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Collateral Consequences: How Increased Incarceration Rates Transform Parenting and Partnership in Low-Income Boston Neighborhoods
(2018-05-02)
The War on Drugs and subsequent growth of the U.S. prison system has disproportionately affected low-income individuals living in inner-cities. Since the 1980’s, men of color without a high school degree have been ...
Genomic Citizenship: Peoplehood and State in Israel and Qatar
(2018-05-08)
This dissertation describes basic genetic research and biobanking of ethnic populations in Israel and Qatar. I track how biomedical research on ethnic populations relates to the political, economic, legal, and historical ...
A Platform for the Discovery of New Lincosamide Antibiotics
(2018-05-10)
This dissertation presents a flexible synthetic approach to the lincosamide antibiotics, developed with the aim of rejuvenating an underexploited class to combat multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens. The only clinically ...
The Linguistic and Conceptual Representation of Scalar Alternatives: Number and 'Only' as Case Studies
(2018-01-26)
In this dissertation, I address two outstanding questions regarding how linguistic and extra-linguistic information are brought together in the interpretation of language situated within a discourse. The first part of this ...
The Life and Death of Interstellar Turbulence: The Intriguing Case of Ophiuchus
(2018-05-16)
In this thesis, I present the identification and analyses of a population of coherent structures in nearby molecular clouds, L1688 in Ophiuchus and B18 in Taurus. The newly discovered coherent structures have a typical ...
Understanding Jet Physics at Modern Particle Colliders
(2018-05-01)
We explore the phenomenon of jets at particle colliders from several diverse vantage points, beginning with a non-technical introduction to the field in general. Jets are messy objects that are difficult to model precisely; ...
Race and Status Dynamics in the NBA
(2018-05-13)
Sociologists have long been interested in racial inequality and status dynamics in groups and organizations. In this dissertation, I study these topics in the context of NBA basketball. The richness of the data, plus the ...
Counting Stars: Developing Probabilistic Cataloging for Crowded Fields
(2018-05-09)
The depth of next generation surveys poses a great data analysis challenge: these surveys will suffer from crowding, making their images difficult to deblend and catalog. Sources in crowded fields are extremely covariant ...
Global post-transcriptional regulators in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(2018-08-17)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic human pathogen found ubiquitously in both natural and manmade environments. Central to its ability to grow in different environments is the organism’s coordinated ...
Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
(2018-05-11)
Chapter 1 documents that much of the decline in labor force participation of U.S. prime age men comes from "in-and-outs"---who I define as men who temporarily leave the labor force. Individuals moving in and out of the ...