Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Habits of thought: Model-free reinforcement learning over cognitive operations
(2022-05-12)People often persist in doing things that they know intellectually are no longer good for them. They mindlessly take their usual route to work, even though they know it's closed for construction, or reach for their morning ... -
Habitus of the Minor: The Visuality of Inner Asians in Modern China (1930s-2010s)
(2023-06-01)The indigenous peoples inhabiting the Inner Asian regions of the Tibetan Plateau, the Mongol steppes, and Chinese Turkestan experienced the last century in a highly condensed historical trajectory. They emerged from a ... -
Hafumbukū: A Text Recognition Model for the Manchu Script
(2023-06-30)We develop a text recognition model for Manchu. -
Halofuginone: A Story of How Target Identification of an Ancient Chinese Medicine and Multi-Step Evolution Informs Malaria Drug Discovery
(2014-06-06)Malaria is a treatable communicable disease yet remains a common cause of death and disease especially among pregnant women and children. Most of malaria's worldwide burden disproportionately lies in Southeast Asia and ... -
Hap: Uncertainty and the English Novel
(2015-05-16)This dissertation explores how nineteenth-century novelists envisioned thinking, judging, and acting in conditions of imperfect knowledge. I place novels against historical developments in mathematics, philosophy, psychology, ... -
Happiness from the Bottom Up
(2013-02-15)This dissertation presents three papers organized around a central theme: understanding happiness from the bottom up, in the context of everyday life. The first paper asks whether, in the course of daily activities, people ... -
Hardness of Lattice Problems for Use in Cryptography
(2016-06-21)Lattice based cryptography has recently become extremely popular due to its perceived resistance to quantum attacks and the many amazing and useful cryptographic primitives that can be constructed via lattices. The security ... -
Hardware-Software Codesign for High-Performance Cloud Networks
(2020-10-09)The cloud is part of the daily life of billions of people and is carrying most of the computation happening on the planet. To deliver the hyper computing power, the network plays a core role in connecting hundreds of ... -
Harnessing Advances in Genomics and Molecular Genetics to Inform Understanding of P. vivax Epidemiology, Evolution, and Drug Resistance
(2022-04-28)Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum are two parasites that cause most malaria cases worldwide. P. vivax is chronically understudied compared to P. falciparum, and significant aspects of its biology remain a mystery. ... -
Harnessing antibiotic metabolic dependence to design therapies for tolerance and persistence with improved efficacy and safety
(2022-05-04)Chronic and recurrent bacterial infections are a cause of debilitating disease that can progress for years and are a burden on healthcare systems. Infection relapse is thought to be due to incomplete clearance of the ... -
Harnessing Calcium Signaling in Dendritic Cells - A Potential Approach to Modulate the Immune Response In Vivo for Immunotherapy
(2013-10-08)Over the past several decades, our understanding of the immune system has advanced considerably. With it, an appreciation for its role in a number of diseases, such as cancer and infection has significantly grown. While ... -
Harnessing CRISPR-Cas systems for maximally active and multiplexed viral detection
(2022-11-23)Originally discovered as a mechanism for prokaryotes to defend themselves against invading viruses and plasmids, the clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas systems have since been repurposed ... -
Harnessing Evolutionary Fitness in Plasmodium falciparum for Drug Discovery and Suppressing Resistance
(2013-10-18)Malaria is a preventable and treatable disease caused by infection with Plasmodium parasites. Complex socioeconomic and political factors limit access to vector control and antimalarial drugs, and an estimated 600,000 ... -
Harnessing non-specialist providers to promote social-emotional learning for youths in summer camp: Findings from two pilot studies
(2023-09-08)Despite substantial efforts to address youth mental health challenges, overall rates of youth mental illness persist, especially among racial and ethnic minority youths. This problem is exacerbated by limited access to ... -
Hatred and the Eighteenth-Century Writer in Britain
(2022-05-11)Building on literary and historical work on emotions, this dissertation offers a new history of eighteenth-century feeling. Working across genres to reconstruct how writers from Alexander Pope to Frances Burney experienced ... -
Hawthorne’s Magnalia: Retelling Cotton Mather in the Provincial Tales
(2016-10-19)This dissertation is a study of Hawthorne’s early development as a historical writer. The introduction attempts to reconstruct Hawthorne’s lost “Provincial Tales” sequence using letters and borrowing records. I argue ... -
Heads or Tails? Regulation of Wnt signaling and axial identity establishment during whole-body regeneration in the acoel worm Hofstenia miamia
(2020-10-06)Whole-body regeneration relies on the re-establishment of body axes for correct patterning of tissue outgrowth. Wnt signaling is utilized to correctly regenerate tissues along the primary axis in many animals, including ... -
Healing and Harming: The "Noble Profession" of Medicine in Post-Independence India, 1947-2015
(2022-05-12)This dissertation, based on archival research in Marathi, English, and Hindi, explores the history of people’s perceptions of and experiences with biomedical doctors in post-independence India. I analyze and historicize a ... -
Health Care on the Border: Professional Caregiving, Universal Health Security, and Tuberculosis Control in Thailand and Its Border With Myanmar
(2018-05-13)This dissertation is an ethnography of caregiving and bureaucracy. It examines professionals’ practice of caregiving in the context of the two global health movements—the expansion of universal health coverage (UHC) and ... -
Health Care Quality Revealed in Hospital and Physician Behavior
(2023-03-14)Improving the quality of care is a major objective of health care systems, yet its determinants remain poorly understood. Across three quasi-experimental studies, this dissertation examines how health care quality is ...