Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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From Erdos-Renyi to Achlioptas: The Birth of a Giant
(2018-06-29)In this paper, I give an exposition on the emergence of the giant component, the sudden appearance of a component of order Θ(n) beyond a critical threshold in random graph processes. Drawing from the language of statistical ... -
From estimand selection to adaptive and robust estimation for causal inference: applications in clinical epidemiology
(2022-09-06)In causal inference research, subtle differences in the choice of estimand can have major implications for identifiability and interpretation. When observational data is used to estimate the chosen causal effect, an adaptive ... -
From Hopping to Ballistic Transport in Graphene-Based Electronic Devices
(2013-10-08)This thesis describes electronic transport experiments in graphene from the hopping to the ballistic regime. The first experiment studies dual-gated bilayer graphene devices. By applying an electric field with these dual ... -
From Idea to Product - Translating Knowledge between the Lab and the Clinic
(2012-09-12)This dissertation is composed of three essays looking at innovation at Academic Medical Centers. It tries to empirically explore the problem of translating knowledge from the laboratory bench to the clinic and from the ... -
From Insurgent to Incumbent: State Building and Service Provision After Rebel Victory in Civil Wars
(2018-05-14)How do rebel organizations govern when they gain control of an internationally recognized state? I advance an organization-level theory, arguing that ideology affects recruitment, socialization of fighters and followers, ... -
From Memory to Mastery: Accounting for Control in America, 1750-1880
(2013-02-11)From Memory to Mastery charts the development of commercial numeracy and accounting in America and the English-speaking Atlantic world between 1750 and 1880. Over this period, accounting evolved from a system of recordkeeping ... -
From Neural Stem Cells to Children: Secreted Phosphoprotein 1 in Lead Neurotoxicity
(2015-05-14)Lead (Pb) exposure in the earliest stages of neurodevelopment leads to lasting deficits in cognitive function and behavior. Neural stem cells (NSCs) are multipotent stem cells and the first cells of the central nervous ... -
From nucleus to axon: Spatial regulation of bclw mRNA promotes neurotrophin-dependent axon survival
(2015-05-07)During development, dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons depend on target-derived neurotrophins to establish a functional circuit capable of conveying sensory information to the central nervous system. Neurotrophins signal ... -
From Petrov-Einstein to Navier-Stokes
(2014-06-06)The fluid/gravity correspondence relates solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation to metrics which solve the Einstein equations. We propose propose two possible approaches to establish this correspondence: ... -
From Police Power to Policed Schools: Racial Ideologies, Urban Schooling, and the Carceral Landscape of Chicago, 1888 - 1920
(2023-05-15)In contemporary discourse about the relationship between schools and the criminal legal system (generally referred to as the school-to-prison pipeline), a bright line is often drawn between the nurturing, supportive school ... -
From Probes to Therapeutics: Chemical Biology Studies of Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) and Cereblon
(2020-01-22)Although there is still discussion surrounding the exact definition of the field, chemical biology is generally described as the development and deployment of a chemical toolbox to manipulate biological systems. The two ... -
From Program to Practice: Unpacking the Impacts of Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators
(2020-09-10)Despite increasing demands for high-quality early childhood education programs, programmatic quality across the United States’ broad early education sector remains inconsistent. To encourage early educators to implement ... -
From Protest to Rebellion? Institutions and Protest Escalation in Autocracies.
(2015-09-22)Major exogenous shocks, which increase the vulnerability of autocratic regimes, present a unique opportunity for citizens to rebel against their hegemons. Yet in practice, we observe significant variation in protest ... -
From Reform to Revolution: the Transformation of Cuba’s Education System, 1959–62
(2016-09-21)This thesis examines the transformation of Cuba’s educational system from 1959 to 1962 as a case study for the limits of liberal reforms during the Cold War. It explores the birth of the revolutionary state and society, ... -
From Rings to Smoke: the quest to uncover a mechanism of turbulence
(2021-04-01)The equations of motion that govern the dynamics of fluid flows--the Navier-Stokes equations--were formulated nearly two centuries ago. In that time, we have made immense advancements in the ways that we understand these ... -
From Siraf to Sumatra: Seafaring and Spices in the Islamicate Indo-Pacific, Ninth-Eleventh Centuries C.E.
(2013-10-08)This dissertation is a study of early Islamicate commerce in natural luxuries of the tropical Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Rim, such as spices, ambergris and pearls, between the ninth and eleventh centuries C.E. I ... -
From Social Data to Neural Networks: Robust Decision-Making in Machine Learning
(2021-09-13)In this thesis we develop algorithms to control and understand the behavior of a system despite erroneous, noisy or otherwise problematic input. In our first line of work, we focus on the decision-making for social data ... -
From Stars to Galaxies: Unveiling Their Properties, Connection, and Evolution With Next Generation Stellar Models
(2018-05-11)Many areas of astrophysics spanning orders of magnitudes in physical scales—from exoplanets to high-redshift galaxies—are deeply rooted in our interpretation of light emitted by stars. Thus the importance of a well-tested ... -
From the Brothel, to the Body: The Relocation of Male Sexuality in Japan's Prostitution Debate, 1870-1920
(2012-10-23)This dissertation argues that the Japanese debate over prostitution regulation between the 1870s and the 1910s saw a fundamental shift in the construction of male sexuality as a political tool. Before the turn of the century ... -
From the House to the Street: Sex Workers and Domestic Laborers in Brazil's Democratic Transition
(2023-05-09)This dissertation intervenes in debates about grassroots feminism and Brazilian re- democratization in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, contending that poor women of color, mobilizing around their rights as workers and citizens, ...