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- In the past few decades, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research has shown that nouns and verbs are processed differently in cognitively healthy individuals, and can be selectively impaired in aphasic individuals. However, this noun-verb dichotomy is poorly understood. This dissertation investigated cognitive and neural distinctions between nouns and verbs by studying...
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- semantics, word-class processing , aphasia, morphology, and zero-derivation
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Creator:
- Sladjana Lukic
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- How do households confront insecurity? This dissertation is a study of how households navigate insecurity as observed through struggles with homeownership and foreclosure. I discuss insecurity as a multi-dimensional experience that puts important resources at risk of loss and reaches into many areas of family life, including health, wealth, food,...
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- Sociology, Households, Economic , and Decision-Making
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Elyse Kovalsky
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- When we speak, we communicate not only with the words we choose, but also with the patterns of sound we create. As auditory experts, musicians are especially adept at making sense of sound, and accumulating research reveals that this extends to their processing of speech and other communication signals. Much...
- Keyword:
- speech, music, perception, language, and rhythm
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Creator:
- Jessica Louise Slater
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- I present research in systems of biomedical relevance consisting of agents near or com- prising surfaces using computational approaches. The research topics include formation of bacterial biofilms, behavior of charged species near stacked, like-charged lamellae, and the the conformational behavior of lamellae with strong self-attraction. In chapter 2, I present...
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- biophysics, soft matter, molecular dynamics, coarse graining , self assembly, and computer simulations
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Bernard McAlpine Beckerman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation presents some development of the single molecular ion precision spectroscopy experiment including construction of the project, spectroscopy state readout, and production of ultracold molecules. Such molecular ion spectroscopy aims at testing fundamental physics such as probing the time variation of electron-proton mass ratio. The theories and characterization of...
- Keyword:
- spectroscopy and physics
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Yen-Wei Lin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The properties of crystalline materials are controlled by their composition and by their structure, however, the structure of a crystal is only partly controlled by its composition. Development of specifically directed inorganic syntheses will require an understanding of the dynamics of crystal phase forming processes, especially those processes involved in...
- Keyword:
- noncentrosymmetry, oxyflouride, crystal, and reconstructive transition
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Michael John Holland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Lattice models of fermions, bosons, and spins have long served to elucidate the essential physics of quantum phase transitions in a variety of systems. Generalizing such models to incorporate driving and dissipation has opened new vistas to investigate nonequilibrium phenomena and dissipative phase transitions in interacting many-body systems. Circuit- QED...
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- Circuit-QED lattices, Nonequilibrium many-body physics, Nonequilibrium perturbation theory, and Dissipative phase transitions
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Cheong Yiu Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- We argue that a country’s level of wealth inequality can be viewed as a reflection of the quality of its housing rental market. Using the ECB’s Household Finance and Consump- tion Survey (HFCS), we document that the aggregate homeownership rate and various measures of wealth inequality are negatively correlated across...
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- OLG Model, Rental Markets, Housing investment, and Wealth Inequality
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sebastian Kohls
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Mixing of granular materials is an important engineering process, and a very complex problem. In this thesis, I use granular mixing in a half-full biaxial spherical tumbler (BST), a spherical container that rotates sequentially about two orthogonal axes, to motivate the study of mixing with piecewise isometries (PWIs), a rich...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics and Piecewise
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Paul P Park
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O (a-IGZO) and other amorphous oxide semiconductors are attracting increasing attention from the display industry for their high electron mobility, ease of large-area manufacture, and potential for future flexible electronics. However, such amorphous materials often show instability under gate voltage bias, temperature, and illumination stress, with extremely slow relaxation...
- Keyword:
- Modelling, Material Science, Thin Films, and Photoconductivity
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jiajun Luo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The behavior of ions in liquids confined between macromolecules determines the outcome of many nanoscale assembly processes in synthetic and biological materials such as colloidal dispersions, emulsions, hydrogels, DNA, cell membranes, and proteins. Theoretically, the macromolecule-liquid boundary is often modeled as a dielectric interface and an important quantity of interest...
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- Interface structure, Electrolytes, Molecular Dynamics, Soft Matter, and Electrostatics
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Yufei Jing
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Tribological behaviors of lubricated interfaces are strongly affected by the interactions between mating surfaces and the rheological properties of the lubricant between them. This research aims to improve lubrication through two approaches: 1) designing surface textures for lubrication enhancement and adhesion reduction, and 2) developing lubricants of desired rheology. Molecular...
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- Molecular dynamics, Rheological modeling, Surface texture, and Advanced lubrication
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Pinzhi Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Broadband networks are one of the most economically significant and fastest growing sectors of the Internet. Recent studies have shown that providing broadband Internet access is instrumental for social and economic development. Several governments, as well as the UN, have gone so far as to label broadband access a basic...
- Keyword:
- Internet measurement, Broadband reliability, Natural experiments, Broadband access networks, and Internet
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Zachary Scott Bischof
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Even though renal blood flow accounts for nearly a quarter of cardiac output, the renal medulla operates in an environment with a scant supply of oxygen. The reason for this apparent discrepancy is thought to be threefold. Blood flow to the outer medulla is less than 50% of that received...
- Keyword:
- Oxygenation, Kidney, and MRI
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jon Thacker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative blinding disease associated with increased intraocular pressure, which is caused by an increased resistance to the outflow of aqueous humor. Although the cause for increased resistance remains unknown, it has been associated with a decreased density of pores in the cells of the inner wall endothelium...
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- Glaucoma, Schlemm's Canal, Atomic Force Microscopy, Optical Magnetic Twisting Cytometry, Cell mechanics, and Finite Element Modeling
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Amir Vahabikashi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation develops and applies coupled marine sulfur and strontium cycle modeling to the highly dynamic Early Cretaceous demonstrating the value of increased model constraint from linkage of biogeochemical cycles with shared forcing factors. A foundation for this work is first provided by review of relevant geochemical, sedimentological, and paleontological...
- Keyword:
- isotopes, modeling, Cretaceous, Sulfur, and Strontium
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Brian Kristall
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Middle Ages, Esoteric, Early Modern, Charlemagne, Occult, Anthropology, Printing History, History, Horae, Medieval Studies, Carolingian Studies, and Grimoire
- Creator:
- Smith, Edward A.
- Owner:
- Ted Smith
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/16/2018
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- Chronic pain is a prevalent and under-treated condition that remains a mystery to the medical system and a major social and economic problem. Unfortunately, there is no single treatment superior to others for relieving chronic pain. While recent scientific discoveries have provided us with functional and anatomical brain biomarkers of...
- Keyword:
- memory, chronic pain, neuroimaging, latent semantic analyses, placebo, and personality
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Sara Elizabeth Berger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The FDA approvals of afatinib and ibrutinib in 2013 led to a heightened interest in cysteine-reactive covalent inhibitors. However, there are few methods to discover new cysteine-reactive inhibitors for enzymes for which reversible binding scaffolds are not known. To this end, we rationally designed a chemical system to attach a...
- Keyword:
- Electrophile, Covalent, Fragment, Ubiquitin, and Nedd4-1
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Stefan Kathman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- The striatum is a subcortical nucleus that regulates a number of complex activities ranging from voluntary action selection to the subconscious formation of habit. The coordination of these operations is mediated by the principle cells of the striatum, spiny projection neurons (SPNs). SPN activity is dictated by a confluence of...
- Keyword:
- plasticity, interneurons, striatum, nitric oxide, and acetylcholine
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Alexandria Ellen Melendez-Zaidi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- E2F-2 is a Retinoblastoma (Rb)-regulated transcription factor induced during terminal erythroid maturation. Cyclin E-mediated Rb hyper-phosphorylation induces E2F transcriptional activator functions. E2F-2-loss causes reduced peripheral red blood cell (RBC) counts, without altering relative abundances of erythroblast subpopulations. To determine how E2F-2 regulates RBC production, we comprehensively studied erythropoiesis using knockout...
- Keyword:
- cellular biology, Biology, and molecular biology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kelsey Swartz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs) are nanoparticle bioconjugates that have found use in a wide-range of diagnostic and therapeutic applications. These nanomaterials are composed from inorganic or organic core nanoparticle scaffolds that are functionalized with a dense surface layer of nucleic acids (typically DNA or RNA) that are oriented in a...
- Keyword:
- Diagnostic, Gold nanoparticle, Cancer, Bioassay, and Spherical Nucleic Acid
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Alexander Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Metalloporphyrins fulfill incredibly diverse chemical roles in biology and photocatalysis, where they act as photosensitizers, redox sites, substrate binding sites, and facilitators of long range electron transfer. Metalloporphyrin chemistry is uniquely tuneable through conformation and functionalization of the porphyrin ring, choice of metal, and interaction with the environment as these...
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- Pump-probe spectroscopy, Structural dynamics, Hemoprotein, Metalloporphyrin, X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, and X-ray free electron laser
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Megan Lynn Shelby
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Gene expression is tightly regulated at the level of transcription through cooperation between cis-regulatory elements and trans-factors that bind to the regulatory elements. Together, these factors regulate the higher order chromatin structure which establishes domains that organize the genome and coordinate gene expression. However, the molecular mechanisms controlling transcription of...
- Keyword:
- higher order chromatin structure, gene expression, transcriptional regulation, transcriptional regulatory networks, and cis-regulatory elements
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Rui Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Introduction and Appendix i-A outline briefly the history of Titan exploration since its discovery by Christiaan Huygens in 1675 through the recent International Mission of Cassini- Huygens. It discusses the roles of some of the ten most abundant elements in the Universe (H, He, C, N, O, Ne, Mg,...
- Keyword:
- evolution, Hydrocarbon cycle, chemistry, Photochemistry, Liquid methane and ethane, Titan, and Atmospheres
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Ashley Middle Gilliam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Worldwide, governments are beginning to take action to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions in order to mitigate the extent of global climate change. The largest fraction of global CO2 emission comes from electrical power generation, which is rapidly being converted to wind and solar installations. The intermittent nature of renewable resources...
- Keyword:
- SOC, Fuel Cells, SOEC, SOFC, Electrolysis, and Energy Storage
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Justin Railsback
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, we present three empirical studies investigating the role of linguistic experience in the processing of probabilistic information during speech production, speech perception, and across modalities. In all studies, we focus on a particular type of probabilistic information related to the probability of a word in a discourse...
- Keyword:
- probabilistic reduction, Lingustics, and Perception
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Erin Gustafson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Science at the nanoscale poses several recurring difficulties. How can we control the assembly of objects too small for direct manipulation to be practical? How can we extend that control to extit{in vivo} systems so we can make use of nanotechnology in medicine? And how can we recreate the extraordinary...
- Keyword:
- dipole, soft matter, active matter, colloids, and simulation
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Joshua McClellan Dempster
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- By 2020, there will be more than 200 billion sensor enabled objects world-wide in the Internet of Things (IoT). The biggest challenge of future IoT is to provide ultra scalable wireless access for a massive number of devices. The goal of this thesis is to build up a model for...
- Keyword:
- sparse OFDM, neighbor discovery, compressed sensing, Internet of Things, and many user
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Chen Xu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Patients with the Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) clinical syndrome have diverse forms of neuropathology, one of which is the cellular and molecular abnormalities of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), at post mortem autopsy. Structural anatomical differences might aid in ante mortem differential diagnosis of neuropathology. The studies in this dissertation investigated one...
- Keyword:
- Memory, Hippocampus, Neuropsychology,, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Alzheimer's disease, and Structural MRI
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Adam Christensen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Despite major advances in the past half-century, significant issues such as educational inequality persist in American education. Accountability policy has become a central, resilient approach for addressing such issues. We see this in the ongoing enactment of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the recent adoption of...
- Keyword:
- institutional theory, education policy, and accountability policy
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Debbie Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Organic photovoltaic (OPV) solar cells aim to provide efficient, flexible and lightweight photovoltaics (PV) with simple processing and low-cost. Advances in device optimization, structural and molecular design, as well as mechanistic understanding have helped increase device efficiency and performance. Within the framework of active layer optimization, systematically improving bulk heterojunction...
- Keyword:
- bulk heterojunction, solar cell, Self-assembly, hydrogen bonding, morphology, and Organic photovoltaic
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Taner Aytun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Planets and planetary systems change in brightness as a function of time. These "light curves" can have several features, including transits where a planet blocks some starlight, eclipses where a star obscures a planet's flux, and rotational variations where a planet reflects light differently as it spins. One can measure...
- Keyword:
- Astrophysics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Joel Colin Schwartz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful technique for characterizing molecular systems. It combines the chemical selectivity of vibrational spectroscopy with plasmonic signal enhancement to achieve the ultimate limit of detection--a single molecule. By overcoming the effects of ensemble averaging, single molecule SERS (SMSERS) probes distributions in molecular interactions and...
- Keyword:
- hot spots, SMSERS, SERS, and Single Molecule
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Alyssa Zrimsek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In 2012 the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collected 19.7 fb-1of data at a center of mass energy of 8 TeV. This thesis presents two analyses focusing on the Z boson. The first is a search for the never before seen decay of a...
- Keyword:
- Z boson, CERN, LHC, and CMS
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Nicholas Mucia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Consider the role of waiting rooms as informal learning environments. In this thesis, I examine a pediatric hematology and oncology clinic to evaluate the patient learning experience. Through staff interviews, waiting room observations, and a review of educational materials I argue that this process is in need of redirection. Most...
- Keyword:
- interactive education, human computer interaction, health education, and waiting rooms
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Zeina Leong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This project examines the uneven adoption of therapeutic initiatives within the organizational field of American museums to ask: How do people frame museum-going as “good” for visitors’ health? Existing research on legitimation processes would predict cultural institutions respond similarly to pressures for greater accountability from their external environments, or resist...
- Keyword:
- disability, senses, therapy, accessibility, art museums, and botanical gardens
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Gemma Mangione
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 12/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How mental representations are constructed and how they evolve are central problems for cognitive science. Representation decisions help determine what computations are hard or easy. Structured, relational representations are a hallmark of human cognition. Developmental studies show that children do not perform as well as adults in tasks that require...
- Keyword:
- Representation learning, developmental model, relational representation, and structure mapping
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Balasubramanian Kandaswamy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Substance use and substance use disorder (SUD) may be variables that influence the course of HIV/AIDS risk behaviors as youth age. To our knowledge, no prospective longitudinal study has examined the association between categories of substance use disorders including alcohol use disorder alone, marijuana use disorder alone, comorbid drug use...
- Keyword:
- Sexually transmitted diseases/infections, HIV/AIDS risk behaviors, Longitudinal study, Substance use disorder, Juvenile justice system, and Detained/incarcerated youth
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Marquita Stokes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- CD1 molecules represent a class of antigen presenting molecules that present lipid antigens to cognate T cells. These molecules have been identified in all mammals examined so far. Unlike MHC molecules, which are highly polymorphic, CD1 molecules exhibit limited polymorphism and are divided in to two groups – 1 and...
- Keyword:
- Immunology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Sreya Bagchi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A disconnect exists between the behavior of transcriptional and genetic regulation in bacterial systems when comparing phenotypic patterns and dynamics of a population to those observed at the single cell level. In this thesis, we developed a number of tools and assays to better understand, overcome, and predict the challenges...
- Keyword:
- Synthetic Biology, Bacterial Signalling, Genomic Regulation, Conjugation, and Genomic Heterogeneity
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Andrew Hilz Scarpelli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While infrequent, clay slope failures caused by earthquakes result in loss of life and substantial property damage. In strong seismicity areas, it is sometimes assumed that the stability of clay deposits can be evaluated through the residual undrained strength that is applicable at large deformations. A crucial factor missing in...
- Keyword:
- Geotechnology
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Zhenhao Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The airway epithelium forms an active barrier between the internal and external environments and has multiple roles critical to normal function of the lung. Its development and function are controlled by a network of transcription factors that regulate gene expression in response to varying stimuli. Dysfunction of this tissue plays...
- Keyword:
- Molecular Biology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Sara Lynn Fossum
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Short-wave infrared (SWIR) photon detection has become an essential technology in the modern world. Sensitive SWIR detectors with low noise levels, and high signal-to-noise-ratios are highly desirable for a variety of applications including light detection and ranging, optical tomography, and astronomical imaging. As such many efforts in infrared detector research...
- Keyword:
- short-wave infrared, Light Detection and Ranging, phototransistor, infrared detector, photon detector, and Electron-injection detector
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Vala Fathipour
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The ability to track labeled cancer cells in vivo would allow researchers to study their distribution, growth and metastatic potential within the intact organism. Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is invaluable for tracking cancer cells in vivo as it benefits from high spatial resolution and absence of ionizing radiation. However, many...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology and Chemistry
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Nikhil Ram Mohan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The circadian clock is a biological oscillator present in all terrestrial life forms that aligns organismal functions with the daily rising and setting of the sun. In mammals clocks are expressed both in pacemaker cells in the brain that are directly entrained by light as well as in all peripheral...
- Keyword:
- Pancreatic beta cell, Genomics, Diabetes, and Circadian rhythm
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Mark Perelis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation draws on a field-level, qualitative study of business analytics to explore the legitimation and design of knowledge practices. In the last few decades, both the power and the acceptance of business analytics have advanced dramatically; nonetheless, end-users and clients can still be deeply sceptical of particular analytics practices...
- Keyword:
- Organizational Theory
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- Christopher William John Steele
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Fungi have an immense untapped store of natural products, small molecules that can often be repurposed as pharmaceuticals. The genes that encode secondary metabolic machinery are often genomically co-localized into biosynthetic gene clusters. Because of the immense energetic costs that goes into producing the biosynthetic pathway and its products, strict...
- Keyword:
- LC-MS, NRPS, Natural products, Aspergillus nidulans, metabolomics, and HDAC
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Matthew Thomas Henke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The progressive women’s movement in the United States during the mid-twentieth century enjoyed increased support and success until national politics were dominated by conservatives during the 1980s. This dissertation analyzes the discourse around women’s issues created by two of the largest conservative women’s organizations, Eagle Forum and Concerned Women for...
- Keyword:
- women's politics, religious women, counterpublics, 1980s, and newsletters
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Anndrea Michelle Mathers
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Growing energy and climate concerns in the United States and across the world demand improvements in energy efficiency, conservation, and renewability. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are highly efficient devices that electrochemically convert the chemical energy of a fuel to electricity. These devices can operate on natural gas as a...
- Keyword:
- Electrochemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Patrick Kevin Duffy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- An accurate knowledge of the engineering properties of rocks is crucial for a variety of geomechanical problems, ranging from wellbore stability to failure in rock slopes, underground excavations, and crustal faults. While strength and deformation properties are usually obtained from a limited number of in situ and/or laboratory tests, their...
- Keyword:
- Civil Engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Shiva Esna Ashari Esfahani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recent advances in optical switching have yielded an all-fiber, all-optical, device capable of routing single-photon quantum signals at high rates (≈25 GHz), with almost immeasurably small degradation of the quantum state[1, 2, 3]. These switches can facilitate complex quantum networking and quantum information processing schemes. However, the complexity of these...
- Keyword:
- Photonics, Switch, Quantum, and nonlinear optics
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Timothy Michael Rambo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies a variety of consumer behaviors and their strategic implications for firm profit maximization. The first chapter discusses how bundle pricing (via shipping policies) allows firms to achieve higher profits than component pricing when consumers's tastes for products are correlated. The second chapter illustrates how durable good producers...
- Keyword:
- demand dynamics, bundle pricing, and secondary markets
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Tongtong Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Client-server architectures have been used for years, and many modern applications rely on this approach to be able to present rich and complex information to users without needlessly encumbering their local device with computation, and also to be able to keep all data in a (more-or-less) centrally available location, as...
- Keyword:
- User Satisfaction, Mobile Applications, Sustainability, and Datacenter Energy
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Maciej Swiech
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A stroke can occur at any point throughout the lifespan, including in utero. The timing of the injury relative to neural development can have implications on the type of lesion, plasticity, and motor deficits. However, associated reactions, which refer to involuntary movement in one limb in response to voluntary activity...
- Keyword:
- hemiplegia and interlimb coupling
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Rachel Lauren Hawe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Herpes stromal keratitis (HSK) is a potentially blinding inflammatory condition initiated by corneal infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV). As its name suggests, the host receptor herpes virus entry mediator (HVEM) facilitates HSV entry through interactions with a viral envelope glycoprotein. HVEM also bridges several signaling networks, binding ligands from...
- Keyword:
- herpes stromal keratitis, herpes simplex virus, immunopathology, inflammation, and cornea
- Subject:
- Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Rebecca Giovanna Edwards
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- An atom interferometric gyroscope (AIG) made with an uncorrelated ensemble of N two-level atoms, rotating at a rate ΩG about an axis normal to the area Θ accrues a phase ϕ = 2ωCΘΩG/c2 due to the Sagnac effect. Here ωC is the Compton frequency of the atoms used, and c...
- Keyword:
- Schrödinger cat states, Atomic Interferometer, Heisenberg limit, and Collective States
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Resham Sarkar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Interprotein electron transfer (ET) occupies a central role in both chemistry and biology, as it is important in a variety of functions including cellular respiration, metabolism, and energy transduction during photosynthesis. Consequently, understanding the protein-protein recognition and docking that controls interprotein ET is an important field of scientific research. One...
- Keyword:
- myoglobin, electron transfer, and protein binding
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jon Vander Woude
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation reports on novel theoretical concepts as well as experimental efforts toward laser cooling of semiconductors. The use of quantum well system brings the opportunity to engineer bandstructure, effective masses and the spatial distribution of electrons and holes. This permits the incorporation of novel quantum mechanical phenomena to manipulate...
- Keyword:
- Optomechanical Interaction, Anti Stokes, Thermometry, Quantum Efficiency, Laser radiation, and Photoluminescence
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Iman Hassani nia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The purpose of this research is to apply a sociocultural lens to examine students’ perceptions of usefulness in mathematics. It is important to explore perceptions of usefulness, as teachers are increasingly being encouraged to help their students view mathematics as useful. However, we know little about how students – and...
- Keyword:
- Equity, Student engagement, Sociocultural context, Mathematics education, and Utility value
- Subject:
- Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Tracy Elyse Dobie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This work argues that Latina/o immigrant Charismatic Catholicism does not encourage passive hope for heavenly rewards but rather emphasizes active strategies for transforming the self and the world. This study responds to two major concerns in the field of religious studies: the concern that Pentecostal forms of Christianity emphasize an...
- Keyword:
- Sin, Charismatic Catholic, Addiction, Latina/o Immigrant, Depression, and Conversion
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Lynn Brigid Elizabeth Jencks
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We introduce and advocate a new paradigm in simulation experiment design and analysis, called ``green simulation,'' for the setting in which experiments are performed repeatedly with the same simulation model but different input parameters. In this dissertation three classes of green simulation estimators are proposed: the likelihood-ratio-based estimators, the metamodeling-based...
- Keyword:
- simulation, database monte carlo, metamodeling, nested simulation, likelihood ratio method, and stochastic kriging
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Mingbin Feng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertations consists of three chapters. The first chapter is on the topic of environmental economics and studies the question of the effects of air pollution on students’ school absences, finding significant and positive effects for air pollution, and PM10 in particular, on school absences. The second chapter is on...
- Keyword:
- Environmental economics, Economics, and Labor economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Amirreza Khosroshahi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Raman spectroscopy is an established and versatile molecular sensing technique, but it is limited by its modest chemical sensitivity. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) can amplify otherwise weak normal Raman signals up to nine to ten orders of magnitude, giving rise to its application in many molecular sensing problems, including those...
- Keyword:
- electrochemistry, Raman spectroscopy, SERS, and spectroelectrochemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Stephanie Zaleski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis discusses the application of advanced digital signal and image processing techniques, particularly the technique known as super-resolution (SR), to enhance the imagery produced by cameras mounted on an airborne platform such as an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). SR is an image processing technology applicable to any digital, pixilated...
- Keyword:
- Photogrammetry, Image Processing, Remote Sensing, and Superresolution
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Matthew Collier Woods
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While equal political participation is a fundamental democratic ideal, it is an ideal unrealized in the United States. Those with more—more education, more money, more time, more skills—participate more. Those who have less—especially the poor and minorities—participate less and may be absent from the process altogether. A similar statement could...
- Keyword:
- civic, education, Head Start, Obama, policy, political behavior
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Lauren Lowenstein Bauer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation aims to address a gap in the literature regarding the effect of the achievement-focused student identity on prosocial values and behaviors, specifically among students who predominantly value prosociality. Largely, research on identity and motivation addresses academic outcomes and psychological well-being outcomes (Settles, Sellers, & Damas, 2002; Jaret &...
- Keyword:
- Identity, Academic Motivation, Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Prosocial Motivations
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Vida Magarita Manzo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this thesis I present the theoretical work on Fermionic surface states, and bulk Bosonic collective excitations in topological superfluids and superconductors. Broken symmetries in topological condensed matter systems have implications for the spectrum of Fermionic excitations confined on surfaces or topological defects. For the B-phase of superfluid 3He, which...
- Keyword:
- Physics and Topological Superfluids
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Hao Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Semiconducting nanoelectronic materials, including single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess interesting optoelectronic properties that could enable next-generation electronics, sensing technologies, and biomedicine. In this thesis, biomolecule-assisted dispersion and assembly of these nanomaterials are explored for human toxicity, environmental hazard potential, and applications in supramolecular hydrogels. Liquid-based...
- Keyword:
- Carbon Nanomaterials, Toxicity, Biofunctionalization, Supramolecular Hydrogel, and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Nikita Mansukhani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation considers how best to define the imagined “life” of the puppet, and how that “life” offers new meaning to narrative puppet productions. In my first chapter, begin with the observation that puppeteers, scholars, and audiences often describe the puppet as an object that appears to “have life,” and...
- Keyword:
- Redmoon Theater, Phenomenology, Stuffed Puppet, Puppetry, Puppet, and Handspring Puppet Company
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Dawn Tracey Brandes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In yeast, inducible genes such as INO1, PRM1 and HIS4 reposition from the nucleoplasm to nuclear periphery upon activation. This leads to a physical interaction with nuclear pore complex (NPC), interchromosomal clustering, and stronger transcription. Repositioning to the nuclear periphery is controlled by cis-acting transcription factor (TF) binding sites located...
- Keyword:
- Molecular biology and Cellular biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Carlo Randise-Hinchliff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the extent to which Portuguese theologian, papal penitentiary, bishop, and abbot Andreas de Escobar, O.S.B. (1348-1448) benefited from contemporary trends in manuscript culture and thereby functioned as a late-medieval public intellectual. Recent research suggests that early-fifteenth-century university-trained theology masters used their expertise and authority to intervene into...
- Keyword:
- manuscripts, Benedictine order, curia, Great Schism, conciliarism, and theology
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Johanna Leigh Sturgeon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by progressive motoneuron loss. Autopsy from thoracic spinal tissues of sALS patients revealed a significant loss of large motoneurons while medium and small motoneurons were relatively unaffected. Using two-photon microscopy, we observed a soma hypertrophy of neonatal motoneurons in mice overexpressing mutant human G93A-superoxide...
- Keyword:
- Accounting and Neuroscience
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Su-Wei Kuo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Supported metal oxides are an important class of catalysts for chemical synthesis and manufacturing, particularly for selective oxidation reactions. This dissertation seeks to understand broad relationships among families of silica-supported Group 4 and 5 metal oxide catalysts for the synthesis of epoxides with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and to further extend...
- Keyword:
- supported oxide, calixarene, hydrogen peroxide, epoxidation, niobium, and heterogeneous catalysis
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Nicholas Earl Thronburg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are an attractive solar energy technology for low-current applications. Herein is described the supramolecular design and methodology to manipulate intermolecular interactions in order to create an active layer in OPVs devices composed of crystalline and amorphous donor-acceptor domains, which has been proposed as the ideal morphology for...
- Keyword:
- Organic Solar Cella, Hydrogen-bonding, and Supramolecular
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Leonel Barreda
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Regeneration is a complex biological phenomenon. Organisms that regenerate must possess robust mechanisms that direct new tissue production of the appropriate size and pattern to allow for correct and functional integration with preexisting tissue structures. Planarians are flatworms capable of regenerating from nearly any injury, making them a powerful system...
- Keyword:
- Planaria, Morphallaxis, Regeneration, Body Patterning, Stem Cells, and Size Control
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Eric Michael Hill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Polyurethane (PU) is an important commodity polymer with a broad range of applications. Increasing regulations on isocyanates have prompted investigations into alternative routes to PU. Cyclic carbonate aminolysis leading to polyhydroxyurethane (PHU) is a promising alternative. This dissertation describes the first fundamental investigation of the synthesis and properties of segmented,...
- Keyword:
- Thermoplastic Elastomer, Structure-Property-Relationship, Non-Isocyanate, Polyhydroxyurethane, Cyclic Carbonate Aminolysis, and Polyurethane
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Goliath Beniah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation provides the first in-depth comparative study in any language of the female figurations made, viewed, and interpreted in the realm of refashioning modern Chinese painting during the war period of Republican China (1930s-1940s) in the Nationalist government-controlled southwestern inner frontier, with projects by Pang Xunqin (1906–85) and Fu...
- Keyword:
- National Imagination, Chinese painting, Nationalism, Social Critique, Fu Baoshi, and Pang Xunqin
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Xiao Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Perhaps better suited for the mosh pit than the orchestra pit, David Lang’s 1991 tour-de-force for solo bass clarinet, Press Release, is a minimalist marvel. Comprised of seven “groove sections” that evolve in seemingly unpredictable ways, Lang cleverly employs monophony to tell a robust story of motivic and harmonic development....
- Keyword:
- Eric Mandat, Roberto Sierra, David Lang, Libby Larsen, Music Analysis, Music, Bass Clarinet, and Music Performance
- Subject:
- David Lang, Music Theory, Music Analysis, Bass Clarinet, and Music Performance
- Creator:
- Andrew Hudson
- Owner:
- Andrew Douglas Hudson
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-05
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- Description:
- Plenary Lecture delivered at the Black History Month Symposium at New College, Florida.
- Keyword:
- Ken Saro Wiwa and Nigeria
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-02-18
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- A Dialogue on Nation-Building took place in Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on January 14-16, 2018. I was one of a dozen individuals invited to serve as resource persons for this meeting of over a hundred representatives from the government, civil society, political and faith-based organizations. The aim of the gathering was to...
- Keyword:
- africa and Ethiopia
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-14
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- X-ray reflectivity (XRR) versatile technique that characterize the surface structures. However, due to the lack of phase information of X-ray data, the reconstruction of electron density profile (EDP) from XRR data is an ill-posed inverse problem that requires extra attention. In Chapter 1, several key concepts in XRR data analysis...
- Keyword:
- Ionic liquids, in-situ, X-ray, Dynamics, charged surfaces, and Ordering
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Miaoqi Chu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In December 1928, Ernst Jünger wrote to his brother Friedrich Georg: “Wir müssen uns […] bemühen, die literarische Tätigkeit als Kriegsmittel zu betrachten.” This project analyzes the result of said activity: viz. text understood as a means of war. That is to say, it does not aim at answering questions...
- Keyword:
- Subversion, Jünger, Nationalism, Planetary, Weimar, and Breakthrough
- Subject:
- German Literature and Critical Thought
- Creator:
- Clemens Börries Ackermann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most prevalent primary central nervous system malignancy. Due to the aggressive nature of these tumors and our inability to adequately treat them, only 3-5% of patients survive longer than 3 years post-diagnosis. The standard of care for newly diagnosed GBM is surgical resection followed by...
- Keyword:
- siRNA, Ribozyme, Glioblastoma, Spherical nucleic acids, Gold nanoparticles, and MGMT
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Timothy L. Sita
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Classic mechanism design studies the implementation of optimal systems or processes in the presence of multiple selfish and fully rational agents. The theory of mechanism design has been one of the most celebrated advances in the economics discipline, especially with regards to auctions Myerson (1981),Vickrey (1961), Clarke (1971), Groves (1973)....
- Keyword:
- Algorithmic Game Theory, Algorithmic Mechanism Design, Algorithms, and Auction Theory
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Emmanouil Pountourakis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
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- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Musicians have a responsibility to assess and perform new or extant music in order to present a larger body of repertoire to audiences. The purpose of this study is to introduce the euphonium music of the contemporary Belgian composer Frangois Glorieux to the tubaeuphonium community. With numerous works written for...
- Keyword:
- Orchestra, Euphonium Music, and Symphony
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Christopher James Dickey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2013-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), the result of fetal alcohol exposure (FAE), affects 2-11% of children worldwide with no treatments in sight. In my thesis work, I aimed to identify underlying biological mechanisms of the FAE-induced hippocampus-based cognitive deficits that would lead to identify potential treatment targets to reverse the...
- Keyword:
- Neurosciences
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Elif Tunc-Ozcan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Nano-structured mixed ionic and electronic conducting (MIEC) materials have garnered intense interest in electrode development for solid oxide fuel cells due to their high surface areas which allow for effective catalytic activity and low polarization resistances. In particular, composite solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) cathodes consisting of ionic conducting scaffolds...
- Keyword:
- Degradation, Nanoparticles, Cathodes, SOFC, Infiltration, and Electrochemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Ann Virginia Call
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Kainate receptors (KARs) are expressed throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems. One of three subfamilies of ionotropic glutamate receptors, KARs are localized both pre- and post-synaptically and exert important modulatory control over neural circuits. This modulatory role in circuit function makes them a potential actor in wide variety of...
- Keyword:
- Neurosciences
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Claire Vernon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Radiation is a ubiquitous health risk. Contemporary populations are exposed to several hundred milliSieverts per person over their lifetimes from both natural and human made sources such as radon, cosmic rays, CT-scans, etc. Risk estimates based on studies of atomic bomb survivors suggest that these exposures induce excess cancer mortality...
- Keyword:
- radiation, DDREF, and protraction
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Benjamin McGee Haley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Patients born with severe heart defects need regular monitoring of the complex hemodynamics in their heart and vasculature. 4D flow MRI has emerged as the state-of-the-art technique for comprehensively evaluating cardiovascular hemodynamics. This imaging technique allows for the dynamic visualization of 3D blood through the cardiac cycle and the quantification...
- Keyword:
- Biomedical Engineering and Medical imaging
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Kelly Jarvis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- With the dual challenges of meeting global energy demand and mitigating anthropogenic climate change, significant effort is being applied to generating power from renewable sources. The dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) is a photovoltaic technology capable of generating electricity from sunlight, but suffers losses in efficiency due to deleterious electron transfer...
- Keyword:
- Alternative Energy, Material Science, and Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- William L. Hoffeditz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Algebras and their bimodules form a 2-category in which 2-morphisms are certain zero-th Hochschild cohomology groups. When we derive this structure (i.e., use Hochschild cochains instead of HH^0 for 2-morphisms), we find that algebras form a category in dg cocategories. The Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg theorem and non-commutative calculus give a rich algebraic...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics and Algebra
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Ann Rebecca Wei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We studied the nonlocal effects of intraspecific prey competition on the stability of the critical points of the Rosenzweig-MacArthur model and the Holling-Tanner model, respectively, using linear stability analysis. In particular we focused on the study of the stability of the coexistence state influenced by the nonlocality for both models....
- Keyword:
- Applied Mathematics
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Jiang Zhuo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Advancements in nanotechnology have led to the production of devices with components with sub-100 nm size scales. Studies have investigated how properties of polymers change when confined to nanoscale dimensions. However, stiffness-confinement studies have reported increases, decreases, and invariance with confinement for different polymer/substrate pairs, making it difficult to obtain...
- Keyword:
- Fluorescence, Modulus, Stiffness, Thin Film, Stress, and Polymer
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Shadid Askar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Scholars have noted that food marketing significantly impacts the lives of children, influencing what foods they request and consume. However, the impact of food marketing on low-income children has only been explored minimally. This project explores both media-based and in-store food marketing to low-income families, along with potential outcomes of...
- Keyword:
- Marketing, Public Health, and Communication
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Heather Montague
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The development of metal-based probes has provided major benefits to understanding basic biological process and clinical outcomes. Metals offer access to geometries that carbon alone cannot attain, along with valuable magnetic, optical, and binding properties. Metals have proven to be particularly useful in advancing molecular imaging, a field that seeks...
- Keyword:
- Biochemistry
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Luke Vistain
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- As the title suggests, this dissertation is composed of three major topics. The first two are optimization problems focusing on developing effective solution methodologies, while for the last topic we present a large-scale information retrieval system in the domain of sports. With the algorithms and frameworks developed in this dissertation,...
- Keyword:
- Operational research and Industrial Engineering
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Mingyang Di
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The genetic code, a set of rules by which mRNA codons are translated into the twenty standard amino acids used in protein synthesis, was once thought to be immutable. As we expanded our understanding of molecular biology more variations in this genetic code have been found across the animal kingdom....
- Keyword:
- genomically recoded organisms, non-standard amino acid, orthogonal translation system, and protein synthesis
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Jessica Gabrielle Perez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Natural products provide a renewable resource of novel chemical structures with relevance to the pharmaceutical, agricultural and materials industries. Genome sequencing has revealed that these industries currently rely on only a fraction of the number of natural products that exist in nature. Based on the impact that known natural products...
- Keyword:
- Biosynthesis, Streptomyces, Natural Products, Mass Spectrometry, Cell-Free Protein Synthesis, and Secondary Metabolism
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Anthony Whitney Goering
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation