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- This edited volume presences a nuanced look at a range of issues affecting motives to migrate and outcomes of integration, demonstrating that equitable migration can only be realized by paying attention to how migrants interact with institutional mechanisms and social processes. Michigan State Professor Steven Gold calls the book a...
- Keyword:
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- Subject:
- Immigration Act of 1990 (United States), United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century, Emigration and immigration, Government policy Foreign workers -- United States , Economic aspects United States , United States -- Emigration and immigration, and United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Creator:
- Mahmud, Hasan
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- New York University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Mahmud’s Bangali language monograph, Bangali Musolman Proshno, argues that the national historical narrative of Bengali Muslims has racialized and Orientalized the entire population of peasant Muslims (150 million people, or about 80 percent of the country’s population). This has served to protect the power of the ruling elite since the...
- Keyword:
- Bengali Muslims
- Subject:
- Bengali Muslims
- Creator:
- Mahmud, Hasan
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- Swore O Publisher
- Language:
- Bengali
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Situated within motherhood studies, this edited volume is at the interdisciplinary intersection of literature, life writing, gender, (im)migration, refugee, and cultural studies. Contributors examine literary fiction, memoirs, and children’s literature. The borders that displaced mothers face are examined through frameworks of postcolonialism, nationalism, feminism, and diaspora studies.
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- Motherhood -- Cross-cultural studies --Conditions sociales Motherhood-- Motherhood in literature -- Motherhood in motion pictures -- Women immigrants in literature -- Women immigrants in motion pictures -- Women immigrants -- Social conditions Women refugees -- Social conditions
- Subject:
- Motherhood, Women immigrants, Cross-cultural studies, Women immigrants in motion pictures, Women refugees--Social conditions, Motherhood in motion pictures, Motherhood in literature, and Women immigrants in literature
- Creator:
- Lombard, Maria (ed)
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- Lexington Books
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Dunsky weaves historical background and data with the everyday narratives of Palestinian farmers, scientists, professors, writers, entrepreneurs, cultural initiators, and artists in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi calls the book “meticulously reported” and an “uplifting but gritty book.”
- Keyword:
- Palestine -- Biography Palestine -- Social conditions Palestinian Arabs Social conditions Middle East -- Palestine
- Creator:
- Dunsky, Marda
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Keyword:
- age, income, gender, water insecurity, urbanicity, and Kenya
- Creator:
- Sera L. Young
- Owner:
- Sera Young
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2023
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- Description:
- Source data for to Vien and Ta et al 2023
- Creator:
- Vien, TN
- Owner:
- Paul Gregory DeCaen
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/08/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/08/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- First Battle of the Marne, The Great War, Dreyfus Affair, French Third Republic, French Army, Plan XVII, Paris Commune, René Viviani, WWI, Jean Jaurès, Ferdinand Foch, Raymond Poincaré, Joseph Joffre, German Empire, Battle of Sedan, 1914, Battle of the Frontiers, Louis Loyzeau de Grandmaison, and World War One
- Creator:
- James Miguel Esperne
- Owner:
- James Miguel Esperne
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/05/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/05/2023
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- Keyword:
- Choral, Dissertation, Choir, new music, Thesis, Politcal Music, 21st century music, Music, and Ted Hearne
- Creator:
- Andrew Major
- Owner:
- Andrew John Major
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/02/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/02/2023
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- age, income, gender, water insecurity, urbanicity, and Australia
- Creator:
- Sera L. Young
- Owner:
- Joshua Miller
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/30/2023
- Date Modified:
- 04/30/2023
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- Keyword:
- programming activities, parent-child interactions, spatial activities, and spatial talk
- Creator:
- Brian Andrus, Winnie Chui, Naomi Polinsky, and David Uttal
- Owner:
- Winnie Chui
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/28/2023
- Date Modified:
- 04/28/2023
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- # Brazil bus transportation data and US domestic air transportation network data: --- Temporal network transportation data with monthly resolution. The Brazilian inter-cities bus data was collected from the Brazilian National Land Transportation Agency ([ANTT]( https://antt.gov.br.)). The dataset contains all inter-cities bus transportation from January 2005 to December 2014 with monthly...
- Creator:
- Amaral, Luis, Alves, Luiz, and Lei, Weihua
- Owner:
- Weihua LEI
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/31/2023
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- metaphor, indeterminate music, experimental music, music ontology, composition, indeterminacy, text score, performance, and music analysis
- Creator:
- Benjamin Zucker
- Owner:
- Benjamin Bartels Zucker
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2023
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- Description:
- Cell state transitions are often triggered by large changes in the concentrations of transcription factors and therefore large differences in their stoichiometric ratios. Whether cells can elicit transitions using modest changes in the ratios of co-expressed factors is unclear. Here, we investigate how cells in the Drosophila eye resolve state...
- Creator:
- Carthew Lab, Amaral Lab, and Rebay Lab
- Owner:
- Sebastian Bernasek
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/06/2023
- Date Modified:
- 04/06/2023
- Date Created:
- 04/06/23
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual reality (VR) have attracted growing attention within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry in recent years. Integration of BIM and VR technology can develop workflow efficiency through enhanced common understanding and prepare students in architecture and engineering programs to become leaders of the...
- Keyword:
- building information modeling, performance assessment, AEC education, and virtual reality
- Creator:
- Huang, Joseph Chuenhuei , Hadavi, Ahmad, and Alizadehsalehi, Sepehr
- Owner:
- Ahmad Hadavi
- Publisher:
- MDPI https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Modified:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021-04-03
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.3390/app11073225
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- Keyword:
- Electronic Patient Record -- Information Management
- Creator:
- Khamis, Iman M.
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2017
- Date Modified:
- 03/22/2023
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- This research aims to explore the following: 1- The impact of using various models on the accuracy of the model in predicting stock price. 2- Evaluate the performance of each machine learning-based model created for stock price prediction.
- Creator:
- Iman Khamis
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/22/2023
- Date Modified:
- 03/22/2023
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- Keyword:
- Ion channel, electrophysiology raw data, structural models Rosetta, AlphaFold
- Creator:
- Paul DeCaen
- Owner:
- Paul Gregory DeCaen
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 03/21/2023
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and During the antebellum period, slave owners weaponized southern Black joy to argue for enslavement, propagating images of “happy darkies.” In contrast, abolitionists wielded sorrow by emphasizing racial oppression. Both arguments were so effective that a political uneasiness on the subject still lingers. In The Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart...
- Keyword:
- Frederick Douglass, racial violence, Zora Neale Hurston, southern mythmaking, emancipatory politics, Black joy, segregation, public sphere, and W. E. B. Du Bois
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Stewart, Lindsey
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/16/2023
- Date Modified:
- 03/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4411-8, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4412-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4413-2
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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:
- Gene expression is a regulated process that is driven by ATP consumption. Therefore, regulation must be coupled to constraints imposed by the level of energy metabolism. Here, we explore this relationship both theoretically and experimentally. A mathematical model predicts that activators of gene expression have variable impact depending on metabolic...
- Creator:
- Qiao, Sha
- Owner:
- Sha Qiao
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/15/2023
- Date Modified:
- 03/15/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-03-13
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- Introduction To assess disparities in retesting for glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) among people with diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HTN), respectively, we analyzed medical records from a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer-specialized federally qualified health center with multiple sites in Chicago. Research design and methods We...
- Keyword:
- LGBT, hypertension, COVID-19, healthcare disparities, and diabetes
- Creator:
- Adovich Rivera
- Owner:
- Ado Rivera
- Publisher:
- BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/30/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-13
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10.1136/bmjdrc-2022-002990
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Miriam Felton-Dansky’s Viral Performance proposes the concept of the viral as an essential means of understanding socially engaged and transmedial performance practices since the mid-twentieth century.
- Keyword:
- political theater, digital media, media, viral transmission, Artaudian, and performing arts
- Subject:
- Performing arts
- Creator:
- Felton-Dansky, Miriam
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3717-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3715-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3716-5
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Kai Evers’s Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature develops a new understanding of German modernism that moves beyond the oversimplified dichotomy of an avant-garde prone to aggression on the one hand and a modernism opposed to violence on the other. Analyzing works by Robert Musil, Franz...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Evers, Kai
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2930-6, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2962-7, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6727-8
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil shows how theater was a key site in the struggle to redefine the relationship between art and social change and the rise of an international avant-garde in both nations from 1917 to 1934.
- Keyword:
- performance studies, avant-garde, Mexico, Brazil, and vanguardias
- Subject:
- Performing arts and Theater
- Creator:
- Townsend, Sarah J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3740-0, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3741-7, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3742-4
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and In her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that...
- Keyword:
- social science, journalism, women's studies, and morality
- Subject:
- Social sciences and Women's studies
- Creator:
- Kroeger, Brooke and Hamill, Pete
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2619-0 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6351-5
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Intervening in the multidisciplinary debate on emotion, Tropes of Transport offers a fresh analysis of Hegel’s work that becomes an important resource for Pahl’s cutting-edge theory of emotionality. If it is usually assumed that the sincerity of emotions and the force of affects depend on their immediacy, Pahl explores to...
- Keyword:
- analysis, emotionality, philosophy, Hegel, emotion, and mediation
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Pahl, Katrin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2784-5, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6567-0, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2785-2
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Time and the Shared World challenges the common view that Heidegger offers few resources for understanding humanity’s social nature. The book demonstrates that Heidegger’s reformulation of traditional notions of subjectivity has wide-ranging implications for understanding the nature of human relationships. Irene McMullin shows that, contrary to entrenched critiques, Heidegger’s characterization...
- Keyword:
- phenomenology, Sartre, embodiment, Husserl, Heidegger, existentialism, ontology, and Scheler
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- McMullin, Irene
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2902-3, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2903-0, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6656-1
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- Description:
- Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first century—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- History and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Berger, Alan L. and Aarons, Victoria
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3410-2, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3411-9, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3409-6
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Theaters of Citizenship investigates independent Egyptian performance practices from 2004 to 2014 to demonstrate how young dramatists staged new narratives of citizenship outside of state institutions, exploring rights claims and enacting generational identity. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book traces this avant-garde from the theater networks of the...
- Keyword:
- Egypt, Egyptian revolution, avant-garde, theater, ethnography, and performance
- Subject:
- History, Art, Middle Eastern, Performing arts, and Theater
- Creator:
- Pahwa, Sonali
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4177-3, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4176-6, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4175-9
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies examines the key role that the law and legal frameworks played in the ways Shakespeare explored character and selfhood.
- Keyword:
- English, law, philosophy, theater, Shakespeare, and performing arts
- Subject:
- History, Law, and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Curran, Kevin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3518-5, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3517-8, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3516-1
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Screening Auschwitz is the first and definitive discussion of the classic Polish Holocaust film The Last Stage (Ostatni etap). Directed by Auschwitz survivor Wanda Jakubowska, The Last Stage was the first film of its kind. Marek Haltof has incorporated a wealth of new sources to trace the creation of this...
- Keyword:
- film, cinema, Auschwitz, judaism, movies, and holocaust
- Subject:
- History and Performing arts
- Creator:
- Haltof, Marek
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3608-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3610-6, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3609-0
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to Islam in the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the tight embrace between Islam and politics that has rendered Islamic feminist discourse historically and thematically contextualized in regions where...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
- Subject:
- Social sciences, Literary criticism, Religion, and Islam
- Creator:
- Edwin, Shirin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3369-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3367-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3368-6
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- Description:
- A groundbreaking essay collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet—as a territory, a sociopolitical arena, a natural space of interaction for all earthly life, and an artistic theme—is increasingly the conceptual and political dimension in which... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at...
- Keyword:
- cosmopolitanism, environmentalism, geoculture, essays, and globalization
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Moraru, Christian and Amy J. Elias
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3073-9, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3075-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3074-6
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth...
- Keyword:
- historiography, science, history, narrative, metaphysics, epistemology, naturalism, and theory change
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roth, Paul A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4088-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4087-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4089-9
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Perception in Aristotle's Ethics seeks to demonstrate that living an ethical life requires a mode of perception that is best called ethical perception. Specifically, drawing primarily on Aristotle’s accounts of perception and ethics in De anima and Nicomachean Ethics, Eve Rabinoff argues that the faculty of perception (aisthesis), which is...
- Keyword:
- individualism, perception, philosophy, Aristotle, ethics, phenomena, and virtue
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Rabinoff, Eve
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3644-1, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3642-7, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3643-4
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- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map.
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Bray, Patrick M.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6638-7 and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2866-8
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- Description:
- What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel explores this question through readings of major works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Working at the height of the Russian realist tradition, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky each discovered unprecedented techniques for intensifying the aesthetic...
- Keyword:
- The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Russian literature, Dostoevsky, realism, and Anna Karenina
- Subject:
- Literary criticism and Russia
- Creator:
- Kitzinger, Chloë
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4398-2, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4397-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4396-8
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Muslims in Kenyan Politics explores the changing relationship between Muslims and the state in Kenya from precolonial times to the present, culminating in the radicalization of a section of the Muslim population in recent decades. The politicization of Islam in Kenya is deeply connected with the sense of marginalization that...
- Keyword:
- colonialism, Muslims, politics, and Kenya
- Subject:
- History, Law, and Africa
- Creator:
- Ndzovu, Hassan J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3002-9 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6787-2
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Montaigne’s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle’s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is...
- Keyword:
- philosophy, Aristotle, literary criticism, essays, invention, and Montaigne
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Hartle, Ann
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6733-9, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2932-0, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2965-8
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and In this volume fifteen eminent scholars illuminate the broad and often underappreciated variety of the nineteenth‑century Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard’s engagements with literature and the arts. The essays in Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts, contextualized with an insightful introduction by Eric Ziolkowski, explore Kierkegaard’s relationship to literature (poetry, prose,...
- Keyword:
- dance, music, existentialism, philosophy, visual arts, and aesthetics
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Ziolkowski, Eric
- Contributor:
- Jothen, Peder, Lorentzen, Jamie A., Linnet, Ragni, Fiskvik, Anne Margrete, Peterson, Nils Holger, Garff, Joakim, Pattison, George, Mooney, Edward F., Barnett, Christopher B. , Robinson, Marcia C., Pickett, Howard, Rovira, James, Boven, Martijn, and Green, Ronald M.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3597-0, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3596-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3598-7
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- Keyword:
- HIV, Ethics, and Research
- Creator:
- Brian Mustanski, Kathryn Macapagal, Rana Saber, and Margaret Matson
- Owner:
- Maggie Matson
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/06/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/06/2023
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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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- Keyword:
- sand, sustainability, climate change, infrastructure, and extractive industries
- Subject:
- Sand, Climate change mitigation, Infrastructure (Economics)--Planning, Sustainable development, and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Creator:
- Anita Van Breda (World Wildlife Fund), Missaka Hettiarachchi (World Wildlife Fund), Mike M. McMahon (Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University), and Kate Newman (World Wildlife Fund)
- Contributor:
- Laura J. Powers, Carlos Santamaria, Todd Bridges, Mark Simoni, Aaron Packman, Daniel Franks, Gary Greenberg, Kate Dawson, Halinishi Yusuf, Vince Beiser, Antonis Antoniou Latouros, Aurora Torres, Beibei Xu, Terri R. Norton, Kusum Athukorala, Deepthi Wickramasinghe, and Pascal Peduzzi
- Owner:
- Mike McMahon
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University and World Wildlife Fund
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/21/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/05/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-01
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding and Report
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- Description:
- Contemporary Ethiopian is, without question, facing enormous challenges. At the core of these challenges lay a state-building process major constituencies and elite groups were either alienated from, forced to acquiesce to, or coopted into. Unable to derive political legitimacy from democratic participation, successive governments largely relied on coercion and neopatrimonialism,...
- Keyword:
- citizenship, managing diversity, constitutional law, law, states' rights, Ethiopia, political science, consociationalism, federalism, democratization, constitutionalism, intersectionality, and ethnic federalism
- Subject:
- Law and Political Science
- Creator:
- Dr. Juweria Ali, Loid Taye, Dr. Solomon Negussie, Melhik A. Bekele, Fowsia Abdulkadir, Dr. Christophe Van der Beken, Rediet Baye Ayalew, Professor Thomas Geraghty, Prof. Dr. Adeno Addis, Teguadda Alebachew, Dr. Abchu Wassihun, Dr. Mulugeta Mengist Ayalew, Prof. Dr. Assefa Fiseha, Dr. Mizanie Abate Tadesse, Dr. Getachew Assefa Wodemariam, Dr. Semir Yusuf, Abduletif Kedir Idris, Dr. Aberra Degefa, Kokebe Wolde Jemaneh, Dr. Kalkidan Negash Obse, Dr. Abadir M. Ibrahim, Dr. Zemalek Ayitenew Ayele, Dr. Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha, Dr. Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw, Dr. Abdi Jibril, Dr. Sossina M. Haile, Dr. Tigist Shewarega Hussen, Dr. Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Dr. Adem K. Abebe, Dr. Mohammed Dejan Assen, Dr. Zelalem Mogessie Teferra, Gossaye Ayele, Dr. Yitayew Alemayehu, Dr. Shimelis Mulugeta Kene, and Dr. Sisay Alemahu Yeshanew
- Contributor:
- Mezgebu Tesema (cover art) and May Malone (cover design)
- Owner:
- Basia Kapolka
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries and Northwestern University Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/15/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-22
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-1-954984-06-6
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- Description:
- Cite this article: Shen, J., McFarland, A.G., Blaustein, R.A. et al. An improved workflow for accurate and robust healthcare environmental surveillance using metagenomics. Microbiome 10, 206 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01412-x and Background: Effective surveillance of microbial communities in the healthcare environment is increasingly important in infection prevention. Metagenomics-based techniques are promising due to their untargeted nature but are currently challenged by several limitations: (1) they are not powerful enough to extract valid signals out of the background noise for low-biomass samples,...
- Keyword:
- Quantification, Quantitative metagenomics, Low biomass, Viability, Machine learning, Environmental surveillance, Sequencing depth prediction, and Infection prevention
- Subject:
- Metagenomics, Quantitative research, Nosocomial infections--Prevention, Machine learning, and Environmental monitoring
- Creator:
- K. Allison Perry-Dow, Jiaxian Shen, Vincent B. Young, Ryan A. Blaustein, Mary K. Hayden, Alexander G. McFarland, Anahid A. Moghadam, Laura J. Rose, and Erica M. Hartmann
- Contributor:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (funding agency)
- Owner:
- Jiaxian SHEN
- Publisher:
- Microbiome
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/19/2022
- Date Modified:
- 12/19/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-02
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.1186/s40168-022-01412-x, PMCID PMC9716758, and PMID 36457108
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- Description:
- In an assault on artistic freedom, the Nazi Government attempted to isolate, discredit, and ban musical works of Jewish composers by labeling them “Entartete Musik,” or “Forbidden Music.” After the Nazis seized power in 1933, the government disparaged and condemned works of Felix Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler along with works...
- Keyword:
- Holocaust, censorship , Hot-Sonate, Dadaism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Schulhoff, Entartete Musik, Konzert für Streichquartette und Blaser-Ensemble, and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
- Subject:
- Schulhoff, Ervín, 1894-1942, Dadaism, Jazz, Neue Sachlichkeit (Music), Hot Sonata, Entartete Musik, and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
- Creator:
- Eric Scott
- Owner:
- Eric Scott
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/07/2022
- Date Modified:
- 12/07/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-11-16
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- Keyword:
- DOCS25 Manual Revised 2022
- Creator:
- Theresa Pape
- Owner:
- Theresa L Bender Pape
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/18/2022
- Date Modified:
- 10/18/2022
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- Description:
- Data to reproduce analyses in "Voter bias and the partisan gender-gap in office" and Appendix.
- Creator:
- Mary McGrath
- Owner:
- Mary McGrath
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/12/2022
- Date Modified:
- 10/13/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-10-12
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- analysis
- Creator:
- Mary McGrath
- Owner:
- Mary McGrath
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/13/2022
- Date Modified:
- 10/13/2022
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- Description:
- Learning to discriminate between different sensory stimuli is essential for survival. In rodents, the olfactory bulb, which contributes to odor discrimination via pattern separation, exhibits extensive structural synaptic plasticity involving the formation and removal of synaptic spines, even in adult animals. The network connectivity resulting from this plasticity is...
- Creator:
- Meng, John and Riecke, Hermann
- Owner:
- Hermann Riecke
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/29/2022
- Date Modified:
- 10/07/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-06-29 and 2022-10-07
- Resource Type:
- Dataset