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- Keyword:
- obesity, overweight, sub-Saharan Africa, context, women, adolescents
- Creator:
- Christian Nwabueze, Mary Ann Littleton, Megan Quinn, Richard Wallace, Oluwaseun Famojuro, Hadii M. Mamudu, and Ifeoma D. Ozodiegwu
- Owner:
- Ifeoma Ozodiegwu
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 12/08/2019
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- Keyword:
- Whiplash, Spinal Cord, and Magnetization Transfer Imaging
- Creator:
- Dr. Mark A. Hoggarth and Neuromuscular Imaging Research Laboratory
- Owner:
- Mark Andrew Hoggarth
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 12/04/2019
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- Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes (technically 11,842 > 10 acres)! This bold proclamation can be seen everywhere from license plates to tourism pamphlets; it reveals how much water matters to the state on not only a commercial level, but as the very identity of the community. At the...
- Keyword:
- quality, linear regression, price, lakefront, minneapolis, property, python, st. paul, twin cities, hedonic pricing method, minnesota, and water
- Subject:
- Data Science
- Creator:
- David Charles Sedgwick
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/26/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/27/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
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- How do weak states build and maintain strong militaries that do not pose a threat? A government that presides over an institutionally weak state might reasonably fear that an effective army would be tempted to engage in coup d’état. Yet several countries in Africa with low overall institutional capacity sustain...
- Keyword:
- Weak States, Civil Military Relations, Civil Wars, State-Building, Coups, and Military Effectiveness
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Jahara Matisek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/26/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation is an ethnography that investigates how Chicago-based artists and organizations use hip-hop performance as a tool for grassroots education and communal dissent. By exploring these local artistic approaches, this research reveals the salience of hip-hop performance in cultivating social movements, embodied politics, and choreographic repertoires that respond to...
- Keyword:
- cultural studies, hip-hop pedagogy, juvenile justice, social justice, sound studies, and urban ethnography
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Justin Zullo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Erythropoietin-producing human hepatocellular (Eph) receptors and their corresponding ephrin ligands are asymmetrically expressed at cell-cell contacts allowing for bidirectional signaling with forward signaling through the receptor expressing cell and reverse signaling through the ligand expressing cell. Eph receptors are the largest family of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) in mammals, which...
- Keyword:
- Transmembrane domain, Migration, Ephrin, Lipid raft, Keratinocyte, and Eph receptor
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Rosa Ventrella
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Memory systems research has established the importance of two distinct types of memory systems in the brain: explicit and implicit. While a robust literature exists on individual differences in the explicit domain (Chapter 3), research on individual differences in implicit learning remains relatively limited. The key question guiding the investigation...
- Keyword:
- Sequence Learning, Individual Differences, and Implicit Learning
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Kelsey Rachel Thompson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Individual plasmonic nanoparticles have the potential to revolutionize all areas of energy science, catalysis, organic electronics, and solar technology. Owing to their light trapping and focusing ability, single nanoparticles can be utilized to efficiently drive chemical reactions at the sub-nanometer scale. Much of the fundamental science regarding how plasmons can...
- Keyword:
- Single nanoparticle, SERS, Electron transfer, Plasmonics, and Hot electron chemistry
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Emily Sprague-Klein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation endogenizes information acquisition in two-player games across three different settings. The first chapter explores when moral hazard in a principal-agent contract can lead to pareto improvements when it is preceeded by information gathering. The second chapter studies how product differentiation affects the amount of market research done by...
- Keyword:
- Microeconomics, Game Theory, Moral Hazard, Persuasion, Contracts, and Information Economics
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Colin Shopp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis studies the in-hand manipulation problem of repositioning finger contacts on an object by controlled sliding. In this thesis we investigate two versions of the problem. First for a multifingered hand with circle patch contacts, we present a framework for planning the motion of the hand to create an...
- Keyword:
- Robotics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jian Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The work of this dissertation seeks to enhance the understanding of DNA-driven nanoparticle assembly and introduce kinetic routes to control mesoscale crystal habit and size. Chapter 1 describes the state of the art in the field of nanoparticle assembly and, specifically, DNA- mediated nanoparticle assembly, where the concept of a...
- Keyword:
- Single Crystal, Nucleation and Growth, , DNA, Self-Assembly, Nanoparticle, and Crystallization
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- So Young Eileen Seo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Over the past decade significant advancements have been made across the field of cancer biology resulting in transformative new therapies. Despite these advancements, treatments for metastatic cancer remain relatively ineffective. Metastasis is coordinated by various types of “healthy†stromal cells in addition to the tumor cells themselves. This requires a...
- Keyword:
- Pre-Metastatic Niche, Nanotechnology, Tumor Microenvironment, High-Density Lipoprotein, Cancer Immunology, and Exosomes
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Michael P Plebanek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Let X,Y be algebraic varieties defined over the reals. Assume Y is smooth and X is Gorenstein. Suppose f:X -> Y is a flat R-morphism such that all the fibers have rational singularities. We show that the pushforward of any smooth, compactly supported measure on X has a continuous density...
- Keyword:
- Rational singularities and Measures
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Andrew Reiser
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Ubiquitous in the environment are bacteria that have evolved to adapt to the environmental niches they colonize. To this end, bacteria sensory and signaling molecules are required for processing these extracellular changes within their environment into changes in gene expression. The plague-causing pathogen, Yersinia pestis, contains a repertoire of two-component...
- Keyword:
- Plague, Pla, Glucose, Crp, Pestis, and Yersinia
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Jeremy Todd Henry Ritzert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Nano-scale materials possess many unique physical and chemical properties which are not found in bulk materials. The ability to synthesize these materials by design is one of the greatest challenges in materials science. Advances towards meeting this challenge will lead to discoveries in fields such as plasmonics, photonics, catalysis, and...
- Keyword:
- Monte Carlo, Molecular Dynamics, self-assembly, nanoparticle, and DNA
- Creator:
- Saijie Pan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are a group of cosmopolitan symbiotic soil fungi that colonize the fine roots of tree species and play an essential role in plant nutrition and ecosystem function. In worldwide afforestation projects, the establishment of introduced trees in novel habitats has been shown to require ECM fungal associations....
- Keyword:
- enzyme, exotic tree, pinus, forest soil, ectomycorrhiza, and fungal community
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Chen Ning
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- I study three topics in applied microeconomics. My first chapter concerns the effect of daily school start times on academic achievement in Florida. Exploiting the sharp discontinuity in school start time relative to sunrise, I track children who move between schools on either side of the time zone boundary in...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sam Norris
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Journalism professionals and researchers have recently argued that newsrooms adopt audience engagement as one of their chief pursuits. This term has many interpretations that stem from one underlying belief: journalists better serve their audiences when they explicitly focus on how their audiences interact with and respond to the news in...
- Keyword:
- audience engagement, news production, news audiences, journalism, and ethnography
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Jacob Lewis Nelson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Supported metal oxides are an important class of heterogeneous catalysts active for many selective oxidation reactions including alkane oxidative dehydrogenation. Attempts to develop fundamental structure-function relationships for supported metal oxide catalysts for alkane oxidative dehydrogenation have been challenging, with many conflicting reports in literature. This has been in part due...
- Keyword:
- Heterogeneous Catalysis, Copper, Supported Catalyst, Oxidative Dehydrogenation, Kinetics, and Spectroscopy
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Scott Nauert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Convent education was financially accessible to many girls whose families could not afford a private tutor and nuns were the largest group of educated, culturally-active women in pre-modern Europe. Convent education mirrored the general contours of humanist education by associating learning with morality, serving the purposes of the Venetian republic,...
- Keyword:
- early modern Venice, women's education, convents, Italy, feminism, and nuns
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Charlotte Cover Moy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Through an engagement with the work of American postmodern choreographers Anna Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, and Laura Dean, I expose choreographic legacy as an ongoing process of continually rewriting dance history. Halprin, Rainer, and Dean’s models for choreographic transmission draw from the legacy methods of repertoire, reconstruction, and reperformance, while simultaneously...
- Keyword:
- Minimalism, Postmodernism, and Conceptual Art
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Elliot Gordon Mercer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- We compare two different methods to compute the mod 2 homology of an infinite loop space. One method is to approximate the infinite loop functor using functor calculus. The other is to approximate the spectrum using an Adams resolution. We show that these two ways lead to isomorphic spectral sequences....
- Keyword:
- Adams resolution, power operations, spectral sequences, and Goodwillie calculus
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Johan W T Konter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- With a glut of competing priorities, the financial industry faces major challenges in extracting timely, relevant, and specifically-focused information from text. Without clear-cut business cases, making the investment in text analysis methods does not justify the return on investment. Furthermore, the business landscape continues to become increasingly complex, and at...
- Keyword:
- knowledge graphs, topic modeling, machine learning, LDA, text analytics, and ontologies
- Subject:
- Data Science
- Creator:
- Troy Danka
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
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- Description:
- The mammalian retina harbors more than 30 output channels, each playing a distinct role in processing visual images. A comprehensive understanding of the retinal code primarily relies on the functional knowledge of individual output neurons or retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Despite recent technical advances in imaging and genetics, the function...
- Keyword:
- Retinal Ganglion Cells, Retina, and Electrophysiology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Amurta Nath
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Scholars frequently use the term œhymn-like to describe passages of instrumental music but the precise meaning of the term remains elusive. This dissertation examines, through the lens of topic theory, the characteristics, origins, and communicative potential of such passages in the music of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. I define...
- Keyword:
- spirituality, musical meaning, topic theory, music analysis, eigtheenth-century music, and aesthetics
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Olga Sanchez-Kisielewska
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the origins and social impact of New York stop-and-frisk law, which authorizes police to stop, question and frisk people without a warrant or probable cause to believe crime was committed. Several observers associate it with a recent history of racial profiling, or conservative policing practices of 1990s...
- Keyword:
- Police, Civil Rights, Black struggles, Prison, Race, and Crime
- Subject:
- African-American Studies
- Creator:
- DWAYNE Adula NASH
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many key crises of international security are tied to the spread of nuclear weapons and technology, but what makes a state nuclear remains subject to controversy. The possession of nuclear technology does not always grant legal and political nuclear status”a phenomenon evident not only in the recent debate over Irans...
- Keyword:
- Nuclear Weapons and Diplomacy
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Sidra Hamidi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Holy Mediocrity: Saintly Matrons and the Dominicans in Late Medieval Italy', 'Julia Lauren Miglets', 'The task of this study is to explain why a cluster of female saints who were noted not for their miracles but for the moderate even boring quality of their sanctity, a paradigm I call holy...
- Keyword:
- Italy, marriage, medieval, tertiaries, Villana delle Botti, and women
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Julia Lauren Miglets
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- It is pertinent now more than ever that we find sustainable alternatives to produce chemicals. For decades, scientists and engineers have turned to biological systems to help meet societal needs in energy, medicine, materials, and moreespecially when chemical synthesis is untenable. Often, biologically-produced small molecules are insufficient for production at...
- Keyword:
- biosynthetic pathway, metabolic engineering, enzymatic reactions, synthetic biology, biotechnology, and cell-free systems
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Ashty Karim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many democratic theorists suggest that harmonious relationship between groups are critical for democracy; however, far less is known about how everyday experiences promote or impede such intergroup harmony. In this dissertation, I explore a common, but overlooked, form of intergroup contact casual, brief experiences with outgroup strangers. I propose a...
- Keyword:
- experiments, race and ethnic politics, intergroup contact, and political psychology
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Ethan C Busby
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- ABSTRACT', 'Reinventing Television and Family Life, 1960-1990', 'Hannah Spaulding', 'In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the field of television changed. A series of new electronic devices that interfaced directly with TV technology video cameras, home recorders, cable boxes, video calling systemswere introduced to the American public. These devices promised to...
- Keyword:
- Technology, History, Gender, Video, Television, and Domesticity
- Subject:
- Screen Cultures
- Creator:
- Hannah Alice Spaulding
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Type IIb supernovae (SNe) are important candidates to understand mechanisms that drive the stripping of stripped-envelope (SE) supernova (SN) progenitors. ', 'While binary interactions and their high incidence are generally cited to favor them as Type IIb SN progenitors, this idea has not been tested using models covering a broad...
- Keyword:
- Astrophysics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Niharika Sravan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The overall goal of my thesis is to enhance our quantitative understanding of the biophysical properties of DNA a long polynucleotide chain, present in every living cell, that embodies the genetic information. The existence of DNA has been known to us for over a century, however, our understanding of its...
- Keyword:
- Biophysics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Sumitabha Brahmachari
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In polymer nanocomposites (PNCs), the physical and chemical interactions at the polymer matrix-filler interface lead to local variations in polymer properties, creating a substantial interphaseregion in the vicinity of the interface. Quantifying the significance of the interphase effect in the presence of substrates or nanoparticles is of essential importance in...
- Keyword:
- Interphase, Confinement effects, Finite element analysis, Polymer nanocomposites, and Atomic Force Microscopy
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Min Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Migrant illegality gives way to irregular livelihoods in Spain and around the world. Studies on migrant illegality have generally focused on its political, legal and economic production and the social impact of a states specific biopolitics. While invaluably important, there remains the need to better understand the modes of life...
- Keyword:
- Catalonia, Senegal, Legal Status, Phenomenology, Spain, and Transnationalism
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Arturo Marquez Jr
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Hannah Arendt claimed that aœtotalitarianisma emerged as a new word to designate a new form of evil in politics. However, she added, the use of a new word does not imply that we understand what this novelty consists in. This dissertation is an attempt to understand the novelty of totalitarian...
- Keyword:
- Judgment, Lyotard, Kant, Arendt, Action, and Evil
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Javier Burdman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- There has long been an interest in the idea of generativity the concern for and commitment towards promoting the well-being of future generations. In Western societies, generativity can be characterized through societal contributions and acts dedicated towards others. Since the early 1960s, when Erikson proposed generativity as the major developmental...
- Keyword:
- Well-being, Life Story, Narrative, Communion, Generativity, and Agency
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jen Guo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As monolinguals and bilinguals hear words unfold over time, they experience competition from words that share sounds within the same language (e.g., st- activates strict and stamp). Unique to bilinguals is that they are also prone to competition from similar sounding-words between their two languages. In the present dissertation, we...
- Keyword:
- bilingualism, speech perception, phonotactic constraints, and parallel language activation
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Creator:
- Max Ryan Freeman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Techniques in atomic physics have delivered some of the most precise measurements ever made, with frequency measurements reaching fractional precisions of 10^18 . High precision measurements can be used to test fundamental physics, such as pursuing a variation in fundamental constants. A finite drift in measurable constants such as the...
- Keyword:
- Physics
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Mark Gabriel Kokish
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Parents play a crucial role in shaping the contexts within which young children develop, particularly in the early years of a childs life (Bornstein, 2002; Brooks-Gunn & Markman, 2005; Maccoby & Martin, 1983). Parenting is also one of the key pathways through which socioeconomic factors, such as maternal education, may...
- Keyword:
- parenting, maternal education, Head Start preschool, child development, and poverty and inequality, social policy
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Emily C. Ross
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation approaches J. M. Coetzees work through the lens of critical animal studies. Puzzling out the frequent appearances of animals in his work, numerous scholars have attempted to answer the following question: What is Coetzee writing about when he writes about animals? But while many have engaged with the...
- Keyword:
- Allegory, Kafka, Animal studies, and Coetzee
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Sonia H. Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In 1964 the Second Vatican Council encouraged a switch from Latin Mass, celebrated by Roman Catholics across the globe in standardized form since the 16th century, to Mass in the languages spoken by the local people and with some adaptation to local circumstances. This event is familiar to scholars of...
- Keyword:
- Ritual, Religion and Politics, Liturgical Reform, U.S. Catholicism, Chicago, and Religion and Culture
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Jennifer Ann Callaghan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation aims to understand the ways that the social, specifically race, ethnicity, and neighborhood, intersects with the religious identity, beliefs, and practices of early-generation Americans in Chicago. This dissertation asks at the most general level: What is the relationship of race, ethnicity, and religion for early-generation Americans? More specifically,...
- Keyword:
- race, religion, ethnicity, sociology, Chicago, and Catholic studies
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Christopher R Carroll
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The moduli stack of bundles on a smooth complete curve over a field, is an immensely rich geometric object and is of central importance to the Geometric Langlands program. This thesis represents a contribution towards a motivic, in the sense of Voevodsky and Morel-Voevodsky, understanding of this stack. Following the...
- Keyword:
- Geometric Langlands, Ran space, Motives, Space of rational maps, and Motivic homotopy theory
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Elden Elmanto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the wake of Hurricane Katrinas dramatic demographic changes, scholars, journalists, and politicians have discussed Mexican migration to New Orleans as a new phenomenon and an unwelcome threat to the citys social order, rich culture, and tourist economy. This dissertation challenges these ideas and demonstrates some of the myriad ways...
- Keyword:
- Music, Cultural Brokers, New Orleans, Borderlands, and Mexico
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Valeria Priscilla Jimanez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis focuses on the role of upcoming neutrino oscillation experiments for the search for beyond-the-Standard-Model physics in the neutrino sector. Specically, I focus on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino experiment, and the experimental sensitivity to non-standard neutrino interactions, sterile neutrinos, incorrect signals of CP-violation, differences between...
- Keyword:
- Particle Physics and Neutrinos
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Kevin James Kelly
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Desmoplakin (DP) is a component of desmosomes, critical adhesive complexes found in cardiac intercalated discs. DP is often mutated in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC), an inherited disorder that is a frequent cause of sudden cardiac death. The disease progression of AC is characterized by cardiomyocyte cell death and replacement of the...
- Keyword:
- Rho, Desmosome, Desmoplakin, Cardiocutaneous, Connexin, and Arrhythmogenic
- Creator:
- Chen Yuan Kam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Active traffic management systems aim to relieve recurring and non-recurring congestion by using estimated and predicted traffic conditions to guide trip makers before and after entering the network as well as to design control strategies to improve system performance. With external disruptions and interventions (e.g., weather, special events, and incidents),...
- Keyword:
- Weather-Responsive Traffic Management, Performance Evaluation, Active Transportation and Demand Management, Smart Mobility, Network Modeling, and Data Mining
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Zihan Hong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In 2015, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that 1 in 6 Americans fall ill with a foodborne infection annually, resulting in more than 3000 fatalities and an estimated $15 billion in economic burden due to combined medical costs, productivity loss, and death. On a per-case basis, infections...
- Keyword:
- toxin, vulnificus, Vibrio, pathogenesis, bacteria, and virulence
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Hannah Gavin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this work we explore a connection between some high dimensional asymptotic problems and random matrix theory. In the first part, we establish a link between the Wishart ensemble and random critical points of holomorphic sections over complex projective space and use this to establish asymptotics on the average number...
- Keyword:
- Complex Geometry, Differential Equations, Probability Theory, and High Dimensional
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Xavier Eduardo Garcia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation