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Hearing In Time: Bergsonian Concepts Of Time In Maurice Ravel’S L’Heure Espagnole, Holly Elizabeth Chung Apr 2021

Hearing In Time: Bergsonian Concepts Of Time In Maurice Ravel’S L’Heure Espagnole, Holly Elizabeth Chung

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation examines Maurice Ravel’s first opera, L’Heure espagnole (1907–1911), as a turning point in the composer’s aesthetic approach, marking a moment at which he reacted strongly against Debussy’s influence and seems to have increasingly oriented his compositional perspective toward comedy, mechanism, and manipulations of musical time. In recent years, Ravel scholars have identified promising connections between Ravel’s aesthetics and Bergsonism, but the musical underpinnings of Bergson’s philosophy of time itself have remained vastly undertheorized. My project sets out to rectify this by locating both Ravel’s aesthetics and Bergson’s philosophy of time within the music-historical context of debussysme, and identifying …

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Mechanistic Insights Into The Roles And Activities Of Polymerases In Host And Viral Replication, Vincent Nghi Duong Apr 2021

Mechanistic Insights Into The Roles And Activities Of Polymerases In Host And Viral Replication, Vincent Nghi Duong

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Polymerases are vital enzymes in the continuation of life, responsible for the replication of genetic material and the conversion of genetic information to necessary products. A large subset of these polymerases is dedicated to the high-fidelity replication and repair of DNA in the cell cycle of organisms. In addition, viruses utilize polymerases in order to produce DNA or RNA used to synthesize products for virion assembly. With such an important role, polymerases have been a focus in many therapeutic studies of cancer and antiviral treatments. This dissertation focuses on three different polymerases, PrimPol, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reverse transcriptase (RT), …

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Structural Insights Into Heterodimerization And Catalysis Of The Human Cis- Prenyltransferase “Ngbr/Dhdds” Complex, Ban H. Edani Apr 2021

Structural Insights Into Heterodimerization And Catalysis Of The Human Cis- Prenyltransferase “Ngbr/Dhdds” Complex, Ban H. Edani

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Cis-prenyltransferses (cis-PTases) constitute a family of enzymes involved in the synthesis of isoprenoid lipids required for various biological functions across all domains of life. The eukaryotic cis-PTase catalyzes the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of dolichyl phosphate, an indispensable glycosyl carrier lipid required for protein glycosylation in the lumen of endoplasmic reticulum. Based on enzyme composition, cis-PTases can be either homomeric or heteromeric enzymes. The human cis-PTase possesses a heteromeric configuration consisting of the two evolutionary related subunits: NgBR (dehydrodolichyl diphosphate synthase accessory subunit, first identified as a Nogo-B receptor) and DHDDS (dehydrodolichyl diphosphate synthase catalytic subunit). Recently, several mutations …

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Loss Of Atrx Confers Dna Repair Defects And Parp Inhibitor Sensitivity In Glioma, Jennifer Mary Garbarino Apr 2021

Loss Of Atrx Confers Dna Repair Defects And Parp Inhibitor Sensitivity In Glioma, Jennifer Mary Garbarino

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Alpha Thalassemia/Mental Retardation Syndrome X-Linked (ATRX) is mutated frequently in gliomas and represents a potential target for cancer therapeutics development. ATRX is known to function as a histone chaperone that incorporates the histone variant, H3.3, into the genome. Studies have implicated ATRX in key DNA damage response (DDR) pathways, including non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), homologous recombination (HR), and replication stress response, but a distinct role for this protein in DNA repair has yet to be fully elucidated. To further investigate ATRX function in glioma, I created CRISPR knockout clones in multiple glioma cell lines. These cell lines were found to …

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Epic Black: Poetics In Protest In The Time Of Black Lives Matter, David Marcello De León Apr 2021

Epic Black: Poetics In Protest In The Time Of Black Lives Matter, David Marcello De León

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This dissertation examines certain book-length poetic works released between 2014 to 2016, corresponding to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement formed in the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2013. I argue that these works emerge from the same political and poetic urgency that demanded a movement like BLM. Using Beyoncé’s Lemonade (2016) as an entrance, I focus on a genre/strategy that Farah Jasmine Griffin calls Epic Black, a poetics that uses the hypervisibility of Black bodies, the inescapable place that Black expression has in popular American culture, and the scale and scope of the Western …

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Sursum Ductio. Reasoning Upward. An Investigation Into The Vertical Structure Of Dante's Commedia., Sandro-Angelo De Thomasis Apr 2021

Sursum Ductio. Reasoning Upward. An Investigation Into The Vertical Structure Of Dante's Commedia., Sandro-Angelo De Thomasis

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This dissertation investigates “vertical readings” of the Commedia, i.e., the interpretive method that compares and contrasts same-numbered cantos in the three canticles of the poem: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Although there is a consensus that specific vertical readings are intentional, critics remain skeptical of extrapolating it into a totalizing system. This dissertation aims to delineate the methodology’s parameters, trace its emergence in the field of Dante studies, and anchor it within the context of Italian Duecento and Trecento culture. This research investigates the methodology by gathering vertical readings in Dante studies into a comprehensive archive. This catalog provides valuable information …

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A Domain-General Perspective On Deviancy: People’S Sensitivity To Deviancy And Its Social Consequences, Anton Gollwitzer Apr 2021

A Domain-General Perspective On Deviancy: People’S Sensitivity To Deviancy And Its Social Consequences, Anton Gollwitzer

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In this dissertation, I propose that people’s sensitivity to deviancy is a domain-general phenomenon—an aspect of the individual experience that manifests across distinct domains. Supporting this possibility, across a multi-faceted approach (cross-cultural, developmental, nonconscious processes), I document that people’s responses to deviancy—their evaluative and affective responses to distortions in regularities and patterns—overlap across highly divergent domains (e.g., nonsocial stimuli, social actions, physical characteristics, nonvisual stimuli, visual stimuli). Additionally, in line with this broad conceptualization of deviancy, I find that people’s domain-general responding towards deviancy is largely negative in affect, emerges at a young age, exists cross-culturally, and may even causally …

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Forest Conservation Within Bounds: An Analysis Of The Development And Impact Of Protected Area Policies In Uganda, Michaela Foster Apr 2021

Forest Conservation Within Bounds: An Analysis Of The Development And Impact Of Protected Area Policies In Uganda, Michaela Foster

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Deforestation is a critical global challenge in the 21st century. Policies that effectively tackle forest loss are essential given that the consequences of deforestation can be severe for both people and nature. There is hence an urgent need to generate knowledge about effective policies and, in particular, to unpack how existing conservation interventions have contributed to improving forest governance and outcomes. Protected areas have emerged as the pre-eminent tool for conserving forests worldwide, and in view of their role as one of the most prominent conservation policies, it is imperative to assess their effects. This dissertation addresses this research need …

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Make A Name For Yourself: Recognizability, Prosociality, And Identity Expression In Online Pseudonymous Contexts, Katie Marie Duchscherer Apr 2021

Make A Name For Yourself: Recognizability, Prosociality, And Identity Expression In Online Pseudonymous Contexts, Katie Marie Duchscherer

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Given the increasing prevalence of social media in people’s social lives, understanding the dynamics of interpersonal interaction online is timely and important, both theoretically and practically. One key element in these dynamics is the way people identify themselves online. Identity can influence how people see themselves and others, as well as how people treat others. One way through which people create or claim an identity online is through the use of a pseudonym: a self-designed identifier that is used in place of one’s actual name. My dissertation investigates how Internet users come to value persistent online identifications, such as pseudonyms, …

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Wobbling Towards The Future: Applications Of The Radial Velocity Technique To Detect Ever-Smaller Exoplanets, Allen Bradford Davis Apr 2021

Wobbling Towards The Future: Applications Of The Radial Velocity Technique To Detect Ever-Smaller Exoplanets, Allen Bradford Davis

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The past several decades have seen an explosion in humanity's knowledge about the existence of distant worlds. Thousands of exoplanets have been now been discovered thanks to the development and refinement of the radial velocity (RV) and transit techniques. We are beginning to piece together an understanding of the diversity of these worlds and of the mechanisms that drive planet formation and evolution. While this progress has been titanic, Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars (the places most suited to host life as we know it) remain out of our reach. Noise created by stellar activity along …

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Service Abstractions For Scalable Deep Learning Inference At The Edge, Peizhen Guo Apr 2021

Service Abstractions For Scalable Deep Learning Inference At The Edge, Peizhen Guo

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Deep learning driven intelligent edge has already become a reality, where millions of mobile, wearable, and IoT devices analyze real-time data and transform those into actionable insights on-device. Typical approaches for optimizing deep learning inference mostly focus on accelerating the execution of individual inference tasks, without considering the contextual correlation unique to edge environments and the statistical nature of learning-based computation. Specifically, they treat inference workloads as individual black boxes and apply canonical system optimization techniques, developed over the last few decades, to handle them as yet another type of computation-intensive applications. As a result, deep learning inference on edge …

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Three Essays On The Financial Contracting Of Corporate Debt, Steven Michael Fortney Apr 2021

Three Essays On The Financial Contracting Of Corporate Debt, Steven Michael Fortney

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My dissertation examines the financial contracting of corporate debt. One theme that runs through every chapter is the importance of covenants to the debt contracting process. Chapters 1 and 2 explore the way that covenants are used differentially by junior and senior debt both in practice and in theory. Chapter 3 looks at different classes of covenants and the distinct roles they play in the modern corporate debt contract. In the first chapter, I investigate the relative covenant usage of private bank loans and public bonds. I examine a novel dataset (created by machine-learning) of comparable debt contracts matched by …

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Water-Oxidation Electrocatalysis And Concerted Proton-Electron Transfer By High-Valent Complexes Of Copper And Nickel, Katherine Jennie Fisher Apr 2021

Water-Oxidation Electrocatalysis And Concerted Proton-Electron Transfer By High-Valent Complexes Of Copper And Nickel, Katherine Jennie Fisher

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The development of renewable energy resources to replace traditional fossil fuels is among the major challenges facing the world today. One hurdle to fully transitioning to renewable energy sources to meet the world’s energy demand is energy storage. A potential solution to this problem is to store energy generated from renewable resources in the form of chemical bonds, as plants do in the process of photosynthesis. Artificial photosynthetic systems could be used to split water into protons, electrons, and oxygen, and those components could then be used to generate fuel, such as H2, that could be stored until needed. Water …

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Temporal Articulatory Stability, Phonological Variation, And Lexical Contrast Preservation In Diaspora Tibetan, Christopher Alden Geissler Apr 2021

Temporal Articulatory Stability, Phonological Variation, And Lexical Contrast Preservation In Diaspora Tibetan, Christopher Alden Geissler

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation examines how lexical tone can be represented with articulatory gestures, and the ways a gestural perspective can inform synchronic and diachronic analysis of the phonology and phonetics of a language. Tibetan is chosen an example of a language with interacting laryngeal and tonal phonology, a history of tonogenesis and dialect diversification, and recent contact-induced realignment of the tonal and consonantal systems. Despite variation in voice onset time (VOT) and presence/absence of the lexical tone contrast, speakers retain a consistent relative timing of consonant and vowel gestures. Recent research has attempted to integrate tone into the framework of Articulatory …

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Patterns Of Adaptive And Purifying Selection In The Genomes Of Phocid Seals, Stephen John Gaughran Apr 2021

Patterns Of Adaptive And Purifying Selection In The Genomes Of Phocid Seals, Stephen John Gaughran

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Modern genomic sequencing technologies provide the opportunity to address long-standing questions in molecular evolution with empirical data. In this dissertation, I combine this new technology with advances in statistical population genetics to describe how deleterious mutations and adaptive evolution have shaped the genomic evolution of phocid seals. In Chapter 1, I model historical demographic processes using whole genome sequences of eight seal taxa: the Hawaiian monk seal, the Mediterranean monk seal, the northern elephant seal, the southern elephant seal, the Weddell seal, the grey seal, the Baltic ringed seal, and the Saimaa ringed seal. Through this, I establish that the …

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Text Summarization Across High And Low-Resource Settings, Alexander Richard Fabbri Apr 2021

Text Summarization Across High And Low-Resource Settings, Alexander Richard Fabbri

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Natural language processing aims to build automated systems that can both understand and generate natural language textual data. As the amount of textual data available online has increased exponentially, so has the need for intelligence systems to comprehend and present it to the world. As a result, automatic text summarization, the process by which a text's salient content is automatically distilled into a concise form, has become a necessary tool. Automatic text summarization approaches and applications vary based on the input summarized, which may constitute single or multiple documents of different genres. Furthermore, the desired output style may consist of …

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Discovery And Validation Of Riboswitches And Other Ncrnas In Over 50 Bacterial Genomes, Gadareth Higgs Apr 2021

Discovery And Validation Of Riboswitches And Other Ncrnas In Over 50 Bacterial Genomes, Gadareth Higgs

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Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) were previously overlooked by molecular biology. But their importance is being increasingly recognized in science. Between 1989 and 2020, seven scientists shared three Nobel Prizes for their discovery and work in ncRNAs. I suspect that this trend will pick up over the following decades. Of ncRNAs, riboswitches stand out for their versatility and prospects for future discovery. Bacterial riboswitches consist of an aptamer region and an expression platform. The aptamer binds a ligand, usually a signaling molecule, coenzyme, inorganic ion, nucleotide derivative, amino acid, or other metabolite. This then causes a conformational change in the downstream expression …

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Essays In Network Economics, Jian Xin Xin Heng Apr 2021

Essays In Network Economics, Jian Xin Xin Heng

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Chapter 1 explores possibilities for non-parametrically identifying peer effects. In my model, outcomes associated with individuals are an unknown function of expected peer outcomes and other individual-specific attributes. Unobserved heterogeneity in outcomes across individuals is captured by an additively separable individual-specific error. The error is mean dependent on peer group, rendering expected peer outcome an endogenous covariate. Exogenous peer attributes are absent from the individuals’ remaining covariates.\\ When the data is cross-sectional, I propose imposing a stringent but intuitive assumption on how individual outcomes depend on expected peer outcomes and remaining individual-specific attributes. Specifically, I assume one of the individual-specific …

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Taking Sides With The World: Between Politics And Poetics From 1794 To 1960, Irina Kogan Apr 2021

Taking Sides With The World: Between Politics And Poetics From 1794 To 1960, Irina Kogan

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This dissertation traces moments in the German intellectual tradition in which poetic or aesthetic pursuits find themselves confronted with the question of the political: during the period of Weimar Classicism, the Weimar Republic, and after the Shoah. I illuminate the underlying progression from a sharp separation between politics and poetics to a revision of what it means to be human: away from the notions of autonomy and universality and towards those of plurality and alterity. I first explore the frame narrative of Goethe’s "Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten" (1795), arguing that its specific textual complexity subverts its apparent narrative of positing a …

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The Emancipated Empire: Faustin I Soulouque And The Origins Of The Second Haitian Empire, 1847-1859, Emmanuel Lachaud Apr 2021

The Emancipated Empire: Faustin I Soulouque And The Origins Of The Second Haitian Empire, 1847-1859, Emmanuel Lachaud

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Historians of postemancipation will recognize the questions that drive my dissertation, “The Emancipated Empire: Faustin I Soulouque and the Origins of the Second Haitian Empire, 1847-1859.” Among other things I am interested in examining the process by which Haitians, elite, urban, and rural in the late 1840s rejected the political legitimacy of republicanism and forged a common sense of nationhood that befitted what they felt were new circumstances—hence their conviction that the time was ripe for a sweeping symbolic change to empire and monarchy.This line of inquiry follows a long succession of theoretical explanations on the Atlantic phenomenon of emancipation …

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The Manifold Of Neural Responses Informs Physiological Circuits In The Visual System, Luciano Dyballa Apr 2021

The Manifold Of Neural Responses Informs Physiological Circuits In The Visual System, Luciano Dyballa

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The rapid development of multi-electrode and imaging techniques is leading to a data explosion in neuroscience, opening the possibility of truly understanding the organization and functionality of our visual systems. Furthermore, the need for more natural visual stimuli greatly increases the complexity of the data. Together, these create a challenge for machine learning. Our goal in this thesis is to develop one such technique. The central pillar of our contribution is designing a manifold of neurons, and providing an algorithmic approach to inferring it. This manifold is functional, in the sense that nearby neurons on the manifold respond similarly (in …

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Construction Of The Universal Second Motivic Chern Class Using Cluster Varieties, Oleksii Kislinskyi Apr 2021

Construction Of The Universal Second Motivic Chern Class Using Cluster Varieties, Oleksii Kislinskyi

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Denote by $B\Gamma$ the classifying space of an algebraic group $\Gamma(\mathbb{C})$. In this thesis we will take Milnor's realization of it -- the classifying simplicial space $B_{\Gamma\bullet}$. Consider the weight two motivic complex $ \mathbb{Z}_{\mathcal{M}}(2)$ for a regular algebraic variety $X$, placed in degrees $[1,4]$: $$ B_2(\mathbb{C}(X)) \to \bigwedge^2 \mathbb{C}(X)^* \to \bigoplus\limits_{D\in div(X)}\mathbb{C}(D)^* \to \bigoplus\limits_{D\in cod_2( X)}\mathbb{Z}.$$ Let $G$ be a split semisimple simply connected algebraic group over $\mathbb{Q}$. Then the degree 4 cohomology $H^4(B_{G\bullet}, \mathbb{Z}_{\mathcal{M}}(2))$ is known to be isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}$. This can be deduced, for example, from the main result of Brylinski and Deligne \cite{BD}, although they …

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Identifying Mechanisms Of Drug Tolerance In Egfr Mutant Lung Cancer, Bomiao Hu Apr 2021

Identifying Mechanisms Of Drug Tolerance In Egfr Mutant Lung Cancer, Bomiao Hu

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The majority of EGFR mutant lung adenocarcinomas respond well to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). However, the majority of these responses are partial with drug tolerant residual disease remaining even at the time of maximal response. This residual disease serves as a reservoir for the emergence of acquired resistance and tumor relapse, which inevitably occurs in patients treated with TKIs. It is thus critical to understand the biology of residual tumor cells and find out the mechanisms that underlie drug tolerance. Knowledge of such mechanisms could lead to the identification of potential strategies to forestall the emergence of drug resistance. …

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Essays On Game And Economic Theory, Xiangliang Li Apr 2021

Essays On Game And Economic Theory, Xiangliang Li

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This dissertation studies a range of topics in game and economic theory. Chapter 1 proposes a new solution to the two-player bargaining problem of Nash (1950): The Consensus solution. The Consensus solution maximizes the total amount of options that both players agree are worse than the solution but better than no-cooperation. It can be characterized by a simple equality. It satisfies all the axioms of the Nash solution except Axiom IIA (Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives); the Nash solution satisfies all its axioms except one which says: when both players' utilities of no-cooperation become lower creating additional room for players to …

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Dynamics Of Unipotent Subgroups On Infinite Volume Space, Minju Lee Apr 2021

Dynamics Of Unipotent Subgroups On Infinite Volume Space, Minju Lee

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This thesis consists of five separate projects. They are organized into the following sections: 1. Orbit closures of unipotent flows for hyperbolic manifolds with Fuchsian ends. In joint work with Oh, we establish an analogue of Ratner's orbit closure theorem for any connected closed subgroup generated by unipotent elements in $\mathrm{SO}(d, 1)$ acting on the space $\Gamma\backslash\mathrm{SO}(d, 1)$, assuming that the associated hyperbolic manifold $M=\Gamma\backslash\mathbb H^d$ is a convex cocompact manifold with Fuchsian ends. 2. Topological proof of Benoist-Quint. Let $G=\mathrm{SO}^\circ(d,1)$, $\Delta

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Non-State Superpowers, Transnational Challenges, And 21st Century Global Order: Private Sector Climate Action In An Age Of State Inaction, Charlotte Jude Hulme Apr 2021

Non-State Superpowers, Transnational Challenges, And 21st Century Global Order: Private Sector Climate Action In An Age Of State Inaction, Charlotte Jude Hulme

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This project explores the new actors, issues, and dynamics that are reshaping the land-scape and context in which states will have to advance their interests in the 21st century. Examining the case study of private sector climate action, it demonstrates that select transnational actors have not just the capacity to alter relationships between govern-ments, as scholars like Nye and Keohane anticipated in the 1970s, but the ability and, increasingly, the ambition to address non-traditional issues that states cannot address independently. Focusing on 34 of the world’s largest companies, representing four in-dustry groups (energy-intensive, automotive, technology, and finance) and three main …

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Rna Methylation And Ythdf Readers In Posttranscriptional Regulation And Development, Cassandra Kontur Apr 2021

Rna Methylation And Ythdf Readers In Posttranscriptional Regulation And Development, Cassandra Kontur

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Development in animals requires precise and coordinated changes in gene expression. This genetic remodeling is achieved through extensive regulatory networks of proteins and RNAs that function together to specify new cell fates and patterns. One developmental event heavily reliant on these regulatory networks is the maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT), a universal step in metazoan embryogenesis in which a fertilized oocyte is reprogrammed into a pluripotent embryo. The earliest stages of the MZT are governed by maternally inherited gene products, which are required for cellular functions in the initially transcriptionally silent embryo. To shift developmental control to the zygote, these maternal mRNAs …

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A Constitution Contested: Governors, Assemblies, And Imperial Politics In Jamaica And New York, 1675-1730, Winston Sinclair Hill Apr 2021

A Constitution Contested: Governors, Assemblies, And Imperial Politics In Jamaica And New York, 1675-1730, Winston Sinclair Hill

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This dissertation focuses on the constitutional politics of England, and then Britain’s, transatlantic empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the lens of Jamaica and New York. In those two colonies, as in the rest of the Atlantic empire, colonial elites and imperial authorities were in perpetual political conflict. In this dissertation, I explain why the conflict persisted without resolution. Historians, though they rarely answer this question, have described fundamental transatlantic clashes of interests, and I take these as my starting point. I argue that each side’s ideological and material interests interwove with and sustained one another, and were …

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Animating Heritage: Affective Experiences, Institutional Networks, And Themed Consumption In The Japanese Cultural Industries, Heidi K. Lam Apr 2021

Animating Heritage: Affective Experiences, Institutional Networks, And Themed Consumption In The Japanese Cultural Industries, Heidi K. Lam

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This dissertation ethnographically examines a Japanese historical themed park to illuminate the cultural industries’ role in shaping Japanese identity through creative labor, consumption, and institutional relationships. It argues that cultural heritage is animated through embodied experiences (taiken) with performative elements and contingent contexts that take place around a central organization’s selective interpretation and staging of the past. This dissertation is based on 15 months of fieldwork in 2015-2017 at and around “Edo Town,” the pseudonym for a historical themed park in Japan that evokes the Edo or Tokugawa period (1603-1867) in Japan’s history. I explore the creative labor, institutional networks, …

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Living And Judging: Studies In Pragmatic Reasoning In Philosophy, Literature, And Law, Tobias Kuehne Apr 2021

Living And Judging: Studies In Pragmatic Reasoning In Philosophy, Literature, And Law, Tobias Kuehne

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation presents five studies on the problem of formalization. Every body of knowledge—whether it be scientific, philosophical, literary, practical, or personal—has its own conventions by which that knowledge is generated, arranged, reworked, presented, and defended. But formalization is rarely without its blind spots or glitches. Sometimes, a body of knowledge seeks to mask its techniques of formalization to cover up its own contingency or lack of ultimate answers. In this process, rhetoric plays an elusive dual role. Rhetoric sometimes contributes to formalization, while sometimes undermining it. Studying the rhetoric of a body of knowledge thus serves as an access …

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