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- Thinkers attempting to challenge existing conceptions of political life often find that they encounter limitations in dominant modes of spectatorship and communication. If popular audiences are unsuitably oriented toward the presentation of certain content, this introduces a fundamental obstacle for political theoretic efforts to shape ideas and interactions. This dissertation...
- Keyword:
- Machiavelli, Arendt, Rhetoric, History of Political Thought, Rousseau, and Democratic Theory
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Litvin, Boris
- 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:14619 and etdadmin_upload_661977
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- Description:
- Mortgage brokers originate a large share of residential real estate lending. Exploiting state-level regulatory changes to local entry costs I am able to study the effect on credit quality and access. Using data from a major mortgage lender in the run up to the financial crisis I study how the...
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Stephenson, Harvey Hugh
- 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:14642 and etdadmin_upload_662464
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- The purpose of this multiple-case study was to examine the lived experiences of current collegiate music education majors, both students from under-represented minorities and their well-represented peers, with attention to racial/ethnic identity and social class. Dyads of current music education students at 8 separate colleges/universities—a student from an under-represented racial...
- Keyword:
- music teacher education, intersectionality, race, social class, and music education
- Subject:
- Music education and Sociology
- Creator:
- Berglin, Jacob Axel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_627573 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14480
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- Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a promising class of electronic materials that have generated great interest to improve and create new and existing technologies. The promise of this family of materials relies on their high surface-to-volume ratio and atomic thickness in addition to their unique (opto)electric properties. However, these morphological properties...
- Keyword:
- Two-dimensional, Indium Selenide, Electronics, Black Phosphorus, Passivation, and Liquid phase exfoliation
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Wells, Spencer Allan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_617587 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14403
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- Description:
- Synthesis opens the pathway to examine a plethora of complex structures. Whether the target is a naturally occurring compound or a proposed molecule never observed before, synthetic routes can be developed to help understand a variety of properties that the molecule can contain. Synthetic efforts have helped elucidate the absolute...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Vega, Marvin Marcus
- 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:14544 and etdadmin_upload_641529
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- If I mistakenly hear you ask for directions to the “shore” when instead you asked for directions to the “store,” the miscommunication is probably an innocent mistake. If, on the other hand, a man misunderstands a woman’s refusal of his sexual advances as consent, the mistake seems like it might...
- Keyword:
- Context, Normativity, and Philosophy of Language
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Ellefson, Gretchen
- 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:14796 and etdadmin_upload_684502
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- This dissertation explores an intellectual and political tradition that questioned the use of natural resources and the socioeconomic structures of rural Brazil in the early 20th century. “Organicist agrarianism” postulated an orderly transformation of the Brazil under the guidance of the state in the name of a natural and eternal...
- Keyword:
- Political history, Conservation, Intellectual history, Agrarianism, History of ideas, and Brazil
- Subject:
- History, Latin American history, and Latin American studies
- Creator:
- Bottura, Juri
- 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:14522 and etdadmin_upload_639646
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- Description:
- Recent advances in combinatorial chemistry, synthetic biology, and ‘omics’ research require high-throughput methods for performing and analyzing thousands to millions of reactions in one day. However, it is a challenge to engineer high-throughput systems that can autonomously conduct and analyze such a large number of reactions in a generalizable and...
- Keyword:
- Self-assembled monolayers, Kinetics, Spatiotemporal, SAMDI Mass Spectrometry, MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry, and Microfluidics
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Chemistry, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Grant, Jennifer
- 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:14444 and etdadmin_upload_625853
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- We perform many movements every day without much deliberation. However, moving can be seen as a form of decision-making since one of many possible movements must be selected and executed. The decision-making processes that underlie movements are influenced by various factors, including sensory perception, energetics, time, perceived rates of failure...
- Keyword:
- hind brain, reticulospinal, decision, escape, spinal cord, and looming
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering, Neurosciences, and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Bhattacharyya, Kiran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_653282 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14560
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- Description:
- At the turn of the twentieth century, the Russian Orthodox Church established a dense network of social and material aid for thousands of migrants who travelled from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires to find work in the United States. The church’s growth followed the path of Progressive Era industrialization, with...
- Keyword:
- Orthodox Church in America, Russian Orthodoxy, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian immigration, American immigration, and Orthodox Christianity
- Subject:
- American history, Religion, and Religious history
- Creator:
- Sarkisian, Aram Gregory
- 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:14581 and etdadmin_upload_658824