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- Description:
- This presentation contains information on the keynote paper "Health Monitoring of Early Age Concrete". The presentation was delivered by Surendra P. Shah at CONSEC'04 in Seoul, Korea on June 30, 2004.
- Keyword:
- Structural health monitoring and Nondestructive testing
- Creator:
- Surendra P. Shah, Thomas Voigt, and Zhihui Sun
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2017
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2017
- Date Created:
- 2004-06-30
- Resource Type:
- Presentation
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- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of applied improvisation and composition assignments that were related to and reinforcing of curriculum content on fifth-grade students' ability to sight-read traditional music notation, ability to learn to play the soprano recorder, and understanding of music theory. Specifically, the research...
- Keyword:
- learning, composition, divergent, creativity, convergent, and recorder
- Subject:
- Music Education
- Creator:
- Lois Veenhoven Guderian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Kinesin-1 is a motor protein that transports cargo along microtubules. Inside cells, the majority of kinesin-1 is regulated to conserve ATP and ensure its proper intracellular distribution and coordination with other motors. Regulated kinesin-1 is folded in half, and interactions between coiled-coil regions near the N-terminal enzymatically active heads and...
- Keyword:
- kinesin and regulation
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kristen Dietrich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This introductory chemistry textbook was compiled by Shelby Hatch at Northwestern University and is adapted from the following sources: "Introductory Chemistry" by David W. Ball, The Saylor Foundation, Cleveland State University, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and is available at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/introductory-chemistry ; "Chemistry of Cooking" by Sorangel Rodriguez-Velazquez, American...
- Keyword:
- open textbook, chemical reactions, chemical bonds, measurements, atoms, health, stoichiometry, pharmeceuticals, gases, oer, ions, nuitrition, and molecules
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hatch, Shelby
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/25/2022
- Date Modified:
- 02/25/2022
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- On 6 February 2007, President Bush announced that the United States would create a new military command for Africa, to be known as Africa Command or Africom. Throughout the Cold War and for more than a decade afterwards, the U.S. did not have a military command for Africa; instead, U.S....
- Keyword:
- us military policy and pas
- Creator:
- Daniel Volman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Inflammasomes are signaling complexes that link the recognition of pathogen and danger associated molecular patterns (PAMPs and DAMPs) by cytosolic pattern-recognition receptors (PPRs) to the activation of Caspase-1, leading to the release of the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1 and IL-18, and the induction of pyroptosis. In addition to the canonical...
- Keyword:
- Caspase-11, oxPAPC, Sepsis, and Non-canonical inflammasome
- Subject:
- Immunology
- Creator:
- Chu, Lan Hoang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_638156 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14507
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- Description:
- Coronary magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is emerging as a promising method for noninvasive diagnosis of coronary artery diseases. Nonetheless, acquisition of large-coverage high-resolution coronary artery images requires free-breathing acquisition. Accurately measuring and correcting respiratory motion has been one of the major challenges to coronary MRA. Diaphragmatic navigator (NAV), the current...
- Keyword:
- Coronary angiography, Motion correction, Magnetic resonance imaging, Contrast agent, and Eespiratory gating
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Peng Lai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This paper examines the current state of Turkish-U.S. relations. While many have noted a chill in the relationship between the two countries, Finn suggests that recent tension has a longer historical background. Rather than a recent development, Finn suggests that Turkish-U.S. relations have seen periods of tension before over the...
- Keyword:
- double helix and buffett
- Creator:
- Ambassador Robert P. Finn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-006
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- Description:
- This article examines the ramifications of international law on political refugees. The Cessation Clause, or Article 35 of the 1951 Refugee Convention of the United Nations, guarantees the right of refugees to return home under the assumption that return is the primary objective of refugees. Yet, Harrell-Bond argues in this...
- Keyword:
- buffett and cessation
- Creator:
- Barbara Harrell-Bond
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-001
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- Description:
- This article presents preliminary, selected findings from a larger study of students experiences in international education. The paper focus on those findings that are related to student understand ing of citizenship identity during the mobility experience. Specifically, it draws on interviews and surveys collected in Germany from 387 students participating...
- Keyword:
- erasmus and buffett
- Creator:
- Bernhard Streitwieser
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-001
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- Description:
- This paper aims to understand how international legal harmonisation impacts legal certainty in countries where most of the economy is informal by examining how OHADA laws have been applied in Cameroon. It describes how the OHADA laws were developed internationally and applied locally and how the actors in two spheres...
- Keyword:
- legal certainty, OHADA, and buffett
- Creator:
- Gustav Kalm
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-005
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- Description:
- During the Second Lebanon War of 2006, Israel's government applied a capital- and firepower-intensive military doctrine poorly suited for its ambitious, and publicly declared, goals. The paper explains this apparently non-strategic behavior with a theory of democratic militarism, arguing that a capitalized military doctrine results in a condition of moral...
- Keyword:
- isreali, lebannon, normal democracy, and buffett
- Creator:
- Jonathan D. Caverley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-001
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- Description:
- This article explains the rapid proliveration in international courts first in the post WWII and then the post Cold War era. It examines the larger international judicial complex, showing how developments in one region and domain affect developments in similar and distant regimes. Situating individual developments into their larger context,...
- Keyword:
- evolving and buffett
- Creator:
- Karen J. Alter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-002
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- Description:
- Europe created the model of embedded international courts (IC), where domestic judges work with international judges to interpret and apply international legal rules that are also part of national legal orders. This model has now diffused around the world. This article documents the spread of European-style ICs: there are now...
- Keyword:
- european, global spread, and buffett
- Creator:
- Karen J. Alter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-003
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- Description:
- This paper explores the importance of the Low Countries to Habsburg Spain in the sixteenth century and the outbreak of the Dutch Revolt. It examines the upper tiers of the Low Country nobility, the grands seigneurs and the gentileshommes, and the tensions over religious practice and political rights that developed...
- Keyword:
- Dutch Revolt, beggary, and buffett
- Creator:
- Peter Arnade
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-001
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- Description:
- Are the lending programs of the International Monetary Fund bad for democracy? The conventional wisdom is that the implementation of IMF conditional lending programs triggers cycles of austerity, social protest, and government repression that result in democratic backsliding. We present evidence which suggests that the conventional wisdom is wrong. We...
- Keyword:
- IMF and buffett
- Creator:
- Geoffrey P.R. Wallace and Stephen C. Nelson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-004
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- Description:
- Soil texture has important ramifications on the shape and size of roots as well as impacting how much water is taken up and the distribution of nutrients in the soil. These factors lead to differences in growth characteristics and plant performance. However, what traits and how the plant responds to...
- Keyword:
- gravel, intraspecific trait variation, sand, invasive grass, lateral roots, Water stress, and Turface
- Subject:
- Soil type and plant growth responses
- Creator:
- Alicia J. Foxx and Siobhan T. Wojcik
- Contributor:
- Andrea T. Kramer (advisor)
- Owner:
- Alicia Foxx
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2020
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2020
- Date Created:
- 2015-11-04
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- Weak interactions in ligand-receptor pairs are important in biological systems. However, the energetics of these interactions are often difficult to quantify for ligandreceptor pairs. Weak interactions are a part of reorganization energy, which plays a role in electron transfer reactions. Under certain conditions the rate of electron transfer can be...
- Keyword:
- Volume 3
- Creator:
- Thomas J. Meade, Daniel J. Feld, Amanda L. Eckermann, and Kylie D. Barker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- This presentation contains information on the project "Aligning Data to Support Transportation Decisions, Emerging Challenges & Opportunities for the Data World". The presentation was delivered by Joseph L. Schofer at Transportation Research Board – AASHTO Peer Exchange meeting on May 15-16, 2008.
- Keyword:
- Climate change , Urban transportation policy, and Transportation system data
- Creator:
- Joseph L. Schofer
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2017
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2017
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-16
- Resource Type:
- Presentation
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- Description:
- Kosnik, D. E., Northwestern University . Infrastructure Technology Institute, Department of Civil Environmental Engineering, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering Applied Science. (2008). A new approach to acoustic emission testing of difficult-to-reach steel bridge details. Evanston, Illinois: Infrastructure Technology Institute/Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
- Keyword:
- Acoustic emission testing
- Creator:
- Kosnik, David E.
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/21/2017
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2017
- Date Created:
- 2008
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This dissertation is composed of three chapters, each contributing to different aspects of the literature of partially identified econometric models. In the first chapter, I introduce a bootstrap procedure to perform inference in the class of partially identified econometric models defined by finitely many moment equalities and inequalities. I provide...
- Keyword:
- Inference, Partial Identification, Bootstrap, Set Identification, and Hypothesis testing
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Federico Andres Bugni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A multicomponent bimodal poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) polymer composite has been scientifically designed to increase biaxial plastic flow stabilization for the achievement of large biaxial deformations. For this, a systems-based approach was used for the computational materials design of a high performance bubblegum whose mean in-vivo bubble diameter exceeds that of...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Leslie Dale Morget
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The actions of luteinizing hormone (LH) to induce ovulation and luteinization of preovulatory follicles are mediated principally by activation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) in granulosa cells. PKA activity is targeted to specific cellular locations by A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs). I previously showed that follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) induces expression of...
- Keyword:
- cyloskeleton, MAP2, vimentin, ovary, granulosa cell, and luteinizing hormone
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Maxfield Patrick Flynn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-08-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Fusion of biological membranes is dictated by the interaction between specialized membrane proteins and the lipid bilayer. Parainfluenza virus 5 (PIV5) mediates fusion using two surface glycoproteins: the fusion protein (F) and the attachment protein hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN). Activation of membrane fusion of PIV5 typically occurs at neutral pH, and involves...
- Keyword:
- Class I virus fusion, PIV5, fusion protein, and Membrane fusion
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Mei Lin Bissonnette
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spinal cord injury causes devastating and frequently irreversible loss of neurological function. Although injured central nervous system neurons have the intrinsic ability to regenerate, the environment in the damaged spinal cord is non-permissive. The goal of this thesis was to explore the cellular and molecular mechanisms that limit recovery after...
- Keyword:
- spinal cord injury, chemokines, nanotechnology, stem cells, and regeneration
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Vicki Maria Tysseling-Mattiace
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Substance abuse is one of the most critical public health problems affecting juvenile detainees. Previous research suggests that a significant proportion of juvenile detainees with substance use disorders do not receive treatment prior to or during detention. Using data from the Northwestern Juvenile Project, a large-scale longitudinal study of juvenile...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Leah Paskar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Embedded systems are ubiquitous. Although many aspects of embedded system design and synthesis have received significant research attention, comparatively less attention has been given to new ideas in memory hierarchy design. This dissertation presents several new operating system and architecture techniques that use elements of the virtual and physical memory...
- Keyword:
- memory hierarchy, compression, computer architecture, embedded system, and operating system
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Lei Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-09-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- All forces applied to the human hand are transmitted through the arm to the trunk. Hence, the arm represents an important mechanical interface between the trunk and the environment. By regulating this interface in a task-appropriate manner, humans are able to interact with a wide range of tools and objects,...
- Keyword:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Matthew Krutky
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The III-Nitride material system has already proven to be commercially viable for blue light emitting diodes (LEDs), blue laser diodes (LDs), and near UV photodetectors. Continued interest in this field has driven the desire for even lower emission and detection cut-off wavelengths into the solar-blind / deep UV portion of...
- Keyword:
- APD, Optoelectronics, LED, Nitride, Semiconductor, and UV
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Kathryn A Minder
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the first part of the dissertation, I investigate the nature of retail coupons, a popular tool for non-price competition. The widely expressed view that coupons are primarily a tool to allow price discrimination has received mixed empirical supports. I depart from the static framework of the price discrimination theory...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Yongbae Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We first introduce the concept of copulas and advocate its use for multivariate option pricing. We focus on four types of bivariate options: basket, rainbow-max, rainbow-min, and spread options. We derive expressions for these options as a function of the copula. We then construct pricing bounds for these bivariate options...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Finance
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Jesse De Lille
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The T-box transcription factor, Tbx5, is involved in heart development and congenital disease. For example mutations in human TBX5 lead to Holt-Oram syndrome, a disease characterized by a range of heart and arm malformations. Tbx5 gene activity has been perturbed in several animal models including the chicken, mouse, and zebrafish....
- Keyword:
- Heart, Zebrafish, Pdlim7, and Tbx5
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Troy Camarata
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Most organisms use rhythms of sunlight to synchronize their activity to the environment. These rhythms of activity are called circadian rhythms. The rhythms persist with near 24 hour periods when external synchronizing cues are absent. In mammals, the circadian clock is generated at the molecular level by a transcriptional/translational feedback...
- Keyword:
- SCN, mouse, Heat Shock Factor, body temperature, circadian, and suprachiasmatic nucleus
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Ethan Buhr
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis contributes in two ways. First it describes a new framework for the systematic design of collective behaviors and solves a key stability issue under this design framework. In this thesis we apply this framework to solve three tasks in the swarm robotics field: connectivity maintenance, formation control and...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Peng Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Sufficient vocal fold superficial hydration is indispensable to maintain normal vocal function and protect vocal fold epithelium against invasion of pathogenic agents. Vocal fold surface hydration is probably regulated by its electrophysiological properties. We hypothesized that the tight junction (TJ)-related paracellular barrier contributes to the maintenance of those properties. Therefore,...
- Keyword:
- HISTAMINE, VOCAL FOLD, VOICE, EPITHELIUM, and TIGHT JUNCTION
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders - Speech and Language Pathology
- Creator:
- Qianru Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-21
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Solder joint integrity is recognized as a key issue in the reliability of flip chip and ball grid arrays in integrated circuit packages. Significant reductions in the solder-joint interconnect size results in both the increased volume fraction of brittle intermetallics in the joint and joule heating and electromigration failure due...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Yao Yao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- T-cell activation is an essential step of the immune response, yet the cellular and molecular events underlying this complex process are not fully understood. Significantly, a comparative genome-scale transcriptional analysis of two T-cell subsets and the natural-mixed CD3+ population remains unexplored. Using microarrays, we investigated the temporal global transcriptional profile...
- Keyword:
- cell culture, Genome-Scale Transcription Profiling, Immunology, Immune Response, Immunotherapy, and T-cell
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Min Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The genetic information in DNA is transcribed to mRNA and then translated to proteins, which form the building blocks of life. Translation, or protein synthesis, is hence a central cellular process. Decades of experimentation have elucidated a vast wealth of molecular information about discrete translation steps, but the sheer complexity...
- Keyword:
- Chemical Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Hermioni Zouridis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The studies in this thesis are directed towards defining the signaling mechanisms that regulate astrogliosis after SCI and towards developing potential therapeutic techniques for modifying this process. The central hypothesis is that alteration of the extracellular milieu after SCI can limit the deleterious effects of glial scar formation and enhance...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Vibhu Vinodchandra Sahni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Assembly of the large and small subunits of the <em>E. coli</em> ribosome is a complicated process that involves transcription, processing, and modifying of the ribosomal RNA, the binding of ribosomal proteins, and the folding of the particles into complex structures. A number of ribosome assembly factors, including maturation factors, GTPases,...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Lisa Marie Sharpe Elles
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The light field is a 4D function that describes the flow of light in all directions through every point in free space. Digital cameras only capture a 2D projection of the 4D light field entering the camera lens. In this dissertation I modify the light field as it enters a...
- Keyword:
- light fields, agile spectrum, super-resolution, and multispectral
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Ankit Mohan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I examine how consumers' purchase' decisions and intentions of purchases are affected by uncertainty about future deals (temporary price cuts or sales) for a product and how these results affect retailers' optimal pricing and marketing strategies. First I look at the effects of uncertainty about the timing of deals (i.e....
- Keyword:
- uncertainty, retailer, deals, consumer behavior, and pricing
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Priscilla Yung Medeiros
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-18
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The promise of a clean, renewable, and abundant energy supply make the efficient conversion of solar energy to electricity a compelling scientific and societal goal. In the following chapters, I will describe my efforts to advance one class of photovoltaic technology, dye-sensitized solar cells, by demonstration and characterization of unexplored...
- Keyword:
- Dye-Sensitized, Dynamics, Architectures, Solar, Energy, and Photovoltaic
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Alex Martinson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The mechanisms governing selective CaCO3 crystal nucleation in living organisms remain unclear. For example, nacreous layers from the inner surfaces of shells are built as brick-and-mortar complexes of plate-like aragonite single crystals and organic layers. Unstable [001] surfaces of calcite columns in prismatic layers are also stabilized by organic molecules....
- Keyword:
- SEM, Biomineralization, Chitosan, Calcite, Langmuir monolayer, and Grazing incidence x-ray diffraction
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Kyungil Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-21
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the first chapter we analyze profits and efficiency implications of a relation between an upstream duopoly and downstream monopoly in Hotelling linear city model. While exclusive contracts maximize the monopolist's profit, at the same time socially they are inefficient. Linear prices, while more efficient, usually also do not achieve...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Jakub Kaluzny
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Polarized epithelial cells are divided by tight junctions into an apical membrane domain, which faces the lumen of an organ, and a basolateral domain, which is in contact with underlying connective tissues. To establish and maintain polarity, newly synthesized and recycling transmembrane proteins are sorted to either the apical or...
- Keyword:
- PI(3, 4, 5)P3, recycling endosome, protein trafficking, epithelial cells, and AP-1B
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Shelby King
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chagas heart disease, caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is still regarded as a major public health problem in Central and South America. The finding of cardiac specific autoimmunity during infection in both humans and experimental animals has provided a basis for investigation of its potential role...
- Keyword:
- Myosin, Trypanosoma cruzi, Luminescence, Autoimmunity, Chagas, and Cardiac
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kenneth Vincent Hyland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Phagocytosis is an essential mechanism for clearance of pathogens, dying cells, and other unwanted debris in order to maintain tissue health in the body. Macrophages execute this process in the peripheral immune system, but in the brain microglia act as resident macrophages to accomplish this function. In the peripheral immune...
- Keyword:
- MFG-E8, phagocytosis, apoptosis, Gas6, Alzheimer's disease, and microglia
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Abby Denise Fuller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-08-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Witten Laplacian corresponding to a Morse function on the circle is studied using methods of complex WKB and resurgent analysis. It is shown that under certain assumptions the low-lying eigenvalues of the Witten Laplacian are resurgent.
- Keyword:
- Mathematics
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Alexander Getmaneko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-08-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Cells are regulated by a combination of soluble stimuli and adhesive interactions with other cells and the extracellular matrix (ECM). We are developing systems to present ECM and cytokine receptor ligands in a defined manner for applications in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) culture. We hypothesize that the controlled,...
- Keyword:
- polydopamine, CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cell, lipid membrane, lipopeptide, and glycosaminoglycan
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Shara Marie Dellatore
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this thesis we study protein folding with external force. In Part I we simulate the folding or unfolding procedure based on the two-state model. For constant-velocity experiments, the simulation results fit the experimental results. For constant-force experiments, we introduce cooperativity between domains to explain the different behavior between single...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Pengfei Diao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-18
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The growing worldwide threat of antibiotic-resistant pathogens has necessitated a constant search for new classes of antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are integral components of innate immunity in virtually every living organism, and, due to their proven efficacy over millions of years of evolution, are considered promising leads for new antibiotic...
- Keyword:
- electron microscopy, bacterial ultrastructure, antibacterial mechanism, fluorescence spectroscopy, functional synergy, and N-substituted glycine antibiotics
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Nathaniel Paul Chongsiriwatana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Competition, Quality Choices and Vertical Differentiation: Applications to the Nursing Home Industry
- Description:
- This dissertation contains three essays that investigate various factors affecting firms' choice of quality in the context of nursing homes. The first essay examines how strategic interactions with competitors affect quality levels selected by nursing homes. I explore nursing homes' responses to minimum nurse staffing standards imposed in two large...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Min Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this work, electron beam induced current (EBIC) and scanning photocurrent microscopy (SPCM) were used to quantitatively investigate the electronic properties of silicon nanowire devices. For the first time, it was shown that minority carrier diffusion lengths in phosphorous-doped silicon nanowires are significantly reduced from their bulk values because of...
- Keyword:
- diode, diffusion length, carrier concentration, nanowire, silicon, and photocurrent
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Jonathan Edward Allen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The automobile coating industry is undergoing reformation driven by environmental regulations that demand low content of volatile organic compounds. Traditional solvent-borne acrylic resins consisting of high molecular weight polymers that are produced at low temperatures (< 80 C) need high levels of organic solvent (70%) to be processed as coatings....
- Keyword:
- quantum, acrylate, modeling, polymerization, and kinetic
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Xinrui Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Because long-chain n-alkanes (n-C21 to n-C37) are found in the epicuticular leaf waxes of all vascular plants and are stable, long-lived molecules, the study of their molecular and isotopic compositions stands to serve as a potentially powerful tool in the fields of modern chemotaxonomy and paleoecology. This study attempts to...
- Keyword:
- plant biology
- Subject:
- plant biology
- Creator:
- Bush, Rosemary T.
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/14/2017
- Date Modified:
- 11/08/2023
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-20
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
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- Description:
- This dissertation aims to: 1) characterize the range of beliefs museum practitioners have about racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity; 2) their understanding of the role of race, culture, and ethnicity in minoritized learners’ sensemaking; and 3) the areas of tension and symmetry between practitioners’ values and their perception of their...
- Keyword:
- Museum, Informal Learning, Diversity, Equity, Positioning Theory, and Science
- Subject:
- Teacher education, Education, and Museum studies
- Creator:
- Villanosa, Krystal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844403 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15736
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- Description:
- In 2008, the term "remix culture" is widely understood to refer to mash-up videos and movie parodies, distributed on websites such as YouTube and authored primarily by white male teenagers. This dissertation argues that digital remix was invented primarily by African American men, who, in the mid-1980s, began using digital...
- Keyword:
- remix, censorship, fan fiction, digital sampling, digital culture, and digital history
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Abigail Derecho
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/07/2020
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-18
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The vertebrate brain, which is made up of a vast array of individual neurons, is responsible for controlling numerous functions and behaviors, including distinguishing between visual cues, learning to navigate in a new environment, or making complex decisions. These neurons form specific networks that receive, process, and integrate chemical and...
- Keyword:
- plasticity, subiculum, tmetabotropic, burst, amphetamine, and memory
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Shannon Jessie Moore
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Air pollution increases mortality risk up to 18 percent due to cardiovascular causes. Poor air quality occurs more when meteorological components prevent the dispersal of pollutants in the lower atmosphere. The atmospheric and hydrological patterns change as global warming alters the pattern of circulations seasonally. The purpose of this study...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Earth & Planetary Science
- Creator:
- Yuxi Suo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-11
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Step length is a common measurement taken during gait analyses. It allows one to determine asymmetries between the two legs, compare differences between subjects, and even compare intra-subject differences for changing parameters. Yet there has been little investigation of step length specifically and how it is modulated during walking. This...
- Keyword:
- walking, motion analysis, prostheses, amputation, step length, and gait
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Pinata Hungspreugs Sessoms
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Television's history has at numerous points been punctuated by pronouncements that technological innovations will improve its programming, empower its audiences, and heal the injuries it has inflicted on American society. This enduring faith in the inevitability and imminence of television's technological salvation is the subject of this dissertation. "TV Repair"...
- Keyword:
- technology, convergence, television, and new media
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Bret Maxwell Dawson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignant liver tumor, with the highest incidence in Asia. Developed countries, including the United States, have had an 80% increase in HCC incidence over the last 15-20 years. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a promising imaging modality with superior soft tissue...
- Keyword:
- Liver Cancer, Diffusion-weighted imaging, Functional, PROPELLER, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jie Deng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Wood-derived ceramics and composites have been of interest in recent years due to their unique microstructures, which lead to tailorable properties. The porosity and pore size distribution of each wood type is different, which yields variations in properties in the resultant materials. The thermal properties of silicon carbide ceramics and...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Kristen Pappacena
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- To increase the butanol titers and selectivity in <em>Clostridium acetobutylicum</em> we replaced the promoter of the alcohol/aldehyde dehydrogenase (<em>aad</em>) gene with the phosphotranbutyrylase (<em>ptb</em>) promoter and combined this with CoAT downregulation to minimize acetone production. This led to early production of high alcohol (butanol plus ethanol) titers and overall solvent...
- Keyword:
- metabolic engineering and Clostridium acetobutylicum
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- William Sillers
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The cause(s) of Aβ overproduction and accumulation in SAD are unknown; however, several lines of evidence indicate that impaired energy metabolism in the brain may be involved. Furthermore, the rate-limiting enzyme in Aβ production, BACE1, is elevated in SAD brains around amyloid plaques, indicating that BACE1 may also play a...
- Keyword:
- translation, energy metabolism, BACE1, amyloid, and Alzheimer's disease
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Tracy O'Connor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Speech contains a variety of temporal and spectral features that occur simultaneously in the signal, each of which conveys unique information that is essential for its accurate interpretation. As the bridge between the auditory periphery and the cortex, the brainstem can be thought of as a connection that must respond...
- Keyword:
- development, speech encoding, Auditory brainstem response, stop consonant-vowel syllables, neural plasticity, and auditory processing
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders - Learning Disabilities
- Creator:
- Krista Lynne Johnson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Game Theory is the branch of applied mathematics that studies the strategic interaction among intelligent agents. So far, standard Game Theory literature has interpreted "intelligent agents" exclusively as "rational agents". This work points out that this interpretation is an important limitation since intelligence consists of more abilities, some of which...
- Keyword:
- Economics and General
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Arnau Bages Amat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This work explores the development and implementation of a biofilm model for multiple solid species and multiple dissolved components. The model makes use of several different advanced numerical methods in order to achieve the goal of describing the behavior of biofilms growing in wastewater treatment reactors. Using the model we...
- Keyword:
- multi-species, soluble microbial products, biofilm, EPS, and multi-component
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Brian Vernon Merkey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-08-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The recent observation of nonzero neutrino mass is the first concrete indication of physics beyond the Standard Model. Their properties, unique among the other fermions, leads naturally to the idea of a Majorana neutrino mass term. Despite the strong theoretical prejudice toward this concept, it must be tested experimentally. This...
- Keyword:
- Mass Models, Neutrino, and Majorana
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- James Phearl Jenkins
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Liquid metal melt-lubrication of high-power and high-speed sliding electrical contacts improves electrical current collection and reduces friction. However, armature material loss may cause transition to arcing or plasma contact. Boundary lubrication of the sliding contact with low melting-point alloys can provide comparable improvement in current collection at reduced temperatures. Bismuth,...
- Keyword:
- lubrication, railgun, liquid metal, and electromagnetic launcher
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Peter Yaw-Ming Hsieh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Caffeine is the most widely consumed methylxanthine, primarily found in beverages. As a nonspecific antagonist to adenosine, caffeine binds to both A1 and A2A adenosine receptors to increase neural activity and decrease cerebral blood flow, which allows it to alter neurovascular coupling. However, there has been much debate about the...
- Keyword:
- ASL, neurovascular coupling, caffeine, and calibrated BOLD
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Yufen Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The measurement of weak adhesive energies has previously been difficult to obtain. To measure these energies, I designed a technique that uses the combined sensitivities of both a quartz crystal resonator and the inflation of an elastomeric polymer membrane. The surfaces of the quartz crystal and/or the membrane are modified...
- Keyword:
- surface acoustic waves, polymer brushes, membranes, adhesion, permeability, and quartz crystal microbalance
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- David Alan Brass
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on the contribution of Joseph Addison and his London newspaper The Spectator to the modern "social imaginaries" (Charles Taylor) of public, market and nation. Addison's championing of perspicacity in prose and detachment in aesthetic judgment created protocols of "stranger sociality" (Michael Warner) that made participation in these...
- Keyword:
- social imaginaries, Joseph Addison, public sphere, spectatorship, history of rhetoric, and British public address
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Jon Leon Torn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-29
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How can political challengers avoid co-optation and other forms of moderation? This dissertation illuminates how institutional participation led to the co-optation of the Indigenous Australian movement and the factors which equipped the Ecuadorian Indígena movement to elude a similar fate. Most contestants in political struggles must at some point consider...
- Keyword:
- government social control, institutional versus extrainstitutional participation, political process theory, agency-structure debate, protest, and social movement theory
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Karen Dawn Smith Stegen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation analyzes the transformation of fantasy sports from a deviant, outside-the-mainstream fan culture to a billion-dollar industry that comprises almost 20 million North American participants. Fantasy sports are games in which participants adopt the simultaneous roles of owner, general manager, and coach of their own teams of real athletes...
- Keyword:
- sports, popular culture, audience studies, and fan culture
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Ben Shields
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation constitutes a re-evaluation of the popular and critical understanding of eighteenth-century libertinage. In particular, I contest the distinction between sentimentalism and libertinage, which are typically seen as two, irreconcilable approaches to emotional expression. As sentimentalism became prominent in the second half of the eighteenth century, I argue, it...
- Keyword:
- libertinage, eighteenth-century literature, Casanova, Vivant Denon, France, and Mirabeau
- Subject:
- French and Italian
- Creator:
- Bradley Reichek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Researchers have long recognized that schools are powerful environments for shaping students' worldview and identity. The structured content, activities, and resultant culture of schools profoundly impact the way in which students learn to make sense of the world around them. In the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community this function of schooling is...
- Keyword:
- worldview, Jewish Studies, socialization, activity, and cognition
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Moshe Krakowski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This project argues that displays of humanist learning in diplomacy served to demonstrate the extraordinary good will of the Florentine regime towards a host ruler. I call this act of surpassing previous oratorical gestures a "cultural gift". Although the singular goal of humanism in diplomacy remained offering cultural gifts in...
- Keyword:
- Oratory, Gift, Florence, Diplomacy, Renaissance, and Humanism
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Brian Maxson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The use of cluster randomized experiments to study the effects of treatments on groups of subjects has increased in recent years. Many of these experiments lack the necessary statistical power to detect practically meaningful effects of treatment. One method for improving power in cluster randomized experiments that has been advanced...
- Keyword:
- intracluster correlation coefficient, external information, and cluster randomized experiments
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Christopher H Rhodes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We present several multiscale quantum mechanical (QM), molecular mechanical (MM), and continuum mechanical (CM) schemes to study the strength properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene sheets. A bridging domain method based on overlapping domain-decomposition schemes using the Lagrange multipliers field is developed to couple an atomistic domain with a...
- Keyword:
- Engineering and Mechanical
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Roopam Khare
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As manufacturing technology moves toward fundamental limits of silicon CMOS processing, it is increasingly important to utilize the full potential of available transistors and interconnects. While manufacturing technology faces fundamental limits inherent in physical laws or material properties, design and verification technology faces fundamental limitations inherent in the computational intractability...
- Keyword:
- Electronics
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Ahmed Shebaita
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation comprises three chapters, each focusing on a different question in economic theory. The first two chapters focus on repeated games and reputations, while the third is about large games. In "Cooperation and Community Responsibility", I study whether cooperation can be sustained between communities where members interact repeatedly but...
- Keyword:
- Large Games, Random Matching, Reputation, Repeated Games, and Folk Theorem
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Joyee Deb
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The small heat shock protein αB-crystallin is expressed primarily in lens and muscle tissue, but it is also found in lung, kidney and many cancers. Regulators of αB-crystallin have been identified almost exclusively using mouse muscle and lens specific models. It has been well documented that αB-crystallin is expressed in...
- Keyword:
- Molecular Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Joshua Bosman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The first chapter of this dissertation studies a continuous-time agency model where the agent controls the drift of the geometric Brownian motion firm size. The changing firm size generates partial incentives, analogous to awarding the agent equity shares according to her continuation payoff. When the agent is as patient as...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Finance
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Zhiguo He
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- One of the most commonly used techniques for classification problem is logistic regression. For example, logistic regression for a binary response assumes that the odds Pr(y = 1|x)/Pr(y = 0) = exp(a+bx). However, in reality, the pattern of the data can be so complicated that logistic regression model often fails,...
- Keyword:
- Statistics
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Yang Ge
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- N-Heterocyclic carbene catalysis has recently emerged as an important field in organic chemistry. Two new strategies have been developed to advance the use of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) as Lewis-base organic catalysts. The first approach utilizes NHCs to catalyze the generation of homoenolates and the conjugated Breslow intermediate is added to...
- Keyword:
- Organic Chemsitry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Audrey Chan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Time-resolved in situ synchrotron x-ray scattering studies of particle orientation in polymer-clay nanocomposites under simple shear and complex flow were performed. Shear flow experiments used an annular cone and plate x-ray shear cell to allow measurement of platelet orientation within the flow-gradient plane. Intercalated nanocomposites were made by dispersing organically...
- Keyword:
- Rheology, Nanocomposites, and particle orientation
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Laura Marie Dykes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chapter one investigates the impact of agents' expectations about future fundamental economic disturbances (news) on macroeconomic dynamics. Several intuitive tests provide insight into the information content of the yield curve and its' ability to identify these 'news' disturbances. Bayesian estimation of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model using conventional...
- Keyword:
- term, rates, news, structure, equilibrium, and Interest
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Joshua Mark Davis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Tonia René Holverson The HPV genome contains a bipartite promoter system that regulates the expression of early and late gene transcripts. The early proteins include the replication proteins E1 and E2, the oncoproteins E6 and E7, and the late functioning proteins E4 and E5. The late proteins include the capsid...
- Keyword:
- transcription, HPV, E6, and promoter
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Tonia Rene' Holverson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines topical humor produced by "Late Night with David Letterman," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Saturday Night Live," and The Onion for the period of one year after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Three phases emerge: the purgation of extreme emotions like anger, acceptance or...
- Keyword:
- Speech Communication
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Ann Benacka
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Presented at the University of Western Ontario's "Digital Humanities Speaker Series" on October 16, 2013. An earlier version was presented at the Illinois Institute of Technology's "Digital Humanities Speaker Series" on September 11, 2013. Many thanks to Whitney Trettien, Heather Froehlich, David Golumbia, and Robin Camille Davis for reading and...
- Keyword:
- Digital Humanities, Humanities, Pedagogy, Digital Literacy, Tools
- Subject:
- Digital Humanities
- Creator:
- Josh Honn
- Owner:
- Josh Honn
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/28/2017
- Date Modified:
- 02/28/2017
- Date Created:
- 2013-10-16
- Resource Type:
- Presentation
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- Description:
- From 2008 to 2019, a range of new interactive and immersive digital formats that present new possibilities for musical and artistic expression have become available. In order to begin the work of uncovering what new compositional and experiential possibilities are now possible, this document will examine each format’s core concepts...
- Keyword:
- Brian Eno, Music Composition, 360 Videos, Jay Z, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Björk, Generative Music, and iOS Apps
- Subject:
- Music Composition
- Creator:
- Daniel R. Dehaan
- Owner:
- Daniel Dehaan
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-05-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In 2011, after just eighteen days, from January 25 to February 11, the Egyptian public overthrew the 30-year-long dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. A decade afterward, we sought to have Egyptians reflect on the collective memory of those days. What fueled the revolution? Was it successful? Did it lose its way?...
- Keyword:
- Egyptian Revolution and Arab Spring
- Creator:
- Hazem A Albassam
- Owner:
- Hazem A Albassam
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-12-20
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Cosmetic and structural cracks are a large concern for homeowners. Although these cracks can develop from a variety of causes: differential foundation settlement, occupant activity, climatological effects, as well as dynamic events, people tend to look to dynamic events like blasting, construction, or traffic vibrations to be the culprit. This...
- Keyword:
- Crack responses , Structural integrity assessment , and Ground motions
- Creator:
- Jeffrey Meissner and Charles H. Dowding
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/05/2017
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2017
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Report
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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 file contains power-point slides of Application to Crossbow’s Smart Dust Challenge Contest, title "Wireless Data Acquisition System" by Mat Kotowsky and Hasan Ozer. The presentation was delivered at University of California, Berkeley on February 11, 2005.
- Keyword:
- Structural health monitoring
- Creator:
- Hasan Ozer and Matthew P. Kotowsky
- Owner:
- Nurganym Agzamova
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/05/2017
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2017
- Date Created:
- 2005-02-11
- Resource Type:
- Presentation
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- Description:
- High-pressure and high-temperature laboratory experiments on the physical properties of mantle minerals provide a window into the Earth’s interior chemistry and geodynamics. The measurement of material density, compressibility, and elasticity at high P-T conditions provides thermoelastic parameters necessary to model seismic velocities in the Earth’s mantle at regional and global...
- Keyword:
- Material Science
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- John Daniel Lazarz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Forecasting the outcomes of U.S. elections is a relevant and complex task that has been approached in many ways, most commonly incorporating statistics or proprietary methods that include some degree of subjectivity. Our approach differs from this convention in that we use multidisciplinary methods from applied mathematics. Specifically, we use...
- Keyword:
- forecast, US elections, mathematical model, elections, and mathematical modeling
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- William He and Christopher Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- This paper investigates the use of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) to optimize the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) biosensor for disease detection. Various experiments were done with 1-(9-mercaptononyl)-3,6,9-trioxaundecan-11-ol (TDT) and heptaoxatricosanoic acid (HSA), a new SAM; these included a solvent study to determine refractive index sensitivity and nonspecific binding and specific...
- Keyword:
- Volume 7
- Creator:
- Richard P. Van Duyne, Shenille T. Straker, and Windsor Paige Hall
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/24/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/24/2018
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Article