Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Macaque Ventral Visual Responses to Diverse Stimuli and during Natural Vision
(2023-01-17)Studies of vision in the primate brain must contend with a gap between reductionist experiments and the rich context of natural behaviors. I explored the selectivity of macaque ventral visual neurons within a broad stimulus ... -
Machine Gun Politics: Why Politicians Cooperate with Criminal Groups
(2022-11-23)Why would a politician collude with a criminal group? Conventional wisdom generally depicts politicians as either passive recipients of bribes or the targets of criminal violence, even when interacting cooperatively. In ... -
Machine Learning Bayesian Force Fields and Applications to Phase Transformations
(2023-11-21)This thesis develops machine learning Bayesian force fields for efficient and accurate molecular dynamics simulations of materials. The Gaussian process regression model provides uncertainty quantification, enabling Bayesian ... -
Machine Learning for Automated Planning
(2022-05-23)Automated planning is a long-standing problem which concerns finding an action sequence to solve a task. In this thesis, we explore two problems in leveraging machine learning for automated planning: (1) learning from ... -
Machine Learning for Flavor Development
Currently, most flavor development is performed by chemists who experimentally iterate many times to find flavors that best fit specified requirements. In this study, three potential algorithms for automating and accelerating ... -
Machine Learning for Humans: Building Models that Adapt to Behavior
(2021-09-09)As machine learning continues to exhibit remarkable performance across a wide range of experimental tasks, there is an increasing enthusiasm to deploy these models in the real world. However, the traditional supervised ... -
Machine Learning for Machines: Data-Driven Performance Tuning at Runtime Using Sparse Coding
(2015-01-21)We develop methods for adjusting device configurations to runtime conditions based on system-state predictions. Our approach statistically models performance data collected by either actively probing conditions such as ... -
Machine Learning in the Browser
(2017-07-14)The past decade has seen the rise of rich, dynamic Web applications, and it has also seen the popularization of machine learning. Despite this, we have not seen web applications that evaluate machine learning models in the ... -
Machine Learning-Aided Economic Design
(2021-05-12)Nowadays, online markets (e.g. online advertising market and online two-sided markets) grow larger and larger everyday. Designing an efficient and near-optimal market is an intricate task. Market designers are facing ... -
Machine-guided design and evolution of biological systems: from the protein to the genome scale
(2018-05-11)Evolution has shown that mutation and selection over billions of years can produce complex molecules and organisms that thrive in a diverse range of environments. As biological engineers, we would like to systematize the ... -
Macrocyclic Stereocontrol in Organic Synthesis: I. Efforts toward the Synthesis of (-)-Tetracycline II. Analysis of the Peripheral Attack Model
(2012-10-23)I. Efforts Toward the Synthesis of (–)-Tetracycline. A macrocyclic approach toward (–)-tetracycline is described. Traditional approaches towards the synthesis of tetracycline antibiotics employ the linear construction of ... -
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Microeconomic Phenomena in the Housing and Labor Markets
(2014-06-06)This dissertation consists of three independent chapters, each of which use microeconomic data and methods to inform an analysis of macroeconomic models and questions. The first two chapters study the short-run dynamics ... -
Macromolecule Delivery into Mammalian Cells Using Supercharged Proteins
(2013-02-22)Delivery of macromolecules into mammalian cells in vitro and in vivo has enabled new areas of research and offers the potential for powerful new treatment options. Recent research has generated many delivery platforms but ... -
Macrorealism: Fiction for a Networked World
(2013-10-15)Victorian novels were, generally speaking, big. But what forms did their bigness take? Why did a "macro" aesthetic prevail in the mid-nineteenth century? And why, after losing influence in the following century, has it ... -
Magic Connections: German News Agencies and Global News Networks, 1905-1945
(2013-02-20)A Nazi news editor declared in 1934 that there were indefinable "magic connections" between news and politics. This dissertation demystifies those links between communications and society. An untold story of news networks ... -
Magic Constructivism: Desiderata of a Musical Practice
(2016-05-17)This dissertation collects the scores to eight recent works: L’archipel du corps (2011) for flute, guitar, accordion and percussion; Traiettorie inargentate (2013) for cello; Krummzeit (2014) for seven players; Ins Wasser ... -
Magnetic Field Sensing with Nitrogen-Vacancy Color Centers in Diamond
(2013-09-18)In recent years, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center has emerged as a promising magnetic sensor capable of measuring magnetic fields with high sensitivity and spatial resolution under ambient conditions. This combination of ... -
Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds
(2013-02-25)This thesis is an observational investigation into the origin of large-scale coherent magnetic fields in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. I use Faraday rotation measure of both polarized extragalactic sources and ... -
Magnetic Influences on the Solar Wind
(2016-05-12)The steady, supersonic outflow from the Sun we call the solar wind was first posited in the 1950s and initial theories rightly linked the acceleration of the wind to the existence of the million-degree solar corona. Still ...