When implementing health policies and programs, policy makers and organizations have to take into account not only the direct and intended effects of these policies …
This dissertation explores the relationship between individuals’ everyday actions and the justice or injustice of entire societies. It is a conceptual and sociological investigation of …
Spatially localized structures, in which a spatially oscillatory pattern on a finite spatial range connects to a trivial homogeneous solution outside this range, have been …
Abstract of "Expanding the Realm of the Possible: Gender and Crypto-Judaism in Seventeenth-Century New Spain" by Michele J. Mericle, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015. This …
Abstract of Experimental and Field Constraints on the Physicochemical Evolution of the Lunar and Terrestrial Mantles, by Nicholas Dygert, PhD., Brown University, May 2015. This …
The first three chapters of this thesis are focused on experimental determinations of noble gas solubility in a variety of materials relevant to partial melting …
This dissertation examines the interplay between experimental and experiential writing in postcolonial Italian novels. It focuses on the representation of the “colonial and postcolonial experience” …
Recognizing the content of human actions is an important skill in our adaptation to the environment. We rely on our visual system to constantly interpret …
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between fathers and daughters in seventeenth-century Spanish theater. While scholarship has examined female characters in their role as daughters in …
The first paper of my dissertation provides an empirical test of the quantity and quality trade-off of children within a household. I use China census …
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between pregnant and pre-gravid women and their fetuses in the Roman Empire. It examines the cultural …
Unlike birds and insects, bats fly using compliant and slender membrane wings. Membrane wings offer negligible bending stiffness, and thus when they experience aerodynamic load, …
This dissertation examines the role of monstrosity in the construction of Japanese identity within the American cultural imagination. It asserts that a discursive formation founded …
Here we investigated the fracture and wrinkling in graphene with topological defects using atomistic simulations and continuum models. We first studied the flaw insensitive fracture …
In this dissertation, we mainly discuss two topics of partial differential equations in fluid dynamics and kinetic theory: viscous surface wave and diffusive limit. With …
In this thesis, we study the large image uniformity of Galois representations in arithmetic dynamics, a concept analogous to Serre's uniformity conjecture for elliptic curves. …
In this dissertation, I present a large geochemical data set of submarine glass, melt inclusions and whole rock collected from across the Galapagos Archipelago to …
What defines the intrinsic dynamics of liquids? By studying the hard sphere liquids, whose potential energy landscape is so singular that traditional landscape approaches do …
This dissertation answers the question of what it means for an outstanding representative of the long Second Sophistic to have decisively shaped Christian festival rhetoric. …