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Understanding and predicting temperature variability in the observational record
(2015-05-17)
Temperature variability and change over land and ocean exhibit characteristic spatial and temporal structures. Understanding the physical mechanisms underlying these structures provides information about the movement and ...
The Effect of Development and Ecology on the Evolution of Ovary Size in Drosophila
(2015-05-20)
How the size of an organ is established and altered during evolution is poorly understood. The ovary of fruit flies of the genus Drosophila serves as an interesting model for understanding organ size evolution, as the ...
A Foundational Proof Framework for Cryptography
(2015-05-18)
I present a state-of-the-art mechanized framework for developing and checking proofs of security for cryptographic schemes in the computational model. This system, called the Foundational Cryptography Framework (FCF) is ...
The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in the South Caucasus: Cultural Transmission and Technology Transfer
(2015-05-18)
The development of Neolithic in the South Caucasus remains a poorly understood phenomenon. The first agricultural communities have been identified at sites such as Aratashen and Aknashen. They are semi-sedentary group ...
Essays on Industry Response to Energy and Environmental Policy
(2015-05-17)
This dissertation consists of three essays on the relationship between firm incentives and energy and environmental policy outcomes.
Chapters 1 and 2 study the impact of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments on the United ...
Queer Expertise: Urban Policing and the Construction of Public Knowledge About Homosexuality, 1920–1970
(2015-05-17)
This dissertation tracks how urban police tactics against homosexuality participated in the construction, ratification, and dissemination of authoritative public knowledge about gay men in the United States in the twentieth ...
The Bright Side of Black Holes: Radiation From Black Hole Accretion Disks
(2015-05-15)
An understanding of radiation is paramount for connecting observations of accretion disks with the theory of black holes. In this thesis, we explore via radiative transfer postprocessing calculations the observational ...
Byzantine Carved Gemstones: Their Typology, Dating, Materiality, and Function
(2015-05-17)
This dissertation examines gemstones carved in relief from the middle and late Byzantine periods. Byzantine gems share a similar aesthetic with relief carvings in ivory and steatite, but they have not been as thoroughly ...
Search for Weak Gaugino Production in Final States With One Lepton, Two B-Jets Consistent With a Higgs Boson, and Missing Transverse Momentum With the ATLAS Detector
(2015-06-29)
The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is a discovery machine that is able to probe into the multi-TeV scale and search for physics beyond the Standard Model. This thesis presents a search for chargino and neutralino ...
Banishing Usury: The Expulsion of Foreign Moneylenders in Medieval Europe, 1200-1450
(2015-08-04)
Starting in the mid-thirteenth century, kings, bishops, and local rulers throughout western Europe repeatedly ordered the banishment of foreigners who were lending at interest. The expulsion of these foreigners, mostly ...