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- This dissertation explores the experience of violence and precarity among Central American youth as they travel through Mexico to the United States. Based on a multi-sited ethnographic study conducted across Mexico from 2015 to 2019, I illustrate how the journey of these youth migrants is, in its basic expression, an...
- Keyword:
- Migration, Central America, Violence, Youth, Latin America, and Children
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social research, and Latin American studies
- Creator:
- Escamilla Garcia, Angel Alfonso
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15999 and etdadmin_upload_896810
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- Sentence comprehension requires both syntactic prediction and working memory processes. Evidence suggests that both are impaired in agrammatic aphasia, and can independently contribute to comprehension breakdowns, but the relationship between them, especially during real-time sentence comprehension remains unclear. Two EEG studies investigated on-line processing of sentences with non-local long-distance dependencies...
- Keyword:
- active dependency formation, working memory, syntactic prediction, Aphasia, Agrammatic comprehension, and integration deficits
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Speech therapy, and Linguistics
- Creator:
- Hsu, Chien-Ju
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15891 and etdadmin_upload_870367
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the pricing of jump risk in the cross-section, which builds on understanding the cross-sectional structure of jumps at market jump times, develops nonparametric measures of idiosyncratic jump risk, and investigates its asset pricing implications. Chapter 1 is joint work with Professor Viktor Todorov, in which we study...
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Lin, Huidi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16028 and etdadmin_upload_900076
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- Description:
- Economic activity is mostly performed by groups of agents that form organizations and collectives. In this dissertation I explore the effects of two frictions, namely conflicting preferences and contracting with externalities, on the characteristics of agents that jointly constitute a given organization or collective. First, in many professional environments workers...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- ESPITIA DE LA HOZ, Andres
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16055 and etdadmin_upload_901777
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- Androgen receptor pathway inhibitors are the mainstay treatment for advanced prostate cancer, but resistance is common. Here, we used a CRISPR activation screen to identify genes that promote enzalutamide resistance in the metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer cell line LNCaP. We found that activation of the TGF-β target gene, PRRX2, promoted...
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Rodriguez, Yara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16015 and etdadmin_upload_898469
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- This dissertation consists of three chapters on contract theory. In Chapter 1, ``Agency in Hierarchies: Middle Managers and Performance Evaluations'', I study the optimal joint design of incentives and performance rating scales in a principal-manager-worker hierarchy. The principal wants to motivate the manager and the worker to exert unobservable effort....
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Brasiliense de Castro Pires, Henrique
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16007 and etdadmin_upload_897826
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- Description:
- This thesis examines the role of the media in stock markets and the role of transparency in investment decisions. In the first two chapters, I investigate how the contrasting trends in media coverage and earnings guidance have affected stock price informativeness over the past two decades. I develop a model...
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Topbas, Yunus
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_889149 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15976
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- Description:
- Numerous insights into the sensorimotor systems that guide the control of voice have been garnered by observing how the system responds to manipulations of its auditory feedback. However, current approaches may be limited in the exploration of more complex parameters of volitional and adaptive voice control due to their limited...
- Keyword:
- Auditory Feedback, Sensorimotor Neuroscience, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, Speech Motor Control, Attention and Working Memory, and Vocal Control
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Kim, Jason H
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15952 and etdadmin_upload_882078
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- Description:
- Since its discovery in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), efforts have beenmade to measure and characterize the properties of the Higgs boson. Among these efforts have been searches for rare decays of the Higgs predicted by the standard model (SM) of particle physics. One such decay is the...
- Keyword:
- LHC, CMS, and Higgs
- Subject:
- Physics and Particle physics
- Creator:
- Bueghly, James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_901480 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16051
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- Body size is one of the most discernible ways in which animal species vary. The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), the largest animal on earth, can reach up to 30 m in length and weigh up to 200 tonnes. At the other extreme, a species of frog called Paedophryne amauensis is...
- Subject:
- Genetics and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Nyaanga, Joy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16113 and etdadmin_upload_904655