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- Kaposi’ sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) causes primary effusion lymphoma (PEL). PEL cell lines require expression of the cellular FLICE inhibitory protein (cFLIP) for survival, although KSHV encodes a viral homolog of this protein (vFLIP). Cellular and viral FLIP proteins have several functions, including, most importantly, the inhibition of pro-apoptotic caspase 8...
- Keyword:
- cFLIP, DR4, TRAIL-R1, cell death, HHV-8, and primary effusion lymphoma
- Subject:
- Microbiology and Biology
- Creator:
- Kuehnle, Neil Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16705 and etdadmin_upload_1010776
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- This dissertation explores two topics in macroeconomics related to aggregation assumptions and microfoundations. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on the representative agent aggregation assumption in the context of open economies, using both an empirical as well as a theoretical approach. Chapter 3 on the other hand, deals with the microfoundations...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Cugat, Gabriela Mariel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14610 and etdadmin_upload_661676
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- Solid oxide fuel and electrolysis cells (SOFCs and SOECs) must be engineered with the entire lifetime of their performance in mind. Electrochemical activity will decrease as degradative processes take effect, leading to higher overpotentials and decreased power outputs. Materials science and engineering can stave off these inefficiencies through an understanding...
- Keyword:
- electrochemistry, ALD, ionics, SOFC, exsolution, and transportation
- Subject:
- Alternative energy, Materials Science, and Energy
- Creator:
- Schmauss, Travis Anthony
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15966 and etdadmin_upload_885008
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- This dissertation examines how racially, ethnically, and sexually minoritized women embodied and contested competing images of national identity between World War II and the Cold War. I challenge dominant narratives of modern dance, which overlook gender politics as women left the art form and white men gained prominence in it...
- Keyword:
- Janet Collins, Abstraction, Theatricalism, Pearl Primus, Women choreographers, and Modern dance
- Subject:
- Women's studies, Dance, and American studies
- Creator:
- Friedman, Jessica
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_960177 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16400
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- Researchers and educators have argued that productive learning may occur when young people have freedom to organize their activity based on their own interests and concerns. Schools increasingly provide “makerspaces” that allow students to design and build objects and technical devices of their choosing, and researchers have developed in-school programs...
- Subject:
- Education
- Creator:
- Meyerhoff, Peter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/29/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15005 and etdadmin_upload_719129
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- Among the most valuable applications of organometallic chemistry is its implementation in the field of catalysis. Many industrial processes rely heavily on catalysis, employing organometallic complexes in the production of commodity chemicals, fine chemicals, materials, and even in the discovery and development of pharmaceuticals. Through decades of intense study, homogeneous...
- Keyword:
- organic synthesis, organolanthanide, catalysis, rare earth, homogeneous, and organocalcium
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Dicken, Rachel Dowrey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_837546 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15667
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- Failed continental rifts provide unique opportunities to study aspects of plate tectonic evolution frozen in time. North America contains three major failed rifts: The Midcontinent Rift (MCR), Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen (SOA), and the Reelfoot Rift (RR). To understand why some rifts fail and why others might succeed to seafloor spreading,...
- Keyword:
- Paleomagnetism, Gravity Modeling, Midcontinent Rift, Paleopole, and Continental Rifting
- Subject:
- Geophysics and Plate tectonics
- Creator:
- Elling, Reece Phillip
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16034 and etdadmin_upload_900658
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- Plasmonic metasurfaces are leading the development of next-generation optical devices with unprecedented compactness and functionality. In contrast to bulk refractive optics, these planar surfaces manipulate light with rationally designed subwavelength building blocks. This thesis focus on how emerging materials and design methods advance the eld of metasurfaces. Chapter 1 reviews...
- Keyword:
- Evolutionary algorithms, Plasmonics, Metasurfaces, Reconfigurable lenses, and Predictive design
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Hu, Jingtian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14543 and etdadmin_upload_640950
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- Description:
- Chromatin, a complex nuclear structure comprised of DNA, histones, RNA, and other nuclear proteins, is one of the most critical components within the cell because it houses the genetic information and its organization regulates important cellular functions, such as transcription, replication, and repair. Its structural organization is well understood at...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Medical imaging
- Creator:
- Gladstein, Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_656834 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14569
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- Cultural appropriation is a topic well-discussed in public discourse and theorized in the philosophical literature, however, it remains vastly understudied in psychology. Existing conversations center on whether cultural appropriation even exists, how it is defined, and if there are psychological and social impacts of being appropriated. No research to date...
- Keyword:
- cultural appropriation, lay theories, and wellbeing
- Subject:
- Social psychology
- Creator:
- Sanchez, Sirenia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985398 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16556
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- Description:
- Memory management and address translation need significant optimizations in order to not behindrances in the near future. Currently, plenty of work has started to address issues within the current abstraction of the hardware-software codesign of paging. I argue that a new abstraction is needed in order to properly address this...
- Keyword:
- Runtime Environments, Operating Systems, Microarchitecture, Blended Systems, and Compilers
- Subject:
- Computer engineering and Computer science
- Creator:
- Suchy, Brian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16132 and etdadmin_upload_912710
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- Vimentin intermediate filaments (VIFs) provide mechanical integrity to cells and serve as markers of tissue origin and cell differentiation. Several non-mechanical roles for vimentin have recently been reported, including regulation of key pathways that control cell growth, cell signaling, and cell motility. Here, I present the role of vimentin in...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Berr, Alexandra Lauran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16237 and etdadmin_upload_927939
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- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used widely and frequently in the clinical setting to image and diagnose patients. In addition to the anatomical scans that can be acquired using MRI, different kinds of physiological parameters, such as blood flow, can be obtained by utilizing pulse sequence, scan protocol and post-processing....
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Jeong, Yong Ik
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_628020 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14483
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- Description:
- As the technology enabling touch-sense rendering of virtual textures grows in efficacy and prevalence, so too grows the need for a standardized means of storing, transferring, and reconstituting textural signals. Furthermore, to achieve the ultra-low-latency requirements of the next generation of global communications networks, this digital texture representation must be...
- Keyword:
- Haptics, Tactile Signal Compression, Touch, Ultrasonic Friction Reduction, and Virtual Texture
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Burns, David Arthur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16413 and etdadmin_upload_962297
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- Description:
- Heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) is well known for its role in the heat shock response (HSR), where it drives a transcriptional program comprising heat shock protein (HSP) genes, and in tumorigenesis, where it drives a program comprising HSPs and many noncanonical target genes that support malignancy. Here, we find...
- Subject:
- Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Smith, Roger Stephen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_902929 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16081
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- Conventionally cross-linked polymers, which comprise the vast majority of commercial thermosets, cannot be decross-linked after curing or flow upon heating. Therefore, they cannot be effectively recycled into high-value products at end-of-life. Their lack of recyclability is due to the permanent cross-links, which restrict the flow of the chains in the...
- Keyword:
- Dynamic, Polymers, Sustainability, Plastics, Recycling, and Crosslinking
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Sustainability, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Bin Rusayyis, Mohammed Abdulaziz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986182 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16581
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- The development of heavy metal semiconductors is a growing field of interest for their application in photovoltaics, light emission, and radiation detection. This is due to their robust ability to convert incident photons of visible wavelength and high energy into charge current while remaining stable, optimizable, and readily synthesizable. As...
- Keyword:
- Semiconductors, Materials, and Conductance Switching
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry
- Creator:
- Alexander, Grant
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/28/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_710938 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14958
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- Tumor-initiating cells with reprogramming plasticity are thought to be essential for cancer development and metastatic regeneration in many cancers; however, the molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. We have previously identified that CD44, a breast tumor-initiating cell marker, drives mammosphere self-renewal and multicellular aggregation of circulating tumor cell (CTC) clusters,...
- Keyword:
- exosomes, CD44, cancer stem cells, extracellular vesicles, CD81, and breast cancer
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Biology, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Ramos, Erika Kathryn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16152 and etdadmin_upload_916551
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- Description:
- Polymer nanocomposites are a designer class of materials where nanoscale particles, functional chemistry and polymer matrix combine to yield unprecedented combinations of superior physical properties. While well-defined data representation and quantitative models have been developed in material science domains such as metallic alloys, polymer nanocomposites have remained a largely untouched...
- Keyword:
- nanocomposite, dielectrics, and materials informatics
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Zhao, He
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_639974 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14530
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a review of three projects I worked on during my time in the Computational Photography Lab at Northwestern University. First, a source separation problem for the X-Ray Fluorescence images of painted works of art is addressed through the incorporation of Hyperspectral Reflectance data. Following this, a discussion...
- Keyword:
- XRF, Computational Holography, Hypterspectral Imaging, Optical Coherence Tomorgraphy, Computational Imaging, and Cultural Heritage Science
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Fiske, Lionel David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_961685 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16405
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- Description:
- The brain is known to shrink in normal aging or neurodegenerative disease and yet the neurobiological underpinnings of the cortical atrophy remain elusive. The structural changes that represent cortical atrophy can be measured during life using the reliable and quantitative method known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Primary progressive aphasia...
- Keyword:
- primary progressive aphasia, neurons, cortical atrophy, activated microglia, and Alzheimer's disease
- Subject:
- Pathology, Medical imaging, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Ohm, Daniel Timothy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_640035 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14532
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- Description:
- The Gram-negative Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is naturally found in water, soil and the plant rhizosphere, and is increasingly recognized as an important opportunistic and nosocomial infection. Despite its rising prevalence and drug resistance, there is little known about S. maltophilia pathogenesis. In this dissertation, I explored two aspects of S. maltophilia...
- Keyword:
- Virulence factors, Siderophore, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Type IV Secretion , and Bacterial competition
- Subject:
- Microbiology
- Creator:
- Nas, Megan Yasemin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_841647 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15700
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- Description:
- Active lateral force feedback is essential for haptic applications in which forces on the fingertip is perpendicular to or in the same direction of finger movement, such as virtual shape rendering and button click rendering. In this thesis, I first present a novel device, the UltraShiver, that can provide large...
- Keyword:
- Localized control, Electrostatic, Ultrasonic oscillation, Shape rendering, Active lateral force feedback, and Button click rendering
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Xu, Heng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15498 and etdadmin_upload_800297
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- Description:
- Electrochemical reactions on the nanoscale play a pivotal role in a variety of areas, including electrocatalysis, energy conversion and storage, corrosion prevention, plasmon driven chemistry, and so forth. An in-depth knowledge of how site-specific compositions and morphologies locally affect the electron transfer kinetics will greatly benefit the design of catalysts,...
- Keyword:
- Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Nanoscale, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Electrochemistry, Tip Functionalization, and Solid-Liquid Interface
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry, Applied physics, and Analytical chemistry
- Creator:
- Chen, Xu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14437 and etdadmin_upload_625491
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- Description:
- “Embodying Race, Performing Citizenship” investigates racial and ethnic impersonationsin American popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, between the 1870s and the 1920s. I focus my analyses on first-generation Irish, Chinese, and Jewish Eastern European artists and their American-born children during a time when the United States had absorbed the highest number of...
- Keyword:
- Jewish American, Chinese American, Irish American , Racial impersonation, Immigration history , and American popular entertainment
- Subject:
- Performing arts, Theater history, and American studies
- Creator:
- De Simone, Maria
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844553 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15740
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- Description:
- People are exposed to inaccurate claims and ideas every day, from sources intended to inform, entertain, or do both. A large body of research has demonstrated that exposure to inaccurate statements, even when conveying obviously false ideas, can affect people’s subsequent judgments. Contemporary accounts suggest that these effects may be...
- Keyword:
- False information, Misinformation, Evaluative mindsets, Evaluation, and Social media
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology and Psychology
- Creator:
- Salovich, Nikita Antonia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_919269 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16167
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- Description:
- Phenotypic variation is the functional unit that evolution acts upon and is the main contributor to the diversity of species. The phenotype of an individual is shaped by genetic and environmental factors. These genetic and environmental factors contribute to biomedically relevant traits such as an individual’s susceptibility to disease and...
- Keyword:
- genetic diversity, arsenic, QTL, albendazole, etoposide, and C. elegans
- Subject:
- Biology and Genetics
- Creator:
- Zdraljevic, Stefan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_683728 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14790
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- Description:
- Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, has received considerable interests in recent years. It enables fabrication of complex, customizable parts that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible for traditional manufacturing methods. 3D printing encompasses a wide variety of processes, including photopolymerization, material extrusion, selective laser sintering,...
- Keyword:
- Optical Imaging System, Continuous Liquid Interface Production, and Additive Manufacturing
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Hai, Rihan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16043 and etdadmin_upload_900931
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- Description:
- Visual localization is a critical capability for autonomous systems, enabling them to accuratelyestimate their position and orientation within an environment using visual data. This thesis focuses on achieving a robust and reliable visual localization on both local and global level to enhance localization performance in a wide range of environments....
- Keyword:
- Visual Odometry, Visual Localization, Visual Place Recognition, and Cross-View Geo-Localization
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Zhao, Pengbo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16532 and etdadmin_upload_984400
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- Description:
- Voltage-gated potassium (KV) currents play a crucial role in shaping and controlling the firing patterns that serve as the fundamental basis for the differential signal processing from the ear to the auditory cortex, with distinct firing patterns observed with high- and low-frequency phenotypes. This is an interesting phenomenon, in the...
- Keyword:
- Ising model, auditory system, Tonotopy, Potassium channel, cochlear nucleus, and action potential
- Subject:
- Biophysics and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Takahashi, Momoko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16410 and etdadmin_upload_962033
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- Description:
- The relationship between the structure and function of proteins is a fundamental problem in biology with implications for the future of biotechnology and global health. For example, changes to the structure of a coronavirus spike protein led to a global pandemic where our best defenses were vaccines that could only...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Waltmann, Curt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16624 and etdadmin_upload_991536
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- Description:
- We prove the uniqueness of equilibrium states for certain potentials satisfying the Bowen property for two flows related to geodesic flows on surfaces with sufficient hyperbolicity. Our first result is the uniqueness of equilibrium states for Hölder continuous potentials and the geometric potential for products of geodesic flows of rank...
- Keyword:
- conjugate points, hyberbolic dynamics, measure of maximal entropy, geodesic flow, equilibrium state, and thermodynamic formalism
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- McEnroe, Rachel Maxine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15743 and etdadmin_upload_844617
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- Description:
- Digital behavior change interventions (e.g., mHealth, websites, behavior change apps) can be an effective way to engage groups who experience disadvantages in terms of social and economic attainment, with tailored health content and have potential to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities. Given the importance and pervasiveness of behavior...
- Keyword:
- Engagement, Health equity, Early intervention, Evaluation, Digital health, and Developmental delays and disabilities
- Subject:
- Behavioral sciences, Public health, and Communication
- Creator:
- Getachew-Smith, Hannah Badal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_900412 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16032
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- Description:
- Women living with human immunodeficiency virus (WLWH) have unique health challenges. Understanding psychological strengths that help WLWH manage their disease and improve health outcomes could reduce disease burden. Although spirituality, a multidimensional construct that includes a search for meaning and purpose, connection with a higher dimension, and experiences and feelings...
- Keyword:
- biopsychology, HIV, women's health, spirituality, positive affect, and program development
- Subject:
- Social psychology, Health sciences, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Bassett, Sarah Margaret Ray
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14769 and etdadmin_upload_679594
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- Description:
- I investigate the spillover effects of disclosure requirements imposed by state governments on oil and gas companies operating in the state. Recently, several state governments have begun requiring companies to publicly disclose information about chemicals used in their fracking operations. The chemicals can result in land and water contamination, thereby...
- Keyword:
- Mortgage market, Fracking, Real effects, and Disclosure regulation
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Creator:
- Sinha, Kirti
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_658818 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14580
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- Description:
- The Picard group is an important invariant of the $K(n)$-local category. If the prime $p$ is relatively large compared to the height $n$, the Picard group of the $K(n)$-local category is purely algebraic. In \cref{chapter:finitetype}, we describe the necessary and sufficient numerical condition when an element $X$ in the Picard...
- Keyword:
- Chromatic Homotopy Theory and Invertible spectra
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Li, Guchuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14617 and etdadmin_upload_661882
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- Description:
- Contest theory is an area of game theory that studies environments in which agents make sunk investments in order to get a prize. These investments could be money, effort, time, etc. Contest theory is used to study a wide range of applications, like political contests, research and development, advertisement campaigns,...
- Keyword:
- Contest Theory, All-pay Auctions, Auctions, and Game Theory
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Catepillan Tessi, Jorge Francisco
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14454 and etdadmin_upload_626486
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- Description:
- The effect of Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) on concrete mechanical behavior and the multi-physics considerations that come along are highly complex. Hydration and other chemical reactions occur at the micrometer scale. Hygro-thermal phenomena and concrete cracks due to ASR are typically studied at the meso-scale, i.e. at the aggregate level. At...
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Materials Science, and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Pathirage, Madura
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15090 and etdadmin_upload_742317
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- Description:
- This dissertation is an ethnographic study of politics of youth culturing in contemporary Turkey. More specifically, it analyzes the politics of temporality that characterized the youth culturing program of the ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi/AKP) over the decade of 2010s. On the one hand, it focuses...
- Subject:
- Middle Eastern studies
- Creator:
- Ozipek, Aydin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15594 and etdadmin_upload_820250
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- Description:
- Light provides a high-speed and coherent medium for controlling quantum states. In semiconductors, coherent optical effects have been used extensively to lift spin degeneracy on ultrafast timescales and demonstrate high-fidelity control of quantum spin states. Extending this approach to novel pseudospins in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), in this thesis...
- Keyword:
- Polariton, ultrafast optics, exciton, Stark effect, valley, and two-dimensional materials
- Subject:
- Optics, Applied physics, and Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- LaMountain, Trevor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_838864 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15680
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- Description:
- Biological therapeutics have revolutionized the way we treat cancer due to their ability to target tumors discriminately, leaving healthy cells unaffected. However, our inability to tailor the structure of biologics may hamper their optimization for efficacy. This lack of programmability contributes to factors such as immunogenic responses, inability to penetrate...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Cancer therapy, Synthetic biology, Synthetic chemistry, Protein engineering, and Protein scaffolds
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Chemistry, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Kimmel, Blaise Russel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_852716 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15804
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- Description:
- Lackluster BA completion rates have made it clear that improving postsecondary outcomes in the U.S. is not simply a matter of raising college enrollment rates. In addition to increasing the number of people who attend college, it is also important to increase the number of people who graduate. Over the...
- Keyword:
- college choice, college affordability, college completion, student engagement, social inequality, and college selectivity
- Subject:
- Education policy and Higher education
- Creator:
- Cook, Amanda Marie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_980138 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16483
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- Description:
- DNA topoisomerases are enzymes present in all domains of life. They are responsible for maintaining the topological state of DNA in cells through supercoiling, relaxation, catenation, decatenation, knotting and unknotting. DNA gyrase is a unique topoisomerase, present mainly in bacteria that can introduce negative supercoils into DNA utilizing ATP hydrolysis....
- Keyword:
- cryoEM, topoisomerase, and DNA gyrase
- Subject:
- Biophysics
- Creator:
- Soczek, Katarzyna M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_658816 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14579
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- Description:
- Orienting attention enables us to select, process, and react to relevant objects in complex environments. Just as we can orient attention in space and to certain object features, recent research has shown that we can also orient attention in time (temporal orienting). This dissertation investigates the mechanisms and the effects...
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Menceloglu, Melisa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_750298 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15167
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- Description:
- We are witnessing an excitement about digital games and related immersive media as these become ever more prevalent in the world. Governments, private companies, and research institutes are investing in these technologies in hopes of transforming education. However, while scholarship on digital game-based learning has been steadily growing over the...
- Keyword:
- Digital games, Metaverse, Mixed-Methods, Teacher practice, Game based learning, and Minecraft
- Subject:
- Instructional design, Pedagogy, and Educational technology
- Creator:
- Bar-El, David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_929400 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16271
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- Description:
- Scholarly inquiry has yielded a wealth of evidence in support of narrative-based strategies for persuasion, and yet support for this approach is less consistent in relation to contentious or controversial issues. To better understand why this might be the case, the first part of this dissertation reports a theoretically-guided content...
- Keyword:
- media effects, narrative, abortion, message format, narrative persuasion, and persuasion
- Subject:
- Mass communication and Communication
- Creator:
- Brooks, John Jennings
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013586 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16755
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- Description:
- The objective of molecular imaging is to noninvasively visualize biochemical events in a living system at the cellular level. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a promising modality for this goal due to its excellent resolution, unlimited depth penetration, and absence of harmful ionizing radiation. MRI techniques frequently use Gd(III)-based contrast...
- Subject:
- Nanoscience, Molecular chemistry, and Chemistry
- Creator:
- McLeod, Shaunna M.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_769217 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15316
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- Description:
- Prisoner reentry has become an increasingly popular topic of research in the past few decades due to the phenomenon of mass return as a result of the era of mass incarceration. While research has been done on the experiences of the returning population before mass incarceration, few contemporary researchers have...
- Keyword:
- War on Poverty, prisons, religion, and reentry
- Subject:
- History, Criminology, and Sociology
- Creator:
- Brown, Karlia Nicole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16671 and etdadmin_upload_1004192
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- Description:
- This thesis consists of three papers studying applied microeconomics and economic history. The chapters are broadly organized around two different topics: the political effects of media and the consequences of disruption to human capital. In the first chapter, joint with Susan Ou, we study the role of media in the...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Xiong, Heyu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662403 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14638
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- Description:
- Over the last few years, understanding user experience within mobile systems has become a popular phenomenon as a means to manage hardware resources. Across the many issues being studied in this area, I focus on how to utilize user satisfaction in this dissertation. Notably, I examine user experience by incorporating...
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Poyraz, Ibrahim Emirhan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_758612 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15207