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- Normal gastroesophageal motilty is important to live a comfortable and healthy life. Motility disorders result in impaired transport of ingested food which can lead to extreme discomfort and severe damage to the walls of the esophagus. Significant work has been done to study gastroesophageal motility using advanced diagnostic tools such...
- Keyword:
- gastrointestinal biomechanics, reduced-order modeling, esophageal motility disorders, peristalsis, fluid-structure interaction, and immersed boundary method
- Subject:
- Computational physics, Fluid mechanics, and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Acharya, Shashank
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15539 and etdadmin_upload_816410
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- Description:
- Depression is a challenging mental illness that requires individuals to manage their moods and emotions over time. While past mental health literature describes how individuals seek and share support on social media and within online communities, the ways that offline and one-on-one supportive interactions unfold is less clear. To address...
- Keyword:
- Self-Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Sociality, Mental Health, Communication Technology, and Depression
- Subject:
- Mental health, Design, and Communication
- Creator:
- Burgess, Eleanor R.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15512 and etdadmin_upload_811409
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- This dissertation comprises three essays in distinct areas of economic theory. The first chapter is co-authored with Gregorio Curello. We identify a new and pervasive dynamic agency problem: that of incentivising the prompt disclosure of productive information. To study it, we introduce a model in which a technological breakthrough occurs...
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Sinander, Carl Martin Ludvig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15505 and etdadmin_upload_806322
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- Description:
- Chirality and polarity describe orthogonal mechanisms of inversion symmetry breaking, which is the origin of valuable properties in crystalline materials including nonlinear optical activity, ferroelectricity, and piezoelectricity. Noncentrosymmetric (NCS) materials have numerous applications yet opportunities remain for cooperative coupling between chiral and polar basic building units to realize high-performance materials....
- Keyword:
- chirality, inversion symmetry, and racemates
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Nisbet, Matthew Lander
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15502 and etdadmin_upload_804610
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- Description:
- By 2030, up to half of the world’s population is projected to suffer from water insecurity: a chronic scarcity of potable water due to rapidly warming temperatures, increased agricultural demand, and pollution. The health impacts of contaminated water are profound: hundreds of thousands of global deaths each year are ascribed...
- Keyword:
- diagnostics, water quality, cell-free, and synthetic biology
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Chemical engineering, and Public health
- Creator:
- Silverman, Adam Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15551 and etdadmin_upload_817796
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- Description:
- his dissertation addresses questions of investment theories in financial economics. Chapter 1 studies investment problem with ambiguity and agency friction in a optimal contracting framework, where investors (principal) have ambiguous beliefs about the cash flows and the managers (agent) can pursue unobservable risk-taking strategies that earn cash flow but may...
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Liu, Yufeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15560 and etdadmin_upload_818233
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- Nanoparticles are nanometer scale (1-1000 nm) structures capable of encapsulating a diverse range of cargoes. Encapsulation of a cargo can drastically alter its pharmacokinetics, cytotoxicity, and biodistribution while allowing for informed and rational design of the nanoparticle itself. Poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(propylene sulfide) (PEG-b-PPS) is an amphiphilic diblock co-polymer able to self-assemble...
- Keyword:
- Glaucoma, Latrunculin A, Nanoparticles, and Targeted Delivery
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Stack, Trevor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_815566 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15530
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- Meiosis is a highly regulated process necessary for proper chromosome division. Zincfluxes regulate mammalian meiosis; between prophase I and metaphase II, total intracellular zinc increases by 50%, while 20% of zinc is released in “zinc sparks” following fertilization. Although zinc fluxes had been shown to be conserved in mammals, it...
- Keyword:
- Xenopus, Sample Fixation, Zinc, Manganese, Fertilization, and EMI2
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Biology, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Seeler, John Frederick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819316 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15573
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- Description:
- Concentrating on the work of Paul Celan and Yoko Tawada, my dissertation explores the complicated role played by plants in post-war and contemporary German-language literature. Reflecting on and engaging with the intricate dynamics of vegetative life without the prejudice that it simply stands for an inferior form of life to...
- Keyword:
- Migrant Literature, Paul Celan, Plants and Poetics, Tawada Yoko, and Theory of Language
- Subject:
- Comparative literature, German literature, and Literature
- Creator:
- Cao, Jan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15517 and etdadmin_upload_812913
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- Description:
- Robot dynamics are typically highly nonlinear and their control is a challenging research topic without a single overarching algorithm that demonstrates the best performance. In this thesis, I derive a nonlinear control algorithm that uses an analytical, closed-form solution to compute feedback with controllability-based guarantees for convergence. The proposed algorithm,...
- Keyword:
- Obstacle avoidance, Koopman operators, Data-driven control, Controllability-based control, Sequential action control, and Stability
- Subject:
- Robotics
- Creator:
- Mamakoukas, Giorgos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819790 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15586
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- Description:
- This thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconomics with heterogeneous households. In the first chapter, I document that spousal labor supply substantially mitigates the impact of cyclical labor income risk on married households. Motivated by this evidence, I present a macroeconomic model with incomplete markets in which households are heterogeneous...
- Keyword:
- labor market, general equilibrium, and heterogeneous agents
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Bardoczy, Bence
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_818634 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15564
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- Description:
- Molecular-oriented single-site heterogeneous catalysis is a powerful approach to address the long-lasting challenge of the structure-activity relationship in catalysis, as it allows molecular level control of the catalytic centers and thus the elucidation of reaction mechanisms. In this dissertation, single-site molybdenum-dioxo species have been immobilized on carbon supports, i.e. activated...
- Keyword:
- Molybdenum-oxo, Carbon support, and Single-site heterogeneous catalysis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Li, Jiaqi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15519 and etdadmin_upload_813943
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- Description:
- Interactions with pollinators are thought to be a major driver of the evolution and diversification of angiosperms, yet questions remain about how pollinators mediate plant divergence at early stages and across entire species distributions. Here, I address this knowledge gap using two study groups in the recently-radiating and florally diverse...
- Subject:
- Ecology, Evolution & development, and Botany
- Creator:
- Wenzell, Katherine Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15506 and etdadmin_upload_806843
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- Description:
- Circulating tumor cell (CTC) clusters mediate metastasis at a higher efficiency compared to single cells and are associated with lower overall survival in breast cancer. However, the cellular heterogeneity and molecular mechanisms underlying CTC cluster formation and metastasis have yet to be fully elucidated. Combining single-cell RNA sequencing and flow...
- Subject:
- Medicine
- Creator:
- Taftaf, Rokana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15590 and etdadmin_upload_819889
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- Description:
- Unrestrained urban growth combined with the increase in the intensity and frequency of precipitation events, due to climate change, has become a major challenge for urban green spaces. Urban sprawl increases ecosystem degradation and the vulnerability of cities to floods as a result of excess stormwater runoff and non-point source...
- Keyword:
- human impacts, ecosystem services, green roof, stormwater runoff, green infrastructure, and wetland
- Subject:
- Environmental science and Environmental engineering
- Creator:
- Hernandez Gonzalez, Liliana Maria
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15553 and etdadmin_upload_818005
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- Description:
- Increasingly high global energy consumption demands effective approaches to high energy efficiency and, at the same time, paths to reduced release of carbon dioxide, a primary greenhouse gas behind global climate change. Friction reduction is a vital aspect towards making energy systems more efficient and one of the most crucial...
- Keyword:
- wear, tribology, lubrication, and friction
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Khan, Arman Mohammad
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15582 and etdadmin_upload_819626
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores how items encountered in the comprehension of language are stored in memory and subsequently accessed. Processing and comprehending language frequently requires the retrieval of items in memory so that a current linguistic element can be assigned an interpretation. For example, in a sentence such as "Miles loved...
- Keyword:
- pronoun resolution, dependencies, ellipsis, sentence processing, syntax, and eye tracking
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Hall, Kathleen Gael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_818080 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15558
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- Description:
- Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) display unique characteristics compared to their macro-counterparts that are dependent on shape, size, and attached surface molecules. Methods have been developed to precisely control both size and shape of AuNPs for specific applications. The biocompatibility, plasmonic properties, and ease of functionalization with thiolated molecules, make gold nanoparticles...
- Keyword:
- gold nanopaticles, therapeutics, DNA, cancer vaccine, and plasmonics
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Chemistry, and Biology
- Creator:
- Coughlin, Emma
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15532 and etdadmin_upload_815702
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- Description:
- This dissertation provides evidence that reading is best explained as rational gathering of visual information to identify words efficiently. Although empirical evidence from human reading research suggests a close link between eye movements and cognitive process, it is not clear how readers decide when and where to move their eyes...
- Keyword:
- Eye movements, Rational analysis, Word identification, and Reading
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology and Linguistics
- Creator:
- Duan, Yunyan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15556 and etdadmin_upload_818069
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- Description:
- The overall theme in this thesis is about eliciting and leveraging information to improve algorithms in Operations Management, with an emphasis on tractable and integrated approach of estimation and optimization. The main tool that I will be using is Robust Optimization, and the applications in my work vary from online...
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Ow, Yam Huo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819660 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15584
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- Description:
- Since their discovery, polymeric and protein-based materials are key to technological innovation and are indispensable in our lives. However, these natural and man-made soft materials usually have complex and hierarchical structures, with basic functional units in submicron scale. Therefore, a major challenge in understanding and designing these materials lies...
- Subject:
- Engineering
- Creator:
- Wang, Ao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819832 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15587
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- Description:
- Advancements in the understanding and synthesis of transition metal compounds have allowed materials engineers to design functional materials with a range of properties, such as ferroelectricity, non-linear optical activity, colossal magnetoresistance, and superconductivity. Conventional routes to tune and design functional materials includes chemical cation substitution and heterostructuring of oxide thin...
- Keyword:
- Oxyfluoride, Materials Design, Functional Properties, and Density Functional Theory
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Harada, Jaye Kimiko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819002 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15569
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- Description:
- Astrocytes are the most abundant cell type in the brain, yet the mechanisms involved in astrocyte differentiation and the level of astrocyte heterogeneity in the CNS, particularly in the human cortex, is largely unknown due to the lack of subtype-specific astrocyte markers and inaccessibility of human brain tissue. Here we...
- Keyword:
- Glioblastoma, Stem cells, and Astrocyte
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Van Gulden, Stephanie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15549 and etdadmin_upload_817717
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- Description:
- Coiled-coil helix coiled-coil helix domain containing 10 (CHCHD10) is a nuclear gene that encodes for a mitochondria-enriched protein of unknown function. This type of protein is typically imported into mitochondria via the disulfide relay system which facilitates the formation of disulfide bridges between each coiled-coil helix, resulting in maintenance of...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Ryan, Éanna B.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_799720 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15495
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- Description:
- Data Science and related fields like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Statistics provide indispensable research methods for understanding a wide variety of phenomena from large datasets. However, as methodical and empirical as these methods aim to be, there are many subjective and discretionary choices that the data scientist must make...
- Keyword:
- human computation, inter-annotator agreement, algorithmic bias, content moderation, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Information science, Artificial intelligence, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Cambo, Scott Allen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_810456 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15510
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- Description:
- The global coronavirus pandemic has dramatically changed the way people and institutions interact with one another. In the United States, there has been an observable and documented increase in xenophobia and a breakdown of social and institutional trust. Consistent with a US history of scapegoating other populations for major crises,...
- Keyword:
- COVID-19, Blame, and Coronavirus
- Creator:
- Meresh, Alka
- Contributor:
- Shapiro, Lilah
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Homelessness and menstruation are constructs and processes that are plagued with stigma. For decades, academics have researched menstruation and homelessness as separately stigmatized experiences. However, in the process, scholars have overlooked the converging and intersectional nature of the stigma surrounding homeless menstruation. \\n\\nThrough library research and records, this paper analyzes...
- Keyword:
- menstruations, stigma, and homelessness
- Creator:
- Gaddam, Meghna
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/24/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/24/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- This study aims to understand how South Sudanese use Twitter to interact and share information about peace because some studies found out that social media users can engage in conversation that can facilitate open discussion on issues that can bring about peace and development. The study performed a content and...
- Keyword:
- afrisem
- Creator:
- Betuel B Marle, Kenyi
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/17/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/17/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- This book examines the theater of narration, an Italian performance genre and aesthetic that revisits historical events of national importance from local perspectives, drawing on the rich relationship between personal experiences and historical accounts. Incorporating original research from the private archives of leading narrators—artists who write and perform their work—Juliet... and This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Michigan State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available...
- Keyword:
- registers of dialogue, archives, classical oration, social issues, microhistory, students, dramaturgy of the world, international populism, laboratorio teatro settimo, theatrical traditions, david enia, laura curino, animazione teatrale, The long 1970s, radio clandestine, nationalist politics, workers, site-specific performance, dialect, italian television, festival, marco baliani, beppe grillo, heterotopia, fake news, public space, giovanni levi, carlo gizburg, and five star movement
- Subject:
- Italian drama
- Creator:
- Guzzetta, Juliet
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4386-9 , Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4387-6 , and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4388-3
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- Description:
- In an era where the world is plagued with environmental problems ranging from climate change to heavy metal pollution, new pathways towards environmental protection need to be implemented. Around the globe, countries have been constitutionalizing environmental rights in order to better use the law as a tool in these efforts....
- Keyword:
- northwestern undergraduate law journal
- Creator:
- Godron. Alexia
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern Undergraduate Law Journal
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 05/13/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Keyword:
- Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
- Creator:
- Dr. James Harbera, Rhianna Lee, Laura Carmona, Kamille Romero, Raizel Ferrer, Jasmine Rosales, Vanessa Wong, Melvin Soriano, and Brandon Lyons
- Owner:
- Jonic Zhehao Zhu
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/08/2021
- Date Modified:
- 05/08/2021
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- Keyword:
- synthetic biology, cell-free, biosensors, water quality
- Creator:
- Adam Daniel Silverman
- Owner:
- Adam Silverman
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/03/2021
- Date Modified:
- 05/03/2021
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- Keyword:
- Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
- Creator:
- Noor Mazen
- Owner:
- Jonic Zhehao Zhu
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2021
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2021
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- Description:
- In the nineteenth century, Jews across Europe entered a period of emancipation, at best a vaguely defined term that indicated the granting of equal civil and political rights, though sometimes conditionally and often incrementally. Concurrent to this, art music was dominated by deep divisions of stylistic and aesthetic approaches to...
- Keyword:
- musicology, Jewish music, Judaism, Germany, Jews, and 19th century music
- Subject:
- Judaic studies and Music history
- Creator:
- Stein, Amanda Ruppenthal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_796496 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15472
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- Description:
- The studies presented in this dissertation integrate stable calcium (Ca) and radiogenic and stable strontium (Sr) isotope geochemistry to understand how the Earth system responds to significant perturbations in the global carbon cycle. The primary focus is on the effects of massive releases of volcanic CO2 for ocean carbonate geochemistry...
- Subject:
- Geochemistry
- Creator:
- Wang, Jiuyuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_793208 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15455
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- Description:
- There is no group of materials as diverse, complex, and ubiquitous as polymers. From plastic bags, to rubber tires, electronics, food packaging, water filtration and even aerospace applications, the penetration of polymer materials into all aspects of life make them very important materials throughout all engineering fields. However, this breadth...
- Keyword:
- Characterization, Materials Design, Polymer, Composite, and Mechanical Properties
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Polymer chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Eaton, Matthew David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763586 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15243
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- Description:
- We broaden the scope of existing dark matter searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by considering phenomena such as bound state formation and by utilizing simple extensions of well-studied models in the literature. First, we consider the Mono-X studies at the LHC, where the production of dark matter occurs...
- Subject:
- Theoretical physics and Particle physics
- Creator:
- Krovi, Venkat Sai Anirudh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_797580 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15481
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- Description:
- The dynamics of human joints are fundamental characteristic of the human motor system, and altered joint impedance can hinder mobility. Individuals with transtibial amputation typically experience slower and energetically costly gait, while individuals with chronic stroke experience persisting gait deficits arising from spasticity, hypertonia and paresis. Investigating joint impedance of...
- Keyword:
- Stroke, Impedance, System Identification, and Rehabilitation
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Shorter, Amanda L
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780328 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15392
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- Description:
- Staphylococcus aureus (SA) is a leading cause of healthcare-associated and community-acquired infection in the United States. Despite the canonical thinking that antibodies and B cells are the main drivers of protection against extracellular pathogens, T cells are now recognized as critical players in protection against SA in multiple routes of...
- Subject:
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Creator:
- Genardi, Samantha Marie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_784435 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15429
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- Description:
- “Entertaining Strangers” reveals how theories and practices of hospitality shaped and were shaped by the early modern print and theater industries. Whereas earlier studies of hospitality and literature have focused on aristocratic patronage, in this dissertation I reveal the vital importance of commercial hospitality as a framework for ethical and...
- Keyword:
- Travel writing, Hospitality, Performance studies, Print culture, Poetry, and Paratexts
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Theater history, and English literature
- Creator:
- Blankenau, Katherine Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15447 and etdadmin_upload_791923
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- Description:
- Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) underlies myriad phenomena in chemistry and physics. Arbitrary manipulation of spin-orbit coupling would enable precise control over such parameters as magnetic anisotropy, the sensitivity of quantum sensors, and even the selectivity of certain catalytic processes. Herein, I describe my efforts directed towards utilizing SOC as a handle...
- Keyword:
- coordination chemistry, quantum information, and molecular magnetism
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Physical chemistry
- Creator:
- Pearson, Tyler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15427 and etdadmin_upload_783646
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- Description:
- A central question in biology is how the flow of genetic information—from DNA to RNA to protein—is regulated. Regulatory mechanisms exerted at the level of DNA and protein have been described in detail but by contrast, little is known regarding the regulation of RNA. Methylation on N6-adenosine (m6A) is the...
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Edens, Brittany M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_796993 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15475
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- Description:
- This dissertation seeks to explain the discursive origin, development, and transformation of “Republican anticommunism,” and how and why this state-originated ideology continues to shape Vietnamese exile communities today. The dissertation focuses on examining mechanisms that allows certain narratives produced by the Republic of Vietnam to persist, despite the regime changes,...
- Keyword:
- Ideology, Discourse, Vietnamese Americans, Construction of Knowledge, National Formation, and South Vietnam
- Subject:
- History, Sociology, and Southeast Asian studies
- Creator:
- Nguyen, Y Thien
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_791699 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15445
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- Description:
- Over the past two decades, the field of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) organocatalysis has distinctively enabled the construction of enantioenriched heterocycles, and the power of cascade and one-pot processes has led to an ever-increasing level of synthetic efficiency in the assembly of complex architectures. Here these tools are employed in concise,...
- Keyword:
- Organocatalysis, Corynanthe alkaloids, Total synthesis, and Divergent synthesis
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry
- Creator:
- Miller, Eric Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15460 and etdadmin_upload_794579
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- Description:
- A one-time, unilateral injury to the developing brain can interrupt the typical process of development and result in motor impairments that evolve over the course of the whole life-span. The timing of injury relative to neural development has implications for the continued refinement of the nervous system and the descending...
- Keyword:
- mirror movement, cerebral palsy, corticospinal tract, reaching, pediatric hemiplegia, and flexion synergy
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Hill, Nayo Marel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_792769 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15452
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- Description:
- Non-planar and curved architectures of otherwise flat 2D materials present an important paradigm for nanoscale analysis and design of emergent material properties. Atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged at the forefront of the 2D materials field in recent years largely due to their attractive and tunable chemical, optical, and...
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- DiStefano, Jennifer G
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_788467 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15438
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- Description:
- Melanin is a functional biopolymer most commonly associated with human skin pigmentation, where it serves as a radiation protection agent, shielding us from the harmful effects of UV radiation. However, melanin is also present in human ears, eyes, hair, and brains, serving a variety of functions. In fact, melanin...
- Keyword:
- porosity, toxin adsorption, nanoparticles, fungal, melanin, and radiation protection
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- McCallum, Naneki C.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15478 and etdadmin_upload_797429
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- Description:
- The era of quantum information science (QIS) can usher revolutionary new capabilities ranging from quantum computation to quantum sensing. At the core of these technologies is the fundamental unit of QIS, the quantum bit or qubit. The power of qubits over their classical counterparts lies in their ability to be...
- Keyword:
- Dynamic nuclear polarization, Metal-organic frameworks, Electron paramagnetic resonance, Quantum information science, Qubits, and Spin-spin dynamics
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Yu, Chung-Jui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15436 and etdadmin_upload_788011
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- Description:
- Surface patterns that can reconfigure under external stimuli are important for tailoring diverse properties such as surface adhesion, optical transmittance, and wettability depending on the feature size and orientation. Wrinkling a stiff skin layer on a pre-strained elastomer substrate has emerged as a method to create responsive structures without using...
- Keyword:
- Two-dimensional materials, Surface instabilities, Surface engineering, Thin films, Nanofabrication, and Soft materials
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Rhee, Dongjoon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_795810 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15467
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- Description:
- Advanced wireless soft electronics integrate a wireless power transfer circuit and a small battery. It is skin-compliant, and lightweight accommodating the complex motion of the body. These unique features of the device provide a continuous physiological measurement without discomfort and spatial constraints. Using the device, we can observe and track...
- Keyword:
- health monitoring, health data, wearable technology, sleep study, rehabilitation, and flexible electronics
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Health sciences, and Medicine
- Creator:
- Lee, Kun Hyuck Hyuck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15329 and etdadmin_upload_770941
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Comparative analysis of feature selection and classification methods for epigenetic methylation data
- Description:
- Epigenetics, the study of heritable changes in organisms not caused by mutations to DNA,holds tremendous promise for future medical applications. Although still in its infancy, feature selection in statistics plays an important role in correlating epigenetic changes with diseases and various health issues. Feature selection may also be used in...
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Kleyn, Aaron
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_797839 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15488
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- Description:
- Global energy demands are expected to increase by about one-third between 2014 and 2040 and will surely be met from a combination of wind, solar, and among other renewable sources. The shift away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energies will ensure a clean and sustainable future. The main issue...
- Keyword:
- Lithium, electron microscopy, Battery, anode, and cathode
- Subject:
- Energy
- Creator:
- Villa, Cesar J
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_788935 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15440
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- Description:
- The lanthanides, with their limited orbital effects and high oxophilicity, represent a class of catalytic metals highly distinguished from more commonly-utilized transition metals. Homogeneous lanthanide catalysts often afford high catalytic rates and impressive selectivity. However, challenges regarding the synthesis and utilization of highly air- and water-sensitive organo-lanthanide complexes have limited...
- Keyword:
- Catalysis, Homogeneous, Lanthanide, and Hydroboration
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Barger, Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15464 and etdadmin_upload_795345
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- Description:
- In the vertebrate retina, neurons process visual signals, generating feature selectivity in their activity levels. We use computational models to understand these behaviors by interpreting them mathematically. One component of this analysis is the spatial selectivity or receptive field, a property found in all visual sensory neurons. The neurons found...
- Keyword:
- Vision, Neuron, and Retina
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Cooler, Sam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15450 and etdadmin_upload_792568
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- Description:
- Our experience of the physical world is mediated by our senses, but while most people have five senses, interactions with computer systems are largely limited to the visual sense. When working with nonvisual artifacts, like sound, on computers, such artifacts are typically transformed, or re-encoded, into something visual. Determining how...
- Keyword:
- HCI, user intreface, mixing, sound, visualization, and audio
- Subject:
- Information science, Computer science, and Communication
- Creator:
- Liebman, Noah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15448 and etdadmin_upload_792114
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates the use of organic and semiconductor nanomaterials as chromophores in solar fuels production and energy transfer-mediated [2+2] cycloadditions. A series of novel N-annulated perylene chromophore amphiphiles was synthesized via a modular synthesis. These perylene amphiphiles were found to self-assemble in aqueous solution, forming extended ribbon-like nanostructures that...
- Keyword:
- cycloaddition, Nanomaterials, self-assembly, Quantum dots, Solar fuels, and photocatalysis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Nagasing, Benjamin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_787179 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15434
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- Description:
- Recent advancements in processing and manufacturing techniques have spurred an exponential increase in use of polymer nanocomposites in a variety of applications. A key challenge in using these nanocomposites effectively is the dispersion of nanoparticles in the polymer matrix. Matrix-free assemblies of polymer grafted nanoparticles, called hairy nanoparticles assemblies(aHNPs) have...
- Keyword:
- Scaling law, Coarse-grained molecular dynamics, Hairy nanoparticle assemblies , Energy Renormalization, Mechanical property optimization, and Potential of mean force
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Mechanical engineering, and Nanotechnology
- Creator:
- Hansoge, Nitin Krishnamurthy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15477 and etdadmin_upload_797349
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- Description:
- The BCR-ABL negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs) are clonal hematopoietic stem-cell disorders characterized by abnormal proliferation of differentiated myeloid lineages. MPNs include 3 clinically distinct disorders: Polycythemia Vera (PV), Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) and Primary Myelofibrosis (PMF). 95% of MPNs are characterized by driver mutations in Janus Kinase 2 (JAK2), Thrombopoietin receptor...
- Keyword:
- STK11, AML, Megakaryocytes, Reactive Oxygen Species, Leukemia, and MPN
- Subject:
- Biology and Medicine
- Creator:
- Marinaccio, Christian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15470 and etdadmin_upload_796403
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- Description:
- ABSTRACT In the past two decades, the number of African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants arriving in the U.S. has been increasing. Black immigrants (36% of whom migrated from Africa and 50% from the Caribbean since 2000) now account for nearly 10% of the Black population in the U.S. This growing demographic...
- Keyword:
- immigration, race, and heath
- Subject:
- Communication
- Creator:
- Jean-Pierre, Phoebe Anne-Alexandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_794329 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15458
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- Keyword:
- Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
- Creator:
- NINA WETOSKA
- Owner:
- Jonic Zhehao Zhu
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/12/2021
- Date Modified:
- 04/12/2021
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- Keyword:
- Gem5, Computer Architecture, and Processing in Memory
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Haoxuan Zhang
- Owner:
- Haoxuan Zhang
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/06/2021
- Date Modified:
- 05/16/2021
- Resource Type:
- Project
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- Description:
- In this paper, we propose a two-stage approach for predicting a trips destination by clustering geocoordinates and leveraging incremental learning and contextual rule-based methods for the prediction of end destinations. The proposed approach dynamically adapts to users change in behavior and is resilient against concept drift. Using this solution, 76.39%...
- Keyword:
- data science and machine learning
- Creator:
- Rohin Mahesh and Subramanian Subramanian
- Owner:
- Rohin Mahesh
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/05/2021
- Date Modified:
- 04/05/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-04-05
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- Description:
- This report shows that compensation plans have not met the needs of victims of nuclear disasters for three primary reasons: compensation plans have been devised by unelected officials and without full public knowledge or participation, governments have often capped the liability of the owners of nuclear facilities, which distorts cost-benefit...
- Keyword:
- nuclear disaster relief, chernobyl, fukushima, nuclear power, and nuclear accidents
- Subject:
- Nuclear energy--Government policy and Nuclear power plants
- Creator:
- Miyazaki, Hirokazu
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/23/2021
- Date Modified:
- 03/09/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-03-09
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- 978-1-954984-00-4 and 978-1-954984-01-1
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how one pervasive state institution¬—schools—shapes the political behavior of young people along the lines of race and ethnicity. I make four primary claims. First, I show that the content of traditional civic education courses privileges the political experiences of white political actors. Second, I argue that this...
- Keyword:
- Race, Ethnicity, Critical Pedagogy, Socialization, Civic Education, and Politics, Education Policy, and Youth Political Engagement
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Nelsen, Matthew D
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_759277 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15208
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates a number of models and algorithms in the context of optimization under uncertainty. The focus is on risk-averse optimization, where risk aversion is modeled via stochastic dominance, utility theory, and distributionally robust optimization. We first investigate an investment model with fixed contribution rates, optimize asset-allocation decisions in...
- Keyword:
- Stochastic Programming, Wasserstein distance, and Distributionally robust optimization
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Duque Villarreal, Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763341 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15241
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- Description:
- The transportation infrastructure privatization is an essential solution to the public fund's shortage of transportation investments. In the privatization practices, the private firms build, operate, and own the transportation infrastructure under a limited term. Due to the private sector's involvement, the efficiency of the transportation service is determined not only...
- Keyword:
- Tolling and capacity decision, Pareto efficiency analysis, Mechanism design, Transportation infrastructure, Network analysis, and Public-private partnership
- Subject:
- Transportation and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Shu, Hang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764914 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15283
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- Description:
- The recently increasing precision in experimental measurements of observables in collider physics has demanded for a matching precision in the theoretical expectations for such observables. In Quantum ChromoDynamics, the fundamental underlying theory for collider physics, theoretical predictions are expressed under the form of perturbative series, where the expansion parameter is...
- Subject:
- Theoretical physics
- Creator:
- Isgro, Andrea
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15151 and etdadmin_upload_746893
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- Description:
- Employees’ social class backgrounds remain a critical but often overlooked source of inequality in white-collar workplaces: employees from working-class backgrounds are less likely to be hired, less likely to advance to leadership positions, and earn less on average than their counterparts from middle- and upper-class backgrounds, even with the same...
- Keyword:
- organizational culture, inequality, and social class background
- Subject:
- Social psychology and Organizational behavior
- Creator:
- Dittmann, Andrea G
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_744046 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15136
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- Description:
- Stroke is the leading cause of permanent adult disability. Subcortical unilateral (hemiparetic) stroke affecting the internal capsule or basal ganglia is the most common of all strokes and usually results in hemiparesis of the contralateral arm and leg. About 80% of the individuals with a moderate to severe hemiparetic stroke...
- Keyword:
- Sensorimotor pathways, brainstem, stroke, spinal cord, and magnetic resonance imaging
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Karbasforoushan, Haleh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15187 and etdadmin_upload_754987
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates two ways in which personality psychology should move beyond the traditional approach of measuring personality with broad domains composed of trait descriptors, as exemplified by the Big Five taxonomy. The first study (Chapter 2) suggests an alternative to the traditional approach of aggregating personality items into domains....
- Keyword:
- Statistical learning, Behavioral frequency, Behavior, Nuance, Personality, and BISCUIT
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Elleman, Lorien Grey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15260 and etdadmin_upload_764195
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- Description:
- Thermoelectric materials are of particular interest in a variety of fields because of their ability to directly convert heat to electricity (and vice versa), however, they struggle to gain widespread adoption because of their low efficiency. A common strategy in the field of thermoelectricity is to introduce material defects into...
- Keyword:
- Mesoscale, Doping, Thermoelectric, EBSD, Electron Microscopy, and Semiconductor
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Energy
- Creator:
- Grovogui, Jann Albert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15371 and etdadmin_upload_779059
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- Description:
- As humans have evolved over time, so have the materials that they rely on. From the Stone Age through the Iron Age, entire eras have been defined by specific materials, their corresponding properties, and the applications they have enabled. This is still true to this day, as the Silicon Age...
- Subject:
- Nanoscience
- Creator:
- Kluender, Edward James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15286 and etdadmin_upload_764959
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- Description:
- “Musical Networks in Bergamo and the Borders of the Venetian Republic, 1580–1630,” examines the mediation and circulation of northern Italian music through social and professional networks with an emphasis on Bergamo, a thriving musical center during this period. In so doing, I challenge established narratives of early modern history that...
- Keyword:
- Early Modern Italy, Sixteenth-Century Music, Seventeenth-Century Music, Giovanni Cavaccio, Bergamo, and Venetian Republic
- Subject:
- History, European history, and Music history
- Creator:
- Rosenholtz-Witt, Jason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764519 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15270
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a collection of three studies on topics in economic history and labor economics, in Italy and the United States. The chapters are ordered chronologically, based on the period of interest. In the first chapter, I investigate the causes and consequences of public spending on primary education in...
- Keyword:
- Postrelease Outcomes, School Spending, Minimum Wage, Labor Economics, Labor History, and Convict Labor
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Marchingiglio, Riccardo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_756459 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15197
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- Description:
- This integrated dissertation focuses on the relationship between family functioning (including marital conflict, family conflict, and parental depression), youth depression, and long-term functioning of adolescents who were treated for depression. This dissertation consists of three distinct studies: a meta-analytic study of the relationship between marital conflict and youth depression and...
- Keyword:
- adolescent depression, maternal depression, systematic review, family functioning, marital conflict, and functional outcomes
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Howard, Kelsey Rose
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15184 and etdadmin_upload_754680
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- Description:
- Polymers with electrolyte groups or “polyelectrolytes” have been the subject of intense study for the past few decades due to characteristics such as anti-fouling and underwater adhesion. Because of their charged nature, however, polyanions and polycations will complex in aqueous solutions forming dense unprocessable precipitates. In an attempt to leverage...
- Keyword:
- polyelectrolytes, polymer physics, quartz crystal microbalance, and polyampholytes
- Subject:
- Polymer chemistry
- Creator:
- Delgado, David Efim Smoley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_749827 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15161
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- Description:
- High performance polymers and their composites have wide ranging application in advanced and emerging material systems. The macroscale performance of these advanced materials is often defined by interfaces that induce nanoscale changes in the microstructure or molecular conformations (termed the ‘interphase’) of the polymer. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an...
- Keyword:
- Indentation, Nanoconfinement, Polymers, Atomic Force Microscopy, Nanocomposites, and Additive Manufacturing
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Materials Science, and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Collinson, David William
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15360 and etdadmin_upload_775260
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how China’s involvement in transnational LGBTQ activism, adaptation and innovation of queer media technologies, and the global pink economy have influenced queer men’s understandings of selfhood, sexual desires, and the relationships among queer subjects. It is based on extensive fieldwork in Beijing and digital ethnography on China’s...
- Keyword:
- China, Transnationalism, Sexual hierarchy, LGBTQ, Homonormative desire, and Ethnography
- Subject:
- LGBTQ studies, Asian studies, and Communication
- Creator:
- Zhou, Zhiqiu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Modified:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_773031 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15345
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- Description:
- 4D Flow MRI is a phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging method that enables direct measurement of velocities in three orthogonal directions throughout the heartbeat. This permits direct quantification of hemodynamic parameters, including flow, mean velocity, peak velocity, and pulsatility, for individual cerebral vessels. Despite ongoing research into neurovascular applications of 4D...
- Keyword:
- Neurovascular, 4D Flow, MRI, Flow imaging, and Arteriovenous malformation
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Medical imaging
- Creator:
- Aristova, Maria
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15402 and etdadmin_upload_780813
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- Description:
- Mitochondrial complex I is the primary entry point for electrons into the mitochondrial electron transport chain that is composed of 45 individual protein subunits that are encoded in both the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. Mitochondrial complex I sits at an important nexus in the essential bioenergetic, biosynthetic, and signaling functions...
- Keyword:
- NDI1, NDUFS2, NDUFS4, Mitochondria, Leigh Syndrome, and Metabolism
- Subject:
- Biology, Aging, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- McElroy, Gregory Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_746970 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15152
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- Description:
- Orienting attention enables us to select, process, and react to relevant objects in complex environments. Just as we can orient attention in space and to certain object features, recent research has shown that we can also orient attention in time (temporal orienting). This dissertation investigates the mechanisms and the effects...
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Menceloglu, Melisa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_750298 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15167
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- Description:
- Over the last few years, understanding user experience within mobile systems has become a popular phenomenon as a means to manage hardware resources. Across the many issues being studied in this area, I focus on how to utilize user satisfaction in this dissertation. Notably, I examine user experience by incorporating...
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Poyraz, Ibrahim Emirhan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_758612 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15207
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- Description:
- In today’s climate of rising economic inequality, drone warfare, xenophobic politics, and Big Brother technology, understanding how we might best design learning environments to provide opportunities for expanding the purpose and potentialities of STEM education for minoritized communities grows in importance daily. This dissertation is a 3-part study that examines...
- Keyword:
- Equity, STEM Education, Inequality, Self-efficacy, Civics, and Stratification Beliefs
- Subject:
- Caribbean studies and Education
- Creator:
- Bethune, Anna Priscilla
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15388 and etdadmin_upload_780217
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- Description:
- Exposure to violence, which includes child abuse, neglect, witnessing domestic or community violence, crime, and sexual assault, is a national concern. Over the course of a year, 68% of children under age 17 are exposed to at least one form of violence (Finkelhor, Turner, Shattuck, & Hamby, 2015). Young children...
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Hosoda, Tamaki
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_717876 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14987
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- Description:
- The evolutionarily conserved COMPASS family of methyltransferases implements histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) methylation, an epigenetic mark associated with transcriptional activation. Given the high mutational prevalence of COMPASS subunits across cancers and neurodevelopmental disorders, understanding COMPASS function would lend important insights into disease pathogenesis to facilitate development of effective therapies....
- Subject:
- Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Sze, Christie C.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_744273 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15142
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- Description:
- Nearly all animals exhibit behaviors that can be classified as sleep. The distinctly disadvantageous nature of the asleep state, evolutionarily speaking, accentuates its role as a critical physiological process, yet chronic inadequate sleep is prevalent in today’s society. Among the multitude of health problems that have been linked to chronic...
- Keyword:
- Metabolome, Stress, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Microbiome, and PTSD
- Subject:
- Biology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Bowers, Samuel James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15162 and etdadmin_upload_749831
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- Description:
- The experiences and environments of working-class children vary dramatically from their more affluent peers. I update Bronfenbrenner’s (1986) ecological systems theory to account for the technology children interact with and child social class, using Lareau’s (2003) frameworks that establish class differences in parenting practices. I position child technology devices at...
- Keyword:
- technology, occupation, working class, aspirations, home, and children
- Subject:
- Social research and Communication
- Creator:
- Hightower, Brianna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_759910 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15212
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- Description:
- Pablo Escobar is not only part of Colombia’s cruel past but also of its very difficult present. Escobar was one of the first major modern drug traffickers, and the founder and head of the Medellín Cartel. He was responsible for more than four thousand deaths. He had an incalculable fortune...
- Keyword:
- Pablo Escobar, Colombian Newspapers, Persona, Humor, Metaphor, and The War on Drugs
- Subject:
- Journalism, Rhetoric, and Latin American studies
- Creator:
- Uribe Rincón, Catalina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_761642 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15225
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- Description:
- Research shows the increasing tendency of political considerations to influence decisions outside the context of politics. This work documents examples of partisan affiliation influencing judgments and behaviors – and often resulting in favoritism or discrimination – in ostensibly nonpolitical contexts such as the workplace, academia, and dating, among others. To...
- Keyword:
- political psychology, polarization, partisanship, and American politics
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Shafranek, Richard M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15356 and etdadmin_upload_774386
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- Description:
- It is said across numerous disciplines, from biology to architecture to software engineering, that “form ever follows function.” This adage highlights the intimate relationship between structural characteristics and functional properties in many disparate fields of work. Here, we discuss how the catalytic activity and compressibility of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are...
- Keyword:
- Nanoparticle Composite, Metal-Organic Framework, Diamond Anvil Cell, High Pressure, and Acetylene Hydrogenation
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Redfern, Louis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_752781 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15176
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- Description:
- A variety of human diseases and pregnancy related disorders reflect endometrial dysfunction. However, rodent models do not share fundamental biological processes with the human endometrium, such as cyclic menstruation, and no existing human cell cultures recapitulate the cyclic interactions between endometrial stromal and epithelial compartments necessary for decidualization and implantation....
- Keyword:
- human endometrial organoid, pluripotent stem cells, epithelial-stromal signaling, cyclic hormone response, human endometrial stromal cells, and human decidua
- Subject:
- Biology and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Chu, Virginia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15366 and etdadmin_upload_776955
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- Description:
- “Queer Correspondence: Form and Femininity in the Long Eighteenth Century” interrogates the role that the epistolary form played in the construction, representation, and discipline of female gender expressions and sexualities across the eighteenth century. Working from the perspectives of queer theory, formal analysis, and literary history, this dissertation argues that...
- Keyword:
- Narrative Form, Epistolary, Eighteenth Century, Queer, Femininity, and Novel
- Subject:
- LGBTQ studies and Literature
- Creator:
- Chaskin, Hannah Molly
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15262 and etdadmin_upload_764254
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- Description:
- Total synthesis of natural products provides an avenue for investigation of complex chemical scaffolds, not only delivering access to biologically impactful molecules but also lending a deeper understanding of their inherent chemical reactivity. Expansion of reaction methodology, optimization of biological activity, and absolute structural confirmation can all be accomplished via...
- Keyword:
- allene, total synthesis, peptide, traceless Petasis reaction, natural product, and organic synthesis
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Rote, Jennifer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15164 and etdadmin_upload_750061
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- Description:
- Approximately 80-90% of individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) develop motor speech impairments, predominantly in the form of voice dysfunction. It is known that the motor symptoms of PD arise from degeneration of the dopamine producing neurons in the substantia nigra and dysregulation of basal ganglia motor pathways. It is also...
- Keyword:
- neuroimaging, dysarthria, fMRI, basal ganglia, hypophonia, and Parkinson's disease
- Subject:
- Neurosciences and Communication
- Creator:
- Manes, Jordan Leigh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_759611 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15211
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- Description:
- Soft matter is the field of science concerning soft and deformable materials: such as liquids, gels, and foams. Active matter is a sub-field of soft matter that considers systems that contain active agents or particles that consume energy for self-propulsion or to exert mechanical stress on the surrounding system. In...
- Keyword:
- Spinners, Models, Dynamics, Soft Matter, Cell Motility, and Active Matter
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Reeves, Cody Jordan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_772543 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15339
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- Description:
- Using social network analysis and legal, regulatory, and policy-based case studies, this dissertation explores the ways information and communication technologies (ICT) are regulated internationally. First, it details the composition of the interorganizational, cross sector network, describing the member and governance bodies active in ICT standard setting organizations (SSOs) and the...
- Keyword:
- Transnational Private Regulation, Technological Standards, International Trade, Information and Communication Technologies, International Economic Law, and International Investment
- Subject:
- International law, Communication, and
- Creator:
- Mills, Ivory Kiara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15390 and etdadmin_upload_780282
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- Description:
- This dissertation asks how researchers can create more equitable algorithmic systems. Ultimately, this thesis explores methods and implications of representing subjects of analysis in the design and evaluation of algorithmic systems. I also unpack how algorithmic tools measure and quantify human behavior, giving heed to the potential impacts of these...
- Keyword:
- algorithms, machine learning, human-computer interaction, social discrimination, age discrimination, and algorithmic fairness
- Subject:
- Information science, Social research, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Díaz, Mark
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_762101 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15226
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses questions in the fields of household finance and corporate finance. In Chapter 1, I use a quasi-experiment in Norway to examine how households respond to capital taxation. The introduction of a new wealth assessment methodology in 2010 led to geographic discontinuities in household exposure to wealth taxes,...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_759556 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15210
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a contribution to the depth and breadth of prison media history. I position prison media of the 1970s as key antecedents to the prison reality television of the 2000s and today. The purpose of this arrangement is to bring attention to an era of prison media that...
- Keyword:
- Race, Incarceration, Prison, Gender, Reality television, and Nontheatrical film
- Subject:
- Criminology, Multimedia communications, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Harrington, Catherine Emily
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763170 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15235
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- Description:
- The philosophical literature on modals is dominated by the following paradigm: modals are modeled as quantifiers over sets of possible worlds. The diversity of modal “fla- vors” (e.g., epistemic, deontic, teleological interpretations of modals) is accommodated within the paradigm by logical mechanisms that allow extralinguistic factors to restrict the quantificational...
- Keyword:
- epistemic modality, deontic modality, context-sensitity, modals, aspect, and semantics
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Linguistics
- Creator:
- Skibra, Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15323 and etdadmin_upload_770188