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- This dissertation reconstructs North and South Carolina Lowcountry plantation waterfronts as a means of better understanding mobility, inequality, and human-environment interactions in the antebellum Lowcountry. Using a theoretical framework of hydrosociality, the author undertook archaeological and archival research to investigate the question: how did the built environment of navigable waterways...
- Keyword:
- Maritime Studies, Anthropology, and Archaeology
- Subject:
- Archaeology
- Creator:
- Schwalbe, Emily Anne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986235 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16584
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- Colloidal crystals engineered with DNA are fascinating structures that constitute an emerging form of programmable matter. Indeed, the use of DNA as a programmable bond has led to thousands of new crystal types, with exquisite control over crystal symmetry and lattice parameters. However, synthesizing large (> 100 µm) single-crystals has...
- Subject:
- Nanoscience
- Creator:
- Calcaterra, Heather
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16430 and etdadmin_upload_964119
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- In the United States, those who have lower income, education level, and occupational prestige, are more likely to develop, have worse symptoms of, and die from a wide range of chronic diseases. This phenomenon prompted much research trying to delineate the underlying pathways, and inflammation has been highlighted as a...
- Subject:
- Psychobiology
- Creator:
- Lam, Phoebe Hok-Yee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_983393 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16510
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- This dissertation has three chapters. Chapter one evaluates the effects of Short-Time Workin Germany during the great financial crisis. Chapter two describes how British inventors during the industrial revolution worked on more central technologies. This in turn resulted in faster growth. Chapter three builds on a novel patent data set...
- Keyword:
- Economic History, Heterogeneous Agents, Search and Matching, Economic Growth, Short-Time Work, and Technology Network
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Hallmann, Carl Clemens
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_980626 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16486
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- Description:
- Deduplication, also referred to as "entity resolution", is a common and crucial pre-processing step in the construction of social networks. Traditional deduplication methods compare the attributes (such as name and age) of potential matching pairs to estimate a match probability for a pair. Recently research has used clustering techniques for...
- Keyword:
- egocentric, networks, entity resolution, and record linkage
- Subject:
- Information science, Statistics, and Public health
- Creator:
- Smith, Abigail Leeza
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16419 and etdadmin_upload_962549
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- Description:
- How do exporting firms react to changes in the cost of credit? To answer this question, we exploit an exogenous variation in banking regulation which increases the cost of financ- ing for exports in the European Union. Using a unique dataset which combines customs, firm-level, and credit registry data on...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- da Costa Monteiro, Joao Miguel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_981993 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16495
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- Description:
- Over the past decade the market for children’s digital play activities focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has grown exponentially. One benefit to the growth in digital STEM play is that it can provide children opportunities to engage the cognitive skills and practices that can be valuable for...
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology and Developmental psychology
- Creator:
- Polinsky, Naomi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16461 and etdadmin_upload_975492
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- Description:
- Different features of the visual world are conveyed to the retino-recipient regions of the brain by more than 40 types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCS). Feature detection by RGCs depends on a combination of intrinsic and morphological properties where the interplay of excitatory and inhibitory inputs occurs through local retinal...
- Keyword:
- Intersectional Genetics, Amacrine Cells, and Retina
- Subject:
- Physiology, Ophthalmology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Jo, Andrew Oh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16453 and etdadmin_upload_971727
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- Description:
- Meiosis is a specialized form of cell division that gives rise to haploid reproductive cells by replicating the genetic material once and undergoing two rounds of partitioning. While most forms of cell division require centrosomes to assemble a bipolar microtubule-based spindle that segregates chromosomes, female gametes (oocytes) are unique in...
- Subject:
- Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Horton, Hannah Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16528 and etdadmin_upload_984240
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- Description:
- As opposed to the nanoscale deposition techniques often used for material syntheses, here, I focus on mesoscale material depositions and how to design interfaces to efficiently manage such deposition and potential accumulation. These deposition processes include condensation, condensation frosting, particle capture, and vaporization. Through the lens of energy and sustainability,...
- Keyword:
- Heat Transfer, Phase Change, Interfacial Phenomena, Fluid Mechanics, and Mass Transfer
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Machado, Christian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16579 and etdadmin_upload_986155
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- Description:
- Mindfulness is the dynamic process of building and maintaining awareness of one’s environment and paying attention to stimuli (Langer, 1989; Brown, Ryan, & Creswell, 2007). A cognitively effortful endeavor, mindfulness requires “the capacity to respond to unanticipated cues or signals from one’s context” (Levinthal & Rerup, 2006, p. 504). Mindful...
- Keyword:
- mindfulness, engagement, roles, sensemaking, and burnout
- Subject:
- Management
- Creator:
- Diaz, Carmen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16509 and etdadmin_upload_983196
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- Description:
- This thesis focuses on exploring the explanatory and discovery potential of the four-neutrino and enhanced neutrino magnetic and electric dipole moments hypotheses when applied to the NOvA/T2K discrepancy and the XENON1T anomaly, respectively. Firstly, we study the effect of a very light (sub eV) sterile neutrino on the NOvA/T2K anom-...
- Keyword:
- Particles, Neutrinos, Physics, Phenomenology, Neutrino Magnetic Moment, and Sterile Neutrino
- Subject:
- Physics and Particle physics
- Creator:
- Jusino Sánchez, Giancarlo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985471 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16558
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- Description:
- Recommender systems (RSs) have become essential tools that provide personalized recommendations to their users. These systems may consider user, item provider, and system requirements simultaneously. With the inclusion of possibly clashing considerations, there is a growing focus on solving multiple-objective recommender system (MORS) problems as efficiently as possible. The constrained...
- Keyword:
- Constrained optimization, Recommender systems, and Personal recommendations
- Subject:
- Industrial engineering
- Creator:
- Seymen, Sinan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_975783 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16462
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- Description:
- We establish the criterion for chaos in three-planet systems, for systems similar to those discovered by the Kepler spacecraft. Our main results are as follows: (i) The simplest criterion, which is based on overlapping mean motion resonances (MMRs), only agrees with numerical simulations at a very crude level. (ii) Much...
- Keyword:
- Warps, Protoplanetary Disks, Simulations, Chaos, Planets, and Dynamics
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Creator:
- Rath, Jeremy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16392 and etdadmin_upload_956915
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- Description:
- A great deal of work has been done in recent years to construct algebraic invariants ofLegendrian knots, and their higher-dimensional analogues. Here we employ the diagram- matic calculus developed in [3], in order to develop an iterative method for computing the so-called vexillary functions of a class of Legendrian surfaces....
- Keyword:
- Moduli, Legendrian, Knot, Combinatorics, and Microlocal
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Snadden, John Arthur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16484 and etdadmin_upload_980155
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- Description:
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID) are two of the most highly prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), each affecting roughly 2% of the population. Despite the need for therapies, few exist due to a myriad of challenges, such as the complex underlying genetic etiology and historic inaccessibility of neural...
- Keyword:
- PACS1 syndrome, Induced pluripotent stem cells, Single-cell RNA sequencing, Intellectual disability, Cerebral organoids, and Autism spectrum disorder
- Subject:
- Molecular biology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Rylaarsdam, Lauren Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984633 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16538
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- Description:
- The production and spread of digital news involves a wide range of actors: journalists and the organizations that employ them, social media platforms, audiences, and myriad commentators, citizen journalists, bloggers, and other actors who contribute to the news ecosystem without inhabiting an official role. These actors interact in flexible, often...
- Keyword:
- computational social science, algorithms, digital journalism, simulation, network analysis, and complexity
- Subject:
- Journalism, Computer science, and Communication
- Creator:
- Hagar, Nicholas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984386 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16531
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents an affect-centered approach to the analysis and interpretation of the experience of music and its attendant meaning in selected works of literature and cinema. Music’s interpretative mutability often charges it with meaning, though in infinite gradations of singularity rather than any universal sense. Rather than undertake a...
- Subject:
- French literature and Music
- Creator:
- Jackson, Colin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16432 and etdadmin_upload_965301
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- Description:
- Vertebrate brains evolved to facilitate a diverse array of behaviors and internal cognitive processes. Theories of neural function have proposed that neural computation is organized within populations or ensembles of neurons. Here, we identify ensembles of neurons in the striatum, the main input nucleus of the basal ganglia, in which...
- Keyword:
- Wireless Optogenetics, Basal Ganglia, Striatum, Dopamine, Neural Ensemble, and Population Activity
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Minkowicz, Samuel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16515 and etdadmin_upload_983540
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies three markets with regulated prices. I focus on how these regulations shape the behavior of firms along non-price dimensions. Chapter 1 studies the effects of community rating regulations in the US individual health insurance exchange market. In this market, the Affordable Care Act established community rating areas...
- Keyword:
- Industrial organization, Health economics, and Applied microeconomics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Geddes, Eilidh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16454 and etdadmin_upload_971770
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- The dissertation project considers the generative possibilities to envision Black subjectivity that emerges from a sustained consideration of different forms of difficult racial and sexual intimacies. The artists whose work is engaged throughout the project, Leasho Johnson, Ajamu X, and NIC Kay recognize that to be Black is to always...
- Keyword:
- Black Visual Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Studies, Intimacy, Queer Studies, and Performance Studies
- Subject:
- African American studies
- Creator:
- Marsh, Gervais
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_987546 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16619
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- Description:
- Chapter 1. Caste, Bureaucracy, and the Limits to Political Affirmative Action. The aim of political affirmative action policies is to ensure that disadvantaged groups are represented in their governments and, in turn, that laws preferred by this group are more likely to be instituted. Often, however, they have not been...
- Keyword:
- citizenship, affirmative action, contagion, caste, bureaucracy, and political economy
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Campillo Betancourt, Eduardo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986068 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16575
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- Description:
- Human olfactory function is important for a myriad of behaviors, including food seeking, social cognition, memory, emotional regulation, and detecting environmental threats. In animal models, particularly dense olfactory inputs have been shown to target orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a region involved in multimodal sensory integration, reward coding, and flexibly guiding our...
- Keyword:
- aging, tractography, olfaction, alzheimer's disease, orbitofrontal cortex, and diffusion magnetic resonance imaging
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Echevarria-Cooper, Shiloh Luela
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16387 and etdadmin_upload_952134
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- Description:
- In the first part of the thesis we,given a dg-Lie algebra $\g$, a commutative dg-algebra $A$ and a twisting cochain $\mu$ in $A \otimes \g$, we construct a map from the functor of curved deformations of $\g$ to the functor of curved deformations of the twisted tensor product $A \otimes_\mu...
- Keyword:
- L-infinity algebras, Lie coalgebra, A-infinity algebras, Period map, Quantization, and Deformation theory
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Papayanov, Grigory
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985714 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16566
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- Description:
- Neuroblastoma is one of the most common childhood cancers with one of the lowest survival rates, accounting for 15% of childhood cancer mortality. Approximately 15% of patients do not respond to initial treatment, and about half of children treated for high-risk neuroblastoma will relapse following remission. Ionizing radiation has long...
- Subject:
- Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Ritner, Carissa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_977952 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16470
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- Description:
- Amyloid beta oligomers (AβOs) are a key instigator of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The work presented in this thesis includes three disease-modifying approaches to disrupt pathological AβO-related mechanisms in AD: (1) inhibiting AβO buildup, (2) blocking AβO-induced tau phosphorylation, and (3) neutralizing AβOs. These three approaches were tested in...
- Keyword:
- Amyloid beta oligomer
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Johnson, Elizabeth Anne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16421 and etdadmin_upload_962600
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- Description:
- Technology that processes text, audio and video, as well as location data, has revolutionized many industries by enabling innovative operations for customer retention. To retain transactions for a platform and viewers for advertisers, this dissertation leverages novel digital tools to analyze consumer behavior, proposes original economic frameworks to guide platform...
- Keyword:
- Ad Avoidance, Multimedia Data, Platform, Geolocation, Machine Learning, and Disintermediation
- Subject:
- Marketing, Economics, and Information technology
- Creator:
- Xie, Yingkang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16589 and etdadmin_upload_986414
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- Description:
- The on-going demand for miniaturized optical and on-chip photonic systems of the future has led to a few potential solutions in the literature. Recent advances in van der Waals and 2-dimensional materials signal a bright future for the next generation, compact electronic and photonic devices. With reduced dimensionality and material...
- Keyword:
- Polarization, Phonons, van der Waals, Plasmons, Wave plate, and 2D materials
- Subject:
- Optics, Materials Science, and Electromagnetics
- Creator:
- Abedini Dereshgi, Sina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16396 and etdadmin_upload_958293
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- Description:
- Human communication has become increasingly reliant on systems made and managed by large technology companies like Google, Apple, Twitter, and Meta (formerly Facebook). These systems offer people many benefits, but they also present new challenges for society. In recent years, researchers, lawmakers, and journalists have suggested that large technology companies...
- Keyword:
- Apple, Twitter, Google, Algorithm Auditing, Sociotechnical Systems, and Facebook
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence, Computer science, and Communication
- Creator:
- Bandy, Jack
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16555 and etdadmin_upload_985359
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- Description:
- The retina detects light, processes the visual signal, and sends a complex set of parallel information channels to the brain via a functionally diverse set of retinal ganglion cells types. This manuscript examines these retinal ganglion cell types, the visual features they encode, and the computational mechanisms leading to their...
- Keyword:
- electrophysiology, computational, signal processing, Bipolar cell, Retina, and ganglion cell
- Subject:
- Ophthalmology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Swygart, David Isaiah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962145 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16411
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- Description:
- The esophagus plays a crucial role in the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and esophageal disorders are associated with reduced quality of life. Several studies have reported that there is a high worldwide prevalence of esophageal disorders. Esophageal disorders are related to the mechanical properties and function of the esophageal...
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Artificial intelligence, and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Halder, Sourav
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16567 and etdadmin_upload_985717
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- Description:
- Nanomaterials present an exciting landscape of innovation at length scales below 100 nm, wherein controllable synthesis and materials metrology have led to tunable structure-property relationships and next-generation products. The disruptive field of nanotechnology is poised to capitalize upon the exotic chemistry and physics of these nanomaterials to enable more efficient...
- Keyword:
- graphene, scalable manufacturing, nanomaterials, nanomanufacturing, 2D materials, and electronic materials
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Materials Science, and Engineering
- Creator:
- Downing, Julia Rocio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16548 and etdadmin_upload_985168
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- Description:
- In Chapter 1, I analyze optimal capital structure using a model in which firms issue securities in order to (1) finance investments in operations and (2) recapitalize the firm. In this trade-off model, firms balance the tax benefits of debt against the costs of financial distress. Key to the analysis,...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Hu, Jingxiong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986275 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16585
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- Description:
- As the technology enabling touch-sense rendering of virtual textures grows in efficacy and prevalence, so too grows the need for a standardized means of storing, transferring, and reconstituting textural signals. Furthermore, to achieve the ultra-low-latency requirements of the next generation of global communications networks, this digital texture representation must be...
- Keyword:
- Haptics, Tactile Signal Compression, Touch, Ultrasonic Friction Reduction, and Virtual Texture
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Burns, David Arthur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16413 and etdadmin_upload_962297
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- Description:
- In this essay I examine George Aperghis’ process-based compositional thought in the score and performance practice of Retrouvailles, with a focus on the non-hierarchical and simultaneous use of interdisciplinary elements. I demonstrate how Aperghis sets up the complex dramaturgy of superimposed, suggestive narratives in this work as a case-study of...
- Keyword:
- composed gesture, music theatre, abstract narrativity, language, voice, and percussion
- Subject:
- Music theory, Linguistics, and Music
- Creator:
- Charlafti, Niki
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_987572 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16620
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- The purpose of this thesis is to study the empirical measure of the t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding algorithm (t-SNE) when the input is given by n independent, identically distributed inputs.We show that this sequence of measures converges to an equilibrium measure, which can be described as the solution of a...
- Keyword:
- Probability and Unsupervised Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Fletcher, Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16523 and etdadmin_upload_983853
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- Description:
- Relative to individual level exposures (such as childhood trauma, life events, and bullying exposure), contextual or systems level environmental factors have received relatively less attention in the psychology literature. While landmark epidemiological and sociological studies have uncovered key insights with regards to systems, this knowledge has not often been translated...
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Vargas, Teresa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16196 and etdadmin_upload_924463
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- Description:
- This dissertation is an in-depth exploration of Clarke Distributions (for 10), an original musical composition based on the use of text to establish interrelational listening and performance patterns between performers, in place of any fixed musical material. Inspired by research into improvisation, cognition, aesthetics, and linguistics, these patterns manifest as...
- Keyword:
- music composition, music philosophy, experimental music, text scores, and indeterminacy
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Music, and Musical composition
- Creator:
- Zucker, Benjamin Bartels
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16469 and etdadmin_upload_977600
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- Description:
- The societies of the former Yugoslavia are only a quarter-century removed from extensive warfare, yet collectively represent one of the fastest-growing tourism destinations in the world. This dissertation employs a global and relational lens to examine how contested narratives of recent conflict history are marketed, performed, and narrativized in settings...
- Keyword:
- Collective memory, Tourism, National reputation, Cultural performance, and Yugoslavia
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Levin, Jeremy Kuperberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16511 and etdadmin_upload_983431
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- Description:
- This thesis explores the potential of two-dimensional (2D) or van der Waals (vdW) materials for printed optoelectronic devices. The research focuses on the development of processing, imaging, and modeling of materials and thin-film devices to optimize performance and introduce novel properties. A gate-dependent resistor network model is presented that establishes...
- Keyword:
- scanning probe microscopy, transition metal dichalcogenides, thin-film transistors, finite element simulation, printed electronics, and 2D materials
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Zhu, Zhehao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16504 and etdadmin_upload_982806
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- Description:
- Much of our understanding of human becoming and the process by which possible futures are developed has been based on narrow samples of human experience, which are usually more privileged and provide a narrow view of variability in human life and development. The developmental and educational pathways of minoritized young...
- Keyword:
- Identity Development, Latinx women, Possible Futures, Intersectionality, STEM Learning, and Sociopolitical Development
- Subject:
- Developmental psychology, Education, and Social research
- Creator:
- Castillo-Lavergne, Claudia M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_982633 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16501
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- Description:
- This dissertation introduces several novel computational imaging techniques that capture and analyze the 3D surface shapes and internal layered materials. The research proposes user-friendly and non-invasive imaging systems, constructed using only commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components, which provide accurate measurement of 3D information that was previously inaccessible. The dissertation focuses on...
- Keyword:
- Eye Tracking, 3D Modeling, Cultural Heritage, and Computational Imaging
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Xu, Bingjie (Jenny)
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986526 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16595
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- Description:
- Soft materials are inherently fluxional, with morphologies and behaviors that are dictated by their solvation state. Thus, many organic systems cannot be reliably imaged by static dry state or cryogenic-transmission electron microscopy (TEM). This motivated us to pursue liquid cell (LC) TEM method development to study our own materials and...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Korpanty, Joanna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16391 and etdadmin_upload_954956
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- Description:
- CD95/Fas ligand (CD95L) is a well characterized activator of extrinsic apoptosis. CD95L protein binds to its cognate receptor, CD95/Fas/APO-1, inducing apoptotic signaling in sensitive cells. However, expression of CD95L is toxic even in the absence of CD95. We previously reported that the CD95L open reading frame (ORF) is enriched for...
- Keyword:
- FasL, RNA toxicity, RNA interference, and Cell death
- Subject:
- Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Haluck-Kangas, Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16384 and etdadmin_upload_949365
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- Description:
- Involuntary motor activities such as spasms arise from hyperreflexia in about 70% of individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI). Despite this prevalence and the negative impact on health and safety, it is unclear what determines the severity of the spasms that develop. This study investigated the impact of injury severity...
- Keyword:
- Movement Disorder, Spinal Cord Injury, and Serotonin
- Subject:
- Physiology, Biology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Shelton, Owen Adio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16444 and etdadmin_upload_970159
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- Description:
- Uranium is a unique, multifaceted element that possesses rich chemistry and promise for challenging reactions. Pressing demands within nuclear stockpile stewardship and the nuclear energy sector call for development of this relatively understudied element. Uranium metal–organic frameworks (U-MOFs), a class of nanoscale hybrid materials, harness the exceptional attributes of uranium...
- Keyword:
- metal-organic frameworks, uranium, and nanotechnology
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Nanoscience, and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hanna, Sylvia Lorraine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16404 and etdadmin_upload_961471
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- Description:
- In the 1960s, the International Theatre Institute (ITI), the organization sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with a mission to represents the world’s theaters, was faced with a crisis of representation. After twenty years of existence, the institution had not succeeded in substantially expanding beyond...
- Keyword:
- World Theatre, International Theatre Institute, Progressive, Cold War, Cultural Diplomacy, and Theatre
- Subject:
- Literature, International relations, and Theater history
- Creator:
- Randle-Bent, Matthew Gordon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16609 and etdadmin_upload_986891
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- Description:
- Monetary Policy plays a crucial role in modern economies by supporting price, financial and economic stability. Its efficacy, however, exhibits variation both over time and across space leading to partially unpredictable and inconsistent outcomes. This thesis shows that the variation in the efficacy of monetary policy crucially relates to the...
- Keyword:
- Market Structure, State-Dependent Effects, Loan and Deposit Interest Rates, Monetary Policy, Financial Intermediaries, and Heterogeneity
- Subject:
- Economics, Finance, and Banking
- Creator:
- Puglisi, Federico
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986697 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16603
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- Description:
- The goal of this thesis is to prove that topological restriction homology, TR, is locally even in the quasi-syntomic topology in characteristic p. This local evenness was already known for the other main trace theories, but is more subtle for TR.
- Keyword:
- Homotopy Theory
- Subject:
- Theoretical mathematics
- Creator:
- Darrell, micah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16601 and etdadmin_upload_986673
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- Description:
- We consider data-driven approaches for universal texture modeling via generative adversarial networks and inversion methods. We investigate the properties of the learned representation spaces and demonstrate that a strong link between texture analysis and synthesis is the key to successful texture modeling. First, we visit the problem of texture synthesis...
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Lin, Jue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_956970 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16393
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- Description:
- Previous studies have documented a systematic discrepancy between probabilistic seismic hazard maps and historical records of shaking (Stein et al., 2015; Brooks et al., 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019; Salditch et al., 2020; Salditch, 2021). In almost every case, shaking predicted by the hazard map is higher than that historically observed....
- Subject:
- Geophysics
- Creator:
- Gallahue, Molly Margaret
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_979215 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16479
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- Description:
- This dissertation includes the score and companion essay to the musical work, Untitled (March). In the composition, I endeavor to create a listening situation offering a mutually negotiated environment of quietude that challenges a listener's preconceptions of intentionality and perception by blurring the boundaries between instrumental performance, field recordings, and the...
- Subject:
- Musical composition
- Creator:
- Maxbauer, Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_987071 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16612
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- Description:
- Due to their widespread applicability, graphs and networks appear in various contexts. The increasing scale of graphs encountered in the real-world requires the developmentof efficient algorithms that run reasonably fast and produce close to optimal solutions. The main focus of this thesis is the development of fast graph algorithms for...
- Keyword:
- Parallel Algorithms, Dynamic Algorithms, Algorithms, Approximation Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, and Graph Theory
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Sukprasert, Pattara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984409 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16533
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- Description:
- Machine learning-based techniques have shown great promises in perception, prediction, planning, and general decision-making for improving task performance of autonomous driving. Connectivity technology has also presented great potentials in improving the safety and efficiency of transportation systems by providing information beyond the perception and prediction capabilities of individual vehicles. However,...
- Keyword:
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicle, Safety, and Security
- Subject:
- Robotics, Computer engineering, and Transportation
- Creator:
- Liu, Xiangguo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986836 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16608
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- Description:
- Our sense of smell, or olfaction, is one of our most evolutionarily ancient senses. In vertebrates, olfaction plays a crucial role in many functions, such as detecting and evaluating food, avoiding predators, regulating appetite, spatial navigation, and selecting mating partners. In addition, the olfactory system is highly dynamic and exhibits...
- Keyword:
- Neuroimaging, Perceptual Coding, Olfaction, Encoding Models, and Orbitofrontal Cortex
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Sagar, Vivek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16580 and etdadmin_upload_986169
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- Description:
- Findings in both humans and animal models have associated the hippocampal theta oscillation with hippocampal memory function. In animal models, previous research supports that the theta oscillation contributes to memory via phase-dependent changes in hippocampal network connectivity, wherein memory encoding versus retrieval are optimized at different phases of the theta...
- Keyword:
- theta, intracranial, phase, TMS, oscillation, and hippocampus
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Lurie, Sarah M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_956997 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16394
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- Description:
- This essay investigates the question under which conditions ASMR is suitable for the concert space. What can be done to ensure that those sensitive to ASMR experience the desired effect? The text compares the sounds used to induce the physiological response called ASMR to those of “Musique Concrète (Instrumentale)” by...
- Keyword:
- ASMR and music
- Subject:
- Musical composition
- Creator:
- Roelofsen, Ruud
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16524 and etdadmin_upload_984052
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- Description:
- Preschool television has historically not been representative of the world young childrenlive in. Although progress is being made, “representation matters” is still a phrase that rings true to this day. This dissertation focused on representation within STEM television shows because STEM education involves learning important skills such as problem solving...
- Subject:
- Early childhood education
- Creator:
- Lennon, Maya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_980836 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16489
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- Description:
- t
- Keyword:
- Rigidities, Rational Expectation, Agent-Based Modeling, Production Networks, Incomplete Information, and Latin Monetary Union
- Subject:
- Economic history, Economics, and Finance
- Creator:
- Pellet, Thomas Louis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16599 and etdadmin_upload_986621
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- Description:
- Biologically active small molecules remain the foundation for the medical management of human disease. Their impacts on human health, longevity, culture, and society are difficultly overstated. In large part, medicines derived from organic compounds are the result of the tireless efforts of chemical practitioners––both past and present––who have dedicated much...
- Keyword:
- Mellpaladine A, Glioblastoma, Autophagy, MAP2K7, and T-ALL
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Kim, Dalton Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16465 and etdadmin_upload_977054
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- Description:
- Shale gas is a critical energy resource that is comprised primarily of light gases that are expensive to transport. Because these gases are geographically spread-out and there is insufficient capacity to transport them to centralized processing facilities, they must often be flared, leading to great sources of resource waste and...
- Keyword:
- active site proximity, density functional theory, shale gas, zeolite catalysis, degree of rate control, and microkinetic modeling
- Subject:
- Nanoscience, Chemical engineering, and Computational chemistry
- Creator:
- Marsden, Grant Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16512 and etdadmin_upload_983488
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- Description:
- Literature screening is the process of identifying all relevant records from a pool of candidate paper records in systematic review, meta-analysis, and other research synthesis tasks. This process is time consuming, expensive, and prone to human error. Screening prioritization methods attempt to help reviewers identify most relevant records while only...
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Hou, Zhipeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16478 and etdadmin_upload_978985
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- Description:
- Multiple facets of the natural trajectory of glioma remain poorly understood, which results in a universally poor prognosis for patients with glioma. Many patients with glioma experience tumor-associated epilepsy (TAE) throughout their disease course, but the mechanism by which TAE occurs, who is at continued risk for TAE, and whether...
- Keyword:
- Glioma, Glioblastoma, Infiltration, IDH, and Seizure
- Subject:
- Oncology and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Drumm, Michael Raymond
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16570 and etdadmin_upload_985850
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- Description:
- Single-use plastic waste pollution will cause significant harm to the environment if left unaddressed. One possible mitigation strategy is to develop processes, e.g. catalytic hydrogenolysis, that can convert (i.e. upcycle) waste plastics into value-added products capable of participating in a circular economy. Platinum (Pt) catalysts on strontium titanate nanocuboid supports...
- Subject:
- Chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Peczak, Ian Lukasz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16513 and etdadmin_upload_983506
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- Description:
- Aging is the greatest known risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD); however, the molecular mechanisms underlying aging and how it can initiate and or exacerbate AD, is still unknown. Epigenetic regulation has been widely accepted to play an essential role in aging or AD-related processes; however, whether dysregulations of histone...
- Keyword:
- HDACs, Alzheimer's Disease, Epigenetics, and Aging
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- McClarty, Bryan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_954939 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16390
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- Description:
- Thermoelectric devices convert between temperature gradients and electricity, implying numerous applications, such as powering exploratory space vehicles, industrial waste-heat recovery, and solid- state refrigeration. Thermoelectric devices consist of doped p-type and n-type semiconductor legs, and the overall device efficiency depends on the transport properties of these semiconductor materials. High-performing thermoelectric...
- Keyword:
- band engineering, electronic structure, density functional theory, thermoelectrics, group theory, and tight-binding
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Brod, Madison K
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16437 and etdadmin_upload_967109
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- Description:
- Through analysis of visual and literary texts, “Relating Sideways: Visual Culture and Women’s Bonds, 1970-2020” constructs a historical narrative that challenges the assumption that women’s lives and relationships naturally bend toward romance and procreation, a normative lifespan that follows the function capitalism has needed women to perform in consumption and...
- Subject:
- Film studies
- Creator:
- Coyne, Kelly Marie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16482 and etdadmin_upload_980087
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- Description:
- The first chapter of this dissertation, coauthored with Martin Eichenbaum and Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati, addresses the question: how sensitive is the power of fiscal policy at the ZLB to the assumption of rational expectations? We do so through the lens of a standard NK model in which people are level-k thinkers....
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Teodoro Guerreiro, Joao Pedro
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_982742 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16503
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- Description:
- In recent decades, metal additive manufacturing has seen rapid advancements, offering promising applications across various industries. However, addressing existing challenges in metal AM, such as process stability, defect avoidance, and quality control, is essential for fully exploiting its potential in fabricating parts with a desired geometry, as well as tailored...
- Keyword:
- Physics-based Model, Digital Twin, Data-driven Model, Machine Learning, and Additive Manufacturing
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Liao, Shuheng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16572 and etdadmin_upload_985942
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three essays in microeconomic theory. In the first two chapters, I study a class of partnerships where partners can exit and continue to free-ride on the remaining partners' efforts. The crucial force to deter players from strategic exiting is the ripple effect that it may trigger...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Xu, Boli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16597 and etdadmin_upload_986567
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- Description:
- The field of materials discovery is undergoing an unprecedented transition from laboratory tocomputer. Behind this transition is the new ability to accurately compute material properties, especially energetic stability, from first principles with density functional theory (DFT). However, DFT remains computationally expensive, and DFT-based materials discovery is intractable, especially in high...
- Keyword:
- High throughput, Inorganic compounds, Big data, Density functional theory, Materials discovery, and Machine learning
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Condensed matter physics, and Computational chemistry
- Creator:
- Griesemer, Sean Darius
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16606 and etdadmin_upload_986816
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how nineteenth century German literature constructed and experimented with an entangled concept of “the environment” based not in (Romantic) philosophical and literary conceptions of nature, but in the theory and science of color perception. As the visual point of interaction between an observer and their surrounding world,...
- Keyword:
- environment, color, Stifter, Scheerbart, Goethe, and Uexküll
- Subject:
- German literature, Ecology, and Aesthetics
- Creator:
- Dunn, Sorrel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16569 and etdadmin_upload_985786
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- Description:
- In this thesis, we consider the spherical spin glass models at zero temperature. We first determine the structureof the Parisi measure at zero temperature for the spherical p+s spin glass model. We then consider the spherical mixed p-spin model and show that for the spherical spin models with n components,...
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Zhou, Yuxin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985448 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16557
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- Description:
- The reprogramming of somatic cells to a spontaneously contracting cardiomyocyte-like state using defined transcription factors has proven successful in mouse fibroblasts. However, this process has been less successful in human cells, thus limiting the potential clinical applicability of this technology in regenerative medicine. We hypothesized that this issue is due...
- Keyword:
- calcium cycling, spontaneous contraction, high-throughput, cardiomyocyte, direct reprogramming, and fibroblast
- Subject:
- Biology, Cellular biology, and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Romero Tejeda, Marisol
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_970274 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16446
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- Description:
- Characterization is the musical creation of fictional characters, and it is particularly important for creating multi-dimensional, nuanced characters in opera. However, how do composers characterize roles if the opera does not feature a traditionally linear plot or story? Does opera need a narrative to create characterization? Some may view narrative...
- Keyword:
- music, narrative, opera, composition, characterization, and chamber opera
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Liza Sobel Crane
- Owner:
- Liza Anna Sobel
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-05-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Every day, we communicate through computers on projects ranging from a group lunch order to booking a flight to learning critical medical information. And every day, we also miscommunicate through computers: We don’t pick up on an intentionally humorous response, or we miss the criticality of a request. This is...
- Keyword:
- Social Science, Computer-Mediated Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, and Keystroke Dynamics
- Subject:
- Communication
- Creator:
- Goodkind, Adam Nathaniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962518 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16417
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- Description:
- Every music theorist has their own personal reasons for engaging in the craft of theorizing about music. Many discover that there is something special about a theoretic disposition which differs from other sorts of interactions with music. It is often this special something that draws musicians into the discipline: specifically,...
- Keyword:
- Imagery, Memory, Galant Schemata, Expertise, and Music Theory
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Gates, Sarah Lindsay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_961422 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16402
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- Description:
- As the technology enabling touch-sense rendering of virtual textures grows in efficacy and prevalence, so too grows the need for a standardized means of storing, transferring, and reconstituting textural signals. Furthermore, to achieve the ultra-low-latency requirements of the next generation of global communications networks, this digital texture representation must be...
- Keyword:
- Haptics, Tactile Signal Compression, Touch, Ultrasonic Friction Reduction, and Virtual Texture
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Burns, David Arthur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16413 and etdadmin_upload_962297
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- Description:
- The importance of understanding indoor microbial exposure is increasingly recognized, particularly concerning the emergence of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance. With the advancements of sequencing technologies, our capability of exploring indoor microbial communities has dramatically increased. However, huge challenges remain to translate sequence-based knowledge to actionable interpretations to support human health...
- Keyword:
- Reference deduplication, Antimicrobial resistance, Hospital environment, Built environment, Microbiome, and Infection prevention
- Subject:
- Environmental science, Microbiology, and Environmental health
- Creator:
- Shen, Jiaxian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962596 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16420
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- Description:
- The on-going demand for miniaturized optical and on-chip photonic systems of the future has led to a few potential solutions in the literature. Recent advances in van der Waals and 2-dimensional materials signal a bright future for the next generation, compact electronic and photonic devices. With reduced dimensionality and material...
- Keyword:
- Polarization, Phonons, van der Waals, Plasmons, Wave plate, and 2D materials
- Subject:
- Optics, Materials Science, and Electromagnetics
- Creator:
- Abedini Dereshgi, Sina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16396 and etdadmin_upload_958293
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- Description:
- Simple sensorimotor tasks, such as lifting a cup or balancing a tray, requires not only controlled motor output, but also the ability to accurately perceive sensory information. After a hemiparetic stroke, individuals often experience sensory deficits in addition to motor impairments. However, research on the extent of changes in sensory...
- Subject:
- Physical therapy, Robotics, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Cai, Ninghe May
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16418 and etdadmin_upload_962539
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- Description:
- Voltage-gated potassium (KV) currents play a crucial role in shaping and controlling the firing patterns that serve as the fundamental basis for the differential signal processing from the ear to the auditory cortex, with distinct firing patterns observed with high- and low-frequency phenotypes. This is an interesting phenomenon, in the...
- Keyword:
- Ising model, auditory system, Tonotopy, action potential, cochlear nucleus, and Potassium channel
- Subject:
- Biophysics and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Takahashi, Momoko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16410 and etdadmin_upload_962033
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- Description:
- Situated at the intersection of literary, religious, and economic studies, this dissertation examines how late medieval writers used commercial practice to invent new modes of penitential piety. Challenging scholarship that characterizes the relationship between church and commerce as exclusively antagonistic or corrosive, I argue that the convergence of these two...
- Keyword:
- economic humanities, penance, religious practice, lay piety, and commerce
- Subject:
- English literature
- Creator:
- Jiang, Nancy Haijing
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962361 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16416
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- Description:
- The speed of the storage device has long lagged behind the computation speed of processors.As a result, the I/O performance of storage systems in a supercomputer fails to keep up with its computational power. This gap continues to widen in modern supercomputers. On future exascale supercomputers, this issue can worsen...
- Keyword:
- HDF5, NetCDF, Compression, Log, HPC, and Parallel I/O
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Hou, Kaiyuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_948756 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16383
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- Description:
- Soft materials are inherently fluxional, with morphologies and behaviors that are dictated by their solvation state. Thus, many organic systems cannot be reliably imaged by static dry state or cryogenic-transmission electron microscopy (TEM). This motivated us to pursue liquid cell (LC) TEM method development to study our own materials and...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Korpanty, Joanna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16391 and etdadmin_upload_954956
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- Description:
- CD95/Fas ligand (CD95L) is a well characterized activator of extrinsic apoptosis. CD95L protein binds to its cognate receptor, CD95/Fas/APO-1, inducing apoptotic signaling in sensitive cells. However, expression of CD95L is toxic even in the absence of CD95. We previously reported that the CD95L open reading frame (ORF) is enriched for...
- Keyword:
- FasL, RNA toxicity, RNA interference, and Cell death
- Subject:
- Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Haluck-Kangas, Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16384 and etdadmin_upload_949365
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- Description:
- Uranium is a unique, multifaceted element that possesses rich chemistry and promise for challenging reactions. Pressing demands within nuclear stockpile stewardship and the nuclear energy sector call for development of this relatively understudied element. Uranium metal–organic frameworks (U-MOFs), a class of nanoscale hybrid materials, harness the exceptional attributes of uranium...
- Keyword:
- metal-organic frameworks, uranium, and nanotechnology
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Nanoscience, and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hanna, Sylvia Lorraine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16404 and etdadmin_upload_961471
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- Description:
- Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration for women has risen significantly. Black women are disproportionately represented among incarcerated women. Formerly incarcerated women and men face similar barriers upon release from incarceration, such as obtaining stable and gainful employment, securing safe and affordable housing, and reconnecting with children...
- Keyword:
- black women, criminal justice, reentry, and incarceration
- Subject:
- African American studies, Criminology, and Sociology
- Creator:
- Banks, Erica
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16414 and etdadmin_upload_962304
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- Description:
- Task-oriented conversational systems are becoming increasingly popular, as shown by the rise of conversational recommendation systems across multiple platforms (e.g., Google Home, Alexa, and Siri) and domains (e.g., local establishments, e-commerce, books, music, and movies). However, users are still largely limited in what preferences they can express and how, as...
- Keyword:
- conversational search, critiquing-based systems, language models, natural language processing, conversational systems, and conversational recommendation
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence and Computer science
- Creator:
- S. Bursztyn, Victor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16403 and etdadmin_upload_961447
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- Description:
- Motivated by rhythms in the brain, we investigate the synchronization of noisy and all-to-all pulse-coupled oscillators. We consider a case where the oscillatory excursions are of varying amplitude and where only sufficiently large excursions result in the output pulses that drive the interactions between the oscillators. In the regime of...
- Keyword:
- Oscillators, Markov Renewal, Events, Mixed-mode, Spiking, and Noise
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Karamchandani, Avinash Jagdish
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16397 and etdadmin_upload_959050
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- Description:
- Aging is the greatest known risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD); however, the molecular mechanisms underlying aging and how it can initiate and or exacerbate AD, is still unknown. Epigenetic regulation has been widely accepted to play an essential role in aging or AD-related processes; however, whether dysregulations of histone...
- Keyword:
- HDACs, Alzheimer's Disease, Epigenetics, and Aging
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- McClarty, Bryan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_954939 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16390
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- Description:
- The retina detects light, processes the visual signal, and sends a complex set of parallel information channels to the brain via a functionally diverse set of retinal ganglion cells types. This manuscript examines these retinal ganglion cell types, the visual features they encode, and the computational mechanisms leading to their...
- Keyword:
- electrophysiology, computational, signal processing, Bipolar cell, Retina, and ganglion cell
- Subject:
- Ophthalmology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Swygart, David Isaiah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962145 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16411
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- Description:
- Human olfactory function is important for a myriad of behaviors, including food seeking, social cognition, memory, emotional regulation, and detecting environmental threats. In animal models, particularly dense olfactory inputs have been shown to target orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a region involved in multimodal sensory integration, reward coding, and flexibly guiding our...
- Keyword:
- aging, tractography, olfaction, alzheimer's disease, orbitofrontal cortex, and diffusion magnetic resonance imaging
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Echevarria-Cooper, Shiloh Luela
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16387 and etdadmin_upload_952134
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- Description:
- We establish the criterion for chaos in three-planet systems, for systems similar to those discovered by the Kepler spacecraft. Our main results are as follows: (i) The simplest criterion, which is based on overlapping mean motion resonances (MMRs), only agrees with numerical simulations at a very crude level. (ii) Much...
- Keyword:
- Warps, Protoplanetary Disks, Dynamics, Chaos, Planets, and Simulations
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Creator:
- Rath, Jeremy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16392 and etdadmin_upload_956915
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- Description:
- Very few studies have examined school racial climate in racially diverse school contexts. School racial climate refers to “perceptions of interracial interactions and the socialization around race and culture in a school” (Byrd, 2017, p. 700). The association between interracial peer interactions, psychological well-being, and academic outcomes is well documented,...
- Subject:
- Middle school education and Multicultural education
- Creator:
- Brown, Eric R
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16424 and etdadmin_upload_962765
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- Description:
- We consider data-driven approaches for universal texture modeling via generative adversarial networks and inversion methods. We investigate the properties of the learned representation spaces and demonstrate that a strong link between texture analysis and synthesis is the key to successful texture modeling. First, we visit the problem of texture synthesis...
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Lin, Jue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_956970 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16393
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- Description:
- Findings in both humans and animal models have associated the hippocampal theta oscillation with hippocampal memory function. In animal models, previous research supports that the theta oscillation contributes to memory via phase-dependent changes in hippocampal network connectivity, wherein memory encoding versus retrieval are optimized at different phases of the theta...
- Keyword:
- oscillation, hippocampus, phase, TMS, theta, and intracranial
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Lurie, Sarah M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_956997 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16394
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- Description:
- Atomistic methods offer a powerful set of tools in the study of materials systems, as they allow materials scientists to ask questions with a high degree of specificity. They are well suited for studying and designing energy materials, critical due to the climate crisis, in part due to their ability...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Patel, Shane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16415 and etdadmin_upload_962311
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- Description:
- Amyloid beta oligomers (AβOs) are a key instigator of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The work presented in this thesis includes three disease-modifying approaches to disrupt pathological AβO-related mechanisms in AD: (1) inhibiting AβO buildup, (2) blocking AβO-induced tau phosphorylation, and (3) neutralizing AβOs. These three approaches were tested in...
- Keyword:
- Amyloid beta oligomer
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Johnson, Elizabeth Anne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16421 and etdadmin_upload_962600
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a review of three projects I worked on during my time in the Computational Photography Lab at Northwestern University. First, a source separation problem for the X-Ray Fluorescence images of painted works of art is addressed through the incorporation of Hyperspectral Reflectance data. Following this, a discussion...
- Keyword:
- XRF, Computational Holography, Hypterspectral Imaging, Optical Coherence Tomorgraphy, Computational Imaging, and Cultural Heritage Science
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Fiske, Lionel David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_961685 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16405