This dissertation traces the intellectual and social history of slavery in the Lower Congo over the Longue Durée. It examines how Bantu-speaking groups of the Lower Congo inherited, constructed, reconstructed, and passed on to younger generations a vocabulary that framed their shifting slaving practices from their arrival in the region...
Simulation studies are virtually all motivated by decision making. Because simulation output is stochastic and input models are never perfect, all decisions should include an accounting for risks. Input model risk refers to the exposure due to imperfect simulation input models that are estimated from real-world data, involving both the...
This thesis provides an introduction to decay rates for the damped wave equation on compact manifolds. It also gives a proof of a sharp decay rate for solutions to the damped wave equation on the torus with damping of a particular polynomial form. Finally it gives a proof of a...
Classical conditioning is a form of associative learning and can be used as a behavioral paradigm to model and investigate the neural mechanisms underlying associative learning. In this work, classical conditioning paradigms are used to test the effectiveness of a disease model on the impact of learning and emotional regulation...
Histone methylation plays an important role as an epigenetic regulator, capable of driving stable, persistent changes in gene expression without changing a cell's genetic code. Previous work has used stable isotope labeling (SILAC) in combination with mass spectrometry to observe the relationship between the methylation of two neighboring lysine sites...
This dissertation examines the longue durée political history of Ateker-speaking agro-pastoralists in the semi-arid plains of today’s Uganda – Kenya – Ethiopia – South Sudan borderlands. Today’s Ateker-speaking communities include the Karimojong, Teso, Turkana, Toposa, Dodos, Jie, Nyangatom, and Jiye. Over the past millennium, Ateker-speaking communities developed a diversity of...
Abstract This dissertation studies a creative archive composed of poems, novels, performances, and visual art produced after 1990 that increasingly represent the ocean as “one salt water”: a space of relations among Indigenous oceanic peoples, animals, plants, and other beings. In doing so, these texts work to forge solidarities and...
Multimetallic nanoparticles represent an important class of electrocatalysts which are critical for many energy and environmental applications including fuel cells, hydrogen production, and greenhouse gas elimination. The properties of these nanoparticles depend on their composition, size, shape, and structure. Therefore, developing new strategies which provide a high level of control...
A hybrid multimodal mobility system aims to deliver mobility as a service by integrating a broad range of existing and emerging public transportation services. The appeal of a hybrid system is twofold. First, it can strike a better balance between cost and level of service (accessibility, efficiency etc.). Second, it...
Optical fibers utilize nonlinear effects to help transmit soliton or near soliton pulses in a variety of contexts including optical communication systems and fiber lasers. Fiber lasers produce ultra-short pulses, down to a few femtoseconds in duration, via a process called mode-locking where modes of the optical cavity are synchronized...