Browsing Theses and Dissertations, Electronic (ETDs) by Title
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Jacopo Bassano and the Environment of Painting
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-07-13)At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is difficult to ignore the frequently deleterious effects of human intervention into the landscape. But it comes as something of a surprise to discover that in the mid-sixteenth ... -
Japan's History Problem: Agency, Violence, and the Limits of Decolonizing History
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-10-15)If history-writing and modern forms of colonialism have been complicit with one another, how can we decolonize history-writing? The public appearance of former “comfort” women in 1992 and their demand for apology and ... -
Jewish Political Lives in the British Empire: Zionism, Nationalism, and Imperialism in Palestine, India, and South Africa, 1917-1939
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-08-07)This dissertation analyzes the multifaceted nature of Jewish politics in the British Empire during the rise of anticolonial national and transnational political movements. Though Jews in all modern empires grappled variously ... -
Jews in the Political Life of Abbasid Baghdad, 908-1258
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-10-11)This dissertation focuses on the relationship between the Abbasid caliphate and the Jews of medieval Baghdad. I use medieval Arabic chronicles as well as Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza to ... -
Jlinks: a novel isoform abundance estimation method using splice junctions
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-12-14)Transcripts, or interchangeably referred to as isoforms, have been well known to be involved in many important biological pathways and disease mechanisms such as cancer and mental disorders. Understanding the roles of ... -
JOINT ASSOCIATIONS OF PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE AND OBJECTIVELY MEASURED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WITH MORTALITY: THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDY / STUDY OF LATINOS (SOL)
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-05-01)Peripheral artery disease (PAD) and lower physical activity have been related to each other and increase mortality individually. Yet, their joint prognostic impact has not been systematically examined, especially in Hispanics ... -
Joint effects of maternal metabolic conditions and plasma branched-chain amino acids on child risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASD): Evidence of sex difference
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-06-26)Background: Maternal obesity and diabetes are known risk factors for the development of child autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The association of other maternal metabolic disorders with ASD have been much less studied. ... -
Joint Modeling and Estimation for Recurrent Events, Longitudinal Measurements and Survival Data
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-03-13)Recurrent events together with longitudinal measurements are commonly observed in follow-up studies where the observation is terminated by censoring or a primary failure event. In this dissertation, we developed joint ... -
Joint Modeling Of Hierarchical Data With Application To Prospective Pregnancy Studies
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2014-11-03)Although fecundity has been studied for decades, the heterogeneity among couples, both biologically and behaviorally, is not well understood. The length of the woman's menstrual cycle has been shown to play an important ... -
Joint Optimization of Fidelity and Commensurability for Manifold Alignment and Graph Matching
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-03-21)In this thesis, we investigate how to perform inference in settings in which the data consist of different modalities or views. For effective learning utilizing the information available, data fusion that considers all ... -
Joint Spatial-Angular Sparse Coding, Compressed Sensing, and Dictionary Learning for Diffusion MRI
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-03-02)Neuroimaging provides a window into the inner workings of the human brain to diagnose and prevent neurological diseases and understand biological brain function, anatomy, and psychology. Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging ... -
Jointly Learning Representations for Low-Resource Information Extraction
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-10-27)This thesis explores information extraction (IE) in \textit{low-resource} conditions, in which the quantity of high-quality human annotations are insufficient to fit statistical machine learning models. Such conditions ... -
Judged by the Generations: Baltimore’s Confederate Monuments and the Shaping of Historical Memory
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-05-02)In August 2017, the death of anti-racist protestor Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia lead to an American reckoning regarding the prominence of Confederate symbols in public spaces. Cities across the country began ... -
Judging War: Foreseeing Deterrence Failure and Why Russia May Choose War
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-10-08)Many believe that states have few uses for nuclear weapons. They agree with former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who noted the only purpose of nuclear weapons was to deter nuclear attack. Kenneth Waltz reinforced ... -
Juxtaposition of Overnight and Early Evening Indoor-Trapped Anophelines in Nchelenge District, Northern Zambia
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2022-05-04)Malaria, a parasitic disease of great public health importance and vectored by female mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus causes immense morbidity and mortality in many regions across the world, particularly in sub-Saharan ... -
K16 as a novel regulator of Nrf2 function in glabrous skin: Implications for pachyonychia congenita and its treatment
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-17)The painful palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK) arising in individuals with pachyonychia congenita (PC) exhibit a significant upregulation of danger-associated molecular patterns and skin barrier regulators. Mice null for keratin ... -
Kabuki syndrome: Reversing Intellectual Disability by Promoting Open Chromatin
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-11-16)Kabuki syndrome (KS) is a rare intellectual disability syndrome caused by mutations in two genes (KMT2D and KDM6A) both involved in promoting open chromatin. If an imbalance between open and closed chromatin states is ... -
Kakeya-Nikodym Problems and Geodesic Restriction Estimates for Eigenfunctions
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-19)We record work done by the author on the Kakeya-Nikodym problems, and we also record the joint work done by the author and Cheng Zhang on improved geodesic restriction estimates for eigenfunctions on compact Riemannian ... -
KANT'S ANALOGIES OF EXPERIENCE
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-11-21)I interpret Kant’s Analogies of Experience as an ensemble of mutually sustaining principles that jointly make possible the constitution of unitary temporal experience. Given the three modi of time (persistence – succession ... -
KARYOTYPE ENGINEERING: SYNTHESIS AND FUSION OF YEAST CHROMOSOMES
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-06-19)As part of the Sc2.0 project, we designed and synthesized synthetic chromosome I. The total length of synI is ~21.4% shorter than wild-type chromosome I, the smallest chromosome in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. SynI was designed ...