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- Drinking water treatment residuals (DWTRs) are waste materials generated during the clarification process of drinking water treatment. The application of DWTRs as sorbent materials offers an opportunity to reuse and add value to these materials. For instance, as metal sorbents, DWTRs could be used as active capping materials to remediate...
- Subject:
- Environmental science, Environmental engineering, and Sustainability
- Creator:
- Wallace, Samuel McDonald
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_934733 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16295
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- Micro-X is a high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy sounding rocket mission that had its first flight in July 2018, becoming the first program to carry Transition-Edge Sensors (TES) and multiplexing Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) readout electronics into space, successfully collect data, and subsequently recover the instruments. While a rocket pointing failure...
- Keyword:
- TES, Sounding Rocket, Microcalorimeter, SQUID multiplexing, and X-ray
- Subject:
- Astrophysics, Physics, and Low temperature physics
- Creator:
- Manzagol-Harwood, Renee Elisabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_937247 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16308
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- Phonotactic patterns are generalizations that govern the order of consonants and vowels, within words and syllables. Certain second-order phonotactic patterns—those that relate multiple sounds within a syllable, such as “if the vowel is [ɪ], then [s] can only appear at the end of the syllable”—require a period of sleep-based consolidation...
- Keyword:
- speech production, phonotactics, adult language learning, pattern learning, motor learning, and phonology
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Language, and Linguistics
- Creator:
- Mirea, Nicole Irene
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16373 and etdadmin_upload_947262
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- Description:
- G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest family of membrane receptors in humans and play a role in nearly all physiological processes. Among GPCRs, metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are a structurally distinct family of synaptic receptors that are essential in regulating neurotransmission and synaptic plasticity. Due to their important regulatory...
- Keyword:
- structural dynamics, mGluRs, conformational dynamics, membrane proteins, smFRET, and GPCRs
- Subject:
- Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Liauw, Brandon Wey-Hung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_937523 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16310
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- Cancer has long been the second-leading cause of death in the United States and represents the leading cause of death in midlife (age 40-60). While the prognosis for many cancers has vastly improved over the last thirty years, many cancers remain elusive due to the late-onset of symptoms, the specific...
- Keyword:
- Antibodies, Protein Switch, Cell Patterning, Machine Learning, and Breast Cancer
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Sykora, Daniel Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_936187 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16305
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- This dissertation reinterprets Michel Foucault’s theory of sovereignty to offer an explanation and critique of repressive state violence. Commentators typically locate Foucault’s contribution to political thought in concepts of power that are irreducible to sovereignty or the state. In contrast, I draw on Foucault’s early genealogies of power to argue...
- Keyword:
- Violence, Foucault, Critique, Sovereignty, and Genealogy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Lichtenstein, Eli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_934011 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16293
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- The ability to regenerate lost tissues or organs is widespread in the animal kingdom, but the mechanistic basis underpinning this process is incompletely understood. The planarian flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea has an incredibly robust and flexible capacity for regeneration, able to regenerate an entire organism from arbitrary starting points. This makes...
- Subject:
- Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Gittin, David I
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16379 and etdadmin_upload_947402
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- The vibrational and rotational degrees of freedom in a molecule add complexity that complicate optical cycling and state preparation procedures. However, the same additional degrees of freedom also make molecules suitable candidates for tests of physics beyond the standard model. A precision measurement of the transition energy between two vibrational...
- Keyword:
- Photon Recoil Readout, Mixed-Species Ion Crystal, Spectroscopy, Sideband Cooling, SiO+, and Single Molecule
- Subject:
- Optics, Molecular physics, and Atomic physics
- Creator:
- Dragan, James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_933373 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16290
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- Making the Coast Pacific is an environmental history of violence against places, plants, and people. Mexico's Pacific Coast region was a key site for oilseed agriculture and industrialization, which resulted in environmental violence and injustice. Since the region with Mexico's largest population of afro-descendants, Costa Chica, was also Mexico's leading...
- Keyword:
- Agrarian reform, Agribusiness history, Oilseed crops, Environmental Violence, Afro-Mexico, and Agrochemicals
- Subject:
- Latin American history, Science history, and Environmental studies
- Creator:
- Porter, Jayson Maurice
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16288 and etdadmin_upload_933029
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Recurrent inhibition within olfactory networks shapes noise correlations and stimulus discrimination
- Description:
- Each second, living organisms take in sensory input from an ever-changing environment and respond appropriately. Identifying and contextualizing stimuli is critical for survival, and it often necessitates distinguishing between sensory experiences that are similar to each other. Pattern separation characterizes the mechanisms by which neuronal networks extract and highlight differences...
- Keyword:
- Sensory processing, Neuroscience, and Olfaction
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Wang, Angelia Feiyang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_945895 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16353