<p>A fraction of HIV-1 patients are able to successfully control the virus and avoid developing AIDS. It has become increasingly clear that variations in the immune response during the initial days of acute infection ...

<p>The prevalence of nanoparticles in the environment is expected to grow in the coming years due to their increasing pervasiveness in consumer and industrial applications. Once released into the environment, nanoparticles ...

<p>Globalization scholars have disagreed about the effects of globalization on the production and reproduction of difference: Do fundamental differences endure, do cultures converge, or is there hybridization? This ...

<p>Although most models of reading development present orthographic knowledge as a more advanced and later developing form of knowledge than phonological knowledge, this dissertation presents a model of the development of ...

<p>The mass of the $W$ boson is one of the most important parameters in the </p><p>Standard Model. A precise measurement of the $W$ boson mass, together </p><p>with a precise measurement ...

<p>Impure Cinema: Political Pedagogies in Film and Theory asks what are the ways that the politics of film theory have been conceptualized since the era now known as "70s film theory." In particular, it analyzes the ...

<p>This dissertation argues that the civilian "political class" played an understudied yet decisive role in toppling Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship. In contrast with existing explanations for the regime's fall, ...

Diarrhea and malaria are two of the most devastating public health threats in the developing world, resulting in millions of childhood deaths each year. Part of the challenge in addressing these threats arises from the ...

<p>"Indirect Reflections" is a four-channel electro-acoustic composition. I explore in it the advantages that electronic composition offers to the music for dance. Specifically, I have been focusing on the possibility of ...

<p>The problem of learning a latent model for sparse or low-dimensional representation of high-dimensional data has attracted significant attention for many years. This thesis focuses on learning latent models for sparse ...