This dissertation contributes to the growing field of children’s studies in and outside of Slavic studies by broadening the scope of the existing scholarly conversation beyond writing explicitly or ostensibly for children. ...

Biology is a treasure box of emergent phenomena. A diverse array of biopolymers self-organize into hierarchical structures to form cells and various tissues. Birds flock and bacteria swarm, presenting striking spatiotemporal ...

Circadian rhythms, endogenous, entrainable, near-24 h oscillations in metabolism, are a nearly ubiquitous feature of life on Earth. Circadian rhythms function as a feedforward biological control system that reorganizes ...

This thesis investigates the dynamics of layered velocity and buoyancy structures in stably and unstably stratified flows. Geophysical examples of layers in stably stratified turbulence include the ocean's equatorial deep ...

This dissertation examines the intersections of oral performance, literature, and the environment in Korea in the twentieth century to the present. I create a new model for the interplay between the oral and the written ...

I examine the relationship between urbanization, proximity to urban centers, and the size and structure of village social networks, using data from 66 villages in Karnataka, India. I find that urbanization (as measured by ...

Single-cell sequencing methods have allowed for a closer view into the heterogeneity of cell populations, down to the level of the individual cell. In particular, single-cell transcriptomic data provides a detailed map ...

This dissertation is a study of the representation of Mediterranean migrations in literature, film, and visual art. Through an analysis of a critical selection of creative works that respond to specific events of forced ...

It was recently discovered that soft theorems, Ward identities associated to asymptotic symmetries, and the memory effect in gravity and gauge theories are in fact mathematically equivalent. This is a rather remarkable ...

Health care teams have grown more complex and their boundaries less clear over time, leaving much of care delivery to informal collaborations between “partial” teammates – those who roles are ambiguous and informal, but ...