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- This dissertation is a history of religious conservatism between 1880 and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. Its main argument is that conservative religion in America, rather than being defined by fundamentalism, theological disputes, or cultural antipathy towards pluralism, was an outgrowth of a profound faith in capitalism...
- Keyword:
- Culture Wars, Conservatism, Fundamentalism, Capitalism, and Billy Sunday
- Subject:
- History and Religious history
- Creator:
- Noddings, Timothy Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_657277 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14570
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- The analytical paradigm in philosophy has as a pillar an analysis of the sentence as a basic entity. New sentences may be built from old sentences recursively through the application of logical constants, recently including intensional operators. Models are built on how these logical constants interact with each other, and...
- Keyword:
- Conditionals, Modality, Abstract Algebra, Lambda Calculus, Generative Grammar, and Intension
- Subject:
- Logic, Linguistics, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Cook, Ezra Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_618271 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14415
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- Description:
- Soft materials such as colloids and polymers often exhibit a variety of mesoscopic structures that are governed merely by weak physical interactions. Due to these intermediate structures, they can be easily taken out of thermal equilibrium by introducing external stimuli such as a shear flow and electromagnetic fields. This thesis...
- Keyword:
- Phase transition, Nonequilibrium dynamics, Coarse-grained simulations, Self-assembly, Soft matter, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Computational physics, and Statistical physics
- Creator:
- Han, Ming
- 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:14411 and etdadmin_upload_618073
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- Description:
- While Li-ion batteries are currently the preferred energy storage technology, multivalent alternatives such as Mg should be considered. Magnesium metal has a high volumetric capacity and has been shown to cycle with no dendrite formation. However, the highly charged Mg2+ ion cannot easily diffuse into the oxide cathodes favored in...
- Keyword:
- Solid State Chemistry, Multivalent Batteries, Magnesium Cathodes, and Hydrothermal Synthesis
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Wustrow, Allison
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662066 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14625
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- This project traces the efforts by Scottish Protestants to achieve complete religious uniformity in the decades following the Reformation. Discontented with outward conformity, the via media that long characterized our understanding of religious reform in England, Scotland’s ministers sought to work genuine conversions among those who resisted the new order....
- Keyword:
- Kirk, Scotland, Catholics, Catholicism, Reformation, and Presbyterians
- Subject:
- History and European history
- Creator:
- Burns, Ryan Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_661778 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14612
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- Description:
- One of the grand challenges in science is development of soft materials that mimic living organisms to optimize the way we use energy, translate or morph reversibly or sense their envi- ronment and respond in a useful fashion. Using the insights from studying biological structures, we hope to design soft...
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Biochemistry, and Computational chemistry
- Creator:
- Iscen, Aysenur
- 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:14770 and etdadmin_upload_679718
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I study the effects of mortgage leverage policies. These policies have become widely used in recent years, both as a macroprudential tool and to protect consumers, yet their effects are still not well understood. In Chapter 1, I show that mortgage leverage rules implemented under the Dodd-Frank...
- Keyword:
- mortgages, entrepreneurship, financial regulation, and house prices
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Johnson, Stephanie Georgina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662744 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14658
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- Description:
- Deep neural networks have shown impressive performance for many applications. In this dissertation, leveraging the capabilities of neural networks for modeling the non-linearity exists in the data, we propose several models that can project data into a low dimensional, discriminative, and smooth manifold. The suggested models can transfer knowledge from...
- Keyword:
- Discriminative, Clustering, LIGO, and Dimensionality Reduction
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Bahaadini Beigy Zarandi, Sara
- 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:14850 and etdadmin_upload_686625
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies three distinct problems in econometrics. Chapter 1 proposes an adaptive randomization procedure for two-stage randomized controlled trials. The method uses data from a first-wave experiment in order to determine how to stratify in a second wave of the experiment, where the objective is to minimize the variance...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Tabord-Meehan, Max
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_655369 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14566
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- Description:
- The cerebellum is involved in sensorimotor processing and motor control in the brain. What has been found across many species for many behaviors is cerebellar Purkinje (Pkj) cells and cerebellar nuclear (CbN) cells show activity that is related to and predictive of movements. Less is known about how patterns of...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Brown, Spencer T
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_669457 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14720