Ecological forces affecting microbial eukaryotes in the coastal ocean by Gomez, Annika L.

“…The combined conclusions of these chapters demonstrate novel mechanisms by which top-down and bottom-up forces shape marine protistan communities.…”
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Quantitative Modeling for Guiding the Transition to Low-Carbon Logistics by Lehmann, Jonas

“…This thesis addresses the sector’s inherent decarbonization complexities, offering decision-support tools and insights across three chapters to decouple freight activity from carbon emissions. …”
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Towards A Robust Integrated Urban Mobility System: Public Transit and Ride-Sharing Systems by Guo, Xiaotong

“…Using a case study in Chicago, we show the potential to generate integrated urban mobility systems in different demand scenarios. The final chapter summarizes the whole dissertation and outlines potential avenues for future research directions.…”
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Empowering Energy Conservation: Low-Cost Interventions for Commercial and Residential Settings by Ha, Lan L.

“…The second chapter evaluates the effectiveness of a new behavioral initiative that aims to reduce residential electric and gas consumption. …”
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Documentation as a Tool for Algorithmic Accountability by Curtis, Taylor Lynn

“…It is divided into two substantive chapters. Firstly, Chapter 2 outlines how system behaviour can inform policy through documentation, linking the necessity of documentation to liability and proposing a concrete liability scheme based on documenting system understanding. …”
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Lineage-level within-species dynamics in the human facial skin microbiome by Baker, Jacob S.

“…In Chapter 3, I use these data to observe natural transmission events and assembly dynamics of the facial skin microbiome. …”
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Mechanistic Studies of Interfacial Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer to Molecularly Defined Surface Sites by Lewis, Noah B.

“…These studies constitute the first molecular-scale mechanistic understanding of elementary I-PCET reactions. Chapter 3 investigates how high concentrations of proton-neutral supporting electrolytes effect I-PCET kinetics. …”
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Tailoring Metal–Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting by Oppenheim, Julius Jacob

“…Chapter 3 realizes the insights from the preceding chapter to design and synthesize an industrially viable sorbent with high capacity below 30% RH and excellent cycling stability. …”
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Understanding Chromatin Organization and Dynamics with Coarse-Grained Modeling by Liu, Shuming

“…In Chapter 2, we present novel CG force fields trained with contrastive learning. …”
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Stochastic Dynamics on Integrable Lattice Models by Nicoletti, Matthew S.

“…Using structure preserving local moves for the dimer model, in Chapter 3 we construct another surface growth model in the AKPZ universality class, which has the dimer model Gibbs measures as stationary distributions. …”
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Probabilistic and Analytic Methods in Combinatorics by Sawhney, Mehtaab

“…The third chapter concerns a question of Vu regarding the singularity of the k-core of a random graph. …”
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Procollagen Folding in Health and Disease by Yammine, Kathryn Marie

“…In this thesis, we discuss some of the newly appreciated mechanisms involved in procollagen folding in health and disease. In Chapter 2, we explore the molecular basis of procollagen assembly, and uncover a new role for the triple helical domain sequence in guiding trimer assembly. …”
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Design and Synthesis of Stimuli-Responsive Polymers with Programmable Cleavability by Zafar, Hadiqa

“…The fifth and final chapter reports the first “mixed” cleavable comonomer approach to degradable polymers towards a polyacrylic acid system optimized for biodegradability. …”
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Molecular characterization of microbial interactions with labile dissolved organic matter by Halloran, Kathryn H.

“…This thesis addresses those challenges and questions. In Chapter 2, I explore the compound-specific uptake of metabolites by the copiotrophic gamma-proteobacterium Alteromonas macleodii, with a focus on metabolites derived from the cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus. …”
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Decoding divergence in marine protistan communities: from strain diversity to basin biogeography by Krinos Quinn, Arianna Isabella

“…I developed a pipeline for metatranscriptome analysis and taxonomic annotation to address the lack of tools built specifically for microbial eukaryotes, and created mock communities to assess recovery success in protistan metatranscriptome analysis workflows (Chapters 4 and 5). I applied these tools to a three-year metatranscriptomic dataset from Cape Cod Bay to investigate a recent emergence of a summer coccolithophore population in the 20-year time series, tracking shifts in nutrient physiology to identify potential bottom-up controls (Chapter 6). …”
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Small molecule motion within and through organic nanomaterials: an anthology by Kaser, Sam

“…This thesis chronicles three distinct projects united by the common theme of small molecule motion in organic materials. Chapter 1 provides a holistic introduction to key background for the main body chapters, Chapters 2-4. …”
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Characterization of Microbial Primary and Secondary Metabolism in the Marine Realm by Geller-McGrath, David Edward

“…This experience set the stage for my third chapter, in which I developed MetaPathPredict, a machine learning-based tool for predicting the metabolic potential of bacterial genomes. …”
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Instability Scaffolding: Enacting Strategic Instabilities to Produce Authentic Premium Wine by Zhang, Alan

“…Chapter Three offers insight into the modern-day operations of a world-renowned fine wine producer. …”
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Ultramafic Alteration and the Cooling of Earth and Mars by Murray, Joshua

“…I show that this framework reconciles the histories of \dc{} and atmospheric loss-to-space on Mars. My final chapter quantifies the effects of the alteration of ultramafic and mafic rocks across the Taconic orogeny in Newfoundland, Canada. …”
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Advancements in Models and Algorithms for Management Science by Yao, Yuanfan (Evan)

“…This thesis is composed of three independent chapters, each of which proposes novel modeling insights and algorithmic solutions for real-world problems. …”
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