Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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D,L-Cyclic Peptides as Structural Materials
(2015-04-17)The bioengineer has a choice of building with proteins, peptides, polymers, nucleic acids, lipids, metals and minerals, each class containing tremendous diversity within its category. While the platforms are diverse, they ... -
D-instantons and String Field Theory
(2023-05-12)In this thesis, we study D-instanton contributions to supergraviton scattering amplitudes in ten-dimensional type IIB superstring theory beyond the leading non-perturbative order. Our computation is based on the ... -
D-Modules on Spaces of Rational Maps and on Other Generic Data
(2012-12-13)Fix an algebraic curve X. We study the problem of parametrizing geometric data over X, which is only generically defined. E.g., parametrizing generically defined maps from X to a fixed target scheme Y. There are three methods ... -
Dance - Image - Text: Aleksei Remizov’s Poetics of Rewriting
(2022-05-17)This dissertation addresses itself to the enigma of Aleksei Remizov (1877-1957) as a highly original writer of “literature in the second degree.” The key to the work of this archaic modernist lies, I argue, in the idea of ... -
Dance and Instrumental Music in America, 1770-1830: Sources, Repertoire, and Origins
(2016-09-06)This dissertation examines roughly 100 manuscript sources of American instrumental music from roughly 1770-1830, along with related printed and British sources. It proposes different ways of organizing and viewing the ... -
Danger Ahead: The Reach-for-Yield Behavioral Transmission Mechanism Across Risky Assets
(2016-07-06)This paper argues for the existence of a reach-for-yield behavioral transmission mechanism which, during low-interest rate periods, drives a higher willingness to pay for dividend yield in various yield assets like high-yield ... -
Dangerous Encounters: Riots, Railways, and the Politics of Difference in French Public Space (1860-2012)
(2013-09-26)This dissertation builds a socio-cultural biography of Paris's Gare du Nord, Europe's largest railway station, from its transnational aims to connect Europe in the nineteenth century, to early twentieth century strikes, ... -
Dante’s “ultimo lavoro”: History, Self, and the Rebirth of the Pastoral in Italy
(2023-05-12)In the second half of 1319, the Bolognese scholar and poet Giovanni del Virgilio composes and sends to Dante, who at the time is residing in Ravenna at the court of Guido Novello da Polenta, a metrical epistle inviting him ... -
Dark and Light: Unifying the Origins of Dark and Visible Matter
(2012-07-23)The Standard Model of particle physics can account for neither the dark matter dominating the universe's matter density, nor the baryon asymmetry that leads to the visible matter density. This dissertation explores models ... -
Dark Begets Light: Exploring Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Cosmology
(2023-05-12)After nearly a century of inquiry, the particle nature of dark matter remains unknown. As a wide array of Dark Matter (DM) phenomenologies map onto similar variations in cosmological observ- ables, cosmology places ... -
Darkology: The Hidden History of Amateur Blackface Minstrelsy and the Making of Modern America, 1860-1970
(2016-05-16)Darkology: The Hidden History of Amateur Blackface Minstrelsy and the Making of Modern America, 1860-1970 develops a critical bibliography and uses material culture to uncover the pervasive world of amateur blackface ... -
Data Mining Chemistry and Crystal Structure
(2014-06-06)The availability of large amounts of data generated by high-throughput computing and experimentation has generated interest in the application of machine learning techniques to materials science. Machine learning of materials ... -
Data Procurement for Shortest Paths on Random Graphs
(2016-06-21)While Dijkstra's algorithm finds the shortest path between two nodes on a graph with known edge weights, we approach the shortest paths problem for graphs with random edge weights described by known probability distributions. ... -
Data-Centric Connectomics Segmentation
(2022-05-16)The field of connectomics aims to reconstruct the comprehensive connectivity maps of neurons in animal brains to build a structural foundation for neurodegenerative diseases and intelligence. High-resolution imaging ... -
Data-driven analysis of mitotic spindles
(2014-02-25)We have developed a method for automatic identification and tracing of microtubules in three dimensional electron tomography datasets. Additionally, we have developed a number of statistical techniques for working with ... -
Data-driven Predictive Control Optimization for Natural Ventilation in Buildings
(2021-07-12)Natural ventilation reflects an emphasis on self-control in architecture: it is a crucial aim in the creation of healthy, comfortable indoor environments with low energy consumption. The design of naturally ventilated ... -
DDI2 inhibition promotes MHC class I antigen presentation and immune checkpoint blockade efficacy in cancers
(2023-06-01)The landscape of cancer treatments has changed dramatically over the last ten years with the use of novel checkpoint blockade immunotherapy. Even though immune checkpoint inhibitors have produced favorable objective response ... -
De novo lumen formation in intrahepatic biliary development and cancer
(2021-09-13)The mammalian liver performs many essential functions, including the secretion of bile into the gut to emulsify lipids. Bile is passed from hepatocytes to the intestine through a complex system of branching tubes: the ... -
DEADEYE: Differential Expressivity As Dataset fairnEss/usabilitY Estimator
(2022-05-23)Over the past several years, significant research has gone into analyzing algorithmic fairness -- the problem of ensuring ML algorithms do not exhibit biases against protected groups. That research demonstrated that, given ... -
Dealing with Interference on Experimentation Platforms
(2018-09-16)The theory of causal inference, as formalized by the potential outcomes framework, relies on an assumption that the experimental units are independent. When independence is not tenable, we say there is interference, and ...