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- 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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- 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