Search
Now showing items 11-20 of 256
Deploying Affect-Inspired Mechanisms to Enhance Agent Decision-Making and Communication
(2012-12-20)
Computer agents are required to make appropriate decisions quickly and efficiently. As the environments in which they act become increasingly complex, efficient decision-making becomes significantly more challenging. This ...
Evidence for a Novel Multipotent Mammary Progenitor with Pregnancy-Specific Activity
(2012-12-20)
The mouse mammary gland has emerged as a model system for studying processes involved in the development of epithelial tissues. Current evidence suggests the existence of a differentiation hierarchy in the mammary gland, ...
The Conversion of the World in the Early Republic: Race, Gender, and Imperialism in the Early American Foreign Mission Movement
(2012-12-19)
This is a transnational history of the early republic that focuses on religious actors. The early American foreign mission movement was an outward-looking expression of the benevolent network of the early republic. Building ...
Alternate Compactifications of Hurwitz Spaces
(2012-12-19)
We construct several modular compactifications of the Hurwitz space \(H^d_{g/h}\) of genus g curves expressed as d-sheeted, simply branched covers of genus h curves. They are obtained by allowing the branch points of the ...
Patrul Rinpoche on Self-Cultivation: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Life-Advice
(2012-12-17)
Buddhist forms of “ethical advice”—instructions that address life’s problems and offer methods for alleviating them—are widespread in Buddhist literary history. This dissertation studies four such works, all written by the ...
Quantum Dynamics in Biological Systems
(2012-12-17)
In the first part of this dissertation, recent efforts to understand quantum mechanical effects in biological systems are discussed. Especially, long-lived quantum coherences observed during the electronic energy transfer ...
Carving Out the Space of Conformal Field Theories
(2012-12-19)
We study the constraints of conformal symmetry and unitarity in Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). Crossing symmetry of four-point functions implies universal bounds on operator dimensions and three-point function coefficients. ...
Performance Anxiety: Hysteria and the Actress in French Literature 1880-1910
(2012-12-19)
My dissertation uses close readings of four texts dealing with the actress, spanning the naturalist novel (Zola’s Nana, 1880, and Edmond de Goncourt’s La Faustin, 1882), autobiography (Sarah Bernhardt’s Ma double vie, 1907) ...
Nabokov's Details: Making Sense of Irrational Standards
(2012-12-20)
Vladimir Nabokov's passion for detail is well-known, central to our very idea of the "Nabokovian." Yet Nabokov's most important claims for detail pose a challenge for the reader who would take them seriously. Startlingly ...
Studies on Application of Silyl Groups in Ring-Closing Metathesis Reactions and Fragment-Based Probe Discovery
(2012-12-19)
In efforts to search for tool compounds that are capable of probing normal and disease-associated biological processes, both quality and identity of the screening collection are very important. Towards this goal, ...