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- Approximately 1 in 3 deaths in the US is caused by cardiovascular diseases, among them atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis occurs through excessive cholesterol deposition (hyperlipidemia) along the inner layer of the artery called the intima, resulting in plaque formation that blocks arterial blood flow and could lead to heart attacks and strokes....
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- Atherosclerosis, LDLrko, Group 1 CD1-restricted T cells, CD1d, and HJ1-T cells
- Subject:
- Biological Sciences
- Creator:
- Shon Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Marital emotional functioning is one of the most important predictors of marital outcomes (e.g., marital satisfaction), which in turn has important consequences for wellbeing and health factors for both spouses and their children. Thus far, negative emotions (e.g., anger) have been the central focus in distinguishing dissatisfied from satisfied couples...
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- duchenne smiles, non-duchenne smiles, marriage, and positive emotion
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Katherine K. Bae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-04-04
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- The purpose of this project is to investigate the lack of significant reform regarding women’s issues during the perestroika period. Part one establishes the foundational ideology by analyzing Marxist and Leninist ideas on women and comparing them to official Soviet doctrine as established by government officials and leading scholars. Also...
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- Russia, glasnost, feminism, Soviet government, Soviet women's history, Russian women, Soviet women, women's rights, Soviet Union, Russian women's history, women's history, socialist feminism, contraceptives, condoms, population control, contraception, Soviet society, and birth control
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Bailey Sutton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Project
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- Each successive wave of immigrants to America has faced prejudice founded in fear and uncertainty. Immigrants from Italy were particularly discriminated against in the early years of their arrival, from 1880 through 1920. They faced violence, racial slurs, and media attacks based on an unsubstantiated stereotype of criminality. This project...
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- race, immigration, ethnicity, Cleveland, Italian, Italian-American, whiteness, industrial, and Midwest
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Isabel Robertson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-02
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- With 80% of US hospitals seeing limited English proficient patients on a regular basis, language assistance services are a pivotal component of ensuring equal access to health care. State and federal civil rights policies guarantee the provision of language assistance services to limited English proficient hospital patients. However, local civil...
- Keyword:
- language assistance services, principal agent theory, Public policy, LEP, implementation, health care, and civil rights
- Subject:
- Social Policy
- Creator:
- Meredith Greene
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Affective science has long been interested in the coherence between different emotion response systems (e.g., subjective emotional experience, behavior, physiology). Although evolutionary functionalist accounts of emotion hold that emotional coherence should be related to greater adaptation, few studies have analyzed links between emotional coherence and wellbeing. Thus, in this laboratory-based...
- Keyword:
- Emotional coherence, facial expressions, age, well-being, physiology, and sadness
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Katherine K. Bae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-04-24
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- Other
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- Children are impressionable customers, and the media they consume influences their behaviors and perceptions. Gender stereotypes are highly prevalent in children’s media, which can often lead children to create idealized images of what boys and girls should be. This paper explores advertising in children’s television commercials given changes in our...
- Keyword:
- communication, children’s media , advertising , and gender-targeted commercials
- Creator:
- Meredith Ford
- Contributor:
- Alexis Lauricella
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Drill rap, a subgenre of hip-hop intimately connected to Chicago street life and brought into the nation’s musical mainstream by Chicago rapper Chief Keef, sounds and means differently than traditional forms of hip-hop. Unlike most hip hop, drill is outwardly unconcerned with mobility. This project explores drill’s departure from hip-hop’s...
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- Chicago, Hyper-Containment, Containment, Drill Rap, Gang Fragmentation, and the Plan for Transformation
- Creator:
- Benjamin M. Levey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- American Studies
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- One of the most dynamic in South Asia, Pakistan’s vibrant and outspoken media is de facto credited to the media liberalization policies of 2002 by President Pervez Musharraf. Yet, the country’s media landscape, particularly the private news channels, are known to be sensational for their exaggerated reporting style. Using Pakistan’s...
- Keyword:
- BOL TV, Musharraf, Pakistan, media liberalization, Geo News, Sensationalism, and Pakistani media
- Subject:
- Journalism
- Creator:
- Shakeeb Asrar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- This thesis analyzes the role segregation and white flight played in the development of New York City’s suburban Westchester County, particularly in regards to how white flight from (and within) New Rochelle during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s was presaged by the racial reification of the suburb’s communal boundaries during...
- Keyword:
- New York Westchester & Boston Railroad, Urban Renewal, Westchester County, Segregation, Housing, White Flight, Scarsdale, and Suburban Development
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Kevin M. Slack
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- The National Institute of Mental Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality convened an expert panel to identify the top research priorities in the field of behavioral intervention technology (BIT) research. The panel determined that if BIT research is to evolve in an effective way to reach and...
- Keyword:
- Barriers, Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Mobile, Apps, Depression, and Learning
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Colleen Stiles-Shields
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Background: The tripartite model (Clark & Watson, 1991) has been used to represent the substrates of general distress in both depression and anxiety (Negative affectivity [NA]), while also characterizing specific features of decreased positive affectivity (PA) in depression and increased physiological hyperarousal (PH) in anxiety. Core affect characterizes affect by...
- Keyword:
- affective reactivity, tripartite model, comorbidity, depression, and anxiety
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Laina Emily Rosebrock
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2015-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- 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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- The sexual network topology of individuals and their communities may affect the spread of infectious disease both within and across specific populations. To better understand this process, we collected ego-centric data on the personal sexual networks of 175 young men who have sex with men. Respondents were asked to nominate...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Medical Social Sciences
- Creator:
- Balint Neray
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- The advent of next-generation sequencing has made it increasingly feasible to survey microbes in situ, including inside buildings where many people spend extended periods of time. Microbes in buildings, and specifically in dust, are linked to various health outcomes, and the amount of antimicrobial chemicals in dust is associated to...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Sarah Ben Maamar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Depression in children and adolescents is a prevalent, recurrent, and frequently chronic disorder, representing a considerable public health burden (Birmaher, Ryan, Williamson, Brent, & Kaufman, 2005; Costello et al., 2002). Consequently, an understanding of the disorder is critical for future intervention and prevention efforts. Previous research attempting to clarify family...
- Keyword:
- Inflammation, Empathy, Families, Consistency, and Depression
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Erika Manczak
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In eukaryotic organisms, genomic DNA is organized and condensed into repeating arrays of nucleosomes. The histone protein octamer of each nucleosome wraps 147 base pairs of DNA, effectively restricting access by transcription factors and other regulatory proteins to that region. An additional histone, histone H1, binds the DNA outside the...
- Keyword:
- histone h1, mnase, genome, nucleosome, and drosophila
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Rebecca Martin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation presents a program of research on cultural cognition of the natural world, involving long-term research with indigenous Ngöbe partner communities (Panama) and selected comparisons to Western samples (US). In two series of experiments focused on agency concepts, we show that cultural frameworks recruit distinct principles for inferring agency...
- Keyword:
- Indigenous, folk psychology, folk communication, culture, agency concepts, and folk ecology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Bethany L. Ojalehto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation studies the small dispersion asymptotics in highly stratified models. My goal is to show that accurate inferences are possible even if s, the number of strata, is large while m, the number of observations within each stratum, is small, provided that the model ”fit well” in the term...
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- modified profile likelihood, Inverse Gaussian, effective sample size, exponential dispersion model, MapReduce, and high order expansion
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Xuan Mei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In today's rapidly changing world, there is constant demand for the development of new, high performance materials. Fire resistant steels can provide greater safety in the event of a building fire, creep resistant stainless steels can allow for higher power plant efficiency, and cobalt based superalloys have potential for use...
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- Ferritic Steels, CALPHAD, Stainless Steel, Fire Resistance, Combinatorial Synthesis, and Atom Probe Tomography
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Cameron Thomas Gross
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Metabolite biosensors are powerful tools for basic biological research, medical diagnostics, and biotechnological applications. However, a generalizable strategy for developing new metabolite biosensors when an existing sensor cannot be found in nature, is a persistent challenge. Furthermore, while transcription factor biosensors have the broadest range of applications, the pool of...
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- Bioengineering, Transcription factor, Synthetic biology, Promoter engineering, Protein engineering, and Metabolic engineering
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Andrew Younger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The hormone prolactin (PRL) contributes to breast cancer pathogenesis through various signaling pathways, one of the most notable being the JAK2/signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5) pathway. PRL-induced activation of the transcription factor STAT5 results in the upregulation of numerous genes implicated in breast cancer pathogenesis. However, the...
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- Transcription factor, HMGN, Histone H1, Chromatin, STAT5, and Prolactin
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Suzanne Marie Schauwecker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ultrafast spectroscopy offers an unprecedented view on the dynamic nature of chemical reactions. From charge transfer in semiconductors to folding and isomerization of proteins, these all important processes can now be monitored and in some instances even controlled on real, physical timescales. One of the biggest challenges of ultrafast science...
- Keyword:
- Microscopy, Perovskite, Spectroscopy, Compressed Sensing, and Interferometry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Boris Spokoyny
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While literature indicates that fewer than half of older adults aged 65 years or older receive high quality end-of-life care, less is known about the quality of end-of-life care experienced by the segment of that population with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). Drawing upon the Teno Model of high quality end-of-life...
- Keyword:
- Multiple chronic conditions, Quality, End-of-life, and Aging
- Subject:
- Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program
- Creator:
- Gayle Kricke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Traditionally, research on perception and sensory systems has considered the senses as independent and modular functions that only converge after sufficient processing in unisensory areas. Recently, however, that view has been called into question with a number of demonstrations of multisensory interactions that may occur as early as primary cortex....
- Keyword:
- Cognitive psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- L. Jacob Zweig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of this thesis is to design practical algorithms for nonlinear optimization in the case when the objective function is stochastic or nonsmooth. The thesis is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 describes an active-set method for the minimization of an objective function that is structurally nonsmooth, viz., it...
- Keyword:
- machine learning, optimization, deep learning, Newton, nonsmooth, and quasi-Newton
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Nitish Shirish Keskar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), spinal motoneurons degenerate in the order of large motoneurons that innervate fast and fatigable muscle fibers to small motoneurons that innervate slow muscle fibers (Pun et al. 2006). This order of degeneration is peculiar in that it is in direct opposition to the normal order...
- Keyword:
- motoneurons, persistent inward currents, animal model, neurodegeneration, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and electrophysiology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Seoan Huh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Algorithms which are efficient and robust are essential to meet the increasing computational demands in the world today. In this thesis, we consider the analysis and design of both distributed algorithms for dynamic average consensus and centralized algorithms for convex optimization. Dynamic average consensus consists of a group of agents,...
- Keyword:
- algorithm design
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Bryan Richard Van Scoy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- 3D integration of integrated circuits is becoming a prominent solution in the design of high performance chips. Multiple dies can be stacked in a single 3D structure and utilizes Through Silicon Vias (TSV) for die to die communications. While this feature significantly decrease the latency of data transfer, multi-tier stacking...
- Keyword:
- SRAM, Power Modeling, DRAM, TSV, CAM, and 3D IC
- Subject:
- Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Dawei Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Phase separation in segmented polymers provides distinct challenges in regard to their chemical reaction kinetics and characterization. Well studied, it has been shown that structure, phase separation and non-covalent interactions are key factors in the design of elastomeric polyurethanes. Specifically, this dissertation is focused on two areas: the synthesis of...
- Keyword:
- Fluorescence, Phase Separation, Hybrid, Aromatic Interactions, Non-Isocyanate Polyurethanes, and Polyurethane
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Dhulst
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Air pollution increases mortality risk up to 18 percent due to cardiovascular causes. Poor air quality occurs more when meteorological components prevent the dispersal of pollutants in the lower atmosphere. The atmospheric and hydrological patterns change as global warming alters the pattern of circulations seasonally. The purpose of this study...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Earth & Planetary Science
- Creator:
- Yuxi Suo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-11
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Regardless of how it may seem at times, the President of the United States is not in charge of all the major decisions made by the government. The laws that we must adhere to are made, formed, and passed by Congress which is composed of the House of Representatives and...
- Keyword:
- crd2018
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Kiran Bhattacharyya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-20
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Ross (2015) proposed a recovery theorem which uses prices of contingent claims to recover market’s expectations about underlying asset returns. His work relies on two assumptions. He assumes all uncertainty of the economy follows a finite state irreducible Markov chain and that the pricing kernel is transition independent. We first...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Likuan Qin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A failure to effectively regulate emotions elicited by a stressful life event contributes to symptoms of psychopathology. This regulatory failure may result from a deficit in executive control. For some individuals, executive control is impaired following stress exposure. Thus, for some individuals, when executive control is needed to regulate emotions...
- Keyword:
- Clinical psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Meghan Quinn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- SIRT3 is a mitochondrial-localized, NAD+-dependent deacetylase, tumor suppressor protein that functions to direct mitochondrial energy sensing and antioxidant proteins, increasing the efficiency of energy utilization, providing a redox balanced environment, and preventing aging-related diseases. One SIRT3 deacetylation target is NADP+-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 (IDH2), a key Krebs Cycle enzyme that...
- Keyword:
- MnSOD, IDH2, Cancer, and Sirtuins
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Xianghui Zou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Simulation analytics treats stochastic simulation as data analytics for systems that do not yet exist, and extends traditional performance estimation and system optimization to uncovering underlying patterns and the key drivers and dynamics of system behavior by retaining the sample paths generated throughout simulation runs. My dissertation addresses two research...
- Keyword:
- Industrial engineering
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Yujing Lin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the situated and interactional nature of cultural experiences. Drawing on the literature on materiality, place, and space, the study analyzes how the physical and spatial characteristics of art galleries and art museums in Accra, Ghana, and Johannesburg, South Africa, lead people to engage with culture, and derive...
- Keyword:
- Art galleries, Urban sociology, Art museums, Materiality, Cultural sociology, and Built environment
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Priscilla Adipa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on exploring novel light steering and spectral engineering functionalities by flat optics, which includes photonic architectures of flat plasmonic metasurfaces, nanoparticle arrays, and thin film coatings. We have designed, fabricated and characterized different plasmonic metasurfaces (trapezoid-shaped antennas, nanorings/nanowires, etc.), nanoparticle arrays (single-layered or multilayered nanocubes and nanodisks),...
- Keyword:
- Spectrum engineering, Light steering, Absorber, Thin film, Flat optics, and Metasurface
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Zhongyang Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation develops a theory of rebel-state engagement during armed conflict that links these varied interactions to processes of institutional change in the state in which they unfold. Conventional wisdom portrays conflict zones as lacking institutions or pitting armed groups and states as competitors. Yet, this dissertation finds that rebels...
- Keyword:
- Civil War, State-building, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Institutions, Rebel governance, and Political economy
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Rachel Sweet
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Optical quantum communication (QC) has the potential to address the demands of high-speed and maximally-secure communication. In optical QC, information is encoded onto the state of photons. By using entangled photonic states, QC protocols can support fundamentally secure communication for applications which cannot use classical information. To increase the information...
- Keyword:
- Fiber optics, Quantum optical communication, Entanglement, Quantum optics, Nonlinear optics, and Quantum state tomography
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Samantha Jean Nowierski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Web users suffer from security and privacy threats. According to Symantec, 430 million new unique pieces of malware have been discovered in 2015, and over half a billion personal records were stolen or lost in the same year. Defense mechanisms can be classified as reactive approach and proactive approach. Reactive...
- Keyword:
- Web Tracking, Web Security, XSS, Web Privacy, and Proactive System
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Xiang Pan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Over the past two decades, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been successfully applied to various fields of biomedical researching and clinical studies, including cardiology, urology, dermatology, dentistry, oncology, and most successfully, ophthalmology. This dissertation seeks to extend the current OCT practice, which is still largely morphology-based, into a new dimension,...
- Keyword:
- Ophthalmic Imaging, Optical Coherence Tomography, Spectroscopic Analysis, and Blood Oxygen Saturation
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Siyu Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In today's marketplace, consumers purchase a basket of goods of different categories from many different types of retail stores. While most marketing literature focuses on studying a single retail chain or a single category, my dissertation considers consumers' collective basket purchases across different retail formats. By doing so, my dissertation...
- Keyword:
- Marketing
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Chaoqun Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation asks how deepening global inequalities reshape the ways families negotiate “economic moralities,” normative expectations of material obligation and entitlement. It focuses on the families of middle class migrants: French-educated Senegalese urbanites whose diplomas no longer protect them from discrimination in Paris but who, among Africans, are still construed...
- Keyword:
- transnational families, France, food sharing, Senegal, children, and migration
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Chelsie Jeannette Yount-Andre
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How do independent artists use social media and e-commerce websites to support their creative businesses? This dissertation examines independent artists’ participation in the peer economy for selling handmade goods, a hybrid economy that combines sharing content on social media and selling goods on e-commerce platforms. While a multidisciplinary array of...
- Keyword:
- Internet skills, Peer Markets, Digital Literacy, Sharing Economy, Creative and Cultural Industries, and Social Media
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Erin Flynn Klawitter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Bacterial gene expression requires numerous steps that are energetically costly and tightly regulated. Following transcription of messenger-RNA, the translation of mRNA into protein is further regulated by a variety of sequence features both within and upstream of coding sequences. Collectively, these features contribute to the control of translation initiation, elongation,...
- Keyword:
- Translation efficiency, Gene expression, Codon Usage Bias, and Shine-Dalgarno
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Adam John Hockenberry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The search for life beyond Earth is one of the big questions in the modern science community, and a primary motivation behind a range of NASA's ground-based and space-bourne missions. In the near future, the James Webb Space Telescope, LUVOIR, and HabEx will characterize the atmospheres of nearby Earth-like exoplanets....
- Keyword:
- crd2018
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Howard Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Investigating the drug response at the transcriptional level is powerful for understanding the mechanism of drug adverse effects, elucidating inter-individual drug response variability and developing personalized therapies. However, drug perturbation experiments are limited to immortal cell lines which do not reflect the true physiology and gene expression of the liver,...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Pharmacology
- Creator:
- Yizhen Zhong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-02
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Recent discoveries of black hole (BH) candidates in galactic and extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) have ignited interest in understanding how BHs dynamically evolve in a GC and the number of BHs (NBH) that may still be retained by today's GCs. Numerical models show that even if stellar-mass BHs are retained...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Creator:
- Newlin Weatherford
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-05
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- This paper describes proposed schemes for describing and indexing two image collections and requirements for the software that would give the end-user access to thesaurus terms and a graphical display of the faceted classification structures of indexing records. Editorial cartoons comprise one collection, dance videos the other.
- Keyword:
- image collections, classification, and thesauri
- Creator:
- Young, Jennifer B., Johnson, Eric H., and Barnes, Barbara
- Contributor:
- Cochrane, Pauline A.
- Owner:
- Jennifer B Young
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/20/2017
- Date Modified:
- 04/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 1998
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10.7152/acro.v9i1.12742