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- This dissertation describes the development and use of novel chemical affinity templates to direct the assembly and preserve the activity of biological molecules in surface- and solution-based biomolecular assays. The majority of work described herein focuses on advancing biological nanoarray technology to enable the study of fundamentally important biological processes...
- Keyword:
- biorecognition, metal ions, surface, nanoarrays, microscopy, scanning, probe, and viruses
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Rafael Angel Vega
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- It has commonly been observed that a person's performance on a self-regulation activity is often impaired when he or she has already performed a prior task that requires substantial self-regulation, a phenomenon termed as the regulatory depletion effect. The prevailing explanation for this effect, as reported in the literature, is...
- Keyword:
- Positive Affect, Depletion, and Monitoring
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Wen Wan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A spokesman for the American Revolution, John Adams, famously claimed that a third of colonists supported independence, a third supported Britain, and a third remained neutral. Since then historians have struggled to understand the mixed loyalties of the Revolutionary generation. "The Popular Politics of Loyalism During the American Revolution, 1774-1790,"...
- Keyword:
- Popular Politics, Loyalism, Loyalist, and American Revolution
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Christopher James Macintosh Sparshott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Assets are ubiquitous, required for consumer behaviors and meaningful in American society. Though assets have a central role in society, they have been considered primarily for what they can buy. This continual focus on assets as an instrument for exchange masks the fact that assets also may serve as a...
- Keyword:
- Consumer Motivations, Gift-giving, Intergenerational Bridging Reciprocity, Asset Gifting, and Budgeting
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Tonya P Williams
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- UV Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool to investigate hydrocarbons-zeolite systems, including the coke formation mechanism during MTH reactions, the sorbet-framework interactions and the quantitative analysis of catalytic reactions. First, methanol, dimethyl ether and ethylene reactions were carried out on H-MFI with different Si/Al atomic ratios to study the coke...
- Keyword:
- Quantitative Raman Analysis, UV Raman, Coke, Benzene in MFI, and MTH
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Chao Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The work described here includes both fundamental and application based studies centered around the use of plasmonic sensors. Fundamental studies focus on probing the optical properties of nanosphere lithography (NSL) fabricated Ag nanoparticles, while surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensors are applied to identify and characterize artists' red dye and red...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry and Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Alyson Victoria Whitney
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The ubiquitin-proteasome system degrades regulatory proteins and thereby controls a broad range of cellular processes such as the cell cycle, DNA-repair, gene transcription and signal transduction. The proteasome typically degrades its substrates completely into small peptides. However, biological exceptions do occur. For example, the activity of a handful of transcriptional...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry, Biology, and Cell
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Tian Lin
- 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:
- The [(salen)CrCl + LB] catalyst system was found to be a highly active catalyst system for the [aziridine + CO<sub>2</sub>] coupling reaction, and exhibited a marked preference for the formation of 5-substituted oxazolidinone product, especially in the absence of cocatalyst. The activity of this catalyst system is optimized by modifying...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry and Organic
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Aaron W Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the impact of product returns on effective supply chain management. Within this area of research, known as Closed-Loop Supply Chain Management, we consider both strategic and tactical level reverse logistics and inventory management problems from the perspective of a firm which must efficiently process returned items. More...
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- Industrial and Engineering
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Kristin Marie Sahyouni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The stratigraphic record of the Phanerozoic provides key evidence of temporal changes in the global carbon cycle over the past 560 myr of Earth history. Measurements of carbon concentrations in ancient marine sediment, in conjunction with a chronological framework, provide a means to reconstruct burial flux history and, thus, evaluate...
- Keyword:
- sea-level, cyclostratigraphy, marl, Coniacian, chalk, and Santonian
- Creator:
- Robert Eric Locklair
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The representation and communication of spatial information is important to the functioning of children and adults in the physical world. Yet little research has included both areas in the same studies. This research program was designed to investigate both the communication and representation of spatial information within a developmental context....
- Keyword:
- Psychology and Cognitive
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Amanda Grace Schaal
- 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:
- This dissertation expands on the existing disclosure theory by considering the monitoring role of a firm's disclosure as well as recognizing how a firm's disclosure is influenced by the firm's monitoring mechanisms. The first chapter of the dissertation examines the effect of corporate governance on a firm's earnings reporting process....
- Keyword:
- Disclosure and Corporate governance
- Subject:
- Accounting Information and Management
- Creator:
- Ramanan Natarajan
- 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:
- This dissertation is composed of readings of four novellas: two by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller and two by the English novelist George Eliot. It focuses on the motif and concept of treasure (Schatz). Beginning with the figurative and rhetorical employment of "treasure" in the stories, each reading proceeds to...
- Keyword:
- english literature, general literature, german literature, novella, and comparative literature
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Teresa Ritterhoff
- 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:
- 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,...
- Keyword:
- 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:
- This thesis comprises three essays addressing theory and evidence on the household response to tax-favored saving incentive schemes, with a particular emphasis on household risk taking. The US tax code and related regulatory institutions offer a variety of incentives to encourage US households to save and participate in risky investment...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Finance
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Damien Leslie Moore
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- 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,...
- Keyword:
- 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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- Description:
- Self-assembly is the process by which objects autonomously assemble into complexes. It is believed that self-assembly technology will ultimately permit the precise fabrication of complex nanostructures. Of particular interest are self-assembly systems that are highly programmable. That is, we can view a self-assembly system as analogous to a program, the...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Robert Tinsley Schweller
- 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:
- This dissertation investigates whether residents of Windhoek's squatter settlements are changing urban space through their efforts to secure housing and to conduct remunerative work from their dwellings. Studies about the informal economy have moved from analysis of it as a distinct sector to the social and political processes that create...
- Keyword:
- Windhoek, town planning, home-based enterprises, housing, Namibia, and informal economy
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Clinton Nichols III
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Measurements of the ratios of charged kaon decay rates for Ke3/K2pi, Kmu3/K2pi and Kmu3/Ke3 are presented. These measurements are based on charged kaon decays collected in a dedicated run in 2003 by the NA48/2 experiment at CERN. The results obtained are Ke3/K2pi = 0.2470 +- 0.0009 (stat) +- 0.0004 (syst)...
- Keyword:
- Elementary Particles and Higher Energy and Physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Anne Evelyn Debrowski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the nature and development of Protestant ideology in Tudor England. Historians have traditionally seen Tudor Protestants as classic "magisterial" reformers. Unlike "radical reformers," who formed separated sects and rejected the union of church and state, English Protestants are seen as deeply committed to royal authority and the...
- Keyword:
- History and European
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Karl Alexander Gunther
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This is a visualization of an event reconstructed in CMS HGCal. This event is consist of 10 pions with a transverse momentum of 35 GeV. The reconstruction algorithm groups all valid energy deposits (hits) into clusters, each incoming particle having one or a few corresponding clusters, so that the energy...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Ziheng Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Description:
- Three-dimensional imaging techniques have been widely used in both industry and academia. Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors offer a promising method of 3D imaging due to compact size and low complexity. However, state-of-the-art ToF sensors only have depth resolutions of centimeters due to limitations in the modulation frequencies that can be used....
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Creator:
- Fengqiang Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Description:
- This is a movie of three galaxy formation simulations I ran as part of my research. The color of each pixel represents the temperature of the gas (blue for cold and green for hot) and the brightness of each pixel represents the density (dim for low density bright for high...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Physics & Astronomy
- Creator:
- Alex Gurvich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- Portrait of the Galaxy is a snapshot from a 3d rendering of a galaxy that displays the complex structure of the gas component of the simulation. This gas component is difficult to observe in real telescopes but with visualizations and simulations like these we can begin to understand how to...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Physics & Astronomy
- Creator:
- Alex Gurvich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Description:
- Mixing due to cutting-and-shuffling is studied at a fundamental level using 2D mappings known as Piecewise Isometries (PWI) which can create beautiful mixing patterns. The PWI studied here splits a hemispherical shell (HS) into four curved triangular pieces that are rearranged to make a shuffled HS. Applying the PWI repeatedly...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Thomas F. Lynn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Description:
- This visualization shows two-photon imaging of GCamp6f in hippocampal pyramidal neurons as a mouse navigates a virtual reality maze. These techniques give us an indirect measure of activity in neurons or small compartments of neurons in an awake, behaving animal. The hippocampus has been well characterized as playing an essential...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Creator:
- Jason Climer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Description:
- These images show how the Facebook networks of 121 LGBTQ youth (Mage = 24.13 years) differ depending on how “out” these young people are about their identities. Using cluster analysis of survey data, we found LGBTQ youth managed outness in one of four ways: high overall outness (63.82%), low overall...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Medical Social Sciences
- Creator:
- Balint Neray
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- This work introduces a novel optical 3D sensor principle and its implementation: the ‘single-shot 3D movie camera’. The camera is designed for the 3D measurement of macroscopic objects with scattering surfaces, e.g. human faces. It combines the acquisition of a dense point cloud displaying physically limited lateral resolution and depth...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Creator:
- Florian Willomitzer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- Massive Black Holes, millions to billions of times more massive than our sun, exist in the centers of most galaxies. However, the formation and evolution of these objects through accretion of gas and mergers with other black holes is still a great mystery. LISA, a future space-based gravitational wave detector,...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Physics & Astronomy
- Creator:
- Michael Katz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- A fractal is created by a Piecewise Isometry (PWI) which cuts a 2D object into pieces and rearranges those pieces to recreate the original object in a scrambled form. The PWI studied here splits a hemispherical shell into four pieces along cutting lines and rearranges them into a shuffled hemisphere....
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Thomas F. Lynn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- Levitation—the rising or hovering of an object in apparent defiance of gravity—is a captivating phenomenon with a wide range of applications. In this visualization, we demonstrate our newly discovered form of fluid dynamical levitation of small particles that may be 10, 100, or even 1000 times as dense as the...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Physics & Astronomy
- Creator:
- Daniel Case
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- Firefly is an interactive tool that allows users to fly through any 3 dimensional dataset by rendering it on-the-fly. Here we present simulation data created as part of the FIRE galaxy formation collaboration. Interactively exploring data generates powerful intuition and helps one isolate regions of interest in the data using...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Physics & Astronomy
- Creator:
- Alex Gurvich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- Our research group is currently working to develop the first cross-culturally validated household water insecurity scale. In order to do this, we have partnered with numerous collaborators to implement the survey in diverse ecological settings. As part of the survey, participants are asked to recall how long it takes to...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Joshua Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Description:
- Psychometric analyses can help illuminate how people approach clinical tests. To understand how health literacy (i.e., literacy for health information) might lead to biased assessment of emotional distress, we examined the psychometric properties of anxiety and depression questionnaires, using differential item functioning (DIF) analysis. Items were flagged for DIF if...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Medical Social Sciences
- Creator:
- Bayley Taple
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Description:
- Using ab initio calculations, we discovered a quasi two-dimensional copper–bismuth nano sheet, which we call cubine. According to our predictions, single layers of cubine can be isolated from the recently reported high-pressure CuBi bulk material at an extremely low energetic cost, comparable to values to separate single layers of graphene...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Maximilian Amsler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Description:
- The ideology scores of US Congress members over time, quantified from how similarly they voted on bills. I present an interactive visualization for the US Congress members’ ideology. The data used are ideology scores of US Congress members 1789-2015. The ideology scores are quantified from the Congress members’ voting records...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Creator:
- Vicky Chuqiao Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- Objectives: Poor infant health is associated with lower wellbeing later in life. Food insecurity has been associated with higher rates of some morbidities in young children. However, this relationship has not been well studied in infants younger than six months or in Kenya. Thus, we sought to determine the relationship...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Creator:
- Kathleen Clark
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Numerical simulations have shown that black holes (BHs) have significant influence on the evolution of globular clusters (GCs), and therefore shape their observational features. Recently, a BH-main sequence star (MS) binary system has been observed in the Milky Way GC NGC 3201. Our group uses Cluster Monte Carlo (CMC) code...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Creator:
- Kyle Kremer, Claire Ye, Fred Rasio, Carl Rodriguez, and Sourav Chatterjee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- A number of new satiric forms -- or emergent genres -- have exploded in popularity almost simultaneously in recent years, all markedly political, all incorporating the real into the mimetic in striking ways, and all straddling the line between satire and serious political dialogue. This dissertation focuses on three of...
- Keyword:
- satire, news, documentary, activism, parody, and counterpublic
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Amber Day
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- New telecommunication techniques utilizing distinctive quantum properties, e.g., measurement uncertainties and entanglement, extend the capabilities of existing systems. Quantum cryptography, as an example, provides physical layer security enforced by fundamental physical laws, while modern cryptographic techniques rely on assumptions of intractability of certain mathematical problems with limited computational power. Rapid...
- Keyword:
- Fiber Optics, Quantum Cryptography, and Optical Communication
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Chuang Liang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A catalytic, multi-component coupling reaction for the synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles has been developed, via the reaction of an imine, &#945;-diazoester and unsaturated coupling partner in the presence of a copper(I) or rhodium(II) transition metal catalyst with excellent diastereo-selectivities and high yields. The transition metal-catalyzed decomposition of a diazo compound...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry and Organic
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Chris Galliford
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The use of processes based on microorganisms to produce fuels, monomers, and pharmaceuticals from renewable feedstocks is increasing today due to their environmental and economic advantages over petrochemical-based processes. In order to unlock the full potential of microorganisms to produce a sustainable industry centered on biosynthesis, an improved understanding of...
- Keyword:
- group contribution method, thermodynamics-based metabolic flux analysis, BNICE, thermodynamics, biosynthesis, and E. coli
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Christopher Scott Henry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- It is critical to genomic integrity that DNA is replicated completely and faithfully during each cell cycle. The essential replication factor Cdt1 is a critical protein in preventing reinitiation of replication. Overexpression of Cdt1 causes re-replication in p53 null cells and transforms NIH3T3 cells, causing them to form tumors in...
- Keyword:
- Xenopus, Cell Cycle, Geminin, Cdt1, and Re-Replication
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Sarah Lynn Kerns
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many images of dwarves, hirsutes, and castrati depict them in the guise of the monstrous, either as jokes of nature or indices of courtly wit. However, there are some Renaissance portraits of physically deformed individuals that transcend these categories. These portraits point to the...
- Keyword:
- hirsute, anatomy, monster, Renaissance, dwarf, castrato, and portraiture
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Touba Ghadessi Fleming
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As technology moves into deep submicron and nanoscale era, undesirable trends such as increasing power density, leakage power, and temperature variation within chips have made thermal effects emerge as a major bottleneck in further technology scaling. Thermal effects are no longer considered as just a reliability issue, but it also...
- Keyword:
- Electronics and Electrical and Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Ja Chun Ku
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
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- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
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- Dissertation
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- In the first chapter, I study how political institutions can affect policymaking when the economy is in transition. I develop a framework where a transition process gradually restructures economic institutions so that the population's long-term preference may differ from its short-term preference. A democracy may fail to implement the optimal...
- Keyword:
- Institution, Regulation, transition, Political Economy, and Medicaid
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Tapas Kundu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Next generation of high performance nano-optoelectronic integrated circuits will require an integral combination of highly efficient all-optical nanophotonic devices and electrically-pumped nanophotonic devices, which will enable the chip to process optical information all optically with ultrafast speed and electro-optically to interface with the electronic control plane. The realizations of such...
- Keyword:
- Electronics and Electrical and Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Yingyan Huang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- At the heart of nonlinear optimization methods lies the solution of linear systems of equations. As the size of the problem increases, it is imperative to use iterative methods, such as the conjugate gradient algorithm, to solve these linear systems. In the context of constrained optimization, it has proved to...
- Keyword:
- preconditioning, interior point method, strategic bidding, nonlinear optimization, and bilevel programming
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Long Hei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Entangled photons serve as an important tool in the field of quantum information processing. Traditionally, spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in second-order nonlinear crystals has been the workhorse source for generating entangled photons. However, those SPDC-generated photons are notoriously difficult to couple into single-mode optical fibers due to mode mismatch, thus...
- Keyword:
- quantum computation, quantum splitter, coincidence, quantum communication, entanglement, and nonlinear fiber optics
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jun Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In "Optimal Delegation" I analyze the design of decision rules by a principal who faces an informed but biased agent and who is unable to commit to contingent transfers. The contracting problem reduces to a delegation problem in which the principal commits to a set of decisions from which the...
- Keyword:
- delegation, decision rights, cheap talk, incomplete contracts, and authority
- Subject:
- Kellogg School of Management
- Creator:
- Ricardo Alonso
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation