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Bienen: Doctor of Musical Arts Projects
User Collection- Description:
- The Doctor of Musical Arts at the Bienen School of Music is designed to foster the development of both musical artistry and scholarly achievement. All DMA students must submit written documents that must represent intensive, original research that makes a meaningful contribution to knowledge in the student's field.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.21985/N2Z087
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- The finite element method is used to investigate failure mechanisms in pin-hanger connection in aging highway bridges. Bridge pins and hangers are typically considered as critical elements whose failure may result in partial or entire collapse of the structure. The primary function of a pin-hanger connection is to allow for...
- Keyword:
- Structural integrity assessment
- Creator:
- Houcque, David
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2017
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2017
- Date Created:
- 2008-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How can gatekeeping theory in the circulation of cultural objects, including knowledge production, inform the way cultural sociology investigates the role of the producer and the cultural object as “gated” entities? Using the case of producers working under the rubric of “Contemporary African art” to investigate opportunities and restrictions to...
- Keyword:
- trading chip, boundary object, Africanness, and Contemporary African art
- Subject:
- Communications and the Arts and Social Sciences
- Creator:
- Matlhare, Sakhile
- Contributor:
- Fine, Gary, Griswold, Wendy, and Berzock, Kathleen
- Owner:
- Sakhile Matlhare
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/11/2017
- Date Modified:
- 07/11/2017
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.21985/N20H2F
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- Description:
- It is becoming increasingly evident that the nanoscale organization and structure of macromolecules play a significant role in determining the function and properties of biological systems. To understand the relationships between biological structure and function at nanometer length scales, there is a need for methods which enable imaging of intact...
- Keyword:
- microscopy, cancer screening, label-free, spectroscopy, and nanoscale
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- John Edward Chandler
- Contributor:
- Vadim Backman
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/29/2017
- Date Modified:
- 12/01/2017
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Beethoven’s late compositional style is known for bending conventions he learned as a young man. Many discussions of his late style concentrate on adherence to and deviations from the conventions of functional harmony, fugal techniques, and sonata form. This document sheds light on an additional, previously unexamined aspect of Beethoven’s...
- Keyword:
- galant schemata, dma project, hammerklavier, beethoven, and gjerdingen
- Subject:
- Piano Performance
- Creator:
- Sergiy S. Komirenko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Kaija Saariaho’s vocal music offers singers a rewarding challenge. Her works contain extended techniques and innovative performance practices, which allow her to create interesting and moving timbral effects. Her musical language has its foundation in her cultural identity, formed when she was a girl in the forests of Finland. The...
- Keyword:
- Saariaho, Vocal music, Contemporary music, dma project, and Extended techniques
- Creator:
- Alison Wahl
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-03-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chaya Czernowin’s opera 'Pnima…ins innere' is about the encounter between a young Israeli boy and his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor so traumatized by his past that he cannot speak. Fittingly, the opera does not contain any words: the four singers in the work instead sing phonemes and other non-verbal sounds....
- Keyword:
- contemporary opera, Czernowin, music theory, new music, dma project, narratology, and opera
- Subject:
- Music Composition
- Creator:
- Eliza Brown
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2015-03-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ever since Jean-Baptiste Lully welcomed the horn to the stage as an instrument capable of producing music suitable for indoors, a tradition of horn methodology and pedagogy has been developed and expanded over the centuries. Despite the volume and variety of pedagogical materials available to the horn student and pedagogue...
- Keyword:
- Music Theory, Horn, Pedagogy, Intermediate, and dma project
- Subject:
- Wind and Percussion
- Creator:
- Valerie Whitney
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 06-01-2017
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Starting in the late 1950s, the advertising world rapidly became a fertile arena for experimentation in the realm of electronic music. Composers explored new forms, such as the sound logo; new technology, such as the Moog synthesizer; and new semiotic relationships between music, words, images and concepts, including attempts to...
- Keyword:
- Raymond Scott, sound logo, audio logo, capitalism, sonic branding, jingles, Suzanne Ciani, identity formation, Eric Siday, dma project, music semiotics, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, electronic music, and advertising
- Subject:
- Music Composition
- Creator:
- Alex R. Temple
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Since the standardization of the modern brass quintet in the middle of the twentieth century, extensive research has been dedicated to the history of the genre, ensembles which have promoted and advanced brass chamber music and the growing body of original brass quintet repertoire. Such scholarship has provided practical benefits...
- Keyword:
- brass quintet, ewald, dma project, and tuba
- Creator:
- Thomas Walsh Curry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 201512-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Since Ottorino Respighi included the recording of a nightingale in his Pini di Roma (1924), composers have used prerecorded nature sounds, or field recordings, to help establish a specific sense of place. The purpose of this project is to examine how modern composers utilize field recordings to create natural-world settings,...
- Keyword:
- prerecorded, mason bates, bird song, nature sound, alex shapiro, ottorino respighi, electroacoustic, insect sound, composition, whale song, and dma project
- Subject:
- Conducting
- Creator:
- Joseph E. Higgins
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-12-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This document gives a brief history of classical music (Western art music) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a focus on recent events and developments from the beginning of the siege (1992) to the present. Further focus is placed on the effects of Sarajevo's cultural pluralism on the city's largest...
- Keyword:
- Sarajevo, Cultural exchange, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cultural Resistance, Music, and dma project
- Subject:
- Oboe Performance
- Creator:
- Megan Elizabeth Robbins
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2014-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Stroke is the leading cause of death and long term disability in the industrialized world. With the current population aging, the number of individuals at risk of stroke along with the associated health care costs are anticipated to rise considerably in the coming years. Consequently, there is an unmet need...
- Keyword:
- Medical imaging
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Charles Grady Cantrell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The first chapter of this dissertation develops a two-stage inference method for structural parameters in the linear instrumental variables model. In the first stage, a new statistic is used to detect whether the correlation between the structural error and the reduced form error is small. In the second stage, a...
- Keyword:
- Inference and Econometrics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sun Yi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The behavior of type-II superconductors is modeled using the time-dependent Ginzburg Landau equations (TDGLE). Pinning centers (inclusions) and geometries which maximize the critical current that can be passed through a superconductor are numerically obtained. Previous analytical results are summarized and new results are obtained for the critical current in one...
- Keyword:
- Phase Slips, Magnetic Vortices, Dynamical Systems, Optimization, and Superconductivity
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Gregory Jonathan Kimmel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Refugees gain access to benefits and services in the United States through the bureaucratic birthdates recorded in the documents they carry when they first enter the country. Examining how and why chronometric age based on these documents was essential to resettlement was the starting point for my dissertation, which explores...
- Keyword:
- Refuge Resettlement, Retirement, Welfare, Later Life, Citizenship, and Aging
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Kimberly Seibel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Anisotropic semiconducting thin films have attracted attention in recent years for important applications such as electrical interconnects, electronic sensors, field-emission devices and thermoelectric devices. However, the characterization of the full conductivity tensor, especially the cross-plane conductivity, remains a great challenge for anisotropic thin films. In addition, the synthesis of large-area...
- Keyword:
- magnetotransport, anisotropic, graphene, transverse thermoelectrics, thin film, and 3D printing
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Yang Tang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Meeting the exploding demand for wireless data services will require access to new wireless spectrum. However, the traditional approach of clearing spectrum and reallocating is becoming increasingly difficult. This in turn has led to much interest in new approaches for sharing spectrum among different users, such as the those being...
- Keyword:
- Investment, Competition, Shared Spectrum, and Electrical Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Chang Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Pattern recognition-based myoelectric control of upper limb prostheses has been made clinically available to individuals with more proximal upper limb amputations and can restore intuitive control of a prosthetic hand. This control method has yet to be implemented for individuals with amputations distal to the wrist (i.e. partial-hand amputations) and...
- Keyword:
- Pattern Recognition, Partial hand amputee, Intrinsic hand muscle, and myoelectric control
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Adenike Adewuyi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We study analytic functions on the open unit p-adic poly-disk centered at the multiplicative identity and prove that such functions only vanish at finitely many n-tuples of roots of unity unless they vanish along a translate of the formal multiplicative group. (Note that a root of unity lies on the...
- Keyword:
- Manin-Mumford and p-adic
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Vlad Ioan Serban
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Using Eynard-Orantin topological recursion, we prove here a result concerning the equivariant Gromov-Witten invariants for the projective line equipped with the standard action of the 2-torus. Our result is that the genus g, n point Gromov-Witten potential with arbitrary primary insertions may be written as a sum over certain genus...
- Keyword:
- Gromov Witten Theory and Eynard Orantin Recursion
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Michael John Couch
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Plasmonic nanostructures can confine light at their surface in the form of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) or localized surface plasmons (LSPs) depending on their geometry. SPPs are excited on nano- and micropatterned surfaces, where the typical feature size is on the order of the wavelength of light. LSPs, on the...
- Keyword:
- Modelling, Nano structures,, Plasmonic, and Material Science
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Alexander John Hryn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Catalyzed by the invention of magnetic tape recording, audio production has transformed from technical to artistic, and the roles of producer, engineer, composer, and performer have merged for many forms of music. However, while these roles have changed, the way we interact with audio production tools has not and still...
- Keyword:
- human computer interaction, music, intelligent user interfaces, audio production, creativity support tools, and crowdsourcing
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Mark Brozier Cartwright
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Data mining for materials discovery is concerned with representing materials science problems into a statistical framework, and learning models that describe observations about the processing, structure, and property of materials. The type of materials includes metals, ceramics, glass, polymers, and composites which are mixtures of multiple types. Observations come from...
- Keyword:
- Material Science, Applications, and Computer Engineering
- Subject:
- Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Ruoqian Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Consent is at the center of feminist politics and theory; the importance of this concept is evident in the recent campus activism around sexual assault. Because consent has become so critically important, it is necessary for feminists to interrogate the concept of consent. In this dissertation, I argue that consent...
- Keyword:
- Feminist, Consent, and Critiques
- Subject:
- Philosphy
- Creator:
- Chelsea Egbert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Myocardial perfusion is an important marker of cardiovascular health that is routinely evaluated clinically. Perfusion is measured most often using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging, but magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has many advantages over SPECT. Measuring perfusion quantitatively in ml/min/g would theoretically allow for improved characterization of cardiac...
- Keyword:
- perfusion and MRI
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Neil Chatterjee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The growth of incarceration in the United States, a symptom of the concomitant broader institutionalization of a ‘carceral state’, is unquestionably one of the most significant developments in the nation's history. Despite this significance, the public response to the growth and deleterious consequences of incarceration has been notably restrained. This...
- Keyword:
- Political inequality, Political representation, Public opinion, Mass incarceration, Intersectionality, and Political communication
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Kevin E Levay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Pattern recognition algorithms have been proposed as a way to control powered lower limb prostheses, specifically for transitioning between the different pre-programmed locomotion modes of the prosthesis (e.g., level ground walking, stair ascent, etc.). However, these algorithms cannot track changes in the statistical characteristics of input signals, and do not...
- Keyword:
- Prosthetics, Adaptation, Rehabilitation, Engineering, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- John Andreou Spanias
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The purpose of the dissertation is to develop a framework for equilibration of activity-trip chain demand in an integrated system of activity scheduling and travel choices within a dynamic network equilibrium framework. Activity-based modeling systems generate detailed activity chain schedules for individuals, which have to be assigned to transportation networks....
- Keyword:
- Transport, Civil Engineering, Travel Choices, and Engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Hooram Halat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The microwave, optical, and electro-optic properties of epitaxial barium titanate thin films grown on (100) MgO substrates and photonic crystal electro-optic modulators fabricated on these films were investigated to demonstrate the applicability of these devices for telecommunication and data networks. The electrical and electro-optical properties were characterized up to modulation...
- Keyword:
- Photonic Crystal, Modulator, Integrated Photonics, and Ferroelectric
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Peter Girouard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the past few decades, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research has shown that nouns and verbs are processed differently in cognitively healthy individuals, and can be selectively impaired in aphasic individuals. However, this noun-verb dichotomy is poorly understood. This dissertation investigated cognitive and neural distinctions between nouns and verbs by studying...
- Keyword:
- semantics, word-class processing , aphasia, morphology, and zero-derivation
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Creator:
- Sladjana Lukic
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How do households confront insecurity? This dissertation is a study of how households navigate insecurity as observed through struggles with homeownership and foreclosure. I discuss insecurity as a multi-dimensional experience that puts important resources at risk of loss and reaches into many areas of family life, including health, wealth, food,...
- Keyword:
- Sociology, Households, Economic , and Decision-Making
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Elyse Kovalsky
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- When we speak, we communicate not only with the words we choose, but also with the patterns of sound we create. As auditory experts, musicians are especially adept at making sense of sound, and accumulating research reveals that this extends to their processing of speech and other communication signals. Much...
- Keyword:
- speech, music, perception, language, and rhythm
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Creator:
- Jessica Louise Slater
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I present research in systems of biomedical relevance consisting of agents near or com- prising surfaces using computational approaches. The research topics include formation of bacterial biofilms, behavior of charged species near stacked, like-charged lamellae, and the the conformational behavior of lamellae with strong self-attraction. In chapter 2, I present...
- Keyword:
- biophysics, soft matter, molecular dynamics, coarse graining , self assembly, and computer simulations
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Bernard McAlpine Beckerman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents some development of the single molecular ion precision spectroscopy experiment including construction of the project, spectroscopy state readout, and production of ultracold molecules. Such molecular ion spectroscopy aims at testing fundamental physics such as probing the time variation of electron-proton mass ratio. The theories and characterization of...
- Keyword:
- spectroscopy and physics
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Yen-Wei Lin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The properties of crystalline materials are controlled by their composition and by their structure, however, the structure of a crystal is only partly controlled by its composition. Development of specifically directed inorganic syntheses will require an understanding of the dynamics of crystal phase forming processes, especially those processes involved in...
- Keyword:
- noncentrosymmetry, oxyflouride, crystal, and reconstructive transition
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Michael John Holland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Lattice models of fermions, bosons, and spins have long served to elucidate the essential physics of quantum phase transitions in a variety of systems. Generalizing such models to incorporate driving and dissipation has opened new vistas to investigate nonequilibrium phenomena and dissipative phase transitions in interacting many-body systems. Circuit- QED...
- Keyword:
- Circuit-QED lattices, Nonequilibrium many-body physics, Nonequilibrium perturbation theory, and Dissipative phase transitions
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Cheong Yiu Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We argue that a country’s level of wealth inequality can be viewed as a reflection of the quality of its housing rental market. Using the ECB’s Household Finance and Consump- tion Survey (HFCS), we document that the aggregate homeownership rate and various measures of wealth inequality are negatively correlated across...
- Keyword:
- OLG Model, Rental Markets, Housing investment, and Wealth Inequality
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sebastian Kohls
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Mixing of granular materials is an important engineering process, and a very complex problem. In this thesis, I use granular mixing in a half-full biaxial spherical tumbler (BST), a spherical container that rotates sequentially about two orthogonal axes, to motivate the study of mixing with piecewise isometries (PWIs), a rich...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics and Piecewise
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Paul P Park
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O (a-IGZO) and other amorphous oxide semiconductors are attracting increasing attention from the display industry for their high electron mobility, ease of large-area manufacture, and potential for future flexible electronics. However, such amorphous materials often show instability under gate voltage bias, temperature, and illumination stress, with extremely slow relaxation...
- Keyword:
- Modelling, Material Science, Thin Films, and Photoconductivity
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jiajun Luo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The behavior of ions in liquids confined between macromolecules determines the outcome of many nanoscale assembly processes in synthetic and biological materials such as colloidal dispersions, emulsions, hydrogels, DNA, cell membranes, and proteins. Theoretically, the macromolecule-liquid boundary is often modeled as a dielectric interface and an important quantity of interest...
- Keyword:
- Interface structure, Electrolytes, Molecular Dynamics, Soft Matter, and Electrostatics
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Yufei Jing
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Tribological behaviors of lubricated interfaces are strongly affected by the interactions between mating surfaces and the rheological properties of the lubricant between them. This research aims to improve lubrication through two approaches: 1) designing surface textures for lubrication enhancement and adhesion reduction, and 2) developing lubricants of desired rheology. Molecular...
- Keyword:
- Molecular dynamics, Rheological modeling, Surface texture, and Advanced lubrication
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Pinzhi Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Broadband networks are one of the most economically significant and fastest growing sectors of the Internet. Recent studies have shown that providing broadband Internet access is instrumental for social and economic development. Several governments, as well as the UN, have gone so far as to label broadband access a basic...
- Keyword:
- Internet measurement, Broadband reliability, Natural experiments, Broadband access networks, and Internet
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Zachary Scott Bischof
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Even though renal blood flow accounts for nearly a quarter of cardiac output, the renal medulla operates in an environment with a scant supply of oxygen. The reason for this apparent discrepancy is thought to be threefold. Blood flow to the outer medulla is less than 50% of that received...
- Keyword:
- Oxygenation, Kidney, and MRI
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jon Thacker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative blinding disease associated with increased intraocular pressure, which is caused by an increased resistance to the outflow of aqueous humor. Although the cause for increased resistance remains unknown, it has been associated with a decreased density of pores in the cells of the inner wall endothelium...
- Keyword:
- Glaucoma, Schlemm's Canal, Atomic Force Microscopy, Optical Magnetic Twisting Cytometry, Cell mechanics, and Finite Element Modeling
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Amir Vahabikashi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation develops and applies coupled marine sulfur and strontium cycle modeling to the highly dynamic Early Cretaceous demonstrating the value of increased model constraint from linkage of biogeochemical cycles with shared forcing factors. A foundation for this work is first provided by review of relevant geochemical, sedimentological, and paleontological...
- Keyword:
- isotopes, modeling, Cretaceous, Sulfur, and Strontium
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Brian Kristall
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chronic pain is a prevalent and under-treated condition that remains a mystery to the medical system and a major social and economic problem. Unfortunately, there is no single treatment superior to others for relieving chronic pain. While recent scientific discoveries have provided us with functional and anatomical brain biomarkers of...
- Keyword:
- memory, chronic pain, neuroimaging, latent semantic analyses, placebo, and personality
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Sara Elizabeth Berger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The FDA approvals of afatinib and ibrutinib in 2013 led to a heightened interest in cysteine-reactive covalent inhibitors. However, there are few methods to discover new cysteine-reactive inhibitors for enzymes for which reversible binding scaffolds are not known. To this end, we rationally designed a chemical system to attach a...
- Keyword:
- Electrophile, Covalent, Fragment, Ubiquitin, and Nedd4-1
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Stefan Kathman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The striatum is a subcortical nucleus that regulates a number of complex activities ranging from voluntary action selection to the subconscious formation of habit. The coordination of these operations is mediated by the principle cells of the striatum, spiny projection neurons (SPNs). SPN activity is dictated by a confluence of...
- Keyword:
- plasticity, interneurons, striatum, nitric oxide, and acetylcholine
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Alexandria Ellen Melendez-Zaidi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- E2F-2 is a Retinoblastoma (Rb)-regulated transcription factor induced during terminal erythroid maturation. Cyclin E-mediated Rb hyper-phosphorylation induces E2F transcriptional activator functions. E2F-2-loss causes reduced peripheral red blood cell (RBC) counts, without altering relative abundances of erythroblast subpopulations. To determine how E2F-2 regulates RBC production, we comprehensively studied erythropoiesis using knockout...
- Keyword:
- cellular biology, Biology, and molecular biology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kelsey Swartz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs) are nanoparticle bioconjugates that have found use in a wide-range of diagnostic and therapeutic applications. These nanomaterials are composed from inorganic or organic core nanoparticle scaffolds that are functionalized with a dense surface layer of nucleic acids (typically DNA or RNA) that are oriented in a...
- Keyword:
- Diagnostic, Gold nanoparticle, Cancer, Bioassay, and Spherical Nucleic Acid
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Alexander Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Metalloporphyrins fulfill incredibly diverse chemical roles in biology and photocatalysis, where they act as photosensitizers, redox sites, substrate binding sites, and facilitators of long range electron transfer. Metalloporphyrin chemistry is uniquely tuneable through conformation and functionalization of the porphyrin ring, choice of metal, and interaction with the environment as these...
- Keyword:
- Pump-probe spectroscopy, Structural dynamics, Hemoprotein, Metalloporphyrin, X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, and X-ray free electron laser
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Megan Lynn Shelby
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Gene expression is tightly regulated at the level of transcription through cooperation between cis-regulatory elements and trans-factors that bind to the regulatory elements. Together, these factors regulate the higher order chromatin structure which establishes domains that organize the genome and coordinate gene expression. However, the molecular mechanisms controlling transcription of...
- Keyword:
- higher order chromatin structure, gene expression, transcriptional regulation, transcriptional regulatory networks, and cis-regulatory elements
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Rui Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Introduction and Appendix i-A outline briefly the history of Titan exploration since its discovery by Christiaan Huygens in 1675 through the recent International Mission of Cassini- Huygens. It discusses the roles of some of the ten most abundant elements in the Universe (H, He, C, N, O, Ne, Mg,...
- Keyword:
- evolution, Hydrocarbon cycle, chemistry, Photochemistry, Liquid methane and ethane, Titan, and Atmospheres
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Ashley Middle Gilliam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Worldwide, governments are beginning to take action to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions in order to mitigate the extent of global climate change. The largest fraction of global CO2 emission comes from electrical power generation, which is rapidly being converted to wind and solar installations. The intermittent nature of renewable resources...
- Keyword:
- SOC, Fuel Cells, SOEC, SOFC, Electrolysis, and Energy Storage
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Justin Railsback
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, we present three empirical studies investigating the role of linguistic experience in the processing of probabilistic information during speech production, speech perception, and across modalities. In all studies, we focus on a particular type of probabilistic information related to the probability of a word in a discourse...
- Keyword:
- probabilistic reduction, Lingustics, and Perception
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Erin Gustafson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Science at the nanoscale poses several recurring difficulties. How can we control the assembly of objects too small for direct manipulation to be practical? How can we extend that control to extit{in vivo} systems so we can make use of nanotechnology in medicine? And how can we recreate the extraordinary...
- Keyword:
- dipole, soft matter, active matter, colloids, and simulation
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Joshua McClellan Dempster
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- By 2020, there will be more than 200 billion sensor enabled objects world-wide in the Internet of Things (IoT). The biggest challenge of future IoT is to provide ultra scalable wireless access for a massive number of devices. The goal of this thesis is to build up a model for...
- Keyword:
- sparse OFDM, neighbor discovery, compressed sensing, Internet of Things, and many user
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Chen Xu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Patients with the Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) clinical syndrome have diverse forms of neuropathology, one of which is the cellular and molecular abnormalities of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), at post mortem autopsy. Structural anatomical differences might aid in ante mortem differential diagnosis of neuropathology. The studies in this dissertation investigated one...
- Keyword:
- Memory, Hippocampus, Neuropsychology,, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Alzheimer's disease, and Structural MRI
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Adam Christensen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Despite major advances in the past half-century, significant issues such as educational inequality persist in American education. Accountability policy has become a central, resilient approach for addressing such issues. We see this in the ongoing enactment of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the recent adoption of...
- Keyword:
- institutional theory, education policy, and accountability policy
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Debbie Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Organic photovoltaic (OPV) solar cells aim to provide efficient, flexible and lightweight photovoltaics (PV) with simple processing and low-cost. Advances in device optimization, structural and molecular design, as well as mechanistic understanding have helped increase device efficiency and performance. Within the framework of active layer optimization, systematically improving bulk heterojunction...
- Keyword:
- bulk heterojunction, solar cell, Self-assembly, hydrogen bonding, morphology, and Organic photovoltaic
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Taner Aytun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Planets and planetary systems change in brightness as a function of time. These "light curves" can have several features, including transits where a planet blocks some starlight, eclipses where a star obscures a planet's flux, and rotational variations where a planet reflects light differently as it spins. One can measure...
- Keyword:
- Astrophysics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Joel Colin Schwartz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful technique for characterizing molecular systems. It combines the chemical selectivity of vibrational spectroscopy with plasmonic signal enhancement to achieve the ultimate limit of detection--a single molecule. By overcoming the effects of ensemble averaging, single molecule SERS (SMSERS) probes distributions in molecular interactions and...
- Keyword:
- hot spots, SMSERS, SERS, and Single Molecule
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Alyssa Zrimsek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In 2012 the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collected 19.7 fb-1of data at a center of mass energy of 8 TeV. This thesis presents two analyses focusing on the Z boson. The first is a search for the never before seen decay of a...
- Keyword:
- Z boson, CERN, LHC, and CMS
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Nicholas Mucia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Consider the role of waiting rooms as informal learning environments. In this thesis, I examine a pediatric hematology and oncology clinic to evaluate the patient learning experience. Through staff interviews, waiting room observations, and a review of educational materials I argue that this process is in need of redirection. Most...
- Keyword:
- interactive education, human computer interaction, health education, and waiting rooms
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Zeina Leong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This project examines the uneven adoption of therapeutic initiatives within the organizational field of American museums to ask: How do people frame museum-going as “good” for visitors’ health? Existing research on legitimation processes would predict cultural institutions respond similarly to pressures for greater accountability from their external environments, or resist...
- Keyword:
- disability, senses, therapy, accessibility, art museums, and botanical gardens
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Gemma Mangione
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 12/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How mental representations are constructed and how they evolve are central problems for cognitive science. Representation decisions help determine what computations are hard or easy. Structured, relational representations are a hallmark of human cognition. Developmental studies show that children do not perform as well as adults in tasks that require...
- Keyword:
- Representation learning, developmental model, relational representation, and structure mapping
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Balasubramanian Kandaswamy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Substance use and substance use disorder (SUD) may be variables that influence the course of HIV/AIDS risk behaviors as youth age. To our knowledge, no prospective longitudinal study has examined the association between categories of substance use disorders including alcohol use disorder alone, marijuana use disorder alone, comorbid drug use...
- Keyword:
- Sexually transmitted diseases/infections, HIV/AIDS risk behaviors, Longitudinal study, Substance use disorder, Juvenile justice system, and Detained/incarcerated youth
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Marquita Stokes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- CD1 molecules represent a class of antigen presenting molecules that present lipid antigens to cognate T cells. These molecules have been identified in all mammals examined so far. Unlike MHC molecules, which are highly polymorphic, CD1 molecules exhibit limited polymorphism and are divided in to two groups – 1 and...
- Keyword:
- Immunology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Sreya Bagchi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A disconnect exists between the behavior of transcriptional and genetic regulation in bacterial systems when comparing phenotypic patterns and dynamics of a population to those observed at the single cell level. In this thesis, we developed a number of tools and assays to better understand, overcome, and predict the challenges...
- Keyword:
- Synthetic Biology, Bacterial Signalling, Genomic Regulation, Conjugation, and Genomic Heterogeneity
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Andrew Hilz Scarpelli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While infrequent, clay slope failures caused by earthquakes result in loss of life and substantial property damage. In strong seismicity areas, it is sometimes assumed that the stability of clay deposits can be evaluated through the residual undrained strength that is applicable at large deformations. A crucial factor missing in...
- Keyword:
- Geotechnology
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Zhenhao Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The airway epithelium forms an active barrier between the internal and external environments and has multiple roles critical to normal function of the lung. Its development and function are controlled by a network of transcription factors that regulate gene expression in response to varying stimuli. Dysfunction of this tissue plays...
- Keyword:
- Molecular Biology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Sara Lynn Fossum
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Short-wave infrared (SWIR) photon detection has become an essential technology in the modern world. Sensitive SWIR detectors with low noise levels, and high signal-to-noise-ratios are highly desirable for a variety of applications including light detection and ranging, optical tomography, and astronomical imaging. As such many efforts in infrared detector research...
- Keyword:
- short-wave infrared, Light Detection and Ranging, phototransistor, infrared detector, photon detector, and Electron-injection detector
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Vala Fathipour
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The ability to track labeled cancer cells in vivo would allow researchers to study their distribution, growth and metastatic potential within the intact organism. Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is invaluable for tracking cancer cells in vivo as it benefits from high spatial resolution and absence of ionizing radiation. However, many...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology and Chemistry
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Nikhil Ram Mohan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The circadian clock is a biological oscillator present in all terrestrial life forms that aligns organismal functions with the daily rising and setting of the sun. In mammals clocks are expressed both in pacemaker cells in the brain that are directly entrained by light as well as in all peripheral...
- Keyword:
- Pancreatic beta cell, Genomics, Diabetes, and Circadian rhythm
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Mark Perelis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation draws on a field-level, qualitative study of business analytics to explore the legitimation and design of knowledge practices. In the last few decades, both the power and the acceptance of business analytics have advanced dramatically; nonetheless, end-users and clients can still be deeply sceptical of particular analytics practices...
- Keyword:
- Organizational Theory
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- Christopher William John Steele
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Fungi have an immense untapped store of natural products, small molecules that can often be repurposed as pharmaceuticals. The genes that encode secondary metabolic machinery are often genomically co-localized into biosynthetic gene clusters. Because of the immense energetic costs that goes into producing the biosynthetic pathway and its products, strict...
- Keyword:
- LC-MS, NRPS, Natural products, Aspergillus nidulans, metabolomics, and HDAC
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Matthew Thomas Henke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The progressive women’s movement in the United States during the mid-twentieth century enjoyed increased support and success until national politics were dominated by conservatives during the 1980s. This dissertation analyzes the discourse around women’s issues created by two of the largest conservative women’s organizations, Eagle Forum and Concerned Women for...
- Keyword:
- women's politics, religious women, counterpublics, 1980s, and newsletters
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Anndrea Michelle Mathers
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Growing energy and climate concerns in the United States and across the world demand improvements in energy efficiency, conservation, and renewability. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are highly efficient devices that electrochemically convert the chemical energy of a fuel to electricity. These devices can operate on natural gas as a...
- Keyword:
- Electrochemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Patrick Kevin Duffy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- An accurate knowledge of the engineering properties of rocks is crucial for a variety of geomechanical problems, ranging from wellbore stability to failure in rock slopes, underground excavations, and crustal faults. While strength and deformation properties are usually obtained from a limited number of in situ and/or laboratory tests, their...
- Keyword:
- Civil Engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Shiva Esna Ashari Esfahani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recent advances in optical switching have yielded an all-fiber, all-optical, device capable of routing single-photon quantum signals at high rates (≈25 GHz), with almost immeasurably small degradation of the quantum state[1, 2, 3]. These switches can facilitate complex quantum networking and quantum information processing schemes. However, the complexity of these...
- Keyword:
- Photonics, Switch, Quantum, and nonlinear optics
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Timothy Michael Rambo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies a variety of consumer behaviors and their strategic implications for firm profit maximization. The first chapter discusses how bundle pricing (via shipping policies) allows firms to achieve higher profits than component pricing when consumers's tastes for products are correlated. The second chapter illustrates how durable good producers...
- Keyword:
- demand dynamics, bundle pricing, and secondary markets
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Tongtong Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Client-server architectures have been used for years, and many modern applications rely on this approach to be able to present rich and complex information to users without needlessly encumbering their local device with computation, and also to be able to keep all data in a (more-or-less) centrally available location, as...
- Keyword:
- User Satisfaction, Mobile Applications, Sustainability, and Datacenter Energy
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Maciej Swiech
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A stroke can occur at any point throughout the lifespan, including in utero. The timing of the injury relative to neural development can have implications on the type of lesion, plasticity, and motor deficits. However, associated reactions, which refer to involuntary movement in one limb in response to voluntary activity...
- Keyword:
- hemiplegia and interlimb coupling
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Rachel Lauren Hawe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Herpes stromal keratitis (HSK) is a potentially blinding inflammatory condition initiated by corneal infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV). As its name suggests, the host receptor herpes virus entry mediator (HVEM) facilitates HSV entry through interactions with a viral envelope glycoprotein. HVEM also bridges several signaling networks, binding ligands from...
- Keyword:
- herpes stromal keratitis, herpes simplex virus, immunopathology, inflammation, and cornea
- Subject:
- Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Rebecca Giovanna Edwards
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- An atom interferometric gyroscope (AIG) made with an uncorrelated ensemble of N two-level atoms, rotating at a rate ΩG about an axis normal to the area Θ accrues a phase ϕ = 2ωCΘΩG/c2 due to the Sagnac effect. Here ωC is the Compton frequency of the atoms used, and c...
- Keyword:
- Schrödinger cat states, Atomic Interferometer, Heisenberg limit, and Collective States
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Resham Sarkar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Interprotein electron transfer (ET) occupies a central role in both chemistry and biology, as it is important in a variety of functions including cellular respiration, metabolism, and energy transduction during photosynthesis. Consequently, understanding the protein-protein recognition and docking that controls interprotein ET is an important field of scientific research. One...
- Keyword:
- myoglobin, electron transfer, and protein binding
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jon Vander Woude
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation reports on novel theoretical concepts as well as experimental efforts toward laser cooling of semiconductors. The use of quantum well system brings the opportunity to engineer bandstructure, effective masses and the spatial distribution of electrons and holes. This permits the incorporation of novel quantum mechanical phenomena to manipulate...
- Keyword:
- Optomechanical Interaction, Anti Stokes, Thermometry, Quantum Efficiency, Laser radiation, and Photoluminescence
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Iman Hassani nia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The purpose of this research is to apply a sociocultural lens to examine students’ perceptions of usefulness in mathematics. It is important to explore perceptions of usefulness, as teachers are increasingly being encouraged to help their students view mathematics as useful. However, we know little about how students – and...
- Keyword:
- Equity, Student engagement, Sociocultural context, Mathematics education, and Utility value
- Subject:
- Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Tracy Elyse Dobie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This work argues that Latina/o immigrant Charismatic Catholicism does not encourage passive hope for heavenly rewards but rather emphasizes active strategies for transforming the self and the world. This study responds to two major concerns in the field of religious studies: the concern that Pentecostal forms of Christianity emphasize an...
- Keyword:
- Sin, Charismatic Catholic, Addiction, Latina/o Immigrant, Depression, and Conversion
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Lynn Brigid Elizabeth Jencks
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We introduce and advocate a new paradigm in simulation experiment design and analysis, called ``green simulation,'' for the setting in which experiments are performed repeatedly with the same simulation model but different input parameters. In this dissertation three classes of green simulation estimators are proposed: the likelihood-ratio-based estimators, the metamodeling-based...
- Keyword:
- simulation, database monte carlo, metamodeling, nested simulation, likelihood ratio method, and stochastic kriging
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Mingbin Feng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertations consists of three chapters. The first chapter is on the topic of environmental economics and studies the question of the effects of air pollution on students’ school absences, finding significant and positive effects for air pollution, and PM10 in particular, on school absences. The second chapter is on...
- Keyword:
- Environmental economics, Economics, and Labor economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Amirreza Khosroshahi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Raman spectroscopy is an established and versatile molecular sensing technique, but it is limited by its modest chemical sensitivity. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) can amplify otherwise weak normal Raman signals up to nine to ten orders of magnitude, giving rise to its application in many molecular sensing problems, including those...
- Keyword:
- electrochemistry, Raman spectroscopy, SERS, and spectroelectrochemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Stephanie Zaleski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis discusses the application of advanced digital signal and image processing techniques, particularly the technique known as super-resolution (SR), to enhance the imagery produced by cameras mounted on an airborne platform such as an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). SR is an image processing technology applicable to any digital, pixilated...
- Keyword:
- Photogrammetry, Image Processing, Remote Sensing, and Superresolution
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Matthew Collier Woods
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While equal political participation is a fundamental democratic ideal, it is an ideal unrealized in the United States. Those with more—more education, more money, more time, more skills—participate more. Those who have less—especially the poor and minorities—participate less and may be absent from the process altogether. A similar statement could...
- Keyword:
- civic, education, Head Start, Obama, policy, political behavior
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Lauren Lowenstein Bauer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation aims to address a gap in the literature regarding the effect of the achievement-focused student identity on prosocial values and behaviors, specifically among students who predominantly value prosociality. Largely, research on identity and motivation addresses academic outcomes and psychological well-being outcomes (Settles, Sellers, & Damas, 2002; Jaret &...
- Keyword:
- Identity, Academic Motivation, Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Prosocial Motivations
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Vida Magarita Manzo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this thesis I present the theoretical work on Fermionic surface states, and bulk Bosonic collective excitations in topological superfluids and superconductors. Broken symmetries in topological condensed matter systems have implications for the spectrum of Fermionic excitations confined on surfaces or topological defects. For the B-phase of superfluid 3He, which...
- Keyword:
- Physics and Topological Superfluids
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Hao Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Semiconducting nanoelectronic materials, including single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess interesting optoelectronic properties that could enable next-generation electronics, sensing technologies, and biomedicine. In this thesis, biomolecule-assisted dispersion and assembly of these nanomaterials are explored for human toxicity, environmental hazard potential, and applications in supramolecular hydrogels. Liquid-based...
- Keyword:
- Carbon Nanomaterials, Toxicity, Biofunctionalization, Supramolecular Hydrogel, and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Nikita Mansukhani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation considers how best to define the imagined “life” of the puppet, and how that “life” offers new meaning to narrative puppet productions. In my first chapter, begin with the observation that puppeteers, scholars, and audiences often describe the puppet as an object that appears to “have life,” and...
- Keyword:
- Redmoon Theater, Phenomenology, Stuffed Puppet, Puppetry, Puppet, and Handspring Puppet Company
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Dawn Tracey Brandes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In yeast, inducible genes such as INO1, PRM1 and HIS4 reposition from the nucleoplasm to nuclear periphery upon activation. This leads to a physical interaction with nuclear pore complex (NPC), interchromosomal clustering, and stronger transcription. Repositioning to the nuclear periphery is controlled by cis-acting transcription factor (TF) binding sites located...
- Keyword:
- Molecular biology and Cellular biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Carlo Randise-Hinchliff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation