This study examines how relations with – and discourses of – the “Turk” within England shaped the contours of critical political and religious debates from …
Abstract of “MELODRAMMA,” MARKET AND MODERNITY: OPERA IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ITALY by MICHELA RONZANI, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015. My dissertation “Melodramma,” Market, and Modernity: …
In June 1941, a Central Press wire story declared, “The latest and strangest recruit in Uncle Sam’s defense line-up is—the museum!” The release quoted the …
Harmonic analysis is an artform of understanding how mathematical objects behave. In this thesis, we develop a framework for understanding Calder\'on-Zygmund Singular Integral Operators (CZOs), …
This dissertation examines differences in affective response to music among players of Appalachian old-time music, primarily in Appalachian Virginia and North Carolina. While a small …
This dissertation describes three primary contributions to the field of medical imaging: (1) a mathematical model ("Blockhead") of the macroscopic and microscopic structure of the …
Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria present an ever-growing challenge to physicians. The growing antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria has caused the Centers for Disease Control …
ABSTRACT Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the most common adult-onset motor neuron disease in the world, can be caused by mutations scattered along the full length …
Notch signaling is a key regulator of developmental processes in many metazoans. However, it is also active in the adult nervous system of animals ranging …
The goal of this thesis was to use non-invasive quantifiable MR parameters of volume, signal intensity and T2* relaxation time to predict the biomechanical or …
Call a diagram D of spaces ``absolute'' if, for all enriched homotopy functors F, the induced map F(holim(D)) -> holim(FD) is an equivalence of spaces. …
A generalized thermoelastic model for adhesion was developed to elucidate the mechanism of dissipation within the viscoelastic bulk of a hydrogel. Results show that in …
Underage drinking is a serious public health concern in the US in part because earlier ages of drinking onset are associated with more severe alcohol …
In nineteenth-century San Francisco, black community leaders sought to reach beyond the geographical limits of the Bay Area in their battle for equal rights in …
The mesoscopic description of molecular systems is investigated by using the memory function approach, and uncertainty quantification methods are developed for the evaluation of time …
“Pink” Mg-spinel is a rare mineral among rock samples returned during the Apollo missions and is typically associated with the lunar highlands Mg-suite (a small …
There are two primary issues facing database systems designed for on-line transaction processing (OLTP): scalability and performance. Traditional disk-based OLTP architectures are the result of …
The growing interest in genealogy for African Americans is one expression of a longstanding desire to find answers to questions about ancestors, family, and heritage …
The performance of multithreaded programs is often difficult to understand and predict. Multiple threads use various locking operations, resulting in the parallel execution of some …
We develop statistical methods for analyzing natural images, videos, motion capture (MoCap) sequences, and three-dimensional (3D) representations of articulated objects. Our goal is to discover …
The widespread use of nanomaterials in established and emerging technologies will inevitably lead to human and environmental exposures that must be characterized and managed to …
“Black and Balkan: A Comparison of Caribbean, African, African-American and Balkan History, Theory and Art” is a project on black and Balkan identities and an …
The current reliance on finite fossil fuels for the production of commodity chemicals has been recognized as unsustainable, and therefore has led to increasing pressure …
CO2 functionalization to commodity chemicals and molecular energy provide an powerful mechanism to leverage one of the world most abundant alternative sustainable carbon resources. This …
The CACNA1C gene has the potential to generate many CaV1.2 voltage-gated calcium channel protein isoforms. CaV1.2 proteins are widely expressed throughout the body and have …
The successful application of new materials requires good understanding of their basic properties which govern their behaviors during manufacturing, processing, storage and disposal. Graphene based …
This dissertation reappraises the relationship between dithyramb and tragedy by examining the two Dionysiac choral performance-genres against the backdrop of Athens’ vibrant and rapidly growing …
This study investigates both the opportunities and constraints for civil society in China to effect political change. Diverging from the dominant approach of state-society relations, …
Thermal evolution of the planet interior is a fundamental problem in Earth and planetary sciences. Geothermobarometers and geospeedometers are powerful tools in studying the thermal …
This dissertation examines the central concept of the “image” in Walter Benjamin’s oeuvre, with particular attention to the recurrence of the figure of the cloud …
Scattering amplitudes have undergone considerable study in the last few years. Much of the progress has come from abandoning Feynman diagram techniques and instead exploring …
The mouse olfactory system mediates the sense of odorants and appropriate behavioral responses. The main olfactory epithelium (MOE) expresses the largest number of G-protein coupled …
We consider a discrete attachment model for the self-assembly of polyhedra called the Building Game. The combinatorial configuration space of the model is computed for …
Meshless methods provide an ideal framework for scalably simulating Lagrangian hydrodynamics in domains undergoing large deformation. For these schemes, interfaces can easily be treated without …
This thesis is dedicated to exploring compression methods for large dynamic scenes. The first part presents a case study of compressing aerial video using background …
Cancer is a disease resulting from genomic mutations that occur during an individual's lifetime and cause the uncontrolled growth of a collection of cells into …
Computer architecture has recently seen an explosion of innovation that has enabled more parallel execution, while parallel software systems have been making strides in providing …
"Constructing the Caribbean: Regional Discourse and Literary Practice on the Edge of World War II” examines how literary magazines in the Caribbean constructed the region …
“Critical Fictions in Latin America” examines literary texts, published after 1950 in Latin America, that mimic the formal conventions of critical discourse. I argue that …
Early in the development of Xenopus laevis tadpoles, as the animals become capable of actively navigating their environment, individual neurons in the optic tectum become …
This thesis takes aim at two directions. The first direction involves setting the foundations for a new type of data-driven scientific computing, essentially creating a …
Sensory neurons exhibit unpredictable spiking responses to fixed sensory input. Some of this response variability is correlated between neuronal pairs. This correlated variability (spike-count correlation; …
We use digital video microscopy to study the defects in two-dimensional colloidal crystals (2DCC). A crystalline solid, different from its liquid state, preserves long-wavelength shear …
As the number of atoms in a cluster system increases, the number of local minima on the Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surface is expected to increase …
Abstract of Diacousticon: Curation, Audience, and the Listening Machine by Stephan M. Moore, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015. This thesis provides a thorough discussion of …
This dissertation examines works by Richard Wright, Chang-rae Lee and Junot Diaz, as well as Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather films, and how they theorize …