Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Rabies Glycoprotein-Mediated Uptake Into Epithelial Cells and Compartmentalized Primary Neuronal Culture
(2015-09-29)Rabies virus (RABV) subverts host neuronal circuitry to gain access to the brain where it causes generally incurable, lethal encephalitis. The single glycoprotein (G) dictates two defining steps for infection and neuroinvasion: ... -
Race and Status Dynamics in the NBA
(2018-05-13)Sociologists have long been interested in racial inequality and status dynamics in groups and organizations. In this dissertation, I study these topics in the context of NBA basketball. The richness of the data, plus the ... -
Race, Coercion, and Liberation in American Political Development
(2020-09-14)Why do coercive institutions rise and fall? While this question receives vast attention in the comparative politics literature, Americanists have been slower to take up this question. This is surprising since the United ... -
Race, Party, and the Impact of Electoral Influence on Political Participation
(2013-10-08)The following study is comprised of three essays, each examining a different manner by which race and party impact political participation. Through the analysis of both intra-party primary and inter-party general elections, ... -
Race, Place, and the Politics of Urban Austerity in Michigan, 1970s-2010s
(2023-06-01)This dissertation consists of three papers concerning the development of urban austerity in the U.S. state of Michigan from the 1970s to the 2010s. The first paper, “‘They Ran that City Down’: Urban Austerity and the ... -
Race, Social Context, and Consumption: How Race Structures the Consumption Preferences and Practices of Middle and Working-Class Blacks
(2012-11-02)The contemporary experience of race in America demands that blacks become astute observers of their surroundings, required to read subtle social, interactional and environmental cues to determine how to appropriately engage ... -
Race, Sovereignty, and the Lineages of Federalism in South Asia, 1900-1950
(2024-04-29)The age of national self-determination, which conventionally establishes the system of post-imperial nation-states, begins with the founding of the League of Nations after the First World War. The development of responsible ... -
Racial disparities in the care of patients with advanced prostate cancer: an analysis of patient-reported outcome and experience measures
(2023-05-03)In the US, an estimated 120,000 individuals are living with advanced prostate cancer, defined as metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) or castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Black individuals ... -
Racism Lives Here: Leveraging Context and Place in the Conceptualization and Operationalization of Structural Racism in Health Research
(2022-03-17)Structural racism is defined as “… the macrolevel systems, social forces, institutions, ideologies, and processes that interact with one another to generate and reinforce inequities among racial and ethnic groups.” Though ... -
Radical Transport at the Subunit Interface of Ribonucleotide Reductase
(2024-05-09)Ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) catalyze the transformation of nucleoside 5´-di(tri)phosphates [(ND(T)Ps, where N is A, U, C, or G] to their corresponding dND(T)Ps. In the prototypical Escherichia coli class Ia enzyme, ... -
Rags to Riches: Occupation and Utility Transmission in the United States
(2016-06-22)This paper uses nationally representative survey data on income, occupation, and happiness from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the General Social Survey to show that occupation has significant effects on intergenerational ... -
Rakugo Humor: The Performance of Memory, Mime & Mockery in Urban Tokyo
(2016-02-12)This dissertation is based on the analysis of humor in rakugo, a traditional genre of comedic storytelling in Japan. This project tackles the question: How does highly structured rakugo humor contribute and shape the ... -
Ramping activity in the medial prefrontal cortex integrates time and rewards in opposing directions during patch foraging
(2022-03-17)As animals forage for food and water, a key decision they need to make is when to abandon a depleting resource to search elsewhere in the environment. The Marginal Value Theorem (MVT) provides a normative framework for ... -
Randau Ruai: Retelling Stories of an Iban Longhouse Community
(2022-05-12)The anthropological framing of indigenous communities in the global South has predominantly depicted indigenous experience in relation to structural forces and entities like colonialism, the nation-state, progress, development ... -
Randomized Institutional Isomorphism - Evidence from Afghanistan
(2013-02-22)The dissertation compiles a series of essays which describes effects of various institutional variations randomized across a sample of 500 villages in Afghanistan in 2007. The first essay examines the institutional effects ... -
Rank-Based Methods for Survival Data With Multiple Outcomes
(2015-08-27)In clinical studies of survival, additional endpoints on patients may be collected over the course of the study that give additional insight into a treatment's effect. We propose three methods to analyze right censored ... -
A Rapid Peak in Gamma Power Signals Critical Period Plasticity in the Developing Mouse Visual Cortex
(2015-09-01)Experience sculpts neural circuits during discrete windows of postnatal development termed critical periods. This process allows the brain to adapt to its environment and efficiently allocate resources. However, maladaptive ... -
Rapid-Deployment Protection for GPS-Denied Quadcopter Flight
(2022-06-03)Nano drones ( 1 kg) provide a safe and efficient way to perform inspections, gather data, and explore inaccessible spaces. These drones, such as the Parrot Anafi, are designed to fly outdoors with a GPS signal, however ... -
Rare-Earth-Doped Lasers on Silicon Photonics Platforms
(2018-08-17)Laser sources are of great interest due to their wide applications in detection, sensing, communication, material processing and medicine. Silicon photonics is a promising technology which enables these laser devices to ...