Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Culturally Relevant Teaching and Curriculum Building in White Social Studies Teachers
(2022-05-09)This dissertation makes a significant contribution to the literature for several reasons. In paper one, I argue that learning a set of useful concrete practices, in addition to CRP mindsets, can help White scholars and ... -
Culture of Disobedience: Rebellion and Defiance in the Japanese Army, 1860-1931
(2015-05-14)Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for following their superiors to certain death. Their enemies in the Pacific War perceived their obedience as blind, and derided them as “cattle”. Yet the Japanese Army was arguably ... -
A Culture of Objects: Italy's Quest for Modernity (1878-1922)
(2013-02-21)This study focuses on Italy's transition to industrial modernity (in the years from the end of the Risorgimento to the rise of Fascism) from the perspective of some of its iconic objects: wristwatches, bicycles, cigarettes, ... -
Cumulative Dynamics and Strategic Assessment: U.S. Military Decision Making in Iraq, Vietnam, and the American Indian Wars
(2013-09-18)This dissertation examines why military decision makers struggle to evaluate their policies and why they often stick to unsuccessful strategies for so long. The core argument is that strategic assessment involves genuine ... -
Cumulative effect of multi-exposures on complex traits and diseases: derivation and applications of the polyexposure risk score
(2022-05-12)Human diseases and traits are influenced by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Genetic risk scores, which reflect the aggregate genetic predisposition from many markers across the genome, are being developed ... -
Cut and Paste: The Mobile Image From Watteau to Robert
(2016-05-16)This dissertation takes a mode of production — cutting-and-pasting in its most literal and more abstract forms — as a tool for thinking anew about eighteenth-century French art and visual culture in two key ways. The first ... -
Cutaneous Biology and Endogenous Opioids: How the Skin Modulates Pain and Addiction
(2014-02-25)The Proopiomelanocortin gene, (POMC), produces many biologically active peptides including the endogenous opioid, β-endorphin, and the melanocortins: α-Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone, (αMSH), γMSH, ... -
Cutaneous Papillomavirus E6 Inhibit NOTCH and TGF-Beta Signaling to Disrupt Keratinocyte Differentiation.
(2017-01-19)Cutaneous beta-papillomaviruses are associated with non-melanoma skin cancers that arise in patients who suffer from a rare genetic disorder, Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis or after immunosuppression following organ ... -
Cyanobacteria and Friends: Engineered Photosynthetic Microbial Communities
(2017-02-10)Microbial communities are the rule rather than the exception. Laboratories using model organisms often focus on monoclonal, axenic cultures overlooking the importance of the interactions, division of labor, and robustness ... -
Cyclophilin Selective Inhibitors Discovered and Developed from a DNA-Templated Library
(2022-06-06)DNA-encoded libraries (DELs) are a powerful method for small molecule discovery, allowing for rapid, pooled screening of 105-1012 compounds in a single vessel, and have led to a multitude of novel ligands for biologically ... -
Cytoprotective Pathways that Contribute to Lifespan Extension in C. elegans
(2013-02-11)Stress tolerance and lifespan are intimately associated. Extension of lifespan is accompanied by increased tolerance of heat, oxidative stress, radiation and other stressors, while genetic perturbations that abrogate ... -
C–H Functionalization Catalysis via Transition Metal Stabilized Ligand-Based Radicals
(2021-04-23)Two catalytic systems exploiting the capability of introducing functionalities into C–H bonds using transition metal stabilized ligand-based radicals were explored. The first system utilizes sterically accessible bidentate ... -
D,L-Cyclic Peptides as Structural Materials
(2015-04-17)The bioengineer has a choice of building with proteins, peptides, polymers, nucleic acids, lipids, metals and minerals, each class containing tremendous diversity within its category. While the platforms are diverse, they ... -
D-instantons and String Field Theory
(2023-05-12)In this thesis, we study D-instanton contributions to supergraviton scattering amplitudes in ten-dimensional type IIB superstring theory beyond the leading non-perturbative order. Our computation is based on the ... -
D-Modules on Spaces of Rational Maps and on Other Generic Data
(2012-12-13)Fix an algebraic curve X. We study the problem of parametrizing geometric data over X, which is only generically defined. E.g., parametrizing generically defined maps from X to a fixed target scheme Y. There are three methods ... -
Dance - Image - Text: Aleksei Remizov’s Poetics of Rewriting
(2022-05-17)This dissertation addresses itself to the enigma of Aleksei Remizov (1877-1957) as a highly original writer of “literature in the second degree.” The key to the work of this archaic modernist lies, I argue, in the idea of ... -
Dance and Instrumental Music in America, 1770-1830: Sources, Repertoire, and Origins
(2016-09-06)This dissertation examines roughly 100 manuscript sources of American instrumental music from roughly 1770-1830, along with related printed and British sources. It proposes different ways of organizing and viewing the ... -
Danger Ahead: The Reach-for-Yield Behavioral Transmission Mechanism Across Risky Assets
(2016-07-06)This paper argues for the existence of a reach-for-yield behavioral transmission mechanism which, during low-interest rate periods, drives a higher willingness to pay for dividend yield in various yield assets like high-yield ... -
Dangerous Encounters: Riots, Railways, and the Politics of Difference in French Public Space (1860-2012)
(2013-09-26)This dissertation builds a socio-cultural biography of Paris's Gare du Nord, Europe's largest railway station, from its transnational aims to connect Europe in the nineteenth century, to early twentieth century strikes, ... -
Dante’s “ultimo lavoro”: History, Self, and the Rebirth of the Pastoral in Italy
(2023-05-12)In the second half of 1319, the Bolognese scholar and poet Giovanni del Virgilio composes and sends to Dante, who at the time is residing in Ravenna at the court of Guido Novello da Polenta, a metrical epistle inviting him ...