Browsing ETD -- Doctoral Dissertations by Title
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Rabbis, Rabbas, and Maharats: Aspiration, Innovation, and Orthodoxy in American Women's Talmud Programs
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-10-25)Based on several years of fieldwork in Orthodox Jewish Women’s Talmud programs in New York City, and the organizations that support them, this dissertation focuses on both the embattled process of religious legal education ... -
Race and Romantic Visions: A Tragic Reading
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-05-08)My dissertation explores a set of creative intersections between romanticism, black political thought, and Nietzschean philosophy. In so doing it asks two overarching questions. First, how do different ethical theories, ... -
RACIAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC DIFFERENCES IN ORGAN DONATION AND ACCESS TO SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-05-17)Solid organ transplantation, a curative healthcare intervention for patients with end-stage disease of the liver or kidney, precipitates fervent discourse around supply, from who are deceased donor organs recovered, and ... -
Racial Disparities in Blood Pressure Control and Implications of Hypertension Guidelines
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-04-20)This dissertation examines key issues for improving hypertension management and the implications of recent guidelines for cardiovascular health and disparities. We used multiple data sources and study designs to inform our ... -
Racial Politics and Social Policy in Urban Canada
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-10-24)The dissertation presents findings from a comparative study of urban policies the provincial governments of Quebec and Ontario introduced simultaneously, yet independently, in the year of 2006. Its central purpose is to ... -
Racial School Segregation and the Transition to College
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-06-24)Prior studies generally find that attending black-segregated schools is detrimental across a range of academic outcomes, but much research on the causes and consequences of school segregation rely on single time-point ... -
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the HIV Care Continuum: Better Targets and Better Measures
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-05-30)Background: The United States (US) National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) prioritized reductions in disparities in HIV care and improvements in HIV care retention, antiretroviral therapy (ART) use, and viral suppression ... -
Racialized Discourse at the Intersection of Meaning, Mind, and Metaphysics
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-02-19)Racialized discourse is language that transmits potentially harmful representations of racial groups. It is also a tool for maintaining status quo racial hierarchies. A theory of racialized discourse should describe the ... -
RACISM AND CANCER PREVENTION: THE ROLE OF PERCEIVED RACISM AND RACE-BASED RESIDENTIAL SEGRETATION ON BEHAVIORAL CANCER RISK PROFILES
(Johns Hopkins University, 2008-04-24)Problem statement: Cancer is a significant public health problem in the United States; since 1999 cancer has been the leading cause of death among those 85 years and younger. Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer exist. ... -
Radiation-driven, geometrically thick, dusty obscuration in active galactic nuclei
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-10-05)Substantial evidence points to dusty, geometrically thick tori obscuring the central engines of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), but so far no mechanism satisfactorily explains why cool dust in the torus remains in a puffy ... -
RADICAL SAM ENZYMES IN THIENAMYCIN BIOSYNTHESIS
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-12-07)Despite its broad anti-infective activity, the biosynthesis of the paradigm carbapenem antibiotic, thienamycin, remains largely unknown. Apart from the first two biosynthetic steps shared with a simple carbapenem, the ... -
Raghav Goyal - Understanding sex determination in the female germline of Drosophila melanogaster
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-01-16)Germline sex determination is a key aspect of sexual development that allows germ cells to develop along either a male or female path to produce sperm or eggs. In most animal models, signals from surrounding somatic cells ... -
RANDOM DOT PRODUCT GRAPHS A MODEL FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS
(Johns Hopkins University, 2008-02-01)We develop a new set of random graph models. The motivation for these mod- els comes from social networks and is based on the idea of common interest. We represent a social network as a graph, in which vertices correspond ... -
RANDOM DRIFT: CHANCE AND EXPLANATION IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
(Johns Hopkins University, 2006-08-03)The central claim for which I argue in this dissertation is that there are important phenomena that occur by random drift that evolutionary biologists explain using a strategy I term “process explanation.” This claim ... -
Random Graph Modeling and Discovery
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-10-16)In the first part of this thesis, we present a general class of models for random graphs that is applicable to a broad range of problems, including those in which graphs have complicated edge structures. These models need ... -
Ranking and Retrieval under Semantic Relevance
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-10-28)This thesis presents a series of conceptual and empirical developments on the ranking and retrieval of candidates under semantic relevance. Part I of the thesis introduces the concept of uncertainty in various semantic ... -
Rapamycin-based macrocyclic library development and Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter 1 (ENT1) inhibition
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-07-08)The current battery of pharmacological approaches to modulate disease-causing protein targets has a limited reach. Traditional small molecule drugs can address proteins or enzymes with deep hydrophobic pockets, while ... -
RAPID DETECTION OF VIABLE BACTERIA IN AGRICULTURAL WASH WATERS – A DROPLET-BASED APPROACH
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-10-31)Foodborne illness is a significant public health concern worldwide, with a global burden of disease comparable to HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The World Health Organization estimated there were approximately 2 ... -
RATIONAL ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUG USE IN PREGNANT AND POSTPARTUM WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV.
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-01-08)Effective antiretroviral therapy is critical during pregnancy for women living with HIV (WLHIV) for the health of both the mother and the fetus, but there are knowledge gaps in the pharmacology of new HIV drugs, physiologic ... -
Rational Cancer Diagnostics Using Rare Mutation Detection Technology With Massively Parallel Sequencing
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-03-24)Worldwide, cancers remain a leading cause of death. The judicious use of cancer diagnostics -- broadly defined as tests for cancer -- has great potential to reduce disease morbidity and mortality. Impeding this potential ...