ... -
The Jew Who Wasn't There: Studies on Jews and Their Absence in Old Norse Literature
(2015-08-12)This dissertation explores certain attitudes towards Jews and Judaism in Old Norse literature. Regardless of an apparent lack of actual Jewish settlement in the Nordic region during the Middle Ages, medieval Icelanders and ... -
Jiangxi Literati and Interregional Networks in Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-Century China
(2024-05-13)From the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, literary interactions were essential to the formation and functioning of literati society beyond local society in China. By tracing the circulation of occasional writings, this ... -
Jihad and Other Universalisms: Arab-Bosnian Encounters in the U.S. World Order
(2013-03-08)This dissertation uses the experiences of Arab Islamist fighters in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) to rethink prevailing notions of world order. These actors are frequently glossed as “foreign fighters”: ... -
Join the (Climate) Club: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Membership Incentives
(2023-06-30)Countries' failure to meet their Paris Agreement's targets have prompted research on alternative models of international cooperation. One of them, championed by Nobel Memorial prize laureate William Nordhaus, is the idea ... -
The Joy of the Dharma: Esoteric Buddhism and the Early Medieval Transformation of Japanese Literature
(2015-05-19)This dissertation explores the nexus between Buddhism and literature in Japan’s early medieval period. Specifically, it elucidates the process by which forms of court literature such as Chinese-language verse (kanshi), ... -
Judging Gerrymandering: Improving Methods for Measuring Partisan Distortion and Its Component Parts
(2017-07-14)This paper improves upon the existing mathematical methods for measuring partisan distortion and evaluating partisan gerrymandering in plurality-won, single-member district electoral systems. The measures and models presented ... -
Judging the World: International Courts and the Origins of Global Governance, 1899-1971
(2023-05-11)Today, international courts are everywhere. There are hundreds of them, located on every inhabited continent. Together, they have delivered tens of thousands of decisions. International courts do everything from prosecuting ... -
The Judicial Background of Parlementary Gallicanism
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Jungar Refugees and the Making of Empire on Qing China's Kazakh Frontier, 1759-1773
(2014-02-25)This dissertation tells the story of what happened to Jungar refugees on the Qing empire's Kazakh frontier in the years immediately following the collapse of the Jungar confederation, 1759-1773. Narratives of violence ...