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- Platyrrhines are an enigmatic and intriguing radiation of New World monkeys that currently inhabit the western hemisphere from Argentina to Mexico. Platyrrhini, a taxonomic parvorder within Primates, is their formal taxonomic designation, as they represent the sister group of the Catarrhini or all of the Old World monkeys and apes....
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- Primates, Platyrrhines, Hindlimb Suspension, Leaping, Hindlimb, and Primate Locomotion
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- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Michael S Mutehart
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation focuses on the topic of pseudowords and how speakers pseudoword processing relates to that of real words. Three main lines of inquiry are pursued with respect to pseudowords and real words: mechanisms of gradient well-formedness, theories of morphological decomposition, and indexical associations for morphemes in complex words. It...
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- pseudoword, gender, typicality, morphology, and indexicality
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Jeremy Michael Needle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Technology mediated experiences are becoming more common and creating new ways for us to work and learn together when separated by distance. However, these remote environments lack many of the rich non-verbal cues that we take for granted in co-located interactions, such as information about where your partner is looking....
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- Eye Tracking, Collaboration, Human Computer Interaction, and Gaze Visualization
- Subject:
- Technology and Social Behavior
- Creator:
- Sarah "D Angelo"
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this work, we explore the utility of the three main types of neural networks: feed forward, convolutional, and recurrent. While using these networks, we develop a new way to model multiagent trajectory data, explore the use of multiple activation functions for neurons at each layer of a neural network,...
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- Stock Prediction, Deep Learning, Basketball Trajectory, Activation Functions, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Mark Harmon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this thesis, I investigate how the disagreements among market participants can affect markets in various settings. In the first chapter, I study how market participants with heterogeneous beliefs and non-commitment can create and manage counterparty risk in a sequentially and bilaterally traded market. I find that the equilibrium price...
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- Counterparty Risk, Bubble, Asynchronized Trading, Central Clearing, Derivatives, and Heterogeneous Beliefs
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Hao Sun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This mixed-method dissertation explores how companies manage competing tensions in their corporate social responsibility platforms, with an emphasis on the activity of corporate philanthropy. While existing literature has overwhelmingly focused on the post-grant financial effects of corporate philanthropy, I shift our attention to various internal contestations between social impact and...
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- organizational theory, institutional complexity, corporate philanthropy, nonmarket strategy, and impression management
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations and Sociology
- Creator:
- Vontrese Pamphile
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- 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...
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- 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
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- Dissertation
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- Understanding bridge performance and detecting structurally deficient components are of increasing concern to modern infrastructure owners and managers. Concerns over possible effects of increased truck weights led to the opportunity to monitor a highway bridge, regularly subjected to heavy traffic due to logging activities typical of its locale. A weigh-in-motion...
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- Bridge monitoring, structural health monitoring, weigh in motion, and data mining
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Fiorella Mete
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Chromatin organization involves a hierarchy of length scales ranging from a few tens of nanometers in nucleosomes to hundreds of nanometers for chromosomal territories. This physical nanostructure is regulated by the genetic code, differential methylation and histone modifications that comprise the histone code, as well as non-molecular factors, such as...
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- Physicochemical, Nanoscale, Chromatin, and Transcription
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Greta Mary Wodarcyk
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Synaptic and spiking activity of cerebellar neurons during learning and swimming in larval zebrafish
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- The cerebellum contributes to movement initiation, execution, and adaptation. Primary cerebellar neurons receive synaptic inputs related to sensory stimuli and motor commands, leading to modulation of their firing. Furthermore, synaptic input differs substantially between cerebellum-dependent behaviors. I have made voltage- and current-clamp recordings from Purkinje and eurydendroid neurons in the...
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- zebrafish, cerebellum, Purkinje, sensorimotor integration, and learning
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Thomas Harmon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this dissertation, efforts are detailed to utilize semiquinoid bridging ligands to impart strong magnetic coupling between metal centers. Chapter 1 introduces the synthetic challenge of realizing molecule-based magnets with high operating temperatures due to weak magnetic coupling between spin centers through large, diamagnetic ligands. An alternative strategy is described...
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- Inorganic chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jordan DeGayner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis studies three approaches for solving linear programs with complementarity constraints (LPCC). The focus of Chapter 2 lies on difference-of-convex (DC) penalty formulations and the associated difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA) for computing stationary solutions of LPCCs. We concentrate on three such formulations and establish connections between their stationary solutions and...
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- Algorithms, Bilevel programming, global optimization, stationary, difference of convex, and Complementarity constraints
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Francisco Ivan Jara Moroni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- 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...
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- marriage, Italy, Villana delle Botti, tertiaries, women, and medieval
- 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
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- Dissertation
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- 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...
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- metabolic engineering, biotechnology, cell-free systems, biosynthetic pathway, synthetic biology, and enzymatic reactions
- 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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- This dissertation consists of three essays in Microeconomic Theory that study the interplay between mechanism and information design, provide insights into the design of efficient dispute resolution mechanisms for partnerships, and analyze the stability of fractional matchings in two-sided markets.', "In the first chapter, we study the optimal disclosure policy...
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- fractional matchings, matching, information design, partnership dissolution, mechanism design, and information disclosure
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Bela Szabadi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Small molecules such as indanes, chromanes, tetralins and their derivatives play a significant role in drug discovery due to their potent biological activity. This research herein presents a facile Brønsted acid-catalyzed allylsilane annulation methodology to generate fused ring systems such as indanes. The reaction goes through a homoallylic intermediate which...
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- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Weiwei Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this dissertation thesis, I introduce three-dimensional (3D) image reconstruction algorithms for multi-focus microscopy (MFM). MFM provides a fast way to obtain 3D information of the sample by simultaneously capturing multiple focal planes on a single camera shot. However, stacking the sub-images from different focal planes does not provide a...
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- Image Restoration, 3D Image Reconstruction, Image Denoising, ADMM, Multi-Focus Microscopy, and Super-Resolution
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Seunghwan Yoo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In the past decade, scholars, the news media, and the public have turned increased attention to the activity of atheists in the West. Atheism serves as a source of identity and community in todays society, signaling more than a simple lack of belief in god(s). This dissertation is a cultural...
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- cultural studies, atheism, religion and atheism, theory of religion, media studies, and American atheism
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Hannah Scheidt Tebbetts
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Oxidation processes play an integral role in many industries, but questions still remain regarding the mechanisms of carbon-hydrogen bond activation and oxidation in free-radical and catalyzed processes. Microkinetic modeling is a powerful tool capable of examining oxidation processes at the mechanistic level to gain understanding and guide catalyst applications. This...
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- Microkinetic, Catalysis, Oxidation, and Modeling
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Robert R.O Brydon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- What does it mean for writing from the former French imperial territories of the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) to become Maghrebi literature? How does literature come to count as belonging to or appertaining to a particular place? Today, in the international spheres of the university and the literary market,...
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- Novel, Maghreb, Modernity, Territory, Nation, and Japan
- Subject:
- French and Italian
- Creator:
- Matthew Thomas Kerper Brauer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation