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- The US yogurt market has been volatile in the last decade, marked by striking sales increases and dramatic market structure changes. According to an industry report, dollar sales of yogurt in 2017 reached $8.8 billion---a more than 80% increase from 2007. Such remarkable sales growth can be attributed to the...
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Liu, Caiyun
- 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:14836 and etdadmin_upload_686301
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- This thesis forcuses on the development of the transition-edge sensor (TES) for various X-ray science applications, especially for synchrotron beamline experiments. The ultimate aim is to build a detector that has a higher energy resolution than semiconductor detectors, and a higher operation speed than crystal spectrometers. The possible applications include...
- Subject:
- Applied physics
- Creator:
- Yan, Daikang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_654970 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14563
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- Histamine is a well-known potent mediator during the elicitation of IgE-mediated allergic diseases. The most robust, and potentially fatal, response of histamine is observed in patients with food allergy that undergo IgE-mediated anaphylaxis. The key mechanisms of the biology of histamine in allergic disease are well-established, however there are still...
- Keyword:
- Histamine and Allergy
- Subject:
- Immunology
- Creator:
- Velez, Tania Estefania
- 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:14550 and etdadmin_upload_647138
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- Problems in interpersonal functioning are a major concern. In adults, interpersonal dysfunction is often investigated as it relates to personality disorders (PDs). In fact, researchers have argued that a core of interpersonal dysfunction is what defines personality disorders (Hopwood, Wright, Ansell, & Pincus, 2013). This is perhaps most evident for...
- Keyword:
- development, measurement, personality pathology, personality, and relational aggression
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Reardon, Kathleen Wade
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_660699 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14590
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- This dissertation explains the heterogeneous effects of armed conflict on sub-national governance in the North Caucasus. While acknowledging the role of inherited institutions, my multimethod investigation shows how they were strategically transformed during the breakup of the Soviet Union, creating unintended consequences and the basis for governance today. My main...
- Keyword:
- State-Building, Civil War, Governance, Armed Conflict, North Caucasus, and Institutional Change
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Klyachkina, Alexandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_685963 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14820
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- Description:
- Nonlinear systems with many interacting components often exhibit behaviors that cannot be anticipated, even in principle, by only knowing the properties of the constituent parts and thereby emerge as a result of interactions between the parts. Examples of such systems range from power grids and financial markets to food networks...
- Subject:
- Physics and Fluid mechanics
- Creator:
- Case, Daniel
- 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:14840 and etdadmin_upload_686369
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- The literature has established glucokinase (GCK) to be the principal hexokinase (HK) in the liver, operating as a glucose sensor to regulate glucose metabolism and lipid homeostasis. We have recently proposed Hexokinase Domain Containing-1 (HKDC1) to be a novel 5th HK with expression in the liver. Here, we reveal HKDC1...
- Keyword:
- Hexokinase, NAFLD, Liver Metabolism, and HKDC1
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Biology, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Pusec, Carolina
- 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:14450 and etdadmin_upload_626205
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- Description:
- Identifying key molecular mechanisms and targets for therapeutic development in sporadic neurodegenerative diseases has been challenging. Therefore, in-depth investigation of genetic forms of disease can provide valuable insight into pathogenic disease mechanisms. The discovery of genetic forms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) has highlighted the importance of the autophagy/lysosomal and mitochondrial/oxidative...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Nguyen, Maria Bac-Ai
- 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:14484 and etdadmin_upload_630756
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- Description:
- Public memory studies in rhetoric have typically neglected how we use shared memories to form, maintain, and pass down social norms through the objects we encounter and the practices we participate in during our everyday lives. This is especially true for children’s toys, because they are understood as essential objects...
- Keyword:
- public memory, childhood, toys, gender, and rhetoric
- Subject:
- Gender studies and Rhetoric
- Creator:
- DeLaCruz, Lauren
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_660506 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14588
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- Description:
- Recent studies have begun to examine white matter connectivity aberrations in psychiatric populations, such as major depressive disorder. Several studies have found reduced white matter integrity (WMI) in depressed samples, though the location of this reduction is not clear. Incorporating symptom measures of depression severity and rumination may allow for...
- Keyword:
- rumination, women's health, depression, and white matter
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology, Psychology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Satyshur, Maureen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_676234 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14751
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- Description:
- New neurons are continuously produced in the subgranular zone of the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus throughout life. These newborn dentate granule cells (DGCs) undergo a stereotyped process of morphological and functional maturation during the first few weeks after differentiation that recapitulates some aspects of postnatal neuronal development. The inhibitory...
- Keyword:
- running, Fragile X, adult neurogenesis, GABA, dentate gyrus, and synapse
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Remmers, Christine L
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_634151 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14492
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- Description:
- Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) are two devastating neurodegenerative diseases that affect 100,000s of people globally. They have a severe adverse impact on society, yet there are currently no early diagnostic tools or disease-modifying therapies available. Despite their clinical heterogeneity, evidence points to these diseases being on...
- Keyword:
- microRNA, Compositional Data Analysis, TDP-43 Proteinopathy, FUS Proteinopathy, RNA-Seq, and Mitochondria
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Bioinformatics, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- McGee, Warren A
- 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:14675 and etdadmin_upload_663037
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- Description:
- Biological tubes are essential for animal survival, and their functions are highly dependent on tube shape. Analyzing the contributions of cell shape and organization to the morphogenesis of small tubes has been hampered by the limitations of existing programs in quantifying cell geometry on highly curved tubular surfaces and calculating...
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Yang, Ran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_674761 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14738
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- Description:
- The presence of unwanted biofilms on surfaces is a great concern for industrial, naval, and healthcare fields, and many other settings. To better inhibit, remove, or harness the properties of biofilms, an explanation of how specific structural or chemical features of biofilm matrix components leads to enhanced adhesion and persistence...
- Keyword:
- adsorption, protein mechanics, curli, biofilm, Molecular Dynamics, and CsgA
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- DeBenedictis, Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686008 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14823
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- Description:
- Flowing granular mixtures with species differing in some property, such as size, shape or density of the grains, tend to segregate (de-mix) during flow. Since flowing granular materials are common in industry, and since segregation is often unwanted and costly, understanding and mitigating segregation is an important concern in industrial...
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Fry, Alexander Michael
- 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:14808 and etdadmin_upload_685275
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a history of religious conservatism between 1880 and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. Its main argument is that conservative religion in America, rather than being defined by fundamentalism, theological disputes, or cultural antipathy towards pluralism, was an outgrowth of a profound faith in capitalism...
- Keyword:
- Culture Wars, Conservatism, Fundamentalism, Capitalism, and Billy Sunday
- Subject:
- History and Religious history
- Creator:
- Noddings, Timothy Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_657277 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14570
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- Description:
- The analytical paradigm in philosophy has as a pillar an analysis of the sentence as a basic entity. New sentences may be built from old sentences recursively through the application of logical constants, recently including intensional operators. Models are built on how these logical constants interact with each other, and...
- Keyword:
- Conditionals, Modality, Abstract Algebra, Lambda Calculus, Generative Grammar, and Intension
- Subject:
- Logic, Linguistics, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Cook, Ezra Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_618271 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14415
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- Description:
- Soft materials such as colloids and polymers often exhibit a variety of mesoscopic structures that are governed merely by weak physical interactions. Due to these intermediate structures, they can be easily taken out of thermal equilibrium by introducing external stimuli such as a shear flow and electromagnetic fields. This thesis...
- Keyword:
- Phase transition, Nonequilibrium dynamics, Coarse-grained simulations, Self-assembly, Soft matter, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Computational physics, and Statistical physics
- Creator:
- Han, Ming
- 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:14411 and etdadmin_upload_618073
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- Description:
- While Li-ion batteries are currently the preferred energy storage technology, multivalent alternatives such as Mg should be considered. Magnesium metal has a high volumetric capacity and has been shown to cycle with no dendrite formation. However, the highly charged Mg2+ ion cannot easily diffuse into the oxide cathodes favored in...
- Keyword:
- Solid State Chemistry, Multivalent Batteries, Magnesium Cathodes, and Hydrothermal Synthesis
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Wustrow, Allison
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662066 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14625
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- Description:
- This project traces the efforts by Scottish Protestants to achieve complete religious uniformity in the decades following the Reformation. Discontented with outward conformity, the via media that long characterized our understanding of religious reform in England, Scotland’s ministers sought to work genuine conversions among those who resisted the new order....
- Keyword:
- Kirk, Scotland, Catholics, Catholicism, Reformation, and Presbyterians
- Subject:
- History and European history
- Creator:
- Burns, Ryan Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_661778 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14612
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- Description:
- One of the grand challenges in science is development of soft materials that mimic living organisms to optimize the way we use energy, translate or morph reversibly or sense their envi- ronment and respond in a useful fashion. Using the insights from studying biological structures, we hope to design soft...
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Biochemistry, and Computational chemistry
- Creator:
- Iscen, Aysenur
- 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:14770 and etdadmin_upload_679718
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I study the effects of mortgage leverage policies. These policies have become widely used in recent years, both as a macroprudential tool and to protect consumers, yet their effects are still not well understood. In Chapter 1, I show that mortgage leverage rules implemented under the Dodd-Frank...
- Keyword:
- mortgages, entrepreneurship, financial regulation, and house prices
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Johnson, Stephanie Georgina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662744 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14658
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- Description:
- Deep neural networks have shown impressive performance for many applications. In this dissertation, leveraging the capabilities of neural networks for modeling the non-linearity exists in the data, we propose several models that can project data into a low dimensional, discriminative, and smooth manifold. The suggested models can transfer knowledge from...
- Keyword:
- Discriminative, Clustering, LIGO, and Dimensionality Reduction
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Bahaadini Beigy Zarandi, Sara
- 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:14850 and etdadmin_upload_686625
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies three distinct problems in econometrics. Chapter 1 proposes an adaptive randomization procedure for two-stage randomized controlled trials. The method uses data from a first-wave experiment in order to determine how to stratify in a second wave of the experiment, where the objective is to minimize the variance...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Tabord-Meehan, Max
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_655369 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14566
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- Description:
- The cerebellum is involved in sensorimotor processing and motor control in the brain. What has been found across many species for many behaviors is cerebellar Purkinje (Pkj) cells and cerebellar nuclear (CbN) cells show activity that is related to and predictive of movements. Less is known about how patterns of...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Brown, Spencer T
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_669457 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14720
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- Description:
- Many human diseases are chronic and ultimately fatal because they damage organs and tissues beyond the body’s normal repair mechanisms. Therefore, there is significant medical interest in developing pharmaceuticals that enhance the body’s natural injury repair mechanisms and engineering organs in the lab for transplantation. However, comparatively little is known...
- Subject:
- Molecular biology and Biology
- Creator:
- Bonar, Nicolle
- 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:14713 and etdadmin_upload_668640
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- Description:
- The emerging paradigm of quantum information science (QIS) vows to transform a wide range of fields, such as computation, communication, and sensing. The fundamental unit at the core of any QIS system is a quantum bit, or qubit. Rather than be restricted to one of two classical states (0 or...
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Molecular chemistry
- Creator:
- Fataftah, Majed
- 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:14734 and etdadmin_upload_674052
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- Description:
- As the global population grows, consumption of water, energy, and food will also increase, placing stresses on these sectors, raising the importance of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus (WEFN). However, operation of WEFN systems are currently not sustainable. It is thus crucial to design WEFN systems to be sustainable from local to...
- Keyword:
- Life Cycle Analysis, Ecology, Economics, Sustainability, Optimization, and Modeling
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Garcia, Daniel
- 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:14526 and etdadmin_upload_639822
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three essays on corporate governance. In the first essay of the dissertation (“The Effects of Succession Planning on CEO Succession Events: Implications for Both Focal and Competing Firms”), I examine whether and how both focal and competing firms are affected by sudden CEO deaths. By using...
- Keyword:
- board of directors, CEO dismissal, social evaluations, CEO succession planning, corporate governance, and director labor market
- Subject:
- Management
- Creator:
- HWANG, SEOK-HYUN
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_676585 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14752
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how the maintenance and adaptation of heritage monuments and ritual traditions have contributed to the sustainability of communities on the islands of Inishark and Inishbofin along the west coast of Ireland. My analysis combines archaeological investigation of a pilgrimage tradition on Inishark, from its origins in the...
- Keyword:
- Ireland, Pilgrimage, Sustainability, Archaeology, Early Medieval, and Heritage
- Subject:
- Religion, Sustainability, and Archaeology
- Creator:
- Lash, Ryan P
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_655026 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14564
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- Description:
- For women, age is one of the best predictors of fertility. Younger women are typically more fertile, and ability to conceive declines until a woman reaches menopause. However, the age at which an individual woman becomes less fertile varies depending on many factors unique to her individual body, including genetic...
- Keyword:
- testing, fertility, screening, and anti-Mullerian hormone
- Subject:
- Medical ethics and Cultural anthropology
- Creator:
- Kyweluk, Moira Anna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_663070 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14677
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores two factors that affect innovation. The first factor studied is extrinsic, namely, the legal environment. The second factor is a factor of input into innovation - culture of the inventors. The first chapter studies the impact of a weakened patent environment on research investments. Departing from the...
- Keyword:
- Research and Development, Patent, Innovation, and Culture
- Subject:
- Intellectual property and Finance
- Creator:
- Srinivasan, Sridhar
- 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:14622 and etdadmin_upload_662046
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- Description:
- Location awareness will be crucial for many future wireless network applications, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and vehicular networks. In particular, the IoT will connect a massive number of new devices to wireless networks. Localization solutions that work in urban environments and have solutions which scale well with...
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Keating, Ryan
- 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:14457 and etdadmin_upload_626706
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that the U.S.’s World War I experience helped condition Americans to relate to war primarily through cinematic recreations. The country’s geographical distance from the fighting provided Americans a degree of geopolitical spectatorship from which they could imagine their nation’s role in an ever-changing world through film. Onto...
- Keyword:
- World War I, D.W. Griffith, War Film, and Antiwar
- Subject:
- American history, American studies, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Hepworth, Mariah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_654330 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14562
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- Description:
- This thesis contains results in mathematical quantum ergodicity in a probabilistic or a complex analytic setting. For the former, we show that a random orthonormal basis of spherical harmonics is almost surely quantum ergodic, in which the randomness is induced by the generalized Wigner ensemble. For the latter, we show...
- Keyword:
- Eigenfunction, Quantum ergodicity, Microlocal analysis, and Grauert tube
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Quantum physics, and Plasma physics
- Creator:
- Chang, Hsiang
- 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:14574 and etdadmin_upload_658290
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- Description:
- In mature neurons, postsynaptic NMDARs are segregated into two populations, synaptic and extrasynaptic NMDARs, which differ in localization, function, and associated intracellular cascades. These two pools are connected via lateral diffusion, and receptor exchange between them modulates synaptic NMDAR content (NMDAR-plasticity). Here, we identify the phosphorylation of the PDZ-ligand of...
- Keyword:
- NMDAR, NMDAR-plasticity, Extrasynaptic NMDAR, GluN2B, and PP1
- Subject:
- Pharmacology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Chiu, Andrew Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_669024 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14717
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- Description:
- Students pursue educational and career future identities (e.g., graduating college, becoming an engineer, etc.) that are tied to their deepest wants, desires, and needs, yet many find it difficult to exert self-control and resist temptations while pursuing these identities (e.g., studying versus watching TV, paying attention in class versus scrolling...
- Subject:
- Educational psychology
- Creator:
- Svoboda, Ryan C
- 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:14555 and etdadmin_upload_649361
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- Description:
- Judiciary at the Crossroads argues that a professional judiciary was able to restrain power, and thus lay the foundation for an independent judiciary and possible the rule of law later. Historical evidence comes from the performance of courts in property ordering projects launched by the governments in Taiwan and Manchuria...
- Keyword:
- Law, East Asia, Courts, and Property
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Li, Teng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686268 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14833
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- Description:
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is among the most common endocrine disorders of premenopausal women, affecting 5-15% of this population depending on the diagnostic criteria applied. It is characterized by hyperandrogenism, ovulatory dysfunction and polycystic ovarian morphology. PCOS is highly heritable, but only a small proportion of this heritability can be...
- Keyword:
- complex trait genetics, rare variants, DENND1A, PCOS, and sub-phenotyping
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics, Genetics, and Endocrinology
- Creator:
- Dapas, Matthew
- 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:14662 and etdadmin_upload_662808
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- Description:
- This dissertation takes up Islam’s relationship to Black nationalism across the Atlantic diaspora of Muslims that I call “the Fugitive Islamicate.” Scholars most often have described this relationship as commencing in the twentieth century with the rise of “Black Muslim religion,” a U.S. religious movement that begins with Noble Drew...
- Keyword:
- Race, Black Muslims, America, Religion, Islam, and Africa
- Subject:
- African American studies, American history, and Islamic studies
- Creator:
- Caldwell, William
- 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:14451 and etdadmin_upload_626228
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- Description:
- This dissertation is composed of three articles that focus on the electoral support coalitions of populist parties in Latin America. Using typologies, comparative-historical analysis, and experimental methods, the articles conceptualize and explain variation across several dimensions of these coalitions: their size and scope, their level of organization, and the identities...
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Barrenechea Carpio, Rodrigo
- 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:14777 and etdadmin_upload_681023
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Peripheral Neural Representations of Naturalistic Tactile Stimuli in the Vibrissal-Trigeminal System
- Description:
- Many species of rodents rely on the set of exquisitely sensitive facial vibrissae (whiskers) to guide rich behaviors in which other senses are inadequate. Although whiskers are, like all hairs, inert strands of keratin, they provide the animal with a rich landscape of tactile information which is used to guide...
- Keyword:
- Mechanics, Afferent, Vibrissal, Trigeminal, and Whisker
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Bush, Nicholas E
- 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:14697 and etdadmin_upload_666783
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- Description:
- Magnetic resonance imaging is a powerful research tool for studying anatomical processes in intact large organisms, as it is capable of generating high resolution images with unlimited penetration depth and excellent soft-tissue contrast. However one of the challenges faced by those seeking to use the technique to answer biochemical questions,...
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry
- Creator:
- Krueger, Ruby
- 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:14272 and etdadmin_upload_602620
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- Description:
- Reducing the high incidence of metabolic syndrome especially among older people living in low income communities is a goal of the health system. Residents of the Austin community of Chicago suffer from a heavy burden of health issues related to metabolic syndrome leading to disproportionally higher morbidity and mortality rates...
- Keyword:
- Hypertension, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Reducing Health Disparities, Asset-Based Community Development, Metabolic Syndrom, and Applied Medical Anthropology
- Subject:
- Health sciences, Health care management, and Cultural anthropology
- Creator:
- Diamond, Michael W.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_613946 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14387
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- Description:
- The problem of theological normativity concerns the conflict between the purported eternal, universal, and ahistorical nature of Christian theological and ethical claims and the fact that such claims are always articulated in a particular time and place and, therefore, seem to bear the marks of cultural and historical contingency. My...
- Keyword:
- Troeltsch, theology, historicism, social theory, philosophy of religion, and normativity
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion, and Theology
- Creator:
- Harrison, Joel David
- 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:14554 and etdadmin_upload_648372
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the role and relation of capitalism in contemporary political life, with the aim to reveal the inherent oppression of what I refer to as capitalist culture. To this end, the project follows three main objectives: (1) to identify the widespread and pervasive nature of capitalist culture (2)...
- Keyword:
- feminist, culture, oppression, social, politics, and capitalism
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Gender studies, and Political science
- Creator:
- LoTempio, Christina Frances
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_673759 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14733
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- Description:
- Ultrafine particles are often used as lubricant additives because they can enter tribological contacts to reduce friction and protect surfaces from wear. They tend to be more stable than molecular additives under high thermal and mechanical stresses during rubbing. However, in lubricant oil, ultrafine particles tend to aggregate together to...
- Keyword:
- Graphene, Librication, and Tribology
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Dou, Xuan
- 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:14400 and etdadmin_upload_616912
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- Description:
- Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption ranks as one of the most original and innovative works of the modern period. Thinkers as diverse as Buber, Benjamin, Levinas, Strauss and Derrida have all acknowledged its influence. Yet, there has not been any consensus on the book’s main objective or agenda. Some...
- Keyword:
- The Star of Redemption and Franz Rosenzweig
- Subject:
- Judaic studies and Philosophy of Religion
- Creator:
- Brenzel, Stephanie Faith
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_660990 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14595
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- Description:
- Polymers permeate almost all facets of modern life. For end use applications, these materials are typically processed into products at elevated temperatures under which molten polymers are subjected to flow. Particular interest lies in the flow-induced crystallization behavior of polymer melts under extensional flow, which is a flow type dominant...
- Keyword:
- x-ray scattering, flow-induced crystallization, and extensional flow
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Kweon, Mu Sung
- 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:14529 and etdadmin_upload_639972
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- Description:
- This thesis consists of three projects, centered around the aim to better model real-world systems under uncertainty, specifically, under stochastic disruptions, using optimization. A stochastic disruption is a type of infrequent event in which the timing and the magnitude are random. We introduce the concept of stochastic disruptions and a...
- Keyword:
- Syringe exchange program, Stochastic disruption, Robust optimization, Stochastic programming, and Optimal power flow
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Yang, Haoxiang
- 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:14795 and etdadmin_upload_684485
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- Description:
- Contactin associated protein like 2 (CNTNAP2) has emerged as a prominent susceptibility gene implicated in multiple complex neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorders (ASD), intellectual disability (ID), and schizophrenia (SCZ). The presence of seizure comorbidity in many of these cases, as well as inhibitory neuron dysfunction in Cntnap2 knockout (KO)...
- Keyword:
- Epilepsy, Dendrites, Autism, CASK, CNTNAP2, and Interneurons
- Subject:
- Physiology, Molecular biology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Gao, Ruoqi
- 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:14243 and etdadmin_upload_595693
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- Description:
- Understanding how spin waves propagate through ferromagnets is an important component of a wider international effort to create spintronic devices. In this thesis, we develop a propagating spin wave spectroscopy to make a variety of measurements on thin films of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG), a material known for having long...
- Keyword:
- Magnetism, Spin Waves, Spectroscopy, and Spin-Orbit Coupling
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Trossman, Jonathan Scott
- 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:14430 and etdadmin_upload_624031
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, I cover three different topics in macroeconomics. In Chapter 1, I explore the macroeconomic implications of an increase in business competition and its micro transmission channels. In Chapter 2, I document a rise in savings and cash holdings by non-financial corporations across advanced economies and show that...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Maggi, Chiara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_661210 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14602
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- Description:
- The concealed information test (CIT) has garnered more empirical support than other methods of recognition detection and has a firm theoretical foundation. Because it occurs involuntarily, even when recognition is denied, P300 amplitude is a robust indictor of concealed information. Although the P300-based CIT shows great promise for field use,...
- Keyword:
- retroactive interference, bootstrapping, concealed information test, complex trial protocol, and P300-based concealed information test
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ward, Anne Cable
- 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:14417 and etdadmin_upload_619142
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- Description:
- The tension-spoke bicycle wheel owes its stiffness and strength to a cooperative relationship between the rim and the spokes: the rim holds the spokes in tension to prevent them from buckling under external loads, while the spokes channel external forces to the hub and prevent the rim from becoming severely...
- Keyword:
- stability, wheel, bicycle, modal analysis, and buckling
- Subject:
- Mechanics and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Ford, Matthew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_617839 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14405
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- Description:
- The structure of the North American crust and mantle was investigated using P wave teleseismic tomography and the links between seismic tomographic models, locations of volcanism, sediment isopachs, and continental scale crustal structures via plate reconstruction modeling. Nearly 50,000 teleseismic P wave delay times were measured from seismograms recorded by...
- Keyword:
- tomography, field work, Western Interior Basin, noise spectra, teleseismic, and seismic networks
- Subject:
- Geophysics and Geology
- Creator:
- Bollmann, Trevor Alan
- 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:14783 and etdadmin_upload_682357
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- Description:
- Infidel(itie)s of Colour: Unruly Black Bodies, Modernity and Performance in Post-Apartheid South Africa focusses on the ways that queer and feminist artists of colour draw upon their traditional black cultural heritage and spiritual practises as a means of laying claim to cultural citizenship and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa. I...
- Keyword:
- Race, Gender, Modernity, Post-Apartheid South Africa, and Postcolonial Studies
- Subject:
- Performing arts, Dance, and African studies
- Creator:
- Mtshali, Mbongeni N.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_676184 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14750
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- Description:
- Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and their associated Cas proteins provide an immune-like response in many prokaryotes against extraneous nucleic acids. CRISPR-Cas systems are classified into different classes and types that vary widely in composition, target recognition, and overall mechanism. The main division of CRISPR-Cas systems occurs between...
- Keyword:
- Staphylococcus epidermidis, X-ray crystallography, Cryo-EM, Csm3, CRISPR, and Csm2
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Dorsey, Bryan William
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_655609 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14567
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- Description:
- The focus of this thesis is on evaluating, designing, and applying statistical methods that elucidate molecular mechanisms by seeking to understand the pathways that contribute to disease. Chapter 1 introduces the field and motivates the work in this thesis. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 describe original work. Chapter 5 recapitulates...
- Keyword:
- Gene expression, Algorithms, Pathways, Networks, and Systems biology
- Subject:
- Statistics and Bioinformatics
- Creator:
- Shah, Sahil D
- 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:14812 and etdadmin_upload_685626
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- Description:
- The halide perovskites AMX3 (A = large cation, B = Sn or Pb, and X = halide) have been the subject of intense investigation due to their outstanding optical and electronic properties, which have enabled high solar cell efficiencies thanks to a beneficial electronic structure and long charge carrier lifetimes....
- Keyword:
- exciton, halide perovskite, semiconductor, radiation detector, and self-trapped exciton
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Applied physics, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- McCall, Kyle Matthew
- 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:14511 and etdadmin_upload_638483
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- Description:
- Motor planning is fundamental to the performance of everyday reaching movements. The influence of planning is not limited to voluntary movements but extends to involuntary movements initiated in response to sensory stimuli, such as postural perturbations applied to the arm. Stroke alters voluntary reaching and the involuntary response to perturbations,...
- Keyword:
- Startle, Stroke, Motor Planning, and Reaching
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Heckman, Rosalind Lauren
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_625731 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14442
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- Description:
- This dissertation concerns the probabilistic aspects of diffusion processes generated by a family of differential operators, which is similar to the family of hypoelliptic Laplacian operators, acting on the tangent bundle of a compact Riemannian manifold. By lifting the processes to the product of the frame bundle and the euclidean...
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Guo, Heng
- 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:14614 and etdadmin_upload_661820
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- Description:
- Despite improvements to diagnostics and treatment methods, colorectal cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Colonoscopies, the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening, can significantly increase the patient’s chance of survival through early detection. However, colonoscopy cost, surgical complications, and patient bowel preparations limit...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Winkelmann, James A
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_658977 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14582
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a wide-ranging study on real estate and the effect of financial constraints on economic activity. In the first chapter, I use granular data on home builder housing developments to provide new evidence that firms spread negative revenue shocks across projects via their internal capital markets. I analyze...
- Keyword:
- Corporate Finance, Housing, Financial Constraints, and Real Estate
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- van Straelen, Eileen Driscoll
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662556 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14646
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the interrelationship between time, labor, and literature during the rise of British industrial capitalism. By tracing a tradition of social criticism from Percy Shelley to William Morris that runs through the Chartist movement, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Dickens, it isolates and explicates a distinctive existential mood, or...
- Keyword:
- William Morris, Percy Shelley, Literature, Chartism, Industrial Capitalism, and Time
- Subject:
- English literature
- Creator:
- Schacht, Benjamin Miller
- 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:14512 and etdadmin_upload_638499
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- Description:
- The physical boundary layer, or interface, between two different phases of matter is the site of chemical and physical processes that are critical to many research fields. Many of these interfaces contain electric charge, which influences the structure and composition of the interfacial region and the interactions between the interface...
- Keyword:
- Second harmonic generation, Mineral, Sum frequency generation, Spectroscopy, Interface, and Water
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Ohno, Paul Erich
- 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:14749 and etdadmin_upload_675952
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- Description:
- Supported vanadium oxide materials have been extensively studied for alkane oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) reactions due to their high activity and selectivity. The catalytic activity of supported VOx materials is influenced by the surface coverage of VOx sites and hence the distribution of V=O, V-O-V, and V-O-S (S, support) bonds. The...
- Keyword:
- vanadium oxide, oxidative dehydrogenation, heterogeneous catalysis, and atomic layer deposition
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Samek, Izabela Anna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_675097 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14740
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- Description:
- The role of nuclei nanoenvironment in cellular function has been a challenging problem in biology due to the lack of chromatin 3-dimension (3D) structure imaging/capturing techniques and theory connecting physical structure of chromatin to transcription. Recent studies on optical properties measurement on biological sample techniques, nanoscale imaging techniques and chromatin...
- Keyword:
- transcription, drug, and chromatin
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Wu, Wenli
- 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:14527 and etdadmin_upload_639850
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- Description:
- Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) are important abstractions of the complex regulatory interplays between genes, proteins, metabolites, and other molecular-level entities. Comprehensive GRNs provide high-level overviews of the topology of gene-gene interactions and their purposes, thereby enabling a comprehensive understanding of their role in phenotypic variation, disease mechanisms, and other biological...
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics and Bioinformatics
- Creator:
- Nguyen, Phan
- 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:14495 and etdadmin_upload_634566
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the language of force in Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (MoE) as a site of literary self-reflection. It investigates how the text employs a constellation of “force” terms – including not only the words Kraft, Energie, and Leistung, but also images of physical and chemical forces...
- Keyword:
- Musil, Literature, Kraft, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, The Man Without Qualities, and Force
- Subject:
- German literature
- Creator:
- Agins, Jonathan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_639788 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14524
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- Description:
- In this thesis we present methods for estimating network metrics via random walk sampling. More specifically, we generalize the Hansen-Hurwitz estimator and the Horvitz-Thompson estimator to estimate the shortest path length distribution (SPLD), closeness centrality ranking, and clustering coefficients of a network. Those are important metrics to a network, but...
- Keyword:
- closeness centrality, sampling, shortest path length, clustering coefficient, network, and random walk
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Zheng, Minhui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662638 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14650
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- Description:
- Circuit-level Dynamic Timing Slack (DTS) has emerged as a compelling opportunity for eliminating inefficiency in modern low-power systems. This slack arises when all the signals have propagated through logic paths well in advance of the clock signal. When it is properly identified, the system can exploit this unused cycle time...
- Keyword:
- code transformation, Dynamic timing slack, timing error model, timing speculation, energy efficiency, and low power
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Fan, Yuanbo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_624514 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14433
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- Description:
- This dissertation is about three of Cicero’s notable projects in ideal theory in his middle and late periods (between roughly 54-43 BCE). It comes during a resurgence in interest in Cicero’s contributions as a philosopher. First, I discuss Cicero’s philosophical account of vera gloria (true glory) in contradistinction to mere...
- Keyword:
- Cicero, Ideal theory, Plato, Glory, Retrospective, and Utopia
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Classical studies
- Creator:
- Dutmer, Evan Robert William
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686428 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14843
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- Description:
- This dissertation proposes an oracle efficient estimator in the context of a sparse linear model. Chapter 1 introduces the penalty and the estimator that optimizes a penalized least squares objective. Unlike existing methods, the penalty is differentiable – once, and hence the estimator does not engage in model selection. This...
- Keyword:
- Lasso, Econometrics, Sparsity, Penalized estimation, and Bootstrap
- Subject:
- Statistics and Economics
- Creator:
- Gitlin, Sergey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_682504 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14786
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- Description:
- Rationally assembled nanostructures exhibit distinct physical and chemical properties beyond their individual units. The development of nanofabrication tools enables precise structural defining of nanomaterials scalable to large areas. This dissertation focuses on plasmonic nanoparticle arrays that show unique diffractive coupling with lattice spacings engineered close to the wavelength of light....
- Keyword:
- Light-matter interactions, Metal nanoparticles, Plasmonic superlattices, Upconverting nanolasing, Nanoscale lasers, and Stretchable photonics
- Subject:
- Optics, Nanoscience, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Wang, Danqing
- 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:14605 and etdadmin_upload_661446
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- Description:
- In this thesis, we study pushforwards of canonical and log-pluricanonical bundles on projective log canonical pairs over the complex numbers. We partially answer a Fujita-type conjecture proposed by Popa and Schnell in the log canonical setting. Built on Kawamata’s result for morphisms that are smooth outside a simple normal crossing...
- Keyword:
- Global Generation, Fujita Conjecture, (Pluri)-canonical bundle, Weak Positivity, Iitaka Conjecture, and Vanishing Theorems
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Dutta, Yajnaseni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_666347 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14693
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- Description:
- Cells are complex, autonomous machines that integrate many environmental cues to execute a desired response. Though this property makes cells versatile, it presents significant design challenges when, to treat diseases, we must alter cellular responses. To understand changes to the complex regulatory pathways that cause diseases, studies often investigate the...
- Keyword:
- systems biology, machine learning, dynamics, regulation, and differential gene expression
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics and Biology
- Creator:
- Finkle, Justin
- 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:14568 and etdadmin_upload_656753
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- Description:
- This dissertation analyses the ways in which football, known as soccer in the United States, has historically served as a diasporic space for the articulation of black politics in the second half of the twentieth century. While modern sport is characterized as an apolitical cultural practice, I am interested in...
- Keyword:
- diaspora, football, coloniality, race, and soccer
- Subject:
- Black studies
- Creator:
- Scott, Jermaine
- 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:14635 and etdadmin_upload_662291
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- Description:
- Polyolefins are the most versatile and widely used polymers worldwide. Depending on the polymer microstructure, polyolefins can exhibit a wide range of useful and tailored properties and applications. Metal-catalyzed coordinative olefin polymerization plays a center role in advancing polyolefin synthesis. This dissertation explores two strategies to modulate the polymer microstructures...
- Keyword:
- scandium, olefin polymerization, zirconium, bimetallic effect, and polar monomer
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Chen, Jiazhen
- 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:14719 and etdadmin_upload_669232
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- Description:
- Over a decade has passed since Hurricane Katrina impacted the Gulf Coast. The city of New Orleans, was one of the more severely damaged areas in the region, experiencing 80% damage. This dissertation analyzes the rebuilding of New Orleans and it questions the role that colonial legacies play in that...
- Keyword:
- Disaster, Anthropocene, Settler Colonialism, Time Space, Decolonialization, and Hurricane Katrina
- Subject:
- African American studies, Native American studies, and Ethnic studies
- Creator:
- Shepard, Cassandra MIchelle Winand
- 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:14714 and etdadmin_upload_668656
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- Description:
- Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs) are unique class of nanomaterial characterized by a dense nucleic acid shell conjugated to a nanoparticle core. This radial orientation of oligonucleotides and architecture distinguishes SNAs from the components from which they are comprised. Specifically, unique chemical and biological properties emerge that are not observed with...
- Keyword:
- Spherical Nucleic Acid, Nanoparticle, Immune system, Toll-like receptors, and Biodistribution
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Chemistry, and Immunology
- Creator:
- Ferrer, Jennifer R
- 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:14715 and etdadmin_upload_668701
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- Description:
- Two unique structures make up the nucleus of our Galaxy on different scale sizes. On a broad scale of a few hundreds of parsecs, there is the well-known central molecular zone which comprises a substantial component of the gas in the Galaxy. The other, known as the mini-spiral, is streamers...
- Subject:
- Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Physics
- Creator:
- Royster, Marc Justin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_626068 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14447
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- Description:
- This thesis describes the relationships between nanoscale structure and particle transport in two systems: i) the transport and conversion of excitons in colloidal quantum dot (QD) assemblies and ii) the transport of carriers in flashing electron ratchets. One major crux in the creation of efficient photocatalytic systems is the low...
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry
- Creator:
- Kodaimati, Mohamad S
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_678888 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14764
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- Description:
- People evidence behaviors that engender hope for future behavior change, but also evidence this hope when there is no reason to believe that any behavior change will occur. For example, prior research suggests that temporal factors make people susceptible to change their minds over time, and a confluence of cognitive...
- Keyword:
- cognitive heuristic, temporal cognition, cognitive bias, luck, cognition, and decision-making
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Behavioral sciences, and Behavioral psychology
- Creator:
- Salomon-Amend, Meghan Maureen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_668035 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14710
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- Description:
- Bias pervades all stages of the American criminal justice system. The system is a human creation, run by fallible people who bring prejudices and biases to their work just like everyone else. The first step to ridding the system of those biases is to fully understand the way they manifest...
- Keyword:
- Perceptions, Bias, Plea Bargaining, Terrorism, Crime, and Policing
- Subject:
- Law, Criminology, and Sociology
- Creator:
- Sommers, Zach
- 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:14459 and etdadmin_upload_626789
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines three distinct empirical questions in macroeconomics and finance. Chapter 1 studies the reasons why households file for bankruptcy. The debt relief households obtain in bankruptcy provides insurance against wealth losses, but also distorts borrower incentives to repay debt, discouraging lending. Understanding how bankruptcy filings respond to changes...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Indarte, Alexandra Scarlett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662180 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14631
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- Description:
- Context: Crowd logistics is a novel shipping concept where delivery operations are carried out by employing existing vehicle capacity and drivers from the crowd, relying on their planned tours, thereby offering potential for economic, social, and environmental benefits. Despite the promise of this new logistics model, little is known about...
- Keyword:
- Discrete Choice Modeling, User's Behavior, Sharing Economy, Crowd-shipping, Social Network Analysis, and Urban Freight Delivery
- Subject:
- Transportation
- Creator:
- Punel, Aymeric
- 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:14592 and etdadmin_upload_660772
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- Description:
- Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a powerful phenomenon that dictates the functional properties of transition metal complexes essential for information processing, catalysis, and magnetism. Though it is relegated to lower energy scales within the orbital description of first-row transition metal complexes, SOC impacts crucial aspects of electronic structure such as promoting...
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Physical chemistry
- Creator:
- Coste, Scott Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_685992 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14821
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- Description:
- Sexual orientation is conventionally understood as relative attraction to men versus women. It has recently been argued that male sexual orientation in particular can be extended to include other dimensions of sexual attraction besides gender, such as sexual maturity and location. With respect to the dimension of location, most men...
- Keyword:
- sexual orientation, furries, erotic target identity inversions, adult baby/diaper lovers, paraphilias, and eunuchs
- Subject:
- Sexuality, Clinical psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Hsu, Kevin
- 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:14573 and etdadmin_upload_658199
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- Description:
- Millions of years of evolution have produced fascinating biological materials and structures that are optimized to perform a wide spectrum of functions essential for the survival of organisms. These biological materials have been intensively studied in order to decipher the intricate interplay between their superior material properties and structural design...
- Subject:
- Mechanics and Bioengineering
- Creator:
- Zaheri, Alireza
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_636841 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14505
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- Description:
- What is the role of entrepreneurship – a predominantly market-based approach – in addressing social problems such as inequality and social exclusion? How do entrepreneurial organizations with a distinctly social purpose (often referred to as hybrid organizations) manage additional imperatives, such as those related to democratic governance? Based on 70...
- Keyword:
- France, hybrid organizations, inequality, social entrepreneurship, and democratic governance
- Subject:
- Management and Sociology
- Creator:
- Radoynovska, Nevena
- 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:14446 and etdadmin_upload_625989
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- Description:
- Despite advancing knowledge about the mechanics of earthquakes, earthquake prediction remains, and will likely remain, an unsolved problem. Hence in order to reduce the risk posed by earthquake shaking, seismologists have developed tools called earthquake hazard maps. Earthquake hazard maps communicate expected future shaking scenarios, and are used by engineers...
- Keyword:
- Metrics, Hazard, and Seismology
- Subject:
- Geophysics
- Creator:
- Brooks, Edward Max
- 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:14496 and etdadmin_upload_634828
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- Description:
- Many volunteer communities rely on technological systems to help their members connect, collaborate and learn the norms of how to participate in the organization. This dissertation presents research that examines technological interventions designed to support participation in three different volunteer-run communities, all of which have porous boundaries, and allow volunteers...
- Keyword:
- online communities, wikis, volunteers, peer production, and collaboration
- Subject:
- Computer science and Communication
- Creator:
- Narayan, Sneha
- 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:14801 and etdadmin_upload_685028
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- Description:
- In this thesis, I present the development and benchmarking of several theoretical methods designed to enable the rigorous modeling of magnetic properties of molecules containing one or a few heavy atoms, particularly single-molecule magnets. The new methods use a full four-component treatment of relativity, allowing spin–orbit effects to be taken...
- Keyword:
- Single-Molecule Magnets, Electronic Structure, Relativity, Theoretical Chemistry, Zero-Field Splitting, and Magnetizability
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry, Chemistry, and Computational chemistry
- Creator:
- Reynolds, Ryan Dave
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_623099 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14425
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- Description:
- Using carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs) to reduce vehicle weight has received growing attentions because it can effectively curtail greenhouse gas emissions and slow down global warming. The thermoforming process is among the most promising techniques for mass production of CFRP parts because it is highly automated and has relatively...
- Keyword:
- FEM, CFRP, and Thermoforming
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Zhang, Weizhao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686026 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14824
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- Description:
- Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have gained more and more attention from researchers, manufacturers, and transportation experts. When AVs become available to the public, they are expected to dramatically alter the transportation system as we know it, posing critical questions such as: How will the road network react to this change? How...
- Keyword:
- MIP, Activity-Based Model, Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model and Simulator, and Autonomous vehicle
- Subject:
- Transportation
- Creator:
- Xu, Xiang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_640460 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14542
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- Description:
- Transport along and across the grain boundaries of solid-state electrolytes has implications for a broad range of materials and in an equally broad range of technologies. Over the past 2-3 decades, a substantial body of literature has been developed to explain grain boundary transport properties within the context of space...
- Keyword:
- Grain Boundary Charge Transport, Oxide Electrolytes, Electron Holography, Impedance Spectroscopy, Atom Probe Tomography, and Space Charge Theory
- Subject:
- Applied physics and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Xu, Xin
- 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:14848 and etdadmin_upload_686556
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- Description:
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous disorder defined by core deficits in social communication as well as the presence of restricted interests and repetitive behaviors, including sensory processing atypicalities. Individuals with ASD also have atypicalities in integration of multiple sensory modalities (i.e., sensory integration), which are hypothesized to underlie...
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Barstein, Jamie Nicole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_627554 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14479
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- Description:
- Drawing from the data I collected through nine months (between 2014 to 2017) of participant observations, 120 in-depth, semi-structured interviews, and archival work, the project explores the tactics that Chechen and Dagestani journalists utilize to resist state pressure and circumvent state-imposed censorship. Specifically, I explicate how these regional journalists in...
- Keyword:
- mass media, Chechnya, state censorship, Russian journalism, journalistic resistance, and Dagestan
- Subject:
- Journalism, Slavic studies, and Communication
- Creator:
- Rodina, Elena
- 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:14761 and etdadmin_upload_678673
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- Description:
- This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the dance makerspace, a learning environment designed to support STEM engagement through making and embodied experience for a group of African American youth dancers. It looks at how participants in a 4-week summer camp program at an urban creative arts center-turned-makerspace, constructed embodied...
- Keyword:
- STEAM, Makerspace, STEM, Embodiment, Embodied Cognition, and Dance
- Subject:
- Dance and Science education
- Creator:
- Champion, Dionne Nicole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_619548 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14418