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- Women living with human immunodeficiency virus (WLWH) have unique health challenges. Understanding psychological strengths that help WLWH manage their disease and improve health outcomes could reduce disease burden. Although spirituality, a multidimensional construct that includes a search for meaning and purpose, connection with a higher dimension, and experiences and feelings...
- Keyword:
- biopsychology, HIV, women's health, spirituality, positive affect, and program development
- Subject:
- Social psychology, Health sciences, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Bassett, Sarah Margaret Ray
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14769 and etdadmin_upload_679594
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- I investigate the spillover effects of disclosure requirements imposed by state governments on oil and gas companies operating in the state. Recently, several state governments have begun requiring companies to publicly disclose information about chemicals used in their fracking operations. The chemicals can result in land and water contamination, thereby...
- Keyword:
- Mortgage market, Fracking, Real effects, and Disclosure regulation
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Creator:
- Sinha, Kirti
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_658818 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14580
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- The Picard group is an important invariant of the $K(n)$-local category. If the prime $p$ is relatively large compared to the height $n$, the Picard group of the $K(n)$-local category is purely algebraic. In \cref{chapter:finitetype}, we describe the necessary and sufficient numerical condition when an element $X$ in the Picard...
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- Chromatic Homotopy Theory and Invertible spectra
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Li, Guchuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14617 and etdadmin_upload_661882
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- Contest theory is an area of game theory that studies environments in which agents make sunk investments in order to get a prize. These investments could be money, effort, time, etc. Contest theory is used to study a wide range of applications, like political contests, research and development, advertisement campaigns,...
- Keyword:
- Contest Theory, All-pay Auctions, Auctions, and Game Theory
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Catepillan Tessi, Jorge Francisco
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14454 and etdadmin_upload_626486
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- DNA topoisomerases are enzymes present in all domains of life. They are responsible for maintaining the topological state of DNA in cells through supercoiling, relaxation, catenation, decatenation, knotting and unknotting. DNA gyrase is a unique topoisomerase, present mainly in bacteria that can introduce negative supercoils into DNA utilizing ATP hydrolysis....
- Keyword:
- cryoEM, topoisomerase, and DNA gyrase
- Subject:
- Biophysics
- Creator:
- Soczek, Katarzyna M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_658816 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14579
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- This thesis consists of three papers studying applied microeconomics and economic history. The chapters are broadly organized around two different topics: the political effects of media and the consequences of disruption to human capital. In the first chapter, joint with Susan Ou, we study the role of media in the...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Xiong, Heyu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662403 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14638
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- Many industrial fluid flow problems involve the interaction between heavy, rigid objects and one or more fluid phases. For several decades, there has been a vested interest in simulating these fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems in order to improve engineering design processes. However, numerical simulations of these problems can be challenging...
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- Aquatic locomotion, Adaptive mesh refinement, Fluid-structure interaction, Multiphase flow, Computational fluid dynamics, and Vehicle aerodynamics
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics, Computational physics, and Fluid mechanics
- Creator:
- Nangia, Nishant
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_637421 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14506
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- Political leaders often engage in open fights for recognition, announcing that some crucial element of their state’s identity, status, or history, has not been properly acknowledged and respected in the conduct of diplomacy. Among international relations scholars, these instances are usually ascribed to the fact that states, like individuals, need...
- Keyword:
- Identity, Recognition, Israel-Palestine, Status, Armenia-Turkey, and Britain-EU
- Subject:
- International relations, International law, and Political science
- Creator:
- Freedman, Joshua
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_660729 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14591
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- Slow-wave sleep (SWS) is important for overall health since it affects many physiological pathways from cardio-metabolic health to cognitive function. Sleep and autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning are closely coupled at anatomical and physiological levels. Sleep-related changes in ANS function are likely the main pathway through which SWS affects many...
- Keyword:
- Memory, Sleep, Acoustic Stimulation, Aging, Autonomic Nervous System, and Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Papalambros, Penelope Ann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_635017 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14497
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- Power and energy are becoming the limiting factors for computer designs and systems, and energy efficient functional units are getting more popular in such systems. Some of the design methodologies that are getting more common include voltage overscaling and employing imprecise instructions. These functional units need to be characterized correctly...
- Keyword:
- Characterization, Computer architecture, Compression, Functional units, Algorithm, and Energy efficiency
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering and Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Gok, Ali Murat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14469 and etdadmin_upload_627230