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- The building blocks of life are proteins. These incredible nanostructures are responsible for forming the diverse infrastructure of living systems and for performing countless biological functions. In Nature, these materials and systems achieve structural complexity and function through highly regulated and controlled assembly of protein building blocks, driven by specific...
- Keyword:
- Hierarchical, Supramolecular , Proteins, and Self-assembly
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hayes, Oliver George
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_835884 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15660
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- Description:
- Processing of sensory information in the brain is a pervasive and fundamental phenomenon across animal species and is involved in both "hard-wired" innate responses as well as learned and adaptive behaviors. Here, I show that the avoidance of hot temperature, a simple innate behavior, contains unexpected plasticity and complex processing...
- Keyword:
- systems neuroscience, sensory navigation, modeling, drosophila, thermosensation, and neural circuits
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics, Biology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Levy, Joshua
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_836701 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15663
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- Description:
- The focus on this thesis is on the dynamics of colloidal particles in an applied electric field in a uniform bulk fluid and on a fluid-fluid interface. In a bulk fluid, the dynamics of an isolated particle, one pair, and a cluster of particles under an applied nonuniform electric field...
- Keyword:
- collective motion, colloidal particle, and electrorotation
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics and Fluid mechanics
- Creator:
- Hu, Yi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_839430 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15683
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on applications of statistical methods in nancial markets and isdivided into three parts. The rst part proposes an accurate variable-order cumulant approximation method for Black-style shadow interest rate models respecting the zero lower bound and estimates the interest rates models on historical bond yield data using the...
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Zhao, Muchen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845207 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15757
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- Inter-organelle contact sites have become increasingly appreciated as important regulators of cellular homeostasis, and disruption of inter-organelle contact site dynamics and function has been observed in various pathologies. Recently, inter-organelle contact sites between mitochondria and lysosomes were discovered, offering a new mechanism by which these two organelles may directly interact,...
- Keyword:
- Imaging, Contact Sites, Lysosome, Mitochondria, Neurological Disease, and Calcium
- Subject:
- Biology, Medicine, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Peng, Wesley J
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15610 and etdadmin_upload_827420
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- Description:
- With neurons as its primary computational components, the brain operates at multiple timescales. In this thesis, we focus on two timescales: on a relatively slow timescale on the order of hours to days, the brain adapts to the environment it is exposed to and learns its circuitry by altering the...
- Keyword:
- Neuronal heterogeneity, Synchronization, Computational neuroscience, Binocular matching, Primary visual cortex , and Gamma rhythm
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Xu, Xize
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845291 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15765
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- Description:
- This research looks at the robotic shape formation problem, which is one of the fundamental problems in robotic swarm systems. Here, the task is to move a group of robots to form a user-specified shape. In this dissertation, the task of shape formation is divided to four problems: (i) using...
- Keyword:
- algorithms, swarm systems, scheduling and planning, sensor networks, and distributed systems
- Subject:
- Robotics, Computer engineering, and Computer science
- Creator:
- wang, hanlin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15732 and etdadmin_upload_844241
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- Description:
- Broadly speaking, this dissertation project seeks to address the following question: how do religious people think about the cultural authority of science, and to what extent does this vary across different contexts? Despite the predictions of classical modernization theorists, religious institutions continue to significantly shape public discourse—and rule-making—in the vast...
- Keyword:
- Religious Identity, Science and Technology, Public Opinion, and Comparative Sociology
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Lee, John J.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_835528 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15659
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- Description:
- This critical/theoretical history of performance art investigates the relationship between the body of the artist and the infrastructure of the city in Los Angeles and New York City between 1970 and 1985, with specific attention to how performance art resists, renegotiates, and responds to architectural functionalism. Using performance studies as...
- Keyword:
- Los Angeles, Movement, New York City, Built environment, Performance Art, and Kinesthetic
- Subject:
- Performing arts, Art history, and Architecture
- Creator:
- Morelli, Didier
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15698 and etdadmin_upload_841523
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores lasting familial relationships and friendships among southern African Americans from the antebellum years to the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on southern Maryland, the dissertation shows how free and enslaved African Americans cultivated familial and non-familial relationships in towns and rural neighborhoods. Over the course of...
- Keyword:
- Black Studies and African American Studies
- Subject:
- History, American history, and Black history
- Creator:
- Rosado, Ana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15697 and etdadmin_upload_841483