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- The predominant, categorical system used to classify and diagnose psychiatric disorders suffers from several critical scientific limitations, including extensive comorbidity, unreliability, and disorder heterogeneity. As such, clinical psychological scientists are increasingly moving away from this traditional, categorical system, and toward empirically-based, dimensional, and transdiagnostic alternatives such as the Hierarchical Taxonomy...
- Keyword:
- psychopathology, mental health, diagnosis, structural equation modeling, adolescence, and personality
- Subject:
- Personality psychology and Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Brandes, Cassandra Margaret
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16582 and etdadmin_upload_986185
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- In the Maximum-a-Posteriori (MAP) Inference problem, for any given probability distribution, the goal is to find the point in the support of that distribution with the highest probability. Potts models and Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) are probabilistic models that were introduced in the context of statistical physics several decades ago....
- Keyword:
- MAP Inference, Potts Model, Determinantal Point Process, Linear Programming, Streaming Algorithms, and Online Algorithms
- Subject:
- Statistics and Computer science
- Creator:
- Talla, Aravind Reddy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16561 and etdadmin_upload_985524
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- Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration for women has risen significantly. Black women are disproportionately represented among incarcerated women. Formerly incarcerated women and men face similar barriers upon release from incarceration, such as obtaining stable and gainful employment, securing safe and affordable housing, and reconnecting with children...
- Keyword:
- black women, criminal justice, reentry, and incarceration
- Subject:
- African American studies, Criminology, and Sociology
- Creator:
- Banks, Erica
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16414 and etdadmin_upload_962304
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- The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a masterwork of biology, and its development was a key part of the transformation from monocellular to multicellular life. With an ECM, cells acquired the ability to cooperatively build a dynamic support network that facilitated their movement, specialization, and communication. This ECM is a hierarchical...
- Keyword:
- microfluidic, biomaterial, and supramolecular
- Subject:
- Bioengineering and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Kolberg-Edelbrock, Jack
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16480 and etdadmin_upload_979260
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- Metaphor is an important and pervasive phenomenon in language and cognition. The vast majority of psycholinguistic research on metaphor has focused on noun metaphors (e.g., That surgeon is a butcher; That lawyer is a shark), while relatively little has investigated the processing of verb metaphors (e.g., The car limped down...
- Keyword:
- verb metaphor, language evolution, event knowledge, language processing, and metaphor
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology
- Creator:
- King, Daniel C
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984614 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16537
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- Since Infrared radiation was discovered in 1800s, the research and applications on the infrared regime have been continually developed. The infrared detectors are the key technology in these applications and have been successfully used for medical imaging, light detection and ranging (LiDAR), free-space optical communication, target tracking and object identification...
- Keyword:
- Phototransistor, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Infrared Photodetector, and Type-II Superlattices
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Li, Jiakai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_954624 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16389
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- Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, causing devastating disabilities in both motor and non-motor domains following the degeneration of dopamine (DA) producing neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). Current treatments are highly limited in efficacy, and no established treatments currently exist to alter disease...
- Keyword:
- molecular subtypes, dopamine, and Parkinson's disease
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Gaertner, Zachary Aaron
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_983728 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16518
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Risk Prediction with Longitudinal Gene Expression Data Using Statistical and Machine Learning Method
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- With the advancement of high-throughput sequencing technology, it has become much easier to extract gene expression data and to discover gene-disease associations more efficiently. Longitudinal gene expression data offer more insight into expression patterns for distinct patient groups compared to cross-sectional data. For instance, patients diagnosed with subclinical acute rejections...
- Keyword:
- mixed effect estimation, Empirical Bayes, two-stage modeling, and dynamic predictions
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Lyu, Jiahui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_982900 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16506
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- This dissertation comprises three distinct essays in mechanism design and economic theory. The first chapter studies the welfare implications of consumer data ownership and voluntary disclosure. I formalize this setting within a model of mechanism design with evidence and construct the seller's optimal mechanism. Perhaps surprisingly, I find that allowing...
- Keyword:
- Evidence, Mechanism Design, and Robust Contract
- Subject:
- Economic theory
- Creator:
- Vaidya, Udayan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_982001 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16496
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- Description:
- As our world is increasingly filled with data visualizations, having the skills to leverage data visualizations is essential for participation in society. Confident engagement with data visualizations is critical for being an educated member of society; however, research has shown that it is difficult for individuals to digest and gain...
- Subject:
- Design, Educational technology, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Thompson, JaCoya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_971103 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16451
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- Motivated by rhythms in the brain, we investigate the synchronization of noisy and all-to-all pulse-coupled oscillators. We consider a case where the oscillatory excursions are of varying amplitude and where only sufficiently large excursions result in the output pulses that drive the interactions between the oscillators. In the regime of...
- Keyword:
- Oscillators, Markov Renewal, Events, Mixed-mode, Spiking, and Noise
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Karamchandani, Avinash Jagdish
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16397 and etdadmin_upload_959050
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- This dissertation aims to understand the contribution of schools to reducing bullying behaviors and, in turn, to examine the benefits for students of attending a school that effectively reduces bullying. In doing so, this dissertation contributes to the literature on bullying by a) locating the school as a key environment...
- Keyword:
- Bullying
- Subject:
- Education policy and Secondary education
- Creator:
- Kiguel, Sebastian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986319 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16588
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- Description:
- Understanding the characteristics of interfaces between materials and solvent media such as structure, chemistry, and charge remains crucial to determining the properties and performance of numerous systems and technologies. This thesis focuses specifically on characterizing the interactions of water at oxide interfaces. A large collection of questions remains unanswered about...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Ma, Emily
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_968387 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16438
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- In the Western Common Law tradition, legal decisions constrain and guide future cases involving the same legal issues. Although the legal academy disagrees about the specific nature of such precedential reasoning, including about the role of analogy in legal reasoning, there is ample evidence from cognitive science that analogical learning...
- Keyword:
- Precedential Reasoning, Rule Learning, Analogy, Legal Reasoning, AI and Law, and Analogical Learning
- Subject:
- Law and Artificial intelligence
- Creator:
- Blass, Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_969522 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16441
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- Genetic studies have found variants in the protein-degrading autophagy-lysosomal pathway (ALP) to be among the most common risk factors for developing Parkinson’s disease (PD). Macroautophagy (MA) is the arm of this pathway which delivers cytosolic components to lysosomes for degradation and is essential for neuronal health. The defining pathological protein...
- Keyword:
- ykt6, synuclein, Parkinson disease, SNARE, autophagy, and farnesyltransferase inhibitor
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Biochemistry, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Pitcairn, Caleb
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16447 and etdadmin_upload_970290
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- Christian artists use dramatic license and theatrical representation to mold idealized versions of the Bible into recreational spaces for popular consumption, such as immersive theaters, theme parks, and museums. For these Christian artists, the impulse to evangelize through theatrical representation overcomes deeply ingrained religious sentiments of antitheatricality and result in...
- Keyword:
- US tourism, Biblical adaptations, adaptation studies, Christian nationalism, Christian musicals, and Bible museums
- Subject:
- Religion, Theater, and American studies
- Creator:
- Taylor, Chelsea Marie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16591 and etdadmin_upload_986485
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- Efficient and sustainable utilization of global resources represents a grand but achievablechallenge. By leveraging biology, we can transform abundant, but recalcitrant resources like lignin to products ranging from fuel to medicine to polymers. Efforts to do so are expansive, but challenges remain, due in no small part to the difficulty...
- Keyword:
- Microbiology, Metabolic Engineering, Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1, Scale-Up, Industrial Microbiology, and Lignin
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Arvay, Erika
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_970840 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16448
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- Description:
- Solid acid fuel cells confer unique advantages over nearby technologies, such as polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) or solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), due to the solid acid electrolyte – a solid-state, anhydrous, intermediate-temperature proton conductor.Despite these encouraging unique properties, solid acid fuel cells have performed unfavorably in comparison...
- Keyword:
- Solid Acid Fuel Cells, proton conductor, CsH2PO4, Superprotonic, Solid Acid Electrolytes, and CDP
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Energy
- Creator:
- Wang, Louis Shen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_971560 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16452
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- Situated at the intersection of literary, religious, and economic studies, this dissertation examines how late medieval writers used commercial practice to invent new modes of penitential piety. Challenging scholarship that characterizes the relationship between church and commerce as exclusively antagonistic or corrosive, I argue that the convergence of these two...
- Keyword:
- economic humanities, penance, religious practice, lay piety, and commerce
- Subject:
- English literature
- Creator:
- Jiang, Nancy Haijing
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962361 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16416
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- Description:
- Many estimation and inference procedures rely on asymptotic approximations for quantities that are unknown to researchers. While often convenient, such approximations can be poor in practice, even when the number of observations is ostensibly large. One response is to eschew asymptotics in favor of finite sample bounds. While remarkable progress...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Cai, Yong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986619 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16598
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- Description:
- Light is a powerful tool for manipulating and probing magnetic states in solid state systems. In particular, optically-induced spin orientation, the ability to orient spin with polarized light, has been extensively utilized in low-dimensional III-V and II-VI semiconductors to pioneer spintronic research. Even though traditional semiconductors have found a wide...
- Keyword:
- Layered Semiconductors, Optical Spin Dynamics, Monochalcogenides, van der Waals Systems, and Magneto-optics
- Subject:
- Physics and Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Nelson, Jovan Julius
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_982678 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16502
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- Description:
- As of 2020, there are currently 5.8 million people in the United States suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a debilitating and progressive neurodegenerative disorder. Of these nearly six million people, two-thirds are women. While it has been suggested that women’s longer lifespan accounts for this disparity, the overall lifetime risk...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Dominguez, Sky
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_971823 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16455
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how racially, ethnically, and sexually minoritized women embodied and contested competing images of national identity between World War II and the Cold War. I challenge dominant narratives of modern dance, which overlook gender politics as women left the art form and white men gained prominence in it...
- Keyword:
- Janet Collins, Abstraction, Theatricalism, Pearl Primus, Women choreographers, and Modern dance
- Subject:
- Women's studies, Dance, and American studies
- Creator:
- Friedman, Jessica
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_960177 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16400
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- Description:
- Cultural appropriation is a topic well-discussed in public discourse and theorized in the philosophical literature, however, it remains vastly understudied in psychology. Existing conversations center on whether cultural appropriation even exists, how it is defined, and if there are psychological and social impacts of being appropriated. No research to date...
- Keyword:
- cultural appropriation, lay theories, and wellbeing
- Subject:
- Social psychology
- Creator:
- Sanchez, Sirenia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985398 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16556
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- Conventionally cross-linked polymers, which comprise the vast majority of commercial thermosets, cannot be decross-linked after curing or flow upon heating. Therefore, they cannot be effectively recycled into high-value products at end-of-life. Their lack of recyclability is due to the permanent cross-links, which restrict the flow of the chains in the...
- Keyword:
- Dynamic, Polymers, Sustainability, Plastics, Recycling, and Crosslinking
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Sustainability, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Bin Rusayyis, Mohammed Abdulaziz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986182 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16581
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- This dissertation is a review of three projects I worked on during my time in the Computational Photography Lab at Northwestern University. First, a source separation problem for the X-Ray Fluorescence images of painted works of art is addressed through the incorporation of Hyperspectral Reflectance data. Following this, a discussion...
- Keyword:
- XRF, Computational Holography, Hypterspectral Imaging, Optical Coherence Tomorgraphy, Computational Imaging, and Cultural Heritage Science
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Fiske, Lionel David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_961685 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16405
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- Description:
- Visual localization is a critical capability for autonomous systems, enabling them to accuratelyestimate their position and orientation within an environment using visual data. This thesis focuses on achieving a robust and reliable visual localization on both local and global level to enhance localization performance in a wide range of environments....
- Keyword:
- Visual Odometry, Visual Localization, Visual Place Recognition, and Cross-View Geo-Localization
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Zhao, Pengbo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16532 and etdadmin_upload_984400
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- Description:
- Voltage-gated potassium (KV) currents play a crucial role in shaping and controlling the firing patterns that serve as the fundamental basis for the differential signal processing from the ear to the auditory cortex, with distinct firing patterns observed with high- and low-frequency phenotypes. This is an interesting phenomenon, in the...
- Keyword:
- Ising model, auditory system, Tonotopy, Potassium channel, cochlear nucleus, and action potential
- Subject:
- Biophysics and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Takahashi, Momoko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16410 and etdadmin_upload_962033
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- Description:
- Lackluster BA completion rates have made it clear that improving postsecondary outcomes in the U.S. is not simply a matter of raising college enrollment rates. In addition to increasing the number of people who attend college, it is also important to increase the number of people who graduate. Over the...
- Keyword:
- college choice, college affordability, college completion, student engagement, social inequality, and college selectivity
- Subject:
- Education policy and Higher education
- Creator:
- Cook, Amanda Marie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_980138 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16483
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- Description:
- Tailoring the design of surfaces and interfaces with nanoscale features has the ability to significantly impact biological functions for a swath of applications including drug delivery, structure assembly, and biomedicine. For example, creating spatially defined nanoscale patterns has been known to contribute to changes in cellular architecture and mechanical properties,...
- Subject:
- Bioengineering
- Creator:
- Lin, Millicent
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16456 and etdadmin_upload_972059
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- Description:
- The Ohio River Valley was the site of an intense rivalry between Protestants and Catholics in the nineteenth century, as members of each group vied to extend their control through the development of churches, schools, orphanages, and other institutions. This dissertation explores the process and analyzes the effects of Catholic...
- Keyword:
- Philanthropy, Transatlantic Catholicism, Women religious, Urban development, Catholic institution building, and Lay women
- Subject:
- American history and Religious history
- Creator:
- Creason, Carl C.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985337 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16554
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- Description:
- Popular histories of United States mass incarceration often focus on federal wars on crime, law and order policing, and the passage of harsh sentencing laws to explain how the United States transformed into the world’s leader in incarceration. My dissertation on the crisis of state prison overcrowding and prisoner resistance...
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Rosen, Charlotte E.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_981154 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16491
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- Description:
- In this thesis, we discuss classical and recent results around the damped wave equation on compact and noncompact manifolds. We firstly show that on asymptotically cylindrical and conic manifolds, the geometric control condition and the network control condition give exponential and logarithmic decay rates respectively. We then show that a...
- Keyword:
- noncompact manifolds, Carleman estimates, sharp energy decay, and damped waves
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Wang, Ruoyu P. T.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986144 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16577
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- Description:
- Stimulation of the cGAS-STING (cycle GMP-AMP synthase-Stimulator of Interferon Genes) pathway increases T cell activation and tracking into the tumor and reverses the immunosuppressive phenotype of myeloid cells. Direct targeting of the STING receptor using synthetic cyclic dinucleotide (CDN) ligands represents an attractive immunotherapeutic strategy for the treatment of lymphocyte-depleted...
- Keyword:
- GBM, Spherical nucleic acids, cGAS, Immunotherapy, and STING
- Subject:
- Biology, Biochemistry, and Immunology
- Creator:
- Mahajan, Akanksha Sanjay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_983546 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16516
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- Description:
- Political theorists generally ascribe to the state a decisive role in the formation and protection of property rights, a view especially prevalent in the historiography of financial property in the United States. Given the capacities of government at the American Founding, however, such accounts are implausible. Drawing on writings composed...
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Dabrowski, Tomash
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16459 and etdadmin_upload_972881
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- Description:
- Recent developments have enabled L12-strengthened Co-based superalloys, which have thepotential to surpass Ni-based superalloys as the material of choice for the hottest sections of turbine blades due to cobalt’s 40 ºC higher melting point. The most-studied branch of Co-based superalloys are based on the L12 phase Co3(Al,W); however, there is...
- Keyword:
- Superalloys, Cobalt, Microstructure, Machine Learning, Creep, and High Entropy Alloys
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Ohl, Brandon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_971014 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16450
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- Description:
- Caught between world wars and Stalin’s consolidation of power, citizens of Soviet Russia of the 1920s and 1930s had little to laugh about. Yet a unique tendency toward disruptive humor surfaces in poetry and prose over these two decades. I explore disruptive humor in select longer poetry of Nikolai Zabolotsky,...
- Keyword:
- Zabolotsky, Chinari, Humor, OBERIU, Mandelstam, and Vvedensky
- Subject:
- Slavic literature, Slavic studies, and Translation studies
- Creator:
- Vinogradova, Nadezhda
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985514 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16560
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three chapters about education policies in developing countries. The first chapter examines two extrapolation approaches to make out-of-sample predictions using cash transfer experiments in Malawi and Morocco. The second chapter evaluates India's workfare program in terms of targeting efficiency and effects on school enrollment, in comparison...
- Keyword:
- Education policy, Prediction, Development, Teacher union, Cash transfer program, and Workfare program
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Maeba, Kensuke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985682 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16564
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- Description:
- We present both semiclassical asymptotics for the wave equation on a stationary Kaluza-Klein spacetime and an index theorem describing the difference of the positive-frequency spectral projectors for two stationary regions in a globally hyperbolic spacetime. The first result involves analyzing the restrictions of the wave trace to isotypic subspaces for...
- Keyword:
- Kaluza-Klein, Spacetime, Quantum, Spectral, Index, and Dirac
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- McCormick, Anthony Ryan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16527 and etdadmin_upload_984183
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on two topics in international macroeconomics: the identification of the international spillovers of US interest rate shocks, and the study of its main transmission channels. In Chapter 1, I present the Spillover Puzzle of US Monetary Policy - the fact that in response to a US interest...
- Keyword:
- International macroeconomics, International spillovers, Monetary policy, US interest rates, and Borrowing constraints
- Subject:
- Islamic studies and Economics
- Creator:
- Camara, Santiago
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16600 and etdadmin_upload_986672
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- Description:
- Chapter 1 investigates asks the question how do financial frictions affect the type of human capital investments that students make in college? To study this question, I build a novel dataset covering more than 700,000 U.S. students, merging commencement records with address histories, credit bureau records, and professional resumes. I...
- Subject:
- Education finance
- Creator:
- Hampole, Menaka Vagesh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986815 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16605
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- Description:
- From daily hygiene habits, such as brushing teeth, to the ingestion of pharmaceuticals, many forms of healthcare are commonly practiced in daily life, at home. How have household healthcare practices changed over time in urban America? Taking Washington, DC as my case study, I examine patterns of household pharmaceuticals access...
- Keyword:
- Washington DC, Queer theory, Households, Pharmaceutical, Material Culture, and GIS
- Subject:
- American history and Archaeology
- Creator:
- Lupu, Jennifer Anne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_987018 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16611
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- Description:
- This dissertation aims to understand how Black Chicagoans work with institutions and neighbors they distrust to pursue common policy goals – in this case, to remedy state and community violence. I introduce the theory of distrustful cooperation. Using three Chicago neighborhoods as cased studies: Greater Englewood, Bronzeville, and Calumet Heights,...
- Keyword:
- Urban Politics, American Politics, Black Politics, REP, and Qualitative
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Zimmerman, Justin Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984528 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16534
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- Description:
- Motor abnormalities (e.g., dyskinesia, psychomotor slowing, neurological soft signs) are core features of schizophrenia observed from the premorbid period through chronic illness, suggesting motor dysfunction may reflect the pathophysiology of psychosis. Among this list of motor abnormalities, psychomotor slowing in particular is one of the most consistently observed and robust...
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Osborne, Kenneth Juston
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16481 and etdadmin_upload_979409
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- Description:
- Atomistic methods offer a powerful set of tools in the study of materials systems, as they allow materials scientists to ask questions with a high degree of specificity. They are well suited for studying and designing energy materials, critical due to the climate crisis, in part due to their ability...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Patel, Shane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16415 and etdadmin_upload_962311
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- Description:
- The importance of understanding indoor microbial exposure is increasingly recognized, particularly concerning the emergence of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance. With the advancements of sequencing technologies, our capability of exploring indoor microbial communities has dramatically increased. However, huge challenges remain to translate sequence-based knowledge to actionable interpretations to support human health...
- Keyword:
- Reference deduplication, Antimicrobial resistance, Hospital environment, Infection prevention, Microbiome, and Built environment
- Subject:
- Environmental science, Microbiology, and Environmental health
- Creator:
- Shen, Jiaxian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962596 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16420
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- Description:
- Every music theorist has their own personal reasons for engaging in the craft of theorizing about music. Many discover that there is something special about a theoretic disposition which differs from other sorts of interactions with music. It is often this special something that draws musicians into the discipline: specifically,...
- Keyword:
- Imagery, Memory, Galant Schemata, Expertise, and Music Theory
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Gates, Sarah Lindsay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_961422 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16402
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the economics of health and housing policies. In the first chapter, I discuss information disclosure policies in healthcare. Information disclosure programs can help consumers make better choices, but the consumers who respond the most to the information may not benefit the most or generate the most savings...
- Keyword:
- Health, Rent Control, Information Disclosure, and Applied Microeconomics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Holz, Nicole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985254 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16550
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- Description:
- Heteroanionic materials are a class of materials of interest for their unique and tunable electronic, ionic, thermal, and optical properties, which are distinct from their homoanionic counterparts due to their multi-anionic nature. Oxynitrides, a type of heteroanionic material, are useful catalysts due to the effect of mixing oxygen and nitrogen...
- Keyword:
- Oxynitrides, In situ synthesis, Tantalum oxynitride, Molybdenum oxynitride, and X-ray diffraction
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Goldfine, Elise Ann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16477 and etdadmin_upload_978839
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- Description:
- Astronomy has entered a “multimessenger” era: one that combines electromagnetic “sight” with gravitational “touch.” This dissertation serves as a roadmap of the multimessenger frontier, to join the littered environments of dead and dying starswith their unclear origins. To uncover stars’ innermost secrets, we explore rare, transient glimpses into single, double,...
- Keyword:
- white dwarf, supernova, compact objects, gravitational waves, and stellar evolutiion
- Subject:
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Creator:
- DeMarchi, Lindsay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_981956 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16494