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- Despite the overall decline in the prevalence of cigarette use in the United States, the prevalence of menthol cigarette use is rising. Menthol cigarette use has been associated with greater difficulty in quitting smoking and increased dependence, which can be due to the cognitive enhancing and rewarding effects of nicotine....
- Keyword:
- Nicotine, Cognitive Task Performance, Menthol, and Cigarettes
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Jao, Nancy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_747120 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15153
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- Due to the unprecedented sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO--Virgo network, in less than ~5 years the field of gravitational-wave astrophysics has evolved from speculating about the properties of compact binary mergers to having an observed population that facilitates astrophysical inference. These observations encode information about their progenitor stellar systems ---...
- Keyword:
- Neutron Stars, Binary Evolution, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves
- Subject:
- Astronomy and Physics
- Creator:
- Zevin, Michael Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764716 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15280
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- Geographies of Indigeneity: Space, Race, and Power in the Andes (1880-1930), reframes the intellectual construction of indigeneity as the structural principle informing the postcolonial nation in the Andes. My main claim is that Andean scientific elites defined indigeneity as an ethnicity attached to a territory, privileging only Inca-centric lineages and...
- Keyword:
- Indigeneity, Andean studies, Indigenous studies, Latin American studies, Cultural studies, and 19th century
- Subject:
- Native American studies, Literature, and Latin American studies
- Creator:
- Maradiegue, Walther
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- es
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15293 and etdadmin_upload_765080
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- This project will describe, in part, the central theoretical problem of the avant-garde, in phenomenological, theoretical, and ultimately ontological terms. The object of this chapter will be to acquire an understanding of the tension between the improvised phenomenality of the avant-garde, and its assumption and hypostatization into discourse. In doing...
- Keyword:
- avant-garde, Mandelstam, critical theory, Khlebnikov, and literature
- Subject:
- Slavic literature, Literature, and Modern literature
- Creator:
- Olowoyeye, Folahan
- 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:15138 and etdadmin_upload_744123
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- The era of big data creates opportunities for carrying out scientific simulations at exascale.With increasing data size, the complexity of the design and execution of scientific applications demand the use of high-level tools, namely workflow systems on supercomputers. The performance of workflow systems has paramount importance since the goal of...
- Keyword:
- High performance computing, Parallel Computing, and Parallel I/O
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Kang, Qiao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780039 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15382
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- Transition metal oxides (TMOs) like perovskites are known to be versatile for functional properties such as ferroelectricity, magnetism, optical properties, and high-temperature superconductivity, because of their sensitive coupling between atomic structure and properties. By studying and understanding the fundamental structure-property relationships present in TMOs, it is possible to strategically engineer...
- Keyword:
- perovskites, Density functional theory, and oxygen vacancy
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Materials Science, and Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Shin, Yongjin
- 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:15282 and etdadmin_upload_764869
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- Over the past fifty years, techniques for synthesizing and manipulating matter on the 1-100 nanometer scale have led to the development of nanoparticle-based approaches to both disease diagnosis and treatment. The modification of nanoparticles with biological macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids has led to the development of highly...
- Keyword:
- Spherical Nucleic Acid, Anthrax, Aptamer, NanoFlare, Gold Nanoparticle, and CRISPR
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Bioengineering, and Biology
- Creator:
- Larkin, Isaac Nathaniel
- 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:15186 and etdadmin_upload_754966
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- Neural stem and progenitor cell (NPC) fate specification is a crucial component of central nervous system development, and the myriad signaling pathways that guide it are poorly understood. In my thesis work, I aimed to elucidate signaling mechanisms of the bone morphogenetic protein family (BMP) and some of its targets...
- Keyword:
- YAP, Integrin, neural stem cell, TAZ, BMP, and HtrA1
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Chen, Jessie
- 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:15191 and etdadmin_upload_755327
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- Current biomaterials-based methods for in vitro ovarian follicle culture enable individual follicles or follicle classes to survive and carry out basic functions of the ovary, including hormone and release of mature oocytes upon gonadotropin stimulation. However, these current strategies do not support the survival and maturation of isolated primordial and...
- Keyword:
- 3D bioprinting, follicle, ovary, tissue engineering, extracellular matrix, and ultrasound
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Gargus, Emma S
- 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:15147 and etdadmin_upload_744725
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- The relationship between law and war has evolved substantially over two centuries. One aspect of this evolution that merits further examination is legal accountability. Some international relations (IR) scholars maintain international law lacks meaningful influence without enforcement capabilities. But this critique of international law’s capacity to deliver meaningful influence in...
- Subject:
- International relations and International law
- Creator:
- Trabucco, M. Lena
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780967 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15415