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- Swallowing impairment or dysphagia has many possible causes with severe sequelae. One major mediator of the relationship between causes and sequelae is the physiologic impairment of the swallowing mechanism. Assessing the physiology of swallowing impairment is of great importance so that treatment can target physiology to mitigate sequelae. The assessment...
- Keyword:
- Measurement, Psychometrics, Phenotyping, Swallowing Impairment, MBSImP, and Dysphagia
- Subject:
- Physiology, Biostatistics, and Health sciences
- Creator:
- Clain, Alexander
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16644 and etdadmin_upload_998781
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- The political history of late twentieth-century Southern Africa was dominated by violent liberation struggles against settler-colonial domination in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. All five countries experienced prolonged settler colonialism, followed by conflicts in which revolutionary national liberation movements (NLMs) sought to both end settler-colonial domination and build...
- Subject:
- Sociology, Political science, and African studies
- Creator:
- Noor, Salih O.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16731 and etdadmin_upload_1012926
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- Description:
- Recent experiments in participatory democracy, such as Iceland’s 2013 Constitutional Reform process to Chicago’s annual participatory budgeting process, have empowered members of the public to directly make policy decisions. These new participatory democratic institutions depend on citizens having capacity to organize new institutions and the capacity to participate in them....
- Keyword:
- participatory design, organizing, civics education, capacity building, participatory budgeting, and participatory democracy
- Subject:
- Social sciences education, Design, and Political science
- Creator:
- Lu, Kristine J.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1004866 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16675
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- Description:
- Derivative-free optimization (DFO) has received growing attention due to important problems arising in practice. Various research communities, ranging from machine learning to engineering design, have adopted distinct DFO methods. In this thesis, we present extensive studies as a meaningful step towards a comprehensive understanding of DFO methods. We study the...
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Xuan, Melody Qiming
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16779 and etdadmin_upload_1014300
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- Description:
- In this work, I try to understand how the movements, attitudes, styles, and positions of the body in representational artworks can be understood as gestures—that is, as moments that interrupt the unfolding of narrative time and produce an interval. The interval is not merely a space that opens up between...
- Subject:
- Comparative literature, French literature, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Winter, Maureen Theresa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1007288 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16680
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- Description:
- This dissertation theorizes the relation between blackface minstrelsy and contemporary Black performance. The project analyzes the use of nineteenth-century blackface minstrel conventions in Black theatrical performances during later eras where its usage seems counter-intuitive: during the Black freedom struggles of the 1960s; within Black feminist and queer performance of the...
- Subject:
- Performing arts, Black studies, and Theater history
- Creator:
- Watts, Steven Keary
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16781 and etdadmin_upload_1014341
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- Description:
- In recent years, the understanding and identification of quantum materials supporting non-trivial band topology has progressed rapidly. This progress has been motivated in part by the potential application of topological quantum materials in quantum computers, sensors, and other next-generation devices. Despite this progress, the computation of bulk topological invariants in...
- Keyword:
- Materials science, Topology, Condensed matter, and Quantum matter
- Subject:
- Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Tyner, Alexander Conkey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16689 and etdadmin_upload_1009644
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on quantifying protein folding stability determinants and presenting initial experiments that can guide the development of a novel assay that identifies cell-penetrating miniproteins. First, despite over a century of scholarship on protein folding stability, applying this knowledge to design proteins computationally remains limited. Usually, protein designers generate...
- Keyword:
- protein design, cell-penetrating protein, protein folding stability, and synthetic biology
- Subject:
- Biology, Cellular biology, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Kim, Tae-Eun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1008136 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16683
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- Description:
- This project explores how the variation in language experiences and attitudes that Mexican American Spanish heritage speaker bilinguals in the United States have affects their speech perception in both their languages. Heritage language bilinguals speak as a first language a minority language that they have cultural ties to (e.g., Spanish...
- Keyword:
- heritage bilinguals, speech perception, and experience and attitudes
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Gavino, Maria Fernanda
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013097 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16736
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates how scope relations are constructed and evaluated during real-time human sentence processing. Theoretical approaches to processing scope relations exist in a multi-dimensional space where trade-offs are made around how quickly scope relations can be computed, how many mistakes are made in computing scope relations, and how many...
- Keyword:
- Quantification, Scope, Sentence Processing, Syntax, and Polarity
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Orth, Wesley James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16721 and etdadmin_upload_1012490
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- Description:
- The field of distributed optimization algorithms is wide and growing, and new techniques for categorizing and analyzing existing algorithms are continually being developed. In this Thesis, we leverage control theoretic analysis and block diagram interpretations for existing algorithms to synthesize entirely new families of algorithms. These new algorithm families have...
- Keyword:
- Integral Quadratic Constraints, Multi-Agent Systems, Control Theory, Distributed Optimization, and Private Distributed Averaging
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Donato Ridgley, Israel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16667 and etdadmin_upload_1002370
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- Description:
- Transitioning energy systems from a reliance on fossil fuels to low carbon energy sources is an essential solution for climate change mitigation. However, the industrial sector, which is directly responsible for more than a quarter of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, continues to use fossil fuels for energy and feedstocks....
- Subject:
- Sustainability, Energy, and Engineering
- Creator:
- Schoeneberger, Carrie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1000099 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16649
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- Description:
- Necessity is the mother of innovation. In the wake of the pandemic, with no flow of samples and limited fabrication techniques available, necessity demanded a new material platform and adaptable methods to make complex oxide samples worth measuring. The material platform was KTaO3 , the younger successor to the mainstay...
- Keyword:
- Magnetism, Complex Oxide, KTaO3, Superconductivity, Electrical Transport, and Cryogenic
- Subject:
- Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Krantz, Patrick Wallace
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1009434 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16686
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- Description:
- This manuscript describes and contextualizes the research I performed as a PhD student in Northwestern University. The first three chapters, on Markov chains, stochastic thermodynamics, and large deviation theory, describe three interrelated topics that serve as the background for subsequent research detailed in the next three chapters, on understanding the...
- Keyword:
- large deviation theory, thermodynamic uncertainty relations, stochastic thermodynamics, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry and Statistical physics
- Creator:
- Fu, Rueih-Sheng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_994428 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16629
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- Description:
- This dissertation aims to develop innovative analytical methods that integrate engineering, marketing, and social science disciplines to incorporate heterogeneous consumer preferences into product design using network-based customer preference modeling. Both companies and designers frequently face difficulties in understanding and addressing customer preferences, which can result in product failure and loss...
- Keyword:
- Customer preference modeling and Computational network analysis
- Subject:
- Engineering
- Creator:
- Cui, Yaxin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16761 and etdadmin_upload_1013692
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- Description:
- Machine learning and deep learning have been proven successful across various scientific fields, such as computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation systems. As models become more complex, with more parameters and intricate architectures, they can achieve higher prediction accuracy when trained on larger datasets. However, despite the great prediction...
- Keyword:
- Neural Network, Interpretable Machine Learning, and Function Visualization
- Subject:
- Statistics and Computational chemistry
- Creator:
- Zhang, Shengtong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_995408 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16632
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- Description:
- The action of the automorphisms of a formal group on its deformation space is crucial to understanding periodic families in the homotopy groups of spheres and the unsolved Hecke orbit conjecture for unitary Shimura varieties. This action is called the Lubin-Tate action. We first show sufficient conditions for geometrically modelling...
- Keyword:
- algebraic geometry, homotopy theory, and arithmetic geometry
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Ray, Catherine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013588 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16756
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- Description:
- Despite the increasing interest in biogenic secondary organic aerosols (SOAs), their role in the climate system remains the greatest source of uncertainty in global models. Cloud formation, critical for the net cooling effect provided by cloud cover, is dependent on the abundance of SOA particles and their ability to activate...
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry, Atmospheric chemistry, and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Bellcross, Aleia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16628 and etdadmin_upload_993914
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- Description:
- Although elevated stress and dietary change have each been associated with metabolic health decline for resettled populations in the Global North, considerably less attention is paid to the links between these two biosocial pathways. Addressing these linkages can elucidate interrelated diet and stress mechanisms that affect population health disparities over...
- Keyword:
- biospychosocial stress, social determinants of health, health inequity, social ecologies of eating, and migration
- Subject:
- European studies, Food science, and Public health
- Creator:
- Koselka, Elizabeth Palmer DeVine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1014377 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16783
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- Description:
- Submodularity is a well-known concept in integer programming and combinatorial optimization. Submodular set functions capture the diminishing returns phenomenon, which has wide-ranging applications in various domains. Typically, a submodular set function models the utility of homogenous items selected from a single ground set. Selecting an item or not is naturally...
- Keyword:
- mixed-integer programming, polyhedral, convex hull, and nonlinear optimization
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Yu, Qimeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013578 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16754