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- Continental weathering and organic carbon (OC) burial in marine sediments are important processes because they act as sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide. Continental weathering products provide information about provenance, marine sediment quality/quantity, denudation and continental crust composition. In this study I explore two topics that impact some of these issues...
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- Eastern Tibetan Plateau, Provenance, Petrology, Mineral Surface Area, Red River, and Weathering
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- Geological Sciences
- Creator:
- Joniell B Borges
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Early-life seizures increase susceptibility to seizures in adulthood. However, mechanisms by which seizures in the developing brain lead to increased vulnerability to seizures and exacerbation of neurological injury in adulthood remain unknown. We test the hypothesis that upregulation of proinflammatory cytokine levels and chronic glial activation following early-life seizures result...
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- seizures, cytokines, microglia, glia, glutamate, and neuroinflammation
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kathleen Cua Somera-Molina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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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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- 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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- 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...
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- 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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- In this work, the processing of the superconductor MgB<sub>2</sub> was studied to create a fundamental scientific background for the production of superconducting composite wires. The synthesis of MgB<sub>2</sub> from Mg and B powders was investigated in situ to determine reaction rates and kinetic parameters for the application of powder-in-tube technology...
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- Materials Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- John Defouw
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Structural dynamics in three polymer blend systems, differing largely with respect to morphology, have been investigated. The first system, composed of two immiscible homopolymers, exhibits a microstructure of micron-sized droplets dispersed in a matrix phase. We have examined small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) as a new approach for conducting in situ...
- Keyword:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Kristin Leigh Brinker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-29
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Regtech, a reference to the application of new technologies to bank regulation, mandates a conversation about reducing the burden of bank regulation by letting computers take over some of the handling of regulatory text. Bank regulations and the related manuals, guidance, or other supplements are mostly unstructured. Software tools and...
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- Predictive Analytics, Market Risk Rule, Financial Industry Business Ontology, and Bank Secrecy Act
- Subject:
- Predictive Analytics
- Creator:
- Loretta Clare Ardaugh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
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- Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive amnestic dementia typified by the pathological self-association of the microtubule-associated tau protein into neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). Important to NFT formation are numerous modifications of tau, including phosphorylation, truncation, and conformational changes. In addition, AD-associated inflammation promotes the formation of peroxynitrite (ONOO-), a potent nitrating...
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- Monoclonal Antibody, 3, 3'-Dityrosine, Nitration, Peroxynitrite, Alzheimer's, and Tau
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Matthew Ryan Reynolds
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Polymers and polyelectrolytes are ideal tools for the development of novel self-assembled materials. The ability to control the length-scales of self-assembly, and thus the properties, for soft materials lies in the understanding and subsequent manipulation of competing intermolecular interactions, such as hydrophobicity, hydrogen bonding, van der Waals, electrostatics. In this...
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- Random Phase Approximation, charged systems, molecular dynamics, polymer gel, and Monte Carlo
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Sharon Loverde
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Under the correct conditions, aluminum can be anodized in an electrochemical cell to produce hexagonally ordered arrays of nanoscale pores. This study examines how adding the chemicals methanol and acetic acid to a typical anodization solution alters pore-growth patterns across the surface oxide layer. The existence of the unique pore-growth...
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- Volume 7
- Creator:
- Mark C. Hersam, Albert L. Lipson, and Ryan S. Ginder
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/24/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/24/2018
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- There are few concerns greater than those of a parent with an adult with an intellectual or developmental disability (I/DD). How is she or he going to be taken care of as she or he ages? The government provides services and support in the pursuit of care and services, but...
- Keyword:
- disability, social policy, I/DD, intellectual and developmental disability, Illinois, and disability policy
- Creator:
- Camille Cooley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster and Research Paper
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- Description:
- It has been hypothesized that mindfulness-based programs with a primary focus on teaching self-compassion or empathy will have greater effects on self-compassion and empathy than will mindfulness-based exposure programs, which focus primarily on enhancing present moment awareness and reducing distress. However, because research on mindfulness-based exposure programs has centered on...
- Keyword:
- meditation, exposure, empathy, self-compassion, and mindfulness
- Creator:
- Victoria Steigerwald
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Physiological linkage (i.e., the covariation of moment-to-moment physiology between individuals) is thought to play an important role in relationship functioning. The present study examined physiological linkage across interbeat interval (IBI) and skin conductance levels (SCL) in a sample of married spouses (N=106) during both a pleasant and a conflict conversation...
- Keyword:
- marriage, physiological linkage, and emotional experience
- Subject:
- Psychology and Biology
- Creator:
- In Jung Jang, Claudia M. Haase, Ryan C. Svoboda, and Kuan-Hua Chen
- Contributor:
- Claudia Haase (advisor)
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster and Research Paper
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- Description:
- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human gamma-herpesvirus that primarily infects B cells and epithelial cells. While the glycoproteins required for entry into these two cell types differ, the gH/gL glycoprotein complex is essential for entry into both epithelial and B cells. Analysis of gH protein sequences from three gamma-herpesviruses: EBV,...
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- Molecular and Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Jasmina Omerovic
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- RNA interference (RNAi) is a newly discovered gene control pathway that silences gene expression in response to double-stranded RNA. This sequence-specific downregulation occurs at the level of mRNA stability, and is directed by the double-stranded RNA trigger itself. RNAi can be separated into two distinct steps; during the initiation phase,...
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- Chemistry and Biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Janice Lynn Pellino
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of the Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone Receptor
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- In mammalian development, cell specification and organogenesis are achieved by the regulated expression and repression of specific subsets of genes. The anterior pituitary gland, comprised of five cell types that arise from a common precursor, is an excellent model system for understanding these developmental processes. Examination of factors regulating transcription...
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- Gene Regulation, Pituitary Development, and Alternative Splicing
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Allison Therese MvElvaine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Wave propagation at the bottom of the electromagnetic spectrum (below 300 kHz) in the Earth-ionosphere system is a problem having a rich history of theoretical investigation extending over many decades. Propagation within this system involves complex interactions of electromagnetic waves with the lithosphere, oceans, and ionosphere, leading to resonances that...
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- remote-sensing, extremely low-frequency (ELF), earthquake precursors, electromagnetic wave propagation, lightning, and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD)
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jamesina Jean Simpson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Lydia Sigourney, female authorship, feminism , Cult of True Womanhood , Karli Goldenberg , and Illustrated Poems
- Creator:
- Karli Goldenberg
- Owner:
- Karli Jordan Goldenberg
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/24/2018
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- Description:
- Most women diagnosed with epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) initially present with metastases, but little is known about the regulation of ovarian tumor cell dissemination by the tumor microenvironment. Because ovarian cancer cell dissemination is mostly limited to the peritoneal cavity and often results in the accumulation of malignant ascites, the...
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- Biology and Cell
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Jaime Symowicz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Alias, Helen Hunt Jackson, Illustration, Roberts Brothers, A Calendar of Sonnets, Currer Bell, Anonymous, E. H. Garrett, Poetry, Poem, Penname, H. H. , Pseudonym, 19th Century, Charlotte Bronte, Emile Bayard, and Saxe Holm
- Creator:
- Siena Moreno
- Owner:
- Siena Raquel Moreno
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
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- Keyword:
- Second edition, Truth, a gift for scribblers , 1832, and William Joseph Snelling
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/26/2019
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- Keyword:
- Civil War, Confederacy, Cult of the Lost Cause, Margaret Junkin Preston, nineteenth-century American poetry, Beechenbrook, and epic
- Creator:
- Pascale Carrel
- Owner:
- Pascale Ines Dombrowski Carrel
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/08/2018
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- Keyword:
- Nostalgia, Songs Of Yesterday, Gift Book, and Benjamin F. Taylor
- Creator:
- Daniella Martino
- Owner:
- Daniella Francis Martino
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
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- Keyword:
- genre, children's poetry, Childhood Songs, poetry, Lucy Larcom, and children's literature
- Creator:
- Megan Beach
- Owner:
- Megan Elizabeth Beach
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
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- A number of nonclassical MHC Ib molecules recognizing distinct microbial antigens have been implicated in the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Due to the low polymorphism of MHC Ib molecules within the human population, these molecules and Mtb antigens are attractive targets for better vaccine development. Among these, HLA-E...
- Keyword:
- T cells and Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Yao Bian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Graphene offers promising opportunities for applications in printed and flexible electronic devices due to its high electrical and thermal conductivity, mechanical flexibility and strength, and chemical and environmental stability. However, scalable production and processing of graphene presents a critical technological challenge preventing the application of graphene for flexible electronic interconnects,...
- Keyword:
- carbon nanomaterials,, graphene, conductive inks, inkjet printing, and printed electronics
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Ethan Benjamin Secor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Organizations comprise of groups who share and compete for resources. During organizational change, resources are often redistributed. Although change messages highlight overarching benefits for the organization, recipients of the message are interested in knowing how they will be affected at the group level, and this affects the way the message...
- Keyword:
- framing in organizational change, competition for resources during organizational change, group dynamics in organizational change, organizational change communication, resource interdependence in change management, and organizational change
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Mrittika Sen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Nucleosome organization influences gene activity by controlling DNA accessibility to transcription machinery. In this thesis, we have developed a chemical biology approach to determine mammalian nucleosome positions genome-wide. Using this strategy, we uncover surprising new features of nucleosome organization in mouse embryonic stem cells. In contrast to the prevailing model,...
- Keyword:
- histones, nucleosomes, epigenetics, chromatin, and transcription regulation
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Lilien Voong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Understanding the nature of quantum effects in dense biological systems is of great interestto many scientists today. It seems that the question is not does quantum mechanics dictatebiological processes, but rather by how much and to what extent. A big challenge though in thisfield is how to properly test and...
- Keyword:
- Photosystem I, Stochastic Surrogate Hamiltonian, Redfield, Biology, and Quantum Mechanics
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Daniel Douglas Powell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The over-a-decade quantitative study of the flexion synergy has provided concrete evidence that the stereotypical movement coupling of shoulder abduction with elbow flexion and wrist/finger flexion (i.e. flexion synergy) significantly affects the ability to perform functional upper extremity movements that are essential for activities of daily living (e.g. reach-to-grasp an...
- Keyword:
- Neurosciences
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Yiyun Lan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Using cross-sectional and 90-day discharge follow-up data from child welfare residential treatment, this study investigates gender differences in characteristics, needs, and strengths at entry to residential treatment. Specifically, this analysis examines trauma experiences, trauma-related symptoms, internalizing and externalizing behaviors, and strengths, in relation to length of stay and discharge status...
- Keyword:
- Gender differences, Length of stay, Residential treatment, Child welfare, Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS), and Child trauma
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Torgersen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Differences in Neuropsychological Functioning between Homicidal and Nonviolent Schizophrenia Samples
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- Neurocognitive dysfunction, while common among those with schizophrenia, is thought to be exacerbated in violent individuals with schizophrenia and contribute to the commission of violent acts. Few studies have compared performance on neurocognitive measures between violent and nonviolent schizophrenia samples. Better understanding neurocognitive dysfunction in violent individuals with schizophrenia could...
- Keyword:
- Homicide, Schizophrenia, Violence, and Neuropsychology
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- John Stratton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The National Institute of Mental Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality convened an expert panel to identify the top research priorities in the field of behavioral intervention technology (BIT) research. The panel determined that if BIT research is to evolve in an effective way to reach and...
- Keyword:
- Barriers, Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Mobile, Apps, Depression, and Learning
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Colleen Stiles-Shields
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Background: The tripartite model (Clark & Watson, 1991) has been used to represent the substrates of general distress in both depression and anxiety (Negative affectivity [NA]), while also characterizing specific features of decreased positive affectivity (PA) in depression and increased physiological hyperarousal (PH) in anxiety. Core affect characterizes affect by...
- Keyword:
- affective reactivity, tripartite model, comorbidity, depression, and anxiety
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Laina Emily Rosebrock
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2015-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In eukaryotic organisms, genomic DNA is organized and condensed into repeating arrays of nucleosomes. The histone protein octamer of each nucleosome wraps 147 base pairs of DNA, effectively restricting access by transcription factors and other regulatory proteins to that region. An additional histone, histone H1, binds the DNA outside the...
- Keyword:
- histone h1, mnase, genome, nucleosome, and drosophila
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Rebecca Martin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents a program of research on cultural cognition of the natural world, involving long-term research with indigenous Ngöbe partner communities (Panama) and selected comparisons to Western samples (US). In two series of experiments focused on agency concepts, we show that cultural frameworks recruit distinct principles for inferring agency...
- Keyword:
- Indigenous, folk psychology, folk communication, culture, agency concepts, and folk ecology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Bethany L. Ojalehto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The hormone prolactin (PRL) contributes to breast cancer pathogenesis through various signaling pathways, one of the most notable being the JAK2/signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5) pathway. PRL-induced activation of the transcription factor STAT5 results in the upregulation of numerous genes implicated in breast cancer pathogenesis. However, the...
- Keyword:
- Transcription factor, HMGN, Histone H1, Chromatin, STAT5, and Prolactin
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Suzanne Marie Schauwecker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While literature indicates that fewer than half of older adults aged 65 years or older receive high quality end-of-life care, less is known about the quality of end-of-life care experienced by the segment of that population with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). Drawing upon the Teno Model of high quality end-of-life...
- Keyword:
- Multiple chronic conditions, Quality, End-of-life, and Aging
- Subject:
- Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program
- Creator:
- Gayle Kricke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of this thesis is to design practical algorithms for nonlinear optimization in the case when the objective function is stochastic or nonsmooth. The thesis is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 describes an active-set method for the minimization of an objective function that is structurally nonsmooth, viz., it...
- Keyword:
- machine learning, optimization, deep learning, Newton, nonsmooth, and quasi-Newton
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Nitish Shirish Keskar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Air pollution increases mortality risk up to 18 percent due to cardiovascular causes. Poor air quality occurs more when meteorological components prevent the dispersal of pollutants in the lower atmosphere. The atmospheric and hydrological patterns change as global warming alters the pattern of circulations seasonally. The purpose of this study...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Earth & Planetary Science
- Creator:
- Yuxi Suo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-11
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- A failure to effectively regulate emotions elicited by a stressful life event contributes to symptoms of psychopathology. This regulatory failure may result from a deficit in executive control. For some individuals, executive control is impaired following stress exposure. Thus, for some individuals, when executive control is needed to regulate emotions...
- Keyword:
- Clinical psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Meghan Quinn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the situated and interactional nature of cultural experiences. Drawing on the literature on materiality, place, and space, the study analyzes how the physical and spatial characteristics of art galleries and art museums in Accra, Ghana, and Johannesburg, South Africa, lead people to engage with culture, and derive...
- Keyword:
- Art galleries, Urban sociology, Art museums, Materiality, Cultural sociology, and Built environment
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Priscilla Adipa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation asks how deepening global inequalities reshape the ways families negotiate “economic moralities,” normative expectations of material obligation and entitlement. It focuses on the families of middle class migrants: French-educated Senegalese urbanites whose diplomas no longer protect them from discrimination in Paris but who, among Africans, are still construed...
- Keyword:
- transnational families, France, food sharing, Senegal, children, and migration
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Chelsie Jeannette Yount-Andre
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How do independent artists use social media and e-commerce websites to support their creative businesses? This dissertation examines independent artists’ participation in the peer economy for selling handmade goods, a hybrid economy that combines sharing content on social media and selling goods on e-commerce platforms. While a multidisciplinary array of...
- Keyword:
- Internet skills, Peer Markets, Digital Literacy, Sharing Economy, Creative and Cultural Industries, and Social Media
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Erin Flynn Klawitter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ecological restoration is vital to the conservation of biodiversity and provision of ecosystem services in a changing world. Biodiversity is often a goal of restoration, and species to be planted for restoration are often selected based on diversity objectives. But species are not independent; they are related to one another...
- Keyword:
- Plant Biology
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Rebecca Samantha Barak
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recent scholarship in critical urban theory, urban political ecology, and related fields has emphasized the "hybridity" of urban-environmental systems. This argument is contrasted with the socially constructed "binary" relationship between "city" and "nature" that dominated historical understandings of urban-environmental connections. Despite wide agreement on these issues, the trajectories that precipitated...
- Keyword:
- park, city, chicago, race, nature, and space
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Kevin Loughran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spatial-temporal data mining, with data driven model and machine learning techniques, significantly benefit the traditional transportation research. This dissertation focus on three problems related to uncertain location data, lane-level traffic speed clustering and anomalous traffic speed prediction. We take a first step towards combining the uncertain location data i.e., fusing...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Bing Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The U.S. Department of Education’s Ready To Learn (RTL) initiative funds (a) mass media and related community outreach intended to promote school readiness among all children—especially at-risk populations—, and (b) formative and summative research by third party evaluators (Michael Cohen Group, 2012). Today, the majority of American preschoolers have consumed...
- Keyword:
- Longitudinal, Intervention, Educational Media, Ready To Learn, Early Learning Hypothesis, and Individual Differences
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Lisa B. Hurwitz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Languages provide expressions that allow its users to indicate their source of information for a given claim, which can have an effect of attenuating how committed they appear to be to the truth of their claims (e.g., ame-ga futteiru-sooda ‘It is raining, I hear’). This linguistic notion has been termed...
- Keyword:
- semantics, pragmatics, experimental, Japanese, context, and evidentiality
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Julie Matsubara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In March 1977 an exceptionally strong earthquake struck Romania ruled by the communist president and dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his regime. The policies and actions implemented and undertaken in the days, weeks, and year that followed were forms of aftershocks. The Ceauşescu regime modeled the 1977 earthquake recovery on previous...
- Keyword:
- Nicolae Ceauşescu, Disaster Response, Urban History, Romania, 1977 Earthquake, and Communism
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Karin Steinbrueck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Significant deviations in the glass transition temperature (Tg) of nanoconfined polymer films from the bulk have been studied for over twenty years with the focus on high molecular weight (MW), linear polymers. This thesis explores low MW polymers, which represent an important class of materials widely used as coatings, detergents,...
- Keyword:
- Low Molecular Weight Polymer, Wetting/Dewetting, Glass Transition Temperature, Fragility, Nanoscale Confinement, and Cyclic/Ring Polymer
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Lanhe Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- "Migration Forms” centers on the place where migration and Morocco meet to tell two stories. One argues for the centrality of migration to the projects of local, contemporary art making and postcolonial nation building, while the other examines the codification, circulation, and contestation through visual form of this North African...
- Keyword:
- Morocco, Maghreb, national identity, migration, contemporary art, and minorities
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Emma Imbrie Chubb
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei is a single-celled eukaryotic protozoan parasite with a single cilium/flagellum. It cycles between its mammalian host (bloodstream cell), in which it scavenges cholesterol, and its tsetse fly host (procyclic cell), in which it both scavenges cholesterol and synthesizes ergosterol. For the first part of the...
- Keyword:
- Lipid rafts, Sterols, Trypanosome, and Palmitoylation
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Aabha Sharma
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- After 9/11 there was a shift in the rhetoric surrounding counter-terrorism. Suddenly, the language of risk, security and prevention was being utilized to justify a new set of global financial regulations headed up by international organizations such as the United Nations, The Financial Action Task Force, and the IMF/World Bank....
- Keyword:
- Risk, Transparency, Counter-Terrorism Financing, and Anti-Money Laundering
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Anna Rose Hanson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Changing economic activities bring significant cultural, epidemiological, and nutritional transitions. These transitions have important and lifelong effects on the health of populations experiencing them. Infancy represents a critical period when rapid growth and metabolic programming occur, making infants particularly vulnerable to long-lasting biological changes due to such transitions. The objective...
- Keyword:
- Growth, Infancy, Nutrition, Inequality, and Economic Transition
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Morgan Hoke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This work is concerned with the Laudau-Ginzburg $A$-model, or the Fukaya-Seidel category, associated with a Laurent polynomial $f: (\C^*)^n \ o \C$. We use constructible sheaves on a real $n$-dimensional torus to describe the Lagrangian thimbles associated to $f$. Then we discuss the application to Homological Mirror Symmetry for smooth...
- Keyword:
- Lagrangian Thimble, Laurent Polynomial, Constructible Sheaf, and Tropical Geometry
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Peng Zhou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the relationship between institutions of political participation and environmental protection. What is the relationship and how is it constituted? How are participatory institutions put into motion, and how do they operate? What are the effects of these institutions? Are participatory institutions desirable from an environmental perspective and...
- Keyword:
- Development, Prior consultations, Popular consultations, Institutions, Mining, and Latin America
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Diana Rodriguez-Franco
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The scope of this thesis extends to the study of surface structures and electronic properties in a number of complex oxides. The c(6x2) surface reconstruction on SrTiO3 (001) was solved using a combination of plan view transmission electron microscopy imaging, atomic resolution secondary electron imaging, and density functional theory calculations....
- Keyword:
- electron microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, surface science, and lanthanide scandates
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Pratik Koirala
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Analytic jurisprudence is the field organized around the “What is law?” question. When most scholars approach the “What is law?” question, they suppose that the goal of such inquiry is to discover, or to accurately represent, the true nature of law. Consequently, these scholars reject the notion that the goal...
- Keyword:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Raff Donelson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Increasing energy demand due to rapid growth in population and industrialization along with environmental crisis has led to the search for cheap, environmentally friendly, and nontoxic methods for generation of energy. However, most alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic, biofuels, hydraulic power, wind power, and geothermal energy, are characterized by...
- Keyword:
- Sustainable, Biomass, Supercapacitors, Energy storage, and Hydrothermal carbonization
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Deepti Krishnan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Age-related cognitive deficits are observed in both humans and animals. Yet, the molecular mechanisms underlying these deficits are not yet fully elucidated. In aged animals, a decrease in intrinsic excitability of pyramidal neurons from the CA1 sub-region of hippocampus is believed to contribute to age-related cognitive impairments, but the molecular...
- Keyword:
- CREB, Memory, Hippocampus, and Aging
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Xiao Wen Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The impacts of many important technologies are limited by the availability of better-performing materials. One factor limiting the ability of engineers to develop better materials is the speed at which they can search through possible formulations and processing schemes. Recently, machine learning algorithms have emerged as a possible route to...
- Keyword:
- Materials Science, Crystal Structure Solution, Metallic Glasses, Density Functional Theory, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Logan Timothy Ward
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Loss of inhibitory control from descending serotonergic (5-HT) fibers deregulates the excitability of spinal motoneurons and interneurons following spinal cord injury (SCI). Exaggerated synaptic activity triggers long-lasting excitatory postsynaptic potentials (long EPSPs) in hyperexcitable motoneurons to ultimately drive muscle spasms at the chronic stage of SCI. Deep dorsal horn (DDH)...
- Keyword:
- muscle spasms, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), serotonin (5-HT), spinal cord injury (SCI), deep dorsal horn (DDH) neurons, and zolmitriptan
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Theeradej Thaweerattanasinp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Natural products provide a renewable resource of novel chemical structures with relevance to the pharmaceutical, agricultural and materials industries. Genome sequencing has revealed that these industries currently rely on only a fraction of the number of natural products that exist in nature. Based on the impact that known natural products...
- Keyword:
- Biosynthesis, Streptomyces, Natural Products, Mass Spectrometry, Cell-Free Protein Synthesis, and Secondary Metabolism
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Anthony Whitney Goering
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The genetic code, a set of rules by which mRNA codons are translated into the twenty standard amino acids used in protein synthesis, was once thought to be immutable. As we expanded our understanding of molecular biology more variations in this genetic code have been found across the animal kingdom....
- Keyword:
- genomically recoded organisms, non-standard amino acid, orthogonal translation system, and protein synthesis
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Jessica Gabrielle Perez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The development of metal-based probes has provided major benefits to understanding basic biological process and clinical outcomes. Metals offer access to geometries that carbon alone cannot attain, along with valuable magnetic, optical, and binding properties. Metals have proven to be particularly useful in advancing molecular imaging, a field that seeks...
- Keyword:
- Biochemistry
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Luke Vistain
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We studied the nonlocal effects of intraspecific prey competition on the stability of the critical points of the Rosenzweig-MacArthur model and the Holling-Tanner model, respectively, using linear stability analysis. In particular we focused on the study of the stability of the coexistence state influenced by the nonlocality for both models....
- Keyword:
- Applied Mathematics
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Jiang Zhuo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- With the dual challenges of meeting global energy demand and mitigating anthropogenic climate change, significant effort is being applied to generating power from renewable sources. The dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) is a photovoltaic technology capable of generating electricity from sunlight, but suffers losses in efficiency due to deleterious electron transfer...
- Keyword:
- Alternative Energy, Material Science, and Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- William L. Hoffeditz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Radiation is a ubiquitous health risk. Contemporary populations are exposed to several hundred milliSieverts per person over their lifetimes from both natural and human made sources such as radon, cosmic rays, CT-scans, etc. Risk estimates based on studies of atomic bomb survivors suggest that these exposures induce excess cancer mortality...
- Keyword:
- radiation, DDREF, and protraction
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Benjamin McGee Haley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Polyurethane (PU) is an important commodity polymer with a broad range of applications. Increasing regulations on isocyanates have prompted investigations into alternative routes to PU. Cyclic carbonate aminolysis leading to polyhydroxyurethane (PHU) is a promising alternative. This dissertation describes the first fundamental investigation of the synthesis and properties of segmented,...
- Keyword:
- Thermoplastic Elastomer, Structure-Property-Relationship, Non-Isocyanate, Polyhydroxyurethane, Cyclic Carbonate Aminolysis, and Polyurethane
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Goliath Beniah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by progressive motoneuron loss. Autopsy from thoracic spinal tissues of sALS patients revealed a significant loss of large motoneurons while medium and small motoneurons were relatively unaffected. Using two-photon microscopy, we observed a soma hypertrophy of neonatal motoneurons in mice overexpressing mutant human G93A-superoxide...
- Keyword:
- Accounting and Neuroscience
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Su-Wei Kuo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In yeast, inducible genes such as INO1, PRM1 and HIS4 reposition from the nucleoplasm to nuclear periphery upon activation. This leads to a physical interaction with nuclear pore complex (NPC), interchromosomal clustering, and stronger transcription. Repositioning to the nuclear periphery is controlled by cis-acting transcription factor (TF) binding sites located...
- Keyword:
- Molecular biology and Cellular biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Carlo Randise-Hinchliff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- An accurate knowledge of the engineering properties of rocks is crucial for a variety of geomechanical problems, ranging from wellbore stability to failure in rock slopes, underground excavations, and crustal faults. While strength and deformation properties are usually obtained from a limited number of in situ and/or laboratory tests, their...
- Keyword:
- Civil Engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Shiva Esna Ashari Esfahani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Fungi have an immense untapped store of natural products, small molecules that can often be repurposed as pharmaceuticals. The genes that encode secondary metabolic machinery are often genomically co-localized into biosynthetic gene clusters. Because of the immense energetic costs that goes into producing the biosynthetic pathway and its products, strict...
- Keyword:
- LC-MS, NRPS, Natural products, Aspergillus nidulans, metabolomics, and HDAC
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Matthew Thomas Henke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The ability to track labeled cancer cells in vivo would allow researchers to study their distribution, growth and metastatic potential within the intact organism. Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is invaluable for tracking cancer cells in vivo as it benefits from high spatial resolution and absence of ionizing radiation. However, many...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology and Chemistry
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Nikhil Ram Mohan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Short-wave infrared (SWIR) photon detection has become an essential technology in the modern world. Sensitive SWIR detectors with low noise levels, and high signal-to-noise-ratios are highly desirable for a variety of applications including light detection and ranging, optical tomography, and astronomical imaging. As such many efforts in infrared detector research...
- Keyword:
- short-wave infrared, Light Detection and Ranging, phototransistor, infrared detector, photon detector, and Electron-injection detector
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Vala Fathipour
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While infrequent, clay slope failures caused by earthquakes result in loss of life and substantial property damage. In strong seismicity areas, it is sometimes assumed that the stability of clay deposits can be evaluated through the residual undrained strength that is applicable at large deformations. A crucial factor missing in...
- Keyword:
- Geotechnology
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Zhenhao Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- CD1 molecules represent a class of antigen presenting molecules that present lipid antigens to cognate T cells. These molecules have been identified in all mammals examined so far. Unlike MHC molecules, which are highly polymorphic, CD1 molecules exhibit limited polymorphism and are divided in to two groups – 1 and...
- Keyword:
- Immunology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Sreya Bagchi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Substance use and substance use disorder (SUD) may be variables that influence the course of HIV/AIDS risk behaviors as youth age. To our knowledge, no prospective longitudinal study has examined the association between categories of substance use disorders including alcohol use disorder alone, marijuana use disorder alone, comorbid drug use...
- Keyword:
- Sexually transmitted diseases/infections, HIV/AIDS risk behaviors, Longitudinal study, Substance use disorder, Juvenile justice system, and Detained/incarcerated youth
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Marquita Stokes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How mental representations are constructed and how they evolve are central problems for cognitive science. Representation decisions help determine what computations are hard or easy. Structured, relational representations are a hallmark of human cognition. Developmental studies show that children do not perform as well as adults in tasks that require...
- Keyword:
- Representation learning, developmental model, relational representation, and structure mapping
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Balasubramanian Kandaswamy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, we present three empirical studies investigating the role of linguistic experience in the processing of probabilistic information during speech production, speech perception, and across modalities. In all studies, we focus on a particular type of probabilistic information related to the probability of a word in a discourse...
- Keyword:
- probabilistic reduction, Lingustics, and Perception
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Erin Gustafson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Worldwide, governments are beginning to take action to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions in order to mitigate the extent of global climate change. The largest fraction of global CO2 emission comes from electrical power generation, which is rapidly being converted to wind and solar installations. The intermittent nature of renewable resources...
- Keyword:
- SOC, Fuel Cells, SOEC, SOFC, Electrolysis, and Energy Storage
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Justin Railsback
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Introduction and Appendix i-A outline briefly the history of Titan exploration since its discovery by Christiaan Huygens in 1675 through the recent International Mission of Cassini- Huygens. It discusses the roles of some of the ten most abundant elements in the Universe (H, He, C, N, O, Ne, Mg,...
- Keyword:
- evolution, Hydrocarbon cycle, chemistry, Photochemistry, Liquid methane and ethane, Titan, and Atmospheres
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Ashley Middle Gilliam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Gene expression is tightly regulated at the level of transcription through cooperation between cis-regulatory elements and trans-factors that bind to the regulatory elements. Together, these factors regulate the higher order chromatin structure which establishes domains that organize the genome and coordinate gene expression. However, the molecular mechanisms controlling transcription of...
- Keyword:
- higher order chromatin structure, gene expression, transcriptional regulation, transcriptional regulatory networks, and cis-regulatory elements
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Rui Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chronic pain is a prevalent and under-treated condition that remains a mystery to the medical system and a major social and economic problem. Unfortunately, there is no single treatment superior to others for relieving chronic pain. While recent scientific discoveries have provided us with functional and anatomical brain biomarkers of...
- Keyword:
- memory, chronic pain, neuroimaging, latent semantic analyses, placebo, and personality
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Sara Elizabeth Berger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation develops and applies coupled marine sulfur and strontium cycle modeling to the highly dynamic Early Cretaceous demonstrating the value of increased model constraint from linkage of biogeochemical cycles with shared forcing factors. A foundation for this work is first provided by review of relevant geochemical, sedimentological, and paleontological...
- Keyword:
- isotopes, modeling, Cretaceous, Sulfur, and Strontium
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Brian Kristall
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I present research in systems of biomedical relevance consisting of agents near or com- prising surfaces using computational approaches. The research topics include formation of bacterial biofilms, behavior of charged species near stacked, like-charged lamellae, and the the conformational behavior of lamellae with strong self-attraction. In chapter 2, I present...
- Keyword:
- biophysics, soft matter, molecular dynamics, coarse graining , self assembly, and computer simulations
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Bernard McAlpine Beckerman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- When we speak, we communicate not only with the words we choose, but also with the patterns of sound we create. As auditory experts, musicians are especially adept at making sense of sound, and accumulating research reveals that this extends to their processing of speech and other communication signals. Much...
- Keyword:
- speech, music, perception, language, and rhythm
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Creator:
- Jessica Louise Slater
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Plasmonic nanostructures can confine light at their surface in the form of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) or localized surface plasmons (LSPs) depending on their geometry. SPPs are excited on nano- and micropatterned surfaces, where the typical feature size is on the order of the wavelength of light. LSPs, on the...
- Keyword:
- Modelling, Nano structures,, Plasmonic, and Material Science
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Alexander John Hryn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study analyzed the differences between three habitats in and around EcoMinga’s Cerro Candelaria Reserve, which protects part of the Llanganates – Sangay Ecological Corridor in the eastern cloud forest of Ecuador. The EcoMinga Foundation began reforestation efforts in several abandoned pastures in the reserve in 2008, which have since... and This project would not have been possible without the support and kindness of the El Placer community. Thanks to Piedad Recalde for her constant care, humor, and enormous amounts of delicious food. Thanks to Jesús Recalde and Darwin Recalde for their companionship in the field and invaluable insights on the...
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- Ecuador, SIT Ecuador: Comparative Ecology and Conservation, and Americas
- Creator:
- Katie Braun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The creation of Reactions allows Facebook users to provide emotional support for members within the social network as well as disclose emotions toward various content. This research study investigated how this one-click tool is appropriated depending on the content of the posts and relational intimacy with the poster and the...
- Keyword:
- communication
- Creator:
- Min Kyong Kim
- Contributor:
- Darren Gergle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/07/2018
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This paper describes how Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) has evolved over time using a combination of bibliometric, social network, and text analysis. We examined the rate of knowledge production as well as changes in authors, journals, and collaborators, showing a steady growth of ALD research. The study of the collaboration...
- Keyword:
- bibliometrics, centrality, scientific publishing, and atomic layer deposition
- Creator:
- Elsa Alvaro and Angel Yanguas-Gil
- Owner:
- Elsa Alvaro
- Publisher:
- PLOS
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2018
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- Description:
- Beethoven’s late compositional style is known for bending conventions he learned as a young man. Many discussions of his late style concentrate on adherence to and deviations from the conventions of functional harmony, fugal techniques, and sonata form. This document sheds light on an additional, previously unexamined aspect of Beethoven’s...
- Keyword:
- galant schemata, dma project, hammerklavier, beethoven, and gjerdingen
- Subject:
- Piano Performance
- Creator:
- Sergiy S. Komirenko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- data, RRF, slides, presentation, and data management
- Creator:
- Cunera Buys
- Owner:
- Cunera M Buys
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/15/2017
- Date Modified:
- 09/15/2017
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- Keyword:
- developmental research, recruitment, methods, protocol, and longitudinal
- Creator:
- Kelly L. Schmitt, Megan K. Olsen, and Lisa B. Hurwitz
- Owner:
- Lisa Barbara Hurwitz
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2017
- Date Modified:
- 09/14/2017
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- Description:
- This paper describes proposed schemes for describing and indexing two image collections and requirements for the software that would give the end-user access to thesaurus terms and a graphical display of the faceted classification structures of indexing records. Editorial cartoons comprise one collection, dance videos the other.
- Keyword:
- image collections, classification, and thesauri
- Creator:
- Young, Jennifer B., Johnson, Eric H., and Barnes, Barbara
- Contributor:
- Cochrane, Pauline A.
- Owner:
- Jennifer B Young
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/20/2017
- Date Modified:
- 04/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 1998
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10.7152/acro.v9i1.12742
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- Keyword:
- development, political systems, economic growth, Africa, poverty, and sub-Saharan Africa
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Alison Blythe Brockman
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2017
- Date Modified:
- 07/19/2017
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- Description:
- With increasing urbanization and creation of novel habitat types, green roofs can provide usable habitat for many species. To date, most research on green roofs has focused on minimizing the environmental impacts of buildings but little is known about the ecological services they provide. Previous research has shown that although...
- Keyword:
- plant biology
- Subject:
- plant biology
- Creator:
- Ksiazek, Kelly
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/14/2017
- Date Modified:
- 11/08/2023
- Date Created:
- 2011-06-17
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
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- Description:
- Fire is an agent of ecosystem change that has played a critical role in shaping the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Periodic prescribed fire maintains the prairie by removing woody and invasive plant species, and stimulating growth of native herbaceous species. Fire’s beneficial effect on the tallgrass prairie aboveground community, in terms...
- Keyword:
- plant biology
- Subject:
- plant biology
- Creator:
- Gross, Rachel
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/14/2017
- Date Modified:
- 11/08/2023
- Date Created:
- 2008-10-20
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis