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- Normal gastroesophageal motilty is important to live a comfortable and healthy life. Motility disorders result in impaired transport of ingested food which can lead to extreme discomfort and severe damage to the walls of the esophagus. Significant work has been done to study gastroesophageal motility using advanced diagnostic tools such...
- Keyword:
- gastrointestinal biomechanics, reduced-order modeling, esophageal motility disorders, peristalsis, fluid-structure interaction, and immersed boundary method
- Subject:
- Computational physics, Fluid mechanics, and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Acharya, Shashank
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15539 and etdadmin_upload_816410
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- The shoulder is the most mobile joint in the human body, allowing for the execution of complex and athletic tasks. Unfortunately, such expansive mobility comes at a cost. The shoulder is prone to instability, or painful symptoms associated with increased humeral head translation, and dislocation. To prevent dislocations and maintain...
- Keyword:
- impedance, musculoskeletal modeling, joint stiffness, shoulder instability, and muscle reflex
- Subject:
- Nanoscience, Biomedical engineering, and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Nicolozakes, Constantine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_817085 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15541
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- This thesis considers identification, estimation, and inference in nonparametric settings. Special attention is given to identification with instrumental variables of small support, and in time series via the ergodic assumption. Chapter 1 considers a nonparametric instrumental regression model in which the regressor and instrument are discretely distributed. Here, we strengthen...
- Keyword:
- Instrumental variables and Econometrics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Loh, Isaac
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_822161 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15599
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- In this dissertation, we study and prove formulas of Hodge ideals for three types of isolated hypersurface singularities, including quasihomogeneous singularities, Newton non-degenerate singularities and analytically irreducible plane curve singularities. For quasihomogeneous singularities, we provide a formula of Hodge ideals of $D=\alpha Z$ which is a Q-divisor. A direct consequence...
- Keyword:
- isolated singularity, V-filtration, and Hodge ideals
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Zhang, Mingyi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15534 and etdadmin_upload_815731
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- Description:
- The electric grid is changing rapidly with a proliferation of new technologies being integrated. There is a need to analyze the growth in technologies to help move towards a carbon-free electricity sector such as renewable generation and large scale battery installations. This is occurring at the same time as the...
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Badia, Brendan Charles
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15578 and etdadmin_upload_819528
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- This dissertation is a cultural history of state-sponsored film in India and Iran. I focus on the 1960s-1980s, a period during which both countries enacted sweeping development agendas, which included industrialization, the expansion of higher education, and social reforms. I engage in a comparative analysis of each state’s pedagogies of...
- Subject:
- South Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Bhalla, Simran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819529 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15579
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- Description:
- Motivated by real-world problems in various fields, mechanism design governs the design of protocols for strategic agents and has applications both in computer science and economics. Due to the revelation principle – a seminal observation in mechanism design, a vast number of studies in mechanism design focus on revelation mechanisms...
- Keyword:
- revenue maximization, welfare maximization, revelation gap, algorithmic game theory, and mechanism design
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Feng, Yiding
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15585 and etdadmin_upload_819709
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- Description:
- Depression is a challenging mental illness that requires individuals to manage their moods and emotions over time. While past mental health literature describes how individuals seek and share support on social media and within online communities, the ways that offline and one-on-one supportive interactions unfold is less clear. To address...
- Keyword:
- Self-Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Sociality, Mental Health, Communication Technology, and Depression
- Subject:
- Mental health, Design, and Communication
- Creator:
- Burgess, Eleanor R.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15512 and etdadmin_upload_811409
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three essays that deal with problems of information acquisition and aggregation and the incentives to acquire such information. The first of the essays is titled The Timing of Complementary Innovations and studies the problem of an agent that acquires information about the viability of a project...
- Keyword:
- Information Acquisition, Innovation, and Microeconomics
- Subject:
- Economic theory
- Creator:
- Poggi, Francisco
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15600 and etdadmin_upload_822162
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- Description:
- This dissertation comprises three essays in distinct areas of economic theory. The first chapter is co-authored with Gregorio Curello. We identify a new and pervasive dynamic agency problem: that of incentivising the prompt disclosure of productive information. To study it, we introduce a model in which a technological breakthrough occurs...
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Sinander, Carl Martin Ludvig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15505 and etdadmin_upload_806322
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- Description:
- We study Hermitian metrics with constant Chern scalar curvature on a compact complex manifold. In the first part of the thesis, we prove a priori estimates for metrics of constant Chern scalar curvature on a compact complex manifold conditional on an upper bound on the entropy, extending a recent result...
- Keyword:
- complex geometry, differential geometry, partial differential equations, and geometric analysis
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Shen, Xi Sisi Sisi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_818179 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15559
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- Description:
- Chirality and polarity describe orthogonal mechanisms of inversion symmetry breaking, which is the origin of valuable properties in crystalline materials including nonlinear optical activity, ferroelectricity, and piezoelectricity. Noncentrosymmetric (NCS) materials have numerous applications yet opportunities remain for cooperative coupling between chiral and polar basic building units to realize high-performance materials....
- Keyword:
- chirality, inversion symmetry, and racemates
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Nisbet, Matthew Lander
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15502 and etdadmin_upload_804610
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- Description:
- By 2030, up to half of the world’s population is projected to suffer from water insecurity: a chronic scarcity of potable water due to rapidly warming temperatures, increased agricultural demand, and pollution. The health impacts of contaminated water are profound: hundreds of thousands of global deaths each year are ascribed...
- Keyword:
- diagnostics, water quality, cell-free, and synthetic biology
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Chemical engineering, and Public health
- Creator:
- Silverman, Adam Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15551 and etdadmin_upload_817796
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- Description:
- Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in US and non-invasive cardiac imaging has vital importance for early detection and diagnosis of heart disease. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) is arguably the most versatile imaging modality and capable of a comprehensive evaluation of heart disease without ionization radiation. Despite the...
- Keyword:
- Cardiovascular MRI, Deep learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Image segmentation, Compressed Sensing, and Image reconstruction
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence, Medical imaging, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Shen, Daming
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15537 and etdadmin_upload_816372
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- Description:
- The topic of this dissertation is the coherent-constructible correspondence (CCC). CCC is a version of homological mirror symmetry for toric varieties. It equates the derived category of coherent sheaves on a toric variety and the category of constructible sheaves on a torus whose singular support lies in the specific conical...
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Suh, Pyongwon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15571 and etdadmin_upload_819148
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- Description:
- his dissertation addresses questions of investment theories in financial economics. Chapter 1 studies investment problem with ambiguity and agency friction in a optimal contracting framework, where investors (principal) have ambiguous beliefs about the cash flows and the managers (agent) can pursue unobservable risk-taking strategies that earn cash flow but may...
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Liu, Yufeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15560 and etdadmin_upload_818233
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- Nanoparticles are nanometer scale (1-1000 nm) structures capable of encapsulating a diverse range of cargoes. Encapsulation of a cargo can drastically alter its pharmacokinetics, cytotoxicity, and biodistribution while allowing for informed and rational design of the nanoparticle itself. Poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(propylene sulfide) (PEG-b-PPS) is an amphiphilic diblock co-polymer able to self-assemble...
- Keyword:
- Glaucoma, Latrunculin A, Nanoparticles, and Targeted Delivery
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Stack, Trevor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_815566 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15530
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains two studies. In Chapter 1 we investigate the relationshipbetween expansionary credit events and firms’ employment decisions. To overcome the endogeneity coming from the supply side of credit we exploit the legal and political framework in Mexico to examine the effects of local governments’ prepayment of loans, a...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Acosta, Roman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15593 and etdadmin_upload_820097
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- Description:
- Photonics are useful in applications where high-bandwidth and low-loss interlinks are desired. One of the key components of a photonic interlink is an optoelectronic modulator which is used to encode data from an electrical signal on to an optical carrier. Many of the optoelectronic modulators typically used require integration with...
- Subject:
- Optics and Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Wheaton, Skyler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_806186 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15503
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- Description:
- Meiosis is a highly regulated process necessary for proper chromosome division. Zincfluxes regulate mammalian meiosis; between prophase I and metaphase II, total intracellular zinc increases by 50%, while 20% of zinc is released in “zinc sparks” following fertilization. Although zinc fluxes had been shown to be conserved in mammals, it...
- Keyword:
- Xenopus, Sample Fixation, Zinc, Manganese, Fertilization, and EMI2
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Biology, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Seeler, John Frederick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819316 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15573
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- Description:
- Found in 1-2% of the population, bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common congenital cardiovascular disease and is associated with increased risk of aortic valve dysfunction and aortic disease. Current treatment is focused on surgical intervention either after the development of symptomatic aortic stenosis/regurgitation or aortic diameter thresholds. However,...
- Keyword:
- 4D flow, MRI, and Aorta
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Medical imaging
- Creator:
- Scott, Michael Baran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_817047 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15540
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- Description:
- While metabolic engineering can enable the sustainable bioproduction of new materials, efforts are often impeded by pathway bottlenecks. To mitigate the effects of toxic or reactive intermediates and resource competition resulting from heterologous pathway incorporation, bacterial microcompartments (MCPs) have recently been considered for engineered compartmentalization in bacterial host organisms. MCPs...
- Keyword:
- Tag Engineering, Metabolic Engineering, Cargo Encapsulation, Bacterial Microcompartments, and Genomic Integration
- Subject:
- Bioengineering and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Nichols, Taylor Marie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_802174 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15500
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- Description:
- Understanding associative memory is fundamental for a variety of neurological and neurodegenerative diseases, however, a large proportion of this research has excluded female subjects due to unsubstantiated bias. By including intact females, ovariectomized females and males in the study of associative memory, clear sex differences in acquisition emerged. Female mice...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Rapp, Amy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_802347 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15501
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- Description:
- Concentrating on the work of Paul Celan and Yoko Tawada, my dissertation explores the complicated role played by plants in post-war and contemporary German-language literature. Reflecting on and engaging with the intricate dynamics of vegetative life without the prejudice that it simply stands for an inferior form of life to...
- Keyword:
- Migrant Literature, Paul Celan, Plants and Poetics, Tawada Yoko, and Theory of Language
- Subject:
- Comparative literature, German literature, and Literature
- Creator:
- Cao, Jan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15517 and etdadmin_upload_812913
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- Description:
- Robot dynamics are typically highly nonlinear and their control is a challenging research topic without a single overarching algorithm that demonstrates the best performance. In this thesis, I derive a nonlinear control algorithm that uses an analytical, closed-form solution to compute feedback with controllability-based guarantees for convergence. The proposed algorithm,...
- Keyword:
- Obstacle avoidance, Koopman operators, Data-driven control, Controllability-based control, Sequential action control, and Stability
- Subject:
- Robotics
- Creator:
- Mamakoukas, Giorgos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819790 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15586
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- Description:
- The crystal structure of chalcogenides can vary from simple, ubiquitous structures of rock salt and zinc blende to unique structure types from the intricate packing of complex anionic building blocks. Exploratory synthesis and structural studies of novel chalcogenides containing these complex anions will augment the understanding of bonding in chalcogenides....
- Keyword:
- neutron detectors, synthesis science, chalcoborates, chalcophosphates, framework materials, and 2D materials
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Chica, Daniel George
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15563 and etdadmin_upload_818510
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- Description:
- This thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconomics with heterogeneous households. In the first chapter, I document that spousal labor supply substantially mitigates the impact of cyclical labor income risk on married households. Motivated by this evidence, I present a macroeconomic model with incomplete markets in which households are heterogeneous...
- Keyword:
- labor market, general equilibrium, and heterogeneous agents
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Bardoczy, Bence
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_818634 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15564
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, I explore topics related to migration studies, with a focus on Chinese migration, as China has a long history of both domestic and international migration, with China having the third largest diaspora in the world. In the first chapter, I discuss how a lack of stable domestic...
- Subject:
- Labor economics
- Creator:
- Long, Joe Jiuyi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_815406 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15528
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- Description:
- The opposing activities of phosphatases and kinases determine the phosphorylation status of proteins, yet kinases have received disproportionate attention in studies of cellular processes, with the roles of phosphatases remaining less understood. This dissertation describes the use of self-assembled monolayer laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (SAMDI-MS) together with peptide arrays to...
- Keyword:
- SAMDI-MS, Phosphatases, High-Throughput Experiments, Enzyme Specificity, β-Catenin, and Peptide Arrays
- Subject:
- Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Huang, Che-Fan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819016 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15570
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- Description:
- Two-dimensional (2D) covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of crystalline polymer networks that polymerize and crystallize into layered structures, characterized by their atomically precise structure, permanent porosity and high modularity. Imine-linked COFs are one of the most important and promising classes of macromolecular sheets, which form by the condensation...
- Keyword:
- Covalent organic frameworks
- Subject:
- Polymer chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Ji, Woojung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15494 and etdadmin_upload_799668
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- Description:
- Late talkers (LTs) are a heterogenous group of children who experience delayed language development in the absence of other known causes (Fisher, 2017). Many LTs “catch up” to their typically talking peers (TTs), but some go on to experience continued difficulties with speech and language development (Dale & Hayiou-Thomas, 2013),...
- Keyword:
- Phonology, Semantics, Language Delay, Late Talker, and Language Development
- Subject:
- Speech therapy, Language, and Developmental psychology
- Creator:
- Curtis, Philip Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15574 and etdadmin_upload_819331
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Across Scales: An Examination of the Impacts of Turbulence and Mobile Bedforms on Hyporheic Exchange
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- In this dissertation, advances are made in understanding both the way hyporheic exchange impacts riverbed morphodynamics and the physical processes that lead to turbulent momentum transfer in the first few grains of riverbed sediments. In terms of physical advances in understanding the interplay between bedform movement and hyporheic exchange, we...
- Keyword:
- Hyporheic Exchange, LES, Flume Experiments, Turbulence, and Bedforms
- Subject:
- Environmental engineering, Mechanical engineering, and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Dallmann, Jonathan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819194 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15572
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- Description:
- Mammalian transcriptional regulation is well-known to be complex and highly context dependent. Different genetic and epigenetic features, including single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that function as cis- or trans-expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), transcription factor (TF) interaction profile with cis-regulatory elements (CREs), methylation of CpG dinucleotide sequences, and histone modification that...
- Keyword:
- Bioinformatics, Transcriptomics, Gene regulation, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Drug discovery
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics, Genetics, and Oncology
- Creator:
- Ji, Yanrong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_818497 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15562
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- Description:
- Molecular-oriented single-site heterogeneous catalysis is a powerful approach to address the long-lasting challenge of the structure-activity relationship in catalysis, as it allows molecular level control of the catalytic centers and thus the elucidation of reaction mechanisms. In this dissertation, single-site molybdenum-dioxo species have been immobilized on carbon supports, i.e. activated...
- Keyword:
- Molybdenum-oxo, Carbon support, and Single-site heterogeneous catalysis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Li, Jiaqi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15519 and etdadmin_upload_813943
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- Description:
- The idea that structure determines the properties of a material is a powerful concept in chemistry and in all fields in which chemistry is important, including engineering, medicine, and materials science. My research aims to better understand the structure-property relationships of a class of materials known as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)....
- Keyword:
- structure property relationships, contrast media, diamond anvil cell , metal–organic framework, nanomaterials, and materials chemistry
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Robison, Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_795236 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15463
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- Description:
- Interactions with pollinators are thought to be a major driver of the evolution and diversification of angiosperms, yet questions remain about how pollinators mediate plant divergence at early stages and across entire species distributions. Here, I address this knowledge gap using two study groups in the recently-radiating and florally diverse...
- Subject:
- Ecology, Evolution & development, and Botany
- Creator:
- Wenzell, Katherine Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15506 and etdadmin_upload_806843
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- Description:
- When first-year students begin college they are thrown into a new environment where they are expected to simultaneously perform academically, form new relationships, and become independent. Many students struggle with this transition; experiences of stress, anxiety, and depression are common. For the majority of residential college students this is their...
- Subject:
- Computer science and Communication
- Creator:
- Smith, Madeline E
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
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- 2021-01-01
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- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15524 and etdadmin_upload_814670
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- Circulating tumor cell (CTC) clusters mediate metastasis at a higher efficiency compared to single cells and are associated with lower overall survival in breast cancer. However, the cellular heterogeneity and molecular mechanisms underlying CTC cluster formation and metastasis have yet to be fully elucidated. Combining single-cell RNA sequencing and flow...
- Subject:
- Medicine
- Creator:
- Taftaf, Rokana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15590 and etdadmin_upload_819889
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- This dissertation consists of three chapters on topics in economic theory. In Chapter 1, "Subjective Complexity Under Uncertainty", I propose and axiomatize a model of choice under uncertainty in which the size of the partition with respect to which an act is measurable arises endogenously as a measure of subjective...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Valenzuela-Stookey, Quitze
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_813507 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15518
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- “Los Grans Mals: Disasters and Civic Life in the Late Medieval Midi” examines the many catastrophes that struck the cities of Marseille and Montpellier during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. During this era, southern Europe witnessed increasingly frequent episodes of natural disasters due in part to the Little Ice...
- Subject:
- History, European history, and Medieval history
- Creator:
- Forman, Brian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_818072 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15557
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- Description:
- Visualization is a powerful tool to help people better communicate and understand data. But the perception and interpretation of data is riddled with bias. Data visualizations are ambiguous objects such that different people viewing the same visualization can come to different conclusions. The ambiguity is likely associated with people's perceptual...
- Keyword:
- empirical studies, perception, decision making, design, affordance, and data visualization
- Subject:
- Psychobiology
- Creator:
- Xiong, Cindy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15546 and etdadmin_upload_817599
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- Description:
- Prions are self-perpetuating, alternative protein conformations associated with neurological diseases and normal cellular functions. Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains many endogenous prions – providing a powerful system to study prionization. Previously, the Li Lab demonstrated that Swi1, a component of the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex, can form the prion [SWI+]. A small region,...
- Keyword:
- [SWI+], yeast, protein aggregation, prions, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Swi1
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Bioinformatics, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Goncharoff, Dustin Kenneth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_816388 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15538
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores cognitive and action errors that occur in communication networks. I leverage theories on organizational errors and social networks to develop a novel, conceptual, and empirically testable framework to understand how individuals make errors when using their networks to share information. Here, I argue that information sharing is...
- Keyword:
- Information Sharing, Communication Networks, Small-world Experiment, Error, and Network Cognition
- Subject:
- Organizational behavior, Organization theory, and Communication
- Creator:
- Tanaka, Kyosuke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_809056 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15509
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- Description:
- Unrestrained urban growth combined with the increase in the intensity and frequency of precipitation events, due to climate change, has become a major challenge for urban green spaces. Urban sprawl increases ecosystem degradation and the vulnerability of cities to floods as a result of excess stormwater runoff and non-point source...
- Keyword:
- human impacts, ecosystem services, green roof, stormwater runoff, green infrastructure, and wetland
- Subject:
- Environmental science and Environmental engineering
- Creator:
- Hernandez Gonzalez, Liliana Maria
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15553 and etdadmin_upload_818005
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- Description:
- Using the Connected Learning framework as a lens to frame my research inquiry, this dissertation explores the potential of Hip-Hop songwriting and recording practices as a new form of music education in elementary schools. Using data from three years of ethnographic study I have collected while working as a youth...
- Keyword:
- African American Youth, Hip-Hop, Music Education, Connected Learning, Race and Equity, and Media Literacy
- Subject:
- Music education, Communication, and Multicultural education
- Creator:
- Evans, Jabari Miles
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15514 and etdadmin_upload_811564
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- Description:
- This dissertation is motivated by the decision process of the supply chain team of a major furniture retailer that delivers its products at the customer's home. In retail supply chains for companies offering home delivery services, demand surges are observed at the store level, which translate to a high volume...
- Keyword:
- retail, home delivery, supply chain, customer behavior, demand information, and transportation
- Subject:
- Management, Transportation, and Operations research
- Creator:
- Boada-Collado, Pol
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15544 and etdadmin_upload_817419
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- Description:
- Stories and fantasy represent an important aspect of consumer life and comprise a huge marketing enterprise within consumer entertainment. Each year, upwards of $82 billion is spent on books, games, and other fantasy industries in the United States alone. Likewise, fantasy has important implications for consumers’ sense of identity. In...
- Keyword:
- Similarity, Fantasy, Self, Motivation, Villains, and Stories
- Subject:
- Marketing and Psychology
- Creator:
- Krause-Galoni, Rebecca
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15499 and etdadmin_upload_801395
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- Description:
- Levels of the several different human apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide-like 3 (APOBEC3; A3) cytidine deaminases vary across different cell types. While levels of nuclear-localized A3s are low or non-existent in primary cells, a nuclear A3 is often upregulated in cancer cells. Increased chromosomal mutagenesis due to nuclear A3...
- Keyword:
- VHL, HIV, Proteasome, and APOBEC
- Subject:
- Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Scholtes, Gael Kaushik
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_822125 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15598
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- Description:
- Two-dimensional (2D) covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of crystalline polymer networks that polymerize and crystallize into layered structures, characterized by their atomically precise structure, permanent porosity and high modularity. Imine-linked COFs are one of the most important and promising classes of macromolecular sheets, which form by the condensation...
- Keyword:
- Covalent organic frameworks
- Subject:
- Polymer chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Ji, Woojung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15494 and etdadmin_upload_799668
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- Description:
- Stroke affects millions of people each year and although modern medicine has improved chances of survival after stroke, it has not yet been able to affect a change in repairing damaged neural tissue leaving one to two-thirds of survivors with chronic disability in their affected upper-extremity; specifically, hemiparesis, hypertonicity, loss...
- Keyword:
- Stroke, Pattern Recognition, Hemiparesis, Abnormal Synergy, Rehabilitation, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Robotics
- Creator:
- Kopke, Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15547 and etdadmin_upload_817626
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines caregiving contexts in early childhood. Specifically, I look at how caregiving contexts are related to or influenced by other caregiving contexts and broader social contexts. The dissertation is composed of an introductory chapter that provides a theoretical overview and summary of the dissertation followed by two additional...
- Keyword:
- parent, teacher, home, child development, neighborhood, and violence
- Subject:
- Early childhood education and Psychology
- Creator:
- Busby, Andrea Kinghorn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15588 and etdadmin_upload_819838
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- Description:
- Increasingly high global energy consumption demands effective approaches to high energy efficiency and, at the same time, paths to reduced release of carbon dioxide, a primary greenhouse gas behind global climate change. Friction reduction is a vital aspect towards making energy systems more efficient and one of the most crucial...
- Keyword:
- wear, tribology, lubrication, and friction
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Khan, Arman Mohammad
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15582 and etdadmin_upload_819626
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores how items encountered in the comprehension of language are stored in memory and subsequently accessed. Processing and comprehending language frequently requires the retrieval of items in memory so that a current linguistic element can be assigned an interpretation. For example, in a sentence such as "Miles loved...
- Keyword:
- pronoun resolution, dependencies, ellipsis, sentence processing, syntax, and eye tracking
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Hall, Kathleen Gael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_818080 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15558
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- Description:
- Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) display unique characteristics compared to their macro-counterparts that are dependent on shape, size, and attached surface molecules. Methods have been developed to precisely control both size and shape of AuNPs for specific applications. The biocompatibility, plasmonic properties, and ease of functionalization with thiolated molecules, make gold nanoparticles...
- Keyword:
- gold nanopaticles, therapeutics, DNA, cancer vaccine, and plasmonics
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Chemistry, and Biology
- Creator:
- Coughlin, Emma
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15532 and etdadmin_upload_815702
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- Description:
- This dissertation provides evidence that reading is best explained as rational gathering of visual information to identify words efficiently. Although empirical evidence from human reading research suggests a close link between eye movements and cognitive process, it is not clear how readers decide when and where to move their eyes...
- Keyword:
- Eye movements, Rational analysis, Word identification, and Reading
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology and Linguistics
- Creator:
- Duan, Yunyan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15556 and etdadmin_upload_818069
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- Description:
- AbstractThis dissertation consists of three papers examining economic issues in developing countries. The first paper studies how export activity affects prices in domestic consumer markets. Using extensive, spatially disaggregated data from India’s rice markets and exploiting a natural experiment provided by India’s rice export restrictions during 2007-2011, I show that,...
- Subject:
- Agriculture economics and Economics
- Creator:
- Manjeer, Utsav
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15595 and etdadmin_upload_820489
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- Description:
- Active lateral force feedback is essential for haptic applications in which forces on the fingertip is perpendicular to or in the same direction of finger movement, such as virtual shape rendering and button click rendering. In this thesis, I first present a novel device, the UltraShiver, that can provide large...
- Keyword:
- Localized control, Electrostatic, Ultrasonic oscillation, Shape rendering, Active lateral force feedback, and Button click rendering
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Xu, Heng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15498 and etdadmin_upload_800297
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- Description:
- Functional electronic materials have transformed modern society toward a highly digitized and interconnected global community. The ever-growing demand for electronic devices with superior functionality poses a great challenge to the state-of-the-art field-effect transistors owing to the limited charge density afforded by silicon. Materials scientists and chemists have been working closely...
- Keyword:
- Bayesian optimization, Gaussian processes, deep neural network, computational materials science, and metal-insulator transition
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Wang, Yiqun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_815597 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15531
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- Description:
- The overall theme in this thesis is about eliciting and leveraging information to improve algorithms in Operations Management, with an emphasis on tractable and integrated approach of estimation and optimization. The main tool that I will be using is Robust Optimization, and the applications in my work vary from online...
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Ow, Yam Huo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819660 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15584
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- Description:
- Since their discovery, polymeric and protein-based materials are key to technological innovation and are indispensable in our lives. However, these natural and man-made soft materials usually have complex and hierarchical structures, with basic functional units in submicron scale. Therefore, a major challenge in understanding and designing these materials lies...
- Subject:
- Engineering
- Creator:
- Wang, Ao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819832 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15587
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- Description:
- Economic development is a complex and multi-faceted process. Among its many causes, two are particularly consequential: government and technology. By shaping the landscape of economic incentives, they impact how agents interact, invest, and innovate, which in turn affects the creation of wealth. In this dissertation I explore how this interaction...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Dahis, Ricardo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819533 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15580
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- Description:
- Commercial agriculture and industrial manufacturing have contaminated freshwater sources with persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals, and radioactive species. Effective mitigation of this pollution is paramount to safeguarding human health, animal and aquatic life, and the environment. Conventional adsorbents such as activated carbon, metal oxides, resins, and polymers attain moderate to...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Drout, Riki Joyce
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15522 and etdadmin_upload_814397
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- Description:
- Advancements in the understanding and synthesis of transition metal compounds have allowed materials engineers to design functional materials with a range of properties, such as ferroelectricity, non-linear optical activity, colossal magnetoresistance, and superconductivity. Conventional routes to tune and design functional materials includes chemical cation substitution and heterostructuring of oxide thin...
- Keyword:
- Oxyfluoride, Materials Design, Functional Properties, and Density Functional Theory
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Harada, Jaye Kimiko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819002 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15569
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I explore the applications and test the limitations of surface haptics technology in producing tactile experiences akin to those encountered in the real world. The goal of this work is to build intuition around physical aspects of touch that contribute to perception of tactile textures in...
- Keyword:
- Haptics and Tactile Texture
- Subject:
- Engineering
- Creator:
- Grigorii, Roman V
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15592 and etdadmin_upload_819921
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- Description:
- This dissertation is about the environment, inequality, and ways of being in the world. Water is necessary for biophysical existence, but also holds symbolic and ideological power. In ancient Maya ontologies, water was a powerful social force in the landscape, necessary for both bodily functions and cosmological connections. In some...
- Keyword:
- water, households, phytolith analysis, ancient Maya, landscape, and paleoethnobotany
- Subject:
- Environmental studies and Archaeology
- Creator:
- Grauer, Kacey Chandler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_818786 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15567
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- Description:
- Self-assembled monolayers for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (SAMDI-MS) is a platform that combines self-assembled monolayers of alkanethiolates on gold and MALDI mass spectrometry analysis to report mass changes resulting from surface reactions. The synthetic flexibility of the monolayer and the use of mass spectrometry as a generalizable readout method...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Anderson , Sarah Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_812568 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15516
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- Description:
- Astrocytes are the most abundant cell type in the brain, yet the mechanisms involved in astrocyte differentiation and the level of astrocyte heterogeneity in the CNS, particularly in the human cortex, is largely unknown due to the lack of subtype-specific astrocyte markers and inaccessibility of human brain tissue. Here we...
- Keyword:
- Glioblastoma, Stem cells, and Astrocyte
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Van Gulden, Stephanie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15549 and etdadmin_upload_817717
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- Description:
- Location-aware technologies, such as personal navigation applications, location-based AR games, and artificial intelligence systems that learn from data about places, increasingly mediate our understanding of and interactions with the world. However, a number of risks associated with location-aware technologies have emerged, jeopardizing the welfare of its users. This dissertation seeks...
- Keyword:
- Location-aware technologies, Geographic inequalities, and Human-centered AI
- Subject:
- Geographic information science and geodesy and Computer science
- Creator:
- Lin, Yilun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15521 and etdadmin_upload_814332
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- Description:
- If life exists on Mars, it likely resides in a deep subsurface environment. The Martian rocky subsurface is a primary target for the search for extraterrestrial life because it offers a stable habitat for microbial life. On Earth, the continental subsurface is a key astrobiological analog for understanding what properties...
- Keyword:
- Geochemistry, Deep Subsurface, Continental Subsurface, Biofilms, Geobiology, and Astrobiology
- Subject:
- Microbiology, Geobiology, and Geochemistry
- Creator:
- Casar, Caitlin Page
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_808363 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15508
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates the nature of the interface between morphosyntax and cognition. My goal is to connect formal semantic theories of meaning with theories of cognition, drawing on the initial hypothesis that the interface between language and cognition is transparent. I look at different forms of adjectival comparatives -- positive...
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Tucker, Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819506 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15577
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the fundamental science of flexoelectricity and its implications using a combined experimental and theoretical approach. I begin by introducing the flexoelectric effect and formalizing the basics of strain gradients, polarization, and flexoelectric coefficients. Next, I describe the development of a flexoelectric characterization system based upon three-point bending...
- Keyword:
- Oxides, First Principles, Triboelectricity, Flexoelectricity, and Surfaces
- Subject:
- Physics and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Mizzi, Christopher Adam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15527 and etdadmin_upload_815247
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- Description:
- Coiled-coil helix coiled-coil helix domain containing 10 (CHCHD10) is a nuclear gene that encodes for a mitochondria-enriched protein of unknown function. This type of protein is typically imported into mitochondria via the disulfide relay system which facilitates the formation of disulfide bridges between each coiled-coil helix, resulting in maintenance of...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Ryan, Éanna B.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_799720 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15495
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- Description:
- One of the fundamental observations in oncology is that the rate of cancer malignancy increases with age, which applies to most human malignancies including breast cancer. Therefore, it is crucial to elucidate the mechanistic connection between aging and carcinogenesis. The NAD+-dependent sirtuin family, specifically SIRT3, the primary mitochondrial deacetylase, which...
- Keyword:
- MnSOD, mitochondria, Sirtuin, cancer, ACSS1, and metabolism
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Gao, Yucheng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15526 and etdadmin_upload_815100
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- Description:
- Data Science and related fields like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Statistics provide indispensable research methods for understanding a wide variety of phenomena from large datasets. However, as methodical and empirical as these methods aim to be, there are many subjective and discretionary choices that the data scientist must make...
- Keyword:
- human computation, inter-annotator agreement, algorithmic bias, content moderation, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Information science, Artificial intelligence, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Cambo, Scott Allen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_810456 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15510
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- Description:
- Understanding associative memory is fundamental for a variety of neurological and neurodegenerative diseases, however, a large proportion of this research has excluded female subjects due to unsubstantiated bias. By including intact females, ovariectomized females and males in the study of associative memory, clear sex differences in acquisition emerged. Female mice...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Rapp, Amy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_802347 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15501
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- Description:
- Economic growth in contexts of state weakness presents a puzzle. If the state’s provision of property rights is necessary for financial investment and related pro-growth behaviors, then why do we observe private investment and commercial transactions in settings where state institutions are far from reliable property guarantors? This study addresses...
- Keyword:
- Adaptive Practices, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, Institutional Development, and Property Rights
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Peyton, David Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_812342 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15515
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- Description:
- Directed energy deposition (DED) has pushed the frontiers of manufacturability by enabling the creation of multi-material, functionally graded components, the repair or modification of existing components, and the addition of wear resistant coatings. This additive manufacturing method creates a 3D object by depositing powder directly into a small molten pool...
- Keyword:
- Directed Energy Deposition, Thermal Control, and Additive Manufacturing
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Bennett, Jennifer Lynn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_814209 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15520
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- Description:
- As social media are intricately woven into the fabric of everyday life, people are increasingly expressing their emotions, feelings, and thoughts on these platforms. Particularly, social media have become an outlet for sharing negative emotions and stressful experiences. This dissertation examines factors that influence how and why people share negative...
- Keyword:
- Mental health, Self-disclosure, Social media, and Social support
- Subject:
- Communication
- Creator:
- Zhang, Renwen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15543 and etdadmin_upload_817185
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- Description:
- In the nineteenth century, Jews across Europe entered a period of emancipation, at best a vaguely defined term that indicated the granting of equal civil and political rights, though sometimes conditionally and often incrementally. Concurrent to this, art music was dominated by deep divisions of stylistic and aesthetic approaches to...
- Keyword:
- musicology, Jewish music, Judaism, Germany, Jews, and 19th century music
- Subject:
- Judaic studies and Music history
- Creator:
- Stein, Amanda Ruppenthal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_796496 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15472
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- Description:
- The studies presented in this dissertation integrate stable calcium (Ca) and radiogenic and stable strontium (Sr) isotope geochemistry to understand how the Earth system responds to significant perturbations in the global carbon cycle. The primary focus is on the effects of massive releases of volcanic CO2 for ocean carbonate geochemistry...
- Subject:
- Geochemistry
- Creator:
- Wang, Jiuyuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_793208 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15455
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- Description:
- Background. Rates of common bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are at an all-timereported high in the United States, while rates of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are declining. Among HIV-negative men and transgender women who have sex with men, whom are theoretically at risk for both HIV and bacterial...
- Keyword:
- sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, men who have sex with men (MSM), social cognitive theory, transgender women, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing, and structural equation modeling
- Subject:
- Behavioral sciences, Psychology, and Public health
- Creator:
- Fleming, John Barnard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_791656 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15444
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- Description:
- There is no group of materials as diverse, complex, and ubiquitous as polymers. From plastic bags, to rubber tires, electronics, food packaging, water filtration and even aerospace applications, the penetration of polymer materials into all aspects of life make them very important materials throughout all engineering fields. However, this breadth...
- Keyword:
- Characterization, Materials Design, Polymer, Composite, and Mechanical Properties
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Polymer chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Eaton, Matthew David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763586 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15243
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- Description:
- Genetic factors such as loss of genetic diversity, mutations, and inbreeding depression can increase a populations chances of extinction, therefore it is important to understand how these factors can contribute to populations decline. Among the genetic factors that can contribute to populations extinction, inbreeding depression is the only one that...
- Keyword:
- Self-incompatibility, Inbreeding depression, Reproductive system , and Pollinators
- Subject:
- Conservation biology, Genetics, and Botany
- Creator:
- Cisternas Fuentes, Anita
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_792611 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15451
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- Description:
- Muscle strength assessment is a standard part of any clinical evaluation. Due to the kinematic and muscular redundancy in the human musculoskeletal system, muscle strength can not be measured directly in vivo. Clinicians utilize specific postures and forces to bias the muscles of interest, then infer the muscle strength from...
- Keyword:
- Active Learning , Parameter Estimation , Musculoskeletal Model, and Cervical Spine
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Abbott, Rebecca Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_797807 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15487
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- Description:
- The advancement of nanotechnology is at least partially dependent on the ability to synthesize and arrange complex nanostructures on a substrate. Nanolithography, or the patterning of materials at the sub-micrometer length-scale, has been traditionally performed using a number of methods such as conventional photolithography, ion-beam etching, and electron-beam lithography. While...
- Keyword:
- Scanning Probe, Nanolithography, Lithography, Electrochemical, Polymer, and Hydrogel
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Golnabi, Rustin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15442 and etdadmin_upload_791089
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- Description:
- We broaden the scope of existing dark matter searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by considering phenomena such as bound state formation and by utilizing simple extensions of well-studied models in the literature. First, we consider the Mono-X studies at the LHC, where the production of dark matter occurs...
- Subject:
- Theoretical physics and Particle physics
- Creator:
- Krovi, Venkat Sai Anirudh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_797580 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15481
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- Description:
- Radiofrequency ablation is a minimally-invasive treatment method that aims to destroy undesired tissue by exposing it to alternating current in the 100 kHz to 800 kHz frequency range and heating it until it is destroyed via coagulative necrosis. Ablation treatment is gaining momentum especially in cancer research, where the undesired...
- Keyword:
- Ensemble Learning, Integrated Circuit, Cancer Therapy, Hardware Design, Machine Learning, and Ablation
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence, Electrical engineering, and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Besler, Emre
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_786973 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15432
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- Description:
- The dynamics of human joints are fundamental characteristic of the human motor system, and altered joint impedance can hinder mobility. Individuals with transtibial amputation typically experience slower and energetically costly gait, while individuals with chronic stroke experience persisting gait deficits arising from spasticity, hypertonia and paresis. Investigating joint impedance of...
- Keyword:
- Stroke, Impedance, System Identification, and Rehabilitation
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Shorter, Amanda L
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780328 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15392
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- Description:
- NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA) has drawn a great deal of attention for its various applications in the medical field (orthodontics, cardiovascular stents technology, etc.) and in other engineering fields (aerospace, aircraft, automotive, etc.) as it shows shape memory effect, superelasticity and biocompatibility. The fatigue-related issues, however, are pronounced in...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Liu, Chuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_794898 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15461
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- Description:
- Movement and sensing fundamentally works in a synergistic manner. Animal's sensory organs --- be they independently movable like eyes or requiring whole body movement as in the case of electroreceptors --- are actively manipulated throughout stimulus-driven active sensing behaviors. Though these sensing-related motions have been individually reported and analyzed across...
- Keyword:
- behavior, uncertainty, Shannon-Weaver entropy, exploration-exploitation tradeoff, active sensing, and information theory
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence, Neurosciences, and Engineering
- Creator:
- Chen, Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_675222 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14742
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- Description:
- Despite prevention and treatment, substantial risk for cardiovascular disease(CVD) remains in the population and CVD has been the leading global cause-of-death in past years.While high-density lipoprotein (HDL) markers such as HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) and HDL efflux (a cholesterol-transport-function assay) are associated with decreased risk of CVD, the mechanism of this...
- Keyword:
- Cardiovascular Disease, Apolipoproteins, Post-translational Modifications, Proteoforms, and Top-down Proteomics
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- dos Santos Seckler, Henrique
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_791345 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15443
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- Description:
- Staphylococcus aureus (SA) is a leading cause of healthcare-associated and community-acquired infection in the United States. Despite the canonical thinking that antibodies and B cells are the main drivers of protection against extracellular pathogens, T cells are now recognized as critical players in protection against SA in multiple routes of...
- Subject:
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Creator:
- Genardi, Samantha Marie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_784435 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15429
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- Description:
- “Entertaining Strangers” reveals how theories and practices of hospitality shaped and were shaped by the early modern print and theater industries. Whereas earlier studies of hospitality and literature have focused on aristocratic patronage, in this dissertation I reveal the vital importance of commercial hospitality as a framework for ethical and...
- Keyword:
- Travel writing, Hospitality, Performance studies, Print culture, Poetry, and Paratexts
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Theater history, and English literature
- Creator:
- Blankenau, Katherine Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15447 and etdadmin_upload_791923
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- Description:
- Physiochemical phenomena in aqueous systems, such as corrosion, catalysis, and energy storage, are driven by the molecular-scale interactions of ionic species with charged solid surfaces. In particular, an electrical double layer (EDL) of ions forms within nanometers of a charged surface. The properties of the EDL have been explored from...
- Keyword:
- Electrical Double Layer, First Principles Molecular Dynamics, X-ray Reflectivity, Solid/Water Interfaces, and Resonant Anomalous X-ray Reflectivity
- Subject:
- Applied physics and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Harmon, Katherine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15471 and etdadmin_upload_796475
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- Description:
- Following the discovery of n-type Mg3Sb2−Mg3Bi2 alloys, attempts have been undertaken to optimize their thermoelectric performance because understanding of the properties of this system had been limited due to its novelty. In this thesis, the thermoelectric performance of n-type Mg3Sb2−Mg3Bi2 alloys was systematically investigated and significantly improved. Thorough experimental characterization...
- Keyword:
- Thermoelectrics, Energy conversion, Seebeck effect, Thermal conductivity, Mg3Sb2, and Electrical conductivity
- Subject:
- Engineering and
- Creator:
- Imasato, Kazuki
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_792898 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15453
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- Description:
- Soil-Machine Interaction (SMI) is ubiquitous on Earth and other planets. Over decades, ground-engaging equipment has been developed and widely used in various engineering applications, including civil construction, agriculture, terrestrial mobility, and even space exploration. However, systematic studies of SMI processes and the corresponding soil behavior are inadequate, which obstructs further...
- Keyword:
- Soil-machine interaction, Sand , Semi-analytical model , Experimental study , Particle image velocimetry analysis, and Sequential kinematic model
- Subject:
- Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Jin, Zhefei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_797724 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15486
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- Description:
- Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) underlies myriad phenomena in chemistry and physics. Arbitrary manipulation of spin-orbit coupling would enable precise control over such parameters as magnetic anisotropy, the sensitivity of quantum sensors, and even the selectivity of certain catalytic processes. Herein, I describe my efforts directed towards utilizing SOC as a handle...
- Keyword:
- coordination chemistry, quantum information, and molecular magnetism
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Physical chemistry
- Creator:
- Pearson, Tyler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15427 and etdadmin_upload_783646
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- Description:
- Deep learning is a new area of machine learning in artificial intelligence that consists of networks to learn representations from data in a supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised manner. Deep learning has a relatively long history, but it does not gain great attention until big data and fast computational resources are...
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Yang, Zijiang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15466 and etdadmin_upload_795648
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- Description:
- The effect of interfaces in solids on the overall charge transport properties has become a topic of growing importance for energy materials such as thermoelectrics. In some polycrystalline thermoelectric materials, the performance near room temperature is significantly limited due to thermally-activated electrical conductivity near room-temperature, which can be attributed to...
- Keyword:
- Contact resistance, Grain boundary, Charge transport model, Thermoelectric, Mg3Sb2, and NMC
- Subject:
- Physics and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Kuo, Jimmy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15489 and etdadmin_upload_797891
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- Description:
- A central question in biology is how the flow of genetic information—from DNA to RNA to protein—is regulated. Regulatory mechanisms exerted at the level of DNA and protein have been described in detail but by contrast, little is known regarding the regulation of RNA. Methylation on N6-adenosine (m6A) is the...
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Edens, Brittany M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_796993 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15475