Browsing Duke Dissertations by Submit Date
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Essays in Political Economy and Development Economics
(2019)This dissertation explores questions in political economy and in developmenteconomics. I ask and answer two research questions.First, I look at whether peaceful or violent protests are more effective atsteering policy change. ... -
Graphic Intimations: Postwar to Contemporary Asian Diasporic Art and Writing
(2019)Graphic Intimations: Postwar to Contemporary Asian Diasporic Art and Writing follows the oblique tensions in Asian diasporic creative compositions between art and writing, performance and inscription. Identifying ... -
Authenticity and Enhancement
(2019)Recent accounts of authenticity have defined the concept in terms of self-creation, self-discovery, or some combination of the two. While these accounts get something right about the concept, I argue that they fail to capture ... -
Investigating the Geological and Biogeographical Cenozoic History of the Amazon-Andes Region
(2019)The Amazon-Andes region of tropical South America plays host to the world’s largest river, its highest biodiversity and one of its highest mountain chains, as well as a long and complex history. As such, it represents an ... -
Probing the Interfaces of Epigenetic Complexes: Efforts Towards Elucidating and Targeting Critical Protein:Protein and Protein:lncRNA Interactions of Lysine-Specific Demethylase 1 (KDM1A/LSD1)
(2019)The post translational modification (PTM) of histone proteins is a highly dynamic process that is utilized in the control of gene transcription. This epigenetic process involves enzymatic ‘writers’ and ‘erasers’ which place ... -
The Water-Energy Nexus for Hydraulic Fracturing
(2019)The water energy nexus represents the intersection of water use, energy production, electricity generation, and waste generation and disposal. The rapid rise of unconventional natural gas and oil production through the combined ... -
Analytical Models for the Structural-Acoustic Response of Elastic Barriers Subject to Acoustic Forcing
(2019)Analytical models are developed for the structural-acoustic response of flexible panels to obliquely incident, planar harmonic acoustic waves. These models provide a detailed understanding of the complex effects of structural ... -
Essays in Decision Theory
(2019)This dissertation consists of three essays in decision theory. The first chapter is an introduction. The second chapter studies individual decision making when deadlines are random. Since the quality of any decision relies ... -
Coordinating Software and Hardware for Performance Under Power Constraints
(2019)For more than 50 years since its birth in 1965, Moore's Law has been a self-fulfilling prophecy that drives computing forward. However, as Dennard scaling ends, chip power density presents a challenge that becomes increasingly ... -
Evolution, Development, and Morphology of Cetacean Skull Novelties
(2019)Novelty presents a paradox in evolutionary biology. Novel features appear to be qualitatively unique to a specific type of organism, but historical continuity requires that some common form must have pre-existed them. This ... -
Advancements in Probabilistic Machine Learning and Causal Inference for Personalized Medicine
(2019)In this dissertation, we present four novel contributions to the field of statistics with the shared goal of personalizing medicine to individual patients. These methods are developed to directly address problems in health ... -
Three Essays on Energy and Development Economics
(2019)Global energy-use patterns are characterized by deep inequality. Electricity is indispensable for households, clinics, schools and firms, yet over a billion people live without it. At the same time, nearly three billion ... -
Architecture and the Performance of Citizenship in a Global City: Singapore, 1965-2015
(2019)In this dissertation, I present the ways in which architecture was used to perform citizenship in post-colonial Singapore from 1965-2015. During the first fifty years of independence, architects, alongside other artists ... -
Networks of Competition: The Foundation of Market Structure and Competitive Constraint in Organizational Ecosystems
(2019)Research in organizational ecology demonstrates that an organization’s competitive position within its market is highly associated with its survival chances, and that patterns of competitive constraint among organizations ... -
Essays on the Determinants of Public Funding for Universities and the Impact on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(2019)This dissertation is comprised of three studies that investigate the implications and determinants of public funding for universities. The first chapter lays down the foundation for the other two studies. I discuss ... -
Regulation of Synaptic Processing in the Cerebellar Cortex by Neuromodulation and Protein Trafficking
(2019)Examining the coordination of excitatory and inhibitory (E/I) activity within cortical circuits is a fundamental approach to understanding normal and aberrant circuit function. Alteration to this E/I coordination is one ... -
The Poetics of Labor: Visions of Work and Community in England, 1730-1890
(2019)The Poetics of Labor argues for a reconsideration of how manual labor functions within poetic texts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. As scholarship over the last forty years and onward has demonstrated, ... -
Management and Optimal Use of Soil and Water Resources in Ecohydrological Systems
(2019)Human activities are shifting hydrological and biogeochemical cycles further from their natural states, often resulting in negative impacts on the environment. Because of increased pressures due to climate change and population ... -
Big House: Women, Prison, and the Domestic
(2019)Big House: Women, Prison, and the Domestic, addresses the development of the contemporary US carceral state, foregrounding the confinement and control of women and the evolving ideological frameworks and disciplinary techniques ... -
Bayesian Dynamic Modeling and Forecasting of Count Time Series
(2019)Problems of forecasting related time series of counts arise in a diverse array of applications such as consumer sales, epidemiology, ecology, law enforcement, and tourism. Characteristics of high-frequency count data including ...
