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- Peripheral neuropathic pain is a debilitating affliction for which there is little effective treatment. Patients suffer from symptoms ranging from loss of sensation to hyperalgesia and allodynia. The neuroinflammatory process in chronic pain conditions has become a main focus of study because of the release of proinflammatory cytokines, which can...
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- chemokine, neuroinflammation, and neuropathy
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Sonia Kaur Bhangoo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-08-26
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- Dissertation
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- Motivated by performance requirements of future medical stent applications, experimental research addresses the design of novel TiNi-based, superelastic shape-memory alloys employing nanoscale precipitation strengthening to minimize accommodation slip for cyclic stability and to increase output stress capability for smaller devices. Using a thermodynamic database describing the B2 and L21 phases...
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- Material Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Matthew D. Bender
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-07-21
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In recent years, research has expanded the uses of triblock copolymer gels to a wide variety of applications including everything from ceramics processing to regenerative medicine and drug delivery. The research presented in this dissertation focuses on a physically crosslinked, block copolymers gel system in a selective solvent. This system...
- Keyword:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Rafael Edmundo Bras
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Over the last 35 years, discourse on "diversity" has become commonplace in many U.S. institutions. My research interrogates diversity as a racialized political project, focusing on the organizational uses of diversity discourse. I base my analysis on case studies of a public university, a Fortune 500 company, and a city...
- Keyword:
- racial formation, diversity, comparative ethnography, race, law and organizations, and discourse
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Ellen C. Berrey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-07-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Funding risky Research and Development (R&D) and New Product Development (NPD) projects is crucial for the long term health of any large company. Such funding decisions are multiobjective and are undertaken with sparse data. Therefore prescriptive or algorithmic solutions are not adopted by practitioners. Descriptive solutions that provide managerial insights...
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- Industrial
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Souvik Banerjee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The biological antagonism between copper and molybdenum, first observed when cattle developed copper deficiencies after ingesting high levels of plant-born molybdenum, is currently being used in humans to treat two conditions: Wilson's Disease as well as several forms of metastatic cancer. There is surprisingly little known about the interaction of...
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- biophysics, bioinorganic chemistry, structural chemistry, and inorganic biochemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hamsell Miguel Alvarez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- As scientists use the tools of computational and complex systems theory to broaden science perspectives (e.g., Bar-Yam, 1997; Holland, 1995; Wolfram, 2002), so can middle-school students broaden their perspectives using appropriate tools. The goals of this dissertation project are to build, study, evaluate, and compare activities designed to foster both...
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- Robotics, Learning Sciences, Computational Fluency, Constructionism, and Complex Systems
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Matthew Berland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Understanding how contexts shape child development is a primary goal of human development research and theory. Child effects, or the influence of children on their own environment, may be a key process by which contexts and children interact to shape subsequent development. Yet, child effects have been under-studied in social...
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- mobility, child care, child effects, home environment, human development, and evocative
- Subject:
- Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Emily Keller Snell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation examines the ways in which performance forms articulate with urban identities in the context of transnational economic and cultural exchange. In this multisited historical ethnography, I explore the links between late 19th-century Ottoman and contemporary Turkish public spheres fractured by morality battles and political transformation. Both periods are...
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- Urban ethnography, dance, cultural anthropology, Islam, gender analysis, late Ottoman Empire, and modern Turkey
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Oyku Potuoglu-Cook
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Autism was originally described as involving an apparent lack of motivation for social interaction. Social motivation has not figured prominently in subsequent theorizing regarding this disorder. Instead, theory of mind deficits have taken center stage as a theory of autism. This is surprising because evidence of social motivation deficits appear...
- Keyword:
- social motivation, treatment, autism, theory of mind, and social skills
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders - Learning Disabilities
- Creator:
- Gwendolyn Mason Fiske
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The need for low-cost robust meso-scale "smart" robots (manipulators) that have no discrete parts (monolithic), no sensors ("self-sensing") and can be used in space-constrained systems, e.g., in microfactories, biomedical applications, etc., was the motivation for the current research. This study describes the design, fabrication and analysis of such a smart...
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- self-sensing, model of motion, kinetics of phase transformation, Shape Memory Alloys, NiTi, smart structures, accordion spring, laser assisted process, actuator, manipulator, direct metal deposition, nitinol, and clamping
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Kostyantyn Malukhin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Ethicity, race and gender play an important role in labor markets; labor market outcomes such as hiring and compensation are very different across different social groups. These differentials are partly the result of differences in productivity and preferences and partly the result of discrimination. Chapter two uses an audit study...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Zahra Siddique
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The need for readily synthesized scaffold architectures to build monodisperse, high molar mass mobility modifiers or "drag-tags" in end-labeled free solution electrophoresis (ELFSE) led to the development of a novel class of multivalent molecular tools. Poly-N-substituted glycines (peptoids) were created with evenly spaced amino groups as branching points along the...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Russell Dean Haynes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Virtual machine based distributed computing greatly simplifies and enhances adaptive/autonomic computing by lowering the level of abstraction, benefiting both resource providers and users. We are developing Virtuoso, a middleware system for virtual machine shared-resource computing (e.g. grids) that provides numerous advantages and overcomes many obstacles a user faces in using...
- Keyword:
- parallel programs
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Ashish Gupta
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The central analytic concern of this dissertation is the problem of privileging one, true, unified, singular self as the essential focus or goal with respect to contemporary French- and English-language novels by women authors from Africa and the Caribbean. In the past, feminist critics, in particular, have read these texts...
- Keyword:
- postcolonial, bildungsroman, communities, women, and novels
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Gretchen Elizabeth Kellough
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The recent observation of nonzero neutrino mass is the first concrete indication of physics beyond the Standard Model. Their properties, unique among the other fermions, leads naturally to the idea of a Majorana neutrino mass term. Despite the strong theoretical prejudice toward this concept, it must be tested experimentally. This...
- Keyword:
- Mass Models, Neutrino, and Majorana
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- James Phearl Jenkins
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The orderly process of hematopoietic differentiation is governed in large part by the coordinated transcription of specific genes. Deregulation of normal differentiation processes can lead to disease states including immunodeficiency, autoimmune disease, and leukemia. This research focuses on the family of transcription factors known as the early growth response (Egr)...
- Keyword:
- Egr, macrophage, transcription, and thymocyte
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- John Carter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Over the past decade and a half, there has been considerable interest in the effect confinement and interfaces have on the properties of glass forming materials. With the emergence of nanotechnology, some glass formers, in particular polymeric glass formers, will be used at increasingly smaller length scales. An understanding of...
- Keyword:
- Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Confinement Effects, Polymers, Glass Transition, Physical Aging, and Dielectric Spectroscopy
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Rodney Dewayne Priestley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Articular cartilage is a type of connective tissue that protects the underlying bone from the compressive forces of daily activities. When cartilage is damaged via a traumatic event, chondral defects are formed and require medical intervention. However, current treatments are of inconsistent efficacy and only benefit a subset of patients....
- Keyword:
- biomaterials, cartilage, transglutaminase, hydrogel, drug, and peptide
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Marsha Elizabeth Ritter Jones
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- When considering his pioneering and innovative role in broadening the tonal palette of the piano, as well as his tireless efforts to promote his own and other composers’ music, it is not surprising that a large percentage of Franz Liszt’s compositional output for that instrument is made up of transcriptions....
- Keyword:
- piano and collaborative arts
- Subject:
- Piano--Performance
- Creator:
- Charles Badami
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2009-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Liquid metal melt-lubrication of high-power and high-speed sliding electrical contacts improves electrical current collection and reduces friction. However, armature material loss may cause transition to arcing or plasma contact. Boundary lubrication of the sliding contact with low melting-point alloys can provide comparable improvement in current collection at reduced temperatures. Bismuth,...
- Keyword:
- lubrication, railgun, liquid metal, and electromagnetic launcher
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Peter Yaw-Ming Hsieh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This project explores historical questions of televisual form and cultural production, centering on the proliferation of media texts that mobilize real-life misfortune as a form of entertainment in U.S. television and culture. Specifically, it examines how a variety of "reality" formats in contemporary television stage and exploit spectacles of failure,...
- Keyword:
- television, media, and schadenfreude
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Amber Eliza Watts
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Since its discovery, RNA interference (RNAi) has become a powerful tool used in laboratories to understand developmental processes, and it is now commonly used to investigate gene function. Using RNAi, scientists can routinely knock out specific genes to prevent their expression, observe its phenotypes, and then help determine the function...
- Keyword:
- General Biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Kevin Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A comprehension of the complex dynamics of gaseous combustion requires an understanding of the underlying fundamentals. In this dissertation, I examine planar diffusion flames from both an experimental and numerical perspective. In the first part of this thesis, I study the extinction of unstrained, planar counter-diffusion flames. The theoretical model...
- Keyword:
- diffusion flames, flame holes, extinction, unstrained flames, Lewis number, and counterflow
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jocelyn Elaine Renner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this dissertation, I examine a near-century old popular theatre genre in Ghana known as the concert party to explore how contemporary political and economic circumstances shape its relationship to the spider-man trickster of Ghanaian (specifically Akan) folklore. Since the early 18th century various writers have attempted to define Ananse's...
- Keyword:
- Marketing and Theatre Sponsorship, Politics and Economics of Performance, Ananse, Popular Theatre, Trickster in Black Cultures, and Concert Party
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- David Afriyie Donkor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Institutions are an important determinant of a society's economic performance. To understand why institutions affect economic activity we have to understand how they affect people's incentives in the economy. The patterns of social interaction and beliefs in a society determine the choice of institution. This dissertation focuses on societies where...
- Keyword:
- Bride price, Institutions, Dowry, and Caste System
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Kripa Freitas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This research investigates under what conditions political institutions may induce longer and more expensive financial crisis resolutions by assessing the impact of power distribution on government responses to crisis situations. A new model is elaborated in which power distribution plays a key role in the evolution of financial crises, from...
- Keyword:
- Political Science
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Gabriela Nava-Campos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Attendance among families in child psychotherapy is a significant issue in the delivery of mental health services, and a greater understanding of the factors contributing to attrition is needed before interventions can be developed, or modified, to improve engagement. The present study examined relationships between parent cognitions, which included treatment...
- Keyword:
- expectations, attendance, parental locus of control, child psychotherapy, engagement, and hope
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Taya R. Cromley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Parents are visiting the Internet in increasing numbers for guidance about the dental health of their children and are bringing this information into appointments with their children's pediatric dentists. Since the impact of this phenomenon on dental discussions is largely unknown, this study was conducted to discover what factors influence...
- Keyword:
- Speech Communication
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Robin Wrightlangston
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Caffeine is the most widely consumed methylxanthine, primarily found in beverages. As a nonspecific antagonist to adenosine, caffeine binds to both A1 and A2A adenosine receptors to increase neural activity and decrease cerebral blood flow, which allows it to alter neurovascular coupling. However, there has been much debate about the...
- Keyword:
- ASL, neurovascular coupling, caffeine, and calibrated BOLD
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Yufen Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The measurement of weak adhesive energies has previously been difficult to obtain. To measure these energies, I designed a technique that uses the combined sensitivities of both a quartz crystal resonator and the inflation of an elastomeric polymer membrane. The surfaces of the quartz crystal and/or the membrane are modified...
- Keyword:
- surface acoustic waves, polymer brushes, membranes, adhesion, permeability, and quartz crystal microbalance
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- David Alan Brass
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The adhesive strategies of living creatures are diverse, ranging from temporary to permanent adhesions with various functions such as locomotion, self-defense, communication, colony formation, and so on. The classic example of temporary adhesion is the gecko, which is known for its ability to walk along vertical and even inverted surfaces;...
- Keyword:
- single-molecule, layer-by-layer, material-independent, Mussel, dopamine, and gecko
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Haeshin Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The "Z-width" of a haptic display is the dynamic range of impedances that can be passively rendered. Haptic displays with larger Z-width generally render more realistic feeling virtual environments. The maximum passive impedance a haptic display can render is directly related to the quantity of physical damping in the mechanism,...
- Keyword:
- active electrical damping, haptic display, Z-width, and passivity
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- David W Weir
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Initiation is a performative model that dictates the participation of individuals in the various traditions of Western occultism, locating that individual within a nexus of practices and discourses that facilitate the transmission of occult teachings to that individual. While the act of initiation may be represented by a single performed...
- Keyword:
- Religion
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Jason Winslade
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- My thesis focuses on the design and synthesis of lanthanide coordination complexes as Zn(II)-responsive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. These agents produce an increase in MR intensity upon binding of Zn(II) through water modulation to Gd(III) chelates. To this end, several Zn(II)-responsive contrast agents have been synthesized and studied...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jody L Major
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Science education reform emphasizes learning science through inquiry as a way to engage students in the processes of science at the same time that they learn scientific concepts. However, inquiry involves practices that are challenging for students because they have underlying norms with which students may be unfamiliar. We therefore...
- Keyword:
- Education
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Carrie Teh-Li Tzou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation develops and estimates a dynamic model of consumer choice behavior in markets for seasonal (short lifecycle) goods where products have a finite selling season, consumer valuations change over time and availability is limited. In these markets, retailers often use dynamic markdown policies in which an initial retail price...
- Keyword:
- Strategic Behavior, Fashion, Retailing, Seasonal Goods, Dynamic Pricing, and Markdown Pricing
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Gonca Pinar Soysal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Operations Management (OM) is concerned with the processes involved in delivering goods and services to customers (Hopp and Spearman 2000, Shim and Siegel 1999). While recent surge in service and professional white collar work has greatly changed the arena of OM practice, OM research has not yet well address the...
- Keyword:
- Collaboration, Operations, and Network
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Fang Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Classical conditioning has been well studied over the last century as a method for investigating learning and memory. The rabbit eyeblink response is commonly used as a basis for such studies, and combined with lesions or electrophysiological recordings has provided a well-controlled paradigm for investigating the neurobiological mechanisms underlying learning...
- Keyword:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Michael J Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation reconstructs a critical dialogue between British modernists and their Spanish contemporaries on their shared sense of the urgent tasks, in the wake of World War I, of reimagining the cultural heritage of Europe and cultivating cosmopolitan sensibilities. It assembles and analyzes a network of novels, essays, translations, reviews,...
- Keyword:
- Spanish vanguardism, Cosmopolitanism, Journalism and Circulation, British modernism, English literature, and Europe
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Gayle Bishop Rogers
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- his dissertation traces the presence of early Soviet satire in several major prose works. My project examines Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Yuri Olesha's Envy, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit, and Mikhail Zoshchenko's prose trilogy (Youth Restored, The Sky-Blue Book and Before Sunrise) as literary works that incorporated and...
- Keyword:
- Russian Popular Culture, Soviet Reader, Soviet Satire, Soviet Mass Culture, Russian Modernism, and Soviet Literature
- Subject:
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Creator:
- Maria Isabel Kisel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Senescence, permanent, irreversible replication arrest that occurs in all primary cells studied to date, is considered a cellular model of aging. Recently, senescence has gained attention as a potential tumor-suppressing mechanism. However, despite the obvious importance of senescence, its exact mechanisms remain unclear. One current hypothesis to explain senescence postulates...
- Keyword:
- aging, p53, hyperoxia, senescence, and reactive oxygen species
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Tatyana A Klimova
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common supraventricular tachyarrhythmia and its prevalence is expected to increase with the aging population. However, the mechanisms AF initiation, maintenance and termination are not completely understood. The surface electrocardiogram (ECG) characteristics are a direct reflection of pathophysiologic events in the atria and can be...
- Keyword:
- Biomedical and Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Simona Petrutiu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As we move into deeper sub-micron technologies, the complexity of pushing the circuit performance further is becoming an important obstacle. To achieve better performance, there is an increasing need for collaboration of higher level (e.g. microarchitecture-level) and circuit level optimizations. Traditionally for a computer system, applications lie at the top...
- Keyword:
- Adaptive Computer Architecture, Microarchitecture, User-aware Computing, and Holistic Architecture
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Arindam Mallik
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Synapses in the central nervous system vary widely in how they transmit and store information. The properties of short-term and long-term plasticity, in particular, seem to be specific for each class of synapse studied. The types of plasticity expressed at a particular synapse determine how it processes, transmits and possibly...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jason Pugh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Between 1569 and 1582, the inquisitorial court of the Cardinal Archbishop of Naples undertook a series of trials against a powerful and wealthy group of Spanish immigrants in Naples for judaizing, the practice of Jewish rituals. The immense scale of this campaign and the many complications that resulted render it...
- Keyword:
- New Christians, Catholic Church, Inquisition, Naples, and Italy
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Peter Akawie Mazur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Natural tissues can have complex architectures characterized by the organization of multiple cells into structures, such as branching networks of the vascular or nervous systems. This cellular organization arises, in part, from spatial patterns in the expression of soluble factors, which create concentration gradients that direct cellular processes during morphogenesis....
- Keyword:
- Chemical Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Tiffany L Ray
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the ways that Chinese popular media, including film, television, and magazines, reconstruct the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76), a traumatic historical event which tremendously affected Chinese people and society. Employing a combination of methods, including visual and narrative analysis of media and cultural forms, institutional analysis of...
- Keyword:
- Cultural Revolution, popular memory, and Chinese media
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Li Zeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation concentrates on problems of quotation, tradition, and translation in the poetry of Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam. While examining the nature of poetic inheritance, Celan often refers to Russian poetry and, in particular, to Osip Mandelstam, who, in his turn, understands poetry as an essentially dialogic process. Both...
- Keyword:
- Literature
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Anna Glazova
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Live streaming media will form a significant fraction of Internet traffic in the near future. YouTube clips, animations and other video applications already account for more than sixty percent of Internet traffic and, at its current acceptance rate, streaming media could quickly surpass television in terms of the size of...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Stefan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals on inhibitory control tasks that measure suppression of irrelevant information. However, no mechanism is established for development of this advantage. Since bilinguals activate their languages in parallel during comprehension, they may face higher processing demands. As a result, they may recruit more cognitive...
- Keyword:
- Eye-Tracking, Stroop Task, Bilingualism, Negative Priming, Comprehension, and Inhibition
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders - Speech and Language Pathology
- Creator:
- Katina Henrike Blumenfield
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses the problem of the development of cities in Upper Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C.E. I investigate these cities through their settlement patterns and urban plans. I argue that these cities were not planned or organic, but exhibited degrees of planning. I treat my reconstruction of the...
- Keyword:
- magnetometry, bronze age, cities, harran, storage, and urban planning
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Andrew Theodore Creekmore III
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates how a child can acquire the grammar of genericity and what it is that a child actually needs to learn in order to accomplish this task. The first step is to reframe the question asked by the previous literature on the acquisition of generics through the lens...
- Keyword:
- Language acquisition, VP-internal subject hypothesis, Syntax-semantics interface, Child language, and Generics
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Elisa Sneed German
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Nanoscale materials are demonstrating new properties and promising applications with each passing day. The fabrication of ever more complex and precise nanomaterials represents a continuing drive in the fields of physics, chemistry, and biology. Template-based approaches provide an attractive method of producing new inaccessible materials by modifying and confining older...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoparticles, Nanowells, and Tantalum Oxide
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jeremy Barton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis is a description of the measurement of the W boson mass using the D0 Run II detector with 770 pb^-1 of proton-antiproton collision data. These collisions were produced by the Tevatron at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV between 2002 and 2006. We use a sample of W -> e...
- Keyword:
- Tevatron, Precision Measurement, W Boson, Particle Physics, W Mass, and Z Boson
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Timothy Andeen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This paper covers three main topics. The first is addressing the question of interpolating between disparate index theorems on noncommutative two-tori. The second is to compute Hochschild cohomology for quantum special linear and special unitary groups. The third is producing an orthonormal basis for the vector space of matrix corepresentations...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Gary Clark Alexander
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Consumers often base their decisions on impressions of the overall price level of a store. For example, decisions of where to shop, whether to buy an item or keep looking for a better price, and whether to buy a more or less expensive option can all be influenced by whether...
- Keyword:
- Pricing, Retail, Buying, Vertical Extensions, Price image, and Browsing
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Ryan Hamilton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Temporal Features of Speech in the Auditory System: Normal and Dyslexic Children and an Animal Model
- Description:
- An amazing characteristic of the speech signal is that it contains a variety of temporal features that occur simultaneously in the signal, and each of these features provides unique and essential information for speech perception. An equally astonishing fact is that, in most cases, the human auditory system is able...
- Keyword:
- speech, language impairment, dyslexia, cortex, and temporal processing
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders - Learning Disabilities
- Creator:
- Daniel Abrams
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- There is a growing interest in both marketing and economics in the dynamics of decision-making. Researchers have proposed richer behavioral models of consumers and firms with the purpose of learning behavioral primitives that static models cannot capture. In these studies, models move away from stylized views of decision-making by explicitly...
- Keyword:
- Marketing and Business Administration
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Federico Rossi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis encompasses the work on bid-price controls for network revenue management and a dynamic model of revenue management with strategic consumers. The first line of research studies the circumstances under which bid-price controls are optimal or near optimal with minimal assumptions on the network topology and the stochastic structure...
- Keyword:
- strategic consumers, revelation principle, Bid prices, revenue management, sequential screening, and forward backward SDEs
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Mustafa Akan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The finite element method is used to investigate failure mechanisms in pin-hanger connections in aging highway bridges. Bridge pins and hangers are typically considered as critical elements whose failure may result in partial or entire collapse of the structure. The primary function of a pin-hanger connection is to allow for...
- Keyword:
- Civil Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- David Houcque
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Mixed emotions, defined as the experience of having positive and negative emotions concurrently, can occur in a variety of consumer contexts, ranging from common consumption episodes to important life events. However, while there have been many studies demonstrating the occurrence of mixed emotions, little is known about the downstream consequences...
- Keyword:
- construal level, mixed emotions, variety seeking, affect regulation, and affect as information
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Jiewen Hong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) is a membrane-bound metalloenzyme that oxidizes methane to methanol in methanotrophic bacteria. The nature of the pMMO active site and the overall metal content are controversial, with spectroscopic and crystallographic data suggesting the presence of a mononuclear copper center, a dinuclear copper center, a trinuclear center,...
- Keyword:
- methanotroph, particulate methane monooxygenase, membrane protein, and methanobactin
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Amanda S. Hakemian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- There is a growing interest in both marketing and economics in the dynamics of decision-making. Researchers have proposed richer behavioral models of consumers and firms with the purpose of learning behavioral primitives that static models cannot capture. In these studies, models move away from stylized views of decision-making by explicitly...
- Keyword:
- Marketing and Business Administration
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Federico Rossi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The extensive amount of maintenance expenditures on transportation infrastructure systems and their broad impacts in terms of economic and social development has emerged the interests in maintenance management of transportation infrastructure systems. This dissertation contributes an optimization framework for management of transportation systems that comprise of interdependent facilities. Existing stochastic,...
- Keyword:
- Demand responsiveness, Quadratic programming, Infrastructure Management, Maintenance optimization, and Transportation systems
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Pattharin Sarutipand
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Hedge funds' existence and activity have a dramatic impact on both financial markets and the real economy. The first chapter of this thesis analyzes the tradeoff between access to financing and disclosure of valuable trading information hedge funds are facing when interacting with their brokers. The next two chapters model...
- Keyword:
- Prime Brokers, Credit Default Swap, Hedge Fund, Creditor Board, Voting, and Capital Structure Strategy
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Ioan Florian I. Olaru
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study examines how Cape Verdean theatre artists construct transformative performances of race, gender, language, and colonial history at the Mindelact International Theatre Festival on the Cape Verde Islands. The aim is to understand how international theatre festivals participate in the production and shaping of new social imaginaries about nationhood....
- Keyword:
- circulation, theatre, national identity, cape verde, festival, and africa
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Christina S Mchanon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a highly heterogeneous and pervasive developmental disorder that affects nearly 1 in 150 children. A primary indicator of ASD is behavioral language impairment with respect to social communication, but the neurophysiology behind this impairment is not well understood. Both the perception and production of prosody...
- Keyword:
- speech, neurophysiology, language, autism, and evoked potentials
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Nicole Monique Russo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Process scaling has enabled the production of integrated circuits with millions of transistors. System-on-a-Chip becomes feasible as more functionalities can be packed into a single chip. As the human brain power is limited, the design process of such sophisticated systems should be automated in order to meet the stringent design...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jia Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The rat whisker (vibrissal) system provides rats with an exquisitely acute tactile sense that has helped allow them to thrive all over the world. By actively rotating their whiskers back-and-forth ("whisking") against objects, rats can extract a rich variety of information including position, size, shape, orientation and texture. Today, however,...
- Keyword:
- robotic whisker, neuromechanics, sensorimotor control, tactile sensors, vibrissae, and active sensing
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Joseph Hai Solomon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I study the problem of choice between two treatments for a population of observationally identical individuals based on statistical evidence about average treatment effects that does not reveal the best treatment with certainty. I approach the problem from the perspective of statistical decision theory, derive treatment rules that minimize maximum...
- Keyword:
- statistical decision theory, treatment choice, minimax regret, partial identification, and ambiguity
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Aleksey Tetenov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the last two decades the number of innovative applications for advanced materials has been rapidly increasing. Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are an exciting class of these materials which exhibit large reversible stresses and strains due to a thermoelastic phase transformation. SMAs have been employed in the biomedical field for...
- Keyword:
- Shape memory alloys, Constitutive behavior, Porous materials, Cyclic loading, Simulations, and Phase transformation
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Michele Panico
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Teasing is commonplace in our social interactions (Kowalski, 2007). Due to its paradoxical nature it can be employed to produce both positive and negative outcomes (Keltner et al., 1998) however, the ambiguity and subjectivity in teasing can make it susceptible to misinterpretation (Kowalski, 2000; 2007; Kruger et al., 2006). The...
- Keyword:
- teasing communication
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Courtney Wright
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the management of operations that match surplus inventory of one party to meet the need of another. The first part is concerned with the efficient and robust design of transshipment networks in a commercial environment. The second part is concerned with a sequential resource allocation problem in...
- Keyword:
- Sequential Resource Allocation, Transshipments, and Inventory Management
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Robert W Lien
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Generalized extreme value (GEV) models provide a convenient way to model choice behavior that is consistent with utility maximization theory, but the development of specific new models within the GEV family has been slow, due to the difficulty of ensuring new formulations comply with all the GEV rules. The network...
- Keyword:
- GEV, discrete choice modeling, and networked generalized extreme value models
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Jeffrey Newman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The work presented here describes investigations into the interaction of resonant molecules with metallic nanoparticles by localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectroscopy. The contents of this thesis include the study of the coupling mechanism between molecular resonance and plasmon resonance from experimental and theoretical perspectives and applications of this mechanism...
- Keyword:
- Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jing Zhao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Late twentieth-century architecture is increasingly charged with the task of constructing sites of meaning that generate awareness and understanding in the wake of catastrophic historical events. My dissertation explores the challenges of memorializing these events, in order to recover the importance of memory for politics. Insisting on the role of...
- Keyword:
- memory, Walter Benjamin, judgment, space, memorial, and Hannah Arendt
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Uri Jacob Matatyaou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three empirical essays on issues related to Internet-based firms entering the offline channel. Issues arising from offline entry include the potential spillovers in online revenue, online customer acquisition, and online customer activity. Over the past decade, there has been considerable research examining brick $\&$ mortar companies...
- Keyword:
- Internet
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Manish Tripathi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The world's aquatic food webs are currently in crisis due to the cumulative, interacting effects of anthropogenic pressures including non-indigenous species invasions, chemical contamination, overfishing, habitat disruption and global climate change. Efforts to restore or protect the integrity and sustainability of these systems are limited by a lack of knowledge...
- Keyword:
- Invasive Species, Global Change, Bioaccumulation, and Food Web
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Carla Aparecida Ng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Racial disparities in cardiovascular health constitute one of the most pressing current public health problems in the United States. This dissertation examines how individual's cultural experiences of stress become embodied and contribute to these racial health inequalities. Anthropologists have traditionally approached culture through narrative ethnographic methods that are difficult to...
- Keyword:
- Physical and Anthropology
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Sweet
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The growing technological industry is demanding the development of powerful and smaller devices. Dielectric thin-films can play an important role to help push towards achieving these goals. However, their advantage of high-quality material and low material costs compared to bulk can only be achieved with consideration of the technique, conditions,...
- Keyword:
- Infrared Lasers, Surface Passivation, Dielectrics, Infrared Detectors, Optical Coatings, and Ion-beam Sputtering Deposition
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jean Nguyen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Learning to play an instrument requires the progressive tuning almost all of a student's senses. He trains his ears to hear consonance and dissonance and eyes to read sheet music or read other musicians' body language, for example. The protracted training that is required to become a musician has been...
- Keyword:
- EEG, Plasticity, Language, Speech, Brainstem, and Music
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders - Speech and Language Pathology and Learning Disabilities
- Creator:
- Gabriella Musacchia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The average and local glass transition temperatures (Tgs) and physical aging behavior of various confined polymers were studied in order to gain an understanding of these surface/interface effects and their propagation into the polymer. Using a novel multilayer/fluorescence method, the Tgs of layers at the free surface, substrate-polymer interface, and...
- Keyword:
- Engineering and Chemical
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Perla Rittigstein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The early transition metal oxide fluoride molecular anions with the general formula [MOxF6-x]n- with x = 1 for M = V5+, Nb5+, Ta5+ (n = 2) and x = 2 for M = Mo6+, W6+ (n = 2) feature distorted octahedral coordinations, that arise from electronic dπ pπ metal oxide...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Michael Robert Marvel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Biological fouling of surfaces is problematic for many medical applications because proteins, cells and bacteria can impair the function of devices and lead to catastrophic complications. Numerous strategies exist for reducing fouling in physiological environments; the strategy described in this thesis focuses on the modification of substrates with poly-N-substituted glycine...
- Keyword:
- nonfouling, polypeptoids, surface modification, Antifouling, mussel adhesive proteins, and surface characterization
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Andrea Ruth Statz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Plants, animals, and yeast have the capacity to produce and accumulate neutral lipids, sterol esters and triacylglycerol (TAG). However, their accumulation and the genes underlying their synthesis in intracellular microorganisms are poorly understood. Plasmodium falciparum is a parasitic protozoan that causes the most virulent form of human malaria. During erythrocytic...
- Keyword:
- Plasmodium, Neutral Lipids, Cholestrol Esters, Salmonella, Triacylglycerol, and SseJ
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Parwez Nawabi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Novel materials and nanostructures with superior electro-mechanical properties are emerging in the development of novel devices. Engineering application of these materials requires accurate electro-mechanical characterization, which in turn requires development of novel experimental techniques. This dissertation outlines the investigation of the mechanical and electrical properties of one-dimensional nanomaterials. One-dimensional nanomaterials...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Thin Film, Nanomaterial, Mechanical Property, and MEMS
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Bei Peng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- As Wilfrid Sellars put it, one of the principal aims of philosophy "is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term." In this I think Sellars is right: the discipline is charged with taking a "synoptic...
- Keyword:
- Idealism, Heidegger, Realism, Common Sense, and Pluralism
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Howard Michael Kaplan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the participation of tens of thousands of African-American servicemen in the occupation of Japan and the Korean war. It poses three questions: how were black servicemen incorporated into a postwar military empire; how did they help shape their nation's expanding Asian protectorate; and how did they understand...
- Keyword:
- History and United States
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Michael Cullen Green
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In Muslim West Africa, food-producing villages also produced literate scholars. This study examines how such unlikely intellectuals acquired and gave meaning to Islamic knowledge through one village's experience from 1900 to the 1960s. Unlike the colonial sources underlying conventional approaches to West African Islam, libraries and oral sources from Ruumde...
- Keyword:
- Islam, Literacy, and Mali
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Jeremy Brandt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The purpose of this mixed methods study was to learn about the ways that instrumental music teachers in Chicago navigate the urban landscape. The design of the study most closely resembles Creswell and Plano Clark's (2007) two-part Triangulation Convergence Mixed Methods Design, with the addition of an initial exploratory focus...
- Keyword:
- mixed methods, urban, music education, Chicago, music teaching, and instrumental music
- Subject:
- Music Education
- Creator:
- Kate R. Fitzpatrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We consider two problems in low Reynolds-number, interfacial fluid mechanics: the rupture of thin liquid films on chemically patterned solid substrates, and the engulfment of foreign particles by a solidification front progressing through a binary alloy. First we investigate the stability and rupture of thin liquid films on patterned sub-...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Justin Kao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation formulates, solves and estimates dynamic stochastic games to answer various questions that arise in Industrial Organization. First chapter is a "theoretic" investigation of learning-by-doing and organizational forgetting that shows them to be distinct economic forces whose interplay gives rise to aggressive pricing behavior, market dominance, and multiple equilibria....
- Keyword:
- dynamic, organization, game, industrial, stochastic, and MPE
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Yaroslav Kryukov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation we analyze the decision process of firms and individuals along two dimensions which are central to the field of asset pricing and macroeconomics. In the first chapter, we study the pricing decision of the firm in a framework where customer base matters. Surveys of managers show that...
- Keyword:
- Finance
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Yizhaq Kleshchelski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- B_s mixing studies provide a precision test of Charge-Parity violation in the Standard Model. A measurement of deltaMs constrains elements of the CKM quark rotation matrix, providing a probe of Standard Model Charge-Parity violation. This thesis describes a study of B_s mixing in the semileptonic decay B_s -> D_s mu...
- Keyword:
- Physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Meghan Anzelc
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study examines rhetorical practices through which disenfranchised women developed tenable political identities and integrated themselves into the public realm in the Pacific Northwest between 1868 and 1912. Through close analysis of rhetorical activities in which thousands of women participated--including club discourse, public commemoration, legal advocacy, petition work, and publication--it...
- Keyword:
- woman's rights, social movements, Washington, rhetoric, suffrage, and Oregon
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Cindy Koenig Richards
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Embryonic stem cells have the potential to differentiate into ectodermal, mesodermal and endodermal derivatives. This property makes them a valuable source of tissue specific progenitor and differentiated cells that can be used for cell replacement therapy. The first goal of this thesis is to test if cardiogenesis from embryonic stem...
- Keyword:
- Cardiomyocytes, Cellular Cardiomyoplasty, Myocardial Infraction, Techniques, Stem Cells, and Cardiac Lineage
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Achuta K Guddati
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Rare events are studied in an increasing number of areas, ranging from lightwave and optical communication systems, to industrial routing problems, to rogue ocean waves, to financial asset pricing, to the rare failure of something as common as Gaussian elimination, as well as numerous others. In optical communication systems, a...
- Keyword:
- solitons, NLS, rare events, cross entropy method, and SVD
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Graham Mauch Donovan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The homotopy groups of bo^tmf are shown to be isomorphic to the homotopy groups of a wedge of suspensions of spectra related to integral Brown-Gitler spectra. We will then restate Mahowald's proof of the topological splitting of bo^bo and subsequently apply similar techniques to construct a map that realizing the...
- Keyword:
- integral Brown Gitler spectra, tmf, and Tate spectrum
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Scott MIchael Bailey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The human brain shows great flexibility to adjust itself to dynamically ever-changing environment. Despite more than 100 years of cognitive brain research, the dynamical aspect of cognitive process has remained poorly understood compared to the static aspect of that. This dissertation concerns the dynamic character and functional significance of periodically...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Yee Joon Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation