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- This dissertation combines critical ethnography, critical performance and historical analysis to examine three Trinidadian dance companies - Malick Folk Performing Company, Shiv Shakti Dance Company, and Noble Douglas Dance Company Inc. - asking how each choreographs Trinidadian discourses of race/ethnicity, class and national belonging through its own uniquely crafted embodied...
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- Cultural Nationalism, Critical ethnography, Creolization, Postcolonial Caribbean, Cultural Development, Dance Studies, and Performance Studies
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Meida Teresa McNeal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The addition of nanoparticles into polymer materials has been observed to dramatically change the mechanical, thermal, electrical, and diffusion properties of the host polymers, promising a novel class of polymer matrix composite materials with superior properties and added functionalities that are ideal candidates in many applications, including aerospace, automobile, medical...
- Keyword:
- polymer nanocomposite, viscoelastic behavior, carbon nanotube, interphase, and morpholohy
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Hua Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The work presented in this dissertation focuses on ceramic anode materials for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). The primary goal was to characterize the anode and relate the electrochemical behavior to the microstructure. The anode that was most extensively studied in this work was a composite of Gd0.10Ce0.90O1.95 (GDC) and...
- Keyword:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Worawarit Kobsiriphat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Two experimental methods have been developed to induce flexural waves in concrete piles for which a portion of the shaft is accessible, and the test results were compared to theoretical solutions of flexural guided wave propagation. The pile response is measured and the results are analyzed to compute the group...
- Keyword:
- Nondestructive Testing, Deep Foundations, and Wave Propagation
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- James Joseph Lynch
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The important application for the infrared photodetectors is mainly thermal imaging by focal plane arrays (FPAs) for military and commercial purposes. So far, most mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) and long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) FPAs are based either on HgCdTe (MCT) or quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs). Even though those technologies are well...
- Keyword:
- self-assembly, infrared, focal plane array, Quantum Dot, semiconductor, and photodetector
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Ho-Chul Lim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a well-developed technique for growing thin films of a wide variety of materials, which relies on the development of new and better performing metal-organic precursors. To this end, three studies have been conducted into the compatibility of sulfur and phosphine containing ligands with low- and...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Matthew McCain
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis summarizes our research efforts on the application of the nano-structured anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane in heterogeneous catalysis. Procedures for growing the AAO membrane in the center of an aluminum disc have been developed by appropriately masking the disk's perimeter during the anodization and etching steps. The remaining...
- Keyword:
- Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hao Feng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Metallic nanostructures are able to confine and manipulate electromagnetic fields because light can couple to free electron oscillations called surface plasmons (SPs). These plasmons exist on metal surfaces as localized (short-range) or as propagating (long-range) modes depending upon the size and geometry of the nanostructure. This dichotomy is primarily an...
- Keyword:
- plasmon, nanoscience, nanoparticle, Metamaterials, subwavelength holes, and nanopatterning
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Joel Henzie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis investigates singlet exciton fission, a physical process that converts one singlet exciton to a pair of triplet excitons. Singlet fission was discovered nearly forty years ago, but the mechanism for this process is still not well understood. Recent work has suggested that singlet fission may be capable of...
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- Solar Cell, Singlet Exciton Fission, and Theory
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Eric Greyson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this research, the optical and electrical properties of graphene-based materials are investigated. In particular, "graphene oxide", which is an individual layer of graphite oxide, and its chemically reduced form, is probed in terms of its properties, and the properties of graphene oxide and chemically modified graphene oxide are compared...
- Keyword:
- graphene oxide
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Inhwa Jung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis attempts a combined theoretical/experimental investigation of two fundamental scaling laws in charge transfer reactions: how the rate of those reactions varies as a function of distance between an electron donor and an electron acceptor and how the rate varies as a function of the number of distinct pathways...
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- molecular electronics, donor bridge acceptor, dephasing, multiple pathways, charge transfer, and bicyclooctane
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Randall Howard Goldsmith
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The Satake category is the category of perverse sheaves on the affine Grassmannian of a complex reductive group G. The global cohomology functor induces a tensor equivalence between the Satake category and the category of finite-dimensional representations of the split form of the Langlands dual group of G. We give...
- Keyword:
- Satake isomorphism, Geometric Langlands program, representation theory, and forms of reductive groups
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Vivek Dhand
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The task of designing porous materials for use in specific applications requires a detailed understanding of the adsorption process and how adsorption is affected by material properties. Applications of interest include maximizing gravimetric or volumetric adsorption capacity for hydrogen and carbon dioxide and increasing the selectivity for carbon dioxide in...
- Keyword:
- adsorption, carbon dioxide, separation, nanoporous, hydrogen, and materials
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Houston Frost
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-12
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- Dissertation
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- Two subjects are the focus of this dissertation: Au/TiO2 catalyst used for oxidation of CO at low temperature and siloxane nanocages, a novel material (~2nm) recently developed in our group While bulk gold is chemically inert, gold supported as nanoparticles is remarkably active for the oxidation of carbon monoxide at...
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- confinement effect, oxidation of CO, active site, reaction mechanism, Au/TiO2 catalyst, and siloxane nanocages
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Juan David Henao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- An efficient unified incremental high-level and physical-level synthesis algorithm was presented in Chapter 2, which enable the tight integration between high-level and physical-level design. Chapter 3 presented a temperature-aware high-level synthesis algorithm built upon the framework of Chapter 2. Temperature variations and hot spots account for reliability issue and require...
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- POWER, TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS, VLSI, and CAD
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Zhenyu Gu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this thesis, I argue that life and soul as analyzed in De Anima are examples of what Aristotle calls a "pros hen legomena" structure, a structure in which various things are said to be living in relation to one thing, which is the central meaning of life. The various...
- Keyword:
- God, Homonymy, Soul, Aristotle, and De Anima
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Eli Charles Diamond
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Since its emergence, the Ginzburg-Landau theory has had a tremendous success in describing thermodynamic properties of superconductivity. In the case of superfluid 3He, not all five fourth-order parameters in the theory are known. Only four combinations of the five parameters have been experimentally established and theoretical attempts to calculate the...
- Keyword:
- Physics and Condensed Matter
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Hyoungsoon Choi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- I/O performance has perpetually lagged well behind that of processors. This gap is made even more pronounced in the field of high-performance computing. While simply adding more network bandwidth and increasing the number of storage units is a simple way to increase theoretical peak I/O bandwidth, the software libraries for...
- Keyword:
- Caching, High Performance Computing, and Parallel I/O
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Kenin Coloma
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The work described in this dissertation focuses on the optical characterization of micron-sized structures with mesoscale (100-1000 nm) features to investigate of the optical analog to the quantum corral. Lithographically patterned arrays of metallic rings and ellipses were used to study how light can be manipulated and confined within these...
- Keyword:
- Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Yelizaveta Babayan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- A striking aspect of human cognition is our capacity for acquiring and using complex knowledge structures, from learning the rules of algebra, to understanding the causal workings of a combustion engine or the structure and processes of the U.S. Congress. These structured representations underlie our ability to generate new inferences,...
- Keyword:
- processing fluency, relational structure, analogy, and implicit
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Samuel B. Day
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The most important managerial criteria in supply chains are how to manage product, information and cash flows, and how to maximize profits by either increasing the revenue or decreasing the costs. Although the maximum benefits can be achieved if everyone follows the central planner's suggestions; unfortunately, the individual maximum profits...
- Keyword:
- quality, contract, supply chain, and equilibrium
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Gary Huaite Chao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- With aggressive scaling down of feature sizes in VLSI fabrication, process variations, crosstalk and buffering have become critical issues to achieve timing closure in VLSI designs. Timing analysis and optimization techniques need to consider each of them and also their interactions. There are many statistical timing analysis researches to handle...
- Keyword:
- Crosstalk, Timing analysis, VLSI, Process variations, Optimization, and Buffer
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Rui Ming Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The contents of this dissertation are divided into two sections: (1) the preparation and characterization of quaternary rare-earth chalcogenides and oxychalcogenides and (2) the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectroscopy of metallic nanoparticles fabricated by nanosphere lithography (NSL). Single crystals of CsTmCoS3, CsYbCoS3, CsHoCoSe3, CsYbCoSe3, and CsYbZnSe3 have been prepared...
- Keyword:
- Rare-earths, Nanosphere Lithography, Crystal Structure, Magnetic Properties, Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance, and Optical Properties
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- George Hanki Chan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- During interactions with our environment we must incorporate information about the mechanical properties of obstacles into our motor actions. Fundamental to these behaviors is the ability to simultaneously control movements of the hand while regulating the interaction forces that arise from contact with the environment. Although the neural control of...
- Keyword:
- haptics, transcranial magnetic stimulation, motor learning, computational neuroscience, and psychophysics
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Vikram Singh Chib
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Continuous fiber/epoxy composites have been widely used for structural applications due to their excellent mechanical properties, but the benefits of using these composites is limited by their lower than desired matrix-dominated properties. In this study, epoxy matrix in carbon fiber/epoxy composites was modified with graphite nanoplatelets to improve their mechanical...
- Keyword:
- processing, nanocomposites, nanoparticle, composite laminate, hybrid composites, and prepreg
- Subject:
- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Creator:
- Jui-Ying Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Continental weathering and organic carbon (OC) burial in marine sediments are important processes because they act as sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide. Continental weathering products provide information about provenance, marine sediment quality/quantity, denudation and continental crust composition. In this study I explore two topics that impact some of these issues...
- Keyword:
- Eastern Tibetan Plateau, Provenance, Petrology, Mineral Surface Area, Red River, and Weathering
- Subject:
- Geological Sciences
- Creator:
- Joniell B Borges
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- MHC class II-restricted T cell responses are a common driving force of autoimmune disease. Numerous therapeutic strategies target CD4+ T cells hoping to attenuate autoimmune responses and restore self-tolerance. We have previously reported that i.v. treatment with antigen-pulsed, ethylenecarbodiimide (ECDI)-fixed splenocytes (Ag-SP) is an efficient protocol to induce Ag-specific tolerance...
- Keyword:
- T cell, Autoimmunity, Multiple Sclerosis, Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis, and Tolerance
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Danielle Marie Turley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This collection of essays on horizontal merger enforcement and dynamic contract breach addresses the question of what role, if any, should government play in enforcing the contracts of private parties? The government's appropriate role in these various settings depends, among other things, on the nature of the competition between private...
- Keyword:
- Contract Breach, Efficiency Gains, Breach Damages, Horizontal Mergers, and Antitrust
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Fan Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- To navigate our environment we are often required to quickly and accurately derive simplified patterns from the complexity of life. This dissertation seeks to understand when the process of pattern perception occurs and when it goes awry and individuals falsely or inaccurately perceive patterns. I review the literature on various...
- Keyword:
- uncertainty, information processing, decion-making, control, sensemaking, and pattern perception
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- Jennifer Ann Whitson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Humans determine the horizontal position of sound sources based on two cues: interaural time differences (ITDs) and interaural level differences (ILDs). Consistent with other evidence that these two cues are processed by separate neural mechanisms, Wright and Fitzgerald (2001) observed markedly different learning patterns in listeners who were trained on...
- Keyword:
- Behavioral and Psychology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Yu Xuan Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Theoretical analysis of DNA bridge-mediated electron transfer (ET) led to the proposal that photoinduced ET might occur via either superexchange or hopping mechanisms. Electron transfer has been proposed to occur via a superexchange mechanism at short distances and via a hopping mechanism at longer distances. However, a crossover in mechanism...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry and Organic
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hui he Zhu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-29
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In recent years, moral and political philosophers have begun to focus upon the impact of pluralism on conceptions of civic obligation, legitimacy, and justice. According to the political liberalism of John Rawls, citizens should justify their political views in terms of values that are neutral among divergent worldviews; they should...
- Keyword:
- discourse theory, pluralism, toleration, political liberalism, deliberation, and public reason
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Melissa Kristine Yates
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, we explore modeling and solution methods for intermodal drayage operations. This research is motivated by the need to provide operational choices in drayage operations to increase efficiency; however, as shown in our work, the introduction of this flexibility in modeling and solution methods is challenging. Intermodal freight...
- Keyword:
- drayage operations and vehicle routing problems
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Guangming Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Early-life seizures increase susceptibility to seizures in adulthood. However, mechanisms by which seizures in the developing brain lead to increased vulnerability to seizures and exacerbation of neurological injury in adulthood remain unknown. We test the hypothesis that upregulation of proinflammatory cytokine levels and chronic glial activation following early-life seizures result...
- Keyword:
- seizures, cytokines, microglia, glia, glutamate, and neuroinflammation
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kathleen Cua Somera-Molina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- For bone regeneration, there is need for biodegradable, synthetic scaffolds that direct the formation of <em>de novo</em> mineralized tissue. Orthopaedic implants additionally require mechanical function. The work described herein attempts to address both of these needs. The general strategy involves integrating molecularly designed tissue engineering scaffolds with porous metallic foams...
- Keyword:
- self-assembly, peptide amphiphile, Biomaterials, nanotechnology, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Timothy David Sargeant
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) play a fundamental role in cell growth, metabolism and survival. Altered cell surface expression of RTKs has profound effects on organismal physiology and is associated with both metabolic disease and neoplasia. The insulin receptor (IR) is a prototypical RTK that regulates metabolism and lifespan and as...
- Keyword:
- Cell Biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Maria Rowena Bernadette Rojas Ramos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many ion channels are localized in specific subcellular domain of the neurons, and the proper localization is critical for the function of ion channels. Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels (h channels) are asymmetrically distributed in the CA1 pyramidal neurons, enriched in the distal apical dendrites. H current, generated by h...
- Keyword:
- Neuroscience and Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Minyoung Shin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study explores the history of Bugwere, Busoga and Buganda, societies in present-day east-central Uganda, from the late first millennium and it does so through a focus on motherhood. Motherhood - as ideology and biology - impacted on almost every aspect of life in these societies, but did so in...
- Keyword:
- Historical Linguistics, Gender, Precolonial History, Social Reproduction, and Uganda
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Rhiannon Stephens
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation describes the use of alkanethiols and polymers for the development of lithographic affinity and resist array templates that can be utilized for directing the assembly of biological molecules, for building up multilayered polyelectrolyte thin films, and for fabricating metal solid-state nanostructures. The first two chapters of the work...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Raymond Jose de Guia Sanedrin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Sensing is a fundamental operation for almost any motion-based system. We have chosen electrosensory systems as a platform to explore sensing and control in both artificial and biological systems. Electrosense is a convenient sensing modality because artificial electrosensory systems are relatively simple to implement, and weakly electric fish have some...
- Keyword:
- Weakly Electric Fish, Electrolocation, Electrosense, Active Sensing, and Bayes Filter
- Subject:
- Mechanical Enginnering
- Creator:
- James R Solberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The work presented in this thesis describes investigations into linear and nonlinear optical properties of two-dimensional silver nanoparticle arrays. The linear optical measurements - extinction measurements were performed on two-dimensional square arrays of L-shaped silver nanoparticles fabricated by electron beam lithography in order to study the effect of dipole coupling...
- Keyword:
- Physical and Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jiha Sung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chambers of Flemish tapestry served as prestigious, portable decoration for early modern courts across Europe. In the second half of the sixteenth century, a number of noble patrons commissioned tapestries that prominently featured highly naturalistic zoological and botanical imagery. Drawing upon zoological treatises, medical and physiognomic literature, fables, printed emblemata,...
- Keyword:
- early modern, courts, tapestry, Renaissance, natural history, and animal
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Carmen Cramer Niekrasz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Cells are known to respond to external stimuli such as chemical, physical and mechanical cues from their microenvironments. In this work, we developed the technology to to complement the previously reported studies that deal with substrates' mechanical property by developing thin polydimethlysiloxane (PDMS) membrane microdevices using microfabrication technology. Typically, multiples...
- Keyword:
- PDMS membrane, micro/nano fabrication, and cell mechanics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Abel Lianzauk Thangawang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-24
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- Dissertation
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- The growth cone is a highly specialized motile structure with a distinctive and dynamically variable morphology. Current understanding of actin-based protrusive motility has been formulated in terms of the dendritic nucleation/array treadmilling model for lamellipodial protrusion and the convergent-elongation model for filopodial protrusion, that were based upon results obtained primarily...
- Keyword:
- Neuroscience and Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Anne Katherine Mongju
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The neural crest is a population of multipotent precursors that are found only in vertebrate embryos. These cells migrate extensively throughout the body and give rise to diverse derivatives, including craniofacial bone and cartilage, melanocytes, and the enteric nervous system. There is a large network of factors involved in neural...
- Keyword:
- Molecular Biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Kimberly Michele Jaffe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation articulates the practice of clown theater by a Chicago-based company called 500 Clown in order to provoke further investigation and definition of this hybrid theatrical form, which, though increasingly popular as a practice, has yet to be theorized or historicized. This study addresses clown theater's relationships with other...
- Keyword:
- Performance Studies
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Leslie Buxbaum Danzig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Dimensionally constrained material systems are at the forefront of current materials research because of their novel and often enhanced physical, chemical and biological properties. The dimensionality effects are pervasive through different classes of materials including ceramics, metals and polymers. Often times dimensionality effects are manifested as internal structure variations in...
- Keyword:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Suresh Kumar Donthu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A need exists to increase the functionality of myoelectric prostheses without increasing the mental requirement of operation. Implantable myoelectric sensors have made it possible to record multiple muscle activities with high fidelity. Given this high dimensionality of inputs, what is the best way of implementing control? Muscle synergies have been...
- Keyword:
- muscle synergy, prosthesis, EMG, myoelectric control, dimensionality reduction, and hand
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Abidemi Bolu Ajiboye
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this thesis we discuss the issue of solving stochastic optimization problems using sampling methods. Numerical results have shown that using variance reduction techniques from statistics can result in significant improvements over Monte Carlo sampling in terms of the number of samples needed for convergence of the optimal objective value...
- Keyword:
- Stochastic Programming, Quasi-Monte Carlo, Padding, Latin Hypercube, Large Deviations, and QMC
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Shane Sebastian Drew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Various methods for solving the partial contact of surfaces with regularly periodic profiles-- which might arise in analyses of asperity level contact, serrated surfaces or even curved structures--have previously been employed for elastic materials. A new approach based upon the summation of evenly spaced Flamant's solution is presented here to...
- Keyword:
- Periodic Problems, Contact Mechanics, and Plane Elasticity
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Joseph M Block
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-18
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation concerns the rhetorical discourses that define a wireless technology revolution in the United States. This inquiry engaged in rhetorical criticism of key documents, texts and exigencies embedded within successive stages of the wireless revolution spanning twenty years. Three sites of discourse were analyzed: the wireless industry's vision and...
- Keyword:
- mobile phone, technology revolution, communication technology, technology and social change, cell phone, and communication revolution
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Joyce Virginia Gab Kneeland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Using a novel DNA-microarray hybridization protocol, the diffusion distance during static microarray hybridization was estimated for Cy3- and Cy5-labeled cDNA probes as 3.8 and 2.6 mm, respectively, despite having almost identical molecular masses. Continuous mixing during microarray hybridization resulted in a 15-20% increase in signal intensity over arrays hybridized statically....
- Keyword:
- butanol, biofuel, DNA microarray, Clostridium acetobutylicum, and Genomic library
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Jacob Reece Borden
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Two new methods have been developed employing silicon-containing molecules in novel organic transformations. The first strategy utilizes Lewis base-activation of triethoxysilylalkynes to deliver mild acetylide nucleophile equivalents. The second approach involves the use of enolate additions to acylsilanes to generate β-silyloxy homoenolate intermediates. Lewis base-catalyzed activation of triethoxysilylalkynes promotes the...
- Keyword:
- Organic Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Robert B. Lettan ii
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In a highly competitive market, it is becoming increasingly important to view product design as an enterprise-level profit-driven activity. Demand models have become central to enterprise-driven design approaches since they help estimating the economic impact (e.g., revenues, profits, and cost) of a product's design. The primary contribution of this dissertation...
- Keyword:
- enterprise-driven design, product design, Demand model, and DBD
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Deepak Kumar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the history of Mexicans' changing racial status in the Chicago metropolitan region, a place where race has traditionally been understood in strictly black and white terms. From World War I through the 1930's whites violently resisted Mexicans moving into their neighborhoods in Chicago, East Chicago, and Gary,...
- Keyword:
- immigration, housing, Mexican Americans, whiteness, race, and Chicago
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Michael T.M. McCoyer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on the utilization of two coordination chemistry-based synthetic approaches, which provide the ability to rapidly and quantitatively assemble sophisticated supramolecular cofacial porphyrin complexes. Significantly, by adopting a coordination chemistry-based approach, the porphyrin-porphyrin interactions can be regulated in situ via the addition or removal of chemical effector molecules....
- Keyword:
- Allosteric, Coordination Chemistry, and Allosterism
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Christopher Gordon Oliveri
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Aluminum alloys strengthened with coherent (L1<sub>2</sub>), nanosize Al<sub>3</sub>Sc precipitates may be used as structural materials at elevated temperatures. They are creep resistant at 300°C and exhibit a threshold stress, below which creep is not measurable. Introducing ternary alloying additions, such as rare-earth elements (RE=Y, Dy, Er), that segregate within Al<sub>3</sub>Sc...
- Keyword:
- mechanical properties, rare-earth elements, precipitation strengthening, creep, precipitate coarsening, and aluminum-scandium alloys
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Richard Karnesky
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- HspB2 was discovered as a chaperone of muscular dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) and originally named, DMPK binding protein (MKBP) and presently called HspB2. Functionally, MKBP binds to DMPK and stabilizes its kinase activity, thereby accelerating the progression of muscular dystrophy. Although other binding partners of HspB2 have been found, the...
- Keyword:
- Molecular and Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Shayna Oshita
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A series of investigations was undertaken to explore the processing and properties of porous titanium with 6 wt% Al and 4 wt% vanadium (Ti-6Al-4V) and an equiatomic nickel-titanium alloy (NiTi). In this study, porous materials were created in the solid state by entrapping argon in a powder compact, and subsequently...
- Keyword:
- NiTi, Foam, metal, and creep
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Scott M. Oppenheimer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents the results of three studies examining the determinants and consequences of employment among single mothers with infants and toddlers. In the first study, I use nationally-representative survey data to identify the effect of age-of-youngest-child welfare-to-work exemptions on the employment of single mothers with no more than a...
- Keyword:
- quantitative methods, mixed methods, maternal employment, infants and toddlers,, and welfare policy
- Subject:
- Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Heather D Hill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The first section of this thesis focuses on applications of DNA-modified gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) while the second part addresses the fundamental properties that arise from conjugating DNA to inorganic AuNPs. Two types of applications are discussed. The first application utilizes the colorimetric properties of AuNPs to screen duplex and triplex...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Abigail K. R. Lytton-Jean
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the cause of infectious mononucleosis and is associated with the etiology of several human cancers of lymphoid and epithelial cell origin, including Burkitt's lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma. It is an extremely prevalent virus in human populations worldwide. All herpesviruses, including EBV, infect cells by fusing the...
- Keyword:
- membrane fusion, peptide inhibitior, antiviral, viral entry, Epstein-Barr virus, and glycoprotein structure
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Austin Kirschner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Living in a world where the machine and the Internet are ubiquitous, many people work and play online, in a world that is, ironically, often isolated and lonesome. While the Internet, as intended, connects us to information, products and services, it often draws us away from the rich connections that...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Sara Hodges Owsley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Video transmission over wireless networks to multiple mobile users has remained a challenging problem due to potential limitations on bandwidth and the time-varying nature of wireless channels. Recent advances in wireless access technologies, such as, HSDPA and IEEE 802.16, are targeted at achieving higher throughput over wireless networks. Meanwhile, advances...
- Keyword:
- Video Transmission, Scheduling, Scalable video coding, HSDPA, and H.264
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Peshala Vishvajith Pahalawatta
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niche is the site where HSCs reside in vivo. The HSC niche is formed by supporting cells that provide structure and appropriate environmental cues for HSCs. In this study, three components of the HSC niche were evaluated for their influence on HSC expansion ex vivo:...
- Keyword:
- thrombopoietin mimetic, reduced oxygen tension culture, lipopeptide, hematopoietic stem cell culture, and stem cell factor
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- James A King
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Conventional perfusion magnetic resonance imaging with dynamic susceptibility using a contrast agents has been playing a dominant role on diagnosing a variety of cerebral nervous system disease due to lack of radiation and widespread availability. However, reliable quantification of cerebral perfusion has been elusive and challenging. The bookend method is...
- Keyword:
- MR imaging, Quantitative Cerebral Perfusion, Cerebral blood volume, and Cerebral blood flow
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Wanyong Shin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-29
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis examines the effects of micro-alloying additions to Al-Sc alloys on the microstructure, coarsening resistance and creep properties. The overarching goal of this research is to develop castable, creep-resistant aluminum alloys which can be used at temperatures in excess of 300?C. Successful high-temperature application of aluminum based alloys offers...
- Keyword:
- Material Science
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Marsha Van Dalen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The macroscale mechanical and physical properties of materials are inherently linked to the underlying microstructure. Traditional continuum mechanics theories have focused on approximating the heterogeneous microstructure as a continuum, which is conducive to a partial differential equation mathematical description. Although this makes large scale simulation of material much more efficient...
- Keyword:
- microstructure, properties, continuum, failure, and simulation
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Cahal James McVeigh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This project examines the relationship between graphic design and public life in an effort to understand how graphic design functions as a mode of communication, how visual images present interpretive problems for communication scholarship, and how the increasing presence of visual images in public space inform and are informed by...
- Keyword:
- graphic design, billboards, public sphere, visual rhetoric, rhetoric, and imagination
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Brett Richard Ommen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation considers price indices in the context of two rapidly growing markets. The first is the emerging market for Internet Service Providers in the mid-1990s. The second is the emergence and growth of the DVD hardware market. In both, we examine indices ranging from the most rudimentary to quality...
- Keyword:
- price index, quality, Hedonic, growth, dvd, and internet service providers
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Gregory A Stranger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Across a broad spectrum of mathematical models, problems arise that have irregular domains or contain embedded interfaces. The complexity due to the introduction of these interfaces makes it more difficult to develop efficient and accurate numerical methods for their solutions. This thesis discusses modifications to the eXtended Finite Element Method...
- Keyword:
- Biofilm, X-FEM, Interfaces, and Mathematical Biology
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Benjamin L Vaughan, Jr.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that theatre was a vital element of postcolonial culture in Ireland in the years 1919-1932, the period in which the Irish nation emerged from revolutionary war to become a stable postcolonial state. Although critics have bemoaned the rising dominance of conservative, anti-modernist playwriting and production in Ireland's...
- Keyword:
- History, European, Modern, and Literature
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Anne Maureen Pulju
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- My dissertation explores the rational and emotional foundations of ethical decision making. Traditional research has associated ethical superiority with an analytic, rational decision making process and has suggested that emotions (e.g., empathy or anger) undermine ethics because they lead people to breach ethical principles such as the norm of impartiality....
- Keyword:
- Management and Business Administration
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- Chen-Bo Zhong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- After nearly 100 years of research, the function of sleep is unknown, prompting the desire to examine its regulation in a simpler model organism. In 2000, <em>Drosophila</em> was described as a novel model system to investigate sleep. These early studies defined features of normal sleep in <em>Drosophila</em>, and presented evidence...
- Keyword:
- genetics, sleep, mushroom bodies, Clock, neuroanatomy, and Drosophila
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jena Pitman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Interfaces and surfaces are ubiquitous in the environment. Heterogeneous binding events and reactions control the transport and speciation of dissolved pollutants in groundwater. Many heterogeneous processes occur at mineral oxide/water interfaces, and can be controlled either by the mineral oxide, or organic molecules bound to the surface. The prevalent natural...
- Keyword:
- morantel, second harmonic generation, manganese, surfaces, SiO2, and carboxylic acid
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Christopher Thomas Konek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Child maltreatment and violence are two major public health concerns in the United States. The relationship between maltreatment and subsequent violent behavior, also referred to as the "cycle of violence", is not well understood. The present study examines whether a history of maltreatment predicts violent behavior in a sample of...
- Keyword:
- maltreatment, youth, delinquent, and violence
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ursula Cornelia Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores price differences observed in the market. While some differences are necessitated by market conditions, the others are strategic. I illustrate the former in a study of electricity spot markets in Italy and the latter for the video rental industry. The first project examines the welfare gains from...
- Keyword:
- Economics and General
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Viswanath Pingali
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The dissertation research examines the evolution of EU social and employment policy in regard to gender equality in the labor market and analyzes how EU guidelines of the European Employment Strategy (EES) and EU directives on social policy have different effects on political processes in the United Kingdom and Germany....
- Keyword:
- Welfare State, Gender, United Kingdom, Germany, Modes of Governance, and Euorpean Union
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Nicole Richardt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Musical theater is a discipline that, by its very nature, engages several disciplines, specifically music, visual art, theater, and dance. The elementary classroom is a viable setting for the study of the arts in an interdisciplinary manner, yet the number of studies examining interdisciplinary instruction with regard to elementary music...
- Keyword:
- Music Education, Elementary Education, Music, and Fine Arts
- Subject:
- Music Education
- Creator:
- Kelly Roberts
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The linear food chain of high school biology textbooks has been replaced by the food web, the increasingly complex network of trophic interactions in an ecosystem. This complexity, however, masks a number of robust statistical properties. Yet much research to date has concentrated upon predicting and testing the existence of...
- Keyword:
- food-web structure, complex systems, networks, complex networks, and food webs
- Creator:
- Daniel B Stouffer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I examine the impact of core values on foreign policy opinion, the dynamics of value change, and the differences between elites and the mass public in their values change. I find that two core values - humanitarianism and democracy - strongly affect citizens' support for various anti-terrorism...
- Keyword:
- humanitarianism, democracy promotion, values, foreign policy, public opinion, and elites
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Dukhong Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-31
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Behavioral activation (BA) trains depressed clients to engage in more positive activities in order to increase their experience of pleasure and accomplishment, thereby reducing depression. Recent research suggested that BA might be as effective in treating depression as current leading treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and antidepressant medication (Jacobson,...
- Keyword:
- sudden gains, behavioral activation, therapy process, treatment mechanisms, treatment outcome, and depression
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Tomasz Andrusyna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- By combining cultural theory with empirical data, this dissertation asserts that late-twentieth-century mainstream theatre had the potential to support emergent ideologies in the U.S. context. The study finds fault with those who dismiss mainstream theatre based on its commercialism and shows how a production's mainstream status may position its emergent...
- Keyword:
- theatre, Kramer, mainstream, theater, political, and Kushner
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Jacob M. Juntunen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-29
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis presents results and analysis on a series of donor-bridge-acceptor (D-B-A) charge transfer systems in which we use time-resolved spectroscopy and magnetic resonance techniques to study the relationship of molecular structure to energy, charge, and spin transfer dynamics. We find that the sequence of events following the initial charge...
- Keyword:
- Charge, Spin, Photoinduced Energy, Transfer, Organic Molecular Materials, EPR, and Energy
- Subject:
- Chemsitry
- Creator:
- Zachary E Dance
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Markov models are widely employed in cost-effectiveness analysis of healthcare interventions. Although such models are usually formulated at the individual level, it is also useful to examine outcomes at the population level. Analysts may wish to know the impact of a health intervention on a whole population instead of an...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Engineering
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Huang Min
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A comprehensive understanding of how image processing occurs in the primary visual cortex (V1) requires learning what aspects of neuronal responses are driven by strong feed-forward input from the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), and what aspects arise due to the densely recurrent network operating within the cortex itself. From an...
- Keyword:
- Neuroscience and Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Ian Micah Finn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
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- 2007-10-22
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- Dissertation
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- Although non-viral gene therapy has great potential for use in the lung, several problems including inefficient gene transfer and expression and the relative lack of cell-specific targeting have limited its applications. The two approaches that have been used to target genes to desired cell types are through specific ligand-receptor interactions...
- Keyword:
- nuclear import, SP-C, gene therapy, plasmid, and non-viral
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- James Vincent DeGiulio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
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- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-24
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- Dissertation
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- Middle childhood is an important but often overlooked developmental period. Similarly, a large literature examines the importance of child care as a developmental context, focusing almost exclusively on pre-school child care experiences. Through three related empirical studies, this dissertation aims to address these two gaps in the extant literature. These...
- Keyword:
- Achievement, Child Care, Socioemotional Development, and Middle Childhood
- Subject:
- Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Amy E Claessens
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
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- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-24
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- Dissertation
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- The first chapter of this dissertation investigates the pricing of systematic variance risk in the equity options market. Cross sectional tests on synthetic variance swap returns reveal no evidence of a negative market variance risk premium. Furthermore, we show that a class of linear factor models cannot simultaneously explain index...
- Keyword:
- dispersion trading, pairs trading, correlation trading, equity options, variance swaps, and volatility forecasting
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Vadim di Pietro
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-22
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- Dissertation
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- In the age of what George W. Bush has called a global democratic revolution, the freedom to consume an ever-expanding variety of images and goods in the global marketplace is often equated with the conditions of democratic freedom. With just such rhetorical elisions in mind, this dissertation examines the discursive...
- Keyword:
- media and politics, spectacle, television, popular entertainment, rhetoric, and liberalism
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Meghan A Sutherland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Until the late twentieth century, the American small town at the turn of the century was popularly conceived as the quintessential nostalgic object: an "ideal" moment of lost "innocence," albeit one never existing in reality. This conception is belied, however, by my study of its representation in film and television...
- Keyword:
- post-war Hollywood, nostalgia, Hollywood musicals, and cinema studies
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Linda A. Robinson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-05
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Preventing the build-up of indoor pollutants represents an emerging goal in environmental chemistry. Heterogeneous catalysis provides an attractive method of remediating indoor air pollution, but optimization through rational catalyst design requires a detailed understanding of the catalytic surface and surface-pollutant interactions. In this work, a chemical ionization mass spectrometry (CIMS)...
- Keyword:
- Indoor air pollution, TiO2, chemical ionization mass spectrometry, environmental remediation, and acetone
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Catherine Margaret Schmidt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
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- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-04
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- Dissertation
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- Packaging of DNA into nucleosomes and chromatin not only enables DNA to fit within the nucleus, but it also protects and organizes DNA. However, the wrapping of DNA around histones occludes DNA from binding proteins in solution. Proteins that regulate, express and repair DNA are able to function only when...
- Keyword:
- Unwrapping, FRET, Mapping, Nucleosome, Chromatin, and Remodeling
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Hannah S. Tims
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
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- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-28
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- Dissertation
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- What is the nature of the relation between a verb and its arguments? In this dissertation, I look to evidence from language acquisition for answers. Any theory of ditransitives must explain certain structural asymmetries noted for both double-object (DO) datives (e.g. Alfonso gave Derek the bat) and prepositional datives (Alfonso...
- Keyword:
- possession, ditransitive, argument structure, dative, spatial, and acquisition
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Joshua Baird Viau
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This work investigates children's early semantic representations of gradable adjectives (GAs) and proposes that infants perform a probabilistic analysis of the input to learn about abstract differences within this category. I first demonstrate that children as young as age three distinguish between relative (e.g., 'big', 'long'), maximum standard absolute (e.g.,...
- Keyword:
- semantics, word learning, comparison, language acquisition, adjectives, and adverbs
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Kristen L Syrett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Nelson and Staum derived ranking-and-selection procedures that employ control-variate (CV) estimators instead of sample means to obtain greater statistical efficiency. However, control-variate estimators require more computational effort than sample means, and effective controls must be identified. In this dissertation, we present a new CV screening procedure to avoid much of...
- Keyword:
- Operations Research
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Shing Chih Tsai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis contains four essays on the organization (both internal and external) of health care in the US. The first essay examines a mechanism through which individual workers acquire (or maintain) competence, namely that of experience. Specifically, I analyze whether cardiac surgeons who perform more procedures experience an improvement in...
- Keyword:
- Health Sciences
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Subramaniam Ramanarayanan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-09
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- Dissertation
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- In the Old Northwest, networks of activists across dispersed communities took controversial direct action against prejudice and slavery. By largely eschewing the growing cities that disproved the Old Northwest rule, this is a study of reform as it would have impacted most people, at the local level in the smaller...
- Keyword:
- abolition, race, black laws, freedom of speech, grassroots activism, and mob violence
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Dana Elizabeth Weiner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-31
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Angiogenesis, the formation of blood vessels from a pre-existing vasculature, is a process whereby capillary sprouts are formed in response to chemical stimuli that can be either supplied externally or produced locally. Understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that govern angiogenesis suggests a powerful therapeutic approach that will allow to combat...
- Keyword:
- General and Biophysics
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Anna Tikhomirov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-30
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- Dissertation
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- Encouraging honest behavior and discouraging deceptive behavior has become a very important issue with respect to ethics and moral behavior in the workplace. As such, a critical practical and theoretical goal has been to directly study the likelihood of individuals punishing deception and rewarding honesty. The growing assumption within the...
- Keyword:
- Deception, Punishments, Rewards, Honesty, and Ethical Decision-Making
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- Cynthia S Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation