Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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An Archaeology of Settler Capitalism: Industrialization, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Shell Beads between New Jersey and the Plains, 1750–1900 CE
(2021-04-26)Indigenous artisans of Northeast North America have produced shell beads for thousands of years, including wampum, best known for its place in the 17th century fur trade. By the mid-18th century, Euro-American settlers ... -
An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Predictors and Outcomes of Absenteeism in the Early Years
(2022-09-08)Preschool absenteeism rates are high. Children with higher absenteeism rates perform worse on assessments of literacy, math, and social-emotional skills by the end of a school year and are more likely to be absent in ... -
An Ecological Framework to Support Dual Language Learners in US Preschool Classrooms
(2022-05-10)One-third of U.S-based preschool-aged children speak one or more languages other than English at home. These Dual Language Learners (DLLs) especially benefit from high quality early childhood, and it is now widely acknowledged ... -
An Electronic Health Record Interface for Clinician Use in Inpatient Settings During Rounds
(2018-06-29)In inpatient settings, clinicians visit their patients during morning rounds to go over recent results, patient state, and upcoming plans and goals for the patient’s stay in the hospital. Current electronic health record ... -
An Embodied History of Math and Logic in Russian-speaking Eurasia
(2021-05-14)This dissertation is about logical pluralism, addressed through challenges to logical binarism (true/false), as well as to the binarism that logic itself holds in relation to embodied ways of knowing. The research is ... -
An Exploration of Two-Party Reconciliation Problems
(2018-08-31)This thesis explores various two-party reconciliation problems from a theoretical perspective. We define a reconciliation problem to be one in which Alice and Bob each have some data, and their data is in some problem ... -
AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEMS
(2022-05-23)Reaction-diffusion models play an important role in explaining many physical phenomena. This thesis represents an exploratory analysis of reaction-diffusion systems, ranging from the mathematical theory to modern-day ... -
An Extension of the Kazhdan-Lusztig Equivalence
(2022-05-03)We establish an equivalence between the DG category of Iwahori–integrable affine Lie algebra representations and the DG category of representations of the “mixed” quantum group, thus confirming a conjecture made by D. ... -
An Improved Charged Particle Track Reconstruction Algorithm for the Micromegas Detectors of the New Small Wheel for the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
(2021-06-04)The forthcoming High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider upgrade brings potential for the discovery of new physics. However, the HL-LHC also brings new technological challenges as the Collider increases its luminosity beyond ... -
An Improved Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment
(2022-09-02)A single isolated electron in a Penning trap yields a new measurement of the electron magnetic moment g/2 = 1.001 159 652 180 59 (13). Combined with the Standard Model calculation, this yields an independent determination ... -
An injectable, spontaneously assembling biomaterial-based cancer vaccine platform
(2017-09-07)Cancer immunotherapy has the potential to provide a cure for many patients. Therapeutic cancer vaccination can stimulate the immune system to eradicate tumor cells while sparing normal tissues, and establish long-term ... -
An inordinate fondness for slugs: Phylogenomics of the diverse gastropod clade Heterobranchia, a group key to our understanding of the evolution of shell reduction and loss
(2022-03-17)Gastropods are exquisitely successful organisms, their shell undoubtedly playing a key role in their success. Despite being such an effective defense mechanism, the gastropod shell has been reduced, lost or internalized ... -
An integrated chemogenomic approach exploring and exploiting prolyl-tRNA synthetase as target for next-generation malaria and cancer therapies
(2022-11-23)Malaria is an infectious disease caused by Plasmodium parasites and remains one of the world’s most pressing public health challenges with nearly half of the world’s population at risk, causing over 200 million cases and ... -
An Integrated Diamond Nanophotonics Platform for Quantum Optics
(2018-05-11)Efficient interfaces between optical photons and quantum bits are fundamental building blocks for quantum networks and large-scale quantum computers. We demonstrate an integrated platform for scalable quantum optics based ... -
An Inverse Statistical Physics Method for Biological Sequence Analysis
(2021-05-13)Comparative sequence analysis is a robust tool for determining whether a new biological sequence of unknown function is evolutionarily related, or homologous, to pre-observed sequences or families of sequences. It is common ... -
An Investigation into the Peshitta of Isaiah
(2020-11-19)Through a careful study of P-Isaiah, specifically focusing on several important aspects of the translational text: the status of its Vorlage, its dependence on other ancient versions and books, notably the LXX and the NT ... -
An Update to the Boston EEG Automated Processing Pipeline Kalman Detrend Step and an Examination of Mu Suppression
(2017-07-14)When analyzing electroencephalography (EEG) data, noise must be removed from the observed signal in order to parse out the "true" EEG signal. The Kalman detrend step within the Boston EEG Automated Processing Pipeline ... -
The anaerobic oxidation of short-chain alkanes in hydrothermal vents
(2014-06-06)Microorganisms are central to the cycling of methane on Earth. The anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is a globally important process in anoxic marine sediments, which is often coupled to the reduction of sulfate by ... -
Analysis of Some PDEs over Manifolds
(2013-02-14)In this dissertation I discuss and investigate the analytic aspect of several elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations arising from Rimannian and complex geometry, including the generalized Ricci flow, Gaussian ...