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- The fact that informational asymmetries impose a significant barrier in path of smooth functioning of markets has been well known in Economics since the 1970s. Communication and information exchange allow to mitigate these barriers to a certain extent. The existing Economic literature allows to get a good grasp of static...
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Starkov, Egor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662831 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14665
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- Nature and Civilization is a focused interpretation of Kant’s politics insofar as it bears on the distinction between nature and civilization. It seeks to answer the question, How is Kant’s distinction between nature and civilization informing his global political thought? Kant thinks that in moving from the state of nature...
- Keyword:
- History of Race, Colonialism, Kant, Rousseau, Habermas, and Indigenous Political Theory
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Kellner, Alan Joseph
- 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:14763 and etdadmin_upload_678767
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- This dissertation examines the legal, economic, and social transformations experienced by American widowed women from the Salem Witchcraft Trials to the Civil War to expand how scholars of literature, the law, and American history define women’s citizenship prior to suffrage. Emphasizing literature’s importance to nineteenth-century nation-building during the era of...
- Keyword:
- nineteenth-century, American literature, coverture, and widow
- Subject:
- American literature, Women's studies, and American studies
- Creator:
- Fritz, Meaghan M.
- 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:14391 and etdadmin_upload_614228
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- 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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- Use of bio-renewable polysaccharides to produce materials with a high technological impact has gained a lot of attention recently. Efforts have been made, for example to produce triboelectric generators from cotton, as well as, nanostructures of chitosan gels for drug delivery. Another well-known example is the use of β-Cyclodextrin (β...
- Keyword:
- contaminant, water, air, polysaccharide, cellulose, and cyclodextrin
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Alzate-Sanchez, Diego Mauricio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_673215 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14731
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- Description:
- T cells and cancer cells have many common features, including their need to proliferate and their metabolic requirements. In particular, glucose metabolism is highly upregulated in both cancer cells and T cells to support proliferation and other cellular functions. The first step of glycolysis is catalyzed by Hexokinase, which exists...
- Keyword:
- Hexokinase 2 and T Cell
- Subject:
- Cellular biology and Immunology
- Creator:
- Mehta, Manan M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_616623 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14398
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- Description:
- Deformation in materials with a hierarchical microstructure is expected to be complex because of the interaction between the units that form such a microstructure. The complexity of deformation would be even higher when additional inelastic deformation modes are active in such materials, apart from traditional elastic and plastic deformation modes....
- Keyword:
- Inelastic Mechanisms, Shape Memory Alloys, Multiscale, Smart Materials, Deformation Behvior, and Modeling
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Materials Science, and Engineering
- Creator:
- Paul, Partha P
- 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:14333 and etdadmin_upload_609177
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents a comprehensive study of thin-film LiMn2O4 (LMO) cathodes applied in lithium ion batteries (LIBs). The primary aim was to establish fundamental understanding of the relationship between interfacial LMO chemistry/electrochemistry and its detrimental drawback, i.e. fast capacity fade over long term cycling, and then develop effective mitigation methods....
- Keyword:
- Surface coating, Thin film, Lithium ion battery, LiMn2O4, Interfacial electrochemistry, and Capacity loss
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Materials Science, and Energy
- Creator:
- Yu, Xiankai
- 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:14706 and etdadmin_upload_667791
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- Description:
- The goal of this thesis is to design practical algorithms for nonlinear optimization in the case where the objective function is deterministic or stochastic. Problems of this nature arise in many applications including machine learning and image processing. The thesis is divided into four main chapters. Chapters \ref{chap:Inexact}, \ref{chap:Adasample} and...
- Subject:
- Industrial engineering and Operations research
- Creator:
- Bollapragada, Vijaya Raghavendra
- 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:14659 and etdadmin_upload_662754
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- Description:
- For much of the twentieth-century, English-language music scholars were reticent to speculate about the origins of music. In recent years, however, the study of music’s evolutionary origins has been revitalized. Resonating Subjects brings a critical-historical perspective to this renewed convergence of music studies and evolutionary science. Through close examinations of...
- Keyword:
- Edmund Gurney, Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, evolutionary musicology, Victorian music culture, and emotion
- Subject:
- Music theory and Music history
- Creator:
- Piilonen, Miriam
- 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:14771 and etdadmin_upload_679879