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- Physiochemical phenomena in aqueous systems, such as corrosion, catalysis, and energy storage, are driven by the molecular-scale interactions of ionic species with charged solid surfaces. In particular, an electrical double layer (EDL) of ions forms within nanometers of a charged surface. The properties of the EDL have been explored from...
- Keyword:
- Electrical Double Layer, First Principles Molecular Dynamics, X-ray Reflectivity, Solid/Water Interfaces, and Resonant Anomalous X-ray Reflectivity
- Subject:
- Applied physics and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Harmon, Katherine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15471 and etdadmin_upload_796475
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- Following the discovery of n-type Mg3Sb2−Mg3Bi2 alloys, attempts have been undertaken to optimize their thermoelectric performance because understanding of the properties of this system had been limited due to its novelty. In this thesis, the thermoelectric performance of n-type Mg3Sb2−Mg3Bi2 alloys was systematically investigated and significantly improved. Thorough experimental characterization...
- Keyword:
- Thermoelectrics, Energy conversion, Seebeck effect, Thermal conductivity, Mg3Sb2, and Electrical conductivity
- Subject:
- Engineering and
- Creator:
- Imasato, Kazuki
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_792898 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15453
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- Description:
- Soil-Machine Interaction (SMI) is ubiquitous on Earth and other planets. Over decades, ground-engaging equipment has been developed and widely used in various engineering applications, including civil construction, agriculture, terrestrial mobility, and even space exploration. However, systematic studies of SMI processes and the corresponding soil behavior are inadequate, which obstructs further...
- Keyword:
- Soil-machine interaction, Sand , Semi-analytical model , Experimental study , Particle image velocimetry analysis, and Sequential kinematic model
- Subject:
- Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Jin, Zhefei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_797724 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15486
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- Description:
- Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) underlies myriad phenomena in chemistry and physics. Arbitrary manipulation of spin-orbit coupling would enable precise control over such parameters as magnetic anisotropy, the sensitivity of quantum sensors, and even the selectivity of certain catalytic processes. Herein, I describe my efforts directed towards utilizing SOC as a handle...
- Keyword:
- coordination chemistry, quantum information, and molecular magnetism
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Physical chemistry
- Creator:
- Pearson, Tyler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15427 and etdadmin_upload_783646
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- Description:
- Deep learning is a new area of machine learning in artificial intelligence that consists of networks to learn representations from data in a supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised manner. Deep learning has a relatively long history, but it does not gain great attention until big data and fast computational resources are...
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Yang, Zijiang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15466 and etdadmin_upload_795648
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- Description:
- The effect of interfaces in solids on the overall charge transport properties has become a topic of growing importance for energy materials such as thermoelectrics. In some polycrystalline thermoelectric materials, the performance near room temperature is significantly limited due to thermally-activated electrical conductivity near room-temperature, which can be attributed to...
- Keyword:
- Contact resistance, Grain boundary, Charge transport model, Thermoelectric, Mg3Sb2, and NMC
- Subject:
- Physics and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Kuo, Jimmy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15489 and etdadmin_upload_797891
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- A central question in biology is how the flow of genetic information—from DNA to RNA to protein—is regulated. Regulatory mechanisms exerted at the level of DNA and protein have been described in detail but by contrast, little is known regarding the regulation of RNA. Methylation on N6-adenosine (m6A) is the...
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Edens, Brittany M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_796993 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15475
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- Description:
- This dissertation seeks to explain the discursive origin, development, and transformation of “Republican anticommunism,” and how and why this state-originated ideology continues to shape Vietnamese exile communities today. The dissertation focuses on examining mechanisms that allows certain narratives produced by the Republic of Vietnam to persist, despite the regime changes,...
- Keyword:
- Ideology, Discourse, Vietnamese Americans, Construction of Knowledge, National Formation, and South Vietnam
- Subject:
- History, Sociology, and Southeast Asian studies
- Creator:
- Nguyen, Y Thien
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_791699 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15445
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- Description:
- Over the past two decades, the field of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) organocatalysis has distinctively enabled the construction of enantioenriched heterocycles, and the power of cascade and one-pot processes has led to an ever-increasing level of synthetic efficiency in the assembly of complex architectures. Here these tools are employed in concise,...
- Keyword:
- Organocatalysis, Corynanthe alkaloids, Total synthesis, and Divergent synthesis
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry
- Creator:
- Miller, Eric Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15460 and etdadmin_upload_794579
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- Description:
- A one-time, unilateral injury to the developing brain can interrupt the typical process of development and result in motor impairments that evolve over the course of the whole life-span. The timing of injury relative to neural development has implications for the continued refinement of the nervous system and the descending...
- Keyword:
- mirror movement, cerebral palsy, corticospinal tract, reaching, pediatric hemiplegia, and flexion synergy
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Hill, Nayo Marel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_792769 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15452
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- The policies of secular governments in constitutionally secular countries are at times marked by the influence of religious politics. Religious politics is specifically defined here as a politics of extending the norms of religion into the public sphere through religious legislation. Thus, some governments lend the state’s coercive capacity to...
- Keyword:
- state religion policies, coercion, secular state, legitimacy, and religious politics
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Metera, Gde Dwitya Arief
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15482 and etdadmin_upload_797581
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- Description:
- Non-planar and curved architectures of otherwise flat 2D materials present an important paradigm for nanoscale analysis and design of emergent material properties. Atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged at the forefront of the 2D materials field in recent years largely due to their attractive and tunable chemical, optical, and...
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- DiStefano, Jennifer G
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_788467 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15438
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- Description:
- Melanin is a functional biopolymer most commonly associated with human skin pigmentation, where it serves as a radiation protection agent, shielding us from the harmful effects of UV radiation. However, melanin is also present in human ears, eyes, hair, and brains, serving a variety of functions. In fact, melanin...
- Keyword:
- porosity, toxin adsorption, nanoparticles, fungal, melanin, and radiation protection
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- McCallum, Naneki C.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15478 and etdadmin_upload_797429
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- Description:
- Superconductivity is a fascinating manifestation of quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale that has led to greater insights of the strongly correlated physics of a large number of interacting electrons ever since its discovery $\sim$ 100 years ago in elemental Hg. The unconventional superconductors that are based on uranium offer...
- Keyword:
- Crystal Growth, Uranium Superconductors, Unconventional Superconductors, Time-Reversal Symmetry-Breaking, Superconducting Vorticies, and Ferromagnetic Superconductors
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Condensed matter physics, and Low temperature physics
- Creator:
- Avers, Keenan Edward
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_794332 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15459
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- Description:
- Exploratory phase stability analysis in Materials Science has two primary goals: (a) Characterizing the evolution of the materials single phase field in composition space to identify solubility and electronic dopability limits and (b) Accelerated prediction of new phases of technological importance. In this thesis we reorganize defect theory --- the...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Anand, Shashwat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_794325 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15457
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- Description:
- The era of quantum information science (QIS) can usher revolutionary new capabilities ranging from quantum computation to quantum sensing. At the core of these technologies is the fundamental unit of QIS, the quantum bit or qubit. The power of qubits over their classical counterparts lies in their ability to be...
- Keyword:
- Dynamic nuclear polarization, Metal-organic frameworks, Electron paramagnetic resonance, Quantum information science, Qubits, and Spin-spin dynamics
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Yu, Chung-Jui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15436 and etdadmin_upload_788011
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- Description:
- Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements have been performed on the heavily Cu-doped ($x = 0.13$, 0.18, 0.24, 0.39, 0.48), and underdoped (x = 0.01 and 0.012) \NaFeCuAs~ single crystals, to reveal the nature of the magnetism, and to investigate how the electronic and magnetic properties of the system evolves with...
- Keyword:
- iron pnictides, nuclear magnetic resonance, and magnetism
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Xin, Yizhou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_795405 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15465
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- Description:
- Two-step, solar thermochemical water splitting using nonstoichiometric oxides has emerged as an attractive approach for large-scale hydrogen production. Perovskite-structured oxides, with their wide tunability, offer the potential for high fuel productivity at moderate operating temperatures. Given the vast chemical space, the materials development effort is carried out here in combination...
- Keyword:
- Redox Thermodynamics and Material's Kinetics, Thermochemical Hydrogen Production, Oxygen Nonstoichiometry, DFT Computational Predictions, Inorganic Perovskites, and Thermo-kinetic Controlled Dynamics
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Chemical engineering, and Energy
- Creator:
- Qian, Xin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_797495 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15479
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- Description:
- Lasers and optical resonators have been widely utilized in precision metrological devices, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and gravitational wave detectors. To meet the requirements for a variety of applications, both of the slow light effect and the fast light effect have been applied to the lasers and optical resonators to...
- Keyword:
- Light-atom interaction, Raman effect, Fast light, Slow light, and Laser gyroscopes
- Subject:
- Optics and Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Zhou, Zifan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_797631 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15483
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- Description:
- Surface patterns that can reconfigure under external stimuli are important for tailoring diverse properties such as surface adhesion, optical transmittance, and wettability depending on the feature size and orientation. Wrinkling a stiff skin layer on a pre-strained elastomer substrate has emerged as a method to create responsive structures without using...
- Keyword:
- Two-dimensional materials, Surface instabilities, Surface engineering, Thin films, Nanofabrication, and Soft materials
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Rhee, Dongjoon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_795810 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15467
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- Description:
- The mechanism underlying chronic pain and disability in those with chronic whiplash associated disorders (WAD) is poorly understood. Of the four million people who will seek medical care each year for neck injuries sustained during a motor vehicle collision (MVC), a quarter will develop chronic moderate to severe WAD. Disparate...
- Keyword:
- Magnetization Transfer, Pain, Motor Vehicle Collision, Spinal Cord, Whiplash, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Subject:
- Medical imaging
- Creator:
- Hoggarth, Mark Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_786190 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15431
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- Description:
- Transcription of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) is a hallmark of life, taking the information stored within genomic nucleic acids and converting it into a form that is useful for producing the proteins necessary for cellular and organismal function. In eukaryotes, transcription of DNA into messenger RNA (mRNA) requires the...
- Keyword:
- Virology, Paramyxovirus, Cryo-EM, Mediator, Polymerase, and Transcription
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Abdella, Ryan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15490 and etdadmin_upload_797897
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- Description:
- Continuous and coordinated materials discovery efforts have amassed a wealth of knowledge concerning many general classes of materials. The number of known phases of all structure-types, however, is far less than number of possible materials dictated by the elements on the periodic table. Recently, with improved computational abilities and well-developed...
- Keyword:
- Materials Discovery, Solid-State Chemistry, Crystallography, and Synthesis
- Subject:
- Chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Flynn, Steven Matthew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15456 and etdadmin_upload_794308
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- Description:
- Research on how sleep contributes to memory has blossomed in recent years. These studies have generally focused on whether or not sleep impacts various types of memory independently. An open question is whether sleep interactively influences different memory types. My research focuses on two types of memory—specificity and generalization. Whereas...
- Keyword:
- memory, sleep, generalization, memory consolidation, and targeted memory reactivation
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Psychobiology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Witkowski, Sarah (Sadie)
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15250 and etdadmin_upload_763727
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- Description:
- The exchange of information in the brain is accomplished through sequences of action potentials that result from the integration of local microcircuits. Unraveling the connectivity of the neurons that constitute these microcircuits and how they contribute to network activity is vital for understanding how information is relayed through the brain...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Fiske, Michael Patrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15476 and etdadmin_upload_797275
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- Description:
- This dissertation seeks to explore how physical forces, notably through the use of magnetic nanoparticles and applied fields, can influence the structural outcomes of colloidal crystals engineered with DNA. Chapter 1 describes how both DNA and magnetic fields can direct the assembly of nanoparticles into periodic and sometimes crystalline materials....
- Keyword:
- colloidal crystal engineering with DNA, iron oxide nanoparticles, and magnetic field assembly
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Urbach, Zachary James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_790857 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15441
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- Description:
- Human biologists remain invested in the prospect of developing a ‘biocultural synthesis.’ The primary concerns identified in major touchstones of this effort include the presentation of biological function in terms of social relations, understanding the role that humans play in constructing their own environments for development and evolution, and linking...
- Subject:
- Physical anthropology
- Creator:
- Bragg, Jared
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_788891 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15439
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- Description:
- Providing quality transit service to travelers is a constant challenge for transit agencies. The advent of fully-autonomous vehicles (AVs) and their inclusion in mobility service fleets may allow transit agencies to offer better service or reduce their own capital and operational costs. This study focuses on the problem of allocating...
- Keyword:
- public transit, autonomous vehicles, optimization, network modeling, and shared mobility
- Subject:
- Transportation, Civil engineering, and Urban planning
- Creator:
- Pinto, Helen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_796818 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15474
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- Description:
- The role of mesoscale structure on the properties of functional materials is poorly understood as the influence of mesoscale structure is both complicated and material specific. Thus there is not only a lack of a general understanding of how structure influences emergent properties but also a lack of a general...
- Subject:
- Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Barrows, Frank
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_792540 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15449
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- Description:
- Advanced wireless soft electronics integrate a wireless power transfer circuit and a small battery. It is skin-compliant, and lightweight accommodating the complex motion of the body. These unique features of the device provide a continuous physiological measurement without discomfort and spatial constraints. Using the device, we can observe and track...
- Keyword:
- health monitoring, health data, wearable technology, sleep study, rehabilitation, and flexible electronics
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Health sciences, and Medicine
- Creator:
- Lee, Kun Hyuck Hyuck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15329 and etdadmin_upload_770941
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- Description:
- As the pursuit for higher performance and lower cost photovoltaics, and for new applications of optoelectronic devices moves beyond crystalline silicon, there are many unique opportunities for materials research into hybrid organic-inorganic, and organic semiconductors. This dissertation focuses on both hybrid organic-inorganic materials and organic materials for optoelectronic applications. In...
- Keyword:
- Perovskite, Self-assembly, and Ferroelectric
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Passarelli, James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_797908 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15491
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- Description:
- We often criticize people for having beliefs that are not sufficiently supported by the total available evidence. We do this even if those beliefs are instrumental to satisfying their desires. This leads to a question: why should people care about following the evidence, especially when doing so is not instrumental...
- Keyword:
- pragmatic, rationality, reasons, belief, normativity, and epistemic
- Subject:
- Ethics and Epistemology
- Creator:
- Weston, Nathan Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_784126 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15428
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Comparative analysis of feature selection and classification methods for epigenetic methylation data
- Description:
- Epigenetics, the study of heritable changes in organisms not caused by mutations to DNA,holds tremendous promise for future medical applications. Although still in its infancy, feature selection in statistics plays an important role in correlating epigenetic changes with diseases and various health issues. Feature selection may also be used in...
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Kleyn, Aaron
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_797839 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15488
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- Description:
- Although electrostatics interactions in fluids have been studied for many decades, new results in this field are still challenging our classical understanding of electrolytes. The combination of electrostatics and self-assembly yields many interesting yet challenging problems that are of fundamental scientific interest and show promise for industrial applications. In this...
- Keyword:
- Polyelectrolyte, Salt, Nanoparticle, Bacterial Microcompartments, Molecular Dynamics, and Electrostatics
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry and Physics
- Creator:
- Li, Yaohua
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_794957 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15462
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- Description:
- Global energy demands are expected to increase by about one-third between 2014 and 2040 and will surely be met from a combination of wind, solar, and among other renewable sources. The shift away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energies will ensure a clean and sustainable future. The main issue...
- Keyword:
- Lithium, electron microscopy, Battery, anode, and cathode
- Subject:
- Energy
- Creator:
- Villa, Cesar J
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_788935 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15440
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- Description:
- The lanthanides, with their limited orbital effects and high oxophilicity, represent a class of catalytic metals highly distinguished from more commonly-utilized transition metals. Homogeneous lanthanide catalysts often afford high catalytic rates and impressive selectivity. However, challenges regarding the synthesis and utilization of highly air- and water-sensitive organo-lanthanide complexes have limited...
- Keyword:
- Catalysis, Homogeneous, Lanthanide, and Hydroboration
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Barger, Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15464 and etdadmin_upload_795345
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- Description:
- Sulfur mustard (HD), also known as the King of the Battle Gases, was one of the earliest and strongest CWAs to be deployed in war-time conflicts. Unfortunately, its low cost and facile production have resulted consistent use in the present day by rogue elements. As a result, the development of...
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- Organic chemistry
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- ATILGAN, AHMET
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- en
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- 04/15/2021
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- 2021-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Electrochemical cell devices are increasingly being sought for energy conversion and storage applications due to their high efficiencies and their potential for operating free of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Solid Acid Electrochemical Cells (SAECs), which most commonly employ CsH2PO4 (CDP) as the electrolyte component, are uniquely suited to meet the...
- Keyword:
- Cesium Dihydrogen Phosphate, Catalysis, Ammonia, Hydrogen, and Electrochemistry
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- Chemistry, Materials Science, and Energy
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- Plymill, Austin Blake
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- en
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- 04/15/2021
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- 2021-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- In the vertebrate retina, neurons process visual signals, generating feature selectivity in their activity levels. We use computational models to understand these behaviors by interpreting them mathematically. One component of this analysis is the spatial selectivity or receptive field, a property found in all visual sensory neurons. The neurons found...
- Keyword:
- Vision, Neuron, and Retina
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
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- Cooler, Sam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 04/15/2021
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- 2021-01-01
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- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15450 and etdadmin_upload_792568
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- Description:
- Having an emotion involves having an evaluative point of view on one’s circumstances. For example, there is a sense in which being angry involves taking oneself to have been wronged, and fear seems to paint the scene as one of danger. A significant debate in contemporary philosophy of mind concerns...
- Keyword:
- Intentionality, Consciousness, Emotions, Representation, Perceptualism, and Phenomenology
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- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Thomson, Mark
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15485 and etdadmin_upload_797662
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- Description:
- Our experience of the physical world is mediated by our senses, but while most people have five senses, interactions with computer systems are largely limited to the visual sense. When working with nonvisual artifacts, like sound, on computers, such artifacts are typically transformed, or re-encoded, into something visual. Determining how...
- Keyword:
- HCI, user intreface, mixing, sound, visualization, and audio
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- Information science, Computer science, and Communication
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- Liebman, Noah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
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- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15448 and etdadmin_upload_792114
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates the use of organic and semiconductor nanomaterials as chromophores in solar fuels production and energy transfer-mediated [2+2] cycloadditions. A series of novel N-annulated perylene chromophore amphiphiles was synthesized via a modular synthesis. These perylene amphiphiles were found to self-assemble in aqueous solution, forming extended ribbon-like nanostructures that...
- Keyword:
- cycloaddition, Nanomaterials, self-assembly, Quantum dots, Solar fuels, and photocatalysis
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- Chemistry
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- Nagasing, Benjamin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 04/15/2021
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- 2020-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- etdadmin_upload_787179 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15434
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- Description:
- Recent advancements in processing and manufacturing techniques have spurred an exponential increase in use of polymer nanocomposites in a variety of applications. A key challenge in using these nanocomposites effectively is the dispersion of nanoparticles in the polymer matrix. Matrix-free assemblies of polymer grafted nanoparticles, called hairy nanoparticles assemblies(aHNPs) have...
- Keyword:
- Scaling law, Coarse-grained molecular dynamics, Hairy nanoparticle assemblies , Energy Renormalization, Mechanical property optimization, and Potential of mean force
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- Mechanics, Mechanical engineering, and Nanotechnology
- Creator:
- Hansoge, Nitin Krishnamurthy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
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- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15477 and etdadmin_upload_797349
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- Description:
- The Spectral Body: Theology and Economy in Dostoevsky and Melville’s Fiction This dissertation examines the intersections and tensions between religion and economy in Dostoevsky and Melville’s fiction. I argue that Christian theology of the body—as the site of both salvation and economic production—is at the center of their concern. These...
- Keyword:
- Christianity, Dostoevsky, Debt, Theology, Melville, and Capitalism
- Subject:
- American literature and Slavic literature
- Creator:
- Gordon, Maximilian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
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- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_798018 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15492
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- Description:
- Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in American men and has led to approximately 29K deaths in 2018. The androgen signaling pathway plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of PCa, and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has been the main therapeutic approach for PCa. However, almost all...
- Keyword:
- lysine methylation, FOXA1 methylation, WD40 motif protein, FOXA1 ubiquitination, ChIP-seq, and polycomb repressive complex 2
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Park, Su Hong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
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- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15433 and etdadmin_upload_787083
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- Description:
- Discrete molecules, linear and branched polymers, and disordered cross-linked networks are well studied objects of chemical synthesis. However, two-dimensional polymers (2DPs) have been long missing from this continuum of molecular architectures, both in chemical synthesis and in Nature. Recently, new polymerization strategies and characterization methods have enabled the unambiguous realization...
- Keyword:
- Covalent Organic Frameworks, Controlled Polymerization, Organic Electronics, and Two-dimensional Polymers
- Subject:
- Polymer chemistry, Chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Evans, Austin Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 04/15/2021
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- 2020-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- etdadmin_upload_793170 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15454
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- Description:
- From visualizing thousands of social relationships, operationalizing measures that offer us insight into our theories, to characterizing cultural change over the span of centuries, computational methods appear to provide sociology a means to reveal patterns otherwise unknowable. While these methods are persistently critiqued for their inability to generate social theory,...
- Keyword:
- metaphor, computational, formal, network, interdisciplinarity, and visualization
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Yung, Vincent
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15437 and etdadmin_upload_788259
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- Description:
- The BCR-ABL negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs) are clonal hematopoietic stem-cell disorders characterized by abnormal proliferation of differentiated myeloid lineages. MPNs include 3 clinically distinct disorders: Polycythemia Vera (PV), Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) and Primary Myelofibrosis (PMF). 95% of MPNs are characterized by driver mutations in Janus Kinase 2 (JAK2), Thrombopoietin receptor...
- Keyword:
- STK11, AML, Megakaryocytes, Reactive Oxygen Species, Leukemia, and MPN
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- Biology and Medicine
- Creator:
- Marinaccio, Christian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
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- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15470 and etdadmin_upload_796403
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- Description:
- The dissertation’s topic is the creation of quotidian judgements and practices related to food, amid the enduring social and spatial stratification of everyday life. The sites are two large and diverse cities: Paris and Chicago. The method is ethnographic and contextual.Chapter 1 documents the dietary tastes and culinary practices of...
- Keyword:
- food, Paris, Chicago, and ethnography
- Subject:
- Sociology and Cultural anthropology
- Creator:
- Ferrant, Coline
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
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- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_795897 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15468
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- Description:
- ABSTRACT In the past two decades, the number of African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants arriving in the U.S. has been increasing. Black immigrants (36% of whom migrated from Africa and 50% from the Caribbean since 2000) now account for nearly 10% of the Black population in the U.S. This growing demographic...
- Keyword:
- immigration, race, and heath
- Subject:
- Communication
- Creator:
- Jean-Pierre, Phoebe Anne-Alexandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
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- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_794329 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15458
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- Description:
- ARTICLE 3: TITLE. A phase-shifting anterior-posterior network organizes global phase relations. ABSTRACT. Prior research has identified a variety of task-dependent networks that form through inter-regional phase-locking of oscillatory activity that are neural correlates of specific behaviors. Despite ample knowledge of task-specific functional networks, general rules governing global phase relations have..., ARTICLE 1: TITLE. Probabilistic, entropy-maximizing control of large-scale neural synchronization. ABSTRACT. Oscillatory neural activity is dynamically controlled to coordinate perceptual, attentional and cognitive processes. On the macroscopic scale, this control is reflected in the U-shaped deviations of EEG spectral-power dynamics from stochastic dynamics, characterized by disproportionately elevated occurrences of the..., and ARTICLE 2: TITLE. Spatiotemporal dynamics of maximal and minimal EEG spectral power. ABSTRACT. Oscillatory neural activities are prevalent in the brain with their phase realignment contributing to the coordination of neural communication. Phase realignments may have especially strong (or weak) impact when neural activities are strongly synchronized (or desynchronized) within...
- Keyword:
- neural synchronization, EEG, spectral power, spatiotemporal dynamics, maximum entropy, neural synchronization, EEG, spectral-power dynamics, and EEG global phase relations, modularity, anterior-posterior network
- Creator:
- Satoru Suzuki
- Owner:
- Satoru Suzuki
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- PLoS
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- 04/13/2021
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- 05/23/2022
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- Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
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- PEACH SAHASAKUL
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- Jonic Zhehao Zhu
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- 04/13/2021
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- 04/13/2021
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- Keyword:
- Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
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- NINA WETOSKA
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- Jonic Zhehao Zhu
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- 04/12/2021
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- 04/12/2021
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- Keyword:
- Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
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- ROSLYN VALDESPINO
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- Jonic Zhehao Zhu
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- 04/12/2021
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- 04/12/2021
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- Keyword:
- Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
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- JUNTANG QIAN
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- Jonic Zhehao Zhu
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- 04/12/2021
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- 04/13/2021
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- Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
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- DELANEY MCCALLUM
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- Jonic Zhehao Zhu
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- 04/12/2021
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- 04/12/2021
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- Keyword:
- Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
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- JAMES ARCIERI
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- Jonic Zhehao Zhu
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- 04/12/2021
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- 04/12/2021
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- Keyword:
- Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
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- EMILY SAKAI and KATIE JAHNS
- Owner:
- Jonic Zhehao Zhu
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/12/2021
- Date Modified:
- 04/12/2021
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- Description:
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual reality (VR) have attracted growing attention within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry in recent years. Integration of BIM and VR technology can develop workflow efficiency through enhanced common understanding and prepare students in architecture and engineering programs to become leaders of the...
- Keyword:
- building information modeling, performance assessment, AEC education, and virtual reality
- Creator:
- Joseph C. Huang, Sepehr Alizadehsalehi, and Ahmad Hadavi
- Owner:
- Ahmad Hadavi
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Language:
- English
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- 04/12/2021
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- 04/12/2021
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- Research Paper
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- DOI: 10.3390/app11073225
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- Keyword:
- social work
- Creator:
- Caldwell, Lewis A. H.
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
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- 04/07/2021
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- 04/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 1940
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- Masters Thesis
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- Keyword:
- ego networks and cognition
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- Hui Sun, Matthew E. Brashears, and Edward B. Smith
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- Hui Sun
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Language:
- English
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- 04/06/2021
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- 04/14/2021
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- 2021-04-06
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- Part of Book
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- Gem5, Computer Architecture, and Processing in Memory
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- Computer engineering
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- Haoxuan Zhang
- Owner:
- Haoxuan Zhang
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- 04/06/2021
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- 05/16/2021
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- Project
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- Description:
- In this paper, we propose a two-stage approach for predicting a trips destination by clustering geocoordinates and leveraging incremental learning and contextual rule-based methods for the prediction of end destinations. The proposed approach dynamically adapts to users change in behavior and is resilient against concept drift. Using this solution, 76.39%...
- Keyword:
- data science and machine learning
- Creator:
- Rohin Mahesh and Subramanian Subramanian
- Owner:
- Rohin Mahesh
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- 04/05/2021
- Date Modified:
- 04/05/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-04-05
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- Description:
- The data file contains federal criminal cases as observations and case attribute variables. This data file is the basis for the article Discretion and Disparity in Federal Detention, 115 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1261 (2021), available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol115/iss5/1/. This data file is created with data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission...
- Keyword:
- criminal law
- Creator:
- Didwania, Stephanie Holmes
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern Law Review
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/05/2021
- Date Modified:
- 04/05/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Keyword:
- analysis
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- Mary McGrath
- Owner:
- Mary McGrath
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- 03/24/2021
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- 04/16/2024
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- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- data
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- Mary McGrath
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- Mary McGrath
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- 03/24/2021
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- 04/16/2024
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- Dataset
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- Description:
- Readme for Federal Circuit data file created by Melissa F. Wasserman and Jonathan D. Slack. The data file contains Federal Circuit opinions in each row and case/opinion attributes on the columns. The data file covers opinions issued from 10.13.2004 through 1.30.2018. This data file is the basis for the article...
- Keyword:
- legal scholarship
- Creator:
- Slack, Jonathan D. and Wasserman, Melissa F.
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern Law Review
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/18/2021
- Date Modified:
- 03/18/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Description:
- This report shows that compensation plans have not met the needs of victims of nuclear disasters for three primary reasons: compensation plans have been devised by unelected officials and without full public knowledge or participation, governments have often capped the liability of the owners of nuclear facilities, which distorts cost-benefit...
- Keyword:
- nuclear disaster relief, chernobyl, fukushima, nuclear power, and nuclear accidents
- Subject:
- Nuclear energy--Government policy and Nuclear power plants
- Creator:
- Miyazaki, Hirokazu
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/23/2021
- Date Modified:
- 03/09/2021
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- 2021-03-09
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- Book
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- 978-1-954984-00-4 and 978-1-954984-01-1
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- Keyword:
- antibody, dried blood spot, spanish, dbs, español, scan, covid, and training
- Creator:
- SCAN
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- Melissa Carmita Mongrella
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- 02/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2021
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- Keyword:
- antibody, dried blood spot, dbs, video, scan, covid, and training
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- SCAN
- Owner:
- Melissa Carmita Mongrella
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2021
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores black litigation strategies, black legal culture, and the effect of black litigation on civil law. Not only did African Americans sue white southerners and white-owned companies for white-on-black violence under Jim Crow, they shared their collective legal knowledge through a network of black newspapers and contributed to...
- Keyword:
- civil litigation, sue, rights of personhood, damages, violence, and legal culture
- Subject:
- African American studies, History, and Law
- Creator:
- Eatmon, Myisha S.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764297 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15265
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- Description:
- Does the Russian Federation in the Putin-Medvedev era follow a grand strategy, and if so, what does it look like, and how can we discern the making of Russian grand strategy? However, Russian grand strategy is neither formally codified nor readily accessible, and it remains opaque at best. In this...
- Keyword:
- Grand Strategy, Military Industrial Complex, and Russia
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Povilus, Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
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- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15276 and etdadmin_upload_764611
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- Description:
- Throughout history, the development of materials has relied heavily on the empirical judgment of scientists and engineers and on prolonged experiments proton to errors. Due to the complexity of material behavior, successful discovery of new candidates has been serendipitous, and down-selection of candidates remains a time-consuming process that requires repetitive...
- Keyword:
- Oxides, High-throughput, and Electrochemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- HUANG, RUIYUN
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
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- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15291 and etdadmin_upload_765065
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates how US Americans in the nineteenth century began to apply the category of religious fanaticism to individuals and communities deemed dangerous. Contributing to scholarship on secularism, racial governance, and American religious history, this dissertation argues that fanaticism is not a neutral category of description. It tracks how...
- Keyword:
- religion and violence, secularism, Christianity, colonialism, american religious history, and racial governance
- Subject:
- American history, Religion, and Religious history
- Creator:
- Wheatley, Jeffrey Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_758378 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15204
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- Description:
- We study plurisubharmonic functions and their applications to K\"ahler geometry. We begin by studying regularity of envelopes of plurisubharmonic functions, particularly when the reference form is degenerate. This is then applied to show regularity of geodesic of K\"ahler metrics on singular varieties, as well as regularity of certain geodesic rays....
- Keyword:
- Kahler Geometry and Plurisubharmonic Functions
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- McCleerey, Nicholas James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
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- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
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- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763826 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15252
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how one pervasive state institution¬—schools—shapes the political behavior of young people along the lines of race and ethnicity. I make four primary claims. First, I show that the content of traditional civic education courses privileges the political experiences of white political actors. Second, I argue that this...
- Keyword:
- Race, Ethnicity, Critical Pedagogy, Socialization, Civic Education, and Politics, Education Policy, and Youth Political Engagement
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Nelsen, Matthew D
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_759277 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15208
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- Description:
- The task of classification has been increasingly attracting attention from researchers in recent years. The objective is to assign labels given attributes of samples. The classification task is practical in real-world applications and is widely explored in fields such as computer vision, natural language processing and information retrieval. The recent...
- Keyword:
- neural networks, classification, machine learning, and deep learning
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence
- Creator:
- Xu, Yiming
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15370 and etdadmin_upload_778963
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates a number of models and algorithms in the context of optimization under uncertainty. The focus is on risk-averse optimization, where risk aversion is modeled via stochastic dominance, utility theory, and distributionally robust optimization. We first investigate an investment model with fixed contribution rates, optimize asset-allocation decisions in...
- Keyword:
- Stochastic Programming, Wasserstein distance, and Distributionally robust optimization
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Duque Villarreal, Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763341 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15241
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- Description:
- The three dimensional structure of a protein determines its biological function. How a protein folds, however, has been the central research problem for decades. The intermediates on the folding paths, which the protein can assume transiently, are of particular interest as they not only reveal the structural dynamics of a...
- Keyword:
- Molecular dynamics, X-ray scattering, X-ray absorption, Protein folding, Time-resolved, and Pure sciences
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry, Computational chemistry, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Hsu, Darren Jason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15359 and etdadmin_upload_774800
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- Description:
- The transportation infrastructure privatization is an essential solution to the public fund's shortage of transportation investments. In the privatization practices, the private firms build, operate, and own the transportation infrastructure under a limited term. Due to the private sector's involvement, the efficiency of the transportation service is determined not only...
- Keyword:
- Tolling and capacity decision, Pareto efficiency analysis, Mechanism design, Transportation infrastructure, Network analysis, and Public-private partnership
- Subject:
- Transportation and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Shu, Hang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764914 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15283
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- Description:
- Raman spectroscopy is an analytical technique that utilizes inelastic scattering of light to obtain structural information of analyte molecules. The weak intrinsic process of Raman scattering, however, can be greatly enhanced when molecules are placed on or near a surface of noble metal with nanostructures. Discovered over 40 years, surface-enhanced...
- Keyword:
- nanopipette, biosensing, Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, and microneedle arrays
- Subject:
- Analytical chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Park, Ji Eun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15215 and etdadmin_upload_760462
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- Description:
- The recently increasing precision in experimental measurements of observables in collider physics has demanded for a matching precision in the theoretical expectations for such observables. In Quantum ChromoDynamics, the fundamental underlying theory for collider physics, theoretical predictions are expressed under the form of perturbative series, where the expansion parameter is...
- Subject:
- Theoretical physics
- Creator:
- Isgro, Andrea
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15151 and etdadmin_upload_746893
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- Description:
- Fluid injection is one of the major triggering factors of infrastructure collapse and geo-hazards, among which some of the most recurrent ones are rainfall-induced landslides. Such events exhibit complicated spatiotemporal patterns, spanning from slow deformation to extremely rapid movements influencing large regions. To prevent the occurrence of catastrophic failures and...
- Keyword:
- instability criteria, viscoplasticity, constitutive model, wetting-induced failure, unsaturated soil, and solid-fluid transition
- Subject:
- Civil engineering
- Creator:
- chen, yanni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15183 and etdadmin_upload_754611
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- Description:
- In my dissertation, I investigate how formal and informal structures within the board can affect key board outcomes. While each chapter introduces a relatively under-recognized player in the governance space—compensation consultants (Chapter 1), multi-committee directors (Chapter 2), and executive chairmen (Chapter 3)—the main theme connecting all three centers on the...
- Subject:
- Business administration
- Creator:
- Gai, Shelby Lun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_741477 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15078
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- Description:
- While the entire silicon industry has been blooming under Moore’s Law for decades, conventional digital implementation is approaching the “stall” of Moore’s Law due to many physical design limitations. Technology innovation now is going to take a different direction. Given the increasing demand for emerging applications' computational capacity, it is...
- Keyword:
- computer architecture, mixed-signal time-domain computing, analog computing, machine learning , compute in memory (CIM), and image processing
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, and Engineering
- Creator:
- Chen, Zhengyu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15414 and etdadmin_upload_780953
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- Description:
- My dissertation, Geographies of Memory, Trauma, and Pleasure in African American and Caribbean-American Literature examines the geographies of the cane fields, bodies of water, and the back porch to illustrate the speculative ways anti-black violence, intergenerational trauma, pleasure and Black memory co-exist in Black literature. Examining the aforementioned geographies as...
- Keyword:
- Black Memory, Geography, Pleasure, and Trauma
- Subject:
- African American studies, Caribbean literature, and English literature
- Creator:
- Fetus, Mohwanah Garyne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15263 and etdadmin_upload_764269
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- Description:
- Histories of digital media, software, and computing are inseparable from histories of queer and transgender life. Stored in Memory: Recovering Queer and Transgender Life in Software History situates visual media like video glitch art, the computer’s graphical user interface, video games, and computer operating systems as the product of historical...
- Keyword:
- Software Studies, Queer Theory, Transgender (Trans) Studies, Media Studies, Media History, and Video Game Studies
- Subject:
- History, LGBTQ studies, and Communication
- Creator:
- Pow, Whitney Kristin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764549 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15274
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- Description:
- Ionizing radiation is known for being dangerous at high doses, beneficial for diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and expensive for hazardous waste disposal and other protection policies governments put in place. Balancing the benefits and risks is key to maximizing public health, reducing public fears, and reducing extraneous costs that...
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Zander, Alia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15292 and etdadmin_upload_765069
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains three chapters. In Chapter 1, I study the effects of bank leverage ratio restrictions in a general equilibrium model of the macroeconomy where lenders can anticipate bank runs. This framework allows the analysis of the tradeoffs associated with bank capital requirements - while unlimited leverage allows capital...
- Keyword:
- mortgage, credit supply, haircut, creditor rights, collateral, and repo
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Lewis, Brittany Almquist
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15346 and etdadmin_upload_773034
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- Description:
- Employees’ social class backgrounds remain a critical but often overlooked source of inequality in white-collar workplaces: employees from working-class backgrounds are less likely to be hired, less likely to advance to leadership positions, and earn less on average than their counterparts from middle- and upper-class backgrounds, even with the same...
- Keyword:
- organizational culture, inequality, and social class background
- Subject:
- Social psychology and Organizational behavior
- Creator:
- Dittmann, Andrea G
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_744046 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15136
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- Description:
- Massive amounts of data with a large number of predictors routinely arrive in data systems as a result of recent developments in data collection technology. In this data-intensive world, predictive models are more important than ever to extract information and make decisions, and are widely applied in many different fields....
- Subject:
- Industrial engineering
- Creator:
- Surer, Ozge
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_773016 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15344
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- Description:
- Stroke is the leading cause of permanent adult disability. Subcortical unilateral (hemiparetic) stroke affecting the internal capsule or basal ganglia is the most common of all strokes and usually results in hemiparesis of the contralateral arm and leg. About 80% of the individuals with a moderate to severe hemiparetic stroke...
- Keyword:
- Sensorimotor pathways, brainstem, stroke, spinal cord, and magnetic resonance imaging
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Karbasforoushan, Haleh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15187 and etdadmin_upload_754987
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates two ways in which personality psychology should move beyond the traditional approach of measuring personality with broad domains composed of trait descriptors, as exemplified by the Big Five taxonomy. The first study (Chapter 2) suggests an alternative to the traditional approach of aggregating personality items into domains....
- Keyword:
- Statistical learning, Behavioral frequency, Behavior, Nuance, Personality, and BISCUIT
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Elleman, Lorien Grey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15260 and etdadmin_upload_764195
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- Description:
- Leptin, a peptide mainly secreted in proportion to adipose tissue mass, increases energy expenditure with a parallel increase in breathing. The existence of a leptin-mediated neural circuit linking breathing to metabolism has been speculated, yet the precise central mechanisms were unknown. In my thesis, I show that optogenetic activation of...
- Keyword:
- NALCN, obesity, and Nucleus of the Solitary Tract
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Do, Jeehaeh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763656 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15246
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- Description:
- Thermoelectric materials are of particular interest in a variety of fields because of their ability to directly convert heat to electricity (and vice versa), however, they struggle to gain widespread adoption because of their low efficiency. A common strategy in the field of thermoelectricity is to introduce material defects into...
- Keyword:
- Mesoscale, Doping, Thermoelectric, EBSD, Electron Microscopy, and Semiconductor
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Energy
- Creator:
- Grovogui, Jann Albert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15371 and etdadmin_upload_779059
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- Description:
- We consider the statistical study of partially observed queueing systems arising in application areas such as hospital networks, data centers and cloud computing systems. Since these services operate under strict performance requirements, a statistical understanding of their performance is of great practical interest. A key challenge in these settings is...
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Proskynitopoulos, Alexej
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15419 and etdadmin_upload_781003
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- Description:
- As humans have evolved over time, so have the materials that they rely on. From the Stone Age through the Iron Age, entire eras have been defined by specific materials, their corresponding properties, and the applications they have enabled. This is still true to this day, as the Silicon Age...
- Subject:
- Nanoscience
- Creator:
- Kluender, Edward James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15286 and etdadmin_upload_764959
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- Description:
- “Musical Networks in Bergamo and the Borders of the Venetian Republic, 1580–1630,” examines the mediation and circulation of northern Italian music through social and professional networks with an emphasis on Bergamo, a thriving musical center during this period. In so doing, I challenge established narratives of early modern history that...
- Keyword:
- Early Modern Italy, Sixteenth-Century Music, Seventeenth-Century Music, Giovanni Cavaccio, Bergamo, and Venetian Republic
- Subject:
- History, European history, and Music history
- Creator:
- Rosenholtz-Witt, Jason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764519 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15270
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that the convergence of industrialized wage-labor, increased economic precariousness, close and partisan elections, and weak ballot laws dramatically increased the incidence of economic voter intimidation between 1873 and 1896. When this form of coercion primarily affected African American voters, as it did in the 1860s, politicians did...
- Keyword:
- elections, coercion, secret ballot, labor, race, and voter intimidation
- Subject:
- History, American history, and Political science
- Creator:
- Cohn-Postar, Gideon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15213 and etdadmin_upload_759978
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a collection of three studies on topics in economic history and labor economics, in Italy and the United States. The chapters are ordered chronologically, based on the period of interest. In the first chapter, I investigate the causes and consequences of public spending on primary education in...
- Keyword:
- Postrelease Outcomes, School Spending, Minimum Wage, Labor Economics, Labor History, and Convict Labor
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Marchingiglio, Riccardo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_756459 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15197