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The Development of Novel Spectroscopic Tools to Probe Free Radical Chemistry in the Troposphere
(2016-05-17)
The oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere regulates both the longwave and shortwave radiation budgets holding our planet in equilibrium. As planetary conditions continue to shi , insights into the oxidation pathways determining ...
Essays in Optimizing Social Policy for Different Populations: Education, Targeting, and Impact Evaluation
(2016-05-18)
In the first chapter of this dissertation, I look at the relationship between preference sets among students in similar majors, compared with different majors, in Peru. I find that students within majors share preference ...
Opera After Optimism: The Fate of Zeitoper at the End of the Weimar Republic
(2016-05-18)
Zeitoper – those jazz-infused operas of Weimar Republic Germany, where cars and trains drive across the stage while characters listen to radio, talk on phones, and sing arias in bathtubs about the joys of hot running water ...
Crisis Capital: Industrial Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1865-Present
(2016-05-18)
“Crisis Capital” offers a local history of global capitalism and a global history of local economic development, exploring how the global movements and political struggles of industry, labor, and capital created, destroyed, ...
Essays in Corporate Finance
(2016-05-18)
This dissertation contains three chapters. In the first chapter, which is joint work with Paul Gompers and Steven Kaplan, we survey 79 private equity (PE) investors with combined assets under management of more than $750 ...
Gravitational Waves From the Kerr/CFT Correspondence
(2016-05-18)
Astronomical observation suggests the existence of near-extreme Kerr black holes in the sky. Properties of diffeomorphisms imply that dynamics of the near-horizon region of near-extreme Kerr are governed by an infinite-dimensional ...
Postnatal Genome Editing With CRISPR
(2016-05-18)
Targeted genome editing holds tremendous promise for permanent correction of many genetic diseases. The recently developed CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing tool exhibits facile programmability and robust gene-editing efficiency, ...
Emergence of Reward Coding in the Olfactory System
(2016-05-17)
Identifying dangerous or rewarding elements in an animal’s surroundings is an important – if not primary – function of sensory systems. This holds particularly true for the mouse olfactory system since odors convey crucial ...
Colony Writing: Creative Community in the Age of Revolt
(2016-05-18)
This dissertation studies the impact of a form of literary patronage, domestic writers’ colonies, on U.S. literary production in first half of the twentieth century. I discuss Provincetown, Massachusetts; Taos and Santa ...
Combinatorial Pathway Modulation Toward Ex Vivo Maintenance and Propagation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
(2016-05-18)
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) sustain continuous turnover and maintenance of all blood lineages through organismal lifespan. The extensive regenerative potential of HSCs has been harnessed in transplantation medicine ...