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Applying Next Generation Sequencing to Skeletal Development and Disease
(2014-02-25)
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies have dramatically increased the throughput and lowered the cost of DNA sequencing. In this thesis, I apply these technologies to unresolved questions in skeletal development ...
A Uniform Min-Max Theorem and Characterizations of Computational Randomness
(2014-02-25)
This thesis develops several tools and techniques using ideas from information theory, optimization, and online learning, and applies them to a number of highly related fundamental problems in complexity theory, pseudorandomness ...
Chemical Vapor Deposition of Cobalt-based Thin Films for Microelectronics
(2014-02-25)
In microelectronics, the device size continues to shrink to improve the performance and functionality, which sets technical challenges for the integrated circuit (IC) fabrication. Novel materials and processing techniques ...
Heritage Welsh: a study of heritage language as the outcome of minority language acquisition and bilingualism
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation analyzes the language used by 20 adult heritage Welsh speakers now living in London, i.e., bilinguals who shifted to English dominance in childhood, and whose Welsh proficiencies now show divergences from ...
Looking towards India: Nativism and Orientalism in the Literature of Wales, 1300-1600
(2014-06-06)
After the conquest of 1282, Wales increasingly fell under the dominion of England and in 1535, the first Laws in Wales Act officially annexed the country. During this period of political and legal instability, Welsh men ...
The Role of Estrogen Signaling in the Induction, Specification, and Proliferation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
(2014-06-06)
Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs) are characterized by their ability to both self-renew and give rise to all lineages of the blood system. A recent chemical genetic screen identified 17β-estradiol (estrogen) as a novel ...
High-level neural structures constrain visual behavior
(2014-06-06)
Visual cognition is notoriously limited: only a finite amount of information can be fully processed at a given instant. What is the source of these limitations? Here, we suggest that the organization of higher-level visual ...
Contesting Kālīghāṭ: Discursive Productions of a Hindu Temple in Colonial and Contemporary Kolkata
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation is an analysis of discursive productions of Kālīghāṭ, a Hindu temple dedicated to the goddess Kālī in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India. It is the most famous temple in what was once the capital of the ...
Three Essays on Lobbying
(2014-06-06)
My dissertation consists of three essays on lobbying activities by special interest groups. The first paper, "Ex Post Lobbying," systematically documents ex post lobbying, the process by which firms allocate resources ...
Antigen-specific immune modulation using an injectable biomaterial
(2014-06-06)
The field of immunology has advanced tremendously over the last 40 years, with seminal findings that have guided the development of powerful new therapies. However, the ability to induce safe and long-lasting antigen-specific ...