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- “Embodying Race, Performing Citizenship” investigates racial and ethnic impersonationsin American popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, between the 1870s and the 1920s. I focus my analyses on first-generation Irish, Chinese, and Jewish Eastern European artists and their American-born children during a time when the United States had absorbed the highest number of...
- Keyword:
- Jewish American, Chinese American, Irish American , Racial impersonation, Immigration history , and American popular entertainment
- Subject:
- Performing arts, Theater history, and American studies
- Creator:
- De Simone, Maria
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844553 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15740
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- Description:
- Optical microscopy is one of the most ubiquitous tools for functional imaging of biological phenomena. While relatively non-destructive to living organisms, light microscopy’s spatial resolution is diffraction limited, restricting the minimum resolvable features. On the other hand, high resolution techniques such as electron microscopy or STORM, have several orders of...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Eid, Aya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15612 and etdadmin_upload_827891
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- Description:
- Neutron star mergers instigate a wealth of observable astrophysical signals, offering key insights into interdisciplinary questions in stellar astronomy, nuclear physics, cosmology, and atomic physics. The coalescence of neutron stars and/or black holes produces gravitational wave emission, only recently accessible to ground-based laser-interferometric detectors. Additionally, these mergers can incite emission...
- Keyword:
- Astrophysics, Kilonova, Gravitational waves, Neutron stars, and Compact objects
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Creator:
- Chase, Eve Adde
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_833365 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15648
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- Description:
- From its inception in the early 1900s, vocational education in American high schools was designed to prepare students for jobs that did not require any formal postsecondary education. In the last decades of the 20th century, growing concern about how separating students into “college” and “non-college” tracks often perpetuated racial...
- Keyword:
- Career and Technical Education
- Subject:
- Educational sociology, Vocational education, and Secondary education
- Creator:
- Meissner, Lynn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15761 and etdadmin_upload_845255
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- This dissertation explores the development of public access cable television programming made by and for LGBTQ people in New York City. Through archival research, interviews with the producers of these shows, and analysis of their content and textual features, I argue that LGBTQ public access programming reflected and amplified particular...
- Keyword:
- Affect theory, LGBTQ , Media studies, Television history, and Public access cable television
- Subject:
- History, Sexuality, and Communication
- Creator:
- Herold, Lauren
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15647 and etdadmin_upload_833354
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- Description:
- I examine economic design issues in the realm of dynamic organ allocation for transplantation and behavioral market design/contract theory. The second and third chapters focus on two issues in the design of the U.S. deceased-donor organ allocation system, which represents the majority of transplants performed in the U.S. In contrast...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Munoz-Rodriguez, Edwin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_841815 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15703
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- Description:
- Designing intelligent systems that can answer questions has been an ongoing and active challenge for the artificial intelligence community. In the past, researchers were focused on producing specialized language systems for particular domains and datasets. Such approaches would require deeper-than-ideal amounts of expertise to design, and often necessitated the expensive...
- Keyword:
- Semantic Parsing, Explainability, Analogy, and Question-answering
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence
- Creator:
- Crouse, Maxwell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15615 and etdadmin_upload_828469
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- Description:
- Over the last few years, there has been a transition away from traditional engineering materials to new advanced materials that exhibit complex architectures with improved mechanical properties. Most of the inspiration for these new materials comes from nature, where organisms have evolved an immense variety of macro and nanoscale shapes...
- Keyword:
- Catch bond, Biomimicry, Self-strengthening , Non-bonded interactions, Biomimetic systems, and Synthetic
- Subject:
- Molecular physics, Materials Science, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Dansuk, Kerim Can
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_843657 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15721
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- Description:
- Proteins and many other systems are often conceptualized as networks to access analysis methods from the field of network science. Several approaches use molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins to construct networks using correlational statistics. However, in the field of network science, a well-established approach for network construction is solving...
- Keyword:
- Network inference, Siglec-8, FimH, Molecular dynamics simulations, and Protein dynamics
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Liu, Jenny Yongjia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15693 and etdadmin_upload_841212
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- Description:
- Human language processing is incremental. In this dissertation, I explore how an incremental perspective can help us clarify our understanding of transformational syntax, which typically proceeds bottom-up. As part of our exploration, I develop an incremental head-driven parsing algorithm for Minimalist Grammars. The two main innovations of this parsing algorithm...
- Keyword:
- semantics, minimalist grammars, incremental, parsing, movement chains, and syntax
- Subject:
- Logic, Linguistics, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Baumann, Peter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_843180 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15711