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- A series of investigations was undertaken to explore the processing and properties of porous titanium with 6 wt% Al and 4 wt% vanadium (Ti-6Al-4V) and an equiatomic nickel-titanium alloy (NiTi). In this study, porous materials were created in the solid state by entrapping argon in a powder compact, and subsequently...
- Keyword:
- NiTi, Foam, metal, and creep
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Scott M. Oppenheimer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation presents the results of three studies examining the determinants and consequences of employment among single mothers with infants and toddlers. In the first study, I use nationally-representative survey data to identify the effect of age-of-youngest-child welfare-to-work exemptions on the employment of single mothers with no more than a...
- Keyword:
- quantitative methods, mixed methods, maternal employment, infants and toddlers,, and welfare policy
- Subject:
- Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Heather D Hill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The first section of this thesis focuses on applications of DNA-modified gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) while the second part addresses the fundamental properties that arise from conjugating DNA to inorganic AuNPs. Two types of applications are discussed. The first application utilizes the colorimetric properties of AuNPs to screen duplex and triplex...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Abigail K. R. Lytton-Jean
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the cause of infectious mononucleosis and is associated with the etiology of several human cancers of lymphoid and epithelial cell origin, including Burkitt's lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma. It is an extremely prevalent virus in human populations worldwide. All herpesviruses, including EBV, infect cells by fusing the...
- Keyword:
- membrane fusion, peptide inhibitior, antiviral, viral entry, Epstein-Barr virus, and glycoprotein structure
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Austin Kirschner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Living in a world where the machine and the Internet are ubiquitous, many people work and play online, in a world that is, ironically, often isolated and lonesome. While the Internet, as intended, connects us to information, products and services, it often draws us away from the rich connections that...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Sara Hodges Owsley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Video transmission over wireless networks to multiple mobile users has remained a challenging problem due to potential limitations on bandwidth and the time-varying nature of wireless channels. Recent advances in wireless access technologies, such as, HSDPA and IEEE 802.16, are targeted at achieving higher throughput over wireless networks. Meanwhile, advances...
- Keyword:
- Video Transmission, Scheduling, Scalable video coding, HSDPA, and H.264
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Peshala Vishvajith Pahalawatta
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niche is the site where HSCs reside in vivo. The HSC niche is formed by supporting cells that provide structure and appropriate environmental cues for HSCs. In this study, three components of the HSC niche were evaluated for their influence on HSC expansion ex vivo:...
- Keyword:
- thrombopoietin mimetic, reduced oxygen tension culture, lipopeptide, hematopoietic stem cell culture, and stem cell factor
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- James A King
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Conventional perfusion magnetic resonance imaging with dynamic susceptibility using a contrast agents has been playing a dominant role on diagnosing a variety of cerebral nervous system disease due to lack of radiation and widespread availability. However, reliable quantification of cerebral perfusion has been elusive and challenging. The bookend method is...
- Keyword:
- MR imaging, Quantitative Cerebral Perfusion, Cerebral blood volume, and Cerebral blood flow
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Wanyong Shin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-29
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- video games, Ghost Figures, and horror
- Creator:
- Diamond Jones
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
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- Keyword:
- posner, controversy, and campo
- Subject:
- Legal Studies
- Creator:
- Titobioluwa Williams
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
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- Keyword:
- neurons, mice, and movement
- Creator:
- Santiago Chacin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018
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- Keyword:
- History, Chemistry, Posner, and Titanium Production
- Creator:
- Aldo Montes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018
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- Keyword:
- Housing Prices, Economics, and Crime
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Aaron Castillo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018
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- Keyword:
- posner and Racial Minorities
- Creator:
- Jacob Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018
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- Keyword:
- Microagressions, Black Students, and Undergraduate
- Creator:
- Taylor Bolding
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
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- Keyword:
- Latino, Immigration, and Chicago
- Subject:
- Latino Studies
- Creator:
- Alvaro Marcelino Hernandez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
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- Keyword:
- food, posner, countries, economics, and prices
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Anthony Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018
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- Description:
- This study explored the mentoring experiences of doctoral students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) doctoral degree programs at Northwestern University. Research suggests that mentoring relationships support student success in STEM disciplines, and further, that lack of mentorship may be a barrier for female students. A mixed-methods approach employing...
- Keyword:
- doctoral students, STEM, mentoring relationships, women, and mentorship
- Subject:
- Women in science, Education, Higher, and Mentoring in education
- Creator:
- Lisa J Blaskowski
- Owner:
- ljb729
- Location:
- Evanston
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/24/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/24/2018
- Date Created:
- 2015-06-19
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
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- Keyword:
- Orchestra, American Music, Modernism, Transcendentalist, Polyrhythm, Rehearsing, Charles Ives, and Conducting
- Creator:
- Chris Wild
- Owner:
- Christopher Wild
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/24/2018
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- Description:
- This thesis examines the effects of micro-alloying additions to Al-Sc alloys on the microstructure, coarsening resistance and creep properties. The overarching goal of this research is to develop castable, creep-resistant aluminum alloys which can be used at temperatures in excess of 300?C. Successful high-temperature application of aluminum based alloys offers...
- Keyword:
- Material Science
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Marsha Van Dalen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The macroscale mechanical and physical properties of materials are inherently linked to the underlying microstructure. Traditional continuum mechanics theories have focused on approximating the heterogeneous microstructure as a continuum, which is conducive to a partial differential equation mathematical description. Although this makes large scale simulation of material much more efficient...
- Keyword:
- microstructure, properties, continuum, failure, and simulation
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Cahal James McVeigh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This project examines the relationship between graphic design and public life in an effort to understand how graphic design functions as a mode of communication, how visual images present interpretive problems for communication scholarship, and how the increasing presence of visual images in public space inform and are informed by...
- Keyword:
- graphic design, billboards, public sphere, visual rhetoric, rhetoric, and imagination
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Brett Richard Ommen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation considers price indices in the context of two rapidly growing markets. The first is the emerging market for Internet Service Providers in the mid-1990s. The second is the emergence and growth of the DVD hardware market. In both, we examine indices ranging from the most rudimentary to quality...
- Keyword:
- price index, quality, Hedonic, growth, dvd, and internet service providers
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Gregory A Stranger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Across a broad spectrum of mathematical models, problems arise that have irregular domains or contain embedded interfaces. The complexity due to the introduction of these interfaces makes it more difficult to develop efficient and accurate numerical methods for their solutions. This thesis discusses modifications to the eXtended Finite Element Method...
- Keyword:
- Biofilm, X-FEM, Interfaces, and Mathematical Biology
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Benjamin L Vaughan, Jr.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that theatre was a vital element of postcolonial culture in Ireland in the years 1919-1932, the period in which the Irish nation emerged from revolutionary war to become a stable postcolonial state. Although critics have bemoaned the rising dominance of conservative, anti-modernist playwriting and production in Ireland's...
- Keyword:
- History, European, Modern, and Literature
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Anne Maureen Pulju
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- My dissertation explores the rational and emotional foundations of ethical decision making. Traditional research has associated ethical superiority with an analytic, rational decision making process and has suggested that emotions (e.g., empathy or anger) undermine ethics because they lead people to breach ethical principles such as the norm of impartiality....
- Keyword:
- Management and Business Administration
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- Chen-Bo Zhong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- After nearly 100 years of research, the function of sleep is unknown, prompting the desire to examine its regulation in a simpler model organism. In 2000, <em>Drosophila</em> was described as a novel model system to investigate sleep. These early studies defined features of normal sleep in <em>Drosophila</em>, and presented evidence...
- Keyword:
- genetics, sleep, mushroom bodies, Clock, neuroanatomy, and Drosophila
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jena Pitman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Interfaces and surfaces are ubiquitous in the environment. Heterogeneous binding events and reactions control the transport and speciation of dissolved pollutants in groundwater. Many heterogeneous processes occur at mineral oxide/water interfaces, and can be controlled either by the mineral oxide, or organic molecules bound to the surface. The prevalent natural...
- Keyword:
- morantel, second harmonic generation, manganese, surfaces, SiO2, and carboxylic acid
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Christopher Thomas Konek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Child maltreatment and violence are two major public health concerns in the United States. The relationship between maltreatment and subsequent violent behavior, also referred to as the "cycle of violence", is not well understood. The present study examines whether a history of maltreatment predicts violent behavior in a sample of...
- Keyword:
- maltreatment, youth, delinquent, and violence
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ursula Cornelia Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores price differences observed in the market. While some differences are necessitated by market conditions, the others are strategic. I illustrate the former in a study of electricity spot markets in Italy and the latter for the video rental industry. The first project examines the welfare gains from...
- Keyword:
- Economics and General
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Viswanath Pingali
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The dissertation research examines the evolution of EU social and employment policy in regard to gender equality in the labor market and analyzes how EU guidelines of the European Employment Strategy (EES) and EU directives on social policy have different effects on political processes in the United Kingdom and Germany....
- Keyword:
- Welfare State, Gender, United Kingdom, Germany, Modes of Governance, and Euorpean Union
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Nicole Richardt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Musical theater is a discipline that, by its very nature, engages several disciplines, specifically music, visual art, theater, and dance. The elementary classroom is a viable setting for the study of the arts in an interdisciplinary manner, yet the number of studies examining interdisciplinary instruction with regard to elementary music...
- Keyword:
- Music Education, Elementary Education, Music, and Fine Arts
- Subject:
- Music Education
- Creator:
- Kelly Roberts
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The linear food chain of high school biology textbooks has been replaced by the food web, the increasingly complex network of trophic interactions in an ecosystem. This complexity, however, masks a number of robust statistical properties. Yet much research to date has concentrated upon predicting and testing the existence of...
- Keyword:
- food-web structure, complex systems, networks, complex networks, and food webs
- Creator:
- Daniel B Stouffer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I examine the impact of core values on foreign policy opinion, the dynamics of value change, and the differences between elites and the mass public in their values change. I find that two core values - humanitarianism and democracy - strongly affect citizens' support for various anti-terrorism...
- Keyword:
- humanitarianism, democracy promotion, values, foreign policy, public opinion, and elites
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Dukhong Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-31
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Behavioral activation (BA) trains depressed clients to engage in more positive activities in order to increase their experience of pleasure and accomplishment, thereby reducing depression. Recent research suggested that BA might be as effective in treating depression as current leading treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and antidepressant medication (Jacobson,...
- Keyword:
- sudden gains, behavioral activation, therapy process, treatment mechanisms, treatment outcome, and depression
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Tomasz Andrusyna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- By combining cultural theory with empirical data, this dissertation asserts that late-twentieth-century mainstream theatre had the potential to support emergent ideologies in the U.S. context. The study finds fault with those who dismiss mainstream theatre based on its commercialism and shows how a production's mainstream status may position its emergent...
- Keyword:
- theatre, Kramer, mainstream, theater, political, and Kushner
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Jacob M. Juntunen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-29
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis presents results and analysis on a series of donor-bridge-acceptor (D-B-A) charge transfer systems in which we use time-resolved spectroscopy and magnetic resonance techniques to study the relationship of molecular structure to energy, charge, and spin transfer dynamics. We find that the sequence of events following the initial charge...
- Keyword:
- Charge, Spin, Photoinduced Energy, Transfer, Organic Molecular Materials, EPR, and Energy
- Subject:
- Chemsitry
- Creator:
- Zachary E Dance
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Markov models are widely employed in cost-effectiveness analysis of healthcare interventions. Although such models are usually formulated at the individual level, it is also useful to examine outcomes at the population level. Analysts may wish to know the impact of a health intervention on a whole population instead of an...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Engineering
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Huang Min
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A comprehensive understanding of how image processing occurs in the primary visual cortex (V1) requires learning what aspects of neuronal responses are driven by strong feed-forward input from the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), and what aspects arise due to the densely recurrent network operating within the cortex itself. From an...
- Keyword:
- Neuroscience and Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Ian Micah Finn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Although non-viral gene therapy has great potential for use in the lung, several problems including inefficient gene transfer and expression and the relative lack of cell-specific targeting have limited its applications. The two approaches that have been used to target genes to desired cell types are through specific ligand-receptor interactions...
- Keyword:
- nuclear import, SP-C, gene therapy, plasmid, and non-viral
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- James Vincent DeGiulio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Middle childhood is an important but often overlooked developmental period. Similarly, a large literature examines the importance of child care as a developmental context, focusing almost exclusively on pre-school child care experiences. Through three related empirical studies, this dissertation aims to address these two gaps in the extant literature. These...
- Keyword:
- Achievement, Child Care, Socioemotional Development, and Middle Childhood
- Subject:
- Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Amy E Claessens
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The first chapter of this dissertation investigates the pricing of systematic variance risk in the equity options market. Cross sectional tests on synthetic variance swap returns reveal no evidence of a negative market variance risk premium. Furthermore, we show that a class of linear factor models cannot simultaneously explain index...
- Keyword:
- dispersion trading, pairs trading, correlation trading, equity options, variance swaps, and volatility forecasting
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Vadim di Pietro
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the age of what George W. Bush has called a global democratic revolution, the freedom to consume an ever-expanding variety of images and goods in the global marketplace is often equated with the conditions of democratic freedom. With just such rhetorical elisions in mind, this dissertation examines the discursive...
- Keyword:
- media and politics, spectacle, television, popular entertainment, rhetoric, and liberalism
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Meghan A Sutherland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Until the late twentieth century, the American small town at the turn of the century was popularly conceived as the quintessential nostalgic object: an "ideal" moment of lost "innocence," albeit one never existing in reality. This conception is belied, however, by my study of its representation in film and television...
- Keyword:
- post-war Hollywood, nostalgia, Hollywood musicals, and cinema studies
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Linda A. Robinson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Preventing the build-up of indoor pollutants represents an emerging goal in environmental chemistry. Heterogeneous catalysis provides an attractive method of remediating indoor air pollution, but optimization through rational catalyst design requires a detailed understanding of the catalytic surface and surface-pollutant interactions. In this work, a chemical ionization mass spectrometry (CIMS)...
- Keyword:
- Indoor air pollution, TiO2, chemical ionization mass spectrometry, environmental remediation, and acetone
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Catherine Margaret Schmidt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Packaging of DNA into nucleosomes and chromatin not only enables DNA to fit within the nucleus, but it also protects and organizes DNA. However, the wrapping of DNA around histones occludes DNA from binding proteins in solution. Proteins that regulate, express and repair DNA are able to function only when...
- Keyword:
- Unwrapping, FRET, Mapping, Nucleosome, Chromatin, and Remodeling
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Hannah S. Tims
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- What is the nature of the relation between a verb and its arguments? In this dissertation, I look to evidence from language acquisition for answers. Any theory of ditransitives must explain certain structural asymmetries noted for both double-object (DO) datives (e.g. Alfonso gave Derek the bat) and prepositional datives (Alfonso...
- Keyword:
- possession, ditransitive, argument structure, dative, spatial, and acquisition
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Joshua Baird Viau
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This work investigates children's early semantic representations of gradable adjectives (GAs) and proposes that infants perform a probabilistic analysis of the input to learn about abstract differences within this category. I first demonstrate that children as young as age three distinguish between relative (e.g., 'big', 'long'), maximum standard absolute (e.g.,...
- Keyword:
- semantics, word learning, comparison, language acquisition, adjectives, and adverbs
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Kristen L Syrett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Nelson and Staum derived ranking-and-selection procedures that employ control-variate (CV) estimators instead of sample means to obtain greater statistical efficiency. However, control-variate estimators require more computational effort than sample means, and effective controls must be identified. In this dissertation, we present a new CV screening procedure to avoid much of...
- Keyword:
- Operations Research
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Shing Chih Tsai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis contains four essays on the organization (both internal and external) of health care in the US. The first essay examines a mechanism through which individual workers acquire (or maintain) competence, namely that of experience. Specifically, I analyze whether cardiac surgeons who perform more procedures experience an improvement in...
- Keyword:
- Health Sciences
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Subramaniam Ramanarayanan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the Old Northwest, networks of activists across dispersed communities took controversial direct action against prejudice and slavery. By largely eschewing the growing cities that disproved the Old Northwest rule, this is a study of reform as it would have impacted most people, at the local level in the smaller...
- Keyword:
- abolition, race, black laws, freedom of speech, grassroots activism, and mob violence
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Dana Elizabeth Weiner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-31
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Angiogenesis, the formation of blood vessels from a pre-existing vasculature, is a process whereby capillary sprouts are formed in response to chemical stimuli that can be either supplied externally or produced locally. Understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that govern angiogenesis suggests a powerful therapeutic approach that will allow to combat...
- Keyword:
- General and Biophysics
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Anna Tikhomirov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Encouraging honest behavior and discouraging deceptive behavior has become a very important issue with respect to ethics and moral behavior in the workplace. As such, a critical practical and theoretical goal has been to directly study the likelihood of individuals punishing deception and rewarding honesty. The growing assumption within the...
- Keyword:
- Deception, Punishments, Rewards, Honesty, and Ethical Decision-Making
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- Cynthia S Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In chapter 1, we study the investment behavior of firms faced with uncertainty, irreversibility and non-convex adjustment costs when output can be stored. A discrete-time dynamic optimization problem is solved numerically using neural networks to study the investment problem. Our numerical results suggest that whether or not firms can store...
- Keyword:
- Commodity prices, Storage, Disclosure, Convenience yield, Investment, and Irreversibility
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Caroline-Anne Sasseville
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the development of a black theater aesthetic in Jamaica as the colony prepared for independence. I define my theory of myalisation to explain how middle class theatre audiences participated in the Afro-Jamaican religious rituals of the lower class and how their participation signaled the development of a...
- Keyword:
- Jamaica, Ritual, Caribbean Studies, Gender Studies, and Theatre
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Karima Atiya Robinson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The physics of granular materials is one of the big questions in science. Granular materials serve as a prototype of collective systems far from equilibrium and fundamental questions remain. At the same time, an understanding of granular materials has tremendous practical importance. Among practical problems, granular mixing and its interplay...
- Keyword:
- granular materials, mixing, granular flow, chaos, dynamical systems, and segregation
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Steven William Meier
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The overarching theme of this thesis is the development of non-natural oligomers for use in biological applications. Chapter I details the synthesis and studies of modified peptide nucleic acid (PNA) oligomers. PNA is a synthetic oligonucleotide mimic that binds to natural nucleic acids with extremely high affinity and specificity, making...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry and Organic
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jonathan K Pokorski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation describes the invention and development of a new nanolithographic method: On-Wire Lithography (OWL). OWL is a simple, reproducible, and high-throughput procedure for the synthesis and lithographic processing of metal nanowires (i.e. Au, Ag, Pt, Ni, and Cu) that allows researchers to control the morphology and feature size of...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic and Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Lidong Qin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines and seeks to revitalize the concept of "distraction," through an analysis of the changes it underwent in German-speaking philosophy, critical theory, and literature between the World Wars. Defying the sociological and psychological norms of the period, Franz Kafka, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin refused to treat distraction...
- Keyword:
- Philosophy
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Paul North
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Surfaces and interfaces, which are ubiquitous in the environment, control the mobility,speciation, and ultimate fate of groundwater species. The presented work provides insight into the interfacial behavior of three environmental pollutants: hexavalent chromium, oxytetracycline, and morantel. Model surfaces are employed for these studies, including (1-102) α-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> and a carboxylic acid-terminated...
- Keyword:
- Physical and Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Michael Joseph Musorrafiti
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- My dissertation investigates the social mechanisms that determine the allocation of consequences of earnings restatements for organizational elites, using a sample S&P1500 Index-listed firms restating earnings between 1997 and 2003. In chapter 1, I examine turnover following revelations of organizational misconduct. I find that outside director turnover is associated with...
- Keyword:
- organizational misconduct, power and politics, Organizational theory, corporate governance, symbolic management, and signaling theory
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- Jo-Ellen Pozner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, the Tg behavior of nanoconfined polymer films and 1-dimensional (1-D) patterned polymer nanostructures was studied. Using a novel fluorescence method, a reduction in Tg was observed upon confinement in PS films supported on silica, where free-surface (polymer-air interface) effects are dominant in modifying Tg. In contrast, Tg...
- Keyword:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Manish Kumar Mundra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study investigates the nature of the face-to-face interactions and collaborations between secondary school students and community members in the nested contexts of the classroom and a local Italian community, both situated in a large city in Canada. Students used the tools of inquiry of cultural ethnographers, interviewing members of...
- Keyword:
- cultural anthropology, communal database, intercultural, ethnography, and student researchers
- Subject:
- Music Education
- Creator:
- Valerie Ruth Peters
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Okilactomycin and chrolactomycin are antitumor antibiotics isolated in 1987 and 2001, respectively. These tetracyclic natural products possess a unique 6-5 fused tetrahydropyrone-butyrolactone. The spirocenter is part of a highly functionalized cyclohexene ring, which together with the aforementioned 6-5 system compose the core of these molecules. A six carbon, 1,3-dialkyl-substituted carbon...
- Keyword:
- natural products and total synthesis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- William Joseph Morris
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation develops dynamic models to examine markets with product differentiation where both firm conduct and consumer behavior is jointly influenced by switching costs, network effects and technological innovation. In Chapter 1 I propose a structural model of competition where firms set prices, introduce new products and scrap obsolete models....
- Keyword:
- Economics and General
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Joao Carlos Macieira
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Metal oxide surfaces are generally recognized as active substrates for many catalytic reactions. Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been found as a useful computational tool to investigate the geometry, energy, electronic structure of reactive oxide surfaces and their interaction with small molecules and fragments. In this thesis, primary efforts have...
- Keyword:
- DFT
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Xiaoyan Ma
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Cluster Analysis deals with classifying a sample of multivariate measurements into different categories. In this dissertation we study the effect of the correlation structure of the data on the performance of a clustering method. We begin with the analysis of two-component normal mixture models and then proceed to cluster analysis...
- Keyword:
- Data mining, Clustering, K-means algorithm, Mixture model, and EM algorithm
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Dingxi Qiu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Constructing 3D objects from 2D images has been an active research area for decades. Given captured 2D information from various devices, different techniques were developed to assign 3D positions to the target object. However, methods for reconstructing a 3D model from a single 2D image remain largely manual and labor-intensive....
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Sangwon Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying considers this significant pair of types of expressive behavior, considering them both in themselves and in their relation to the fundamental nature of humanity.
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Marjorie Grene, Helmuth Plessner, and James Spencer Churchill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- First published in German in 1917, On Emotional Presentation investigates the interrelation of emotions, values, and obligation. Alexius Meinong presents a realist theory of values in which values are given in and through emotion but are also ontologically independent of emotion or any subjective attitude. Meinongs first discusses the concept...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- J. N. Findlay, Alexius Meinong, and Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This encyclopedia serves as a guide to the fifty-six stories and four novels that comprise the Sherlock Holmes canon. Arranged alphabetically, Orlando Park provides entries on all manner of people, places, and objects from Arthur Conan Doyles novels and stories, as well as thorough treatments of the traits and opinions...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Orlando Park
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of Wests life and their relationship to his works. James F. Light gives a detailed analysis of each of Wests novels, investigating in particular the works treatment of social criticism and manipulation of dream and symbol.
- Keyword:
- United States
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- James F. Light
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This edition of Jean de La Fontaines fables includes an English translation published alongside the French text. Norman Spector adapted the French text from the 1883-85 edition by Henri Rgnier, adding four tales from the 1962 edition by Georges Couton. Spectors translation is in rhymed verse, and remains faithful to...
- Keyword:
- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Jean de la Fontaine and Norman B. Spector
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1988
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Literary Modernism and the Transformation of Work probes the relationship between the aesthetic structures of modernism and its political and philosophical shape. James F. Knapp exploresmodernisms engagement with and reaction to the theories and discourse of scientific management that were reshaping the workplace in the early twentieth century, and in...
- Keyword:
- Theory
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- James F. Knapp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1988
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This classic ethnomusicological survey provides as a valuable guide to African music. The essays review a broad swath of genres and topics, including court songs and music history, musical instruments in different traditions, and the connection between Islam and African music. Contributors are Lois Ann Anderson, John Blacking, Philip J....
- Keyword:
- Music
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Klaus P. Wachsmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Motive and Intention is a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, Roy Lawrence analyzes examples of such assessments and provides and independent base for appraising familiar and tenacious theoretical presumptions. In so doing he illuminates many...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roy Lawrence
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In Reflections on Freges Philosophy, Reinhardt Grossmann investigates the most important themes in the philosophy of Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925): his distinction between objects and functions, his characterization of numbers as nonmental classes, his theory of sense and reference, and his ontology of truth-values. Grossmann examines Freges solutions to...
- Keyword:
- Analytic
- Creator:
- Reinhardt Grossmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- Philosophy
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In D. H. Lawrence, Eliseo Vivas examines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrences major works through a literary device that he coins the constitutive symbol. Understanding how Lawrence uses the constitutive symbol provides new insight into his world views. Vivas covers a wide range of Lawrences work, including Aarons...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Eliseo Vivas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1960
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This Africa is both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing a framework of literary criticism that includes the conqueror, the hero, city life, village life, and personal identity. Authors whose works are studied include...
- Keyword:
- Literature
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Judith Illsley Gleason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1965
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Dark Conceit is the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and criticism. The study explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of allegory, discusses the misconceptions that have obscured the subject, and surveys the changing concept of allegory. The greater...
- Keyword:
- Theory
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Edwin Honig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1959
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The Sacred Meadows is an anthropological study of the religion of Lamu, the oldest inhabited town in Kenya, originally settled in 1370, and situated on an island off the Kenyan coast. Abdul Hamid El-Zein discusses the religious impact of Islam and its place in Lamu society. He explores the structure...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Abdul Hamid M. el Zein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1974
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This bibliography lists the books, paintings, and portraits of the mystic Irish poet George William Russell, best known by his pseudonym, AE. Russell was a late nineteenth-and early twentieth century Irish poet and essayist whose first book of poems, Homeward: Songs by the Way (1894), established him in what was...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- N/A
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1961
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Lionel Trilling was one of the twentieth centurys most widely read and influential American literary critics. Mark Krupnick traces Trillings career from the 1920s through the 1970s, following the shifting intellectual and ideological currents in his thought. Krupnick places Trillings criticism and fiction in the context of his New York...
- Keyword:
- United States
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Mark Krupnick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1986
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Critical Prefaces of the French Renaissancecontains nearly 30 prefaces from the works of French poets and dramatists published from 1525 to 1611. Bernard Weinbergs helpful book collects prefaces from the works of satirical poets, as well as dramatists, and provides a short introduction to each preface setting it in its...
- Keyword:
- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Bernard Weinberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1950
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory assesses contemporary trends in ethical theory, including the deontological tradition dating back to Kant, the teleological tradition of the utilitarians, the analytic movement, and the existentialist-phenomenologist movement. In refuting these trends, Henry B. Veatch argues that moral and ethical...
- Keyword:
- Ethics and Moral Philosophy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Henry B. Veatch
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The teachings of Epicurus, whose philosophy focused on the pursuit of happiness, attracted adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. The Philosophy of Epicurus contains a long introductory essay on the philosophy of Epicurus and a selection of primary texts. In inGeorge K. Strodach translates...
- Keyword:
- Ancient and Classical
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Epicurus and George K. Strodach
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1963
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century French writer Romain Rolland remains best known for his epic coming-of-age tale, Jean Christoph. InA Critical Bibliography of the Published Writings of Romain Rolland William Thomas Starr Starr painstakingly collects the information on all writings by and about this prolific author through 1949. Organized into two...
- Keyword:
- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- William Thomas Starr
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1950
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan is the first critical, annotated translation in English of the collected work of poet Aimeric de Peguilhan. In itWilliam P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers provide translations and introductory material to the work of the medieval French troubadour.
- Keyword:
- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- William P. Shepard, Aimeric de Peguilhan, and Frank M. Chambers
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1950
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship provides one the earliest attempts to write a theoretical method for evidence within plays to help determine authorship or to help distinguish the work of one author from another. Samuel Schoenbaums study remains valuable, for the attempt to attribute unattributed plays to one or...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- S. Schoenbaum
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1966
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Science and the Humanitiescontains five lectures concerning the discussion of the relation of science and the humanities, focusing on the work of thinkers such as James B. Conant and C. P. Snow.
- Keyword:
- General
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Moody E. Prior
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Glenn OMalleys Shelley and Synesthesia examines a little-known aspect of Percy Shelleys poetry, offering a history of synesthesia and engaging in close readings of Shelleys poetry, focusing primarily on his longer works. OMalley explores the internal structure of Shelleys poems to concentrate on patterns of imagery and symbolism, bringing attention...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Glenn O’Malley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1964
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In Selected Prose of N. M. Karamzin, Henry Nebels translation and extensive introductory material presents a collection of primary sources by a Russian author whose tales explore the creative exploitation of sentimentalisms potentialities.
- Keyword:
- Russia
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- N. M. Karamzin and Henry M. Nebel Jr.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Containing details of 390 L.P. and E.P. recordings,African Music on LP: An Annotated Discographycontributed to the scholarship of African music at a time when very little had been written. Organized by record label and arranged in alphabetical order, Allen P. Merriam assesses the stylistic characteristics of each recording, providing new...
- Keyword:
- Music
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Alan P. Merriam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The English Novel in the Magazines, 17401815, explores the popularity of magazines in the nineteenth century and the ways that much of the published fiction of the time appeared serially in these publications. Robert D. Mayos groundbreaking study remains important to scholars of the nineteenth century as one of the...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Robert D. Mayo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The Anatomy of Disillusion is an introduction to Heideggers phenomenology that focuses on Heideggers notion of truth. Unlike many of his contemporaries, W.B. Macomber presents Heidegger as a systematic thinker, whose phenomenology is inextricably bound up with his ontology and epistemology.
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- W. B. Macomber
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1967
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Three Nigerian Emirates:A Study in Oral History is a widely held study on a scarcely examined region of Nigeria. Victor N. Low presents a detailed account of the leaders, people, and culture of the Hadejia, Katagum, and Gombe regions documented in a transcribed oral history. This work presents a valuable...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Victor N. Low
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- InReason and Evidence in Husserls PhenomenologyDavid Michael Kleinberg-Levinexamines Husserls concept of necessary, a priori, and absolutely certain indubitable evidence, which he terms apodictic, and his related concept of complete evidence, which he terms adequate. To do so it explicates some of the more general relevant features of phenomenology as a...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The Epistemology of G. E. Mooreis an examination of the philosophy of G. E. Moore, one of the foremost Anglo-American, analytic philosophers of the twentieth century.This book, together with Reinhardt Grossmanns Reflections on Freges Philosophy and Moltke Grams Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori, seeks to redress an imbalance in...
- Keyword:
- Epistemology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- E. D. Klemke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In Fair Rosamond Virgil B. Heltzel traces the character of Rosamond Clifford, known as Fair Rosamondwhich has its origins as a theme in medieval literaturethrough its use in poetry and plays and novels, from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century. Heltzels book retains its importance today for scholars tracing...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Virgil B. Heltzel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1947
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- John Donnes poetry is often difficult and perplexing, even more so because it undergoes a shift away from secular topics after he converts and begins to lead a religious life. Robert S. Jacksons John Donnes Christian Vocation is one of the first studies that takes seriously the ways that Donnes...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Robert S. Jackson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book