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- Information policies are an effective way to alleviate information asymmetries, but the effectiveness of such policies depends critically on the underlying incentives people face. This dissertation is comprised of three papers that study the welfare effects of various information policies using game-theoretic models. The first paper analyzes how networks of...
- Subject:
- Economic theory
- Creator:
- Murayama, Kota
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_744272 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15141
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- Iron is an essential nutrient and is critical for cellular growth and metabolism. Here, we delineate a novel mechanism by which iron alters amino acid homeostasis and mTOR activity by remodeling the cellular epigenetic landscape. We find that iron deficiency inactivates Jumonji-C domain containing histone-demethylases, resulting in histone hyper-methylation and...
- Keyword:
- Iron, Epigenetics, Mitophagy, Metabolism, and mTOR
- Subject:
- Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Shapiro, Jason Solomon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15209 and etdadmin_upload_759499
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- Description:
- Modern design practices rely more and more on computer simulations due to their low cost compared with physical experiments. However, it is still an elusive task to fully unleash the advantages of the simulation models while mitigating their disadvantages for designing complex engineering systems. In simulation-based design, computer simulation models...
- Keyword:
- Design optimization, Bayesian optimization, Uncertainty quantification, Simulation-based design, Model calibration, and Multidisciplinary design
- Subject:
- Statistics, Design, and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Tao, Siyu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_773686 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15350
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- Description:
- This thesis contains three chapters studying the evolution of the American higher education landscape, the different forces that shaped their organization, and how they, in turn, influenced human capital accumulation. The chapters are organized into three time periods: 1850-1900, 1910-1940, and 1980-2010. In the first chapter, joint with Heyu Xiong,...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Zhao, Yiling
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_771488 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15332
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I examine how the government should respond to sovereign risk and show that it has implications on the optimal behavior of the government. In Chapter 1, I look into international reserve management. In Chapter 2, I analyze the effects of sovereign risk on the size of fiscal...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Armella Olazabal, Sergio
- 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:15224 and etdadmin_upload_761620
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- Description:
- ABSTRACTUnderstanding Micro-macroscopic Phenomena of Tribological Fluids and Surfaces Mechanical power and motion are transmitted through interfaces under contact and relative motion. Friction is inevitable, which can lead to higher operating and energy costs, and severe frictional rubbing can result in material damage and cessation of motion. A deep understanding of...
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Pickens III, David Bruce
- 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:15405 and etdadmin_upload_780873
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- Description:
- The work presented in this thesis is aimed at developing surface coatings for two specific applications: 1) the self-cleaning surfaces and 2) fouling control in water filtration membranes. Since all materials interact with their environment through their surfaces, tailoring surface properties by implementing surface coatings can greatly affect their performances...
- Subject:
- Environmental engineering
- Creator:
- Won, Yechan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_751934 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15172
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Assembly Lines: Maquiladoras, Poverty, and the Environment in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1966-1972
- Description:
- This project uses the political and environmental history of maquiladoras—duty-free assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border—to offer new insights into two pivotal moments in the history of the U.S political economy: the poverty eradication plans of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and the neoliberal growth models of the late twentieth century....
- Keyword:
- Political History, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and Maquiladoras
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Harvey, Sean P
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764495 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15268
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- Description:
- A series of theories and models are developed and used to investigate the growth of protective oxide films on metal and alloy surfaces for cases in which Wagner's classical model of oxidation does not hold. First, irreversible thermodynamics is applied to formulate a model for the outward growth of rocksalt...
- Keyword:
- corrosion, mathematical modeling, irreversible thermodynamics, and high temperature oxidation
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Ramanathan, Rohit
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_757043 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15201
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- Description:
- Unmournable Void: Tending-Toward the Dead and Dying in Contemporary Black Performance and Visual Art, explores critical artistic practices that tend to the historical conditions of anti-black violence resulting from transatlantic slavery, colonialism, and apartheid. This triad of regimes produced the Black condition as the unmournable void lived in close proximity...
- Keyword:
- Blackness and Death
- Subject:
- Performing arts, Art history, and African studies
- Creator:
- Zondi, Mlondolozi Bradley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764213 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15261
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- Description:
- The Quincke effect is an electrohydrodynamic instability which gives rise to a torque on a dielectric particle in a uniform DC electric field. Previous studies reported that a sphere initially resting on the electrode rolls with steady velocity. In this thesis I report the experimental discovery of another regime, where...
- Keyword:
- Quincke, hovering, Electrohydrodynamics, self assembly, Suspension, and Fluids
- Subject:
- Fluid mechanics
- Creator:
- Pradillo Macias, Gerardo Emilio
- 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:15174 and etdadmin_upload_752435
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- Description:
- Fluorescence microscopy has become a widely used tool in many research areas. However, its spatial resolution, limited to 250 nm by the diffraction limit of light, has restricted direct observation of details of ultrastructural biology. In recent years, spectroscopic single-molecule localization microscopy (sSMLM), one of super-resolution imaging techniques, has been...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Song, Ki-Hee
- 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:15189 and etdadmin_upload_755276
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- Description:
- Robots can be capable partners when interacting with humans, but their value is largely dependent on how information is communicated in that partnership. In physical human-robot interaction, information is communicated via motion---configurations, velocities, forces, and torques. The autonomy interprets these implicit signals using metrics, which ultimately drive the the autonomy....
- Subject:
- Robotics and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Fitzsimons, Kathleen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_781114 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15423
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- Description:
- The need to rapidly develop and produce life-saving vaccines and therapeutics is critical for overcoming pandemics in a global economy. Recent advances in automation and cell-free systems have opened new avenues for expediting optimization and production of biologic vaccines and therapeutics. A key consideration for the development of protein biologics...
- Keyword:
- biotechnology, bioproduction, glycosylation, vaccines, cell-free protein synthesis, and synthetic biology
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Hershewe, Jasmine Marie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780613 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15396
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- Description:
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important gram-negative opportunistic pathogen whose large genome allows it to thrive in diverse environments. There is a wide range of phenotypic variation within the species, which can be attributed both to variation in sequences present in most isolates (the core genome) or the presence or absence...
- Keyword:
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa, antimicrobial resistance, machine learning, virulence, and genomics
- Subject:
- Microbiology
- Creator:
- Pincus, Nathan Benjamin
- 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:15326 and etdadmin_upload_770712
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- Description:
- This thesis presents methods to improve the manipulation capabilities of robots. People and animals can effectively handle objects of many shapes, sizes, weights, and materials using a variety of manipulation primitives such as grasping, pushing, sliding, tipping, rolling, and throwing. In contrast, most robots manipulate objects by pick-and-place. Restricting robots...
- Keyword:
- Manipulation, Controls, Hybrid, Robotic, and Motion Planning
- Subject:
- Robotics
- Creator:
- Woodruff, James Zachary
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_781100 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15422
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- Description:
- Sequential batches of time-evolving data for a set of persistent identifiable entities (e.g. online shopping behavior by month for a customer ID, or economic figures by year for a collection of countries) can exhibit temporal shifts in their underlying clustering structure. Methods for recovering this evolutionary clustering structure exploit natural...
- Keyword:
- clustering and multi-objective
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Alleman, Austin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763977 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15255
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- Description:
- The protein homeostasis (proteostasis) network, a critical cytoprotective system that restores homeostasis in response to molecular stress, comprises distinct pathways, including the heat-shock response, unfolded protein response, oxidative stress response, and autophagy. These distinct pathways are all co-opted by tumor cells to cope with cancer-associated stress, and their activation in...
- Subject:
- Pharmacology, Genetics, and Biology
- Creator:
- Brockway, Sonia Susan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780926 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15412
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- Description:
- Over the past 15 years, there have been significant developments in expanding the singlet fission (SF) library and understanding the SF mechanism. SF has been a topic of interest in recent years due to its potential applications in organic photovoltaics. During SF, a singlet exciton energetically down-converts into two triplet...
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Chen, Michelle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_768182 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15313
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- Description:
- Part I: Design of Photo-Responsive Molecules towards Biomedical ApplicationsThe use of light to control systems provides numerous advantages such as spatiotemporal precision, non-invasive penetration, and precise energy input. Specifically, molecules that undergo photoinduced cleavage, photoremovable protecting groups (PPGs) have emerged as an active area of research due to their broad...
- Subject:
- Polymer chemistry, Chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Wang, Xiaodi
- 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:15393 and etdadmin_upload_780358
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- Description:
- The pp → W + W − process is important as it allows the test of electroweak theory. Mea-surements of this processes have lead to reduced uncertainties on many other processes one of which being the Higgs. There have been discrepancies between predicted and measured cross-section values for pp →...
- Keyword:
- CMS and Standard Model
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Gunter, Thoth
- 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:15421 and etdadmin_upload_781085
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- Description:
- ABSTRACT Genome Mining in Actinobacteria via a Hybrid-Omics Discovery Platform James Hudson Tryon Natural products isolated from Actinobacteria are a vital source of medicines, agrochemicals, and commodity chemicals. The traditional, activity-driven fractionation pipelines that provided access to many of these natural products have delivered diminishing returns in recent decades. However,...
- Keyword:
- Genome mining, Metabolomics, Natural Products, Genomics, and Actinobacteria
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry and Analytical chemistry
- Creator:
- Tryon, James Hudson
- 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:15169 and etdadmin_upload_750764
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- Description:
- This thesis studies inter vivos transfers in twenty European countries during the years 2004 to 2017. Inter vivos transfers are transfers made during the lifetime of the donor and the donee. They participate in the intergenerational transmission of inequality and they are an expression of familial values of solidarity and...
- Keyword:
- altruism, inter vivos, and comparative sociology
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Hexel, Ole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_767090 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15307
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- Description:
- The hippocampus has a well-established role in episodic memory and serves as a hub in a network of distributed brain regions (i.e., hippocampal-cortical network; HCN). Theta-band (4-8 Hz) neural activity recorded in the hippocampus have been associated with memory processing, and synchronized theta oscillations among the hippocampus and HCN regions...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Hermiller, Molly Suzanne
- 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:15271 and etdadmin_upload_764537
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Role of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) in Endothelial Senescence and Cardiovascular Aging
- Description:
- Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) is an essential mediator of senescence and a potential therapeutic target for preventing aging-related pathologies. Cellular Senescence is associated with organismal aging and related pathologies. In our study, we investigate the efficacies of PAI-1 inhibitors in both in vitro and in vivo models of homocysteine...
- Keyword:
- pai-1
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Sun, Tianjiao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Modified:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15417 and etdadmin_upload_780977
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- Description:
- South Africa’s rates of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2016, the estimated 12-month prevalence for any psychiatric disorder was 16.2%, or approximately 9.1 million individuals. Despite these elevated rates of psychiatric morbidity, access to mental health treatment is poor: only 27%...
- Keyword:
- trauma , mental health, biological anthropology & human biology, South Africa, prenatal stress, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
- Subject:
- Epidemiology, Mental health, and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Kim, Andrew Wooyoung
- 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:15411 and etdadmin_upload_780918
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- Description:
- A significant portion of material science research is concerned with understanding theway that defects affect the properties materials. In the field of thermoelectrics introducingor removing point (0D), dislocation (1D), grain boundary (2D), or precipitate (3D) defectsare popular methods for altering a materials thermoelectric efficiency. Herein I discussdifferent studies conducted during...
- Keyword:
- Saturation Annealing, Band Engineering, Point Defect, Thermoelectric, and Phase Boundary Mapping
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Wood, Maxwell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_773176 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15347
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- Description:
- Formed through self-assembly of polynuclear node clusters and multitopic organic linkers, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of three-dimensional crystalline materials. Due to their exceptional porosity, high surface areas, amenability to construction, chemical diversity, uniformly arrayed metal-containing nodes, and highly modular nature, MOFs are an ideal class of materials for...
- Keyword:
- Chemical Separation, Gas Storage and Delivery, Metal–Organic Frameworks, Heterogeneous Catalysis Mechanism, Porous Materials, and Degradation of Nerve Agent and Simulant
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Liao, Yijun
- 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:15116 and etdadmin_upload_743673
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- Description:
- Pragmatic language refers to the use of language in social contexts and encompasses a broad range of verbal and nonverbal skills, which are critical to effective communication (Berko-Gleason & Bernstein-Ratner, 2009; Mey, 1993). Difficulties in pragmatic communication are a hallmark characteristic of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Similar deficits are also...
- Keyword:
- Down Syndrome, Pragmatic Language, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Fragile X Syndrome
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Bush, Lauren
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15022 and etdadmin_upload_720549
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the design and evaluation of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies for people with aphasia. Humans use speech and language to communicate their thoughts and opinions as well as express their individuality, autonomy and agency (George Armitage Miller 1951; Ahearn 2001). Speech and language are important tools...
- Keyword:
- HCI, AAC, Accessibility, Aphasia, and Assistive Technologies
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Obiorah, Mmachi God'sglory
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_773811 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15351
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- Description:
- This thesis focuses on two research topics: investigating dynamically generated seismic structures at the topmost outer core and studying dynamically triggered seismic events in the Earth’s crust. Earth’s liquid-iron outer core convects vigorously and contains buoyant light elements that accumulate at the top of the outer core. Modeling of seismic...
- Keyword:
- Outer Core, Machine-learning, and Dynamically triggered seismic events
- Subject:
- Geophysics
- Creator:
- Tang, Vivian
- 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:15357 and etdadmin_upload_774452
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- Description:
- Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) are a major source of gynaecologic morbidity in reproductive age women and are characterised by the excessive deposition of a disorganised extracellular matrix, resulting in rigid benign tumours. Clinically, leiomyoma patients usually present with pelvic pain, urinary incontinence, as well as heavy cyclic and non-cyclic bleeding. Curative...
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Bioinformatics, and Biology
- Creator:
- Moyo, Mthabisi Bongani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_723828 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15028
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that network television was a vehicle for the promotion and enactment of female intellectualism in the US during the period directly following World War II. Beginning in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, network television included among its offerings programs that were designed to appeal to...
- Keyword:
- Cultural History, Television, Media Studies, Whiteness Studies, Film Studies, and Middlebrow
- Subject:
- Mass communication, Women's studies, and American studies
- Creator:
- Goldstein, Leigh Mathia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_769860 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15320
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- Description:
- Despite the overall decline in the prevalence of cigarette use in the United States, the prevalence of menthol cigarette use is rising. Menthol cigarette use has been associated with greater difficulty in quitting smoking and increased dependence, which can be due to the cognitive enhancing and rewarding effects of nicotine....
- Keyword:
- Nicotine, Cognitive Task Performance, Menthol, and Cigarettes
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Jao, Nancy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_747120 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15153
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- Description:
- Due to the unprecedented sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO--Virgo network, in less than ~5 years the field of gravitational-wave astrophysics has evolved from speculating about the properties of compact binary mergers to having an observed population that facilitates astrophysical inference. These observations encode information about their progenitor stellar systems ---...
- Keyword:
- Neutron Stars, Binary Evolution, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves
- Subject:
- Astronomy and Physics
- Creator:
- Zevin, Michael Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764716 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15280
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- Description:
- Geographies of Indigeneity: Space, Race, and Power in the Andes (1880-1930), reframes the intellectual construction of indigeneity as the structural principle informing the postcolonial nation in the Andes. My main claim is that Andean scientific elites defined indigeneity as an ethnicity attached to a territory, privileging only Inca-centric lineages and...
- Keyword:
- Indigeneity, Andean studies, Indigenous studies, Latin American studies, Cultural studies, and 19th century
- Subject:
- Native American studies, Literature, and Latin American studies
- Creator:
- Maradiegue, Walther
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- es
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15293 and etdadmin_upload_765080
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- Description:
- This project will describe, in part, the central theoretical problem of the avant-garde, in phenomenological, theoretical, and ultimately ontological terms. The object of this chapter will be to acquire an understanding of the tension between the improvised phenomenality of the avant-garde, and its assumption and hypostatization into discourse. In doing...
- Keyword:
- avant-garde, Mandelstam, critical theory, Khlebnikov, and literature
- Subject:
- Slavic literature, Literature, and Modern literature
- Creator:
- Olowoyeye, Folahan
- 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:15138 and etdadmin_upload_744123
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- Description:
- The era of big data creates opportunities for carrying out scientific simulations at exascale.With increasing data size, the complexity of the design and execution of scientific applications demand the use of high-level tools, namely workflow systems on supercomputers. The performance of workflow systems has paramount importance since the goal of...
- Keyword:
- High performance computing, Parallel Computing, and Parallel I/O
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Kang, Qiao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780039 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15382
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- Description:
- Transition metal oxides (TMOs) like perovskites are known to be versatile for functional properties such as ferroelectricity, magnetism, optical properties, and high-temperature superconductivity, because of their sensitive coupling between atomic structure and properties. By studying and understanding the fundamental structure-property relationships present in TMOs, it is possible to strategically engineer...
- Keyword:
- perovskites, Density functional theory, and oxygen vacancy
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Materials Science, and Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Shin, Yongjin
- 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:15282 and etdadmin_upload_764869
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- Description:
- Over the past fifty years, techniques for synthesizing and manipulating matter on the 1-100 nanometer scale have led to the development of nanoparticle-based approaches to both disease diagnosis and treatment. The modification of nanoparticles with biological macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids has led to the development of highly...
- Keyword:
- Spherical Nucleic Acid, Anthrax, Aptamer, NanoFlare, Gold Nanoparticle, and CRISPR
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Bioengineering, and Biology
- Creator:
- Larkin, Isaac Nathaniel
- 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:15186 and etdadmin_upload_754966
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- Description:
- Neural stem and progenitor cell (NPC) fate specification is a crucial component of central nervous system development, and the myriad signaling pathways that guide it are poorly understood. In my thesis work, I aimed to elucidate signaling mechanisms of the bone morphogenetic protein family (BMP) and some of its targets...
- Keyword:
- YAP, Integrin, neural stem cell, TAZ, BMP, and HtrA1
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Chen, Jessie
- 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:15191 and etdadmin_upload_755327
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- Description:
- Current biomaterials-based methods for in vitro ovarian follicle culture enable individual follicles or follicle classes to survive and carry out basic functions of the ovary, including hormone and release of mature oocytes upon gonadotropin stimulation. However, these current strategies do not support the survival and maturation of isolated primordial and...
- Keyword:
- 3D bioprinting, follicle, ovary, tissue engineering, extracellular matrix, and ultrasound
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Gargus, Emma S
- 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:15147 and etdadmin_upload_744725
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- Description:
- The relationship between law and war has evolved substantially over two centuries. One aspect of this evolution that merits further examination is legal accountability. Some international relations (IR) scholars maintain international law lacks meaningful influence without enforcement capabilities. But this critique of international law’s capacity to deliver meaningful influence in...
- Subject:
- International relations and International law
- Creator:
- Trabucco, M. Lena
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780967 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15415
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- Description:
- Although centrosomes nucleate and organize microtubules in mitotically-dividing cells, spindles in female reproductive cells (oocytes) form in their absence. In some organisms acentrosomal spindle assembly is mediated by acentriolar microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) that are thought to functionally replace centrosomes. However, spindle assembly in human oocytes does not require MTOCs;...
- Keyword:
- acentrosomal, meiosis, acentriolar, kinesin, microtubule, and C. elegans
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Biochemistry, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Wolff, Ian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763687 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15248
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- Description:
- Melanopsin-expressing, intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) represent a class of non-canonical, ganglion cell photoreceptors. These cells influence a variety of visual behaviors including contrast sensitivity, circadian photoentrainment, sleep, and even mood. These wide-ranging behavioral influences are attributed to the multiple subtypes (M1-6) that comprise the ipRGC population, with different...
- Keyword:
- Development, ipRGCs, Melanopsin, and Retina
- Subject:
- Neurosciences and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Lucas, Jasmine Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_744013 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15132
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- Description:
- The discovery of abundant reserves of shale gas over this past decade has reshaped the world’s energy landscape. It has renewed interests in the activation and conversion of methane as well as other light alkanes. While the oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) and oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of ethane and propane...
- Keyword:
- methane, ethane, sulfur, ethylene, and mechanism
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- LIU, SHANFU
- 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:15196 and etdadmin_upload_756397
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- Description:
- Millions of people freelance in the growing online gig economy, making it important to advance pay equity and support freelancers in earning their livelihoods online. Compared to offline employment, freelancing introduces at least two challenges that threaten freelancers’ ability to secure work and the equitability of the gig economy: 1)...
- Keyword:
- equity, gender, human-computer interaction, freelancing, feedback, and online gig economy
- Subject:
- Computer science and Communication
- Creator:
- Foong, Eureka
- 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:15400 and etdadmin_upload_780786
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- Description:
- We rely on the properties of our skeletal muscles to traverse our world, interact with objects, and complete everyday tasks. The macroscopic properties of muscles that endow us with these abilities arise from the material properties of muscle fibers and the surrounding extracellular matrix (ECM), as well as how they...
- Keyword:
- Skeletal Muscle, Decellularization, Material Properties, Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography, and Extracellular Matrix
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Reyna, William Eric
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_773821 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15352
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- Description:
- The integration of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) into large scale computing systems is gaining attention. In these systems, real-time data handling for networking, tasks for scientific computing, and machine learning can be executed with customized datapaths on reconfigurable fabric within heterogeneous compute nodes. At the same time, high-level synthesis (HLS)...
- Keyword:
- thermal-aware design, thermal modeling, dynamic monitoring, high-performance computing, task placement, and OpenCL
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Luo, Yingyi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_774615 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15358
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- Description:
- Multistage optimization is a prominent modeling tool to solve a broad range of dynamic decision-making problems in the presence of uncertainty. However, computing optimal policies is intractable, since they are obtained by considering all possible realizations of uncertainties and subsequent future decisions over time. To overcome these challenges, we present...
- Keyword:
- Robust Optimization, Multistage Optimization, Dynamic Policies, Distributionally Robust Optimization, and Adaptive Policies
- Subject:
- Industrial engineering and Operations research
- Creator:
- Han, Eojin
- 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:15200 and etdadmin_upload_756991
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- Description:
- Chemical modifications of oligonucleotides (ONs) have advanced these molecules towards clinical approvals. On their own, native ONs have poor pharmacokinetic properties, such as rapid degradation by nucleases and poor cell uptake, which limit their potential therapeutic applications. Chemical modifications of ONs can increase their stability, alter their interactions with cells,...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Skakuj, Kacper
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_769294 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15317
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- Description:
- The development of new catalytic methodologies for the precision synthesis of carbon-carbon bonds is central to the advancement of synthetic organic chemistry. Significant focuses of these efforts are made on the enantio- and diastereoselective synthesis of carbon frameworks, especially as chemists and biologists become more aware of the impact of...
- Keyword:
- cooperative, tetrahydropyranoindole, catalysis, chemoenzymatic, chiral phosphoric acid, and lactone
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Maskeri, Mark Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_749341 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15159
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- Description:
- After spending most of her flight back to Ghana writing a letter to her estranged lover, Sissie, Ama Ata Aidoo’s protagonist in Our Sister Killjoy, observes the actions of her fellow passengers and reads the atmosphere onboard the airplane as that of “another human market-place.” Sissie’s statement transports into her...
- Keyword:
- airplane, transnational, air, airport, mobility, and flight
- Subject:
- Black studies, African literature, and English literature
- Creator:
- Kumavie, Francisca Delali
- 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:15124 and etdadmin_upload_743910
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- Description:
- We study the symmetry groups with respect to various equivalence relations defined on subshifts, and more generally, on Cantor systems. Two basic notions of equivalence for dynamical systems are conjugacy and flow equivalence. In this dissertation, we focus on the well-studied automorphism group, which is the group of self-conjugacies, and...
- Keyword:
- Symbolic Dynamics, Automorphism Groups, Topological Dynamics, and Dynamics
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Yang, Kitty
- 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:15284 and etdadmin_upload_764952
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- Description:
- We present two ways in which measures of information can be used for the design and analysis of neural networks in both the brain and the computer. In the brain, stimulus is often represented as a distributed pattern of activity in a network of neurons. The quality of such population...
- Keyword:
- Neural Coding, Fisher Information, Memory, Neural Networks, Population Coding, and Information Theory
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence, Neurosciences, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Kim, Hyun Jin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764291 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15264
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that royal nomadism, the custom whereby medieval rulers moved between many castles in a predetermined cycle, fundamentally affected the floorplan, use, and adornment of courtly built environments. This argument is a new departure for the study of castles. Scholars of medieval castles acknowledge that rulers passed through...
- Keyword:
- royal court, castles, itinerancy, portability, and mobility
- Subject:
- Architecture, Archaeology, and Medieval history
- Creator:
- Miller, Scott David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_756900 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15199
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- Description:
- Proper spatiotemporal expression of genes is essential during development. One method of regulation of signaling-responsive genes is at the level of transcription. In this work, I present the adaptation of single molecule fluorescent in situ hybridization for use in Drosophila imaginal disc tissues in order to more precisely quantify transcript...
- Keyword:
- gene expression, transcription, microscopy, bursting, in situ hybridization, and drosophila
- Subject:
- Systematic biology, Biology, and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Bakker, Rachael
- 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:15416 and etdadmin_upload_780973
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- Description:
- This dissertation documents the centrality of emotion to Americans’ understanding of, participation in, and critiques of the expanding economy in the first half of the nineteenth century. By then, many people viscerally understood that white men’s attempts to procure credit and escape debt could produce fear, anger, guilt, and sadness....
- Keyword:
- gender, United States, emotion, and capitalism
- Subject:
- American history and Gender studies
- Creator:
- McCoy, Laura
- 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:15273 and etdadmin_upload_764546
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- Description:
- Bitcoin is a decentralized payment system proposed in 2008 by Nakamoto, who remains anonymous to date. It offers an effective alternative to fiat money or centralized payment systems with advantages on privacy, anonymity, and low international remittance fees. The transactions in Bitcoin payment system are sent through a peer-to-peer network,...
- Keyword:
- Bitcoin, blockchain, Nakamoto consensus, and security
- Subject:
- Engineering
- Creator:
- Li, Jing
- 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:15372 and etdadmin_upload_779130
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- Description:
- Supervised learning model is one of the most fundamental machine learning models. It can provide powerful capability of prediction by learning complex patterns hidden in many, sometimes thousands, predictors. It can also be used as a building block of other machine learning tasks, like unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning. Such...
- Keyword:
- Stochastic Microstructures, Fisher Score, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Concept Drift, and Nonstationarity Analysis
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Statistics, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Zhang, Kungang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_765218 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15297
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- Description:
- Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) has emerged as a transformative paradigm that enables the co-design of products, materials, and their manufacturing processes. A gamut of computational tools, such as manufacturing process simulations and multiscale materials analyses, have been developed henceforth by their respective research communities. However, it remains challenging to...
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Huang, Tianyu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_781131 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15424
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- Description:
- “American Sediments” is a study of Black, white, and Indigenous literatures and complementary visual culture centered on the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, in texts written after Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn—still the archetypal version of the Mississippi, but inevitably unaligned with historical changes, cultural diversities, and economic shifts...
- Keyword:
- Southern Literature, Mississippi River, African American Literature, Native American Literature, and Environmental Literature
- Subject:
- American literature and American studies
- Creator:
- Cerne, Sara
- 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:15314 and etdadmin_upload_768497
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- Description:
- Religious buildings have always faced the threat of fire, but an unusual number of church fires occurred in northern France during the 12th century. Despite this prevalence, a sustained study on medieval church fires -- including how and why they started, how people responded when they occurred, theological reckonings with...
- Keyword:
- Miracle, Disaster, Chronicle, Fire, Church, and Medieval
- Subject:
- Medieval history
- Creator:
- Doll, Kristin Laura
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_744264 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15140
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- Description:
- Thermoelectric materials have attracted widespread attention in recent decades because of their ability to directly convert thermal energy into electrical energy. Given that waste heat is the primary source of lost energy in the world, the implications of developing better thermoelectric materials are both immediate and far-reaching. Admittedly, large progress...
- Keyword:
- phase diagram, thermoelectric, first-principles, density functional theory, thermodynamics, and energy
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Computational physics
- Creator:
- Hua, Xia
- 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:15239 and etdadmin_upload_763275
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- Description:
- Dual-phase (DP) steels have been widely applied in automobile industry, and are famous for continuous yielding in their corresponding stress-strain curves. The appearance of yield-point phenomena, or discontinuous yielding, is considered undesirable for DP steels. Herein, we take advantage of the undesirable appearance of yield-point phenomena in DP steels as...
- Keyword:
- dual-phase steel, inter-critical annealing, microstructure-property relationship, and Materials design
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Ren, Qingqiang
- 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:15327 and etdadmin_upload_770896
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the role of the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, created in 1817, in shaping the practice of colonial agriculture in the Netherlands East Indies. It explores how Buitenzorg and its surrounding highland environs were an ideal place for botanical investigations and agricultural experimentation. The initial task of the...
- Keyword:
- Imperial History, Environmental History, Botanical Garden, History of Science, Colonial Botany, and Indonesian History
- Subject:
- History, Asian history, and Science history
- Creator:
- Adam, Luthfi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_744900 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15149
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- Description:
- Liquid 3He is the paradigm system for studying exotic quantum mechanical phenomena observed in nature. The normal state of 3He is a strongly-correlated Fermi liquid with strong ferromagnetic spin fluctuations. However, as we cool 3He down to T = 0K, we find something fascinating and unexpected. This exotic fluid remains...
- Keyword:
- Superfluidity, Helium 3, Quantized Vortex, Superconductivity, Quantum Mechanics, and Phase Transitions
- Subject:
- Theoretical physics, Condensed matter physics, and
- Creator:
- Regan, Robert Charles
- 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:15410 and etdadmin_upload_780916
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- Description:
- In the absence of any significant federal policy to mitigate climate change, many (though not all) U.S. states have stepped in to fill the void. But the policies these states have adopted vary considerably in their quality. For example, California’s economy-wide greenhouse gas policy was significantly stronger than Massachusetts’, which...
- Keyword:
- business power, political sociology, business preferences, climate and energy policy, environmental sociology, and state politics
- Subject:
- Environmental law and Public policy
- Creator:
- Basseches, Joshua
- 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:15219 and etdadmin_upload_761385
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- Description:
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, progressive disease associated with physical, financial, and psychological burdens. Depression and anxiety, common comorbidities, are associated with poor outcomes including worse disease course, higher disability, decreased health related quality of life and reduced medication adherence. Prevention of psychological comorbidities and promotion of well-being...
- Keyword:
- Brain-Gut, Positive Psychology, Public Health, Mental Health, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and Well-Being
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Craven, Meredith
- 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:15305 and etdadmin_upload_765872
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- Description:
- This dissertation considers a rich and diverse material record pertaining to the dynamic between art and the relic treasury in the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire from c. 1100 into the sixteenth century. Across this broad period and region—and even well beyond—real and imagined collections of relics...
- Keyword:
- treasury, early modern, collection, relic, medieval, and mediation
- Subject:
- Art history
- Creator:
- Oswald, Julia Marie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_743925 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15125
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- Description:
- Recently, a myriad of applications take advantage of deep learning methods to solve regression/classification problems. Although deep neural networks have shown powerful learning capability, many deep learning applications suffer from the extremely time-consuming training of the neural networks. In order to reduce the training time, researchers usually consider parallel training...
- Keyword:
- Adaptive Batch Size, Data Parallelism, Deep Learning, and Communication Cost
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Lee, Sunwoo N/A
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_772590 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15340
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- Description:
- My dissertation identifies the causes of inequality traps - i.e., high and persistent levels of economic inequality - in Latin America and explains how and why some countries manage to escape such traps and embark on paths of diminishing inequality. I argue that the Redistributive State Power shapes the main...
- Keyword:
- Redistributive Politics, State, Inequality, Political Economy, and Economic Elites
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Garcia-Montoya, Laura
- 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:15228 and etdadmin_upload_762761
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the effects of phase transfers with thiol ligands on the optical properties of quantum dots (QDs) in water by investigating two systems: i) dihydrolipoic acid (DHLA)-capped PbS QDs and ii) thiolated DNA-capped core/shell CdSe/CdS QDs. QDs are bright, monodisperse, and tunable hydrophobic nanoparticles with high photoluminescence (PL)...
- Keyword:
- phase transfer, energy transfer, fractals, aggregation, and quantum dots
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry and Nanoscience
- Creator:
- Schwabacher, James Ciro
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_753463 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15179
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- Description:
- The objective of this dissertation is to examine the mutually constitutive relationship between historiography, collective memory, and cultural narratives in the representation of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) in present-day France and Algeria. Taking the turn of the twenty-first century as its point of departure, this study analyzes modern...
- Keyword:
- Algerian literature, Algerian War of Independence, French literature, Memory studies, Torture, and Postcolonialism
- Subject:
- French literature and African literature
- Creator:
- Grimm, Rachel Mihuta
- 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:15143 and etdadmin_upload_744294
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- Description:
- Decisions in naturalistic environments usually feature delayed and uncertain outcomes that can only be reached after a sequence of actions are performed. For example, canonical stalking and pursuit strategies used by terrestrial predators often involve stages of concealment, pauses where the predator remains motionless, and high speed chase sequences. The...
- Keyword:
- Ecology, Evolution, Decision Making, and Computational Neuroscience
- Subject:
- Ecology, Biomedical engineering, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Mugan, Ugurcan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_769384 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15318
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- Description:
- The investigation of ceria-related materials has a long history since 1920s. The first publication on web of science traces back to 1928. Ever since that, more studies come out and surge starting from 1987. This material has attracted extensive attention due to its wide applications in electrochemical devices, catalysis, and...
- Keyword:
- zirconium, thermochemical fuel production, catalysis, ceria, redox kinetics, and oxygen vacancy
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Yuan, Weizi
- 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:15180 and etdadmin_upload_753575
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- Description:
- In Chapter 1, we construct a test for hypotheses about the effect of a recent policy change, when a single unit is treated and there are several control units, with time series observations of each available before and after the policy change. The goal is to incorporate information provided by...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Hardwick, Joseph William George
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_772906 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15343
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- Description:
- During the antebellum and post-Reconstruction periods, Black authors were concerned with white antipathy towards the political aspirations of African Americans. For many of these authors, sonic figures of resonance, vibration, and musicality served as the key sensory modalities through which the nexus of American anti-Blackness and civil politics could be...
- Keyword:
- Frederick Douglass, Pauline Hopkins, sound studies, and Harriet Jacobs
- Subject:
- African American studies and English literature
- Creator:
- Papanikolas, Antonio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_775582 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15361
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- Description:
- Evolutionary theory predicts that reproduction entails energetic costs that detract from somatic maintenance, accelerating biological aging. In women, such ‘costs of reproduction’ (CoR) are thought to arise predominantly during pregnancy and lactation, while in men the physiological effects of the steroid hormone testosterone (T) are believed to be a major...
- Keyword:
- Epigenetic clocks, Tradeoffs, Disposable soma theory, Costs of reproduction, Aging, and DNA methylation
- Subject:
- Genetics, Evolution & development, and Biology
- Creator:
- Ryan, Calen Patrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780539 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15395
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- Description:
- Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in the past decade on tasks that were out of reach prior to the era of deep learning. Amongst the myriad reasons for these successes are powerful computational resources, large datasets, new optimization algorithms, and modern architecture designs. Most of the reasons are...
- Keyword:
- Statistical Physics, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Statistical physics
- Creator:
- Wei, Mingwei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_777448 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15367
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- Description:
- The product of hexokinase (HK) enzymes, glucose-6-phosphate, can be metabolized through glycolysis or directed to alternative pathways, such as the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) to generate anabolic intermediates. HK1 contains an N-terminal domain that permits mitochondrial binding, but its physiologic significance remains unclear. We generated mice lacking the HK1 mitochondrial-binding...
- Keyword:
- Inflammation, Hexokinase, Macrophage, Subcellular localization, Metabolism, and Mitochondria
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- De Jesus, Adam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_773389 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15348
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- Description:
- The language Esterel has found success in many safety-critical applications, from aircraft landing gear to digital signal processors. Its unique combination of powerful control operations, deterministic concurrency, and real time execution bounds are indispensable to programmer in these kinds of safety-critical domains. However these features lead to an interesting facet...
- Keyword:
- Programming Languages, Semantics, Calculus, and Esterel
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Florence, Spencer P
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_754043 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15182
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- Description:
- Biological organisms have the extraordinary ability to form mineral structures with unparalleled control. From curved single crystals to hierarchically structured skeletal parts, biomineralization processes produce materials with properties that are highly optimized for their intended applications. These processing techniques occur at ambient conditions using materials abundant in the environment, and...
- Keyword:
- Enamel, Atom Probe Tomography, and Biominerals
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- DeRocher, Karen
- 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:15281 and etdadmin_upload_764846
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- Description:
- This dissertation traces the intellectual and social history of slavery in the Lower Congo over the Longue Durée. It examines how Bantu-speaking groups of the Lower Congo inherited, constructed, reconstructed, and passed on to younger generations a vocabulary that framed their shifting slaving practices from their arrival in the region...
- Keyword:
- Atlantic World, Slavery, and African History
- Subject:
- African history
- Creator:
- Abreu Lelitão de Almeida, Marcos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_760202 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15214
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- Description:
- Simulation studies are virtually all motivated by decision making. Because simulation output is stochastic and input models are never perfect, all decisions should include an accounting for risks. Input model risk refers to the exposure due to imperfect simulation input models that are estimated from real-world data, involving both the...
- Keyword:
- model averaging, input modeling, input model risk, local sensitivity measures, sensitivity analysis, and input uncertainty
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- JIANG, XI
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763007 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15233
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- Description:
- This thesis provides an introduction to decay rates for the damped wave equation on compact manifolds. It also gives a proof of a sharp decay rate for solutions to the damped wave equation on the torus with damping of a particular polynomial form. Finally it gives a proof of a...
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Kleinhenz, Peter Barone
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764401 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15267
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- Description:
- Classical conditioning is a form of associative learning and can be used as a behavioral paradigm to model and investigate the neural mechanisms underlying associative learning. In this work, classical conditioning paradigms are used to test the effectiveness of a disease model on the impact of learning and emotional regulation...
- Keyword:
- Memory, Persistent Firing, Entorhinal Cortex, Aging, Learning, and Postburst Afterhyperpolarization
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Lin, Carmen
- 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:15321 and etdadmin_upload_770003
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- Description:
- Histone methylation plays an important role as an epigenetic regulator, capable of driving stable, persistent changes in gene expression without changing a cell's genetic code. Previous work has used stable isotope labeling (SILAC) in combination with mass spectrometry to observe the relationship between the methylation of two neighboring lysine sites...
- Keyword:
- mass spectrometry, histone methylation, epigenetics, weighted least squares, and Markov
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Yungster, Nir
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780806 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15401
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the longue durée political history of Ateker-speaking agro-pastoralists in the semi-arid plains of today’s Uganda – Kenya – Ethiopia – South Sudan borderlands. Today’s Ateker-speaking communities include the Karimojong, Teso, Turkana, Toposa, Dodos, Jie, Nyangatom, and Jiye. Over the past millennium, Ateker-speaking communities developed a diversity of...
- Keyword:
- Ateker, Teso, Historical Linguistics, Karimojong, Turkana, and Uganda
- Subject:
- African history, Sub Saharan Africa studies, and Linguistics
- Creator:
- Fitzsimons, William
- 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:15257 and etdadmin_upload_764137
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- Description:
- Abstract This dissertation studies a creative archive composed of poems, novels, performances, and visual art produced after 1990 that increasingly represent the ocean as “one salt water”: a space of relations among Indigenous oceanic peoples, animals, plants, and other beings. In doing so, these texts work to forge solidarities and...
- Keyword:
- Environment, Indigenous Studies, Pacific, Oceania, trans-Indigenous, and Activism
- Subject:
- Literature, Environmental justice, and English literature
- Creator:
- Etherington, Bonnie Joy
- 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:15129 and etdadmin_upload_743962
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- Description:
- Multimetallic nanoparticles represent an important class of electrocatalysts which are critical for many energy and environmental applications including fuel cells, hydrogen production, and greenhouse gas elimination. The properties of these nanoparticles depend on their composition, size, shape, and structure. Therefore, developing new strategies which provide a high level of control...
- Keyword:
- Electrocatalyst, Catalysis, Nanoparticle synthesis, and Multimetallic Nanoparticle
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Huang, Liliang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_754834 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15185
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- Description:
- A hybrid multimodal mobility system aims to deliver mobility as a service by integrating a broad range of existing and emerging public transportation services. The appeal of a hybrid system is twofold. First, it can strike a better balance between cost and level of service (accessibility, efficiency etc.). Second, it...
- Keyword:
- Network design, Continuous approximation, Hybrid mobility system, and Public transit
- Subject:
- Transportation and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Luo, Sida
- 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:15206 and etdadmin_upload_758565
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- Description:
- Optical fibers utilize nonlinear effects to help transmit soliton or near soliton pulses in a variety of contexts including optical communication systems and fiber lasers. Fiber lasers produce ultra-short pulses, down to a few femtoseconds in duration, via a process called mode-locking where modes of the optical cavity are synchronized...
- Keyword:
- Importance sampling, Rare event simulation, Solitons, and Monte Carlo
- Subject:
- Optics and Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Sanford, Nathan Len
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_767150 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15308
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- Description:
- The study of digital inequality has advanced our understanding of how existing socioeconomic disadvantage – such as by income, education, age, gender, and race – translates into disadvantage in the digital realm. Yet, our understanding of the relationships between the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and broader processes...
- Keyword:
- homelessness, urban, digital inequality, smartphones, ethnography, and social media
- Subject:
- Sociology and Communication
- Creator:
- Marler, Will
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763664 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15247
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- Description:
- Tooth enamel, the outermost layer of human teeth, is a complex, hierarchically structured biocomposite. The details of this structure are important in multiple human health contexts, from understanding the progression of dental caries (tooth decay) to understanding the process of amelogenesis (enamel formation) and related developmental defects.While much is known...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Free, Robert D
- 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:15383 and etdadmin_upload_780056
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- Description:
- Imagine someone who was raised to hold a number of irrational and objectionable beliefs. There seems to be an important sense in which they lack control over these beliefs, and so we might think they are not responsible for them. But many of our beliefs are like this: they are...
- Keyword:
- Norms, Answerability, Epistemic, Responsibility, Doxastic, and Belief
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Osborne, Robert Carry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_779868 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15379
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- Description:
- Heart failure due to genetic cardiomyopathy is associated with a range of phenotypic expression. The studies in this body of work interrogated the role of noncoding variation in modifying cardiomyopathy phenotypes. We used cap analysis of gene expression in heathy and failed left ventricles to define the regulatory environment of...
- Keyword:
- noncoding, genetics, MYH7, heart failure, modifier, and enhancer
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Genetics, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Gacita, Anthony Martin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_756135 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15193
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- Description:
- The U.S. population is rapidly changing with recent projections showing that soon whites will no longer be the majority. This information, when shown to white Americans, can generate a sense of threat. Across the three studies of this dissertation, I frame this group threat (i.e., a change in the demographic...
- Keyword:
- political psychology, political behavior, experimental methods, public opinion, public policy, and race
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Thompson, Andrew Ifedapo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_767170 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15309
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- Description:
- Pharmaceutical companies pay more than $2 billion to physicians every year. Most of these payments are for food and beverage, speaking, honoraria, consulting, and travel and lodging, which are termed “general payments.” These payments have come under increased scrutiny as critics of pharmaceutical promotion argue that they influence prescribing in...
- Keyword:
- Prescriptions, Pharmaceutical company payments, Pharmaceuticals, and Advertising
- Subject:
- Marketing, Economics, and Health care management
- Creator:
- Cakkalkurt, Hasat
- 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:15216 and etdadmin_upload_760464
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- Description:
- Lower-SES (socioeconomic status) couples tend to face more challenges in their relationships. Relative to higher-SES couples, they are less likely to marry, more likely to divorce, and less satisfied with their relationships—but they do not value their romantic relationships any less. Drawing on risk regulation theory and theories of social...
- Subject:
- Social psychology
- Creator:
- Emery, Lydia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_762743 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15227