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OF CLOUDS AND BODIES: FILM AND THE DISLOCATION OF VISION IN BRAZILIAN AND JAPANESE INTERWAR AVANT-GARDES
(2018-08-30)Of Clouds and Bodies: Film and the Dislocation of Vision in Brazilian and Japanese Interwar Avant-gardes examines the political impact of film in conceptualizations of the body, vision, and movement in the 1920s and 1930s ... -
Of Contradictions and Tautologies
(2007-07-25)According to one standard semantic definition of a contradiction, a sentence is a contradiction if (and only if) it is false in every model, whereas a sentence is a tautology if (and only if) it is true in every model. ... -
OF CRIMINALS, ARTISTS, MIGRANTS, AND SAINTS: THE REPRESENTATION OF PILGRIMAGE IN EL GRAN MEXICO
(2018-08-30)My dissertation, entitled Pilgrimage in el Gran México, utilizes the structural and thematic configuration of pilgrimage to problematize various current debates: the representations of the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexican ... -
Of Networks And Narratives: Collecting Indian Art In America, 1907-1972
(2015-05-24)Beginning in the early 20th century, art museums in America were among the first to collect and display Indian objects as fine art. Although the appreciation of the aesthetic value of Indian art in colonial India took place ... -
OF PIKAS AND PARASITES: HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF AN ALPINE HOST-PARASITE ASSEMBLAGE
(2008-11-17)The goal of my dissertation research is to quantify the genetic consequences of Quaternary climatic oscillations for an alpine host-parasite assemblage. I focus on a mammalian alpine specialist (Ochotona princeps; American ... -
Of Wood and Stone: A Comparative Study of Ancient South Arabian Construction Texts and the Hebrew Bible
(2017-08-30)This paper argues that the Hebrew Bible and Ancient South Arabian texts share a common usage of the phrase “wood and stone,” with a specific focus on Minaic construction texts from the 5th-2nd century BCE and four texts ... -
Old High German 1st Person Plural Ending -mes And Cod. Sang. 916
(2009-08-19)This dissertation focuses on the Old High German (OHG) 1st person plural ending -mes, its origin, history and philological evidence. This ending is traditionally described as having an e-vowel (long e-vowel), which is hard ... -
Older Adults’ Personality And The Health Of Their Caregivers
(2013-01-28)The emotional and physical health consequences of caring for a family member are welldocumented. However, although personality has been shown to affect dyadic interactions and been linked with individual outcomes for both ... -
Olfactory Bulb Habituation To Odor Stimuli
(2010-10-20)Learning is a change in behavior evoked by experience. One form of simple learning is habituation or the gradual decrease in the response to repeated extraneous stimulation. Habituation is a non-associative form of learning ... -
Ombudsmen in Higher Education: Similarities, Divergences, and the Rise of Alternative Dispute Resolution
(2007-08-02)This thesis examines the historical role of ombudsmen in institutions of higher education in the United States (U.S.) and explores whether the rise of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has significantly affected the ... -
On Bank Bailouts
(2019-08-30)Chapter 1: I develop a theoretical model for investigating the cost of failure to commit in the provision of bailouts to financial institutions. When a financial institution fails, the fiscal authority often deviates from ... -
On Branching Laws For Representations Of GL sub(4)(F) To Sp sub(4)(F)
(2009-10-13)This thesis analyzes representations of the form Ind sub(P) exp(GL sub(4)(F)) sigma sub(1) (X) sigma sub(2) when restricted to Sp sub(4)(F) where the sigma sub(i) are supercuspidal representations of GL sub(2)(F). The main ... -
On Coherence Effects In Magnetic And Non-Magnetic Nanoscale Conductors
(2010-08-05)This doctoral dissertation concerns electronic, nanoscale systems exhibiting coherence effects. Two effects are considered in detail: quantum corrections to the ensemble average of the conductance of a network of quantum ... -
On Configurations Of Spatial Planar Graphs
(2014-08-18)We investigate the homotopy type of a variety of families of configurations of graphs in R3 and S 3 . Preliminary results give that the linear configurations of the tetrahedral graph in R3 has the homotopy type of the ... -
On conjectures related to character varieties of knots and Jones polynomials
(2018-12-30)It is well known that the Kauffman Bracket Skein Module of a knot complement K_q(S^3 \ K) is canonically a module over the Z_2-invariants of the quantum torus, A_q^{Z_2}, and this module determines the colored Jones ... -
On Consistent and Efficient Graph Data Management
(2018-05-30)This dissertation describes techniques to store and process large graphs in modern datacenters with high performance and strong consistency guarantees. Graph-structured data is ubiquitous: social networks, content networks, ... -
On dilatations of surface automorphisms
(2018-08-30)Suppose $S$ is a compact topological surface without boundary, oriented and connected. In \S$1$ we go over Thurston's classification of \emph{automorphisms} of $S$: continuous functions $f:S\to S$ with continuous inverses. ... -
ON DYNAMIC PRICING AND ASSORTMENT PERSONALIZATION IN STRATEGIC SETTINGS
(2017-12-30)This thesis studies firm’s operational decisions in strategic settings. In particular, it focuses on a firm’s dynamic pricing or assortment optimization problems, in the presence of competitors or customers that respond ...
