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- The goal of this thesis is to prove that topological restriction homology, TR, is locally even in the quasi-syntomic topology in characteristic p. This local evenness was already known for the other main trace theories, but is more subtle for TR.
- Keyword:
- Homotopy Theory
- Subject:
- Theoretical mathematics
- Creator:
- Darrell, micah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16601 and etdadmin_upload_986673
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- Description:
- We consider data-driven approaches for universal texture modeling via generative adversarial networks and inversion methods. We investigate the properties of the learned representation spaces and demonstrate that a strong link between texture analysis and synthesis is the key to successful texture modeling. First, we visit the problem of texture synthesis...
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Lin, Jue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_956970 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16393
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- Description:
- Previous studies have documented a systematic discrepancy between probabilistic seismic hazard maps and historical records of shaking (Stein et al., 2015; Brooks et al., 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019; Salditch et al., 2020; Salditch, 2021). In almost every case, shaking predicted by the hazard map is higher than that historically observed....
- Subject:
- Geophysics
- Creator:
- Gallahue, Molly Margaret
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_979215 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16479
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- Description:
- This dissertation includes the score and companion essay to the musical work, Untitled (March). In the composition, I endeavor to create a listening situation offering a mutually negotiated environment of quietude that challenges a listener's preconceptions of intentionality and perception by blurring the boundaries between instrumental performance, field recordings, and the...
- Subject:
- Musical composition
- Creator:
- Maxbauer, Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_987071 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16612
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- Description:
- Due to their widespread applicability, graphs and networks appear in various contexts. The increasing scale of graphs encountered in the real-world requires the developmentof efficient algorithms that run reasonably fast and produce close to optimal solutions. The main focus of this thesis is the development of fast graph algorithms for...
- Keyword:
- Parallel Algorithms, Dynamic Algorithms, Algorithms, Approximation Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, and Graph Theory
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Sukprasert, Pattara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984409 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16533
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- Description:
- Machine learning-based techniques have shown great promises in perception, prediction, planning, and general decision-making for improving task performance of autonomous driving. Connectivity technology has also presented great potentials in improving the safety and efficiency of transportation systems by providing information beyond the perception and prediction capabilities of individual vehicles. However,...
- Keyword:
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicle, Safety, and Security
- Subject:
- Robotics, Computer engineering, and Transportation
- Creator:
- Liu, Xiangguo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986836 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16608
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- Description:
- Our sense of smell, or olfaction, is one of our most evolutionarily ancient senses. In vertebrates, olfaction plays a crucial role in many functions, such as detecting and evaluating food, avoiding predators, regulating appetite, spatial navigation, and selecting mating partners. In addition, the olfactory system is highly dynamic and exhibits...
- Keyword:
- Neuroimaging, Perceptual Coding, Olfaction, Encoding Models, and Orbitofrontal Cortex
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Sagar, Vivek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16580 and etdadmin_upload_986169
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- Description:
- Findings in both humans and animal models have associated the hippocampal theta oscillation with hippocampal memory function. In animal models, previous research supports that the theta oscillation contributes to memory via phase-dependent changes in hippocampal network connectivity, wherein memory encoding versus retrieval are optimized at different phases of the theta...
- Keyword:
- theta, intracranial, phase, TMS, oscillation, and hippocampus
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Lurie, Sarah M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_956997 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16394
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- Description:
- This essay investigates the question under which conditions ASMR is suitable for the concert space. What can be done to ensure that those sensitive to ASMR experience the desired effect? The text compares the sounds used to induce the physiological response called ASMR to those of “Musique Concrète (Instrumentale)” by...
- Keyword:
- ASMR and music
- Subject:
- Musical composition
- Creator:
- Roelofsen, Ruud
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16524 and etdadmin_upload_984052
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- Description:
- Preschool television has historically not been representative of the world young childrenlive in. Although progress is being made, “representation matters” is still a phrase that rings true to this day. This dissertation focused on representation within STEM television shows because STEM education involves learning important skills such as problem solving...
- Subject:
- Early childhood education
- Creator:
- Lennon, Maya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_980836 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16489
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- Description:
- t
- Keyword:
- Rigidities, Rational Expectation, Agent-Based Modeling, Production Networks, Incomplete Information, and Latin Monetary Union
- Subject:
- Economic history, Economics, and Finance
- Creator:
- Pellet, Thomas Louis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16599 and etdadmin_upload_986621
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- Description:
- Biologically active small molecules remain the foundation for the medical management of human disease. Their impacts on human health, longevity, culture, and society are difficultly overstated. In large part, medicines derived from organic compounds are the result of the tireless efforts of chemical practitioners––both past and present––who have dedicated much...
- Keyword:
- Mellpaladine A, Glioblastoma, Autophagy, MAP2K7, and T-ALL
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Kim, Dalton Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16465 and etdadmin_upload_977054
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- Description:
- Shale gas is a critical energy resource that is comprised primarily of light gases that are expensive to transport. Because these gases are geographically spread-out and there is insufficient capacity to transport them to centralized processing facilities, they must often be flared, leading to great sources of resource waste and...
- Keyword:
- active site proximity, density functional theory, shale gas, zeolite catalysis, degree of rate control, and microkinetic modeling
- Subject:
- Nanoscience, Chemical engineering, and Computational chemistry
- Creator:
- Marsden, Grant Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16512 and etdadmin_upload_983488
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- Description:
- Literature screening is the process of identifying all relevant records from a pool of candidate paper records in systematic review, meta-analysis, and other research synthesis tasks. This process is time consuming, expensive, and prone to human error. Screening prioritization methods attempt to help reviewers identify most relevant records while only...
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Hou, Zhipeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16478 and etdadmin_upload_978985
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- Description:
- Multiple facets of the natural trajectory of glioma remain poorly understood, which results in a universally poor prognosis for patients with glioma. Many patients with glioma experience tumor-associated epilepsy (TAE) throughout their disease course, but the mechanism by which TAE occurs, who is at continued risk for TAE, and whether...
- Keyword:
- Glioma, Glioblastoma, Infiltration, IDH, and Seizure
- Subject:
- Oncology and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Drumm, Michael Raymond
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16570 and etdadmin_upload_985850
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- Description:
- Single-use plastic waste pollution will cause significant harm to the environment if left unaddressed. One possible mitigation strategy is to develop processes, e.g. catalytic hydrogenolysis, that can convert (i.e. upcycle) waste plastics into value-added products capable of participating in a circular economy. Platinum (Pt) catalysts on strontium titanate nanocuboid supports...
- Subject:
- Chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Peczak, Ian Lukasz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16513 and etdadmin_upload_983506
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- Description:
- Aging is the greatest known risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD); however, the molecular mechanisms underlying aging and how it can initiate and or exacerbate AD, is still unknown. Epigenetic regulation has been widely accepted to play an essential role in aging or AD-related processes; however, whether dysregulations of histone...
- Keyword:
- HDACs, Alzheimer's Disease, Epigenetics, and Aging
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- McClarty, Bryan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_954939 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16390
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- Description:
- Thermoelectric devices convert between temperature gradients and electricity, implying numerous applications, such as powering exploratory space vehicles, industrial waste-heat recovery, and solid- state refrigeration. Thermoelectric devices consist of doped p-type and n-type semiconductor legs, and the overall device efficiency depends on the transport properties of these semiconductor materials. High-performing thermoelectric...
- Keyword:
- band engineering, electronic structure, density functional theory, thermoelectrics, group theory, and tight-binding
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Brod, Madison K
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16437 and etdadmin_upload_967109
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- Description:
- Through analysis of visual and literary texts, “Relating Sideways: Visual Culture and Women’s Bonds, 1970-2020” constructs a historical narrative that challenges the assumption that women’s lives and relationships naturally bend toward romance and procreation, a normative lifespan that follows the function capitalism has needed women to perform in consumption and...
- Subject:
- Film studies
- Creator:
- Coyne, Kelly Marie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16482 and etdadmin_upload_980087
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- Description:
- The first chapter of this dissertation, coauthored with Martin Eichenbaum and Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati, addresses the question: how sensitive is the power of fiscal policy at the ZLB to the assumption of rational expectations? We do so through the lens of a standard NK model in which people are level-k thinkers....
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Teodoro Guerreiro, Joao Pedro
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_982742 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16503
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- Description:
- In recent decades, metal additive manufacturing has seen rapid advancements, offering promising applications across various industries. However, addressing existing challenges in metal AM, such as process stability, defect avoidance, and quality control, is essential for fully exploiting its potential in fabricating parts with a desired geometry, as well as tailored...
- Keyword:
- Physics-based Model, Digital Twin, Data-driven Model, Machine Learning, and Additive Manufacturing
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Liao, Shuheng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16572 and etdadmin_upload_985942
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three essays in microeconomic theory. In the first two chapters, I study a class of partnerships where partners can exit and continue to free-ride on the remaining partners' efforts. The crucial force to deter players from strategic exiting is the ripple effect that it may trigger...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Xu, Boli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16597 and etdadmin_upload_986567
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- Description:
- The field of materials discovery is undergoing an unprecedented transition from laboratory tocomputer. Behind this transition is the new ability to accurately compute material properties, especially energetic stability, from first principles with density functional theory (DFT). However, DFT remains computationally expensive, and DFT-based materials discovery is intractable, especially in high...
- Keyword:
- High throughput, Inorganic compounds, Big data, Density functional theory, Materials discovery, and Machine learning
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Condensed matter physics, and Computational chemistry
- Creator:
- Griesemer, Sean Darius
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16606 and etdadmin_upload_986816
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how nineteenth century German literature constructed and experimented with an entangled concept of “the environment” based not in (Romantic) philosophical and literary conceptions of nature, but in the theory and science of color perception. As the visual point of interaction between an observer and their surrounding world,...
- Keyword:
- environment, color, Stifter, Scheerbart, Goethe, and Uexküll
- Subject:
- German literature, Ecology, and Aesthetics
- Creator:
- Dunn, Sorrel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16569 and etdadmin_upload_985786
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- Description:
- In this thesis, we consider the spherical spin glass models at zero temperature. We first determine the structureof the Parisi measure at zero temperature for the spherical p+s spin glass model. We then consider the spherical mixed p-spin model and show that for the spherical spin models with n components,...
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Zhou, Yuxin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985448 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16557
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- Description:
- The reprogramming of somatic cells to a spontaneously contracting cardiomyocyte-like state using defined transcription factors has proven successful in mouse fibroblasts. However, this process has been less successful in human cells, thus limiting the potential clinical applicability of this technology in regenerative medicine. We hypothesized that this issue is due...
- Keyword:
- calcium cycling, spontaneous contraction, high-throughput, cardiomyocyte, direct reprogramming, and fibroblast
- Subject:
- Biology, Cellular biology, and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Romero Tejeda, Marisol
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_970274 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16446
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- Description:
- Data in support of the manuscript titled "Humans Exploit the Trade-Off Between Mediolateral Stability and Manoeuvrability During Walking". Abstract: People use the mechanical interplay between stability and manoeuvrability to successfully walk. During single limb support, body states (position and velocity) that increase lateral stability will inherently resist lateral manoeuvres, decrease...
- Creator:
- Kulkarni, Rucha, Grover, Francis M., Schmitz, Xenia, Shafer, Anna, and Gordon, Keith E.
- Owner:
- Rucha Niteen Kulkarni
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2024
- Date Created:
- 2023
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- city structures, economics, expo, income inequality, and work from home
- Creator:
- Isabella Wu
- Owner:
- Isabella P Wu
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2023
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2023
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- Keyword:
- Artificial Intelligence, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Ukraine, Machine Learning, and Capstone
- Creator:
- James Benco
- Owner:
- James Eric Benco
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/11/2023
- Date Modified:
- 06/11/2023
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- Description:
- The number of Hispanics in engineering departments at companies and universities differs from the proportion of Hispanics in the US population. Hispanics represented only 8% of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) workforce in 2020, despite being 17% of the overall workforce. The ethnic disparity in STEM occupations contributes...
- Keyword:
- US Workforce, STEM, Latino, Hispanics in STEM, and hispanic
- Subject:
- Diversity in the workplace and The number of Hispanics in STEM careers in the US population
- Creator:
- Mario A. Camargo Espana
- Contributor:
- Dr. William Mickelson (second reader) and Dr. Candice Bradley (advisor)
- Owner:
- Mario Andres Camargo
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2023
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-05-09
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- Description:
- Survey results from modified Delphi study to develop a safe opioid use agreement
- Creator:
- Iroz, Cassandra
- Owner:
- Cassandra Bryce Iroz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/21/2023
- Date Modified:
- 06/21/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- A noncomprehensive list of large urban fires in the 1850s United States. All fires were large enough to destroy 20 structures or do $200,000 in damage (in 1850s dollars). Some fires are included on the basis of verbal descriptions (e.g., "downtown destroyed") that suggest that the fires were of this...
- Creator:
- Immerwahr, Daniel
- Owner:
- Daniel Immerwahr
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2023
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-07-30
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- Manuscript available at arXiv:2305.10226 Abstract: In this study we will show a new method of polishing for Nb3Sn cavities known as centrifugal barrel polishing (CBP). Using this method, Nb3Sn coated samples are polished to a surface roughness comparable to a traditional Nb cavity after electropolishing (EP). We also investigate different...
- Creator:
- Eric Viklund
- Owner:
- Eric Viklund
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/03/2023
- Date Modified:
- 07/03/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-07-03
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- In Spoiling the Stories, Tamar Merin presents the as yet untold story of the rise of prose by Israeli women, while further exploring and expanding the gendered models of literary influence in modern Hebrew literature. The theoretical idea upon which this book is based is that of intersexual dialogue, a...
- Keyword:
- Literary Criticism, Women's Studies, and Jewish and Holocaust Studies
- Creator:
- Merin, Tamar
- Owner:
- Institutional Repository Administrator
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/11/2023
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN: 9780810133723, Paper ISBN: 9780810133709, and Cloth ISBN: 9780810133716
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- Description:
- When Abigail Adams made her famous plea to John Adams to "remember the ladies," the role of advocacy on behalf of U.S. gender equality began its rocky and still uncompleted journey. In Women and the Press, Patricia Bradley examines the tensions that have arisen over the course of this journey...
- Keyword:
- Women's Studies and Journalism and Communication
- Creator:
- Bradley, Patricia
- Owner:
- Institutional Repository Administrator
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/11/2023
- Date Created:
- 2005
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN: 9780810162327 and Paper ISBN: 9780810123137
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- Description:
- Winner, 2012 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award Women of the Washington Press argues that for nearly two centuries women journalists have persisted in their efforts to cover politics in the nation’s capital in spite of blatant prejudice and restrictive societal attitudes. They have been held back by the...
- Keyword:
- Women's Studies and Journalism and Communication
- Creator:
- Beasley, Maurine H.
- Owner:
- Institutional Repository Administrator
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/11/2023
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN: 9780810166141 and Paper ISBN: 9780810125711
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- Description:
- At her first press conference, Eleanor Roosevelt, uncertain of her role as hostess or leader, passed a box of candied grapefruit peel to the thirty-five women journalists. Nearly sixty years later, Hillary Clinton, an accomplished professional woman and lawyer, tried to mollify her critics by handing out her chocolate-chip cookie...
- Keyword:
- Women's Studies and Journalism and Communication
- Creator:
- Beasley, Maurine H.
- Owner:
- Institutional Repository Administrator
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/11/2023
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2023
- Date Created:
- 2005
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN: 9780810123120 and eBook ISBN: 9780810162341
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- Description:
- The aviation industry is set to see another significant leap in new technology, namely electric aircraft. As of the time of this research, both 9-seat and 19-seat aircraft would be ready to be launched by air service providers under the Essential Air Service (EAS) program. While electric aircraft manufacturers are...
- Keyword:
- Electric aircraft, SCASD, aviation batteries, and EAS
- Subject:
- Essential Air Service (Program : U.S.)
- Creator:
- Smith, Kenneth, Li, Dongyang , Lu, Chien-tsung, and Guzek, Joshua
- Owner:
- Dongyang Li
- Publisher:
- Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering Science and Technology (JMEST)
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/13/2023
- Date Modified:
- 07/21/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-03-06
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Data and Fortran code for Figures 2 and 3 of "Phase Separation and Ripening in a Viscoelastic Gel" by Tine Curk and Erik Luijten, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci (2023).
- Creator:
- Tine Curk and Erik Luijten
- Owner:
- Erik Luijten
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/21/2023
- Date Modified:
- 07/21/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-07-21
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- The objective of this project is to build an implementation of the Prisoner’s Dilemma game that takes advantage of quantum properties. Besides the two options we see in a classical prisoner’s dilemma, to confess and to not confess, we introduce an additional quantum option that gives both players a better...
- Keyword:
- Prisoner's Dilemma
- Creator:
- HADDY ELIE ALCHAER and LAWAL ADEWALE OGUNFOWORA
- Contributor:
- INNOVATION IN QUANTUM PEDAGOGY, APPLICATION AND ITS RELATION TO CULTURE (IQ-PARC), Li, Dongyang, DoDSTEM, Owens, Hal, and Hosseini, Mahdi
- Owner:
- Dongyang Li
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/21/2023
- Date Modified:
- 07/21/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-08-18
- Resource Type:
- Software or Program Code
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- Description:
- Utilizing a quantum computer and Microsoft Q# SDK to create a quantum neural network aimed to recreate a predetermined dataset that contains feature map parameters. The algorithm was used to simulate solar system models closely resembling real life, visualized using the 3D modeling engine Blender and Unreal Engine 5. The...
- Keyword:
- quantum computing
- Creator:
- Xiao, Kevin, Zhang, Zirui, and Owens, Hal
- Contributor:
- Hosseini, Mahdi, Li, Dongyang, DoDSTEM, and INNOVATION IN QUANTUM PEDAGOGY, APPLICATION AND ITS RELATION TO CULTURE (IQ-PARC)
- Owner:
- Dongyang Li
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/21/2023
- Date Modified:
- 07/21/2023
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- Description:
- This project utilizes QCI Inc.’s Qatalyst quantum optimization tools to find the most optimal solution to a randomly generated maze. The maze is traversed and mapped into a spanning tree and then transformed into a set of linear constraint functions. The constraint functions and an objective matrix are used to...
- Keyword:
- optimization
- Creator:
- Xu, Xinzhe
- Contributor:
- Hosseini, Mahdi, Li, Dongyang, DoDSTEM, and INNOVATION IN QUANTUM PEDAGOGY, APPLICATION AND ITS RELATION TO CULTURE (IQ-PARC)
- Owner:
- Dongyang Li
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/21/2023
- Date Modified:
- 07/24/2023
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- Keyword:
- Block Design, Internet of Things, Individual Differences, Interdisciplinary, and Spatial Cognition
- Creator:
- Hrishikesh Dutta, Kiley McKee, Subir Biswas, Danielle Rothschild, David Uttal, Nalin Poungpeth, and Amit Kumar Bhyuan
- Owner:
- Danielle Jordan Rothschild
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/28/2023
- Date Modified:
- 07/28/2023
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- Description:
- We all—users, businesses, governments, and the general public—expect internet platform companies, like Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon to govern their users. Without platform governance, we all experience disasters like foreign election interference, vaccine misinformation, counterfeiting, and even genocide. Unfortunately, the platform companies have failed. To this day, despite the lessons from...
- Keyword:
- technology, democracy, platform governance, and social media
- Creator:
- Paul Gowder
- Owner:
- Paul Anthony Gowder
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/04/2023
- Date Modified:
- 08/04/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-08-03
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.1017/9781108975438
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- Description:
- Quantitative survey data corresponding to Woitowich et al., JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(8):e2328027. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.28027.
- Creator:
- Woitowich, Nicole C. and Wood, Christine.
- Owner:
- Nicole Catherine Woitowich
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/12/2023
- Date Modified:
- 08/12/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- student parent needs, undergraduate student parent, student success, student parent, and institutional support
- Creator:
- Amolia Schneider
- Owner:
- Amolia Schneider
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/17/2023
- Date Modified:
- 08/17/2023
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- Description:
- Human skin oils are significant scavengers of atmospheric oxidants in occupied indoor environments. Many techniques used to study gas-phase transformations of surface films indoors have been limited to off-line bulk analysis, although more surface-selective methodologies are emerging. Here, we present a multi-prong analytical approach to characterizing skin oil ozonolysis. Skin...
- Keyword:
- squalene, nonlinear spectroscopy, ozonolysis, indoor air, optical profilometry, and surface science
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Butman, Jana Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16586 and etdadmin_upload_986300
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- Description:
- The Operating System (OS) kernel is a key component of modern computing infrastructure, yet it is prone to numerous vulnerabilities, many of which cause memory corruptions that can be exploited by attackers to perform malicious activities. While various techniques have been introduced to secure the Linux kernel, it still constantly...
- Keyword:
- Weird machine, Kernel vulnerability, Exploitation, and Exploitability
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Lin, Zhenpeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1010237 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16700
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- Description:
- In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, we have witnessed a surge of public interest in and discussion around racial reckoning. Universities in the United States and across the globe are grappling with their historical associations with transatlantic and chattel slavery. This dissertation takes up the question of...
- Keyword:
- reconciliation, abolition, family, rhetorical analysis, redress, and Black feminism
- Subject:
- Gender studies and Rhetoric and Composition
- Creator:
- Ferrell, Ashley P
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16749 and etdadmin_upload_1013545
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- Description:
- Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous, crystalline materials synthesized by combining metal nodes and organic linkers through self-assembly. The diverse range of building blocks available allows for extensive tunability of MOFs, enabling the optimization of these materials for various applications, such as gas storage, separations, and catalysis. This study aimed to...
- Keyword:
- Molecular modeling, Xylene Separation, Monte carlo simulation, Chemical engineering, and Metal-organic framework
- Subject:
- Chemistry and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Li, Zhao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013711 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16763
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- Description:
- Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common aggressive primary malignant brain tumorin adults with a median age of onset of 65 years of age. Although advanced age is often associated with worse GBM patient survival, the predominant source(s) of maladaptive aging effects remains to be established. Here we studied intra-tumoral and...
- Keyword:
- Senescence, p16INK4a, Glioblastoma, Aging, and Immunotherapy
- Subject:
- Biology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Bell, April Charlotte
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16795 and etdadmin_upload_1016132
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- Description:
- Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) is a class of material comprising organic linkers and inorganic, metal-ion-containing nodes, with diverse functionalities and wide-range of applications. Because of their porous nature and functional nodes and linkers, they are competent candidates for gas storage, separation, catalysis, and so on. Most MOFs, however, are intrinsically insulating,...
- Keyword:
- Metal–Organic Frameworks, Electrochemistry, and Electrocatalysis
- Subject:
- Analytical chemistry, Chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Duan, Jiaxin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16539 and etdadmin_upload_984686
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- Description:
- In recent years, we have seen the embryo of Industry 4.0 which has been promoting manufacturing processes towards the future with better efficiency, higher accuracy and better reliability. However, manufacturing precision has been restricted by the precision of metrology and material characterization. In other words, one can only manufacture parts...
- Keyword:
- Digital Image Correlation, Metrology, Industry 4.0, Photometric Stereo, and Deep Learning
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Yang, Ru
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16719 and etdadmin_upload_1012433
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- Description:
- Stairs and curbs often present as an exhausting environmental barrier for individuals with bilateral cerebral palsy (CP) due to their lower limb motor impairments. Indeed, performance in stair-climbing in this population has a higher correlation with disruption of mobility than walking. Community members affected by CP consider impaired mobility a...
- Subject:
- Physical therapy, Biomedical engineering, and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Goyal, Vatsala
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16701 and etdadmin_upload_1010522
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- Description:
- Anthropologists engaging with biopolitical theory have commonly assumed that biomedicine is a tool for enacting state-based policies to manage population health. Recent insights in medical anthropology have troubled this assumption, calling into question the role of physicians as “handmaidens” of state-based health policy. I use my position as a physician-anthropologist...
- Keyword:
- anthropology of reproduction, pregnancy, opioid use disorder, illicit substance use disorders, biopolitics, and medical anthropology
- Subject:
- Cultural anthropology
- Creator:
- Premkumar, Ashish
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_965675 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16433
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- Description:
- The role of providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease can expose friends and family caregivers to significant stress over an extended period of time, resulting in a host of negative outcomes like increased depression and anxiety, and diminished quality of life. However, previous studies have found that...
- Keyword:
- psychological well-being, positive emotion, caregiving, online intervention, Alzheimer's disease, and eHealth
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology, Health sciences, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Kwok, Zhenting Ian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16329 and etdadmin_upload_941336
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- Description:
- This thesis document is comprised of three research projects. The first investigates the active vibrational modes involved in twisted intramolecular charge transfer in a Julolidine-BODIPY dyad using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy along with DFT calculations. We identified two types of vibrations, compression and torsional motion, as playing an important role in...
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry, Physical chemistry, and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Fisher, Jeremy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16773 and etdadmin_upload_1014057
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- Description:
- Renewable energy technology, more so than ever before, is critical to the survival of humanity. For decades, concentrated efforts into designing and developing such novel devices resulted in the innovation of solar-driven photovoltaics that were competitive with nonrenewable alternatives. This thesis explores the dynamic behavior of alternative material candidates that...
- Keyword:
- electronic, structural, perovskite, spectroscopy, two-dimensional, and nanomaterials
- Subject:
- Physics, Chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Panuganti, Shobhana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1010644 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16703
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- Description:
- The work presented in this thesis is to describe the fabrication of the nano-composites of carbonaceous materials (e.g. graphene oxide) and metal oxides (e.g. Titanium dioxide TiO2) for two specific applications in the field of public health protection: 1.) removal of micropollutants (MPs) in the aqueous environment; 2.) antimicrobial coating.The...
- Subject:
- Environmental engineering
- Creator:
- Fu, Han
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013991 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16770
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- Description:
- The need for complex and sophisticated materials continues to grow as society becomes more advanced. For many chemists, the design of these materials begins by looking towards model molecular systems for the identification of desirable properties and functions. As such, restricting oneself to C, H, N, O, and the other...
- Keyword:
- metal-organic frameworks, Magnetic materials, stimuli-responsive materials, weak link approach, and coordination polymers
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry
- Creator:
- Coleman, Benjamin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16793 and etdadmin_upload_1015421
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- Description:
- Each neuron in the primary motor cortex (M1) is like a musician in an orchestra, contributing to a larger harmony under the constraint of a “neural manifold”—a geometric score describing the correlated signals produced by the neural musicians that drive movement. Despite the widespread recognition of the importance of M1...
- Keyword:
- neural networks, neural manifolds, motor control, machine learning, and brain-computer interface
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Altan, Ege
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1001502 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16658
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- Description:
- Interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs) are multicomponent materials that enhance the compatibility of otherwise immiscible polymers by trapping the microstructure in a non-equilibrium state. By combining polymers with vastly different moduli, IPNs effectively disperse rigid polymers within a soft matrix, resulting in a reinforced elastomer. This approach significantly increases the modulus...
- Keyword:
- Phase Seperation, Polymer Physics, Silicone Elastomer, Interpenetrating Polymer Networks, and Single Molecule Localization Microscopy
- Subject:
- Polymer chemistry, Plastics, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Heyl, Tyler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1001901 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16662
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- Description:
- Large scale adoption of sustainable technologies for energy productionand storage can be greatly facilitated by scientific advances impacting efficiency, cost and availability. The study of materials is instrumental in both upgrading the performance of existing technologies and enabling the development of new ones, and ab-initio methods and machine learning represent...
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Energy
- Creator:
- Baldassarri, Bianca
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16729 and etdadmin_upload_1012768
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- Description:
- Chronic stress is a significant risk factor for the development of numerous psychiatric disorders, including major depressive disorder (MDD). Individuals with MDD exhibit impairments in reward processing and decreased motivation to engage in previously-rewarding activities. Importantly, there is a large sex disparity in MDD diagnosis, such that it affects nearly...
- Keyword:
- corticosterone, motivation, and dopamine
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Holloway, Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16726 and etdadmin_upload_1012569
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- Description:
- The rise in children’s media use (Rideout & Robb, 2020) and the prioritization of STEM learning (Fayer et al., 2017) has led to the development of new STEM-related apps, TV shows, and other media for young children. One topic in this area gaining popularity is computational thinking (CT). Researchers refer...
- Keyword:
- Diversity, Culture and Inclusion, Computational Thinking, Early Childhood, Educational Television, and STEM
- Subject:
- Developmental psychology, Science education, and Communication
- Creator:
- Lemley, Breniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1011152 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16709
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- Description:
- A proliferation of new media platforms have upended the traditional roles that journalists have played in society, placing their work into content streams that are populated by creators who mimic the surface features of their work but not their methods. As a result, journalists’ practices and news media that they...
- Keyword:
- News Literacy, Pedagogy, Journalism Education, Boundary Setting, and Constructivism
- Subject:
- Journalism, Educational philosophy, and Education
- Creator:
- Spikes, Michael Antonio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1009657 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16690
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, we aim to develop a theoretical understanding of foundation models and reinforcement learning. We delve into a comprehensive analysis of specific aspects within these domains. The focal points of our study are as follows: • Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) with Neural Networks: GAIL is poised to...
- Keyword:
- Reinforcement Leanring, In-Context Learning, Imitation Leanring, and Transformer
- Subject:
- Statistics and Operations research
- Creator:
- Zhang, Yufeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013414 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16740
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- Description:
- Rivers and streams play a critical role in connecting major global carbon pools – land, oceans, and atmosphere. The longitudinal flow in rivers and streams allows for the integration and transport of fluvial particulate organic carbon (POC) from various sources and its continual transformation. A continuum-oriented perspective suggests longitudinal variations...
- Keyword:
- biomarker, particulate organic carbon, storm, stream, and agricultural watershed
- Subject:
- Environmental science and Biogeochemistry
- Creator:
- Kim, Jieun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16775 and etdadmin_upload_1014167
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- Description:
- Kaposi’ sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) causes primary effusion lymphoma (PEL). PEL cell lines require expression of the cellular FLICE inhibitory protein (cFLIP) for survival, although KSHV encodes a viral homolog of this protein (vFLIP). Cellular and viral FLIP proteins have several functions, including, most importantly, the inhibition of pro-apoptotic caspase 8...
- Keyword:
- cFLIP, DR4, TRAIL-R1, cell death, HHV-8, and primary effusion lymphoma
- Subject:
- Microbiology and Biology
- Creator:
- Kuehnle, Neil Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16705 and etdadmin_upload_1010776
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- Description:
- The relationship between the structure and function of proteins is a fundamental problem in biology with implications for the future of biotechnology and global health. For example, changes to the structure of a coronavirus spike protein led to a global pandemic where our best defenses were vaccines that could only...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Waltmann, Curt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16624 and etdadmin_upload_991536
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- Description:
- Scholarly inquiry has yielded a wealth of evidence in support of narrative-based strategies for persuasion, and yet support for this approach is less consistent in relation to contentious or controversial issues. To better understand why this might be the case, the first part of this dissertation reports a theoretically-guided content...
- Keyword:
- media effects, narrative, abortion, message format, narrative persuasion, and persuasion
- Subject:
- Mass communication and Communication
- Creator:
- Brooks, John Jennings
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013586 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16755
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- Description:
- Prisoner reentry has become an increasingly popular topic of research in the past few decades due to the phenomenon of mass return as a result of the era of mass incarceration. While research has been done on the experiences of the returning population before mass incarceration, few contemporary researchers have...
- Keyword:
- War on Poverty, prisons, religion, and reentry
- Subject:
- History, Criminology, and Sociology
- Creator:
- Brown, Karlia Nicole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16671 and etdadmin_upload_1004192
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- Description:
- Ankle sprains are the most common musculoskeletal injury. After an ankle sprain, about 40% of individuals develop Chronic Ankle Instability (CAI), resulting in recurrent sprains, the ankle giving way, or feelings of instability. Most sprains occur due to excess inversion of the ankle. Frontal-plane ankle stiffness quantifies the ankle’s ability...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Villamar, Zoe Dahlia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16668 and etdadmin_upload_1002685
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- Description:
- “National Acts: Performance, Commemoration, and the Construction of American Public Memory” explores how sites of public commemoration created during and after the American Civil War crafted conceptions of American public memory and identities through performative processes. This dissertation looks at three commemorative efforts: the Freedmen’s Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln,...
- Keyword:
- public memory, performance studies, American culture, and public commemoration
- Subject:
- Theater history, American studies, and Museum studies
- Creator:
- Bryer, Rebekah M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16732 and etdadmin_upload_1012939
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- Description:
- Dental enamel is a complex bio-composite with compositional and structural features across a wide range of length scales. Defects in these features can compromise enamel’s ability to protect the tooth, resulting in adverse health outcomes. Acquired defects like tooth decay are familiar to most people and are the subject of...
- Keyword:
- Amelogenesis, Enamel, Neural networks, X-ray diffraction, Microcomputed tomography, and Mouse models
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Cooley, Victoria Mae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16769 and etdadmin_upload_1013954
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- Description:
- Many processes in nature and human-made settings rely on the unique properties of charged metal oxide:aqueous interfaces. Despite their ubiquity, these buried interfaces are challenging to study, since any analytical technique aiming to overcome the relatively small number density of interfacial versus bulk species must be highly sensitive and surface-selective....
- Keyword:
- solid aqueous interface, second harmonic generation, nonlinear optical spectroscopy, metal oxide, heterodyne detection, and hematite
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry, Geochemistry, and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Lozier, Emilie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16725 and etdadmin_upload_1012560
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- Description:
- Caves are accessible windows into the shallow subsurface, serving as transitional ecosystems between the photosynthesis-dependent surface and the deeper subsurface. Without a source of solar energy to ultimately power carbon (C) fixation (photolithoautotrophy), cave ecosystems are either reliant on surface-derived nutrients, recovering reducing power from the microbial oxidation of redox-sensitive...
- Keyword:
- caves, network analysis, microbial ecology, and biogeochemistry
- Subject:
- Microbiology, Bioinformatics, and Geobiology
- Creator:
- Selensky, Matthew James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_993827 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16627
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- Description:
- Global dementia diagnoses are steeply increasing. While advances in neuroimaging, neuropathology, and genetics research have improved our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases causing dementia, precise antemortem diagnosis, as well as sensitive and specific biomarkers that can facilitate a differential diagnosis and aid in participant recruitment in clinical trials, remains elusive. The...
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Stocks, Jane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_993222 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16626
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores critiques of mass education alongside the rise of the research university as they appear in the early writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin. More specifically, it traces the development of a theory of (un)learning that inserts distance into the pedagogical relation to produce a discretized educational...
- Keyword:
- Bildung, Nietzsche, Education, Benjamin, Youth Movement, and Pathos of Distance
- Subject:
- German literature and Philosophy
- Creator:
- Laport, Theodore F.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013555 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16750
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- Description:
- Cancer is a complex and heterogeneous disease characterized by aberrant gene regulation. Gene regulation is fundamentally orchestrated by the 3D genome organization which involves chromatin looping, compartmentalization, and the formation of topologically associating domains (TADs). Structural variations (SVs), such as genomic rearrangements, deletions, inversions, and duplications, are commonly observed in...
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics and Biology
- Creator:
- Wang, Juan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16734 and etdadmin_upload_1013045
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores how dominant U.S. constructions of race, class, and gender are embedded into and inscribed onto artificially intelligent virtual assistants and the labors they perform. I examine virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana, interrogating their complex relationship to humanness, the tasks they are programmed...
- Keyword:
- haunting, media, labor, Black, domestic, and technology
- Subject:
- African American studies, Gender studies, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Owens, Golden M.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16772 and etdadmin_upload_1014053
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- Description:
- This thesis explores how beyond-the-Standard-Model physics interactions could lead to the detection of neutrino decay with lifetimes that are orders of magnitude smaller than a second. I mainly focused on right-handed neutrino fields, new heavy states, and non-zero daughter neutrino masses, assuming the neutrinos are Dirac fermions. An extensive description...
- Keyword:
- Visible, Invisible, Neutrino, and Decay
- Subject:
- Theoretical physics
- Creator:
- Weill, Jean
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16720 and etdadmin_upload_1012443
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- Description:
- Clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning, which aims to partition the data set into several clusters. It is widely used for data mining, image segmentation, and natural language processing. One of the most popular clustering methods is centroid-based clustering, including k-medians and k-means clustering. k-medians and k-means clustering...
- Keyword:
- Decision Tree, Clustering, Explainability, and k-means
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Shan, Liren
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16717 and etdadmin_upload_1012370
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on the study of the superionic state in multicomponent systems, where the smaller component exhibits delocalization and mobility while still maintaining system compactness through component attractions. Superionic behavior is widely observed in various systems and plays a crucial role in ceramic superionic conductors, which offer high ion...
- Keyword:
- electrostatics, charge transport, sublattice melting, phase transition, superionic behaviors, and colloidal crystals
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry, Chemistry, and Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Lin, Yange
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16697 and etdadmin_upload_1009942
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- Description:
- One of the greatest challenges in heterogeneous catalysis is the rational design and development of new catalytic systems, due to synthetic limitations in the design of solid catalysts and inhomogeneity of chemical sites at solid surfaces. This obfuscates understanding of catalyst behavior and slows improvements of processes. One approach to...
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Hicks, Kenton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_996080 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16635
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- Description:
- Clean water supplies are required for industry and general life. However, water shortages dueto pollution and human activity are increasingly common, and new, more efficient, materials need to be made to increase clean water supplies. To do this, fundamental information on the interaction of water with ions at the atomic...
- Subject:
- Chemistry and Computational chemistry
- Creator:
- Felts, Alanna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1010659 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16704
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- Description:
- The functions of lubricants in moving interfaces are extensive; lubricants minimize friction, transfer heat, clean the rubbing surfaces, extract debris, and diminish wear. Rather than using separate lubricants for each of the functions, it is more desirable to make one lubricant serve multiple purposes, or a muti-functional lubricant. The goals...
- Keyword:
- Atomistic modeling of lubricants, Pour point, Tribopolymerization, Thermal conductivity, Tribology, and Interfacial tribochemistry
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Ahmed, Jannat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16670 and etdadmin_upload_1004183
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- Description:
- Morality has been viewed as a core aspect of the self and even a basic psychological need. Strategies for regulating threats to moral self-views may therefore be distinct from regulating threats to other self-aspects. Consistent with research on the regulation of basic psychological needs, I hypothesized that threats to the...
- Keyword:
- compensatory consumption, symbolic self-completion, self-affirmation, moral self, self-threat, and psychological needs
- Subject:
- Social psychology
- Creator:
- Yetzer, Andrea M.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16711 and etdadmin_upload_1011962
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- Description:
- The continuing increase in atmospheric CO2 to concentrations exceeding 400 ppm has attracted considerable attention from both scientists and policymakers. Industrial fossil fuel consumption generates a significant amount of CO2 emissions, and in particular, energy-intensive molecular separations that require thermal processes, such as distillation, drying, or evaporation, are responsible for...
- Keyword:
- Dimensionality, Noble Gases, Hexane, Xylene, Metal-Organic frameworks, and MOFs
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Idrees, Karam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_991974 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16625
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- Description:
- Performing complex reasoning has been a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence (AI).This thesis describes a class of AI systems designed to reason, extract knowledge, and answer questions on various domains such as process understanding, elementary science, and math word problems. Our approach differs from traditional logical reasoning systems since we...
- Keyword:
- Knowledge Extraction, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Question-answering, and Reasoning
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Neves Ribeiro, Danilo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16640 and etdadmin_upload_997812
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- Description:
- Lignin is the largest store of renewable aromatic carbon. Due to its refractory nature, however, its chemical potential is not fully realized, rather, most lignin is treated as a waste, burned for low-value energy. Here, we propose a biorefinery where the treatment of wastewater by a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC)...
- Keyword:
- Biorefinery, Antioxidants, Flavonoids, Lignin, and Lignin Nanoparticles
- Subject:
- Environmental engineering
- Creator:
- Obrzut, Natalia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16684 and etdadmin_upload_1008684
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- Description:
- In shared workspaces users have real-time access to others’ actions, allowing greater access to potentially informative cues. However, there has been little exploration about what impact the ability to view each other’s work in real time has on group members’ perception of both each other and their understanding of the...
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Sociolinguistics, and Experimental psychology
- Creator:
- Elliott, Arielle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16759 and etdadmin_upload_1013679
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- Description:
- The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the status quo of the telemobility landscape in the United States, forcing millions of Americans into lock down, significantly changing the way we work, travel, and spend our time and money for an extended period of time. After several months of adaptation, adoption, learning, and unlearning,...
- Keyword:
- latent variable modeling, e-commerce, covid-19, longitudinal tracking, telemobility, and telework
- Subject:
- Transportation and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Tahlyan, Divyakant
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16722 and etdadmin_upload_1012495
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- Description:
- Assistive robots have the potential to support motor recovery after an injury as well as to alleviate the burden of physical tasks for both impaired and able-bodied individuals. Over the last few decades assistive robots have become increasingly more capable. Many can now provide task-specific assistance and can be safe...
- Keyword:
- stroke rehabilitation, human-machine communication, human-in-the-loop RL, metrics of motion, imitation learning, and assistive robotics
- Subject:
- Physical therapy, Robotics, and Communication
- Creator:
- Kalinowska, Aleksandra Ola
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1014307 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16780
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- Description:
- Directional freeze-casting is a porous materials fabrication technique that is used to create materials with complex, three-dimensional pore structures. Particle suspensions are solidified under a thermal gradient, promoting anisotropic growth of dendrites and incorporation of particles within interdendritic space. A fully-solidified directional freeze-cast structure is composed of dendrites that are...
- Keyword:
- convection, microstructure, metals, porous, solidification, and freeze-casting
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Scotti, Kristen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16652 and etdadmin_upload_1000506
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- Description:
- This thesis investigates Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s undermining of soteriological poetics in his comedy Der Schwierige (“The Difficult Man”), with a focus on the complex interplay between meta-language (e.g., stage directions) and dramatic dialogue, normative and contingent speech (i.e., ‘ironic speech’). By challenging what I term the “soteriological agenda” of comedy...
- Keyword:
- Subversion, Critical Theory, Ironie, Geschwätz, Schweigen, and Gemeinschaft unendliche
- Subject:
- German literature, Philosophy, and Theater
- Creator:
- Feliciano, Hector Joniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- de
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1012508 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16724
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- Description:
- This dissertation proves several results for first passage percolation on graphs of polynomial growth.The class of limit shapes for first passage percolation with stationary weights on Cayley graphs of virtually nilpotent groups is characterized. Then strict monotonicity theorems for independent first passage percolation on graphs of polynomial growth and quasi-trees...
- Keyword:
- coarse geometry, first-passage percolation, and Cayley graphs
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Gorski, Christian Stanley Edward
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16688 and etdadmin_upload_1009568
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- Description:
- Herein, we present an overview of our studies of the morphology, dynamics, and formation of heterogeneous soft matter systems via the emerging technique of liquid phase transmission electron microscopy (LPTEM). This particular subset of materials, more commonly referred to as emulsions, is tremendously commercially and biologically relevant, encompassing applications in...
- Keyword:
- liquid phase transmission electron microscopy, soft matter, emulsions, surfactants, and polymers
- Subject:
- Polymer chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Vratsanos, Maria A.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1009969 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16698
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- Description:
- Conversation is an important part of human life. Given globalization and the numerous languages around the world, it is increasingly likely that we will be communicating with others speaking in their second language (L2) rather than their first language (L1). In these situations, communication may require more effort. However, people...
- Keyword:
- Speech in noise and Targeted memory reactivation
- Subject:
- Psychology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Bassard, Adrianna M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16791 and etdadmin_upload_1015288
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- Description:
- Transnational adoption from Asia to the U.S. was institutionalized in the 1950s, when the Korean War left an estimated 100,000 Korean children orphaned or displaced. At the time, the practice was situated as a form of emergency rescue, an act of win-win humanitarianism in which average Americans could take part...
- Keyword:
- adoption, postracialism, race, Asian American, transnational adoption, and international adoption
- Subject:
- Asian American studies and Communication
- Creator:
- Idzik, Sarah Hae-In
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1011071 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16708