The gold standard to estimate the causal effect of an exposure on an outcome is a completely randomized design. Randomized designs are attractive for estimating …
This dissertation chronicles the development of Ming Mecca, an experimental modular synthesizer and videogame console designed and engineered by the author. Modular synthesizers are a …
The premise of the emerging field of computational psychiatry is to use models from computational cognitive neuroscience to gain deeper insights into mental illness. In …
The local interactions between neighbors serve as the fundamental building blocks that give rise to human crowd behavior, but little is known about the actual …
Chemistry is the science of molecules and materials, as well as their compositions, structures, properties and transformations. The search for new materials with tailored properties …
In the spinal cord dorsal horn, persistent changes in synaptic strength may contribute to nociceptive information processing and to pathological pain states. These changes overlap …
The purpose of this thesis was to identify the cellular mechanisms of the ongoing cortical dynamics called “neuronal avalanches” (NA). NA are the hallmark of …
A fundamental understanding of cell-nanomaterial interaction is essential for biomedical diagnostics, therapeutics, and nanotoxicity. Here we perform theoretical analysis to investigate the cellular uptake of …
In recent years, weak gravitational lensing has become an indispensable method for understanding the concentration of matter on the largest scales. Galaxy clusters, the largest …
“Entrepreneurs in the Age of Chinese Exclusion” tells the story of Chinese restaurants transforming from an ethnic enclave business into one of the largest mass-consumer …
This dissertation examines the politics of race and urban space in Boston’s Chinatown from 1943 to 1994. A diverse downtown neighborhood that survived multiple cycles …
The Live and the Life-Like: Theater, Performance, Animation explores intersections of stage and screen as it seeks to reveal the laboring, performing body across aesthetic …
“Simon and the Animating Interface” entangles instrument design, experimental performance and theoretical research with an electronic toy named Simon. Central to the exploration is the …
This dissertation examines the constitutive relation of gender and performance to knowledge production in the genetic sciences in twentieth and twenty-first century US. In recent …
This dissertation reframes contemporary investments in political performance through an analysis of the politics and practices of the FTA, a GI-oriented antiwar variety show led …
Abstract of Performing The Communist Myths: The Afterlife Of An Orphaned Myth by Ksenia Keren Faingersh, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2014 This thesis explores the …
Abstract of “Terms of Addition: Compositions and Strategies for Electro-Acoustic Chamber Ensemble” by Bevin L. Kelley, PhD., Brown University, May 2014 “Terms of Addition: Compositions …
We present experimental investigations on two classes of problems that are inspired by bat flight—vortex wakes and compliant membrane wings. Aerodynamic experiments with flapping animals …
Vapor intrusion modeling generally involves solving the soil gas flow and volatile organic compound vapor transport equations in the soil subsurface and from there into …
In telling the place-specific history of the Chicago Bulls, this study argues that sports franchises at the end of the twentieth century shaped and capitalized …