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- Understanding electrical circuits can be difficult for novices of all ages (Grotzer & Sudbury, 2000; Osborne, 1983; Shipstone, 1984; Tarciso Borges, 1999). Research shows that novices tend to have inadequate understandings of what happens at the level of atoms and electrons, leading to difficulty predicting the outcomes of electrical circuits...
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- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Elham Beheshti Zavareh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Kezban Yagci Sokat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Totipotent cells have the highest developmental potential and can only be created by nuclear transfer into oocytes. Identities of maternal factors that can induce this reprogramming remain a mystery. In this report, we demonstrate induction of totipotency on mouse embryonic stem cells by introducing six factors, Hist1h2aa, H3f3b, H1foo, p-Npm2,...
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- Totipotent, Embryonic, Reprogramming, Stem Cells, Regenerative, and Pluripotent
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- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Sanders Oh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Metabolic engineering of microorganisms to produce useful compounds from renewable substrates is a promising means for sustainable, on-demand production of chemicals. However, efforts to design and engineer microbial cell factories are constrained by costly and slow “build” times in which each genetic variation requires re-engineering a new strain for each...
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- metabolic engineering, cell-free, synthetic biology, prototyping, and limonene
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Quentin Merle Dudley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The limits of miniaturization of electronic device components and the steady need for faster computation power have motivated the discovery and cultivation of low-dimensional materials. Among these, two-dimensional (2D) materials have exhibited a wide range of superlative optoelectronic, thermal and mechanical properties. The interest in 2D materials took-off with the...
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- mixed-dimensional heterostructures, two-dimensional materials, and van der Waals heterostructure
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Itamar Balla
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Wind pollination has evolved from animal pollination at least 65 times in flowering plants, but the reverse transition is rare. Wind pollination is usually accompanied by the loss of traits that attract pollinators, and re-evolving them may be difficult. This dissertation examines this rare transition using Artocarpus (ca. 70 spp.,...
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- Chemical ecology, Moraceae, Phylogenetics, underutilized crops, tropical biology, and Pollination
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Elliot M. Gardner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- What follows is a strictly post-genomic dissertation. Over the past five years, I have strived to leave the nucleus behind, and even the endoplasmic reticulum and golgi apparatus. The human genome was sequenced over 15 years before the submission of this document, and the world changed somewhat less than anticipated—besides...
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- Top-Down Proteomics, Proteomics, Transplantation, Immunology, Mass Spectrometry, and Proteoforms
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Tinothy Toby
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation develops a framework to approach musical hybridity by considering style and genre interactions as an analytical layer of combinations of identities. It engages with the structural, contextual, and perceptual aspects of music by mixing perspectives from music studies with postcolonial studies, situated cognition, and genre studies. Hybridity is...
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- Hybridity, Analysis, Style and Genre, Music Theory, and Mixture
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Bruno Moschini Alcalde
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The rodent whisker system is a widely used model to study the sense of touch. Its neuroanatomy parallels that of the human, but its mechanics are vastly simplified compared to that of the human tactile system. Just like other modalities with complex sensor accessory structures, the geometry, mechanics, and material...
- Keyword:
- rat, mouse, vibrissa, and seal
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Hayley Belli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In the past few years, educators have been pushing for an integration of the arts into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning to promote innovation and creativity in these fields. The present study explores the relation between creativity and STEM learning among young children in digital and non-digital contexts,...
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- Play, communication, csht, Preschoolers, STEM, Tablets, Creativity , Learning, and Young Children
- Creator:
- Allyson Snyder
- Owner:
- als7643
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2019
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- The expanding use of nanomaterials in consumer products challenges scientists to understand the impact of these materials before their inevitable release into the environment. In the same way that the widespread use of DDT and asbestos has caused unforeseen negative impacts on both the environment and on human health, the...
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- Nanomaterials, Sum Frequency Scattering, Sum Frequency Generation, Nano-Biointerface, and Nonlinear Optics
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Laura Olenick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Many species have lost their natural habitat due to anthropogenic land use change. Ecologists are increasingly looking at habitat in cities to bolster efforts to conserve biodiversity. Green roofs are examples of urban habitats that are becoming more common globally. Green roofs can provide resources to support life in an...
- Keyword:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Kelly Ksiazek Mikenas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system delivers effector proteins directly into target cells, allowing the bacterium to modulate host cell functions. ExoU is the most cytotoxic of the known effector proteins and has been associated with more severe infections in humans. Previous studies have shown that ExoU is a...
- Keyword:
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa, ExoU, and oligomerization
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Angelica Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Creator:
- Michelle Guittar, Scott Garton, Michael Perry, and Gina Petersen
- Owner:
- Gina Petersen
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/08/2020
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- The promise of next-generation electronics, which combines features such as mechanical flexibility, optical transparency, and relatively low-cost, has stimulated tremendous research efforts during the past few years. As perhaps the most fundamental component of an electronic circuit, the design and optimization of the thin film transistor (TFT) is of great...
- Keyword:
- Characterization, X-ray, Thin Film, Metal Oxides, and Dielectrics
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Li Zeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In vivo, substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) dopaminergic neurons exhibit three spiking patterns – irregular, regular, and bursting. These distinct modes of activity are thought to underlie the different roles that dopamine (DA) plays in target structures within the basal ganglia. In particular, burst spiking in SNc DA neurons is...
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- burst firing, pedunculopontine nucleus, substantia nigra pars compacta, dopamine, and glutamate
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Daniel James Galtieri
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- My research interests, which span organic, inorganic, physical and biochemistry, have focused broadly on photo-, magneto- and redox-active molecules, especially those with potential applications in organic photovoltaics, spintronics and electronics. My research under the joint supervision of Professor Wasielewski and Professor Fraser Stoddart has concentrated upon understanding electronic and magnetic...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Yilei Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The study of tumor metabolism from the middle of the 20th century through the early 21st almost entirely ignored the mitochondria; instead, the field focused on cancer cells use of glycolysis even when oxygen was not limiting, termed aerobic glycolysis. Due to this observation, it was often speculated that malignant...
- Keyword:
- Outcomes and Biological
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Samuel Edward Weinberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of three essays in applied microeconomics. In the first chapter, I introduce a new statistical test for identifying prejudice from empirical data. In the second chapter, I (joint with James Schummer) consider the revenue maximization problem for a two-sided, one-to-one matching platform. In the third chapter, I...
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- matching, two-sided markets, media bias, test for prejudice, and economics of discrimination
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Phillip Louis Marx
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Certain inducible genes show faster reactivation if they were recently expressed. This epigenetic phenomenon is called transcriptional memory and is inherited for several generations after the first round of induction. During this phase, genes show several conserved molecular features that are essential for faster reactivation: peripheral localization of the gene,...
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- Epigenetic memory, Adaptive fitness, Genome organization, Evolution, Gene regulation, and GAL genes
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Varun Sood
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The electronic spin state (S) of metal ions is fundamental to the performance of magnets, protein cofactors, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. The ability to manipulate the spin state of transition metals allows for the development of advanced materials with emergent properties. This following chapters will introduce two...
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- Spin Crossover, spin state, Magnetism, MRI, Double Exchange, and Iron
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Alexandra I. Gaudette
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation looks at the consequences of three different government regulatory policies---the nondistribution constraint (which prohibits managers of nonprofit organizations from distributing profits generated by the nonprofit organization to themselves), the 100/0, 85/15, and 90/10 rules (which restrict the fraction of revenue for-profit colleges and universities can receive from Title...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Organization, Prohibition, Nonprofit Organizations, and Higher Education
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Brent Travis Howe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Technology has advanced rapidly, especially in the twenty-first century, influencing our day-to-day life on unprecedented levels. Most such advances in technology are closely linked to, and often driven by, the discovery and design of new materials. It follows that the discovery of new materials can not only improve existing technologies...
- Keyword:
- Materials Discovery, Density Functional Theory, Electrochemistry, Energy Materials, and Batteries
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Soo Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The work presented in this dissertation examines the interplay between electron transfer reactions and electron spin in photoactive organic molecules. Organic compounds that undergo electron transfer reactions after absorbing light are important in natural photosynthesis, photobiology, and synthetic photovoltaics. These electron transfer reactions depend on the spin states of the...
- Keyword:
- electron transfer, spin chemistry, photochemistry, spectroscopy, radical pair, and EPR
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Noah Elliott Horwitz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Microkinetic modeling is a powerful tool for creating dynamic and quantitative descriptions of complex systems. These detailed mechanistic models compliment experimental techniques and provide an ability to achieve deeper insights into chemical processes where numerous intermediates are highly reactive and difficult to quantify in the laboratory. This thesis discusses the...
- Keyword:
- volatiles, autoxidation, ethyl linoleate, microkinetic modeling, and oil-based paint
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Lindsay Oakley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Humans possess the ability to infer and track mental states, which allows for successful interaction in the social world. The collection of processes and representations that makes this possible is referred to as a theory-of-mind (ToM). A large body of work has examined how these abilities develop from infancy to...
- Keyword:
- learning, social cognition, cognitive development, comparison, analogical reasoning, and theory of mind
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Christian Hosos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of science education is to prepare students to make decisions about the complicated socioscientific issues that are an inescapable part of modern life, from personal medical decisions to evaluating a political candidate's environmental platform. We cannot expect adults to maintain a deep conceptual understanding of the current state...
- Keyword:
- media literacy, epistemology, science journalism, science education, and assessment
- Subject:
- Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Brandy Liane Evans Buckingham
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Large projection neurons of the cerebellar nuclei (CbN cells), whose activity generates movement, are inhibited by Purkinje cells and excited by mossy fibers. The high convergence, firing rates, and strength of Purkinje inputs predict powerful suppression of CbN cell spiking, raising the question of what activity patterns favor excitation over...
- Keyword:
- deep cerebellar nuclei, cerebellum, dynamic clamp, Purkinje cell, rate coding, and temporal coding
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Yeechan Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Thin film oxidation is investigated using two modeling techniques in the interest of better understanding the roles of space charge and non-equilibrium effects. An electrochemical phase-field model of an oxide-metal interface is formulated in one dimension and studied at equilibrium and during growth. An analogous sharp interface model is developed...
- Keyword:
- Material Science
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Quentin Sherman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Algorithmic trading (AT) has grown dramatically in recent years and now makes up over half of all trades and orders in the market. I investigate whether and how AT affects voluntary disclosure by managers. I hypothesize that AT’s differential ability to process information and its speed of trading affects how...
- Keyword:
- Capital markets, Market microstructure, Voluntary disclosure, and Algorithmic trading
- Subject:
- Accounting Information and Management
- Creator:
- Andrew P. Stephan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Our visual system organizes lines, shapes, and colors into groups, objects, and scenes. This dissertation explores how these higher-level organizations arise, focusing on the contribution of feature-based attention, our ability to selectively enhance a color, shape, or orientation across our visual field. I will present evidence that feature-based attention enables...
- Keyword:
- Visual Perception, Gestalt Grouping, Attention, Ambiguity Perception, and Perceptual Organization
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Dian Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The development of organic photovoltaic devices benefits from understanding the fundamental processes underlying charge generation in thin films of organic semiconductors. This dissertation exploits model systems of π-stacked chromophores such as perylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide) (PDI) and 3,6-bis(aryl)diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) to study these processes using ultrafast electronic and vibrational spectroscopy. In particular, the characterization...
- Keyword:
- excimers, diketopyrrolopyrrole, singlet fission, transient absorption spectroscopy, and vibrational spectroscopy
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Catherine McKay Mauck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this paper, I present two distinct approaches to migrant entrepreneurship. I conducted an ethnography of two Ghanaian migrant businesses, one of which draws on the Ghanaian community, and the other which distances itself from it. I show that our current understanding of social capital romanticises the notion of community,...
- Keyword:
- conceptions and buffett
- Creator:
- Kofi Takyi Asante
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 13-002
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- Description:
- The central thesis of the paper is that authoritarian cases have systematically been excluded from welfare state theories despite the existing empirical research on authoritarian welfare provisions. This theoretical gap has limited the instruments available for comparative welfare state research. As a result, such research has attended to the democratic...
- Keyword:
- marginalized, authoritarian, and buffett
- Creator:
- Natalia Forrat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 12-005
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- Description:
- Seven to ten percent of the world's 43.3 million forcibly displaced persons are believed to be people with disabilities. This report examines the health-related needs of displaced persons with disabilities and how these needs can be better addressed in the context of displacement camps. It uses two methodological stages: first,...
- Keyword:
- Diminished Opportunities and buffett
- Creator:
- Mansha Mirza
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This essay explores Nigerian women's negotiation of public and private spheres through the meanings of hibjab (Islamic head covering for women) has taken in different contexts, both liberating and limiting women. In the 1970s with the new oil economy, increasing migration to cities and the expansion of education for women,...
- Keyword:
- hibjab and buffett
- Creator:
- Hauwa Mahdi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-003
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- Description:
- Extended Cutting Plane is an optimization method suggested by Westerlund and Petersson in 1996 to solve Mixed-Integer NonLinear Programming (MINLP) problems . ECP can be thought as an extension of Kelley's cutting plane method, which uses iterative Newton's method to refine feasible area and ultimately solve a problem within tolerable...
- Keyword:
- Extended cutting place
- Creator:
- Kyung Je Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/30/2018
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- Description:
- The organization of general design problems into programming models allows for the defining and finding of their (global) optimal solution. MINLP models represent problems as a sets of continuous variables with binary integer variables. The continuous variables are restricted to defined constraints, and the binary variables represent whether or not...
- Keyword:
- MINLP and Branch
- Creator:
- Pear Dhiantravan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/30/2018
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- Description:
- The Branch and Bound (BB or B&B) algorithm is first proposed by A. H. Land and A. G. Doig in 1960 for discrete programming. It is a general algorithm for finding optimal solutions of various optimization problems, especially in discrete and combinatorial optimization. A branch and bound algorithm consists of...
- Keyword:
- Branch and Bound
- Creator:
- Jiyao Gao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/30/2018
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- Keyword:
- Linear Approximation, Optimization, and Piecewise
- Creator:
- John Marsiglio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/29/2018
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- Keyword:
- separation
- Creator:
- James Xamplas, Karen Schmidt, Emm Fulk, Osman Jamil, Robert Cignoni, Brett Sleyster, Nick Pinkerton, John Dombrowski, and Erik Zuehlke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/08/2018
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- Keyword:
- analysis and economic
- Creator:
- Tahir Kapoor, Sean Kelton, Thomas Considine, and Michael Gleeson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/08/2018
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- Description:
- The manuscripts known as the "cahiers Ponty", written by students at the famous Ecole William Ponty near Dakar, were created under a policy that favored ethnography as a tool as well as a discipline. Several extracts of these student notebooks are discussed here, as a sampling in order to illustrate... and Les manuscrits connus comme les « cahiers Ponty », écrits par les étudiants du célèbre Ecole William Ponty près de Dakar, ont été créés sous une politique qui a favorisé l’ethnographie comme outil aussi bien que discipline. Quelques extraits de ces cahiers sont discutés ici, comme un échantillonage pour illustrer...
- Keyword:
- Ecole William Ponty, French West Africa, colonial education, ethnography, 1930s-1940s, and ethnicity
- Subject:
- Africa, French-speaking Western
- Creator:
- Marcia Tiede
- Owner:
- Marcia Tiede
- Publisher:
- Mande Studies Association = Association des Etudes Mandé
- Location:
- Gorée, Senegal, Dakar, Senegal, and Sébikhotane, Senegal
- Language:
- French
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-11-15
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Environmental Concerns
- Creator:
- Maxim Slivinsky, Sean Cabaniss, Michelle Spiezio, Julianne Wagoner, David Park, and Pear Dhiantravan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/05/2018
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- Keyword:
- Desalination and Production
- Creator:
- Kedric Daly, Evan Rosati, Ben Granger, and Kathleen Zhou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2018
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- Keyword:
- Desalination
- Creator:
- Iris Zhao, John Dombrowski, Thomas Aunins, and Robert Cignoni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2018
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- Keyword:
- Ehtylene and Shale Gas
- Creator:
- Katie Johnson, Tammy Wong , and Michelle Spiezio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2018
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates two different decision-making strategies, which I label “sub-dimensioning” versus “integration” that individuals employ to cope with feelings of ambivalence. “Sub-dimensioning” is defined as a strategy that involves lower-level construals where an ambivalent decision-maker represents and evaluates an attitude object in terms of its dimensions of evaluation, whereas...
- Keyword:
- Ambivalence, sub-dimensioning, dissonance, Coping strategy, Choice conflict, Need to decide, Consistency, and Integration
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Mi Jung Park
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Rivers and streams are the corridors of material transport from land to sea. Solutes and particles experience a range of environments as they traverse the river network, many of which are highly reactive, and reaction rates are localized to specific regions. The interfacial region between the river and its underlying...
- Keyword:
- stochastic model, hyporheic exchange, bioturbation, sediment-water interface, and environmental transport
- Creator:
- Kevin R. Roche
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In recent years, research has been conducted to develop Sequential, Multiple Assignment, Randomized Trial (SMART) designs. These experimental designs were created to aid in the construction of adaptive treatment strategies for individuals, particularly in medical contexts. Simultaneously, research has been done on developing the use of randomized trials to evaluate...
- Keyword:
- Statistics
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Rachel Ktsanes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Graphene and graphene oxide (GO), a highly oxidized form of graphene, are materials with incredibly interesting chemical and mechanical properties. These materials have high surface areas and electrical properties that can be tuned by reducing the amount of oxygenates on the surface. They have already demonstrated their importance in the...
- Keyword:
- Chemical Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- DelRae Haag
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Individuals commonly engage in collaborative behavior to more easily produce works of high societal impact. The effect of many individual characteristics such as age or gender on the effectiveness of a team is still unclear. Gender is especially pertinent because many professional settings are still far from gender parity, despite...
- Keyword:
- science of science, movie industry, gender diversity, bibliometrics, and scientific collaborations
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- João Amado Gomez Moreira
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While it is the ongoing growth in healthcare spending that has been making headlines, improving and maintaining healthcare quality is a critical goal of healthcare policy. In this dissertation I answer three questions relating to healthcare quality: does physician-hospital financial integration improves healthcare quality; how physician-hospital financial integration improves healthcare...
- Keyword:
- quality, healthcare, malpractice, and integration
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Amy Rebecca Wagner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains several epigenetic elements known as yeast prions. Our laboratory discovered the yeast prion [SWI+], whose protein determinant is Swi1, a subunit of the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex. Formation of [SWI+] results in abolishment of multicellular features and a partial loss-of-function phenotype of non-glucose carbon source usage. Our laboratory...
- Keyword:
- amyloids, protein aggregation, prion, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Swi1, and prion domain
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Stephanie Valtierra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this presented study, rolling in micro scale level, termed as microrolling, has been advanced and extended its application to surface texturing and roll bonding. Meanwhile, continuous direct current (DC) is introduced to the processes to establish two new microrolling processes: the Electrically-assisted Roll Bonding (EARB) and the Electrically-assisted Microrolling-based...
- Keyword:
- Roll Bonding, Joule Heating Modeling, Electrically-assisted Process, Rolling, Surface Texturing, and Manufacturing
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Man-Kwan Ng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene exhibit unique, superlative electronic, optical, and mechanical properties that are dictated by the precise atomic structure within each layer. Consequently, control of this atomic-scale configuration is critical to engineering desirable characteristics. To date, however, most 2D materials have been discovered by isolating mono- or...
- Keyword:
- 2D Materials, Borophene, Graphene, Scanning tunneling microscopy, and Silicene
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Andrew Jacob Mannix
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Quantum information processing (QIP) is an emerging computational paradigm with the potential to enable a vast increase in computational power, fundamentally transforming fields from structural biology to finance. QIP employs qubits, or quantum bits, as its fundamental units of information, which can exist in not just the classical states of...
- Keyword:
- Electron paramagnetic resonance, Spin physics, Spin diffusion barrier, Qubits, T2, and Quantum computation
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Michael James Graham
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Allergic diseases, including asthma, atopic dermatitis, and food allergy, are a widespread health issue. The prevalence of these diseases has been increasing, but the mechanism behind this increase and how allergies develop is not well understood. Although the immune system is central to the pathology of allergy, recent work has...
- Keyword:
- microbiome, eosinophils, ST2, IL-33, stem cells, and allergy
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Laura Katrina Ng Johnston
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores public and private hybridity in the production of sovereign power, or hybrid sovereignty, through the cases of the English East India Company, Blackwater, International Chamber of Commerce, and Amnesty International. It asks: What forms and dynamics are featured in hybrid sovereignty? What implications does hybrid sovereignty have...
- Keyword:
- International Relations
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Swati Srivastava
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury (SCI) is devastating, dramatically reducing the independence of affected individuals. Currently, functional electrical stimulation (FES), controlled by a patient’s residual movements, is used clinically to restore a limited range of voluntary movement. However, if FES could be controlled using signals recorded from the brain,...
- Keyword:
- brain-machine interfaces, motor cortex, and neuromodulation
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Stephanie Naufel Naufel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The electronic materials research driving Moore’s law has provided several decades of increasingly powerful yet simultaneously miniaturized computer technologies. As we approach the physical and practical limits of what can be accomplished with silicon electronics, we look to new materials to drive innovation in future electronic applications. New materials paradigms...
- Keyword:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Julian McMorrow
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation uses the case of Putin’s Russia to examine how authoritarian regimes build relationships with their societies in a way that strengthens authoritarian rule. In contrast to the existing scholarship, which concentrates on redistributive politics, that is, on the autocrat’s capacities to buy the loyalty of the masses, I...
- Keyword:
- state-society relationships, Russia, public sector, redistribution, infrastructural power, and authoritarianism
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Natalia Forrat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The brain has a remarkable ability to rapidly adapt behavior. On the scale of development, the brain learns to control the complex dynamics of our limbs by forming and pruning synaptic connections. However, the motor system also learns on much shorter timescales, such as when learning to hit the bullseye...
- Keyword:
- motor cortex, non-human primates, motor control, motor learning, and premotor cortex
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Matthew George Perich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Prejudice based on a person’s low socioeconomic status (SES) has been largely understudied in social psychology. In my dissertation research, I argue that understanding a perceiver’s mental model of SES is crucial to explaining anti-poor prejudice. I borrow from work in anthropology to characterize two main mental models of SES—ascribed...
- Keyword:
- attitudes, socioeconomic status, motivation, prejudice, and mental representation
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ryan Lei Fleming
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Makerspaces have become explosively popular in recent years. Many believe they hold promise as contexts for integrated STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) learning, meta-disciplinary skill learning, and promoting interest and equity in STEAM. However, we still know relatively about what is actually learned in these spaces, how interest...
- Keyword:
- Cross-context learning, 21st century skills, Interest, Makerspaces, Spatial thinking, and STEAM
- Subject:
- Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Kay Ellen Ramey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Worldwide, youth living with perinatally-acquired human immunodeficiency virus (PHIV) are at increased risk for cognitive dysfunction and developmental delay. Effects of the virus, chronic inflammation, and combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) during critical periods of brain development may disrupt normal cognitive development. Neuroimaging studies using structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) allow...
- Keyword:
- perinatally-acquired HIV, brain, and structural magnetic resonance imaging
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Christine Paula Lewis-de los Angeles
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spindle formation in mammalian cells requires precise spatial and temporal regulation of the kinesin-5 motor proteins which generate outward force to establish spindle bipolarity. A growing body of work suggests that phosphorylation of kinesin-5 motor domains is an important regulator of their motor characteristics and function in cells. My thesis...
- Keyword:
- mitosis,, kinesin-5, cytoskeleton, phosphorylation, Src family kinases, and drug resistance
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kathleen Gifford Bickel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice (EBBP) is a transdisciplinary systematic approach that emphasizes the use of best evidence in combination with clinical expertise, as well as patient preferences and values, to make clinically-informed decisions about care and treatment (Spring, 2007). Despite numerous benefits and strong policy support of EBBP, findings indicate that...
- Keyword:
- Evidence-based practice and Web-based learning
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Jeremy Steglitz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Privacy and Learning Analytics
- Creator:
- Abigail Goben, Kristin A. Briney, Michael R. Perry, Andrew Asher, Dorothea Salo, M. Brooke Robertshaw, and Kyle M. L. Jones
- Owner:
- Michael Perry
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/11/2018
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how filmic, literary, and popular musical performances of black female sexualities in the post- civil rights era both reveal and frustrate state-sanctioned infringements on black freedom. “The Paradox of Black Freedom: Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Performance, 1965-2000” elucidates a powerful paradox wherein the US state enacts...
- Keyword:
- Black Feminism, Post-civil rights era black popular culture, Black Sexuality Studies, Black Studies, and Performance Studies
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Shoniqua Danee Roach
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- High-dimensional data are becoming increasingly available in various fields as data collection technology advances. Not only are we interested in knowing which variables are relevant to the response and which are not, but also a simpler model with less predictor variables is easier for interpretation and computational purposes. Furthermore, a...
- Keyword:
- Variable Selection, Iterative Sure Independence Screening, Elastic net, Spike-or-Slab, Medical Expenditure, and DNA methylation
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Grace Yoon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As type 2 diabetes requires complex self-management behaviors to avoid long-term complications, it is crucial that practitioners understand the psychosocial factors that may affect diabetic patients’ chronic disease self-management. Previous literature has identified depression and sleep disturbance as salient psychosocial factors that may impede self-management behaviors and lead to less...
- Keyword:
- Diabetes Self-Management, Type 2 Diabetes, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, and Depression
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Erika Jung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Machine learning has been widely applied to solve intricate problems in finance. Yet in options theory, machine learning methods are less visited due to the structural complexity of the derivatives market. This dissertation focuses on using machine learning algorithms to obtain optimal decisions for three distinct option-related problems. In the...
- Keyword:
- Financial application, Support vector regression, Reinforcement learning, Option market, and Machine learning
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Yaxiong Zeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The overarching goal of this work is to understand nanometer scale junctions and electron transport through molecules in these junctions. Calculations detailing quantum interference in the electron transport through molecules, and the control of these features, show great potential for use as discrete electronic elements. Concurrent work on the fabrication...
- Keyword:
- Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- David Quigley Andrews
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Desmosomes are adhesive complexes found at sites of intercellular contact that are essential for mediating cell-cell adhesion. These junctions undergo regulated assembly and reorganization during processes such as embryogenesis and wound healing. Plakophilins (PKPs) are armadillo family members related to the classic cadherin-associated protein p120ctn. PKPs localize to the cytoplasmic...
- Keyword:
- desmosome, cytoskeleton, cell-cell adhesion, armadillo, and plakophilin
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Amanda Elisabeth Bass-Zubek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-09-18
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This work is a research effort aimed at understanding the mechanisms of single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SMSERS). In the decade since its discovery in 1997, the role of resonance Raman (RR) enhancement, the origin of blinking, and the properties of the hot spot formed at the junction of two nanoparticles...
- Keyword:
- Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jon Albert Dieringer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Most organisms use rhythms of sunlight to synchronize their activity to the environment. These rhythms of activity are called circadian rhythms. The rhythms persist with near 24 hour periods when external synchronizing cues are absent. In mammals, the circadian clock is generated at the molecular level by a transcriptional/translational feedback...
- Keyword:
- SCN, mouse, Heat Shock Factor, body temperature, circadian, and suprachiasmatic nucleus
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Ethan Buhr
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- T-cell activation is an essential step of the immune response, yet the cellular and molecular events underlying this complex process are not fully understood. Significantly, a comparative genome-scale transcriptional analysis of two T-cell subsets and the natural-mixed CD3+ population remains unexplored. Using microarrays, we investigated the temporal global transcriptional profile...
- Keyword:
- cell culture, Genome-Scale Transcription Profiling, Immunology, Immune Response, Immunotherapy, and T-cell
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Min Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Although chronic stress has been shown to be significantly associated with depression, this relationship has not received adequate attention, particularly in adolescent samples. One gap lies in the examination of whether particular domains of chronic interpersonal stress are uniquely related to risk for depression. Furthermore, the degree to which chronic...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jonathan Mark Sutton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-07-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recent assessment of material property requirements for blast resistant applications, especially for the naval ship hulls, has defined the need to design steels with high stretch ductility and fragment penetration resistance, along with high strength and adequate toughness. Using a system based computational materials design approach, two series of austenitic...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Padmanava Sadhukhan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-08-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Latent membrane protein 2A (LMP2A) and LMP2B are viral proteins expressed during Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latency in EBV-infected B cells both in cell culture and in vivo. Although Lyn has been shown to be important in mediating LMP2A signaling, it is still unclear if Lyn is used preferentially or if...
- Keyword:
- Molecular and Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Mark Rovedo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-09-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The safe and efficient storage of hydrogen is possibly the chief obstacle to its use as a fuel on a large scale. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are well poised to provide unique solutions to hydrogen storage, and gas storage in general, a result of their crystalline, porous networks that present the...
- Keyword:
- metal-organic frameworks, adsorption, hydrogen storage, doping, Zn paddlewheel, and heat of adsorption
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Karen Lynn Mulfort
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-09-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. While many therapies have been used to treat vascular disease symptomatically, gene therapy offers a means of treating the molecular dysfunctions driving disease pathogenesis. Unfortunately, gene therapy has achieved only modest therapeutic success in clinical trials due to a...
- Keyword:
- nuclear import, karyopherins, plasmid, nuclear localization signal, and gene therapy
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Aaron Michael Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-08-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Periods of time characterized by widespread accumulation of organic carbon (Corg) -rich deposits have been interpreted to form as a result of increased rates of marine primary production and oxygen-deficient conditions in bottom and pore waters. Yet, debates persist regarding the source of nutrients (in particular phosphorus (P)) to marine...
- Keyword:
- Geology
- Subject:
- Geological Sciences
- Creator:
- Jason A Flaum
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-10-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Gonadotropins LH and FSH are secreted by the pituitary in response to hypothalamic GnRH and act to stimulate ovarian follicle development, steroid production and ovulation. Gonadal steroids, including estrogen, enter the circulation and provide neuroendocrine feedback at the hypothalamus and/or pituitary. Estrogen provides negative feedback to suppress gonadotropin release throughout...
- Keyword:
- Neuroendocrinology, Non-classical, Estrogen, Classical, Nonclassical, and Reproduction
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Christine Ann Glidewell-Kenney
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-07-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The overall objective of this thesis is to develop a package of high-resolution, non-invasive experimental and numerical approaches to observe in situ pore-scale geometry modification due to colloid deposition, and quantitatively predict its effects on the large-scale transport properties of the porous medium. High-energy synchrotron-based X-ray difference micro-tomography (XDMT) was...
- Keyword:
- Civil Engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Cheng Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-07-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Several surface wave tomographic studies of the upper mantle structure beneath North America are presented, which take advantage of high quality seismic data, primarily recorded in the last decade, to create better resolved S-wave tomographic models. The first study presents a regional 3D model, IL05, of the upper mantle beneath...
- Keyword:
- Geology
- Subject:
- Geological Sciences
- Creator:
- Heather Bedle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-10-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The need for low-cost robust meso-scale "smart" robots (manipulators) that have no discrete parts (monolithic), no sensors ("self-sensing") and can be used in space-constrained systems, e.g., in microfactories, biomedical applications, etc., was the motivation for the current research. This study describes the design, fabrication and analysis of such a smart...
- Keyword:
- self-sensing, model of motion, kinetics of phase transformation, Shape Memory Alloys, NiTi, smart structures, accordion spring, laser assisted process, actuator, manipulator, direct metal deposition, nitinol, and clamping
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Kostyantyn Malukhin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The recent observation of nonzero neutrino mass is the first concrete indication of physics beyond the Standard Model. Their properties, unique among the other fermions, leads naturally to the idea of a Majorana neutrino mass term. Despite the strong theoretical prejudice toward this concept, it must be tested experimentally. This...
- Keyword:
- Mass Models, Neutrino, and Majorana
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- James Phearl Jenkins
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Between 1569 and 1582, the inquisitorial court of the Cardinal Archbishop of Naples undertook a series of trials against a powerful and wealthy group of Spanish immigrants in Naples for judaizing, the practice of Jewish rituals. The immense scale of this campaign and the many complications that resulted render it...
- Keyword:
- New Christians, Catholic Church, Inquisition, Naples, and Italy
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Peter Akawie Mazur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses the problem of the development of cities in Upper Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C.E. I investigate these cities through their settlement patterns and urban plans. I argue that these cities were not planned or organic, but exhibited degrees of planning. I treat my reconstruction of the...
- Keyword:
- magnetometry, bronze age, cities, harran, storage, and urban planning
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Andrew Theodore Creekmore III
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
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- Dissertation
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- We use transverse sound spectroscopy to probe excited states of the Cooper pairs in the B-phase of superfluid 3He. In particular we study those excited states with non-zero energy at zero momentum, the so called gapped, or exciton, modes. This includes precise measurements of the imaginary squashing mode energies as...
- Keyword:
- transverse sound, superfluid, excited state, helium, and collective mode
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- John Patrick Davis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The use of composites is increasing as they afford scientists and engineers the ability to combine the advantageous properties of each constituent phase, e.g. metal ductility and ceramic stiffness. With respect to materials design, biomimetics is garnering increasing attention due to the complex, yet efficient, natural microstructures. One such biomimetic,...
- Keyword:
- silicon carbide, mechanical properties, composite, elastic behavior, fracture, and aluminum
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Thomas E Wilkes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- PilD is an enzyme that processes prepilins that are part of the type II protein secretion apparatus and the type IV piliation machinery. Using a <em>Legionella pneumophila pilDlacZ</em> fusion strain to measure transcription, we observed a 20% increase in beta-galactosidase levels at 30°C vs. 37°C. At 25°C and 17°C vs....
- Keyword:
- Microbiology and Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Maria Soderberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Consumption of CO2 by chemical weathering is one of the major fluxes in the global carbon cycle that drives long-term climate. In an effort to understand silicate weathering, which is a net sink of CO2 over geological time scales, as a function of environment (e.g., exposure of parent rocks, climate,...
- Keyword:
- Geological Sciences
- Subject:
- Geological Sciences
- Creator:
- Lingling Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-20
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- Description:
- We present several multiscale quantum mechanical (QM), molecular mechanical (MM), and continuum mechanical (CM) schemes to study the strength properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene sheets. A bridging domain method based on overlapping domain-decomposition schemes using the Lagrange multipliers field is developed to couple an atomistic domain with a...
- Keyword:
- Engineering and Mechanical
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Roopam Khare
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Separation of DNA molecules by electrophoresis through entangled polymer solutions continues to be an important tool for genetic analysis, especially Sanger-based DNA sequencing. Separations of DNA on microfluidic devices are much more efficient than in capillary electrophoresis (CE) systems, such that the implementation of DNA sequencing onto microchips promises to...
- Keyword:
- Chemical Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Christopher Paul Fredlake
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- N-Heterocyclic carbene catalysis has recently emerged as an important field in organic chemistry. Two new strategies have been developed to advance the use of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) as Lewis-base organic catalysts. The first approach utilizes NHCs to catalyze the generation of homoenolates and the conjugated Breslow intermediate is added to...
- Keyword:
- Organic Chemsitry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Audrey Chan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- During movement, the dendrites of spinal motoneurons receive steady excitatory and inhibitory synaptic input from supraspinal sources, interneurons, and sensory afferents. Motoneurons also have dendritic voltage sensitive ion channels. Most notable is a persistent inward current (PIC), which can enhance the amplitude of synaptic input by several fold. PICs are...
- Keyword:
- persistent inward currents, active dendrites;spinal motoneurons, and sensorimotor integration
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Allison Suzanne Hyngstrom
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Influenza virus assembly and budding is a complex process involving the organization of viral membrane proteins on the cell surface, incorporation of the segmented RNA genome, and formation of viral particles that must bud from the cell by pinching off from the plasma membrane. Interactions between the soluble influenza virus...
- Keyword:
- virus budding, influenza, and virus assembly
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Benjamin Ja-Chin Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation