Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Indian Insanes: Lunacy in the 'Native' Asylums of Colonial India, 1858-1912
(2013-10-18)The new Government of India did not introduce legislation for `native' lunacy in colonial India as a measure of social control after the uprisings of 1857-8; discussions about Indian insanes had already occurred in 1856, ... -
Indians on the Move: Law, Borders, and Freedoms at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
(2021-05-14)Contemporary immigration and border controls in many White settler colonies can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when new patterns of Asian migration provoked nativist rage. In the United States, as in other settler ... -
Indignant Reading
(2013-09-18)In 1871, R. H. Hutton criticized George Eliot for "unfairly running down one of her own characters": Middlemarch's Rosamond Vincy. Hutton blamed Eliot for being cruel to her own creation and used his role as a reader and ... -
Indiscriminate Bodies: The Old French Fabliaux in Relation to Thirteenth-Century Medical and Religious Cultures
(2013-02-25)This dissertation examines representations of the body in the Old French fabliaux in order to elucidate these stories’ philosophy (or philosophies) of language and their relationship to religious, medical, and dietetic ... -
Individual and community consequences and responses to organized violence: The case of the Mexican ‘War on Organized Crime’
(2020-09-09)Living in violent places can have numerous and profound consequences for people, including diminished mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing. However, the consequences of violent environments have overwhelmingly been ... -
Individual Microbes Shape Various Parts of the Immune System
(2015-09-22)The gastrointestinal tract, home to a vast number of bacteria, requires finely-tuned regulatory and effector immune mechanisms to maintain homeostasis and tolerance. In a large-scale screen, we studied the impacts of single ... -
Indoor Environmental Quality of the Workspace and Employees’ Well-being
(2023-03-14)The relationship among environmental and social factors within the built environment and their influence on workers’ wellbeing is emerging as a new line of inquiry. Further, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, several ... -
Induction of Dendritic Cell Death by Chlamydia trachomatis
(2023-11-21)The lack of effective adaptive immunity against Chlamydia trachomatis leads to chronic or repeated infection and serious disease sequelae. Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen presenting cells crucial for the ... -
Induction of Mitotic Alterations by the Human Papillomavirus Type 16 E7 Oncoprotein: Mechanistic Studies
(2013-10-14)High-risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are causative agents of most cervical cancers and a significant portion of other anogenital tract and oral carcinomas. The major oncogenic activities of HPV16 E6 and E7 oncoproteins ... -
Inductive Learning and Theory Testing: Applications in Finance
(2015-05-06)This thesis explores the opportunities for economic research that arise from importing empirical methods from the field of machine learning. Chapter 1 applies inductive learning to cross-sectional asset pricing. Researchers ... -
Inefficient Moves: Art, Dance, and Queer Bodies in the 1960s
(2015-05-18)This dissertation examines the intersection of art, dance, and queer sociality though Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, and their lesser-known contemporary, Fred Herko, a dancer and choreographer. Traversing art history, dance ... -
Inelastic Collisions of Atomic Antimony, Aluminum, Erbium and Thulium below 1 K
(2012-11-15)Inelastic collision processes driven by anistropic interactions are investigated below 1 K. Three distinct experiments are presented. First, for the atomic species antimony (Sb), rapid relaxation is observed in collisions ... -
Inelastic collisions of atomic thorium and molecular thorium monoxide with cold helium-3
(2014-06-06)We measure inelastic cross sections for atomic thorium (Th) and molecular thorium monoxide (ThO) in collisions with $^3$He at temperatures near 1 K. We determine the Zeeman relaxation cross section for Th ($^3$F$_2$) to ... -
Infants' and toddlers' reasoning about others: Connections to prosocial development and language
(2014-10-21)Often overlooked in the study of theory of mind (ToM) development, the understanding of motivational states, such as goals and desires, is both an important capacity in its own right and also a likely precursor to more ... -
Infants' Understanding of Social Affiliation and Behavioral Conformity
(2013-03-06)This dissertation engages in two major hypotheses regarding infants' naïve theory of social relationships. First, it proposes that infants may apply a domain-specific understanding to represent and reason about social ... -
Infection Dynamics and Cell Type Specific Responses to Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Infection in the Mouse Brain
(2023-12-11)Viruses are excellent cell biologists. They can be harnessed to interrogate biological systems and co-opted as tools for therapeutic or research purposes. For a tool to operate best, it’s crucial to know how it functions ... -
Infectious Disease Modeling: Enhancing Epidemic Preparedness and Response
(2020-11-23)Recent outbreaks of Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19, among others, have shown how infectious diseases can decimate economies and destroy lives. Infectious disease models are important tools for preparing for, preventing, and ... -
Infectious Diseases and Economic Development
(2013-02-22)This dissertation contains three essays analyzing how disease (particularly communicable disease) and development interact. The first chapter explores how TseTse-transmitted Trypanosomiasis influenced African development. ... -
Inference and Prediction for High Dimensional Data via Penalized Regression and Kernel Machine Methods
(2012-08-06)Analysis of high dimensional data often seeks to identify a subset of important features and assess their effects on the outcome. Furthermore, the ultimate goal is often to build a prediction model with these features that ... -
Inference and Prediction Problems for Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data
(2015-05-17)This dissertation focuses on prediction and inference problems for complex spatiotemporal systems. I explore three specific problems in this area---motivated by real data examples---and discuss the theoretical motivations ...