Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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The Fabricated Forest
(2016-01-27)This dissertation approaches historical ecology as reflexive process, tying together archaeology, iconographic analysis, ethnography, and ethnohistory to argue that modern tropical ecosystems are the result of long-term, ... -
Fabrication and Characterization of Single-Crystal Diamond Photonic Cavities
(2013-09-19)Cavity quantum electrodynamics provide a platform to form a quantum network which connects individual quantum bits (qubits) via photon. Optical cavity, a device which traps photons in a confined volume can enhance the ... -
Fabrication techniques for femtosecond laser textured and hyperdoped silicon
(2016-05-18)This thesis presents a range of advances in the fabrication of femtosecond laser textured and hyperdoped silicon, a material platform with potential applications in photovoltaics, photodetectors, light-emitting diodes, ... -
Face Identification in the Internet Era
(2013-02-11)Despite decades of effort in academia and industry, it is not yet possible to build machines that can replicate many seemingly-basic human perceptual abilities. This work focuses on the problem of face identification that ... -
The Facilitation of Protein-DNA Search and Recognition by Multiple Modes of Binding
(2012-12-12)The studies discussed in this thesis unify experimental and theoretical techniques, both established and novel, in investigating the problem of how a protein that binds specific sites on DNA translocates to, recognizes, ... -
Facilitative Boundary Leadership: Enabling Collaboration in Complex, Multi-Organizational Work
(2015-05-11)Increasing complexity, flatter organizational structures and rapidly changing environments require coordination and collaboration with individuals and teams across organizations. As teams navigate these complex organizational ... -
Facing the Limits of Fiction: Self-Consciousness in Jewish American Literature
(2013-03-15)This thesis explores the limits of fictional language by studying the work of Jewish American writer-critics, novelists who significantly engaged with literary criticism, and critics who experimented with the novel or short ... -
Factorization and Precision Calculations in Particle Physics
(2015-05-06)We state and prove to all orders in perturbation theory a factorization theorem in Quantum Chromodynamics that concisely describes the separation of the physics associated with jet formation from that associated with the ... -
Factors affecting AAV production: Mutagenesis of AAV2 rep and AAV transgenes
(2024-01-09)Recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) are the predominant gene therapy vector. Previous work in the AAV field focused on capsid engineering to enable targeting of vectors to specific tissues and has resulted in five ... -
Factors Controlling Variability in the Oxidative Capacity of the Troposphere on Interannual to Interglacial Time Scales
(2013-08-21)This thesis explores the natural forces controlling variability of the tropospheric oxidants on interannual to glacial-interglacial time scales. The oxidants (primarily OH and ozone) determine the lifetime of many trace ... -
Fair School Allocation
(2023-06-30)A well-functioning public education system is essential to a well-functioning society. However, deciding which child gets enrolled in which school is a difficult task. Specifically, with complex geographies and unequal ... -
Fake Originals. Collecting Latin America
(2022-09-07)Fake Originals: Collecting Latin America offers a new lens on narratives of regional identity through studying material culture and literature. My central argument is that the circulation of these Latin American objects ... -
Fakt, Fiktion und Transparenz. Modi autobiographischer Selbstreferenz im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert
(2022-06-06)This dissertation explores autobiography and autofiction from the perspective of transparency. Drawing on a variety of texts – from the German-speaking world as well as from Scandinavia, France, and the US –, it examines ... -
FALCON systematically interrogates FFA biology and identifies new mediators of lipotoxicity
(2023-02-28)Cellular vulnerability to free fatty acids (FFA) is implicated in the modern epidemic of obesity and its sequelae, including type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, studies to date have assumed that a few select FFAs are representative ... -
Family Matters: Tracing the Social Cognitive Development of Kinship Understanding
(2018-05-10)Kinship provides the major framework for social organization, but when do infants and children develop understanding of these social relationships and how they affect social behaviors? This dissertation proposes that ... -
Fantasies of Consent: Black Women's Sexual Labor in 19th Century New Orleans
(2015-08-18)Fantasies of Consent: Black Women’s Sexual Labor 19th Century New Orleans draws on Louisiana legal statutes and Louisiana State Supreme Court records, alongside French and Spanish Caribbean colonial law, slave narratives, ... -
Fantasies of Reason: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural in Iran
(2012-07-23)This dissertation examines uncertainties about the supernatural among members of the urban middle class in Tehran, Iran. In particular, I attend to the ways in which the category of the supernatural (mavara) has become, ... -
Fashioning Sovereignty in Latin American Narrative
(2013-02-22)With the arrival of the Europeans, the dressed body became a discursive forum upon which to negotiate the possession of land and the legitimate right to govern in Latin America. In conquest chronicles, the Aristotelian ... -
Fast Simulation of Random Walks on the Endoplasmic Reticulum by Reduction to the Gambler's Ruin Problem
(2017-10-13)The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plays a critical role in many eukaryotic cell functions, including protein synthesis and development. In this thesis, we will use increasingly coarse grained models of random walks on graphs ... -
Fast Solvers for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations Based on Spectral and High-Order Methods
(2020-09-11)This thesis develops numerical methods for the solution of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), all focused on delivering high-order accuracy with low computational complexity. Three algorithms for solving ...