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- In recent years, moral and political philosophers have begun to focus upon the impact of pluralism on conceptions of civic obligation, legitimacy, and justice. According to the political liberalism of John Rawls, citizens should justify their political views in terms of values that are neutral among divergent worldviews; they should...
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- discourse theory, pluralism, toleration, political liberalism, deliberation, and public reason
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Melissa Kristine Yates
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this dissertation, we explore modeling and solution methods for intermodal drayage operations. This research is motivated by the need to provide operational choices in drayage operations to increase efficiency; however, as shown in our work, the introduction of this flexibility in modeling and solution methods is challenging. Intermodal freight...
- Keyword:
- drayage operations and vehicle routing problems
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Guangming Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Early-life seizures increase susceptibility to seizures in adulthood. However, mechanisms by which seizures in the developing brain lead to increased vulnerability to seizures and exacerbation of neurological injury in adulthood remain unknown. We test the hypothesis that upregulation of proinflammatory cytokine levels and chronic glial activation following early-life seizures result...
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- seizures, cytokines, microglia, glia, glutamate, and neuroinflammation
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kathleen Cua Somera-Molina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- For bone regeneration, there is need for biodegradable, synthetic scaffolds that direct the formation of <em>de novo</em> mineralized tissue. Orthopaedic implants additionally require mechanical function. The work described herein attempts to address both of these needs. The general strategy involves integrating molecularly designed tissue engineering scaffolds with porous metallic foams...
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- self-assembly, peptide amphiphile, Biomaterials, nanotechnology, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Timothy David Sargeant
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) play a fundamental role in cell growth, metabolism and survival. Altered cell surface expression of RTKs has profound effects on organismal physiology and is associated with both metabolic disease and neoplasia. The insulin receptor (IR) is a prototypical RTK that regulates metabolism and lifespan and as...
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- Cell Biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Maria Rowena Bernadette Rojas Ramos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Many ion channels are localized in specific subcellular domain of the neurons, and the proper localization is critical for the function of ion channels. Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels (h channels) are asymmetrically distributed in the CA1 pyramidal neurons, enriched in the distal apical dendrites. H current, generated by h...
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- Neuroscience and Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Minyoung Shin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This study explores the history of Bugwere, Busoga and Buganda, societies in present-day east-central Uganda, from the late first millennium and it does so through a focus on motherhood. Motherhood - as ideology and biology - impacted on almost every aspect of life in these societies, but did so in...
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- Historical Linguistics, Gender, Precolonial History, Social Reproduction, and Uganda
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Rhiannon Stephens
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation describes the use of alkanethiols and polymers for the development of lithographic affinity and resist array templates that can be utilized for directing the assembly of biological molecules, for building up multilayered polyelectrolyte thin films, and for fabricating metal solid-state nanostructures. The first two chapters of the work...
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- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Raymond Jose de Guia Sanedrin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Sensing is a fundamental operation for almost any motion-based system. We have chosen electrosensory systems as a platform to explore sensing and control in both artificial and biological systems. Electrosense is a convenient sensing modality because artificial electrosensory systems are relatively simple to implement, and weakly electric fish have some...
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- Weakly Electric Fish, Electrolocation, Electrosense, Active Sensing, and Bayes Filter
- Subject:
- Mechanical Enginnering
- Creator:
- James R Solberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The work presented in this thesis describes investigations into linear and nonlinear optical properties of two-dimensional silver nanoparticle arrays. The linear optical measurements - extinction measurements were performed on two-dimensional square arrays of L-shaped silver nanoparticles fabricated by electron beam lithography in order to study the effect of dipole coupling...
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- Physical and Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jiha Sung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Chambers of Flemish tapestry served as prestigious, portable decoration for early modern courts across Europe. In the second half of the sixteenth century, a number of noble patrons commissioned tapestries that prominently featured highly naturalistic zoological and botanical imagery. Drawing upon zoological treatises, medical and physiognomic literature, fables, printed emblemata,...
- Keyword:
- early modern, courts, tapestry, Renaissance, natural history, and animal
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Carmen Cramer Niekrasz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Cells are known to respond to external stimuli such as chemical, physical and mechanical cues from their microenvironments. In this work, we developed the technology to to complement the previously reported studies that deal with substrates' mechanical property by developing thin polydimethlysiloxane (PDMS) membrane microdevices using microfabrication technology. Typically, multiples...
- Keyword:
- PDMS membrane, micro/nano fabrication, and cell mechanics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Abel Lianzauk Thangawang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The growth cone is a highly specialized motile structure with a distinctive and dynamically variable morphology. Current understanding of actin-based protrusive motility has been formulated in terms of the dendritic nucleation/array treadmilling model for lamellipodial protrusion and the convergent-elongation model for filopodial protrusion, that were based upon results obtained primarily...
- Keyword:
- Neuroscience and Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Anne Katherine Mongju
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The neural crest is a population of multipotent precursors that are found only in vertebrate embryos. These cells migrate extensively throughout the body and give rise to diverse derivatives, including craniofacial bone and cartilage, melanocytes, and the enteric nervous system. There is a large network of factors involved in neural...
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- Molecular Biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Kimberly Michele Jaffe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation articulates the practice of clown theater by a Chicago-based company called 500 Clown in order to provoke further investigation and definition of this hybrid theatrical form, which, though increasingly popular as a practice, has yet to be theorized or historicized. This study addresses clown theater's relationships with other...
- Keyword:
- Performance Studies
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Leslie Buxbaum Danzig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Dimensionally constrained material systems are at the forefront of current materials research because of their novel and often enhanced physical, chemical and biological properties. The dimensionality effects are pervasive through different classes of materials including ceramics, metals and polymers. Often times dimensionality effects are manifested as internal structure variations in...
- Keyword:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Suresh Kumar Donthu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- A need exists to increase the functionality of myoelectric prostheses without increasing the mental requirement of operation. Implantable myoelectric sensors have made it possible to record multiple muscle activities with high fidelity. Given this high dimensionality of inputs, what is the best way of implementing control? Muscle synergies have been...
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- muscle synergy, prosthesis, EMG, myoelectric control, dimensionality reduction, and hand
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Abidemi Bolu Ajiboye
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this thesis we discuss the issue of solving stochastic optimization problems using sampling methods. Numerical results have shown that using variance reduction techniques from statistics can result in significant improvements over Monte Carlo sampling in terms of the number of samples needed for convergence of the optimal objective value...
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- Stochastic Programming, Quasi-Monte Carlo, Padding, Latin Hypercube, Large Deviations, and QMC
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Shane Sebastian Drew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Various methods for solving the partial contact of surfaces with regularly periodic profiles-- which might arise in analyses of asperity level contact, serrated surfaces or even curved structures--have previously been employed for elastic materials. A new approach based upon the summation of evenly spaced Flamant's solution is presented here to...
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- Periodic Problems, Contact Mechanics, and Plane Elasticity
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Joseph M Block
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-18
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation concerns the rhetorical discourses that define a wireless technology revolution in the United States. This inquiry engaged in rhetorical criticism of key documents, texts and exigencies embedded within successive stages of the wireless revolution spanning twenty years. Three sites of discourse were analyzed: the wireless industry's vision and...
- Keyword:
- mobile phone, technology revolution, communication technology, technology and social change, cell phone, and communication revolution
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Joyce Virginia Gab Kneeland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation