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- This dissertation explores two factors that affect innovation. The first factor studied is extrinsic, namely, the legal environment. The second factor is a factor of input into innovation - culture of the inventors. The first chapter studies the impact of a weakened patent environment on research investments. Departing from the...
- Keyword:
- Research and Development, Patent, Innovation, and Culture
- Subject:
- Intellectual property and Finance
- Creator:
- Srinivasan, Sridhar
- 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:14622 and etdadmin_upload_662046
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- Description:
- Location awareness will be crucial for many future wireless network applications, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and vehicular networks. In particular, the IoT will connect a massive number of new devices to wireless networks. Localization solutions that work in urban environments and have solutions which scale well with...
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Keating, Ryan
- 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:14457 and etdadmin_upload_626706
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that the U.S.’s World War I experience helped condition Americans to relate to war primarily through cinematic recreations. The country’s geographical distance from the fighting provided Americans a degree of geopolitical spectatorship from which they could imagine their nation’s role in an ever-changing world through film. Onto...
- Keyword:
- World War I, D.W. Griffith, War Film, and Antiwar
- Subject:
- American history, American studies, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Hepworth, Mariah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_654330 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14562
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- Description:
- This thesis contains results in mathematical quantum ergodicity in a probabilistic or a complex analytic setting. For the former, we show that a random orthonormal basis of spherical harmonics is almost surely quantum ergodic, in which the randomness is induced by the generalized Wigner ensemble. For the latter, we show...
- Keyword:
- Eigenfunction, Quantum ergodicity, Microlocal analysis, and Grauert tube
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Quantum physics, and Plasma physics
- Creator:
- Chang, Hsiang
- 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:14574 and etdadmin_upload_658290
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- Description:
- In mature neurons, postsynaptic NMDARs are segregated into two populations, synaptic and extrasynaptic NMDARs, which differ in localization, function, and associated intracellular cascades. These two pools are connected via lateral diffusion, and receptor exchange between them modulates synaptic NMDAR content (NMDAR-plasticity). Here, we identify the phosphorylation of the PDZ-ligand of...
- Keyword:
- NMDAR, NMDAR-plasticity, Extrasynaptic NMDAR, GluN2B, and PP1
- Subject:
- Pharmacology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Chiu, Andrew Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_669024 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14717
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- Description:
- Students pursue educational and career future identities (e.g., graduating college, becoming an engineer, etc.) that are tied to their deepest wants, desires, and needs, yet many find it difficult to exert self-control and resist temptations while pursuing these identities (e.g., studying versus watching TV, paying attention in class versus scrolling...
- Subject:
- Educational psychology
- Creator:
- Svoboda, Ryan C
- 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:14555 and etdadmin_upload_649361
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- Description:
- Judiciary at the Crossroads argues that a professional judiciary was able to restrain power, and thus lay the foundation for an independent judiciary and possible the rule of law later. Historical evidence comes from the performance of courts in property ordering projects launched by the governments in Taiwan and Manchuria...
- Keyword:
- Law, East Asia, Courts, and Property
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Li, Teng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686268 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14833
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- Description:
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is among the most common endocrine disorders of premenopausal women, affecting 5-15% of this population depending on the diagnostic criteria applied. It is characterized by hyperandrogenism, ovulatory dysfunction and polycystic ovarian morphology. PCOS is highly heritable, but only a small proportion of this heritability can be...
- Keyword:
- complex trait genetics, rare variants, DENND1A, PCOS, and sub-phenotyping
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics, Genetics, and Endocrinology
- Creator:
- Dapas, Matthew
- 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:14662 and etdadmin_upload_662808
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- Description:
- This dissertation takes up Islam’s relationship to Black nationalism across the Atlantic diaspora of Muslims that I call “the Fugitive Islamicate.” Scholars most often have described this relationship as commencing in the twentieth century with the rise of “Black Muslim religion,” a U.S. religious movement that begins with Noble Drew...
- Keyword:
- Race, Black Muslims, America, Religion, Islam, and Africa
- Subject:
- African American studies, American history, and Islamic studies
- Creator:
- Caldwell, William
- 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:14451 and etdadmin_upload_626228
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- Description:
- This dissertation is composed of three articles that focus on the electoral support coalitions of populist parties in Latin America. Using typologies, comparative-historical analysis, and experimental methods, the articles conceptualize and explain variation across several dimensions of these coalitions: their size and scope, their level of organization, and the identities...
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Barrenechea Carpio, Rodrigo
- 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:14777 and etdadmin_upload_681023