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- Characterization is the musical creation of fictional characters, and it is particularly important for creating multi-dimensional, nuanced characters in opera. However, how do composers characterize roles if the opera does not feature a traditionally linear plot or story? Does opera need a narrative to create characterization? Some may view narrative...
- Keyword:
- music, narrative, opera, composition, characterization, and chamber opera
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Liza Sobel Crane
- Owner:
- Liza Anna Sobel
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-05-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The challenges of using inadequate online recruitment systems can be addressed with machine learning and software engineering techniques. Bi-directional personalization reinforcement learning-based architecture with active learning can get recruiters to recommend qualified applicants and also enable applicants to receive personalized job recommendations. This paper focuses on how machine learning...
- Keyword:
- Reinforcement learning, Active learning, Contextual Bandit, NLP, NER, Sentiment Analysis, Counter factual Evaluation, Travel Industry, Unit tests, Serverless Functions, Language Understanding, Azure Cosmos DB, Serverless Functions, Azure Personalizer,
- Subject:
- Natural language processing (Computer science), Artificial intelligence, Sentiment analysis, Reinforcement learning, and Machine learning
- Creator:
- Ezana N. Beyenne
- Owner:
- Ezana Negga Beyenne
- Publisher:
- Data Science Masters Theses
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/15/2023
- Date Modified:
- 03/15/2023
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation and Masters Thesis
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- Description:
- Prostate cancer is the most common cause of cancer among men in the United States, and the second most common cause of cancer-related death, accounting for significant morbidity and mortality. This dissertation describes the genomic landscape of prostate cancer from multiple angles to identify mechanisms of disease heterogeneity amongst patients....
- Keyword:
- cellular biology
- Subject:
- Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Chalmers, Zachary R
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/06/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15993 and etdadmin_upload_894281
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- Description:
- Current technologies capable of establishing bioresorbable orthopedic fixation devices and stents have broad utility for biomedical applications to improve constructive tissue remodeling. Recent studies and investigations on bioresorbable conductors, semiconductors, dielectrics, and polymer substrates offer a promising opportunity to propel the existing non-degradable bioelectronic devices to the promising bioresorbable electronics,...
- Keyword:
- Soft materials, Bioresorbable electronics, Solid mechanics, Functional interfaces, Implantable electronics, and MEMS
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Bioengineering, and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Yang, Quansan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/18/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_824270 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15603
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- Description:
- The intersection of sound design and music scoring has been employed expressively in contemporary Mexican cinema to convey complex social commentary. This dissertation investigates how the Mexican films Vuelven, Sin Señas Particulares, and Sanctorum exploit the potentials of the soundtrack to create politicized aesthetic experiences. My research is in dialogue...
- Keyword:
- Funeral rites, The grotesque, Mixe language, Integrated soundtrack, Cinematic subjectivity, Musicology, Mexican cinema, Sound studies, Drug trafficking, Mexican history, The sublime, Aesthetics, Horror cinema, Film scoring, Cinematic death, Immigration politics, and Film studies
- Subject:
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects, Feature films, Film festivals, Mexicans--Politics and government, Fantasy films, Musicology, Horror films, Art, Mexican, Sound, Music--Philosophy and aesthetics, Mexico, Documentary-style films, and Drug traffic
- Creator:
- Craig Davis Pinson
- Owner:
- Craig Davis Pinson
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/23/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/15/2022
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Body size is one of the most discernible ways in which animal species vary. The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), the largest animal on earth, can reach up to 30 m in length and weigh up to 200 tonnes. At the other extreme, a species of frog called Paedophryne amauensis is...
- Keyword:
- Growth, C. elegans, and Development
- Creator:
- Joy Nyaanga
- Owner:
- Joy Nyaanga
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2022
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2022
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Cell-based therapies are an exciting frontier in medicine. This field is built on a simple premise—cells can be engineered to recognize and treat various human diseases. The paradigm of cell-based therapy uses biosensors to interrogate a cell’s environment and distinguish disease from health, intracellular signaling pathways and genetic circuitry to...
- Keyword:
- Cell-based therapy, Synthetic receptors, Synthetic biology, Biosensors, Transcription factors, and Immunotherapy
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Biology, and Medicine
- Creator:
- Donahue, Patrick Sean
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Modified:
- 05/06/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15420 and etdadmin_upload_781062
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- Description:
- Electrochemical cell devices are increasingly being sought for energy conversion and storage applications due to their high efficiencies and their potential for operating free of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Solid Acid Electrochemical Cells (SAECs), which most commonly employ CsH2PO4 (CDP) as the electrolyte component, are uniquely suited to meet the...
- Keyword:
- Cesium Dihydrogen Phosphate, Catalysis, Ammonia, Hydrogen, and Electrochemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry, Materials Science, and Energy
- Creator:
- Plymill, Austin Blake
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Modified:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_796377 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15469
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- Description:
- Migrant illegality gives way to irregular livelihoods in Spain and around the world. Studies on migrant illegality have generally focused on its political, legal and economic production and the social impact of a states specific biopolitics. While invaluably important, there remains the need to better understand the modes of life...
- Keyword:
- Transnationalism, Spain, Phenomenology, Senegal, Catalonia, and Legal Status
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Arturo Marquez Jr
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/05/2021
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Role of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) in Endothelial Senescence and Cardiovascular Aging
- Description:
- Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) is an essential mediator of senescence and a potential therapeutic target for preventing aging-related pathologies. Cellular Senescence is associated with organismal aging and related pathologies. In our study, we investigate the efficacies of PAI-1 inhibitors in both in vitro and in vivo models of homocysteine...
- Keyword:
- pai-1
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Sun, Tianjiao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Modified:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15417 and etdadmin_upload_780977
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how China’s involvement in transnational LGBTQ activism, adaptation and innovation of queer media technologies, and the global pink economy have influenced queer men’s understandings of selfhood, sexual desires, and the relationships among queer subjects. It is based on extensive fieldwork in Beijing and digital ethnography on China’s...
- Keyword:
- China, Transnationalism, Sexual hierarchy, LGBTQ, Homonormative desire, and Ethnography
- Subject:
- LGBTQ studies, Asian studies, and Communication
- Creator:
- Zhou, Zhiqiu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Modified:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_773031 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15345
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- Description:
- Living organisms undergo morphogenesis as they develop and change shape to fit their evolved niche in natural ecosystems. The biological processes underlying morphogenesis involve sophisticated feedback loops between spatiotemporal release of morphogenic molecules that diffuse and signal cell differentiation, as well as contextual interaction with the physical surroundings of the...
- Keyword:
- Hybrid materials, Hierarchical structures, Soft robotics, Supramolecular assembly, In-situ microscopy, and Energy storage
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Lau, Garrett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Modified:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Assistive robotics focuses on human-robot systems that provide physical support and assistance to the elderly and people with motor-impairments. While assistive machines, such as the powered wheelchair, can significantly enhance the functional independence of individuals, many users are challenged by their direct operation, the manner in which such systems are...
- Keyword:
- Human-Robot Interaction, Assistive Robotics, Shared Autonomy, Human-in-the-loop, Robot Perception, and Intent Inference
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence, Robotics, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Jain, Siddarth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_685925 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14818
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- Description:
- Many theories of categorization have included an intuitive role for our ability to detect and judge similarity. Yet, this important role of similarity processing has been disputed. This research adopts a model of similarity processing through structure mapping (Gentner, 1983) to explore its role in similarity processing and categorization. Relational...
- Keyword:
- psychology, cognition, language, categorization, analogy, comparison, logic, fallacies
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology
- Creator:
- Francisco Maravilla
- Contributor:
- Dedre Gentner (advisor)
- Owner:
- Francisco Epimeno Maravilla
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/07/2020
- Date Modified:
- 08/07/2020
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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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
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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 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:
- 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 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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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- Description:
- 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:
- 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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- 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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- Description:
- 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:
- 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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- 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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- 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:
- 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:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- Description:
- 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
- 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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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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
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- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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
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- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- 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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- 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...
- Keyword:
- Biophysics
- Subject:
- 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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- Description:
- 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...
- Keyword:
- Interphase, Polymer nanocomposites, Finite element analysis, Atomic Force Microscopy, and Confinement effects
- Subject:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Cultivating Citizens: Ecology and Nationality in U.S. Immigrant Literature explores how and why American ecosystems became objects of appreciation, intervention, and attachment within immigration literature published during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. Fictional and nonfictional stories about US-bound immigrants represented naturalization and nationality as materializing through interactions within human/nonhuman assemblageswhat we...
- Keyword:
- citizenship, climate, immigration, ecocriticism, United States, and naturalization
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Kellen Bolt
- 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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- Description:
- The rat whisker system has been a longstanding and fruitful model system for sensory neuroscience, because of its status as an œexpert active sensing system, and many open avenues of research still remain. One large-scale goal of the field is to œclose the loop from sensation to movement, modeling how...
- Keyword:
- sensorimotor, rat, whisker, Embodiment, sensory, and morphology
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Chris Shelley Bresee
- 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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- Hannah Arendt claimed that aœtotalitarianisma emerged as a new word to designate a new form of evil in politics. However, she added, the use of a new word does not imply that we understand what this novelty consists in. This dissertation is an attempt to understand the novelty of totalitarian...
- Keyword:
- Lyotard, Arendt, Kant, Evil, Judgment, and Action
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Javier Burdman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- There has long been an interest in the idea of generativity the concern for and commitment towards promoting the well-being of future generations. In Western societies, generativity can be characterized through societal contributions and acts dedicated towards others. Since the early 1960s, when Erikson proposed generativity as the major developmental...
- Keyword:
- Agency, Life Story, Communion, Generativity, Well-being, and Narrative
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jen Guo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As monolinguals and bilinguals hear words unfold over time, they experience competition from words that share sounds within the same language (e.g., st- activates strict and stamp). Unique to bilinguals is that they are also prone to competition from similar sounding-words between their two languages. In the present dissertation, we...
- Keyword:
- speech perception, phonotactic constraints, bilingualism, and parallel language activation
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Creator:
- Max Ryan Freeman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Techniques in atomic physics have delivered some of the most precise measurements ever made, with frequency measurements reaching fractional precisions of 10^18 . High precision measurements can be used to test fundamental physics, such as pursuing a variation in fundamental constants. A finite drift in measurable constants such as the...
- Keyword:
- Physics
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Mark Gabriel Kokish
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Synthetic organic chemistry continues to be a driver in the discovery and development of new molecules for applications in biology, medicine, crop science, polymer science, and materials science. Central to the continued development of this field is the pursuit of new strategies and methods for the efficient construction of molecules...
- Keyword:
- Radical Coupling, Umpolung, Brook Rearrangement, Silymarin, Photoredox, and Photocatalysis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Benjamin McDonald
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- What does it mean for writing from the former French imperial territories of the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) to become Maghrebi literature? How does literature come to count as belonging to or appertaining to a particular place? Today, in the international spheres of the university and the literary market,...
- Keyword:
- Novel, Maghreb, Modernity, Territory, Nation, and Japan
- Subject:
- French and Italian
- Creator:
- Matthew Thomas Kerper Brauer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Parents play a crucial role in shaping the contexts within which young children develop, particularly in the early years of a childs life (Bornstein, 2002; Brooks-Gunn & Markman, 2005; Maccoby & Martin, 1983). Parenting is also one of the key pathways through which socioeconomic factors, such as maternal education, may...
- Keyword:
- poverty and inequality, social policy, maternal education, Head Start preschool, parenting, and child development
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Emily C. Ross
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation approaches J. M. Coetzees work through the lens of critical animal studies. Puzzling out the frequent appearances of animals in his work, numerous scholars have attempted to answer the following question: What is Coetzee writing about when he writes about animals? But while many have engaged with the...
- Keyword:
- Allegory, Coetzee, Kafka, and Animal studies
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Sonia H. Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While scholarship over recent decades has complicated the traditional classification of the Bavlis texts into the field has still maintained a model of two separate, though fundamentally interrelated, discourses. According to this model, the Bavli consists of a normative, non-narrative, legal discourse alongside an antinomian, narrativized discourse of stories. Through...
- Keyword:
- Rabbinics, Scholasticism, Talmud, law and Literature, and Late Antiquity
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Sarah Wolf
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In 1964 the Second Vatican Council encouraged a switch from Latin Mass, celebrated by Roman Catholics across the globe in standardized form since the 16th century, to Mass in the languages spoken by the local people and with some adaptation to local circumstances. This event is familiar to scholars of...
- Keyword:
- Liturgical Reform, Religion and Culture, U.S. Catholicism, Ritual, Religion and Politics, and Chicago
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Jennifer Ann Callaghan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation aims to understand the ways that the social, specifically race, ethnicity, and neighborhood, intersects with the religious identity, beliefs, and practices of early-generation Americans in Chicago. This dissertation asks at the most general level: What is the relationship of race, ethnicity, and religion for early-generation Americans? More specifically,...
- Keyword:
- sociology, Catholic studies, race, religion, Chicago, and ethnicity
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Christopher R Carroll
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- The moduli stack of bundles on a smooth complete curve over a field, is an immensely rich geometric object and is of central importance to the Geometric Langlands program. This thesis represents a contribution towards a motivic, in the sense of Voevodsky and Morel-Voevodsky, understanding of this stack. Following the...
- Keyword:
- Space of rational maps, Ran space, Motivic homotopy theory, Motives, and Geometric Langlands
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Elden Elmanto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In the wake of Hurricane Katrinas dramatic demographic changes, scholars, journalists, and politicians have discussed Mexican migration to New Orleans as a new phenomenon and an unwelcome threat to the citys social order, rich culture, and tourist economy. This dissertation challenges these ideas and demonstrates some of the myriad ways...
- Keyword:
- Cultural Brokers, Borderlands, Music, Mexico, and New Orleans
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Valeria Priscilla Jimanez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis focuses on the role of upcoming neutrino oscillation experiments for the search for beyond-the-Standard-Model physics in the neutrino sector. Specically, I focus on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino experiment, and the experimental sensitivity to non-standard neutrino interactions, sterile neutrinos, incorrect signals of CP-violation, differences between...
- Keyword:
- Neutrinos and Particle Physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Kevin James Kelly
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Desmoplakin (DP) is a component of desmosomes, critical adhesive complexes found in cardiac intercalated discs. DP is often mutated in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC), an inherited disorder that is a frequent cause of sudden cardiac death. The disease progression of AC is characterized by cardiomyocyte cell death and replacement of the...
- Keyword:
- Desmosome, Desmoplakin, Rho, Arrhythmogenic, Connexin, and Cardiocutaneous
- Creator:
- Chen Yuan Kam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Active traffic management systems aim to relieve recurring and non-recurring congestion by using estimated and predicted traffic conditions to guide trip makers before and after entering the network as well as to design control strategies to improve system performance. With external disruptions and interventions (e.g., weather, special events, and incidents),...
- Keyword:
- Data Mining, Performance Evaluation, Weather-Responsive Traffic Management, Active Transportation and Demand Management, Smart Mobility, and Network Modeling
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Zihan Hong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- To accelerate the implementation of technologies enabled by two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials, the human health and environmental implications of these materials need to be addressed. Fundamental studies which elucidate the mechanisms of toxicity and environmental fate will allow for the safer design of these materials and promote their widespread use. This...
- Keyword:
- environmental fate, toxicity, biomaterials, 3D printing, and two-dimensional nanomaterials
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Linda M Guiney
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In 2015, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that 1 in 6 Americans fall ill with a foodborne infection annually, resulting in more than 3000 fatalities and an estimated $15 billion in economic burden due to combined medical costs, productivity loss, and death. On a per-case basis, infections...
- Keyword:
- bacteria, pathogenesis, vulnificus, toxin, Vibrio, and virulence
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Hannah Gavin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this work we explore a connection between some high dimensional asymptotic problems and random matrix theory. In the first part, we establish a link between the Wishart ensemble and random critical points of holomorphic sections over complex projective space and use this to establish asymptotics on the average number...
- Keyword:
- High Dimensional, Complex Geometry, Differential Equations, and Probability Theory
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Xavier Eduardo Garcia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Developing low-cost, scalable, high-efficiency photovoltaic materials is an important technological challenge because of the projected increase in global energy consumption in coming years, the environmental cost of carbon emissions, and the widespread availability of solar energy. This dissertation contains three studies on the development of novel hybrid materials as photovoltaic...
- Keyword:
- Hybrid materials, Perovskite, and Photovoltaic
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Daniel Joseph Fairfield
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Stars, planets and massive black holes are ubiquitous in binary and multiple configurations. In stellar systems the binary components interact through various type of mass loss and mass transfer. Mass transfer interactions in eccentric systems are inprinciple phase-dependent and can occur in different ways. We formulate the understanding of mass...
- Keyword:
- supermassive black hole binaries, stellar dynamics, computational astrophysics, Exoplanet dynamics, Stellar/Binary evolution, and galaxy formation and evolution
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- FANI DOSOPOULOU
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Each movement we make represents the final output of complex processes in the nervous system. Studies of motor control often attempt to minimize further complication by using controlled environments to generate repeated movements. However, in natural situations, the motor system faces the much more complicated task of interacting with an...
- Keyword:
- Decision-making, Bayesian behavior, Motor cortex, Uncertainty, and Motor control
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Brian M Dekleva
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Households in emerging markets hold significant amounts of dollar deposits while firms have significant amounts of dollar debt. Motivated by the perceived dangers, policymakers often develop regulations to limit dollarization. In this paper, I draw attention to an important benefit of dollarization, which should be taken into account when crafting...
- Keyword:
- Financial Dollarization and Emerging Markets
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Husnu C Dalgic
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Understanding the role of heterogeneity across agents is crucial in predicting how the macroeconomic outcomes are affected by these differences. This dissertation presents three papers in which I study labor market outcomes of different segments of the population according to their choice of education and how labor market characteristics affect...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sena Coskun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Caenorhabditis elegans has been a highly productive model organism. However, most of the knowledge gained from the species has come a single strain isolated in Bristol, England in 1951. However, there exists significant potential in the natural variation present in the species to make discoveries. In this dissertation, I describe...
- Keyword:
- natural variation, pot-2, C. elegans, genomics, and telomeres
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Daniel Elwood Cook
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis focuses on ecological models of population dynamics and the traveling, migratory waves that can result when a stable state either displaces an unstable state, or displaces another stable state. We consider the effect of nonlocal interactions, where members of the species interact over a distance. This gives rise...
- Keyword:
- biological control, population dynamics, traveling waves, and nonlocality
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Eric Arthur Autry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/06/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In support of a scientific foundation for the predictive design of composition and processing of quench and partition (Q&P) martensite/austenite TRIP steels, theory of coupled diffusional/displacive transformation is experimentally calibrated to control austenite carbon content and its associated mechanical stability. Under paraequilibrium constraint, the calibration quantifies an effective BCC stored...
- Keyword:
- austenite stability, quench and partition, steels, paraequilibrium, and carbon partitioning
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Amit Behera
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The brains of humans and animals have the amazing capability of extracting abstract relationships between external stimuli efficiently. Knowing such regularities helps us compute and react to novel information flexibly without prior experience. The olfactory system is no exception. Animals need to infer commonalities across different odors sharing similar meaning,...
- Keyword:
- Neurosciences
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Xiaojun Bao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Nanostructured semiconductors exhibit promising optoelectronic properties, such as high photoluminescence quantum yield and efficient charge separation, making them attractive materials for applications including photovoltaics, LEDs, and lasers. These superior properties are often due to improved crystallinity and reduced charge separation distance compared to bulk semiconductors. As a result, it is...
- Keyword:
- coaxial lithography, anodic aluminum oxide, electrodeposition, perovskite nanowires, nanotechnology, and core shell nanowires
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Michael Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Herpesvirus virions consist of three layers: nucleocapsid, tegument, and envelope. The innermost layer, the nucleocapsid, initially assembles as an immature procapsid precursor built around viral scaffold proteins. The event that initiates procapsid maturation is unknown but it is dependent upon activation of the internal protease. Scaffold cleavage triggers angularization, or...
- Keyword:
- maturation, capsid, microscopy, procapsid, herpesvirus, and major capsid protein
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Laura Lee Ruhge
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chip-based photonic devices are doing for optics what integrated circuits have done for electronics. By directly combining many individual components in a compact, scalable and robust way, photonic chips open the possibility for creating optical and electro-optical devices that could not be practical with discrete components. The applications for this...
- Keyword:
- integrated optics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, and photonics
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Vesselin Velev
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recently, much public attention has been focused on racial inequalities in who is subjected to exclusionary school disciplinary policies, and consequently, forced to miss hours of instruction. Over the past two decades, researchers have documented the disparate impacts that zero-tolerance policies have had on students of color, low-income students, and...
- Keyword:
- mixed methods, School suspensions, and causal inference
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Ijun Lai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recently, there has been increasing interest in exploring nano-materials used as an additive to existing concrete materials. With respect to fiber-shaped nanomaterials such as carbon nanofibers (CNF), many studies have shown that mechanical strength properties of cementitious materials can be improved significantly. In this dissertation, the research has focused on...
- Keyword:
- Young's modulus, shrinkage cracking, flexural strength, autogenous shrinkage, carbon nanotube, and concrete
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Yuan Gao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Heterogeneous materials have been emerging and playing essential roles in various engineering and scientific fields. They usually include multiple phases of materials to create unique properties that are not accessible to their homogeneous counterparts. The traditional design approach in the material science community is to use trial-and-error iteratively, which is...
- Keyword:
- Bayesian Optimization, Materials Design, Response Surface Model, Machine Learning, and Mixed Variable
- Creator:
- Yichi Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation