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- In polymer nanocomposites (PNCs), the physical and chemical interactions at the polymer matrix-filler interface lead to local variations in polymer properties, creating a substantial interphaseregion in the vicinity of the interface. Quantifying the significance of the interphase effect in the presence of substrates or nanoparticles is of essential importance in...
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- Interphase, Polymer nanocomposites, Finite element analysis, Atomic Force Microscopy, and Confinement effects
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- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Min Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- The overall goal of my thesis is to enhance our quantitative understanding of the biophysical properties of DNA a long polynucleotide chain, present in every living cell, that embodies the genetic information. The existence of DNA has been known to us for over a century, however, our understanding of its...
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- Biophysics
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- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Sumitabha Brahmachari
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Graphene oxide (GO), a product of oxidative exfoliation of graphite powders, has received significant attention due to its excellent solution dispersibility, rich functionality, and ease of conversion to chemically modified graphene (also known as œreduced graphene oxide or œr-GO). These properties make GO an attractive building block for constructing various...
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- Nanotechnology, Two-dimensional materials, Carbon materials, Graphene, and Graphene oxide
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Che-Ning Yeh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Type IIb supernovae (SNe) are important candidates to understand mechanisms that drive the stripping of stripped-envelope (SE) supernova (SN) progenitors. ', 'While binary interactions and their high incidence are generally cited to favor them as Type IIb SN progenitors, this idea has not been tested using models covering a broad...
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- Astrophysics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Niharika Sravan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation focuses on Chinese contemporary artists conceptualization of spectatorship in the 2000s, the decade when the state started to regulate art production within the parameters of cultural industry. I argue that these artistsCai Guoqiang (b. 1957), Xu Bing (b. 1955), and Yang Shaobin (b. 1962)adopted the visual language and...
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- Art history
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Xinran Guo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Land and Water: Performing Ecologies of Statelessness in the Aftermath of the Vietnam/American War focuses on land and water as epistemological and ontological grammars to examine cultural productions of Vietnamese refugee narratives. Specifically, I analyze how Vietnamese/American oral history narrators, filmmakers, visual artists, and performance artists narrate refugee subjectivity in...
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- performance studies, oral history, political ecology, performance art, transnational feminist studies, and critical refugee studies
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Patricia T Nguyen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation analyzes the early excavation, classification, and publication of Cypriot sculpture and its collection and display in European universal museums. The author argues that the events and intellectual climate of the nineteenth century profoundly and lastingly shaped the perception of the ancient Cypriot tradition, determining the island conventional place...
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- Cyprus, Museum, Ancient, Sculpture, Cypriot, and Nineteenth Century
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Catherine Victoria Olien
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- ABSTRACT', 'Reinventing Television and Family Life, 1960-1990', 'Hannah Spaulding', 'In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the field of television changed. A series of new electronic devices that interfaced directly with TV technology video cameras, home recorders, cable boxes, video calling systemswere introduced to the American public. These devices promised to...
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- Domesticity, History, Video, Television, Technology, and Gender
- Subject:
- Screen Cultures
- Creator:
- Hannah Alice Spaulding
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Many democratic theorists suggest that harmonious relationship between groups are critical for democracy; however, far less is known about how everyday experiences promote or impede such intergroup harmony. In this dissertation, I explore a common, but overlooked, form of intergroup contact casual, brief experiences with outgroup strangers. I propose a...
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- political psychology, race and ethnic politics, experiments, and intergroup contact
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Ethan C Busby
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In the past decade, scholars, the news media, and the public have turned increased attention to the activity of atheists in the West. Atheism serves as a source of identity and community in todays society, signaling more than a simple lack of belief in god(s). This dissertation is a cultural...
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- cultural studies, atheism, religion and atheism, theory of religion, media studies, and American atheism
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Hannah Scheidt Tebbetts
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- It is pertinent now more than ever that we find sustainable alternatives to produce chemicals. For decades, scientists and engineers have turned to biological systems to help meet societal needs in energy, medicine, materials, and moreespecially when chemical synthesis is untenable. Often, biologically-produced small molecules are insufficient for production at...
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- metabolic engineering, biotechnology, cell-free systems, biosynthetic pathway, synthetic biology, and enzymatic reactions
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Ashty Karim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Holy Mediocrity: Saintly Matrons and the Dominicans in Late Medieval Italy', 'Julia Lauren Miglets', 'The task of this study is to explain why a cluster of female saints who were noted not for their miracles but for the moderate even boring quality of their sanctity, a paradigm I call holy...
- Keyword:
- marriage, Italy, Villana delle Botti, tertiaries, women, and medieval
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Julia Lauren Miglets
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Many key crises of international security are tied to the spread of nuclear weapons and technology, but what makes a state nuclear remains subject to controversy. The possession of nuclear technology does not always grant legal and political nuclear status”a phenomenon evident not only in the recent debate over Irans...
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- Nuclear Weapons and Diplomacy
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Sidra Hamidi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation examines the origins and social impact of New York stop-and-frisk law, which authorizes police to stop, question and frisk people without a warrant or probable cause to believe crime was committed. Several observers associate it with a recent history of racial profiling, or conservative policing practices of 1990s...
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- Race, Black struggles, Prison, Police, Crime, and Civil Rights
- Subject:
- African-American Studies
- Creator:
- DWAYNE Adula NASH
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- My dissertation draws on Heideggers interpretation of Kant to argue that Kant overestimates the role that causality plays in structuring our experience. Heidegger suggests that Kants analysis of experience mistakenly universalizes a fraction of our experience: the experience of material things. I defend the merits of this suggestion by offering...
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- Causality, Phenomenology, Heidegger, Imagination, Transcendental Philosophy, and Kant
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Morganna Lambeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Scholars frequently use the term œhymn-like to describe passages of instrumental music but the precise meaning of the term remains elusive. This dissertation examines, through the lens of topic theory, the characteristics, origins, and communicative potential of such passages in the music of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. I define...
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- music analysis, musical meaning, spirituality, aesthetics, topic theory, and eigtheenth-century music
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Olga Sanchez-Kisielewska
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Raising California Together, an ethnography of licensed family childcare homes, contributes significant theoretical and empirical knowledge to our understanding of workfare, immigration and education institutions that shape the lives of the youngest subject-citizens and of those who care for them. I draw from more than three years of participant observation...
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- Labor, Childhood, Immigration, Race & Gender, North America, and Feminism
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Dario Valles
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The mammalian retina harbors more than 30 output channels, each playing a distinct role in processing visual images. A comprehensive understanding of the retinal code primarily relies on the functional knowledge of individual output neurons or retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Despite recent technical advances in imaging and genetics, the function...
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- Electrophysiology, Retinal Ganglion Cells, and Retina
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Amurta Nath
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- œRuling Sexuality: Law, Expertise, and the Making of Sexual Knowledge, brings together approaches from the sociologies of science, law, and sexualities to examine how the institutions of law and science jointly render sexual subjects legible to state institutions by measuring and categorizing sexualities. Through the comparative study of asylum claims...
- Keyword:
- science, classification, knowledge, law, and sexuality
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Stefan Vogler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- We compare two different methods to compute the mod 2 homology of an infinite loop space. One method is to approximate the infinite loop functor using functor calculus. The other is to approximate the spectrum using an Adams resolution. We show that these two ways lead to isomorphic spectral sequences....
- Keyword:
- spectral sequences, Goodwillie calculus, Adams resolution, and power operations
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Johan W T Konter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Students often change majors during college, and most workers change jobs throughout their careers. Yet the diverse opportunities for entering natural science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are often overlooked during college and beyond. This dissertation therefore analyzed four large nationally representative datasets to characterize the pathways for joining...
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- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- David Isaac Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Through an engagement with the work of American postmodern choreographers Anna Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, and Laura Dean, I expose choreographic legacy as an ongoing process of continually rewriting dance history. Halprin, Rainer, and Dean’s models for choreographic transmission draw from the legacy methods of repertoire, reconstruction, and reperformance, while simultaneously...
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- Postmodernism, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Elliot Gordon Mercer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Convent education was financially accessible to many girls whose families could not afford a private tutor and nuns were the largest group of educated, culturally-active women in pre-modern Europe. Convent education mirrored the general contours of humanist education by associating learning with morality, serving the purposes of the Venetian republic,...
- Keyword:
- nuns, feminism, Italy, women's education, convents, and early modern Venice
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Charlotte Cover Moy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Supported metal oxides are an important class of heterogeneous catalysts active for many selective oxidation reactions including alkane oxidative dehydrogenation. Attempts to develop fundamental structure-function relationships for supported metal oxide catalysts for alkane oxidative dehydrogenation have been challenging, with many conflicting reports in literature. This has been in part due...
- Keyword:
- Copper, Supported Catalyst, Kinetics, Oxidative Dehydrogenation, Spectroscopy, and Heterogeneous Catalysis
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Scott Nauert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Journalism professionals and researchers have recently argued that newsrooms adopt audience engagement as one of their chief pursuits. This term has many interpretations that stem from one underlying belief: journalists better serve their audiences when they explicitly focus on how their audiences interact with and respond to the news in...
- Keyword:
- journalism, news production, news audiences, ethnography, and audience engagement
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Jacob Lewis Nelson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- I study three topics in applied microeconomics. My first chapter concerns the effect of daily school start times on academic achievement in Florida. Exploiting the sharp discontinuity in school start time relative to sunrise, I track children who move between schools on either side of the time zone boundary in...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sam Norris
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are a group of cosmopolitan symbiotic soil fungi that colonize the fine roots of tree species and play an essential role in plant nutrition and ecosystem function. In worldwide afforestation projects, the establishment of introduced trees in novel habitats has been shown to require ECM fungal associations....
- Keyword:
- pinus, ectomycorrhiza, fungal community, forest soil, exotic tree, and enzyme
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Chen Ning
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Nano-scale materials possess many unique physical and chemical properties which are not found in bulk materials. The ability to synthesize these materials by design is one of the greatest challenges in materials science. Advances towards meeting this challenge will lead to discoveries in fields such as plasmonics, photonics, catalysis, and...
- Keyword:
- self-assembly, nanoparticle, DNA, Molecular Dynamics, and Monte Carlo
- Creator:
- Saijie Pan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Ubiquitous in the environment are bacteria that have evolved to adapt to the environmental niches they colonize. To this end, bacteria sensory and signaling molecules are required for processing these extracellular changes within their environment into changes in gene expression. The plague-causing pathogen, Yersinia pestis, contains a repertoire of two-component...
- Keyword:
- Crp, Glucose, Plague, Yersinia, Pla, and Pestis
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Jeremy Todd Henry Ritzert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Let X,Y be algebraic varieties defined over the reals. Assume Y is smooth and X is Gorenstein. Suppose f:X -> Y is a flat R-morphism such that all the fibers have rational singularities. We show that the pushforward of any smooth, compactly supported measure on X has a continuous density...
- Keyword:
- Measures and Rational singularities
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Andrew Reiser
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Over the past decade significant advancements have been made across the field of cancer biology resulting in transformative new therapies. Despite these advancements, treatments for metastatic cancer remain relatively ineffective. Metastasis is coordinated by various types of “healthy†stromal cells in addition to the tumor cells themselves. This requires a...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, High-Density Lipoprotein, Cancer Immunology, Pre-Metastatic Niche, Exosomes, and Tumor Microenvironment
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Michael P Plebanek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- In this dissertation, I argue that the locus of Tsvetaevaseemingly conflicted views about art and the criteria for its evaluation is the tension between the rational, ethical, and distinctively human in us, and the irrational spontaneous impulse. Tsvetaevaterm for the irrational impulse is stikhiia, a force of nature that is...
- Keyword:
- Russian Literature, 20th Century Russian Poetry, and Marina Tsvetaeva
- Subject:
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Creator:
- Max Rosochinsky
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The work of this dissertation seeks to enhance the understanding of DNA-driven nanoparticle assembly and introduce kinetic routes to control mesoscale crystal habit and size. Chapter 1 describes the state of the art in the field of nanoparticle assembly and, specifically, DNA- mediated nanoparticle assembly, where the concept of a...
- Keyword:
- Single Crystal, Nanoparticle, Nucleation and Growth, Crystallization, , DNA, and Self-Assembly
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- So Young Eileen Seo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This thesis studies the in-hand manipulation problem of repositioning finger contacts on an object by controlled sliding. In this thesis we investigate two versions of the problem. First for a multifingered hand with circle patch contacts, we present a framework for planning the motion of the hand to create an...
- Keyword:
- Robotics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jian Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation endogenizes information acquisition in two-player games across three different settings. The first chapter explores when moral hazard in a principal-agent contract can lead to pareto improvements when it is preceeded by information gathering. The second chapter studies how product differentiation affects the amount of market research done by...
- Keyword:
- Persuasion, Game Theory, Information Economics, Contracts, Microeconomics, and Moral Hazard
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Colin Shopp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Individual plasmonic nanoparticles have the potential to revolutionize all areas of energy science, catalysis, organic electronics, and solar technology. Owing to their light trapping and focusing ability, single nanoparticles can be utilized to efficiently drive chemical reactions at the sub-nanometer scale. Much of the fundamental science regarding how plasmons can...
- Keyword:
- Single nanoparticle, Plasmonics, Electron transfer, Hot electron chemistry, and SERS
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Emily Sprague-Klein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Memory systems research has established the importance of two distinct types of memory systems in the brain: explicit and implicit. While a robust literature exists on individual differences in the explicit domain (Chapter 3), research on individual differences in implicit learning remains relatively limited. The key question guiding the investigation...
- Keyword:
- Implicit Learning, Sequence Learning, and Individual Differences
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Kelsey Rachel Thompson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Erythropoietin-producing human hepatocellular (Eph) receptors and their corresponding ephrin ligands are asymmetrically expressed at cell-cell contacts allowing for bidirectional signaling with forward signaling through the receptor expressing cell and reverse signaling through the ligand expressing cell. Eph receptors are the largest family of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) in mammals, which...
- Keyword:
- Keratinocyte, Migration, Lipid raft, Eph receptor, Ephrin, and Transmembrane domain
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Rosa Ventrella
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation is an ethnography that investigates how Chicago-based artists and organizations use hip-hop performance as a tool for grassroots education and communal dissent. By exploring these local artistic approaches, this research reveals the salience of hip-hop performance in cultivating social movements, embodied politics, and choreographic repertoires that respond to...
- Keyword:
- social justice, hip-hop pedagogy, cultural studies, sound studies, juvenile justice, and urban ethnography
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Justin Zullo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- How do weak states build and maintain strong militaries that do not pose a threat? A government that presides over an institutionally weak state might reasonably fear that an effective army would be tempted to engage in coup d’état. Yet several countries in Africa with low overall institutional capacity sustain...
- Keyword:
- State-Building, Weak States, Civil Military Relations, Civil Wars, Military Effectiveness, and Coups
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Jahara Matisek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/26/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy (XFM) is a useful technique for study of biological samples. XFM was used to map and quantify endogenous biological elements as well as exogenous materials in biological samples, such as the distribution of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles. TiO2 nanoparticles are produced for many different purposes, including development...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Xray Fluorescence Microscopy, Radiation Oncology, and Cancer Nanotechnology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Koshonna Brown
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 12/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This project examines the uneven adoption of therapeutic initiatives within the organizational field of American museums to ask: How do people frame museum-going as “good” for visitors’ health? Existing research on legitimation processes would predict cultural institutions respond similarly to pressures for greater accountability from their external environments, or resist...
- Keyword:
- disability, senses, therapy, accessibility, art museums, and botanical gardens
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Gemma Mangione
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 12/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In 2008, the term "remix culture" is widely understood to refer to mash-up videos and movie parodies, distributed on websites such as YouTube and authored primarily by white male teenagers. This dissertation argues that digital remix was invented primarily by African American men, who, in the mid-1980s, began using digital...
- Keyword:
- remix, censorship, fan fiction, digital sampling, digital culture, and digital history
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Abigail Derecho
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/07/2020
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-18
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Since their introduction nearly a century ago, protein vaccines and therapeutics have revolutionized our ability to prevent and treat human disease. However, existing production processes for biopharmaceuticals are technically complex and rely on living cells, which necessitates highly centralized manufacturing in large-scale production facilities, specialized equipment, and cold-chain distribution. With...
- Keyword:
- glycoprotein therapeutics, cell-free protein synthesis, decentralized biomanufacturing, synthetic biology, STEM education, and conjugate vaccines
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Stark, Jessica C
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Modified:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686044 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14826
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- Description:
- Early Modern Matters of Life and Death” argues that the political ecology of living, dead, and (in)animate beings in early modernity elucidates the claims of humanism and human exceptionalism that evolved in the period and that still inform present-day anthropogenesis
- Keyword:
- Anthropogenesis, Sovereignty, Life, Shakespeare, Renaissance, and Death
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Aaron Lee Greenberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2020
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores performance as a mechanism of racialization and politicization of Native Americans in the United States. I analyze performances of Indians on theatrical stages to define how an embodied repertoire of visual, aural, and kinetic markers, what I call the Stage Indian, became codified and circulated within popular...
- Keyword:
- Law, Indian, Native American, Representation, and Performance
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Bethany Hughes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/15/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation aims to redefine the concept of pain as it appears in literary studies and demonstrate how the new definition garners insight into the interwovenness of literature and physiology in the mid-eighteenth century. It challenges the claim that pain is opposed to language by adopting a new materialist concept...
- Keyword:
- Nature and Culture, Language and the Body, Nerves as Medium, Derrida, Sensibility and Irritability, and New Materialism
- Subject:
- German literature, Science history, and Aesthetics
- Creator:
- Berjan, Sandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/28/2020
- Date Modified:
- 04/28/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14951 and etdadmin_upload_708357
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- Description:
- This paper examines the vocal works of Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in an effort to establish that, despite their technical difficulty and apparent complexity, these pieces are actually rooted in the Danish New Simplicity (Ny Enkelhed) aesthetic. It also provides biographical, historical, and cultural context for those who are interested in performing...
- Keyword:
- music, new simplicity, denmark, gudmundsen, choral, danish, pelle , and holmgreen
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- A.J. Keller
- Owner:
- Andrew Jason Keller
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/19/2020
- Date Modified:
- 05/19/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-05-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Lubrication is the most means for sliding interface failure prevention because it helps separate two interacting surfaces, reduce asperity contacts and thus extend the working life of the parts. Improving the tribological performance of lubricated interfaces is a challenging work, as several influence factors are involved, such as coating, plasticity,...
- Keyword:
- Rotary engine, Elastohydrodynamic lubrication, Roller contact, Apex seal, and Tribology
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Liu, Zhong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_684009 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14792
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the behavior of bare singular noun phrases, a set of English nominals showing no formal indication of either definiteness or mass/ count status. Although they appear to be count nouns, I show that these nominals represent maximal projections.
- Keyword:
- semantics, noun phrases, activity implicature, familiarity implicature, and maximal projections
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Laurel Smith Stvan
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/12/2020
- Date Modified:
- 06/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 1998
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation