Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Magnetic Noise Sensing and Nanomechanical Transducers for Spin Qubits
(2019-02-27)Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers have shown great promise as magnetometers and as quantum information processors. NV centers have proven to be very well-isolated and extremely localized quantum systems that couple naturally ... -
Magnetic Spheres in Viscous Flows and at Interfaces: Sorting, Coating, and Interfacial Deformation
(2013-02-11)Magnetic microparticles are often used in laboratory settings for the separation of biological material. These microparticles can also be useful in microfluidic settings because of their small size and the possibility of ... -
Magnetic trapping of molecules via optical loading and magnetic slowing
(2014-02-25)This thesis demonstrates a new cooling and trap loading technique for molecules, leading to trapping of calcium monofluoride (CaF). -
Magnetically Responsive Biomaterials for Enhanced Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
(2015-05-19)Skeletal muscle comprises a large percentage of the human body mass and plays an essential role in locomotion, postural support, and breathing. Unfortunately, severe muscle injuries can lead to extensive and irreversible ... -
Magnetism, Reactivity and Metal Ion Lability in Trigonal Iron Clusters
(2012-09-12)Important reactions are catalyzed by enzymes employing polynuclear cofactors, often characterized by weak-field ligands and transition metal ions within the sum of the van der Waals radii. While the overall stoichiometries ... -
Makers and Creators: Human and Divine Artistry in Calderón
(2013-10-17)My dissertation examines concepts of creative agency in early modern thought and baroque poetics, with an emphasis on the theater of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681). Calderón and his contemporaries inherited from ... -
Making a Workforce, Unmaking a Working Class: The Creation of a Human Capital Society in Houston, 1900-1980
(2014-06-06)This dissertation explains how increased educational attainment became the most politically viable means of reducing economic inequality in the postwar United States. Using Houston as a case study, the dissertation argues ... -
Making an IMPACT: Designing and Testing a Novel Attentional Training Game to Reduce Social Anxiety
(2015-04-30)Development of novel candidate interventions to treat anxiety disorders is an important research priority, given the burden of these disorders, barriers to treatment access, and the promising but limited success of current ... -
Making Blackness, Making Policy
(2012-09-12)Too often the acknowledgment that race is a social construction ignores exactly how this construction occurs. By illuminating the way in which the category of blackness and black individuals are made, we can better see how ... -
Making Citizens of the Information Age: A Comparative Study of the First Computer Literacy Programs for Children in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union, 1970-1990
(2015-09-08)In this dissertation I trace the formation of citizens of the information age by comparing visions and practices to make children and the general public computer literate or cultured in the United States, France, and the ... -
Making Criminals: The Rhetoric of Criminality in Acts of the Apostles
(2021-11-16)The Acts of the Apostles writes criminals into existence. Acts, a second-century text that narrates the origins of the messiah movement or “the Way”—its term for Christ-followers—has often been read as a straightforward ... -
Making International Organizations Work: The Politics of Institutional Performance
(2018-01-19)International organizations (IOs) have emerged in recent decades as among the most important and influential actors in world politics. Surprisingly, however, we continue to know little about their performance – that is, ... -
Making IT work: Essays in health IT implementation and integration
(2023-06-01)This multi-method dissertation explores organizational factors that impact implementation and advanced use of health information technologies (IT). The vast majority of healthcare organizations in the U.S. have electronic ... -
Making Minds Modern: The Politics of Psychology in the British Empire, 1898-1970
(2013-03-08)This dissertation describes how innovations in the science of mind -- laboratory measurements, psychoanalysis, and mental testing -- changed the ideas and institutions of British imperialism. Psychology did not function ... -
Making Movement Sounds: The Cultural Organizing Behind the Freedom Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
(2017-09-07)Making Movement Sounds recovers the people, places, and ideas that shaped the freedom songs of the civil rights movement and the strategies for their frontlines use. Rather than locate the movement’s song repertoire within ... -
The Making of a National Cadastre (1763-1807): State Uniformization, Nature Valuation, and Organizational Change in France
(2014-10-21)How does a cadastre, one of the modern state's most omnipresent and yet self-effacing instruments of power over territory and people, become national? How are the processes of nation-state formation and the rise of modern ... -
Making of Scientific Whaling: Politics of Conservation, Science, and Culture in Japan
(2013-03-15)Whaling is one of the longstanding environmental controversies that has sharply divided perceptions and allegiances on a global scale. Despite the international moratorium on commercial whaling, Japan remains one of the ... -
The Making of the Microbial Body, 1900s-2012
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines how the relationship between microbes and the human body has been reconfigured over the course of the twentieth century and into the first decades of the twenty-first century. It presents a ... -
Making Peer Prediction Practical
(2016-07-13)My dissertation is on crowdsourcing---using crowds of people to accomplish tasks that are impractical or far more expensive otherwise. I focus specifically on crowdsourcing of information, where workers do tasks such as ... -
'Making People Happy, Not Making Happy People': A Defense of the Asymmetry Intuition in Population Ethics
(2014-10-21)This dissertation provides a defense of the normative intuition known as the Procreation Asymmetry, according to which there is a strong moral reason not to create a life that will foreseeably not be worth living, but there ...