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- Every music theorist has their own personal reasons for engaging in the craft of theorizing about music. Many discover that there is something special about a theoretic disposition which differs from other sorts of interactions with music. It is often this special something that draws musicians into the discipline: specifically,...
- Keyword:
- Imagery, Memory, Galant Schemata, Expertise, and Music Theory
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Gates, Sarah Lindsay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_961422 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16402
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- As the technology enabling touch-sense rendering of virtual textures grows in efficacy and prevalence, so too grows the need for a standardized means of storing, transferring, and reconstituting textural signals. Furthermore, to achieve the ultra-low-latency requirements of the next generation of global communications networks, this digital texture representation must be...
- Keyword:
- Haptics, Tactile Signal Compression, Touch, Ultrasonic Friction Reduction, and Virtual Texture
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Burns, David Arthur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16413 and etdadmin_upload_962297
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- Description:
- The importance of understanding indoor microbial exposure is increasingly recognized, particularly concerning the emergence of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance. With the advancements of sequencing technologies, our capability of exploring indoor microbial communities has dramatically increased. However, huge challenges remain to translate sequence-based knowledge to actionable interpretations to support human health...
- Keyword:
- Reference deduplication, Antimicrobial resistance, Hospital environment, Built environment, Microbiome, and Infection prevention
- Subject:
- Environmental science, Microbiology, and Environmental health
- Creator:
- Shen, Jiaxian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962596 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16420
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- Description:
- The on-going demand for miniaturized optical and on-chip photonic systems of the future has led to a few potential solutions in the literature. Recent advances in van der Waals and 2-dimensional materials signal a bright future for the next generation, compact electronic and photonic devices. With reduced dimensionality and material...
- Keyword:
- Polarization, Phonons, van der Waals, Plasmons, Wave plate, and 2D materials
- Subject:
- Optics, Materials Science, and Electromagnetics
- Creator:
- Abedini Dereshgi, Sina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16396 and etdadmin_upload_958293
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- Description:
- Simple sensorimotor tasks, such as lifting a cup or balancing a tray, requires not only controlled motor output, but also the ability to accurately perceive sensory information. After a hemiparetic stroke, individuals often experience sensory deficits in addition to motor impairments. However, research on the extent of changes in sensory...
- Subject:
- Physical therapy, Robotics, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Cai, Ninghe May
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16418 and etdadmin_upload_962539
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- Voltage-gated potassium (KV) currents play a crucial role in shaping and controlling the firing patterns that serve as the fundamental basis for the differential signal processing from the ear to the auditory cortex, with distinct firing patterns observed with high- and low-frequency phenotypes. This is an interesting phenomenon, in the...
- Keyword:
- Ising model, auditory system, Tonotopy, action potential, cochlear nucleus, and Potassium channel
- Subject:
- Biophysics and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Takahashi, Momoko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16410 and etdadmin_upload_962033
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- Situated at the intersection of literary, religious, and economic studies, this dissertation examines how late medieval writers used commercial practice to invent new modes of penitential piety. Challenging scholarship that characterizes the relationship between church and commerce as exclusively antagonistic or corrosive, I argue that the convergence of these two...
- Keyword:
- economic humanities, penance, religious practice, lay piety, and commerce
- Subject:
- English literature
- Creator:
- Jiang, Nancy Haijing
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962361 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16416
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- Description:
- The speed of the storage device has long lagged behind the computation speed of processors.As a result, the I/O performance of storage systems in a supercomputer fails to keep up with its computational power. This gap continues to widen in modern supercomputers. On future exascale supercomputers, this issue can worsen...
- Keyword:
- HDF5, NetCDF, Compression, Log, HPC, and Parallel I/O
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Hou, Kaiyuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_948756 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16383
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- Description:
- Soft materials are inherently fluxional, with morphologies and behaviors that are dictated by their solvation state. Thus, many organic systems cannot be reliably imaged by static dry state or cryogenic-transmission electron microscopy (TEM). This motivated us to pursue liquid cell (LC) TEM method development to study our own materials and...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Korpanty, Joanna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16391 and etdadmin_upload_954956
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- Description:
- CD95/Fas ligand (CD95L) is a well characterized activator of extrinsic apoptosis. CD95L protein binds to its cognate receptor, CD95/Fas/APO-1, inducing apoptotic signaling in sensitive cells. However, expression of CD95L is toxic even in the absence of CD95. We previously reported that the CD95L open reading frame (ORF) is enriched for...
- Keyword:
- FasL, RNA toxicity, RNA interference, and Cell death
- Subject:
- Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Haluck-Kangas, Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16384 and etdadmin_upload_949365