Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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The Developmental Origins of Logical Inference: Deduction and Domain-Generality
(2016-09-15)Is there a fundamental divide between the types of thoughts that human adults can entertain and those available to infants and nonhuman animals? The research in this dissertation explores the developmental origins of ... -
Developmentally-Inspired Engineering Of An Inductive Biomaterial for Odontogenesis
(2014-06-06)Increasing demands for organ transplants and the depleting supply of available organs has heightened the need for alternatives to this growing problem. Tissue engineers strive to regenerate organs in the future; however ... -
Developments in Control Authority for Flapping-Wing Micro-Aerial Vehicles
(2022-06-06)Bio-inspired flight at the insect scale encourages aspirations of unmatched speed and agility. However, flapping-wing micro-aerial vehicles are subject to unique challenges in control, including constraints in computation, ... -
Developments in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Genome Engineering and in Situ Sequencing Technologies
(2015-05-19)Technology is a key driving force in the advancement of scientific discoveries. While DNA sequencing uncovered the blueprint of life encoded in the human genome, functional roles of sequence variants remain largely unknown. ... -
Developments of MERFISH for functional genomics and spatial epigenomics
(2022-06-06)The recent development of spatial omics methods, enables spatial profiling of transcriptome and 3D structure of genomes at a single-cell level. Expanding the repertoire of spatial omics tools, a spatial epigenomics method ... -
Device, Circuit, and Algorithm Co-Design for Efficient Neural Network Inference in Hardware
(2023-11-21)Artificial neural networks (ANN) using machine learning algorithms have achieved amazing performance in many artificial intelligent tasks. However, the hardware implementations of these ANNs are faced with two major ... -
Déjala Correr: The Sonic Infrastructure of Sociality on Colombia's Caribbean Coast
(2023-09-07)This dissertation centers on the city of Barranquilla, Colombia, located on the country's northern Caribbean Coast, and the musical technologies that are ubiquitous sites of entertainment, musical interest, and social ... -
Dharma in Common: Yuanzhao and the Resurgence of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval East Asia
(2021-11-16)This dissertation utilizes a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective to uncover how intellectual and material exchange between China and Japan led to monastic revival movements in both countries. Grounded in the ... -
Diachronic Poetics and Language History: Studies in Archaic Greek Poetry
(2013-02-12)The broad objective of this dissertation is an interdisciplinary study uniting historical linguistics, classical philology, and comparative poetics in an attempt to investigate archaic Greek poetic texts from a diachronic ... -
Diagnosing Prevailing Trends and Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 at the County-level
(2021-06-17)Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant amount of research on the dynamics of the disease and its unique effects on different locations. There remains a lot to learn about the spatial and ... -
Diagnosing Uncertainty: Cystic Fibrosis, Disease Definitions, and Diagnostic Challenges in Medicine
(2022-09-15)This dissertation examines why diagnostic uncertainty persists in medicine and the impact of such uncertainty on patients and families. Using cystic fibrosis (CF) as a case study, this work explores the unexpectedly complex ... -
Diagnostic Tools in Missing Data and Causal Inference on Time Series
(2018-05-16)This thesis is divided into two self-contained parts. The first part focuses on diagnostic tools for missing data. Models for analyzing multivariate data sets with missing values require strong, often unassessable, ... -
Diamond Based Optical Components for High Power Laser Applications
(2016-10-28)Diamond is a particularly attractive material for nanoscale technologies and bulk optics due to its exceptional material properties. Optically, diamond has a relatively high refractive index (2.4) and a wide bandgap of ... -
Diamond nanophotonic quantum networks
(2021-03-31)A coherent interface between optical photons and long-lived matter qubits can form the basis for a broad range of quantum technologies. I will describe the realization of such an interface using inversion-symmetric ... -
Diamond platforms for nanoscale photonics and metrology
(2014-06-06)Observing and controlling solid state quantum systems is an area of intense research in quantum science today. Such systems offer the natural advantage of being bound into a solid device, eliminating the need for laser ... -
The Dictator's Modernity Dilemma: Theory and Evidence From South Korea
(2016-05-18)Under what conditions are political institutions more or less effective at neutralizing opposition forces? To date, political scientists have generated conflicting evidence about the effects of economic development and ... -
Die poetische Struktur des Unbewussten Zur Verdichtung des psychologischen Vokabulars im langen 19. Jahrhundert
(2023-11-21)The following dissertation explores the evolution and transformation of psychological language and discourse throughout the long 19th century. The term "Verdichtung" stands central to the investigation, capturing dual ... -
Die Vermessung „Neu-Seellands“: Schreibweisen der Psychologien in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Jahrhundertwende
(2012-09-14)Focusing largely on the analysis of the representations of feelings and thoughts of literary characters or even the hidden “desires” of their authors, literary criticism for the most part has neglected to discuss the ... -
DIET, LIFESTYLE, AND CANCER: FROM PREVENTION TO SURVIVAL
(2022-11-23)According to the American Cancer Society, at least 42% of newly diagnosed cancers in the US in 2022 could potentially be prevented, including the 18% of all cancers caused by obesity, alcohol intake, poor nutrition, and ... -
Diet, Metabolomics, and Colorectal Cancer Risk
(2021-07-12)Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in 2020 globally. In the United States, although the estimated 2021 CRC incidence only ranks fourth among all cancers, ...