By examining the history of the sound newsreel in the 1930s and 1940s, this dissertation illustrates how moving picture news changed the way Americans experienced …
Affective valence influences both our cognition and our perception of the world. For example, the speed and quality with which we recognize objects in a …
Abstract of "To Serve the Race...and Redeem the South": Gender and the Southern Interracial Network, 1919-1949, by Caroline C. Cortina, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011.Drawing …
Reversible protein phosphorylation plays a pivotal role in the regulation of cellular signaling pathways. Current approaches in phosphoproteomics focus on analysis of the global phosphoproteome …
Collective identity, as is now well established, is a subjectively understood and socially constructed phenomenon that is subject to change; a single individual has multiple …
A-to-I RNA editing is the post-transcriptional modification of pre-mRNA transcripts,where specific adenosine residues are converted to inosine by Adenosine DeaminasesActing on RNA (ADARs). This modification …
This dissertation explores the recent history of non-polar ice-rich paleodeposits on Mars, primarily through the analysis of pedestal craters. Pedestal craters are defined by having …
Globally over 34 million people with HIV, with 67% in sub-Saharan Africa alone (UNAIDS) 2009. Data from randomized trials to inform on clinical decisions scarce. …
Abstract: This dissertation concerns the politics of musical projects, institutions, and events in Sarajevo and the effect of efforts by donors in Bosnia and Herzegovina's …
The human genome exhibits a rich structure resulting from a long history of genomic changes, including single base-pair mutations and larger scale rearrangements such as …
After the thirteenth century conquest much of Andalusia, Christians settling these territories found themselves in close proximity to Muslims, often trading together and sharing pastureland …
Currently used titanium implants in orthopedics have a limited lifespan of only 15-20 years. The inadequate ability of the titanium implant to remain bonded to …
Peer-to-peer systems have been proposed for a wide variety of applications, such as file-sharing, distributed storage, and distributed computation. These systems seek the benefits of …
As the Cold War ended and a "New World Order" emerged, elites in the U.S. and Mexico created a continental economic arrangement, integrating national economies …
We discuss a discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method and its application to common partial differential equations which arise in the context of general relativity. First we …
Vehicle routing is a class of optimization problems where the objective is to find low cost delivery routes from depots to customers using vehicles of …
This dissertation brings together the work of a group of contemporary social theorists, art critics, and artists, including Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, …
We study several aspects of high energy scattering using the AdS/CFT correspondence.We begin with concise theoretical overviews of a few relevant topics. First is a …
In recent years there have been significant progresses in the understanding of scattering amplitudes at both strong and weak coupling. There are new dualities discovered, …