Cornell Theses and Dissertations
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The theses and dissertations of graduate students at Cornell University have been deposited in Cornell's institutional repository (eCommons) since about 2004. This collection also includes a few earlier Cornell theses.
Students retain ownership of the copyright of their work. Students also have the option of imposing a temporary embargo on access to the full text of their theses for limited amount of time (see eCommons access policy). If access to a thesis is restricted, the metadata record for the thesis is still visible, but the text "Access to Document Restricted" is displayed, and a field labeled "No Access Until," which indicates the date when the full text of the thesis will become accessible.
More information about finding Cornell theses and dissertations is available on this library guide, and the eCommons help page for finding content in specific collections, including theses and dissertations.
In general, older theses and dissertations from Cornell University are not currently available as digital files in eCommons. The Library is willing to digitize and make available older Cornell theses on a cost recovery basis. If you are interested in this service, please contact dcaps@cornell.edu.
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Emergent phenomena and defect properties across length scales: atoms, smectics, colloids, and humans
(2016-08)We investigate the properties and dynamics of defects in several disparate physical systems spanning a factor of 10^15 in length scale and develop theoretical and experimental tools to facilitate their study. In particular, ... -
BREAD INSTEAD: BAKING UP VALUES AND SHAPING MORAL BEINGS IN THE ECONOMIES AND SOCIALITIES OF BREAD PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION IN MODERN JAPAN, TAIWAN, EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
(2022-08)This dissertation examines the production, distribution and consumption of bread in urban sites in contemporary Japan and Taiwan, countries commonly associated with rice as the predominant staple food. Through investigating ... -
Fast Kernel Matrix Approximations By Series Expansions
(2022-08)Kernel functions are used in a variety of scientific settings to measure relationships or interactions between elements of a vector space. For example, in machine learning, kernel functions are often used to describe ... -
A Study of Innovation in the Clean Energy Sector: Patent Trend Analysis
(2022-08)Do most countries still stick to the guidelines to alleviate global warming since the Paris Agreement in 2008, and how well do domestic policies contribute to this global mutual goal? One avenue to answer these questions ... -
Dress Style Recommendation Based on Female Body Shapes
(2022-08)Fashion is an important part of life. According to Kant, fashion and style are the fundamental expressions of aesthetic tastes in the societal format. Clothing styles and apparel fit are the two key factors when consumers ... -
Constructing Harmony: Manumission Narratives in Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus
(2022-08)This thesis applies a constructive model in its examination of four of the most important manumission narratives in the histories of Livy and of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, namely (1) Romulus and the first Roman manumission, ... -
Echoes of Insidious Geographies: The Life History and Object Biography of a Carved Elephant Tusk from the Medieval Mediterranean to the Metropolitan Museum, circa 750 CE to Present
(2022-08)Through the thick affective analysis of a carved ivory horn now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this study traces the millennium-long development of several insidious geographies, a term I use to describe diverse ... -
BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS TO DERIVE ADDED-VALUE INGREDIENTS FROM DAIRY PRODUCTS AND TO ASSESS EFFICIENCY OF ELECTROMICROBIAL PROTEIN PRODUCTION
(2022-08)Lactose intolerance is a problem that affects 70% of the global population and, along with shifting consumer trends towards higher fat dairy products, is a major culprit behind the decreased demand for skim milk and its ... -
Investigation of Arc Protein Selective Binding to Arc 5' UTR mRNA Motif
(2022-08)Arc is a repurposed retrotransposon Gag protein that transports mRNA between neurons via assembling into virus-like capsids. An Arc homolog, the HIV Gag, can selectively package the 5’ untranslated region (UTR) of its own ... -
Developing Effective Chemical, Enzymatical, and Bacterial Methods for Extracting Protein and Other Nutrients from Microalgal Biomass
(2022-08)Nannochloropsis oceanica is a microalgal species that has high potential in both lipid and protein accumulation capacity. For this reason, it has been receiving attention as a microalgal candidate for biofuel production. ...
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