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- A greater number of strategies in one’s coping repertoire (i.e., the number of diverse strategies used across stressors or use habitually across several situations) may be beneficial and a precursor to coping flexibly across situations (Bonnano & Burton, 2013). Indeed, previous studies have demonstrated a benefit of having larger number...
- Keyword:
- coping and well-being
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Bastarache, Emily Diane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_855481 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15815
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- To combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens in clinical settings, it is necessary to understand which environments and conditions select for antibiotic resistance. Analysis of environments hypothesized to select for antibiotic resistance has been revolutionized by metagenomic sequencing. The metagenomic pool of DNA sequences can be probed in silico using...
- Subject:
- Microbiology, Bioinformatics, and Biology
- Creator:
- McFarland, Alexander George
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_862596 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15857
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- In recent decades, mass loss from glaciers and ice caps (GICs) worldwide has accelerated, contributing significantly to the observed sea–level rise. Their continued melt is also expected to alter local hydrological systems, affecting freshwater availability and quality. Despite these problematic impacts, little is known about GIC variations prior to the...
- Keyword:
- Holocene, Ice caps, Arctic, and Glaciers
- Subject:
- Geographic information science and geodesy, Climate change, and Limnology
- Creator:
- Larocca, Laura Jennifer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_861088 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15847
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- There is more responsibility on heaven and earth than dreamt of in most philosophy. This dissertation explores three debates in three sub-fields of philosophy, highlighting in each responsibilities agents find themselves with whether they like it or not. In the chapter Trust Logic, Not Tortoises, I propose an answer to...
- Keyword:
- Morality, Logic, Bioethics, Epistemic Injustice, Responsibility, and Epistemology
- Subject:
- Logic
- Creator:
- Beverley, John Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_863772 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15873
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- Successful restoration depends on the establishment and survival of selected species, and sowing seed is the most cost-effective method to ensuring a successful restoration. Generally, a locally sourced seed is thought to be better adapted to local environmental conditions and, therefore, more likely to thrive. In addition, a local seed...
- Keyword:
- Dormancy break, Restoration, Lespedeza, Germination, and Seedling Establishment
- Subject:
- Conservation biology
- Creator:
- Hevey, Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15845 and etdadmin_upload_860227
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- One of the challenges of interrogating the increasing precarity of living conditions in some regions of the Americas is seeking for a way of productively addressing the intersections between inequality, climate crisis, and systemic violence. This dissertation analyzes a corpus of contemporary Latin American and Latinx literary and visual works...
- Keyword:
- Estudios decoloniales, Ecocrítica, Estudios latinoamericanos, Literatura, Cultura visual, and Plantación
- Subject:
- Latin American literature and Latin American studies
- Creator:
- Gil Gómez, Leonardo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- es
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15828 and etdadmin_upload_856841
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- The study of solid-state organic chromophores has been soaring in the last decade owing to their wide applications in organic photovoltaics. These organic chromophores can absorb light in the visible region and form free charge carriers with proper design in molecular structure and device fabrication. In solid state, chromophores are...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Chen, Su
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15882 and etdadmin_upload_864439
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- The dentate gyrus is the first region for information processing within the classic hippocampal trisynaptic circuit, and this position makes it an important structure for the formation of associative memories. The dentate gyrus contains two major types of excitatory neurons: granule cells and mossy cells. While previous work has shown...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Miller, Lisa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_861456 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15850
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- This dissertation examines how eighteenth-century ethics were reimagined by Enlightenment-era and Romantic women writes to better afford the grounds for political revolution and responsive reform. Whereas Adam Smith’s theatrical model of sympathy casts individuals in the passive role of spectators who feel deeply but are not necessarily moved to act,...
- Keyword:
- Sympathy, Eighteenth century, Narrative , British literature, Romanticism , and Politics
- Subject:
- English literature
- Creator:
- Botz, Samantha
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_851316 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15799
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- Description:
- Peptides consists of a series of amino acids connected via an amide type of covalent chemical bond. A diverse field of applications such as biosensors,2 catalysis,4 and biomedicine6 include the oligomeric forms of peptides due to their genuine features comparing to other biomacromolecules. Particularly, peptides in the field of biomedical...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Choi, Wonmin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15787 and etdadmin_upload_849083
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- Nanocarriers, structures with at least one dimension on the nanoscale (1-1000 nm), have been engineered for delivery of various cargoes. The shape and flexibility of nanocarriers are important parameters that influence their biological performance. Self-assembling polymeric filamentous nanocarriers, known as filomicelles (FM), are of great interest to nanomedicine due to...
- Keyword:
- flexibility, circulation time, flash nanoprecipitation, pi-stacking, nanoparticles, and filaments
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Li, Sophia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_856044 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15821
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- Description:
- Ovulation is the process by which an ovulatory follicle releases a mature egg and is essential for fertility and maintaining female reproductive cycle. Understanding the mechanisms of ovulation have implications for the development of non-hormonal contraceptives and treatments of anovulatory diseases. We developed a 3D alginate encapsulated in vitro follicle...
- Keyword:
- soft clustering analysis, single-follicle RNA-seq, follicle culture, ovulation, and non-hormonal contraceptives
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Zhang, Jiyang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15863 and etdadmin_upload_863229
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- Description:
- Receptor for activated C kinase 1 (RACK1) is a core small (40S) ribosomal subunit protein whose structure is highly conserved among eukaryotes apart from a C-terminal extended loop. We previously showed that a poxvirus kinase phosphorylates this flexible loop in human RACK1, mimicking endogenous negative charge in plant RACK1 to...
- Subject:
- Virology
- Creator:
- Rollins, Madeline Grace
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_859919 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15843
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- Description:
- Nanocarriers are drug delivery vehicles that have at least one dimension at the nanoscale (10-9 m). Engineering the nanocarrier surface is a strategy for targeting drug delivery to specific cell types to enhance efficacy and minimize side effects. A useful analogy is to consider how the chassis of an automotive...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Glaucoma, Immunomodulation, Protein Adsorption, Nanocarrier Chassis, and Targeted Drug Delivery
- Subject:
- Pharmaceutical sciences, Materials Science, and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Vincent, Michael Patrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15870 and etdadmin_upload_863441
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- Description:
- Vaccines, such as those against smallpox virus, polio virus, and yellow fever virus, have saved millions of lives. However, many infectious diseases, such as HIV-1, still lack a preventive vaccine. In addition, various vaccines, such as those against Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 require boosters and may not confer 100% lifelong protection...
- Keyword:
- Vaccines, Interferon, Virus, IFN-I, and Immunity
- Subject:
- Immunology
- Creator:
- Palacio Betancur, Nicole Maria
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_861407 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15849
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- Cyclic loading, from earthquake, has caused the instability and failure of slopes composed of sensitive clays. During the 1964 9.2 moment magnitude (M) earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska, several slopes comprised of Bootlegger Cove Formation (BCF) clays failed during the strong seismic motion. Some researchers have proposed the use of residual...
- Keyword:
- BCF Clay, Post-Cyclic Shearing, Sensitivity, and Cyclic Loading
- Subject:
- Geotechnology
- Creator:
- Colorado Urrea, Gabriel Jaime
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_857877 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15833
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- Description:
- The cuprate superconductor HgBa$_2$CuO$_{4+\delta}$ (Hg1201) has one of the simplest physical structures of the cuprates making it an ideal candidate for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements. Here we discuss our NMR experiments aimed at studying the mixed state of two under-doped single crystal Hg1201 samples at high magnetic fields.
- Subject:
- Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Stolt, Ingrid
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_846392 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15782
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- Description:
- This dissertation reports on a 16-week ethnographic study of politicized caring within a museum-based tinkering program for high school students called the FabYouth program. Drawing on a data set that includes 16 field notes, 785.83 minutes (about 13.1 hours) of ethnographic audio-video recordings, 280 photographs, and ten student interviews, I...
- Subject:
- Education
- Creator:
- Echevarria, Ruben
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_857794 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15832
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- Description:
- Realizing electromagnetic metamaterials which operate in the optical regime requires creating precise arrangements of sub-100 nm building blocks. As such, fabricating these materials using conventional lithographic methods is extremely costly. On the other hand, bottom-up assembly of nanoparticles into crystalline superlattices offers opportunities to explore the scalable fabrication of 2-...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Zheng, Cindy Yizhe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15883 and etdadmin_upload_864457
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- Description:
- In my dissertation, Knowing How to Feel: mapping affective epistemologies of ignorance through numbness, I examine the ways by which numbness contributes to harmful “epistemic resilience,” or the phenomenon whereby systems of meaning remain stable despite counter evidence or attempts to alter them (Dotson 2014). I am most importantly concerned...
- Keyword:
- Charles Mills, political epistemology, critical race theory, epistemologies of ignorance, decolonial feminism, and affective ignorance
- Subject:
- Gender studies, Black studies, and Epistemology
- Creator:
- Rogers, Taylor Ann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15805 and etdadmin_upload_853183
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- Description:
- Protein homeostasis, or proteostasis, is essential for preserving all cellular functions and involves a balance of protein synthesis, folding, trafficking, and degradation. A collapse in proteostasis is a common feature of many neurodegenerative disorders that are characterized by the accumulation of insoluble protein aggregates in the brain. Parkinson’s disease (PD)...
- Keyword:
- induced pluripotent stem cell models, ER stress, protein aggregation, protein folding, and lysosomal dysfunction
- Subject:
- Molecular biology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Stojkovska, Iva
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_850723 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15793
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the interactional mechanisms that undergird exercises of regulatory authority in expert work settings. In the first chapter, I argue that, in the aftermath of a crisis (in this case, induced by a major regulatory event), organizational actors face environments of high uncertainty which challenge rational models of...
- Keyword:
- Professions, Organizations, Regulation, and Expertise
- Subject:
- Management and Sociology
- Creator:
- Bajpai, Kartikeya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15880 and etdadmin_upload_864067
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- Description:
- In recent years, the social sciences have been ensnared in a crisis in which many research findings cannot be replicated (Ioannidis, 2005; Open Science Collaboration, 2015; Camerer et al., 2016; Makel & Plucker, 2014). This crisis has been attributed to a variety of problems including lack of transparency about research...
- Keyword:
- education, treatment effect heterogeneity, response surface, and experimental design
- Subject:
- Statistics, Education, and Social research
- Creator:
- Peko-Spicer, Sarah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_853504 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15806
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses two distinct but related questions. First, how should we conceive of social freedom? Second, given this conception, what ideals would best satisfy the demands we are under as citizens and moral agents? In answer to the first question, I defend a novel account of social freedom, where...
- Keyword:
- Democracy, Ethics, Equality, Republican, Liberal, and Freedom
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Kissel, Joshua Paul
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15839 and etdadmin_upload_858535
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- Description:
- Regulatory T (Treg) cells are required to control immune responses and maintain homeostasis, but are a significant barrier to antitumor immunity. Conversely, Treg instability, characterized by loss of the master transcription factor Foxp3 and acquisition of proinflammatory properties, can promote autoimmunity and/or facilitate more effective tumor immunity. A comprehensive understanding...
- Keyword:
- Tumor, Treg, Ubiquitin, Foxp3, Usp21, and Usp22
- Subject:
- Biology, Cellular biology, and Immunology
- Creator:
- Montauti, Elena
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_846345 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15780
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- Description:
- Existing nonlinear optimization methods have proven reliable over the past few decades for a wide range of applications but have critically relied on accurate function and gradient evaluations. Modern nonlinear optimization problems arising from machine learning and scientific computing applications are increasingly complex and large scale, which make accurate evaluations...
- Keyword:
- Finite differences, Nonlinear optimization, Stochastic optimization, Noisy optimization, Quasi-Newton methods, and Derivative-free optimization
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics, Operations research, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Shi, Hao-Jun Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_848013 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15785
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- Description:
- This dissertation reorients political theory to the concepts of use and utility for a more critical and emancipatory perspective on contemporary communal life. The reorientation entails a recovery of Aristotle’s and Marx’s overlapping approaches to use, whose contemporary reception indexes the surprising alignment of critical political theory with economics. That...
- Keyword:
- Democracy, Critical Theory, Aristotle, Marx, Indeterminacy, and Utility
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Classical studies, and Political science
- Creator:
- Bradshaw, Tristan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15868 and etdadmin_upload_863374
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- Description:
- Semiconductor nanocrystals possess unique photophysical properties that make them desirable for many optoelectronic applications such as photovoltaics, LEDs, and quantum computing. When the size of a semiconductor is reduced to below the excitonic Bohr radius of the material, its carriers becomes quantum confined resulting in drastic changes to optical, electronic,...
- Keyword:
- Nanocrystals, Spin, Semiconductors, Spectroscopy, Thermal properties, and Carrier Dynamics
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry, Chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Harvey, Samantha
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_857543 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15830
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- Description:
- Nanomaterials offer unique properties not seen in their macroscopic kin. They can be used in printed electronics, as catalysts, and so much more. However, their diminutive size complicates materials processing techniques. They can easily aggregate become no longer useful. A solution to this is to use a polymeric surfactant such...
- Keyword:
- Liquid Metal, Nitrocellulose, and Graphene
- Subject:
- Nanoscience
- Creator:
- Wallace, Shay Goff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_850636 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15791
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- Description:
- The field of robot design mostly focuses on careful construction of complex control and planning algorithms (e.g., tuning neural network weights) which bear sole responsibility for improving task performance, while the robot’s body is often assumed to be part of the environment. In nature, however, biological organisms co-evolve both their...
- Keyword:
- Co-Design, Task Embodiment, Robots, and Emergence
- Subject:
- Robotics and Design
- Creator:
- Pervan, Ana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15878 and etdadmin_upload_863964
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- Description:
- One of the most pressing open questions in star formation is the role of magnetic fields relative to turbulence and gravity, and how these three processes set the stellar initial mass function and star formation efficiency. In this work, we present the state of BLAST-TNG (the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter...
- Keyword:
- balloon-borne, star formation, telescope, magnetic fields, and polarimetry
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Creator:
- Williams, Paul Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_858493 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15838
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- Description:
- Critical pedagogies offer a particular orientation towards education that understands the process of learning as inherently political. These frameworks demand explicit political attention by teachers to support student development of practices needed to create a liberatory world. Recent work evidences the positive impact critical pedagogies have on students academically, civically,...
- Keyword:
- history education, critical pedagogy, critical social analysis, relationality, and disciplinary education
- Subject:
- History, Education, and Ethnic studies
- Creator:
- Jackson, Ava
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_854486 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15811
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- Description:
- T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive disease, affecting children and adults. Chemotherapy regimens show high response rates but have debilitating effects and carry risk of relapse. Until now, no targeted therapy has been approved. In addition, 40% of patients will relapse and their treatment options are limited because...
- Keyword:
- USP11, LCK, USP7, glucocorticoid, leukemia, and ubiquitination
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Oncology, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Gutierrez Diaz, Blanca Teresa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_862777 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15858
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- Description:
- Language models are the foundation of many natural language tasks such as machine translation, speech recognition, and dialogue systems. Modeling the probability distributions of text accurately helps capture the structures of language and extract valuable information contained in various corpora. In recent years, many advanced models have achieved state-of-the-art performance...
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence, Statistics, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Ju, Wei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_863369 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15867
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- Description:
- The logistics of policy implementation can lead to a delay from when the actual change in behavior occurs, leading to a shift in a time series. Using change point analysis allows for the data to determine where a change in mean, or other parameters, occurred. But when policy is implemented...
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Whalen, Mena
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15802 and etdadmin_upload_851996
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- Description:
- We live in an increasingly computational world; one that, in the near term, may require everyone to be computationally literate. Computer science (CS) education has greatly increased its reach in the last two decades with an increasing number of students having access to formal computer science classroom experiences in the...
- Keyword:
- Pedagogy, Teacher practice, Computational thinking, and Science education
- Subject:
- Teacher education, Educational technology, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Bain, Connor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_834005 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15654
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- Description:
- Materials science has been central to human advancement since time immemorial. There has always been curiosity around studying the processes required to extract materials, examine their structure, and ultimately tailor their properties to meet human needs. Over the last few centuries, the ability to tailor material properties was driven by...
- Keyword:
- Gaussian Process, Mixed Variable Machine Learning, Data Centric Design, Multicriteria Optimization, and Microstructure
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Statistics, and Design
- Creator:
- Iyer, Akshay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 02/02/2022
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- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- etdadmin_upload_851800 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15801
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- Description:
- To be tempted is to be conflicted, but the conflict is not one of oscillation between two good options. Rather, it is normally easy to act on temptation and difficult to act against it. But this is puzzling, because unless temptation is a force that acts on us, it’s not...
- Keyword:
- inclination, temptation, philosophy of action , motivation, moral psychology, and desire
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Ethics
- Creator:
- Bruxvoort, Abigail
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_854362 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15809
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- Description:
- Object Detection is a core computer vision problem and can facilitate many image understanding problems. Object Detection has witnessed significant progress in the past decade especially after deep learning is successfully applied to this field. Most of the detection models focus on generalizing the trained model to unseen samples of...
- Keyword:
- relationship, object detection, unseen classes, generalization, and unseen samples of seen classes
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Zhao, Xiangyun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15859 and etdadmin_upload_862789
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- Description:
- Engineering heat transport in materials is essential for thermal management in a wide range of technologies, from batteries to thermoelectrics. Materials host a wide spectrum of heat-carrying phonons, which vary in their frequency, spatial extent, and degree of plane-wave character. This diversity in phonon properties leads to complex behavior, especially...
- Keyword:
- thermal modelling, thermal conductivity, semiconductors, phonons, and thermoelectrics
- Subject:
- Physics and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Gurunathan, Ramya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_856415 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15824
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, we aim to develop efficient algorithms with theoretical guarantees for several data-driven decision making problems. Specifically, we study the data-driven deci- sion making from three different perspectives: statistical learning, nonconvex optimization, and control of stochastic system. This dissertation contains three parts. In the first part, we study...
- Subject:
- Industrial engineering
- Creator:
- Chen, Yi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_863393 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15869
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- Description:
- Nanocarriers as structures with at least one dimension in the nanometer scale are capable of loading small molecule therapeutics that would otherwise have poor bioavailability, non- specific uptake, and off target effects. Polymeric nanocarriers can be modified to tune their chemical and biological behavior to better suit the intended application....
- Subject:
- Nanoscience, Polymer chemistry, and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Frey, Molly Alexandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15814 and etdadmin_upload_855266
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- Description:
- The dissertation builds on my current research to demonstrate the connection between affect and learning through machine learning and qualitative analysis of interactions where players use a complex systems game. The project is threefold: First, I developed a thinking and learning intervention, the agent-based modeling simulation Ant Adaptation. I showed...
- Keyword:
- Informal Learning, Agent-Based Modeling, Affective Computing, Cognitive Science, Complexity, and Ants
- Subject:
- Entomology, Education, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Martin, Kit
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15829 and etdadmin_upload_857063
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- Description:
- The textbook proceeds with an introduction to theory and concept building, moves to an explanation of causal inference (how do we 'know' whether something is causal?), and then provides a quick introduction to data and hypothesis testing. Following that, each chapter is devoted to a particular research method used within...
- Keyword:
- textbook, open educational resources, and introduction to political science
- Subject:
- Quantitative research, Political science, and Open educational resources
- Creator:
- Clipperton, Jean
- Contributor:
- Ochoa, Erin, Ruan, Zhihang, Lee, John, Manzi, Pilar, Zimmerman, John, Kwon, Irene, Gubitz, Sam, Noor, Salih, and Weylandt, Max
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/24/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/17/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-1-954984-05-9
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- Description:
- Circadian rhythms — physiological, behavioral, and metabolic oscillations with an approximate 24-h period — are controlled by an evolutionarily conserved set of core clock genes operating at the transcriptional and protein level. Entrainable by Zeitgebers (external environmental stimuli such as light, temperature, and food) that modulate time-of-day specific functions, the...
- Keyword:
- Time-Series Analysis, Biostatistics, Topological Data Analysis, Gene Expression Analysis, Dynamical Systems, Computational Biology, Circadian Rhythms., Circadian Biology, and Differential Rhythm Detection
- Creator:
- Ness-Cohn, Elan
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-07
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- water insecurity, drinking water, perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs, and harm
- Creator:
- Joshua D. Miller and Sera L. Young
- Owner:
- Sera Young
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/07/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/07/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-07
- Resource Type:
- Software or Program Code
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- Description:
- This data was a part of a REDCap survey opened from 5/6/2020 to 7/7/2020. Potential participants with cerebral palsy and their families voluntarily responded to various questions about the motivators, barriers, and goals associated with the decision to participate in cerebral palsy research. Included in this work are the dataset...
- Creator:
- Sukal-Moulton, Theresa, Goyal, Vatsala, Hruby, Alex, Hill, Nayo, Joshi, Divya, Zvolanek, Kristina, Ingo, Carson, and Roth, Heidi
- Owner:
- Vatsala Goyal
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/23/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/23/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-12-23
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- abolition, critical race theory, civil rights, constitutional law, and rule of law
- Creator:
- Paul Gowder
- Owner:
- Paul Anthony Gowder
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/17/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/17/2021
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- Description:
- Throughout the last two decades several scholars observed that present-day research into human genes rarely turns toward genes that had not already been extensively investigated in the past. Guided by hypotheses derived from studies of science and innovation, we present here a literature-wide data-driven meta-analysis to identify the specific scientific...
- Creator:
- Stoeger, Thomas
- Owner:
- Thomas Stoeger
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/15/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/17/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-12-16
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- This thesis discussed how motifs of height and depth in Black literature highlight Black characters’ inability to form positive racial identities. The thesis uses three canonical pieces of Black literature, Passing, Native Son, and Plum Bun, to demonstrate that Black characters who try to reimagine White space are forced into...
- Keyword:
- literature
- Creator:
- Stovall, Jessica Lee
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/09/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/09/2021
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
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- Keyword:
- James Baldwin and Major American Author
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/05/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/05/2021
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- Keyword:
- Fiction, Care Home, and Memory Loss
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2021
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- Keyword:
- Sexual Assault, Clery Act, Title IX, Inter-Rater Reliablity, Cohen's Kappa Coefficient, Cognitive Dissonance, Policy, and Statistical Analyses
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2021
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- Keyword:
- haptics
- Creator:
- Roman Grigorii
- Owner:
- Roman Vasilievich Grigorii
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/16/2021
- Date Modified:
- 11/16/2021
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- Description:
- Excel files containing data and data legend: File 1: Hormone data File 2: Sleep data File 3: Autonomic data
- Creator:
- Grimaldi, Daniela
- Owner:
- Daniela Grimaldi
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/27/2021
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-10-27
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- environment, sustainability, climate change, disaster management, building materials, and disaster reconstruction
- Creator:
- Vidushi Dwivedi, MS Research Assistant, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University, William M. Miller, PhD Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Mike M. McMahon Strategic Partnerships Administrator, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University., Anita Van Breda Senior Director, Environment and Disaster Management World Wildlife Fund, Jennifer B. Dunn, PhD Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University , Stephen H. Carr, PhD, P.E. Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, and Missaka Hettiarachchi PhD, CEng Senior Fellow, World Wildlife Fund
- Contributor:
- Jennifer Pepson-Elwood , Elham Ramyar, Vasantha Wakkumbura, and Megan McConnell
- Owner:
- Mike McMahon
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/27/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-11-22
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-0-578-31332-0 and DOI 10.21985/n2-139p-gw08
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three studies related to parental employment, maternity leave policy, and early care and education. In study 1, my coauthor and I evaluate the impact of parenthood on men and women’s job performance and career advancement using detailed data from the U.S. Marines. For parents who remain...
- Subject:
- Education, Public policy, and Labor economics
- Creator:
- Healy, Olivia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844713 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15746
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the poetry and culture of the late-Soviet era of Stagnation (1964-1985) through a broadly conceived cultural metaphor of stagnation. The five Russian poets and one American poet in this study- Viktor Krivulin, Alexei Parshchikov, Aleksandr Eremenko, Ivan Zhdanov, Elena Shvarts, and Lyn Hejinian- each engage with a...
- Keyword:
- Russian Intellectual History , Russian Postmodernism , Soviet Underground , Russian Poetry, Soviet Stagnation, and End of History
- Subject:
- Slavic literature, Slavic studies, and Modern literature
- Creator:
- Topoleski, Anthony
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844690 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15745
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- Description:
- The prospect of being evaluated by others is oftentimes psychologically crippling. At the core of feeling evaluated is perceiving other minds capable of possessing (judgmental) thoughts and feelings. While research on mind perception in evaluative situations oftentimes examines positive aspects (e.g., increased prosocial behavior), this dissertation looks into how mind...
- Subject:
- Management and Social psychology
- Creator:
- Schweitzer, Shane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_831464 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15637
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- Description:
- Recent developments in deep learning have led to breakthroughs in rendering novel views from sparse input views of a scene.While the accuracy of these algorithms has improved dramatically, it has come at a huge computational cost. While developments in graphics hardware have ameliorated some of the computational burdens, deep learning-based...
- Keyword:
- Augmented Reality, deep learning, novel view, and view synthesis
- Subject:
- Computer engineering and Computer science
- Creator:
- Ghosh, Sushobhan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_834671 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15657
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- Description:
- Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) methods are techniques that image a sample by illuminating it with a coherent beam and recording the intensity diffraction pattern produced by the wavefront outgoing from the sample. These are lensless methods that are not limited in resolution by the physical characteristics of an objective lens,...
- Subject:
- Applied physics and Physics
- Creator:
- Kandel, Saugat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15629 and etdadmin_upload_830433
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- Description:
- The demand for low cost, unconventional electronics requires new materials with unique characteristics that the traditionally used silicon-based technologies cannot provide. Metal oxide semiconductors, such has amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO), have made impressive strides as alternatives to amorphous silicon for electronics applications. However, to achieve the full potential...
- Keyword:
- Combustion processing, Thin-film transistor, SANDs, and Metal Oxides
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Stallings, Katie Lynn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844267 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15733
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- Description:
- Soft functional materials are fundamentally interesting from a chemistry standpoint and have exciting applications in robotics, chemical and biomolecule sensing, and biomedical engineering. In addition, soft materials are also useful in lithography, particularly cantilever-free scanning probe lithography (CFSPL). Because of their low modulus, biocompatibility, stimuli responsiveness, malleability, and other characteristics,...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Oh, EunBi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844916 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15750
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- Description:
- In a new analysis of Renaissance pastoral that draws on ecocriticism, queer theory, and a historicist approach, this dissertation finds a green and inhuman world that opposes the modern view that humans differ significantly from, and enjoy a right of dominion over, nonhuman species and the environment. Through readings of...
- Keyword:
- Machiavelli, ecocriticism, Shakespeare, nature, posthumanism, and pastoral
- Subject:
- Comparative literature, Italian literature, and English literature
- Creator:
- Pederson, Alicia Sands
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15618 and etdadmin_upload_829081
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- Description:
- Like many diseases, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is driven by the activity of inflammatory cells. Using molecular imaging to target and analyze populations of inflammatory cells is one promising strategy to non-invasively assess atherosclerosis progression. However, current molecular imaging contrast agents are not suited for such targeted imaging applications. Nanomaterial-based strategies...
- Keyword:
- Nanomaterials, Targeted delivery, Nanoparticles, Magnetic resonance imaging, and Drug delivery
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Modak, Mallika
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_836754 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15664
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- Description:
- Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of crystalline materials composed of metal nodes connected by organic linkers. Due to their high degree of synthetic tunability, MOFs have been considered for a wide range of applications, including many that rely on a change in oxidation state. While most MOFs are generally...
- Keyword:
- Computational screening, Density functional theory, Machine learning, and Metal-organic framework
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Rosen, Andrew Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_838355 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15675
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- Description:
- The purpose of this study was (1) to examine the impact that small ensemble free improvisation experiences had on dispositional empathy development when compared with other forms of collective music making; and (2) to examine the relationship between co-performing musicians’ empathy levels and their performance achievement in small ensembles using...
- Keyword:
- Empathy Development, Performance Achievement, Free Improvisation, and Collective Music Making
- Subject:
- Music education
- Creator:
- Schmidt, Casey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15692 and etdadmin_upload_840964
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- Description:
- This dissertation imagines the near future of teamwork, when AI agents will join teams,interacting, collaborating, and completing tasks as a team member. Broadly, I seek to answer the questions: how do humans integrate a new AI teammate onto their team, and how does the AI teammate’s function influence this integration...
- Keyword:
- team, AI teammate, team technology adaptation, and team cognition
- Subject:
- Organizational behavior and Communication
- Creator:
- Larson, Lindsay Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15725 and etdadmin_upload_843833
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the following puzzle: Why have antitrust (competition) laws and policies failed in their mission to prevent concentrations of economic power globally? Corporate monopolization has grown more acute in the last three decades and created serious problems in consumer and worker protection, economic stability, and democratic representation worldwide....
- Keyword:
- Antitrust (competition) laws, Turkey, Economic sociology, Mexico, International political economy, and USA
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Arslan, Melike
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15662 and etdadmin_upload_836066
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- Description:
- We investigated the relationships between trauma, depression, and pelvic pain severity in patients with chronic pelvic pain. Previous research has demonstrated that pelvic pain is associated with trauma history (e.g., physical and sexual abuse). As one potential mechanism of this relationship, trauma may lead to increased susceptibility to pain by...
- Keyword:
- trauma, catastrophizing, chronic pelvic pain, urologic chronic pelvic pain syndromes (UCPPS), depression, and pain severity
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Taple, Bayley Jane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15601 and etdadmin_upload_823488
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- Description:
- This thesis studies Bayesian-robustness of algorithm design. The main perspective requires for a single fixed algorithm that its performance is an approximation of the optimal performance when its inputs are independent and identical draws (i.i.d.) from every unknown distribution which is an element of a known, large class of distributions....
- Keyword:
- prior independent algorithms, benchmark design, lower bounds, and mechanism design
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Johnsen, Aleck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845328 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15766
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- Description:
- Parasitic nematode infections are common in both humans and livestock populations around the globe. In humans, these infections cause illness which can be debilitating. In livestock, parasitic nematode infections result in poor animal health and wellbeing as well as decreases in the yield of these animals. The decrease in yield...
- Keyword:
- Parasites, Anthelmintics, beta-tubulin, and C. elegans
- Subject:
- Molecular biology and Genetics
- Creator:
- Dilks, Clayton Matthew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15713 and etdadmin_upload_843341
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- Description:
- The treatment of AML remains to be a challenge due to the high rates of resistance and relapse experienced by patients after initial therapy. The MAPK-interacting kinases 1 and 2 (MNK1/2) have generated increasing interest as therapeutic targets for AML due to their critical role in malignant hematopoietic transformation via...
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Biology, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Suarez Palacios, Milagros Melanie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845430 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15772
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- Description:
- Among the most valuable applications of organometallic chemistry is its implementation in the field of catalysis. Many industrial processes rely heavily on catalysis, employing organometallic complexes in the production of commodity chemicals, fine chemicals, materials, and even in the discovery and development of pharmaceuticals. Through decades of intense study, homogeneous...
- Keyword:
- organic synthesis, organolanthanide, catalysis, rare earth, homogeneous, and organocalcium
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Dicken, Rachel Dowrey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_837546 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15667
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- Description:
- The Gram-negative Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is naturally found in water, soil and the plant rhizosphere, and is increasingly recognized as an important opportunistic and nosocomial infection. Despite its rising prevalence and drug resistance, there is little known about S. maltophilia pathogenesis. In this dissertation, I explored two aspects of S. maltophilia...
- Keyword:
- Virulence factors, Siderophore, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Type IV Secretion , and Bacterial competition
- Subject:
- Microbiology
- Creator:
- Nas, Megan Yasemin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_841647 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15700
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- Description:
- We prove the uniqueness of equilibrium states for certain potentials satisfying the Bowen property for two flows related to geodesic flows on surfaces with sufficient hyperbolicity. Our first result is the uniqueness of equilibrium states for Hölder continuous potentials and the geometric potential for products of geodesic flows of rank...
- Keyword:
- conjugate points, hyberbolic dynamics, measure of maximal entropy, geodesic flow, equilibrium state, and thermodynamic formalism
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- McEnroe, Rachel Maxine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15743 and etdadmin_upload_844617
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- Description:
- Light provides a high-speed and coherent medium for controlling quantum states. In semiconductors, coherent optical effects have been used extensively to lift spin degeneracy on ultrafast timescales and demonstrate high-fidelity control of quantum spin states. Extending this approach to novel pseudospins in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), in this thesis...
- Keyword:
- Polariton, ultrafast optics, exciton, Stark effect, valley, and two-dimensional materials
- Subject:
- Optics, Applied physics, and Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- LaMountain, Trevor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_838864 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15680
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores ways to utilize physical parameters at the nanoscale interface to control the properties of mixed-dimensional heterojunctions (MDHJs). MDHJs combine the desirable properties of different classes of low-dimensional nanomaterials (materials that are quantum confined in at least one dimension). While MDHJs have achieved superlative performance for a variety...
- Keyword:
- photophysics, mixed-dimensional, low-dimensional, time-resolved spectroscopy, and nanomaterials
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry, Nanoscience, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Padgaonkar, Suyog
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_827806 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15611
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- Description:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor neuron (MN) degeneration and resulting in progressive paralysis and death. ALS is genetically heterogeneous, disease pathophysiology is not completely understood, and there are no effective drug therapies. To develop broadly applicable therapeutics, we examine disease mechanisms in the...
- Keyword:
- ALS, C9orf72, iPSCs, nucleocytoplasmic transport, NEK1, and microtubules
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Cellular biology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Daley, Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15607 and etdadmin_upload_825395
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- Description:
- Superconducting qubits are among the leading competitors in the race towards building the first full-fledged quantum computer. Using this platform, researchers have for the first time demonstrated computational capability that is beyond the reach of the current classical machines. (This achievement is nicknamed "Quantum Supremacy".) Up to date, however, the...
- Keyword:
- Superconducting Qubit, Protected Qubit, Noise Engineering, and Dynamical Sweet Spot
- Subject:
- Physics, Quantum physics, and Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Huang, Ziwen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15760 and etdadmin_upload_845242
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- Description:
- The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the largest open questions in modern physics despite the many searches for particle dark matter around the world. The search for dark matter particles with masses above 5 GeV/$c^2$ is led by the dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber (LXe-TPC) detector technology which...
- Keyword:
- instrumentation, xenon, dark matter, and backgrounds
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Temples, Dylan Jason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15665 and etdadmin_upload_836782
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- Description:
- My research goal is to develop first principles frameworks to interrogate multiphase, multiscale systems. One of my main focus areas is to consistently deconstruct highly nonequilibrium problems into their fundamental components. By using analytical, computational and experimental tools to grasp the key levers controlling such phenomenon, I aim to build...
- Keyword:
- Applied Math, Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Phase Instability, Statistical Mechanics, and Molecular Dynamics
- Subject:
- Applied physics
- Creator:
- Zhao, Tom
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845599 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15777
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- Description:
- A major distinction among different skeletal muscles in the human body is the number, size, and arrangement of its cells, referred to as a muscle’s architecture. Muscle architecture is indicative of a muscle’s ability to contract and produce force and, like muscle function, is plastic. While neuromuscular plasticity is the...
- Keyword:
- Imaging, Sarcomere, Wrist, Muscle, and In vivo
- Subject:
- Bioengineering and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Adkins, Amy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15688 and etdadmin_upload_840250
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- Description:
- This dissertation asks how can researchers more equitably design sociotechnical interventions to support the information work of sheltered emerging adults. Through two research studies, I explore the technology use in fulfilling the information needs among this population as well as how their environment impacts their strengths and information practices. I...
- Keyword:
- homelessness, strength-based approach, emerging adults, information poverty, and information work
- Subject:
- Information science
- Creator:
- Robinson Smith, Angela Danielle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_829445 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15619
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- Description:
- In an era of personalized medicine, the clinical community has become increasingly focused on understanding diseases at the cellular and molecular level. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging modality for acquiring anatomical and functional information. However, it has limited applications in field of molecular imaging due to low...
- Keyword:
- Molecular imaging, Lanthanide Probe, Magnetic resonance imaging, Contrast agent, and Bioresponsive probe
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Li, Hao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15709 and etdadmin_upload_842693
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- Description:
- Movement is achieved by combining synaptic inputs from various sources and activating motor unit populations. Motor units are the quantal elements of motor control which act as a neuromechanical transducer that converts sensory inputs into motor output. Because of the tight neuromuscular junctions between motoneuron axon terminals and a large...
- Keyword:
- Human Motor Control, EMG, Delta-F, Motor Units, and PICs
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Kim, Edward
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_824453 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15604
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses inter alia the problem of certain intertextual discontinuities across Thomas Hobbes’s oeuvre regarding the issue of ecclesiology. I find that these disparities did not result from a change in Hobbes’s private opinions, but from the regicide of 1649 as an event that liberated Hobbes to unveil his...
- Keyword:
- Liberty, Religion, Hobbes, Theology, Ecclesiology, and Hermeneutics
- Subject:
- History, Philosophy, and Political science
- Creator:
- Day, Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15763 and etdadmin_upload_845265
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- Description:
- The BV Laplacian Δ, first introduced by Batalin and Vilkovisky, is a second-order differential operator that appears in the quantum master equation for quantizing gauge theories. The geometric framework for the BV formalism was later recognized by Schwarz as the setting of odd symplectic geometry and Khudaverdian showed that Δ...
- Subject:
- Mathematics and Physics
- Creator:
- Kumar, Nilay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845582 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15776
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- Description:
- Mitochondria-lysosome contacts are recently identified sites for mediating crosstalk between both organelles, but their role in normal and diseased human neurons remains unknown. We used super-resolution and live-cell microscopy in human iPSC-derived neurons to demonstrate that mitochondria-lysosome contacts can dynamically form in the soma, axons, and dendrites of human neurons,...
- Keyword:
- iPSC, Interorganelle contacts, GBA, Lysosome, Mitochondria, and Parkinson's disease
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Cellular biology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Kim, Soojin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_825288 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15606
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- Description:
- In this dissertation we consider how simple operational levers affect a firm's revenue and consumer surplus. In particular, we focus on information disclosure as an useful control for omnichannel services.In the first chapter we consider a revenue-maximizing service firm that caters to price and delay-sensitive customers. The firm offers a...
- Keyword:
- Pricing in Queuing Systems, Strategic Queuing, Information Disclosure, Omnichannel Services, Digital Innovation, and Service Operations
- Subject:
- Management and Operations research
- Creator:
- Ghosh, Abhishek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15646 and etdadmin_upload_832994
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- Description:
- Theoretical and empirical inquiries into queer geographies have focused primarily on how white gay subjects navigate urban landscapes. Consequently, there has been little empirical work that examines (1) queer placemaking within Black and brown urban spaces; (2) placemaking among queer women of color; and (3) the relationship and interplay between...
- Keyword:
- queer studies, digital ethnography, black queer studies, urban ethnography, sexuality, and black feminism
- Subject:
- Sociology and Gender studies
- Creator:
- Adams-Santos, Dominique
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15633 and etdadmin_upload_831238
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- Description:
- Two-dimensional (2D) hybrid halide perovskites have been the response to their exciting but woefully unstable 3D counterparts. These 2D perovskites have been shown to have respectable stabilities as photovoltaic absorbers, yet they lag behind the 3D perovskites in terms of efficiency. With the need to catch up to the efficiencies...
- Keyword:
- solar cells, perovskites, films, GIWAXS, materials, and mechanisms
- Subject:
- Chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Hoffman, Justin Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15609 and etdadmin_upload_827302
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- Description:
- Symbiotic relationships involve a life-long interaction between host and bacteria, and there is much we do not understand about how these interactions are developed and maintained. During the horizontal recruitment of beneficial bacteria by hosts, a complex set of molecular signals and communication ensures specificity. On the bacterial side, these...
- Keyword:
- Vibrio fischeri, symbiosis, biofilm, and two-component signaling systems
- Subject:
- Microbiology and Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Ludvik, Denise Alberta
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15608 and etdadmin_upload_825957
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that silence played a fundamental role in the Victorian novel and in Victorian novel writing, operating as a productive force in service of sympathetic exchange and creative labor. It examines Charles Lamb's and Thomas Carlyle’s foundational roles in detaching silence from its traditional Romantic associations with solitude,...
- Keyword:
- Environment, Sympathy, Victorian, Literature, Space, and Silence
- Subject:
- History and English literature
- Creator:
- Mason, Sarah Michelle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_838563 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15678
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- Description:
- Nucleic acids such as DNA or RNA of various lengths and structures have a wide scope of functions as therapeutic entities compared to conventional drugs. For instance, native and modified forms of nucleic acids can be used for gene silencing, genome editing, gene replacement, immune system modulation, and theranostics. While...
- Keyword:
- lipids, drug delivery, DNA, RNA, and nanoparticles
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Sinegra, Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845229 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15759
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- Description:
- This dissertation proposes a theory that views beats as probabilistic domains that I term “pockets,” taking a vernacular term commonly used by jazz, funk, and popular music performers to describe the state of being in a good groove and making it concrete through empirical methods. Pockets have three key properties:...
- Keyword:
- microtiming, rhythm, corpus studies, and music information retrieval
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Hosken, Fred
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844477 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15738
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- Description:
- A framework is developed that models point defect diffusion and interaction with pre-existing microstructures during irradiation, including defect-defect interactions and defect sinks. This framework uses a modified diffusion potential that includes not only defect concentration, but also intrinsic stresses from the pre-existing microstructure. Various microstructures are studied in {Fe} by...
- Keyword:
- Grain boundaries, Voids, Point defects, Radiation, Crack tip, and Triple junctions
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Mechanical engineering, and Nuclear engineering
- Creator:
- Zarnas, Patrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15639 and etdadmin_upload_831637
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- Description:
- The ubiquitous role of water in biochemical, electrochemical, and geochemical systems has driven scientific interest in studying the fundamental hydrogen-bonding interactions that water molecules exhibit in the presence of different materials.Specifically, we focus on the interactions characterizing water at the interface between two bulk media, as these are essential to...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Dalchand, Naomi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_842499 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15708
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- Description:
- The highly flexible nature of 2D materials has led to them becoming fundamental building blocks for achieving novel device physics and potential breakthroughs in practical technologies. 2D layers can be interfaced in a wide array of methods with themselves, other 2D layered materials, or materials of entirely different type or...
- Keyword:
- Heterojunction, Two-Dimensional, Low-Dimensional, Exciton, Heterostructure, and Monolayer
- Subject:
- Optics, Materials Science, and Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Stanev, Teodor Kosev
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15716 and etdadmin_upload_843489
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- Description:
- Metal halide perovskites have recently emerged as one of the most promising active layers in solar cells for their high power conversion efficiency (>25%) and ease of synthesis and deposition. Spatial heterogeneity is inevitable with current fabrication methods for both monocrystalline and polycrystalline perovskite thin films and crystals. The morphology-dependent...
- Keyword:
- Carrier cooling, Transient absorption microscopy, Trap state, Metal halide perovskites, Grain Boundary, and Global analysis
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry
- Creator:
- Jiang, Xinyi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_829756 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15621