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- Since the dawn of mankind, humans have used materials and tools to dominate the world. As our understanding of the fields physics, chemistry and engineering is growing, we are able to artificially create advanced materials with engineered responses. Next step would be to create ‘ smart’ or intelligent materials capable...
- Keyword:
- Hydrogels, Soft Active Materials, Continuum modeling, Finite element, and Soft matter
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Aggarwal, Aaveg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_932341 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16286
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- Public-facing data-driven technologies such as social media platforms and search engines rely on data producers, such as users and crowd workers, to be feasible and financially sustainable. Recently, it became clear that the goals of these data-driven technologies do not always align with those of the public, causing public backlashes...
- Subject:
- Computer science and Communication
- Creator:
- Li, Hanlin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16375 and etdadmin_upload_947289
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- Description:
- Deterministic models are used to explain and predict the dynamics of ecosystems featuring cyclic competition schemes. The models are systems of reaction-diffusion partialdifferential equations that account for species mobility via Fickian diffusion and interspecies interactions according to the competition scheme. Length and temporal scales are chosen to be appropriate for...
- Keyword:
- cyclic ecosystems, nonlinear dynamics, rock-paper-scissors, traveling waves, exceptional species, and computational ecology
- Subject:
- Ecology and Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Stiadle, Thomas Isaac
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_946682 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16361
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- From colonial practices designed to civilize indigenous communities, to counter-terrorism initiatives aimed at de-radicalizing dissidents in the wake of the War on Terror, to controversies over blasphemy and religious harm cases in international law, religious passions have been cast as a specter of unreason, treason, and radicalization. These assumptions sustain...
- Keyword:
- Emotion, Religion, International Law, Affect, Human Rights, and Political Theory
- Subject:
- Religion, International relations, and Political science
- Creator:
- Giliberti, Gina Camille
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16359 and etdadmin_upload_946425
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- Cellular translation is responsible for the synthesis of proteins, a highly diverse class of macromolecules that form the basis of biological function. In Escherichia coli, harnessing and engineering of the biomolecular components of translation, such as ribosomes, transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, has led to both biotechnology products (i.e.,...
- Keyword:
- Genome engineering, Directed evolution, Synthetic biology, and Cell chassis development
- Subject:
- Bioengineering and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Gowland, Samuel Luke Walker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16336 and etdadmin_upload_943800
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- Description:
- Synthesis and characterization of mixed valent molecules which contain two or more metals in different oxidation states is a rich field of chemistry informing fundamental electronic structure and electron transfer theories. Traditionally these studies are concerned with the direct electronic interaction between metals, but recent work on redox non-innocent ligands...
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry
- Creator:
- Carter, Cole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_945235 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16349
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- Visual understanding is an important area in artificial intelligence. Many researchers have proposed novel deep learning models for this, which have achieved impressive results. However, deep learning models of visual understanding do not model human-like cognition and are still far from human-level ability. Standard deep learning models do not model...
- Keyword:
- Qualitative Representation, Computer Vision, and Analogical Learning
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence
- Creator:
- Chen, Kezhen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_944244 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16338
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- In this dissertation, I summarize my findings of the dynamics of colloidal suspensions over a large range of volume fractions in two systems: drop impact and film rupture. The existence of a deformable surface in both these systems allows me to capture the consequences of non-Newtonian flow using high-speed imaging....
- Keyword:
- shear rheology, drop impact, Fluid dynamics, High-speed imaging, Soft matter, and Colloidal suspensions
- Subject:
- Physics and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Shah, Phalguni S.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_937776 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16311
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- Description:
- Understanding the mechanisms associated with chemical catalysis is vital for not only the rational improvement of their capabilities, but also for the advancement of the fundamental knowledge affiliated with the systems in question. These new insights can help predict new reactivities towards more challenging substrates which will allow for easier...
- Keyword:
- Catalysis, Lanthanides, Borylation, and Chemodivergent
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Rothbaum , Jacob Olasov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16303 and etdadmin_upload_936040
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- Description:
- Dynamical modeling aims to capture the essential mechanics at work in real-world systems while remaining tractable enough to yield mathematical insights for predictions and interventions. The work presented here first takes this approach to the system of political ideology and influence, establishing a model for the continuous-time evolution of individual...
- Keyword:
- Sociophysics, Opinion Dynamics, Dynamical Systems, Stochastics, Modeling, and Coupled Particles
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Sabin-Miller, David Webster
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16340 and etdadmin_upload_944503
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- Description:
- Chapter 1: If patients can be persuaded to switch between licensed providers on the basis of authoritative opinions, policy-makers can harness such reporting as a tool to implement incentives for high-quality care. I employ the landmark Flexner Report (1910) medical school evaluations to show that existing consumer beliefs and market-specific...
- Keyword:
- Physicians, Homeopathy, Quality, Reporting, Medical Ethics, and Altruism
- Subject:
- Economic history and Economics
- Creator:
- Andrews, Brendon Patrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16342 and etdadmin_upload_944681
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- Description:
- Elemental powder blends are an emerging alternative to prealloyed powders for high-throughput alloy design via additive manufacturing techniques due to their flexibility, low cost, and ease of customization. This dissertation investigates elemental alloying elements (Sc and Zr) which are high-melting and highly reactive, unlike previous work which focused on more...
- Keyword:
- additive manufacturing, in situ diffraction, elemental blends, laser powder-bed fusion, aluminum, and creep
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Glerum, Jennifer Anne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16304 and etdadmin_upload_936163
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that writers and artists in Britain and its Empire in the first half of the twentieth century turned time and again to games and sports to find images and forms for their literary and artistic interventions. Furthermore, it shows how, in these works, play served as a...
- Keyword:
- modernism, play, and avant garde
- Subject:
- English literature
- Creator:
- Weihl, Harrington
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_946720 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16363
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- Description:
- Dark matter (DM) is one of the most outstanding problems in physics and is a promising hint for physics beyond the Standard Model. Many dark matter detection experiments have been built, with weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMP) as a popular DM candidate. There are also growing interest in light (keV-GeV)...
- Subject:
- Particle physics
- Creator:
- Ren, Runze
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_944225 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16337
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- Description:
- The increasing demand for green energy has created great demand for high purity lanthanide elements because of their wide range of applications, such as in permanent magnets, batteries, and high-energy capacitors. Solvent extraction, which transfers ions from aqueous solutions to organic liquid phases with the support of extractant molecules, is...
- Keyword:
- Interfacial structure, X-rays, Lanthanide, Solvent Extraction, and Synchrotron
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Yoo, Sangjun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16334 and etdadmin_upload_942685
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- Description:
- Over the last decade, a rising trend of corporations publicly acting on social and political issues has come to the fore. The issues and methods have both varied widely—from immigration to abortion, and from advertisements to boycotts. This introduces an interesting puzzle in the realm of strategy research: Where does...
- Keyword:
- corporate sociopolitical involvement, social movements, corporate social responsibility, nonmarket strategy, business strategy, and corporate political activity
- Subject:
- Management and Sociology
- Creator:
- McKean, Anna Eileen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16374 and etdadmin_upload_947265
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- Description:
- The escalating climate crisis is a global social problem requiring multidisciplinary and multi-institutional coordination to solve. In recent years, health practitioners and institutions have become increasingly involved in the climate crisis, recognizing that climate change poses a serious public health threat across a range of health issues. This dissertation draws...
- Keyword:
- sociology of the future, climate change, sociology of emotions, hope, temporal inequality, and despair
- Subject:
- Sociology, Environmental studies, and Public health
- Creator:
- Fallin, Mallory
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_937014 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16307
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the integration of analytical modeling and optimization, machine learning, and Bayesian learning to optimize cost, access, and quality of healthcare delivery. Chapter 1 models computer-aided triage (patient prioritization) as feature-based priority queuing where types (diseases) are not perfectly observed but are inferred from observed features using a...
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Singh, Simrita
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_918485 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16166
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- Description:
- Protein-based biomaterials are widely used in biomedical applications and mechanical support because of their novel structural flexibility, biocompatibility and mechanical properties. Protein-based biomaterials outperform traditional synthetic materials in various environments as traditional materials lack the diverse chemical functionalities that proteins offer. Novel bioinspired techniques such as directed evolution offer the...
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Materials Science, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Chen, Yusu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16130 and etdadmin_upload_912201
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- Description:
- While there is high demand for university computer science (CS) courses, students often struggle when learning to program. Prior work has identified that student perceptions of their programming ability may contribute to these challenges. For example, studies show that students often perceive that they do not belong, are not capable...
- Keyword:
- Growth Mindset, Persistence, Introductory Programming, Computer Science Education, Electrodermal Activity, and Self-efficacy
- Subject:
- Education and Computer science
- Creator:
- Gorson, Jamie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_926233 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16205
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- Description:
- This multi-study dissertation explored technology and creativity within three different technology-rich creative musical spaces. Through the use of three contrasting empirical methods (qualitative content analysis, intrinsic case study, and phenomenology), I explored the complex ways technology and musical creativity are linked. In the first study, I completed a content analysis...
- Keyword:
- Creativity and Technology
- Subject:
- Music education
- Creator:
- Horton, Patrick William
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_926978 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16217
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- Description:
- Before initiating a walking movement, the central nervous system forms a motor plan, a set of motor commands predicted to accomplish task-specific goals. To be effective, motor plans must be continually updated to consider an ever-changing external environment. Despite being an inherent part of walking, how the nervous system adapts...
- Keyword:
- Motor Learning, Adaptation, Gait, Uncertainty, Center of Mass, and Motor Control
- Subject:
- Physical therapy and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Bucklin, Mary Ann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16185 and etdadmin_upload_922879
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- Description:
- Protein-protein interactions are ubiquitous in living systems, and mediate important cellular processes from decision making to immunity against pathogens. Furthermore, protein-protein interactions are key to many protein therapeutics, pathogen diagnostics, and numerous synthetic biology applications. As a result, there has been significant effort to develop methods to express potential protein...
- Keyword:
- Minibinder, Antibodies, Diagnostics, Protein Protein Interactions, High-Throughput Screening, and Cell-Free Protein Synthesis
- Subject:
- Bioengineering and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- hunt, Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_911343 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16125
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- Description:
- In this document, I demonstrate that: 1) Linear basis functions cannot outperform nonlinear ones to represent hand kinematics 2) Nonlinear autoencoders outperform PCA on the dimensionality reduction of hand kinematics, 3) Nonlinear autoencoders outperform PCA in human gait representation and recurrent nonlinear autoencoders can seamlessly express the temporal dynamics, 4)...
- Keyword:
- kinematics, prosthetics, machine learning, gait, dimensionality reduction, and hand
- Subject:
- Engineering
- Creator:
- Portnova-Fahreeva, Alexandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16176 and etdadmin_upload_920776
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- Description:
- Electrical spinal cord stimulation is an emerging treatment for spinal cord injury that can improve walking and bladder control, among many other functions. While the anatomical location of the motor pools for muscles involved in locomotion in the lumbosacral cord has been identified, the map of the functional output of...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Patterson, Jacqueline
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16163 and etdadmin_upload_917878
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- Description:
- The current view in neuroscience holds that the brain, together with its sensory and motor structures and the environment, form a closed-loop system – a sensorimotor loop – in which the brain receives information from the environment and converts it into a motor response while simultaneously making predictions about future...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering, Computer science, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Zweifel, Nadina Olivia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16198 and etdadmin_upload_925059
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- Description:
- Affect represents a major domain of human consciousness, consisting of a complex group of psychophysiological processes to drive human behavior. Many genetic and environmental factors may cause dysregulation of affective states, resulting in disorders that severely disrupt normal cognitive function and diminish the quality of life. Transitions among affective states...
- Keyword:
- Dopamine, Optogenetics, and Affective disorders
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Wu, Mingzheng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_925290 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16201
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- Description:
- Memory management and address translation need significant optimizations in order to not behindrances in the near future. Currently, plenty of work has started to address issues within the current abstraction of the hardware-software codesign of paging. I argue that a new abstraction is needed in order to properly address this...
- Keyword:
- Runtime Environments, Operating Systems, Microarchitecture, Blended Systems, and Compilers
- Subject:
- Computer engineering and Computer science
- Creator:
- Suchy, Brian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16132 and etdadmin_upload_912710
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- Description:
- Vimentin intermediate filaments (VIFs) provide mechanical integrity to cells and serve as markers of tissue origin and cell differentiation. Several non-mechanical roles for vimentin have recently been reported, including regulation of key pathways that control cell growth, cell signaling, and cell motility. Here, I present the role of vimentin in...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Berr, Alexandra Lauran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16237 and etdadmin_upload_927939
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- Description:
- People are exposed to inaccurate claims and ideas every day, from sources intended to inform, entertain, or do both. A large body of research has demonstrated that exposure to inaccurate statements, even when conveying obviously false ideas, can affect people’s subsequent judgments. Contemporary accounts suggest that these effects may be...
- Keyword:
- False information, Misinformation, Evaluative mindsets, Evaluation, and Social media
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology and Psychology
- Creator:
- Salovich, Nikita Antonia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_919269 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16167
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- Description:
- We are witnessing an excitement about digital games and related immersive media as these become ever more prevalent in the world. Governments, private companies, and research institutes are investing in these technologies in hopes of transforming education. However, while scholarship on digital game-based learning has been steadily growing over the...
- Keyword:
- Digital games, Metaverse, Mixed-Methods, Teacher practice, Game based learning, and Minecraft
- Subject:
- Instructional design, Pedagogy, and Educational technology
- Creator:
- Bar-El, David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_929400 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16271
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- Description:
- Transfer of information across membranes is fundamental to the function of all organisms and is primarily initiated by transmembrane receptors. This is an allosteric process and involves conformational coupling between ligand-binding domain and signaling domain of a receptor. This allosteric mechanism of activation is unclear for many receptors. Moreover, for...
- Keyword:
- GPCR, CaSR, and smFRET
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Schamber, Michael Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16268 and etdadmin_upload_929368
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- Description:
- This dissertation assesses the relationship between inequality and the longevity of urban communities. It does so through an examination of low-status households, a population segment I term Urban Commoners, at the ancient Maya city of Aventura, Belize. Aventura was a socioeconomically diverse urban center that grew to its peak in...
- Keyword:
- Urbanism, Household Studies, Commoner Studies, Maya Archaeology, and Inequality
- Subject:
- Archaeology
- Creator:
- Nissen, Zachary Alan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16230 and etdadmin_upload_927713
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- Description:
- Breakthroughs in large-scale biological data collection have resulted in a wealth of -omics (genomics, metabolomics, etc.) datasets in the literature. However, the development of appropriate computational techniques for their analysis is lacking, yet crucial for fully extracting the rich information contained in these datasets. The work in this dissertation describes...
- Keyword:
- Biorecording, Data Storage, Cheminformatics, Metabolomics Annotation, Machine Learning, and TdT
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Strutz, Jonathan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_911481 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16126
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- Description:
- Shoulder (glenohumeral joint) osteoarthritis causes pain, limits daily activities, and frequently requires joint replacement surgery. In shoulder osteoarthritis, the glenoid bone surface erodes in one of two ways: symmetrically (concentric deformity) or asymmetrically (eccentric deformity). Shoulder replacements in patients with eccentric deformities fail and require additional, revision surgery more often...
- Keyword:
- Shoulder osteoarthritis, Arthroplasty, and Rotator cuff
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Coats-Thomas, Margaret Sarah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_913153 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16136
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- Description:
- Conventional polymer networks are composed of strong, fixed covalent cross-links. The covalent cross-links render polymer networks with outstanding mechanical properties, heat stability, and chemical resistance; however, they also prevent polymer networks from being decross-linked or/and recycled into similar-value products at the end of their life, leading to environmental and economic...
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Hu, Sumeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_912132 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16129
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- Description:
- The creative process of an artistic work is a space, figuratively, in which every facet of our personal lives has an effect and, in turn, can be explored and altered. One of the most fundamental aspects of life, be it human or not, is the way in which one relates...
- Keyword:
- Lim, Amaya, composition, Kitundu, posthumanism, and more-than-human
- Subject:
- Environmental studies, Musical composition, and Aesthetics
- Creator:
- Amaya Muñoz, Luis Fernando
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16177 and etdadmin_upload_920819
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- Description:
- In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) promoted national use of electronic health records (EHR) in the US by giving incentives to providers who adopt ‘meaningful use’ of EHRs. As of 2017, nearly 86% of office-based physicians had adopted EHRs. EHRs have rich information...
- Keyword:
- computational phenotyping, real world evidence data, machine learning, biomedical informatics, deep learning, and electronic health records
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics
- Creator:
- Deng, Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15969 and etdadmin_upload_886066
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- Description:
- ABSTRACTFor several decades, dams have played an essential role in human development. In many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), the construction of dams remains an integral part of industrialization and modernization. However, dam construction and associated infrastructure have significantly contributed to socioecological destruction and population displacement. For example, the construction of...
- Keyword:
- Development, Dams, Thwake Multipurpose Dam, Infrastructure, Biosocial, and Displacement
- Subject:
- Physical anthropology, Biology, and Cultural anthropology
- Creator:
- Owuor, Patrick Mbullo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_919619 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16170
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- Description:
- One of the pressing concerns of the fifteenth century was monastic reform, and reformers of the Observant movement rose to meet the challenge by attempting to return monastic houses to stricter observance of their earliest rules and governing documents. In this dissertation, I examine how Dominican nuns in German-speaking parts...
- Subject:
- Women's studies, Medieval history, and Religious history
- Creator:
- Pokorski, Robin K.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16244 and etdadmin_upload_928339
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- Description:
- For some inducible genes, the rate and molecular mechanism of transcriptional activation depend on the prior experiences of the cell. This phenomenon, called epigenetic transcriptional memory, accelerates reactivation, and requires both changes in chromatin structure and recruitment of poised RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) to the promoter. A well-established model for...
- Subject:
- Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Sump, Bethany Lyn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_917630 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16162
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- Description:
- Advances in methods to sequence and manipulate DNA have enabled systems that enzymatically encode information in cellular DNA in situ. These systems, broadly categorized as molecular recorders, couple signals of interest to the expression of DNA modification enzymes, resulting in signal-dependent changes in DNA sequence. While a variety of molecular...
- Subject:
- Bioengineering
- Creator:
- Callisto, Alec
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_917054 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16155
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- Description:
- Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of infant morbidity worldwide. Approximately 380,000 babies are born prematurely in the USA every year. Estrogen (E2) and progesterone (P4) play essential roles during pregnancy and labor; a clear understanding of their action mechanisms, however, is lacking. E2 and P4 function by activating...
- Keyword:
- progesterone receptor, estrogen receptor, labor, genome-wide, ChIP-Seq, and RNA-Seq
- Subject:
- Obstetrics, Cellular biology, and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Dotts, Ariel Janiece
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_908705 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16117
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- Description:
- With the potential to bypass congested urban road networks and take advantage of the openness of the sky, advanced air mobility (AAM) promises to provide a faster alternative mode for people and goods. However, AAM will also require a new paradigm for the movement of aircraft around an airspace network...
- Keyword:
- Traffic Flow, Air Traffic Flow, Air Mobility, and Air Traffic Management
- Subject:
- Transportation
- Creator:
- Cummings, Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_929074 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16261
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- Description:
- Carbon nanomaterials, such as graphene and graphene oxide, have outstanding mechanical strength, stiffness, and toughness that surpass those of materials currently used to build structures. However, these properties are limited to the nanoscale and have not yet been attained in macroscopic composites containing carbon nanomaterials. To integrate the mechanical properties...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Mao, Lily
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16272 and etdadmin_upload_929408
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- Description:
- This dissertation models and simulates optimization problems to find the optimal set of strategies to allocate network space (lanes or zones) to autonomous vehicles (AVs) in partially automated dynamic networks. This dissertation aims to develop a set of methods to determine the appropriate AV managed space strategies. Managed space strategies...
- Subject:
- Transportation
- Creator:
- Hosseini, Moein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_929450 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16274
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- Description:
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable, neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social impairments and restricted and repetitive behaviors (American Psychiatric Association, 2013; Tick, Bolton, Happe, Rutter, & Rijsdijk, 2016), with a subset of first-degree relatives demonstrating a constellation of subclinical traits that are qualitatively similar to the defining features of...
- Keyword:
- Eye-tracking, Autism, and Fragile X Syndrome
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Winston, Molly
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_920056 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16172
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- Description:
- The advent of metamaterials—hierarchical structures that manifest properties beyond those found in nature through geometry rather than material composition—inspired new possibilities and research in many fields. In mechanics, periodic metamaterials exhibit behaviors ranging from unprecedented compressibility to extreme stiffness. Numerous geometric classes of metamaterials with these properties have been discovered,...
- Keyword:
- Design representation, Deep learning, Design synthesis, Multiscale topology optimization, Data-driven design, and Data acquisition
- Subject:
- Design, Mechanical engineering, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Chan, Yu-Chin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16251 and etdadmin_upload_928694
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- Description:
- In reinforcement learning (RL), an agent aims to learn the optimal policy by interacting with the environment and collecting the reward for each action taken. With the aid of strong function approximators such as the neural networks, RL achieves tremendous empirical successes in various scenarios, including game playing \citep{silver2016mastering, silver2017mastering},...
- Subject:
- Industrial engineering
- Creator:
- Wang, Lingxiao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16246 and etdadmin_upload_928403
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- Description:
- A central theme in biological anthropology is investigating how the human body responds to interactions with the surrounding environment. The microbiome—the collection of microorganisms (and their genes) that live in and on the human body— represents one such pathway that mediates the environment’s influence on human biology, physiology, and health....
- Keyword:
- Alloparents, Skin microbiome, Early life, Social environment, and Infant microbiome
- Subject:
- Microbiology, Ecology, and Biology
- Creator:
- Manus, Melissa Barbara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16260 and etdadmin_upload_928946