Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Biosensor Platforms for Molecular Analyses of Circulating Cancer Biomarkers
(2013-10-15)Solid cancers often shed (sub)cellular materials into the circulation, such as circulating tumor cells and extracellular microvesicles. Mounting evidence supports that these circulating materials could serve as surrogate ... -
Birdie or Bogey? How Golf Course Construction Affects Surrounding Home Values
(2023-06-30)When asked to think about the how building a golf course can affect a commu- nity, many people’s first thought may jump to the environmental impacts that such construction has on the surrounding area. However, the economic ... -
Birds of a Feather: Patterns, Heuristics, and Constraints of Cross-Boundary Marriage Sorting
(2017-05-13)I examine of the patterns, heuristics, and constraints of contemporary marriage sorting across various social boundaries and the resulting implications for understanding social openness and closure. Using a combination of ... -
Birth Matters: Examining Contextual Risk and Protective Factors for Maternal Postpartum Depression
(2023-06-01)The transition into motherhood can be a challenging time for many women as they traverse the vast physical, social, and emotional changes that occur during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Postpartum depression ... -
Bistability in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(2013-10-08)The opportunistic pathogen P. aeruginosa is a leading cause of hospital-accquired infections, and is also the primary cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). In this thesis, I describe the ... -
Bistable dynamics in microbial ecology and systems biology
(2016-05-04)Bistability, in which a system has two stable states, is a common property of many dynamic systems. This thesis explores the properties of such systems across a range of length scales, from gene circuits to ecosystems. ... -
Black and Indigenous Entanglements: Race, Mobilization and Citizenship in Colombia, 1930-1991
(2021-09-08)Historically, black and indigenous Colombians have been studied separately and through different disciplinary prisms. Whereas indigenous people have been the subject of anthropology and studied through the lenses of culture ... -
Black Hole Accretion Disks and Jets: Connecting Simulations and Theory
(2013-09-25)In recent years, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations have produced more realistic models for black hole disks and jets. However the complexity of the simulations has created a disconnect between ... -
Black Musics, African Lives, and the National Imagination in Modern Israel
(2015-05-20)“Black Musics, African Lives, and the National Imagination in Modern Israel,” explores the forms and functions of African and Afro-diasporic musics amidst heated public debate around ethnic identity and national membership. ... -
Black Notes on Asia: Composite Figurations of Asia in the African American Transcultural Imagination, 1923-2013
(2014-02-25)Black Notes on Asia: Composite Figurations of Asia in the African American Transcultural Imagination, 1923-2013 sheds new light on the hitherto neglected engagements of African American writers and thinkers with various ... -
A Black Presence Disclosed in Absence: The Politics of Difference in Contemporary Art
(2013-02-25)As an interdisciplinary project that integrates African and African American Studies, critical race theory, and Art History, this dissertation attempts to enrich our understanding of the politics of difference in contemporary ... -
Black, Boricua and Online: Afro-Puerto Rican Feminist Movement Building Online and on the Island
(2022-06-06)Black, Boricua and Online: Afro-Puerto Rican Feminist Movement Building Online and on the Island follows the on and offline works of contemporary Black Puerto Rican feminist movements and movement builders that center ... -
Black, White, and Red: Race and the Making of the Mormon People, 1830-1880
(2015-04-01)This dissertation uses the histories and doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) as case studies to consider how nineteenth-century Americans turned to religion to solve the early American ... -
Blind to Their Blindness: A History of the Denial of Illness
(2014-06-06)For many historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of medicine, "disease" and "illness" are not equivalent. Whereas "disease" denotes the physician's ostensibly objective criteria, "illness" emphasizes the patient's ... -
Blocked Algorithms for Neural Networks: Design and Implementation on GPUs
(2020-10-06)The recent emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for machine learning has been largely enabled by the widespread availability of massively parallel computing devices. In particular, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) ... -
Blood and Treasure: Money and Military Force in Irregular Warfare
(2013-03-15)Among the most important choices made by groups fighting a civil war -- governments and rebels alike -- is how to allocate available military and pecuniary resources across the contested areas of a conflict-ridden territory. ... -
Blueprints for Smell: Defining the Architecture of the Necklace Olfactory System
(2016-09-14)Animals must extract salient information from complex environments in order to generate adaptive behaviors. Mice have evolved multiple olfactory subsystems that enable detection and discrimination of a vast range of chemical ... -
Blueswarm: 3D Self-organization in a Fish-inspired Robot Swarm
(2021-07-12)Animals team up to collectively address challenges they could not overcome individually. Several species self-organize into large groups to leverage vital behaviors such as foraging, construction, or predator evasion. Ants, ... -
Bodies of Books: Literary Illustration in Twentieth Century Brazil
(2017-01-26)This dissertation explores the nature and role of literary illustrations twentieth century Brazil, not just in relation to their companion texts, but also in what ways they reflect defining characteristics of Brazilian ...