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What Drives Currency Revaluation Decisions?
(2016-06-22)
My thesis explores the problem of whether countries that chronically resist revaluations are ever vulnerable to speculative attacks the way countries that resist devaluations are. The theoretical model I introduce sheds ...
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. ...
Mapping Milky Way Dust in 3D With Stellar Photometry
(2016-05-18)
I present a three-dimensional map of interstellar dust reddening, covering three-quarters of the sky out to a distance of several kiloparsecs, based on Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS photometry. The map reveals a wealth of detailed ...
Dilemmas of Delegation: The Politics of Authority in International Courts
(2016-05-16)
One of the most enduring questions for the study of politics relates to what, if any, inde- pendent power international institutions have to affect the behavior of sovereign states. This dissertation addresses this question ...
Wide Tunability of Magnetron Sputtered Titanium Nitride and Titanium Oxynitride for Plasmonic Applications
(2016-05-17)
Transition metal nitrides have recently garnered much interest as alternative materials for robust plasmonic device architecture including potential applications in solar absorbers, photothermal medical therapy, and ...
Using Empirical Data to Evaluate Strategies to Improve Women's Health
(2016-05-16)
My three papers evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of clinical and policy strategies to improve women’s health, focusing on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in the U.S. and maternal health care in a ...
Active deformation over multiple earthquake cycles in the southern Junggar fold and-thrust belt, NW China and fractured reservoir characterization using 3D geomechanical restorations
(2016-05-19)
This dissertation investigates natural deformation processes over multiple earthquake cycles in the seismically active, southern Junggar basin, NW China and additionally explores the capabilities of 3D geomechanical ...
Contextual Modulation of Early Visual Processing and the Role of Cortico-Cortical Feedback
(2016-05-14)
How does the brain form a useful representation of its external environment from the astoundingly complex patterns of sensory signals it receives? This question has motivated the field of systems neuroscience for decades. ...
Contesting the Greek Past in Ninth-Century Baghdad
(2016-05-16)
From the eighth century through the tenth, the ‘Abbāsid capital of Baghdad witnessed the translation, in unprecedented numbers, of Greek philosophical, medical, and other scientific texts into Arabic, often via a Syriac ...
Defining the Essential Function of Yeast Hsf1 Reveals a Compact Transcriptional Program for Maintaining Eukaryotic Proteostasis
(2016-05-14)
Despite its eponymous association with proteotoxic stress, heat shock factor 1 (Hsf1 in yeast and HSF1 in mammals) is required for viability of yeast and many human cancer cells, yet its essential role remains undefined. ...