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- In this dissertation, the Tg behavior of nanoconfined polymer films and 1-dimensional (1-D) patterned polymer nanostructures was studied. Using a novel fluorescence method, a reduction in Tg was observed upon confinement in PS films supported on silica, where free-surface (polymer-air interface) effects are dominant in modifying Tg. In contrast, Tg...
- Keyword:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Manish Kumar Mundra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This study investigates the nature of the face-to-face interactions and collaborations between secondary school students and community members in the nested contexts of the classroom and a local Italian community, both situated in a large city in Canada. Students used the tools of inquiry of cultural ethnographers, interviewing members of...
- Keyword:
- cultural anthropology, communal database, intercultural, ethnography, and student researchers
- Subject:
- Music Education
- Creator:
- Valerie Ruth Peters
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Okilactomycin and chrolactomycin are antitumor antibiotics isolated in 1987 and 2001, respectively. These tetracyclic natural products possess a unique 6-5 fused tetrahydropyrone-butyrolactone. The spirocenter is part of a highly functionalized cyclohexene ring, which together with the aforementioned 6-5 system compose the core of these molecules. A six carbon, 1,3-dialkyl-substituted carbon...
- Keyword:
- natural products and total synthesis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- William Joseph Morris
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation develops dynamic models to examine markets with product differentiation where both firm conduct and consumer behavior is jointly influenced by switching costs, network effects and technological innovation. In Chapter 1 I propose a structural model of competition where firms set prices, introduce new products and scrap obsolete models....
- Keyword:
- Economics and General
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Joao Carlos Macieira
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Metal oxide surfaces are generally recognized as active substrates for many catalytic reactions. Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been found as a useful computational tool to investigate the geometry, energy, electronic structure of reactive oxide surfaces and their interaction with small molecules and fragments. In this thesis, primary efforts have...
- Keyword:
- DFT
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Xiaoyan Ma
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Cluster Analysis deals with classifying a sample of multivariate measurements into different categories. In this dissertation we study the effect of the correlation structure of the data on the performance of a clustering method. We begin with the analysis of two-component normal mixture models and then proceed to cluster analysis...
- Keyword:
- Data mining, Clustering, K-means algorithm, Mixture model, and EM algorithm
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Dingxi Qiu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Constructing 3D objects from 2D images has been an active research area for decades. Given captured 2D information from various devices, different techniques were developed to assign 3D positions to the target object. However, methods for reconstructing a 3D model from a single 2D image remain largely manual and labor-intensive....
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Sangwon Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying considers this significant pair of types of expressive behavior, considering them both in themselves and in their relation to the fundamental nature of humanity.
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Marjorie Grene, Helmuth Plessner, and James Spencer Churchill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- First published in German in 1917, On Emotional Presentation investigates the interrelation of emotions, values, and obligation. Alexius Meinong presents a realist theory of values in which values are given in and through emotion but are also ontologically independent of emotion or any subjective attitude. Meinongs first discusses the concept...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- J. N. Findlay, Alexius Meinong, and Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- This encyclopedia serves as a guide to the fifty-six stories and four novels that comprise the Sherlock Holmes canon. Arranged alphabetically, Orlando Park provides entries on all manner of people, places, and objects from Arthur Conan Doyles novels and stories, as well as thorough treatments of the traits and opinions...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Orlando Park
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of Wests life and their relationship to his works. James F. Light gives a detailed analysis of each of Wests novels, investigating in particular the works treatment of social criticism and manipulation of dream and symbol.
- Keyword:
- United States
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- James F. Light
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- This edition of Jean de La Fontaines fables includes an English translation published alongside the French text. Norman Spector adapted the French text from the 1883-85 edition by Henri Rgnier, adding four tales from the 1962 edition by Georges Couton. Spectors translation is in rhymed verse, and remains faithful to...
- Keyword:
- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Jean de la Fontaine and Norman B. Spector
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1988
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Literary Modernism and the Transformation of Work probes the relationship between the aesthetic structures of modernism and its political and philosophical shape. James F. Knapp exploresmodernisms engagement with and reaction to the theories and discourse of scientific management that were reshaping the workplace in the early twentieth century, and in...
- Keyword:
- Theory
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- James F. Knapp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1988
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- This classic ethnomusicological survey provides as a valuable guide to African music. The essays review a broad swath of genres and topics, including court songs and music history, musical instruments in different traditions, and the connection between Islam and African music. Contributors are Lois Ann Anderson, John Blacking, Philip J....
- Keyword:
- Music
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Klaus P. Wachsmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Motive and Intention is a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, Roy Lawrence analyzes examples of such assessments and provides and independent base for appraising familiar and tenacious theoretical presumptions. In so doing he illuminates many...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roy Lawrence
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In Reflections on Freges Philosophy, Reinhardt Grossmann investigates the most important themes in the philosophy of Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925): his distinction between objects and functions, his characterization of numbers as nonmental classes, his theory of sense and reference, and his ontology of truth-values. Grossmann examines Freges solutions to...
- Keyword:
- Analytic
- Creator:
- Reinhardt Grossmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- Philosophy
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In D. H. Lawrence, Eliseo Vivas examines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrences major works through a literary device that he coins the constitutive symbol. Understanding how Lawrence uses the constitutive symbol provides new insight into his world views. Vivas covers a wide range of Lawrences work, including Aarons...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Eliseo Vivas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1960
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This Africa is both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing a framework of literary criticism that includes the conqueror, the hero, city life, village life, and personal identity. Authors whose works are studied include...
- Keyword:
- Literature
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Judith Illsley Gleason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1965
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Dark Conceit is the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and criticism. The study explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of allegory, discusses the misconceptions that have obscured the subject, and surveys the changing concept of allegory. The greater...
- Keyword:
- Theory
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Edwin Honig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1959
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The Sacred Meadows is an anthropological study of the religion of Lamu, the oldest inhabited town in Kenya, originally settled in 1370, and situated on an island off the Kenyan coast. Abdul Hamid El-Zein discusses the religious impact of Islam and its place in Lamu society. He explores the structure...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Abdul Hamid M. el Zein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1974
- Resource Type:
- Book