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- Simulation studies are virtually all motivated by decision making. Because simulation output is stochastic and input models are never perfect, all decisions should include an accounting for risks. Input model risk refers to the exposure due to imperfect simulation input models that are estimated from real-world data, involving both the...
- Keyword:
- model averaging, input modeling, input model risk, local sensitivity measures, sensitivity analysis, and input uncertainty
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- JIANG, XI
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763007 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15233
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- Description:
- This thesis provides an introduction to decay rates for the damped wave equation on compact manifolds. It also gives a proof of a sharp decay rate for solutions to the damped wave equation on the torus with damping of a particular polynomial form. Finally it gives a proof of a...
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Kleinhenz, Peter Barone
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764401 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15267
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- Description:
- Classical conditioning is a form of associative learning and can be used as a behavioral paradigm to model and investigate the neural mechanisms underlying associative learning. In this work, classical conditioning paradigms are used to test the effectiveness of a disease model on the impact of learning and emotional regulation...
- Keyword:
- Memory, Persistent Firing, Entorhinal Cortex, Aging, Learning, and Postburst Afterhyperpolarization
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Lin, Carmen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15321 and etdadmin_upload_770003
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- Histone methylation plays an important role as an epigenetic regulator, capable of driving stable, persistent changes in gene expression without changing a cell's genetic code. Previous work has used stable isotope labeling (SILAC) in combination with mass spectrometry to observe the relationship between the methylation of two neighboring lysine sites...
- Keyword:
- mass spectrometry, histone methylation, epigenetics, weighted least squares, and Markov
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Yungster, Nir
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780806 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15401
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- This dissertation examines the longue durée political history of Ateker-speaking agro-pastoralists in the semi-arid plains of today’s Uganda – Kenya – Ethiopia – South Sudan borderlands. Today’s Ateker-speaking communities include the Karimojong, Teso, Turkana, Toposa, Dodos, Jie, Nyangatom, and Jiye. Over the past millennium, Ateker-speaking communities developed a diversity of...
- Keyword:
- Ateker, Teso, Historical Linguistics, Karimojong, Turkana, and Uganda
- Subject:
- African history, Sub Saharan Africa studies, and Linguistics
- Creator:
- Fitzsimons, William
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15257 and etdadmin_upload_764137
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- Abstract This dissertation studies a creative archive composed of poems, novels, performances, and visual art produced after 1990 that increasingly represent the ocean as “one salt water”: a space of relations among Indigenous oceanic peoples, animals, plants, and other beings. In doing so, these texts work to forge solidarities and...
- Keyword:
- Environment, Indigenous Studies, Pacific, Oceania, trans-Indigenous, and Activism
- Subject:
- Literature, Environmental justice, and English literature
- Creator:
- Etherington, Bonnie Joy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15129 and etdadmin_upload_743962
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- Multimetallic nanoparticles represent an important class of electrocatalysts which are critical for many energy and environmental applications including fuel cells, hydrogen production, and greenhouse gas elimination. The properties of these nanoparticles depend on their composition, size, shape, and structure. Therefore, developing new strategies which provide a high level of control...
- Keyword:
- Electrocatalyst, Catalysis, Nanoparticle synthesis, and Multimetallic Nanoparticle
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Huang, Liliang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_754834 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15185
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- Description:
- A hybrid multimodal mobility system aims to deliver mobility as a service by integrating a broad range of existing and emerging public transportation services. The appeal of a hybrid system is twofold. First, it can strike a better balance between cost and level of service (accessibility, efficiency etc.). Second, it...
- Keyword:
- Network design, Continuous approximation, Hybrid mobility system, and Public transit
- Subject:
- Transportation and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Luo, Sida
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15206 and etdadmin_upload_758565
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- Description:
- Optical fibers utilize nonlinear effects to help transmit soliton or near soliton pulses in a variety of contexts including optical communication systems and fiber lasers. Fiber lasers produce ultra-short pulses, down to a few femtoseconds in duration, via a process called mode-locking where modes of the optical cavity are synchronized...
- Keyword:
- Importance sampling, Rare event simulation, Solitons, and Monte Carlo
- Subject:
- Optics and Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Sanford, Nathan Len
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_767150 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15308
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- Description:
- The study of digital inequality has advanced our understanding of how existing socioeconomic disadvantage – such as by income, education, age, gender, and race – translates into disadvantage in the digital realm. Yet, our understanding of the relationships between the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and broader processes...
- Keyword:
- homelessness, urban, digital inequality, smartphones, ethnography, and social media
- Subject:
- Sociology and Communication
- Creator:
- Marler, Will
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763664 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15247