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- This dissertation examines the language of force in Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (MoE) as a site of literary self-reflection. It investigates how the text employs a constellation of “force” terms – including not only the words Kraft, Energie, and Leistung, but also images of physical and chemical forces...
- Keyword:
- Musil, Literature, Kraft, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, The Man Without Qualities, and Force
- Subject:
- German literature
- Creator:
- Agins, Jonathan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_639788 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14524
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- Description:
- In this thesis we present methods for estimating network metrics via random walk sampling. More specifically, we generalize the Hansen-Hurwitz estimator and the Horvitz-Thompson estimator to estimate the shortest path length distribution (SPLD), closeness centrality ranking, and clustering coefficients of a network. Those are important metrics to a network, but...
- Keyword:
- closeness centrality, sampling, shortest path length, clustering coefficient, network, and random walk
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Zheng, Minhui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662638 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14650
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- Description:
- Circuit-level Dynamic Timing Slack (DTS) has emerged as a compelling opportunity for eliminating inefficiency in modern low-power systems. This slack arises when all the signals have propagated through logic paths well in advance of the clock signal. When it is properly identified, the system can exploit this unused cycle time...
- Keyword:
- code transformation, Dynamic timing slack, timing error model, timing speculation, energy efficiency, and low power
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Fan, Yuanbo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_624514 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14433
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- Description:
- This dissertation is about three of Cicero’s notable projects in ideal theory in his middle and late periods (between roughly 54-43 BCE). It comes during a resurgence in interest in Cicero’s contributions as a philosopher. First, I discuss Cicero’s philosophical account of vera gloria (true glory) in contradistinction to mere...
- Keyword:
- Cicero, Ideal theory, Plato, Glory, Retrospective, and Utopia
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Classical studies
- Creator:
- Dutmer, Evan Robert William
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686428 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14843
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- This dissertation proposes an oracle efficient estimator in the context of a sparse linear model. Chapter 1 introduces the penalty and the estimator that optimizes a penalized least squares objective. Unlike existing methods, the penalty is differentiable – once, and hence the estimator does not engage in model selection. This...
- Keyword:
- Lasso, Econometrics, Sparsity, Penalized estimation, and Bootstrap
- Subject:
- Statistics and Economics
- Creator:
- Gitlin, Sergey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_682504 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14786
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- Description:
- Rationally assembled nanostructures exhibit distinct physical and chemical properties beyond their individual units. The development of nanofabrication tools enables precise structural defining of nanomaterials scalable to large areas. This dissertation focuses on plasmonic nanoparticle arrays that show unique diffractive coupling with lattice spacings engineered close to the wavelength of light....
- Keyword:
- Light-matter interactions, Metal nanoparticles, Plasmonic superlattices, Upconverting nanolasing, Nanoscale lasers, and Stretchable photonics
- Subject:
- Optics, Nanoscience, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Wang, Danqing
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14605 and etdadmin_upload_661446
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- In this thesis, we study pushforwards of canonical and log-pluricanonical bundles on projective log canonical pairs over the complex numbers. We partially answer a Fujita-type conjecture proposed by Popa and Schnell in the log canonical setting. Built on Kawamata’s result for morphisms that are smooth outside a simple normal crossing...
- Keyword:
- Global Generation, Fujita Conjecture, (Pluri)-canonical bundle, Weak Positivity, Iitaka Conjecture, and Vanishing Theorems
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Dutta, Yajnaseni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_666347 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14693
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- Description:
- Cells are complex, autonomous machines that integrate many environmental cues to execute a desired response. Though this property makes cells versatile, it presents significant design challenges when, to treat diseases, we must alter cellular responses. To understand changes to the complex regulatory pathways that cause diseases, studies often investigate the...
- Keyword:
- systems biology, machine learning, dynamics, regulation, and differential gene expression
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics and Biology
- Creator:
- Finkle, Justin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14568 and etdadmin_upload_656753
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- Description:
- This dissertation analyses the ways in which football, known as soccer in the United States, has historically served as a diasporic space for the articulation of black politics in the second half of the twentieth century. While modern sport is characterized as an apolitical cultural practice, I am interested in...
- Keyword:
- diaspora, football, coloniality, race, and soccer
- Subject:
- Black studies
- Creator:
- Scott, Jermaine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14635 and etdadmin_upload_662291
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- Description:
- Polyolefins are the most versatile and widely used polymers worldwide. Depending on the polymer microstructure, polyolefins can exhibit a wide range of useful and tailored properties and applications. Metal-catalyzed coordinative olefin polymerization plays a center role in advancing polyolefin synthesis. This dissertation explores two strategies to modulate the polymer microstructures...
- Keyword:
- scandium, olefin polymerization, zirconium, bimetallic effect, and polar monomer
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Chen, Jiazhen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14719 and etdadmin_upload_669232