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- In this dissertation, I explore how quasi experiments can be used to estimate the causal impact of financial variables on agents’ behavior. Specifically, I analyze three different events that allow me to shed light on the role that financial markets play in decisions made by households, firms, and the government,...
- Keyword:
- mortgage, oil, financial constraints, household consumption, trade war, and macroeconomics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Kalisiak, Krzysztof Piotr
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14535 and etdadmin_upload_640164
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- Hybrid Organic-inorganic halide perovskites are emerging semiconducting materials that have shown over 23% in power conversion efficiency (PCE) for solar cells. The most prominent materials, three-dimensional (3D) perovskites, have limited scope for structural engineering and exhibit instability when encounter with moisture and heat. Here, we focus on studying the structure-property...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic, Optoelectronics, and Hybrid Perovskite
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Mao, Lingling
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_625542 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14439
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- Description:
- Birds such as the barn owl and zebra finch are known for their remarkable hearing abilities that are critical for survival, communication and vocal learning functions. A key to achieving these hearing abilities is the speed and precision required for the temporal coding of sound; a process heavily dependent on...
- Keyword:
- Development, Tonotopy, Voltage dependent sodium channel, Auditory system, Voltage dependent potassium channel, and Nucleus magnocellularis
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Hong, Hui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14516 and etdadmin_upload_638995
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- This dissertation, titled “The Rocket’s Red Glare: Global Power and the Rise of American State Technology, 1940-1960,” makes three distinct but interlocking historical interventions. First, it argues that the rise of technology as a central ideological component of global hegemony represents a historical contingency, rather than a reflexive characteristic of...
- Keyword:
- Anglo-American, Global power, Foreign relations, Hegemony, Statebuilding, and Technology
- Subject:
- History, Science history, and International relations
- Creator:
- Falcone, Michael Alan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14657 and etdadmin_upload_662729
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- The presented thesis introduces our work of extending high-resolution x-ray 3D imaging towards extended samples. With the advent of x-ray sources with higher brightness and better coherence, as well as the rise of the needs to examine the fine structures of large objects in the field of materials science, biology,...
- Keyword:
- Optics, 3D imaging, Tomography, X-ray imaging, and High-resolution
- Subject:
- Optics, Physics, and Medical imaging
- Creator:
- Du, Ming
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_658737 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14577
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- Description:
- The surge in smart phones, connected vehicles, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) has exponentially increased mobile data usage. While adding new spectrum is the most straightforward way to to meet the skyrocketing demands, the scarcity of spectrum resources and high cost for clearing spectrum make it the most expensive way. This has...
- Keyword:
- Price competition, C-V2X, Quantity competition, Unlicensed spectrum, MAC protocol, and DSRC
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Wang, Xu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686531 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14846
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Embedding a Randomized Experiment Within a Regression Discontinuity Design: A Meta-Analytic Approach
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- Randomization is considered the gold standard when it comes to evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, primarily due to its ability to avoid bias. However, in recent years, randomization has been heavily criticized in circumstances where subject randomization may not be ethical. In a randomized controlled trial, patients who are extremely...
- Keyword:
- Meta-Analysis, Regression Discontinuity Design, and Randomized Experiment
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Hong, Mindy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686415 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14841
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- Description:
- Liquid helium-3 is a remarkable substance. Even prior to the discovery of superfluidity in 1972, liquid helium-3 was the paradigm of a strongly interacting Fermi liquid. At even lower temperatures, liquid helium-3 undergoes a phase transition to a p-wave Fermi superfluid. Over 40 years since its discovery, superfluid helium-3 is...
- Subject:
- Condensed matter physics, Computational physics, and Statistical physics
- Creator:
- Wiman, Joshua John
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14399 and etdadmin_upload_616638
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- Description:
- Many transcription factors (TFs) regulate oncogenic processes and are therefore desirable targets for drug intervention. However, few TF inhibitors have been developed to date due to a lack of specificity and few TF binding pockets. The Meade Lab has overcome these challenges by using cobalt-based complexes that disrupt Cys2His2 zinc...
- Keyword:
- cellular delivery, zinc finger, hedgehog pathway, coordination complex, cobalt complex, and transcription factor
- Subject:
- Nanoscience, Molecular biology, and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Bajema, Elizabeth Amber
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14453 and etdadmin_upload_626420
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- Description:
- A replication crisis has enveloped several scientific fields since the early 2000s (see Baker, 2016). This has given rise to improved research and reporting practices (e.g., F. S. Collins & Tabak, 2014), as well as a cottage industry of research into issues of replication and reproducibility (e.g., R. A. Klein...
- Keyword:
- Replication, Statistics, Experimental Design, Heterogeneity, and Meta-analysis
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Schauer, Jacob
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14385 and etdadmin_upload_613798