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- This dissertation explores the extent to which Portuguese theologian, papal penitentiary, bishop, and abbot Andreas de Escobar, O.S.B. (1348-1448) benefited from contemporary trends in manuscript culture and thereby functioned as a late-medieval public intellectual. Recent research suggests that early-fifteenth-century university-trained theology masters used their expertise and authority to intervene into...
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- manuscripts, Benedictine order, curia, Great Schism, conciliarism, and theology
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- History
- Creator:
- Johanna Leigh Sturgeon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
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- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by progressive motoneuron loss. Autopsy from thoracic spinal tissues of sALS patients revealed a significant loss of large motoneurons while medium and small motoneurons were relatively unaffected. Using two-photon microscopy, we observed a soma hypertrophy of neonatal motoneurons in mice overexpressing mutant human G93A-superoxide...
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- Accounting and Neuroscience
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Su-Wei Kuo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Supported metal oxides are an important class of catalysts for chemical synthesis and manufacturing, particularly for selective oxidation reactions. This dissertation seeks to understand broad relationships among families of silica-supported Group 4 and 5 metal oxide catalysts for the synthesis of epoxides with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and to further extend...
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- supported oxide, calixarene, hydrogen peroxide, epoxidation, niobium, and heterogeneous catalysis
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Nicholas Earl Thronburg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are an attractive solar energy technology for low-current applications. Herein is described the supramolecular design and methodology to manipulate intermolecular interactions in order to create an active layer in OPVs devices composed of crystalline and amorphous donor-acceptor domains, which has been proposed as the ideal morphology for...
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- Organic Solar Cella, Hydrogen-bonding, and Supramolecular
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Leonel Barreda
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Regeneration is a complex biological phenomenon. Organisms that regenerate must possess robust mechanisms that direct new tissue production of the appropriate size and pattern to allow for correct and functional integration with preexisting tissue structures. Planarians are flatworms capable of regenerating from nearly any injury, making them a powerful system...
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- Planaria, Morphallaxis, Regeneration, Body Patterning, Stem Cells, and Size Control
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- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Eric Michael Hill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Polyurethane (PU) is an important commodity polymer with a broad range of applications. Increasing regulations on isocyanates have prompted investigations into alternative routes to PU. Cyclic carbonate aminolysis leading to polyhydroxyurethane (PHU) is a promising alternative. This dissertation describes the first fundamental investigation of the synthesis and properties of segmented,...
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- Thermoplastic Elastomer, Structure-Property-Relationship, Non-Isocyanate, Polyhydroxyurethane, Cyclic Carbonate Aminolysis, and Polyurethane
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Goliath Beniah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation provides the first in-depth comparative study in any language of the female figurations made, viewed, and interpreted in the realm of refashioning modern Chinese painting during the war period of Republican China (1930s-1940s) in the Nationalist government-controlled southwestern inner frontier, with projects by Pang Xunqin (1906–85) and Fu...
- Keyword:
- National Imagination, Chinese painting, Nationalism, Social Critique, Fu Baoshi, and Pang Xunqin
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Xiao Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- X-ray reflectivity (XRR) versatile technique that characterize the surface structures. However, due to the lack of phase information of X-ray data, the reconstruction of electron density profile (EDP) from XRR data is an ill-posed inverse problem that requires extra attention. In Chapter 1, several key concepts in XRR data analysis...
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- Ionic liquids, in-situ, X-ray, Dynamics, charged surfaces, and Ordering
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Miaoqi Chu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- In December 1928, Ernst Jünger wrote to his brother Friedrich Georg: “Wir müssen uns […] bemühen, die literarische Tätigkeit als Kriegsmittel zu betrachten.” This project analyzes the result of said activity: viz. text understood as a means of war. That is to say, it does not aim at answering questions...
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- Subversion, Jünger, Nationalism, Planetary, Weimar, and Breakthrough
- Subject:
- German Literature and Critical Thought
- Creator:
- Clemens Börries Ackermann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most prevalent primary central nervous system malignancy. Due to the aggressive nature of these tumors and our inability to adequately treat them, only 3-5% of patients survive longer than 3 years post-diagnosis. The standard of care for newly diagnosed GBM is surgical resection followed by...
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- siRNA, Ribozyme, Glioblastoma, Spherical nucleic acids, Gold nanoparticles, and MGMT
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Timothy L. Sita
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Classic mechanism design studies the implementation of optimal systems or processes in the presence of multiple selfish and fully rational agents. The theory of mechanism design has been one of the most celebrated advances in the economics discipline, especially with regards to auctions Myerson (1981),Vickrey (1961), Clarke (1971), Groves (1973)....
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- Algorithmic Game Theory, Algorithmic Mechanism Design, Algorithms, and Auction Theory
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Emmanouil Pountourakis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Musicians have a responsibility to assess and perform new or extant music in order to present a larger body of repertoire to audiences. The purpose of this study is to introduce the euphonium music of the contemporary Belgian composer Frangois Glorieux to the tubaeuphonium community. With numerous works written for...
- Keyword:
- Orchestra, Euphonium Music, and Symphony
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Christopher James Dickey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2013-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), the result of fetal alcohol exposure (FAE), affects 2-11% of children worldwide with no treatments in sight. In my thesis work, I aimed to identify underlying biological mechanisms of the FAE-induced hippocampus-based cognitive deficits that would lead to identify potential treatment targets to reverse the...
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- Neurosciences
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Elif Tunc-Ozcan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Nano-structured mixed ionic and electronic conducting (MIEC) materials have garnered intense interest in electrode development for solid oxide fuel cells due to their high surface areas which allow for effective catalytic activity and low polarization resistances. In particular, composite solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) cathodes consisting of ionic conducting scaffolds...
- Keyword:
- Degradation, Nanoparticles, Cathodes, SOFC, Infiltration, and Electrochemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Ann Virginia Call
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Kainate receptors (KARs) are expressed throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems. One of three subfamilies of ionotropic glutamate receptors, KARs are localized both pre- and post-synaptically and exert important modulatory control over neural circuits. This modulatory role in circuit function makes them a potential actor in wide variety of...
- Keyword:
- Neurosciences
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Claire Vernon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Radiation is a ubiquitous health risk. Contemporary populations are exposed to several hundred milliSieverts per person over their lifetimes from both natural and human made sources such as radon, cosmic rays, CT-scans, etc. Risk estimates based on studies of atomic bomb survivors suggest that these exposures induce excess cancer mortality...
- Keyword:
- radiation, DDREF, and protraction
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Benjamin McGee Haley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Patients born with severe heart defects need regular monitoring of the complex hemodynamics in their heart and vasculature. 4D flow MRI has emerged as the state-of-the-art technique for comprehensively evaluating cardiovascular hemodynamics. This imaging technique allows for the dynamic visualization of 3D blood through the cardiac cycle and the quantification...
- Keyword:
- Biomedical Engineering and Medical imaging
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Kelly Jarvis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- With the dual challenges of meeting global energy demand and mitigating anthropogenic climate change, significant effort is being applied to generating power from renewable sources. The dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) is a photovoltaic technology capable of generating electricity from sunlight, but suffers losses in efficiency due to deleterious electron transfer...
- Keyword:
- Alternative Energy, Material Science, and Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- William L. Hoffeditz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Algebras and their bimodules form a 2-category in which 2-morphisms are certain zero-th Hochschild cohomology groups. When we derive this structure (i.e., use Hochschild cochains instead of HH^0 for 2-morphisms), we find that algebras form a category in dg cocategories. The Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg theorem and non-commutative calculus give a rich algebraic...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics and Algebra
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Ann Rebecca Wei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- We studied the nonlocal effects of intraspecific prey competition on the stability of the critical points of the Rosenzweig-MacArthur model and the Holling-Tanner model, respectively, using linear stability analysis. In particular we focused on the study of the stability of the coexistence state influenced by the nonlocality for both models....
- Keyword:
- Applied Mathematics
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Jiang Zhuo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Advancements in nanotechnology have led to the production of devices with components with sub-100 nm size scales. Studies have investigated how properties of polymers change when confined to nanoscale dimensions. However, stiffness-confinement studies have reported increases, decreases, and invariance with confinement for different polymer/substrate pairs, making it difficult to obtain...
- Keyword:
- Fluorescence, Modulus, Stiffness, Thin Film, Stress, and Polymer
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Shadid Askar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Scholars have noted that food marketing significantly impacts the lives of children, influencing what foods they request and consume. However, the impact of food marketing on low-income children has only been explored minimally. This project explores both media-based and in-store food marketing to low-income families, along with potential outcomes of...
- Keyword:
- Marketing, Public Health, and Communication
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Heather Montague
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The development of metal-based probes has provided major benefits to understanding basic biological process and clinical outcomes. Metals offer access to geometries that carbon alone cannot attain, along with valuable magnetic, optical, and binding properties. Metals have proven to be particularly useful in advancing molecular imaging, a field that seeks...
- Keyword:
- Biochemistry
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Luke Vistain
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As the title suggests, this dissertation is composed of three major topics. The first two are optimization problems focusing on developing effective solution methodologies, while for the last topic we present a large-scale information retrieval system in the domain of sports. With the algorithms and frameworks developed in this dissertation,...
- Keyword:
- Operational research and Industrial Engineering
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Mingyang Di
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The genetic code, a set of rules by which mRNA codons are translated into the twenty standard amino acids used in protein synthesis, was once thought to be immutable. As we expanded our understanding of molecular biology more variations in this genetic code have been found across the animal kingdom....
- Keyword:
- genomically recoded organisms, non-standard amino acid, orthogonal translation system, and protein synthesis
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Jessica Gabrielle Perez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Natural products provide a renewable resource of novel chemical structures with relevance to the pharmaceutical, agricultural and materials industries. Genome sequencing has revealed that these industries currently rely on only a fraction of the number of natural products that exist in nature. Based on the impact that known natural products...
- Keyword:
- Biosynthesis, Streptomyces, Natural Products, Mass Spectrometry, Cell-Free Protein Synthesis, and Secondary Metabolism
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Anthony Whitney Goering
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The polypeptide hormone prolactin (PRL) is increasingly recognized as contributing to the development and progression of human breast cancer. This is supported by epidemiologic studies that found women with high levels of serum PRL are at an increased risk for developing breast cancer. Activation of the prolactin receptor (PRLR) by...
- Keyword:
- Focal Adhesion, Prolactin, Breast Cancer, Cell Migration, and Phosphorylation
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Katherine Marie Schulhaus
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Loss of inhibitory control from descending serotonergic (5-HT) fibers deregulates the excitability of spinal motoneurons and interneurons following spinal cord injury (SCI). Exaggerated synaptic activity triggers long-lasting excitatory postsynaptic potentials (long EPSPs) in hyperexcitable motoneurons to ultimately drive muscle spasms at the chronic stage of SCI. Deep dorsal horn (DDH)...
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- muscle spasms, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), serotonin (5-HT), spinal cord injury (SCI), deep dorsal horn (DDH) neurons, and zolmitriptan
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Theeradej Thaweerattanasinp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The impacts of many important technologies are limited by the availability of better-performing materials. One factor limiting the ability of engineers to develop better materials is the speed at which they can search through possible formulations and processing schemes. Recently, machine learning algorithms have emerged as a possible route to...
- Keyword:
- Materials Science, Crystal Structure Solution, Metallic Glasses, Density Functional Theory, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Logan Timothy Ward
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Age-related cognitive deficits are observed in both humans and animals. Yet, the molecular mechanisms underlying these deficits are not yet fully elucidated. In aged animals, a decrease in intrinsic excitability of pyramidal neurons from the CA1 sub-region of hippocampus is believed to contribute to age-related cognitive impairments, but the molecular...
- Keyword:
- CREB, Memory, Hippocampus, and Aging
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Xiao Wen Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Increasing energy demand due to rapid growth in population and industrialization along with environmental crisis has led to the search for cheap, environmentally friendly, and nontoxic methods for generation of energy. However, most alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic, biofuels, hydraulic power, wind power, and geothermal energy, are characterized by...
- Keyword:
- Sustainable, Biomass, Supercapacitors, Energy storage, and Hydrothermal carbonization
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Deepti Krishnan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) study of a novel anisotropic superconductor, HgBa$_{2}$CuO$_{4+\delta}$ (Hg1201) and unconventional strain dependence of the mean free path of silica aerogel. Hg1201 is one of the most structurally simple cuprates known. Therefore, it is an ideal compound in investigation of various phases in...
- Keyword:
- Cuprates, Hg1201, NMR, Diffusion, Aerogel, and Superconductivity
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Jeongseop A. Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta are richly innervated by GABAergic neurons. The postsynaptic effects of GABA on SNc DA neurons are mediated by a mixture of GABAA and GABAB receptors. Although activation of GABAA receptors inhibits spike generation, the consequences of GABAB receptor activation are less well...
- Keyword:
- gabab, pka, substantia nigra, dopamine, and sk channel
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Chad Michael Estep
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How can gatekeeping theory in the circulation of cultural objects, including knowledge production, inform the way cultural sociology investigates the role of the producer and the cultural object as “gated” entities? Using the case of producers working under the rubric of “Contemporary African art” to investigate opportunities and restrictions to...
- Keyword:
- trading chip, boundary object, Contemporary African art, and Africanness
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Sakhile Kaone Matlhare
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation explores the renewed historical significance of the (geo)political demand to redraft national constitutions in the Americas. Building on previous work, my dissertation constructs a transnational lens to underline the intersectionality of the social struggles that catalyzed the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly process begun in 1999 and the Ecuadorian experience...
- Keyword:
- Venezuela, revolution, Ecuador, postcolonial constitutionalism, constituent power, and democratization
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Ricardo Daniel Sánchez Cárdenas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Analytic jurisprudence is the field organized around the “What is law?” question. When most scholars approach the “What is law?” question, they suppose that the goal of such inquiry is to discover, or to accurately represent, the true nature of law. Consequently, these scholars reject the notion that the goal...
- Keyword:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Raff Donelson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- FOXA1 is a FKHD family protein that plays pioneering roles in lineage-specific enhancer activation and gene transcription. Through genome-wide location analyses, here we show that FOXA1 expression and occupancy are, in turn, required for the maintenance of these epigenetic signatures, namely DNA hypomethylation and histone 3 lysine 4 methylation. Mechanistically,...
- Keyword:
- Prostate cancer, TET1, Epigenetics, and FOXA1
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Yeqing (Angela) Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We define multi-indexed Deligne extensions and multi-indexed log-variations of Hodge structures in the category of (filtered) logarithmic D-modules, via the idea of Bernstein– Sato polynomials and Kashiwara–Malgrange filtrations, generalizing the Deligne canonical extensions of flat vector bundles. We also obtain many comparison results with perverse sheaves via the logarithmic de...
- Keyword:
- Birational Geometry, Hodge theory, Algebraic Geometry, and D-modules
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Lei Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The scope of this thesis extends to the study of surface structures and electronic properties in a number of complex oxides. The c(6x2) surface reconstruction on SrTiO3 (001) was solved using a combination of plan view transmission electron microscopy imaging, atomic resolution secondary electron imaging, and density functional theory calculations....
- Keyword:
- electron microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, surface science, and lanthanide scandates
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Pratik Koirala
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation explores the relationship between institutions of political participation and environmental protection. What is the relationship and how is it constituted? How are participatory institutions put into motion, and how do they operate? What are the effects of these institutions? Are participatory institutions desirable from an environmental perspective and...
- Keyword:
- Development, Prior consultations, Popular consultations, Institutions, Mining, and Latin America
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Diana Rodriguez-Franco
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- We often criticize others for beliefs that are dogmatic, biased, or wishful. What, exactly, are we criticizing? Many epistemologists accept that such believing is problematic because it is not appropriately responsive to epistemic reasons. But why care about that? Or, to put it another way, why are epistemic norms authoritative...
- Keyword:
- Practical Reason, Agency, Epistemic Normativity, Normativity, and Epistemology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- A. K. Flowerree
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This work is concerned with the Laudau-Ginzburg $A$-model, or the Fukaya-Seidel category, associated with a Laurent polynomial $f: (\C^*)^n \ o \C$. We use constructible sheaves on a real $n$-dimensional torus to describe the Lagrangian thimbles associated to $f$. Then we discuss the application to Homological Mirror Symmetry for smooth...
- Keyword:
- Lagrangian Thimble, Laurent Polynomial, Constructible Sheaf, and Tropical Geometry
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Peng Zhou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Freeze casting is a technique for processing porous materials that has drawn significant attention for its effectiveness in producing a variety of tailorable pore structures for ceramics, metals, and polymers. With freeze casting, pores are generated based on a solidification process where ice crystals act as a sacrificial template which...
- Keyword:
- processing, preceramic polymers, freeze casting, ice templating, ceramics, and porous
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Maninpat Naviroj
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains two studies. In Chapter 1, I implement a randomized intervention to measure the effect of reminders for timely payment of credit cards. While I find an 13% reduction in the cost of late payment fees paid, 31% of the users that avoid credit card late payments, incur...
- Keyword:
- Behavioral Economics and Household Finance
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Paolina Medina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Changing economic activities bring significant cultural, epidemiological, and nutritional transitions. These transitions have important and lifelong effects on the health of populations experiencing them. Infancy represents a critical period when rapid growth and metabolic programming occur, making infants particularly vulnerable to long-lasting biological changes due to such transitions. The objective...
- Keyword:
- Growth, Infancy, Nutrition, Inequality, and Economic Transition
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Morgan Hoke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- After 9/11 there was a shift in the rhetoric surrounding counter-terrorism. Suddenly, the language of risk, security and prevention was being utilized to justify a new set of global financial regulations headed up by international organizations such as the United Nations, The Financial Action Task Force, and the IMF/World Bank....
- Keyword:
- Risk, Transparency, Counter-Terrorism Financing, and Anti-Money Laundering
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Anna Rose Hanson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Achievement gaps between students from different SES and racial/ethnic backgrounds stubbornly persist despite decades of policy interventions. My dissertation focuses on several unexpected sources of stress and disruption that may be related to the achievement gap: sunlight exposure, a sister’s teen childbearing, and nearby violent crime. I demonstrate that these...
- Keyword:
- sleep, education, policy, stress, academic, and K-12
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Jennifer Ann Heissel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The concept of deportation has become increasingly important in recent years, as states more and more turn to removal as a technique of control over population and territory. But within the field of political theory the concept of deportation has not yet received the attention it deserves. This dissertation helps...
- Keyword:
- immigration, constitutional law, removal, sovereignty, plenary, and deportation
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Charles Clarke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Mobile traffic is expected to grow tenfold by 2019, topping 24 exabytes of monthly traffic and accounting for nearly half of all Internet traffic. This growth is driven by the increasing number of smart phones and tablets, and the data demands of high bandwidth services enabled by next-generation cellular networks...
- Keyword:
- Mobile Network Measurement, Content Delivery Networks, and Cellular Networks
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- John Paul Rula
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- An important question in religious and theological ethics concerns the human capacity for moral action, but contemporary Christian theological anthropologies largely theorize the human person in terms of the imago Dei, not moral subjectivity. The following study contributes to this challenge an investigation of human moral agency in the theological...
- Keyword:
- Religious Studies
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Candace L. Kohli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Both chapters of this dissertation relate to the aggregate value of corporations in an economy. In particular, they relate to the ratio of the aggregate total market value of corporations over the replacement cost of their recorded capital. The first chapter introduces a model that can explain why this ratio...
- Keyword:
- Capital, Investment, and Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Andreas Kropf
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Metal and bimetallic nanoparticles are of interest and are widely used in various applications because of their unique optical, electronic, and catalytic properties, which differ from those of their bulk counterparts. Better understanding of the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of nanoparticles and their underlying growth mechanisms can serve as a...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Electron Microscopy, and Materials Chemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Lingxuan Peng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- People today increasingly first meet others in mediated spaces, undergoing impression formation processes where they view information, gain impressions, and make decisions about others. Previous research examines profile information (e.g. name, photo, about me) that people provide about themselves within this process, finding that people try to craft profiles for...
- Keyword:
- location-based social application, human computer interaction, impression formation, cues, and computer mediated communication
- Subject:
- Technology and Social Behavior
- Creator:
- Colin Fitzpatrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei is a single-celled eukaryotic protozoan parasite with a single cilium/flagellum. It cycles between its mammalian host (bloodstream cell), in which it scavenges cholesterol, and its tsetse fly host (procyclic cell), in which it both scavenges cholesterol and synthesizes ergosterol. For the first part of the...
- Keyword:
- Lipid rafts, Sterols, Trypanosome, and Palmitoylation
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Aabha Sharma
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- "Migration Forms” centers on the place where migration and Morocco meet to tell two stories. One argues for the centrality of migration to the projects of local, contemporary art making and postcolonial nation building, while the other examines the codification, circulation, and contestation through visual form of this North African...
- Keyword:
- Morocco, Maghreb, national identity, migration, contemporary art, and minorities
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Emma Imbrie Chubb
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, I discuss the role of neutrino masses and fermion flavor in modern particle physics and present several efforts aimed at exploiting these properties in searches for new physics. In particular, I discuss (1) the effects of neutrino decays on neutrino propagation; (2) the sensitivity of the Deep...
- Keyword:
- Particle Physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Jeffrey Michael Berryman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Significant deviations in the glass transition temperature (Tg) of nanoconfined polymer films from the bulk have been studied for over twenty years with the focus on high molecular weight (MW), linear polymers. This thesis explores low MW polymers, which represent an important class of materials widely used as coatings, detergents,...
- Keyword:
- Low Molecular Weight Polymer, Wetting/Dewetting, Glass Transition Temperature, Fragility, Nanoscale Confinement, and Cyclic/Ring Polymer
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Lanhe Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In March 1977 an exceptionally strong earthquake struck Romania ruled by the communist president and dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his regime. The policies and actions implemented and undertaken in the days, weeks, and year that followed were forms of aftershocks. The Ceauşescu regime modeled the 1977 earthquake recovery on previous...
- Keyword:
- Nicolae Ceauşescu, Disaster Response, Urban History, Romania, 1977 Earthquake, and Communism
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Karin Steinbrueck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Languages provide expressions that allow its users to indicate their source of information for a given claim, which can have an effect of attenuating how committed they appear to be to the truth of their claims (e.g., ame-ga futteiru-sooda ‘It is raining, I hear’). This linguistic notion has been termed...
- Keyword:
- semantics, pragmatics, experimental, Japanese, context, and evidentiality
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Julie Matsubara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 to confront the crisis of anti-black police violence in the Bay Area, the Black Panthers advocated armed struggle against the violences and aggressions of racist American imperialism domestically and internationally. Against interpretations that would deem their image-making to be secondary to their professed political...
- Keyword:
- Art History
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Erin E. Reitz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The U.S. Department of Education’s Ready To Learn (RTL) initiative funds (a) mass media and related community outreach intended to promote school readiness among all children—especially at-risk populations—, and (b) formative and summative research by third party evaluators (Michael Cohen Group, 2012). Today, the majority of American preschoolers have consumed...
- Keyword:
- Longitudinal, Intervention, Educational Media, Ready To Learn, Early Learning Hypothesis, and Individual Differences
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Lisa B. Hurwitz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Knot invariants can be defined using Legendrian isotopy invariants of the knot conormal. There are two types of invariants raised in this way: one is the knot contact differential graded algebra together with augmentations associated to this dga, and the other one is the category of simple sheaves microsupported along...
- Keyword:
- knot invariant, symplectic topology, contact topology, microlocal sheaf theory, and knot contact homology
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Honghao Gao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation comprises three essays on industrial organization. In Chapter 1 I study the productivity effects of corporate diversification, where productivity is understood as a measure of sales per input at the productive unit level, and diversified firms are defined as firms that operate in different industries. I develop and...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Carlos German Bet
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- With the advances in electronics and communication devices over the last several decades, radio-frequency antennas have miniaturized from externally mounted “rabbit ears” on our grandma’s televisions to devices small enough to be concealed within the body of the cellphone itself, corresponding to the carrier frequencies used from on the order...
- Keyword:
- ultrafast, opto-mechanical, nanoantenna, plasmonic, a-NSOM, and NMRs
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Xiang Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains three results related to modular forms and Galois representations of low weight. In chapter 1, we prove that the Galois pseudo-representation valued in a Hecke algebra which acts faithfully on a space of weight one Katz modular forms of level prime to p is unramified at p....
- Keyword:
- Mathematics and Crystallinity
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Joel Specter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation, “Altered Belonging: The Transnational Modern Dance of Itō Michio,” argues that Itō forged an artistic and social identity out of the very categories of racial and national difference typically used to exclude Japanese from Euro-American society. The strategies he employed provide a paradigm for how performing bodies marked...
- Keyword:
- modernism, Asian American, transnationalism, performance, cosmpolitanism, and Japan
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Tara Rodman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Traditionally, simulation analysis has focused on designing a computationally efficient algorithm assuming a correct simulation model is given. As computation becomes cheaper, we are now able to perform more sophisticated simulation analyses involving extensive computation and consider all sources of errors in the simulation model and their effects to the...
- Keyword:
- Global sensitivity analysis, Model risk, Uncertainty quantification, Simulation optimization, and Input uncertainty
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Hunhye Song
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The floor plate (FP) is a ventral midline organizing structure of the developing neural tube that provides positional information using morphogen concentration gradients towards the production of diverse neuron types. In caudal regions the FP is non-neurogenic unlike the mesodiencephalic region of the FP that is highly neurogenic, and is...
- Keyword:
- boundary, Premammillary, Engrailed, Floor plate, Subthalamic, and dopamine
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Navid Nouri
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this thesis, we advocate for the use of slice spheres, a common generalization of representation spheres and induced spheres, in parameterized homotopy theory. First, we give an algebraic characterization of the layers of the Hill-Hopkins-Ravenel slice filtration. Next, we explore the homology of parameterized symmetric powers from this point...
- Keyword:
- equivariant, chromatic, and homotopy theory
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Dylan Wilson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the relationship between dance cultures and media cultures in the United States between the 1940s and the 1960s, when both were experiencing a period of multiplicity and flux in their forms. Bringing together theories and methodologies from dance studies, media studies, and cultural history, it considers how...
- Keyword:
- film, dance, television, masculinity, and race
- Subject:
- Screen Cultures
- Creator:
- Pamela Grenelle Krayenbuhl
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation analyzes theater performances that use narratives of U.S. military veterans in the post 9/11 era in order to cross the military-civilian divide. Engaging theories of performance, embodiment, and affect, this project investigates the depiction of military bodies onstage, the public perception of military identities, and the lived experience...
- Keyword:
- Performing arts and Theatre
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Margaret Lebron
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Our capacity to share ideas through content is the paramount feature of the human brain. All of our species’ advanced communication and coordination fundamentally relies on our ability to “think alike,” yet the parallels between our brains are grossly understudied, especially regarding engagement with dynamic audiovisual stimuli. Therefore, we present...
- Keyword:
- visual attention, neural similarity, cross-brain correlation (CBC), electroencephalography (EEG), content engagement, and alpha suppression
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Samuel B. Barnett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spatial-temporal data mining, with data driven model and machine learning techniques, significantly benefit the traditional transportation research. This dissertation focus on three problems related to uncertain location data, lane-level traffic speed clustering and anomalous traffic speed prediction. We take a first step towards combining the uncertain location data i.e., fusing...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Bing Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Thermal overheating is a serious concern in modern supercomputing systems. Elevated temperature levels reduce the reliability and the lifetime of the underlying hardware and increase their power consumption. Previous studies on mitigating thermal hotspots at the hardware and run-time system levels have typically used approaches that trade off performance for...
- Keyword:
- thermal modeling, machine learning, task scheduling, and high performance computing
- Subject:
- Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Kaicheng Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Free radical polymerization has a wide range of applications and continues to attract research interest as the demand for tailored specialty polymers grows. Sequence distribution, tacticity and composition of copolymers play a key role in understanding the reaction kinetics and the properties of the polymers 1. One of the chief...
- Keyword:
- Polymerization, Process Optimization, and Kinetic Monte Carlo
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Hanyu Gao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recent scholarship in critical urban theory, urban political ecology, and related fields has emphasized the "hybridity" of urban-environmental systems. This argument is contrasted with the socially constructed "binary" relationship between "city" and "nature" that dominated historical understandings of urban-environmental connections. Despite wide agreement on these issues, the trajectories that precipitated...
- Keyword:
- park, city, chicago, race, nature, and space
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Kevin Loughran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This project elaborates an aesthetic politics that treats the possible as the site of a transformative exhaustion. It examines the aberrant temporal movements that are produced by exhaustive procedures, arguing that by disrupting the habitual structure of time, what I refer to as stereoscopic time, they render the present susceptible...
- Keyword:
- Proust, Possible, Film, Politics, Aesthetics, and Time
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Caitlyn Doyle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Accurate thermodynamic databases are the foundation of predictive microstructure and property models. An initial assessment of the commercially available Thermo-Calc TCAL2 database and the proprietary aluminum database of QuesTek demonstrated a large degree of deviation with respect to equilibrium precipitate phase prediction in the compositional region of interest when compared...
- Keyword:
- Atom-probe tomography (APT), CALPHAD, Aluminum alloys, and Q-phase precipitates
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Andrew Clay Bobel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Circling the Cosmograms marks the first full-length study of second-generation feminist and/or queer art and performance in the Haitian Dyaspora (Haitian Kreyòl spelling) following the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Through archival research, visual and performance art analysis, and in-depth interviews, I document the ways feminist and/or queer Haitian-American...
- Keyword:
- Haiti, Gender, Diaspora, Religion, Vodou, and Performance Studies
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Kantara Souffrant
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Halide perovskites, AMX3 (A = monocation, B = Ge, Sn, or Pb, and X = halogen), present a versatile class of solution-processable semiconductors made from earth abundant materials with outstanding electrical and optical properties. Their solar cell efficiencies have dramatically increased from ~9% to ~22% in less than five years...
- Keyword:
- solar cells, semiconductors, halide perovskites, and two-dimensional
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Duyen Hanh Cao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ecological restoration is vital to the conservation of biodiversity and provision of ecosystem services in a changing world. Biodiversity is often a goal of restoration, and species to be planted for restoration are often selected based on diversity objectives. But species are not independent; they are related to one another...
- Keyword:
- Plant Biology
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Rebecca Samantha Barak
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Seismic waves from large-magnitude earthquakes sometime trigger small secondary earthquakes or tectonic tremor. These secondary signals are important to observe and study because their occurrence reflects on the state of stress of the subsurface, which is important for hazard assessment. Here we first report on how individual inspection by a...
- Keyword:
- crd2018
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Science
- Creator:
- Vivian Tang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Bacterial gene expression requires numerous steps that are energetically costly and tightly regulated. Following transcription of messenger-RNA, the translation of mRNA into protein is further regulated by a variety of sequence features both within and upstream of coding sequences. Collectively, these features contribute to the control of translation initiation, elongation,...
- Keyword:
- Translation efficiency, Gene expression, Codon Usage Bias, and Shine-Dalgarno
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Adam John Hockenberry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How do independent artists use social media and e-commerce websites to support their creative businesses? This dissertation examines independent artists’ participation in the peer economy for selling handmade goods, a hybrid economy that combines sharing content on social media and selling goods on e-commerce platforms. While a multidisciplinary array of...
- Keyword:
- Internet skills, Peer Markets, Digital Literacy, Sharing Economy, Creative and Cultural Industries, and Social Media
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Erin Flynn Klawitter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation asks how deepening global inequalities reshape the ways families negotiate “economic moralities,” normative expectations of material obligation and entitlement. It focuses on the families of middle class migrants: French-educated Senegalese urbanites whose diplomas no longer protect them from discrimination in Paris but who, among Africans, are still construed...
- Keyword:
- transnational families, France, food sharing, Senegal, children, and migration
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Chelsie Jeannette Yount-Andre
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In today's marketplace, consumers purchase a basket of goods of different categories from many different types of retail stores. While most marketing literature focuses on studying a single retail chain or a single category, my dissertation considers consumers' collective basket purchases across different retail formats. By doing so, my dissertation...
- Keyword:
- Marketing
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Chaoqun Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Over the past two decades, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been successfully applied to various fields of biomedical researching and clinical studies, including cardiology, urology, dermatology, dentistry, oncology, and most successfully, ophthalmology. This dissertation seeks to extend the current OCT practice, which is still largely morphology-based, into a new dimension,...
- Keyword:
- Ophthalmic Imaging, Optical Coherence Tomography, Spectroscopic Analysis, and Blood Oxygen Saturation
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Siyu Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Web users suffer from security and privacy threats. According to Symantec, 430 million new unique pieces of malware have been discovered in 2015, and over half a billion personal records were stolen or lost in the same year. Defense mechanisms can be classified as reactive approach and proactive approach. Reactive...
- Keyword:
- Web Tracking, Web Security, XSS, Web Privacy, and Proactive System
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Xiang Pan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Optical quantum communication (QC) has the potential to address the demands of high-speed and maximally-secure communication. In optical QC, information is encoded onto the state of photons. By using entangled photonic states, QC protocols can support fundamentally secure communication for applications which cannot use classical information. To increase the information...
- Keyword:
- Fiber optics, Quantum optical communication, Entanglement, Quantum optics, Nonlinear optics, and Quantum state tomography
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Samantha Jean Nowierski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation develops a theory of rebel-state engagement during armed conflict that links these varied interactions to processes of institutional change in the state in which they unfold. Conventional wisdom portrays conflict zones as lacking institutions or pitting armed groups and states as competitors. Yet, this dissertation finds that rebels...
- Keyword:
- Civil War, State-building, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Institutions, Rebel governance, and Political economy
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Rachel Sweet
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on exploring novel light steering and spectral engineering functionalities by flat optics, which includes photonic architectures of flat plasmonic metasurfaces, nanoparticle arrays, and thin film coatings. We have designed, fabricated and characterized different plasmonic metasurfaces (trapezoid-shaped antennas, nanorings/nanowires, etc.), nanoparticle arrays (single-layered or multilayered nanocubes and nanodisks),...
- Keyword:
- Spectrum engineering, Light steering, Absorber, Thin film, Flat optics, and Metasurface
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Zhongyang Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the situated and interactional nature of cultural experiences. Drawing on the literature on materiality, place, and space, the study analyzes how the physical and spatial characteristics of art galleries and art museums in Accra, Ghana, and Johannesburg, South Africa, lead people to engage with culture, and derive...
- Keyword:
- Art galleries, Urban sociology, Art museums, Materiality, Cultural sociology, and Built environment
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Priscilla Adipa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Simulation analytics treats stochastic simulation as data analytics for systems that do not yet exist, and extends traditional performance estimation and system optimization to uncovering underlying patterns and the key drivers and dynamics of system behavior by retaining the sample paths generated throughout simulation runs. My dissertation addresses two research...
- Keyword:
- Industrial engineering
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Yujing Lin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation casts an aesthetic light on a selection of polyphonic novels from the Francophone contemporary canon. From the forms of feminism around the prophet of islam in Far from Madina by Assia Djebar, to the multiple voices of Créolité in Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau, to the forms of...
- Keyword:
- francophone, postcolonial, narrative, feminism, politics, and islam
- Subject:
- French and Italian
- Creator:
- Emilie Marie-Louise Cappella
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Topoisomerases are ubiquitous enzymes involved in maintaining the supercoiled state of DNA in the cell. Structural, biophysical, and biochemical studies have provided an overall view of the mechanisms of DNA transformation by these enzymes, but many aspects, particularly their dynamic characteristics, remain poorly understood. Type IA topoisomerases change the topology...
- Keyword:
- Fluorescence, Enzyme Mechanism, Magnetic Tweezers, Single-Molecule, Topoisomerase, and DNA Topology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Kathryn Harris Gunn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- SIRT3 is a mitochondrial-localized, NAD+-dependent deacetylase, tumor suppressor protein that functions to direct mitochondrial energy sensing and antioxidant proteins, increasing the efficiency of energy utilization, providing a redox balanced environment, and preventing aging-related diseases. One SIRT3 deacetylation target is NADP+-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 (IDH2), a key Krebs Cycle enzyme that...
- Keyword:
- MnSOD, IDH2, Cancer, and Sirtuins
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Xianghui Zou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A failure to effectively regulate emotions elicited by a stressful life event contributes to symptoms of psychopathology. This regulatory failure may result from a deficit in executive control. For some individuals, executive control is impaired following stress exposure. Thus, for some individuals, when executive control is needed to regulate emotions...
- Keyword:
- Clinical psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Meghan Quinn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ross (2015) proposed a recovery theorem which uses prices of contingent claims to recover market’s expectations about underlying asset returns. His work relies on two assumptions. He assumes all uncertainty of the economy follows a finite state irreducible Markov chain and that the pricing kernel is transition independent. We first...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Likuan Qin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- “The Vicarious Middle Ages” investigates the religious and cultural history of proxy penance where medieval Christians believed that it was possible to suffer on behalf of another person. In proxy penance, one person completed a penitential work for another, who received the spiritual benefit. From the third until the sixteenth...
- Keyword:
- Proxy, Pilgrimage, Empathy, Beguine, Theology, and Penance
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Gavin Fort
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Phase separation in segmented polymers provides distinct challenges in regard to their chemical reaction kinetics and characterization. Well studied, it has been shown that structure, phase separation and non-covalent interactions are key factors in the design of elastomeric polyurethanes. Specifically, this dissertation is focused on two areas: the synthesis of...
- Keyword:
- Fluorescence, Phase Separation, Hybrid, Aromatic Interactions, Non-Isocyanate Polyurethanes, and Polyurethane
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Dhulst
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation