Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Beyond Diaspora: The Off Home in Jewish Literature from Latin America and Israel
(2022-11-23)“Beyond Diaspora: The Off Home in Jewish Literature from Latin America and Israel” fills a gap in scholarship regarding our understanding of and language to articulate identity construction. It attempts to decenter the ... -
Beyond FICO: Default Prediction and Optimal Lending Strategies in Online P2P Investing
(2016-06-22)The rise of online P2P lending has led to a large community of investors with an enormous discrepancy among best practices to maximize returns. Despite this, a cohesive system for analyzing the merits of various lending ... -
Beyond Grid Kirigami
(2022-05-23)Kirigami metamaterials are engineered materials inspired by the ancient art of paper cutting. To produce them, partial cuts are placed in a base material so that stretching the material causes it to deploy, or change size ... -
Beyond Judicial Independence: The Construction of Judicial Power in Colombia
(2014-12-04)This dissertation seeks to explain the behavior of one of the most activist high courts in the world, the Colombian Constitutional Court, since its creation in 1991. The standard approach within the field emphasizes political ... -
Beyond Mutation: Epigenetic Drivers of Phenotypic Diversity and Survival in Mycobacteria
(2016-05-19)M. tuberculosis is the causative agent of a global health epidemic that kills ~1.5 million people each year. The outcomes of infection with Mtb are highly variable. Although many patients are able to control the infection ... -
Beyond the Equivalence Divide: Developing a Performative Theory of Biblical Translation
(2018-05-13)This dissertation uses a comparative analysis of Cherokee and Greek scriptures to develop a performative theory of biblical translation that argues that new Christianities are created through processes of translation. This ... -
Beyond the Factory Gates: Detroit and the Aesthetics of Fordism, 1903-1941
(2014-06-06)This dissertation analyzes the ways in which the new mode of industrial organization associating mass production with mass consumption in the early twentieth century--what we call Fordism--had profound cultural repercussions ... -
Beyond the Letters: The Question of Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Baer of Mezritch
(2015-03-27)This thesis examines the philosophy of language of Rabbi Dov Baer of Mezritch (d. 1772), one of the most influential and creative early Hasidic masters, and the teacher whose students effectively created the Hasidic movement. ... -
Beyond the Modern Beauty: Takehisa Yumeji and the New Media Environment in Early Twentieth Century Japan
(2014-06-06)This thesis focuses on the modern Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) and his diverse range of graphic production, from illustrations in socialist newspapers and magazines with images of anti-war and leftist sentiment ... -
Beyond the Realm of Religion: The Idea of the Secular in Premodern Islam
(2021-07-12)In Beyond the Realm of Religion: The Idea of the Secular in Premodern Islam, I embark on a genealogical excavation of the diverse and intricate ways in which the religious and secular interacted in the premodern Islamic ... -
Bias bounds and target trials for causal inference in observational epidemiology
(2021-05-13)Observational epidemiology is critical for understanding population health but requires careful consideration of possible biases. Tools for avoiding and managing these biases are essential. This dissertation describes and ... -
Bidirectional perisomatic inhibitory plasticity of a Fos neuronal network
(2021-07-12)Behavioral experiences activate the Fos transcription factor in sparse populations of neurons that are critical for encoding and recalling specific events. However, there is limited understanding of the mechanisms by which ... -
Big Data and Disease: Using Twitter to Model the 2014 Outbreak of Chikungunya Fever in Puerto Rico
(2015-06-26)Big data has enabled an entirely new approach to solving and understanding problems. With the popularity of social media, data is created by individuals. We believe that embedded in the big data of social media, like ... -
Big Names, Bigger Barriers: Firm Reputation and its Role as a Barrier to Entry
(2021-06-17)We investigate the potential for barriers to entry for new firms and an implicit tuition in worker wages stemming from incumbent reputation. To do so, we introduce two models of worker preferences within a framework of ... -
A Bike-Powered Washing Machine for Use on the International Space Station
(2015-06-26)As it stands, there are currently no means to wash clothing aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts are forced to re-wear their soiled clothes, despite having to exercise over two hours per day. Instead ... -
Bile acid metabolism by gut bacteria
(2024-05-31)The human gut microbiome significantly affects host biology. In particular, gut bacteria modify important pools of molecules that impact host physiology. Therefore, further studies of gut bacterial metabolism will provide ... -
Bimolecular chemistry at sub-microkelvin temperatures
(2020-09-09)Advances in AMO techniques lead to the creation of ultracold samples of molecular species and opened opportunities to explore chemistry in the ultralow temperature regime. While many prior studies investigated how long-range ... -
Bio-Inspired Control of Soft Exosuits for Ankle Assistance in Healthy Individuals
(2021-05-14)Over the past decade, soft exosuits have been developed to assist with human walking. This dissertation details my contributions to the field of wearable devices by presenting new designs and controls for ankle assistive ... -
Biochemical and Crystallographic Studies of the Escherichia Coli β-Barrel Assembly Machine
(2016-09-01)Bacteria have developed resistance mechanisms to every class of antibiotics that has been created and combating the rise of multidrug-resistant bacteria—a major threat to public health—requires the continual development ... -
Biochemical and Functional Ramifications of SMARCE1 Loss in Clear Cell Meningioma and Coffin Siris Syndrome
(2021-09-07)Mutations in SMARCE1, which encodes the BAF57 subunit of the mammalian Switch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable (mSWI/SNF) ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complex, have been identified in patients afflicted with clear cell ...