Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Imagining Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish, Roman and Byzantine Concepts of Space and Power in the Slavlands, c. 750-900
(2014-10-21)This dissertation offers a comparative cross-cultural investigation into the imagination of space in three sibling centers of civilization driving the formative expansion of Europe in the early Middle Ages: the Frankish ... -
Imagining the Garden: Childhood, Landscape, and Architecture in Early Pedagogy, 1761-1850
(2013-02-25)This dissertation examines childhood, education, and designed environments as interrelated concerns. It explores the ways in which, in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe, gardens and architecture were understood ... -
Immune Surveillance by Effector and Memory CD8+ T Cells
(2016-01-11)During priming, CD8+ T cells integrate a plethora of signals that affect their differentiation into subsets of CD8+ T cells with distinct migratory properties and functions. Given that CD8+ T cells exert their protective ... -
Immune surveillance: lessons from meningeal endothelial cells and bisphosphonates
(2022-03-17)Endothelial cells (ECs) line blood vessels throughout the body and are functionally specialized to sense and respond to signals in circulation. Therefore, these sentinel cells play critical roles in tissue immune surveillance ... -
Immunity to Chlamydia trachomatis and Host-Pathogen Interactions During Infection
(2014-02-25)Infections with the bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis are a critical public health problem. Chlamydia remains the number one cause of preventable blindness worldwide and the leading cause of bacterial sexually ... -
Immunomodulatory Pathways and Metabolism
(2013-03-14)Energy metabolism plays a vital role in normal physiology, adaptive responses and host defense mechanisms. Research throughout the last decade has shown evidence that immune pathways communicate with metabolic pathways to ... -
Immunoregulatory Roles of CD48 in Autoimmunity and Tolerance
(2015-05-04)CD48 is an adhesion and costimulatory molecule expressed constitutively on nearly all hematopoietic cells. Via interactions with its ligand CD2, it contributes to synapse organization between T cells and APCs, and can ... -
Impact of Climate Change on Fine Particulate Matter \((PM_{2.5})\) Air Quality
(2013-03-19)This dissertation investigates the impact of 2000-2050 climate change on fine particulate matter \((PM_{2.5})\) air quality. We first applied a multiple linear regression model to study the correlations of total \(PM_{2.5}\) ... -
Impact of Environmental Chemical Mixtures on Maternal and Child Mental Health
(2022-03-17)Background: Internalizing disorders, such as anxiety and depression, are of public health concern. The prevalence of these psychiatric illnesses has been increasing in recent decades, with vulnerable groups including ... -
Impact of Structural Alterations on the Cellular Functions and Interactions of O-GlcNAc Transferase
(2023-06-01)O-GlcNAc Transferase (OGT) is an essential mammalian glycosyltransferase that catalyzes O-GlcNAcylation of serine and threonine residues and cleavage of Host Cell Factor 1. Via these catalytic activities and participation ... -
Impact of the Microbiota on Intestinal Th17 Cells at Steady-State and in Autoimmune Disease
(2016-09-08)The gut microbiota is critical in shaping many facets of the host immune system, including the induction of intestinal T helper (Th) 17 cells. Changes in microbiota compositions have been associated with a variety of ... -
The Impact of Visual Cues on Judgment and Perceptions of Performance
(2013-02-08)No matter what domain, the judgment of performance occupies a key area of investment. Experts are trained and societal institutions are constructed to judge performance, and to identify, develop, and reward the highest ... -
Impacts of a Buyer of Last Resort in Equity Markets: Evidence from Japan
(2022-07-19)Since December 2010, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has unveiled an unprecedented form of quantitative easing, buying and holding large blocks of equity in domestic firms and in turn, becoming Japan's largest single owner of ... -
Impacts of Predictive Text on Writing Content
(2020-05-15)People are increasingly communicating using digital technologies, especially using written language. Many modern text entry systems include features that offer predictive suggestions of words and phrases. These features ... -
Imperial Crucible: Alcoa and the Transimperial History of American Capitalism, 1888-1953
(2022-07-18)Imperial Crucible tells the story of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) from the company’s founding in Pittsburgh in 1888 through to the 1950s. Although scholars have long contended that American multinational ... -
Imperial Doors of Assyria: Monumentality, Spatiality, and Rituality of the Neo-Assyrian Architectural Doors From Balawat
(2015-01-29)The present dissertation, titled "Imperial Doors of Assyria," aims to examine the artistic form and cultural value of Neo-Assyrian architectural doors as highlighted by the three concepts of monumentality, spatiality, and ... -
Imperial Schemes: Empire and the Rise of the British Business-State, 1914-1939
(2020-11-23)Imperial Schemes narrates how imperial knowledge and administrative expertise undergirded the expansion of the British state expansion in the early 20th century, particularly with regard to economic management and assistance ... -
Impersonal Intimacy: Relational Ethics and Self-Cultivation in a Transnational Chinese Buddhist Monastic Network
(2021-05-13)“Impersonal Intimacy: Relational Ethics and Self-Cultivation in a Transnational Chinese Buddhist Monastic Network,” is an ethnographic study of relational ethics in a contemporary Chinese Buddhist monastic organization, ... -
Implementation and Management of Information Technology in Health Care Delivery
(2021-07-12)Since the passage of the HITECH Act in 2009, the federal government has spent over $30 billion dollars in an effort to digitize the US health care delivery system. While electronic health records (EHRs) are now ubiquitous ... -
Implementing Adaptive Cuckoo Firewall for Programmable Switch
(2023-06-30)Stateful firewalls are a critical security function in many networks. To implement a faster stateful firewall using high-speed programmable switch and support a large number of connections, we need to avoid the memory ...