• Statistical Methods for Manifold Recovery and C^{1, 1} Regression on Manifolds 

  Mohammed, Kitty

  High-dimensional data sets often have lower-dimensional structure taking the form of a submanifold of a Euclidean space. It is challenging but necessary to develop statistical methods for these data sets that respect the ...

• Seattle Rental Ad Texts and Processes of Segregation 

  Kennedy, Ian

  Recent work on racial residential segregation shows how individuals’ perceptions of neighborhoods influence their housing choices and therefore contribute to the reproduction of segregation. Rental housing advertisements ...

• Period Changes in Intergenerational Income Mobility between Welfare State Contexts in South Korea and the United States 

  Song, Chiho

  Social mobility has stalled or declined in most advanced welfare states in an era of rising inequality, implying that socioeconomic disadvantages persist across generations and questioning the permeable class structure ...

• #OVARIANCANCER: USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO FACILITATE HEALTH COMMUNICATION 

  Coffin, Tara Bethanne

  Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women. Women with a personal or family history of breast and ovarian cancer are encouraged to seek genetic testing, but fewer than 15 to 30% of eligible ...

• The Impact of Forecast Inconsistency On User Trust 

  Burgeno, Jessica Noel

  For high impact weather events, forecasts often start days in advance. Meteorologists believe that consistency among subsequent forecasts is important to user trust and can therefore be reluctant to make changes when newer, ...

• A Role for the Lateral Habenula in a Delay Based Decision Making Test 

  Rao, Yingxue

  The lateral habenula (LHb) is thought to provide an aversive or anti-reward signal in the mammalian brain under Pavlovian conditions. However, recent evidence suggests that the LHb also controls more complex decision-making ...

• Fear of Intimacy in the Interpersonal Process Model: A Multi-Modal Investigation 

  Manbeck, Katherine Elizabeth

  Abstract The Interpersonal Process Model (IPM) suggests that closeness develops in relationships when two people reciprocally engage in vulnerable self-disclosure, respond to each other, and perceive each other’s responses ...

• Anticorruption Agencies in Democracies 

  Chrun, Elizabeth

  This dissertation explains how governments can take meaningful (and less meaningful) steps to fight corruption when they face intense domestic pressure to clean up their act. Lawmakers create anticorruption agencies - ...

• Church, State and Sex: How Africa's transnational churches shape human rights 

  Dreier, Sarah Kristin

  Why have East African mainline churches adopted select transnational rights agendas while opposing others, and what are the consequences of these politics for women and sexual minorities? This research examines mainlines' ...

• Rapid modulation of dynamics and computation in neural systems 

  Pang, Rich

  A central goal in theoretical neuroscience is to understand how neural systems perform computations over the continuum of timescales that underlie behavior. In particular, what are the algorithms and mechanisms enabling ...

• Investigation of Background from the Inter-Spectrometer Penning Trap and Secondary Electron Emission in the KATRIN Experiment 

  Kippenbrock, Luke

  The KATRIN experiment aims to determine the neutrino mass with unprecedented precision by measuring the tritium $\beta$-decay spectrum with a tandem of MAC-E-filter spectrometers. The background rate measured at the ...

• Measuring the Precession Frequency in the E989 Muon g-2 Experiment 

  Fienberg, Aaron

  The E989 Muon $g-2$ Experiment aims to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_\mu$, to an unprecedented precision of 140 parts per billion (ppb). There currently stands a greater than 3$\sigma$ discrepancy ...

• Getting the most out of nanopores 

  Brinkerhoff, Henry Derek

  Over the past three decades, the fields of biophysics and biotechnology have seen an era of unprecedented growth, bolstered by the development of new experimental techniques. Prominent within these techniques are ...

• MuSun: A Precision Measurement of Nuclear Muon Capture in Deuterium with a Cryogenic Time Projection Chamber 

  Ryan, Rachel

  The MuSun experiment aims to measure the muon capture rate on deuterium to 1.5\%, allowing for the extraction of a low energy constant required to quantify the axial two body current in the framework of modern effective ...

• Equitably Ending the Fossil Fuel Era: Climate Justice, Capital, & the Carbon Budget 

  Lenferna, Georges Alexandre

  This dissertation makes the moral case for equitably transitioning away from fossil fuels in line with keeping global warming as close as possible to the Paris Climate Agreement’s more stringent target of keeping global ...

• Elucidating Levetiracetam action at the presynaptic terminal 

  Ciruelas, Kristine

  Levetiracetam (KeppraTM, LEV) is the first of a growing class of anti-epileptic drugs that shows great promise in the treatment of multiple neurological disorders. LEV has a unique receptor, Synaptic Vesicle Protein 2A ...

• Ubiquitin-mediated Regulation of RNA Polymerase I in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 

  Kamran, Sabrina

  Ribosomes are key cellular components ensuring that cells correctly synthesize their protein cohort. Dysregulation of this process can lead to improper cell growth and is linked to the progression of several types of ...

• Predicting maternal-fetal cannabinoid exposure during pregnancy using physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling and simulation 

  Patilea-Vrana, Gabriela Ioana

  Maternal marijuana (cannabis) use during pregnancy is associated with reduced fetal growth and subtle but persistent neurodevelopmental effects. It is not possible to establish the independent risk associated with maternal ...

• In Vitro to In Vivo Extrapolation of Transporter-Mediated Clearance of Drugs Using Quantitative Proteomics 

  Kumar, Vineet

  Prediction of in vivo drug clearance (CL) is an important aspect of drug discovery and development. Our ability to predict in vivo hepatic metabolic clearance and metabolic drug-drug interactions from in vitro studies using ...

• Characterizing the Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion membrane proteome 

  Dickinson, Mary Shelton

  Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common cause of bacterial sexually transmitted infection, responsible for millions of infections each year. Despite this high prevalence, the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of ...

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