This dissertation is largely a project of redescription and taxonomy. In it, I redescribe, reclassify, and recontextualize the divinatory practices of the apostle Paul. Throughout …
Contemporary political theorists have tended to ignore the question of parental authority in their exploration of the nature and origins of political authority. Nevertheless, seminal …
In "'You Divided Sea by Your Might': The 'Conflict Myth' and the Biblical Tradition," I analyze the ancient west Asian theme of divine combat between …
Reproduction was of crucial social and cultural importance in early modern England. It mattered because of the need to produce heirs for families that had …
The dissertation identifies the waning of emotion that attends Romanticism's desire for an evocative past. My readings of poetry, prose fiction, belles lettres, and philosophy …
My dissertation argues that lyric is best defined as an indirection of voice rather than the subjective experience of a persona. Following Paul de Man, …
In condensed matter physics the vortex lattice of type-II superconductors provides a prototype for studying the effect of random pinning on elastic systems. One important …
Morphogen activity gradients assign positional information within fields of cells in a concentration-dependent manner. As transcriptional changes respond to signaling activity thresholds, cells must encounter …
Despite the fact that the human genome was sequenced ten years ago, there exists no database of cis-regulatory architecture that is validated conclusively by rigorous …
Recent increases in the incidence of congenital (hypospadias, cryptorchidism) and adult-onset (testis germ cell cancer, lowered sperm counts) diseases of the male reproductive tract are …
Computer models for underwater sound propagation often rely on ray tracing to obtain solutions to the high frequency wave equation. While adequate for large scale …
Polyamines are endogenous molecules involved in cell damage following neurological insults, although it is unclear whether polyamines reduce or exacerbate this damage. We used a …
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the third most common cardiovascular disorder in the United States, and the most preventable cause of death in hospitals. Despite recent …
The dissertation examines the representations of catastrophe that emerge in Mexico City following the devastating 1985 earthquake and the upheaval of the nineties. The study …
This study explores how Early Christian Latin hymns written between the fourth and sixth centuries harnessed the power of song for instruction. I argue that …
CaV2.2 voltage-gated calcium channels (CaVs) are expressed at presynaptic terminals in most central and peripheral neurons where they control the calcium (Ca2+) entry that triggers …
As a versatile joint, the wrist remains stable through large motions under a variety of loading conditions. Wrist motion is achieved through the individual articulations …
This thesis is a large deviations study for the performance of an interacting particle method for rare event estimation. The analysis is restricted to a …
In correlation clustering, given similarity or dissimilarity information for all pairs of data items, the goal is to find a clustering of the items into …
This study is about topographical photography of nineteenth-century British India, and the critical interpretation of that imagery. From the mid-eighteenth century, British makers of topographical …
