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Jacobi Structures And Differential Forms On Contact Quotients
(2012-08-20)In the first part of this thesis, we generalize the notion of a Jacobi bracket on the algebra of smooth functions on a manifold to the notion of a Jacobi bracket on an abstract commutative algebra. We also prove certain ... -
The Jacobian Map On Outer Space
(2011-08-31)The outer automorphism group Out(Fn ) of a finite rank free group admits a proper, cocompact action on a contractible space Xn known as Outer space. Likewise, the outer automorphism group GL(n, Z) of a finite rank free ... -
James Baldwin: Tapping Beneath The Surface Of Race and Sexuality
(2009-08-19)This thesis aims to recover James Baldwin as a black queer vernacular intellectual. In my introduction, I look at what Grant Farred calls 'vernacular intellectuals' as important cultural figures that challenge the notion ... -
Jazz Age Jesus: The Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., And The Ministry Of Black Empowerment, 1865-1937
(2014-05-25)The purpose of "Jazz Age Jesus: the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. and The Ministry of Black Empowerment, 1865-1937," is to illuminate the African American religious developments occurring during the Jazz Age. Additionally ... -
Jean Améry And Wolfgang Hildesheimer: Ressentiments, Melancholia, And The West German Public Sphere In The 1960s And 1970s
(2011-01-31)The dissertation revisits the West German literary scene of the 1960s and 1970s to investigate how two of its Jewish participants, Jean Améry and Wolfgang Hildesheimer, sought to promote ethical responses to the Holocaust. ... -
Jet And Dark Substructure
(2015-08-17)We currently live in the golden age of experimental particle physics. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) finally discovered the Higgs particle and may soon allow us to probe TeVscale new physics. Moreover, dark matter indirect ... -
Jewish Identities and Traditions within the Hellenistic Period: Funerary Unguentaria as Evidence of Inventive Tradition
(2018-08-30)This work argues that unguentaria, a material often overlooked within theoretical studies, has untapped potential to further contemporary models of identity formation. This argument is framed within the observation that ... -
Jihadism, International Society, and Interstate Cooperation
(2006-07-26)Why do states meet some terrorist threats through a collective effort, whereas at other times they respond separately, selecting from a variety of strategies? This dissertation advances an English School explanation arguing ... -
Job Search And Job Choice From The Perspective Of College-Educated Employees
(2010-10-20)How do employed persons think about job searching? This dissertation draws on an analysis of decision process research and two qualitative studies to answer this question. The study explores the factors that lead employees ... -
Joint Density-Functional Methods For First-Principles Chemistry In Solution
(2013-08-19)Solvents play an important role in many technologically relevant chemical processes and most biological systems, but thermodynamic phase-space sampling complicates their description in ab initio calculations. Joint ... -
Joint Density-functional Theory and its Application to Systems in Solution
(2006-08)The physics of solvation, the interaction of water with solutes, plays a central role in chemistry and biochemistry, and it is essential for the very existence of life. Despite the central importance of water and the ... -
Joint Density-Functional Theory For Energetics And Spectroscopy In Complex Aqueous And Nonaqueous Solvents
(2016-05-29)Solvents are of great importance in many technological applications, but are difficult to study using standard, off-the-shelf ab initio electronic structure methods. This is because a single configuration of molecular ... -
Joint Inference of Human Genomic Function and Selective Pressure
(2017-08-30)Selective pressure and molecular phenotype provide complimentary perspectives on functional properties of the human genome. In this dissertation, I develop computational methods for identifying collections of molecular ... -
Joint-stochastic Spectral Inference for Robust Co-occurrence Modeling and Latent Topic Analysis
(2018-05-30)Co-occurrence information is powerful statistics that can model various discrete objects by their joint instances with other objects. Transforming unsupervised problems of learning low-dimensional geometry into provable ... -
Jointed Pipeline Response To Large Ground Movements
(2016-02-01)This thesis addresses the performance of jointed pipelines subject to ground deformations triggered at a large scale by earthquakes and a construction-related scale by tunneling. Understanding and quantifying jointed ... -
Joseph Conrad'S Malay World: Reading History, Fiction, And Experience
(2014-05-25)This thesis explores Joseph Conrad's first two novels, Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands, from the perspective of history. It broadly argues that in order to understand Conrad's Malay novels, it is necessary ... -
JUDGMENTS OF DIMINISHED CULPABILITY IN CRIMINAL LAW
(2018-08-30)In Atkins v. Virginia, the Supreme Court held that the execution of individuals with intellectual disability violated the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. When creating the categorical exemption in ... -
Judicial Power in Transitional Regimes: Tunisia and Egypt since the Arab Spring
(2017-01-30)The dissertation examines the origins of judicial power in transitions through the cases of Egypt and Tunisia since 2011. Egypt’s courts, especially the Supreme Constitutional Court, have risen to new levels of prominence, ... -
Julian Anderson's Symphony
(2017-01-30)In recent years, Julian Anderson’s music has been gaining ever-increasing international attention, especially since his residency with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2005. Some of Anderson’s most ... -
JUMPING THE GUN: LOCAL AGENCY AND EARLY EXPERIMENTS IN THE SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL SOCIETY IN REVOLUTIONARY CHINA
(2008-07-07)This dissertation investigates why in the early 1950s the Chinese Communist Party launched the agricultural cooperative movement, a movement that in many crucial ways resembled earlier collectivization in the Soviet Union. ...
