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- More than taking Nigeria back into the “dismal tunnel” of military rule, after seizing power in November 1993, Sani Abacha raced through the playbook he knew as a senior member of Babangida’s junta. Like Babangida, he pushed back the announced date for the return to civilian rule, launched an exercise...
- Keyword:
- african politics and nigeria
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/24/2017
- Date Modified:
- 10/24/2017
- Date Created:
- 1996
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This revised version of a paper presented at a conference at M.I.T. on State, Conflict, and Democracy in 1997 pulled together key dimensions of a Nigeria that had drifted far from constitutional and democratic governance. State and society had become increasingly criminalized; the educational system and other social sectors were...
- Keyword:
- african politics and nigeria
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/24/2017
- Date Modified:
- 10/24/2017
- Date Created:
- 1999
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This opinion piece, written by two long-term students of Nigerian politics, proposed a different course to the one taken following the death in mid-1998 of a military tyrant and the elected president he had imprisoned. It called for the creation of a caretaker national government of respected civilians that would...
- Keyword:
- african politics and nigeria
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/24/2017
- Date Modified:
- 10/24/2017
- Date Created:
- 1998
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This is the text of a public address at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs delivered soon after the inauguration of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. It identified several priorities after fifteen and a half years of military government. The country’s eroded legislative, judicial, and other state institutions needed to be rebuilt...
- Keyword:
- african politics and nigeria
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/24/2017
- Date Modified:
- 10/24/2017
- Date Created:
- 1999
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- aerial photography, satellite imagery, MATLAB, and image processing
- Creator:
- Gowda, Karna
- Owner:
- Karna Gowda
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/22/2017
- Date Modified:
- 11/22/2017
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Keyword:
- aerial photography, satellite imagery, MATLAB, and image processing
- Creator:
- Gowda, Karna
- Owner:
- Karna Gowda
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/22/2017
- Date Modified:
- 11/22/2017
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Keyword:
- aerial photography, satellite imagery, MATLAB, and image processing
- Creator:
- Gowda, Karna
- Owner:
- Karna Gowda
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/22/2017
- Date Modified:
- 11/22/2017
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Keyword:
- aerial photography, satellite imagery, MATLAB, and image processing
- Creator:
- Gowda, Karna
- Owner:
- Karna Gowda
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/22/2017
- Date Modified:
- 11/22/2017
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Keyword:
- aerial photography, satellite imagery, MATLAB, and image processing
- Creator:
- Gowda, Karna
- Owner:
- Karna Gowda
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/22/2017
- Date Modified:
- 11/22/2017
- Resource Type:
- Image
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- Description:
- In many dryland environments, vegetation self-organizes into bands that can be clearly identified in remotely-sensed imagery. The status of individual bands can be tracked over time, allowing for a detailed remote analysis of how human populations affect the vital balance of dryland ecosystems. In this study, we characterize vegetation change...
- Keyword:
- aerial photography, satellite imagery, MATLAB, and image processing
- Creator:
- Gowda, Karna
- Contributor:
- Silber, Mary and Iams, Sarah
- Owner:
- Karna Gowda
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/22/2017
- Date Modified:
- 01/08/2020
- Resource Type:
- Image, Other, and Dataset
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- Description:
- It is becoming increasingly evident that the nanoscale organization and structure of macromolecules play a significant role in determining the function and properties of biological systems. To understand the relationships between biological structure and function at nanometer length scales, there is a need for methods which enable imaging of intact...
- Keyword:
- microscopy, cancer screening, label-free, spectroscopy, and nanoscale
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- John Edward Chandler
- Contributor:
- Vadim Backman
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/29/2017
- Date Modified:
- 12/01/2017
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Georg Friedrich Haas composed in vain in reaction to political events in his native Austria. The piece is well known for making use of clashing tuning systems and darkness in the concert hall. These two facets of Haas’s writing have been much discussed and written about. The political dimension of...
- Keyword:
- Georg Friedrich Haas, DMA Project, Dialectics, Political Music, Music Analysis, Microtonality, In vain, Contemporary Music Analysis, and Darkness
- Subject:
- Georg Friedrich Haas, Just intonation, Dialectics, Political Music, Music Analysis, Microtonality, In vain, and Darkness
- Creator:
- Michal Raymond Massoud
- Owner:
- Raymond Massoud
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/05/2017
- Date Modified:
- 12/11/2017
- Date Created:
- 2017-12-05
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- Keyword:
- repositories and digital preservation
- Subject:
- Digital libraries, Digital preservation, and Institutional repositories
- Creator:
- Alagna, Laura, Weinraub, Evviva, Schaefer, Sibyl, Quinn, Brendan, and Caizzi, Carolyn
- Contributor:
- Institute of Museum and Library Services
- Owner:
- Laura M Alagna
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/04/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-04
- Resource Type:
- Report
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- Description:
- Beethoven’s late compositional style is known for bending conventions he learned as a young man. Many discussions of his late style concentrate on adherence to and deviations from the conventions of functional harmony, fugal techniques, and sonata form. This document sheds light on an additional, previously unexamined aspect of Beethoven’s...
- Keyword:
- galant schemata, dma project, hammerklavier, beethoven, and gjerdingen
- Subject:
- Piano Performance
- Creator:
- Sergiy S. Komirenko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Kaija Saariaho’s vocal music offers singers a rewarding challenge. Her works contain extended techniques and innovative performance practices, which allow her to create interesting and moving timbral effects. Her musical language has its foundation in her cultural identity, formed when she was a girl in the forests of Finland. The...
- Keyword:
- Saariaho, Vocal music, Contemporary music, dma project, and Extended techniques
- Creator:
- Alison Wahl
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-03-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chaya Czernowin’s opera 'Pnima…ins innere' is about the encounter between a young Israeli boy and his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor so traumatized by his past that he cannot speak. Fittingly, the opera does not contain any words: the four singers in the work instead sing phonemes and other non-verbal sounds....
- Keyword:
- contemporary opera, Czernowin, music theory, new music, dma project, narratology, and opera
- Subject:
- Music Composition
- Creator:
- Eliza Brown
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2015-03-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ever since Jean-Baptiste Lully welcomed the horn to the stage as an instrument capable of producing music suitable for indoors, a tradition of horn methodology and pedagogy has been developed and expanded over the centuries. Despite the volume and variety of pedagogical materials available to the horn student and pedagogue...
- Keyword:
- Music Theory, Horn, Pedagogy, Intermediate, and dma project
- Subject:
- Wind and Percussion
- Creator:
- Valerie Whitney
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 06-01-2017
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Starting in the late 1950s, the advertising world rapidly became a fertile arena for experimentation in the realm of electronic music. Composers explored new forms, such as the sound logo; new technology, such as the Moog synthesizer; and new semiotic relationships between music, words, images and concepts, including attempts to...
- Keyword:
- Raymond Scott, sound logo, audio logo, capitalism, sonic branding, jingles, Suzanne Ciani, identity formation, Eric Siday, dma project, music semiotics, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, electronic music, and advertising
- Subject:
- Music Composition
- Creator:
- Alex R. Temple
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Since the standardization of the modern brass quintet in the middle of the twentieth century, extensive research has been dedicated to the history of the genre, ensembles which have promoted and advanced brass chamber music and the growing body of original brass quintet repertoire. Such scholarship has provided practical benefits...
- Keyword:
- brass quintet, ewald, dma project, and tuba
- Creator:
- Thomas Walsh Curry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 201512-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Since Ottorino Respighi included the recording of a nightingale in his Pini di Roma (1924), composers have used prerecorded nature sounds, or field recordings, to help establish a specific sense of place. The purpose of this project is to examine how modern composers utilize field recordings to create natural-world settings,...
- Keyword:
- prerecorded, mason bates, bird song, nature sound, alex shapiro, ottorino respighi, electroacoustic, insect sound, composition, whale song, and dma project
- Subject:
- Conducting
- Creator:
- Joseph E. Higgins
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-12-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This document gives a brief history of classical music (Western art music) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a focus on recent events and developments from the beginning of the siege (1992) to the present. Further focus is placed on the effects of Sarajevo's cultural pluralism on the city's largest...
- Keyword:
- Sarajevo, Cultural exchange, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cultural Resistance, Music, and dma project
- Subject:
- Oboe Performance
- Creator:
- Megan Elizabeth Robbins
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2014-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Behind the Wallpaper was written for Julia Holter and Spektral Quartet in 2014–15, expanding on a four-song cycle of the same name from 2013. It was premiered on February 23, 2015 at Amsterdam Bar & Hall in St. Paul, MN, as part of the Liquid Music Series. The piece tells...
- Keyword:
- transgender, string quartet, lyrics, electronics, Spektral Quartet, mysterious transformation, sheet music, surrealism, musical score, Julia Holter, and dma project
- Subject:
- sheet music
- Creator:
- Alex R. Temple
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2015-02-23
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Description:
- This paper describes how Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) has evolved over time using a combination of bibliometric, social network, and text analysis. We examined the rate of knowledge production as well as changes in authors, journals, and collaborators, showing a steady growth of ALD research. The study of the collaboration...
- Keyword:
- bibliometrics, centrality, scientific publishing, and atomic layer deposition
- Creator:
- Elsa Alvaro and Angel Yanguas-Gil
- Owner:
- Elsa Alvaro
- Publisher:
- PLOS
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2018
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- Keyword:
- Scale Development and Water Insecurity
- Creator:
- Young Research Group
- Depositor:
- Shalean Marie Collins
- Owner:
- Sera Young
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- The Northwestern University Libraries Repository and Digital Curation (RDC) department is tasked with digitising and creating digital collections from the materials managed by the Libraries’ curators. The previous process for the intake and management of these projects created a situation of feast or famine regarding project work that was ready...
- Keyword:
- project management, workflows, digitization, and digital asset
- Creator:
- Young, Jennifer B., Zellner, Daniel, and Caizzi, Carolyn
- Owner:
- Carolyn Caizzi
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- Children are impressionable customers, and the media they consume influences their behaviors and perceptions. Gender stereotypes are highly prevalent in children’s media, which can often lead children to create idealized images of what boys and girls should be. This paper explores advertising in children’s television commercials given changes in our...
- Keyword:
- communication, children’s media , advertising , and gender-targeted commercials
- Creator:
- Meredith Ford
- Contributor:
- Alexis Lauricella
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The creation of Reactions allows Facebook users to provide emotional support for members within the social network as well as disclose emotions toward various content. This research study investigated how this one-click tool is appropriated depending on the content of the posts and relational intimacy with the poster and the...
- Keyword:
- communication
- Creator:
- Min Kyong Kim
- Contributor:
- Darren Gergle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/07/2018
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- While many sources have pointed to oil wealth, a British postcolonial legacy, and a developmental state as the foundation for the incredible economic rise of Nigeria in recent decades, I question the validity of those existing schools of thought and present a cultural explanation. The Nigerian people and their cultural...
- Keyword:
- communication
- Creator:
- William B. Altabef
- Contributor:
- Dilip Gaonkar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The US continues to experience disproportionately high teen birth, pregnancy, and STD rates compared to other developed nations and the appropriate type of sex education for American adolescents’ has been a constant source of debate. Over the last 13 years, the US federal government has invested over $1.5 billion in...
- Keyword:
- Teen Birth Rate, chicago area undergraduate research symposium, Outstanding Oral Presentation, Sexual Health Education, and Abstinence
- Creator:
- Sarah Permut
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This project would not have been possible without the support and guidance of my supervisor, Emma Elizabeth Ilett. Emma helped me establish the specific research question and structure of the study. She also assisted with statistical analysis, provided helpful advice during each step of the project, and taught me so... and Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) recipients receive pre-transplantation treatment regimens varying in conditioning intensity and antibiotic administration. Broad-spectrum, antianaerobic antibiotics have the potential to disrupt the normal gut microbiome balance and reduce immune function. We aimed to retrospectively examine the impact of pre-transplantation conditioning and antibiotics on rates of mortality,...
- Keyword:
- Denmark, DIS Copenhagen, and Europe
- Creator:
- Mia Andreoli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/12/2018
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This study analyzed the differences between three habitats in and around EcoMinga’s Cerro Candelaria Reserve, which protects part of the Llanganates – Sangay Ecological Corridor in the eastern cloud forest of Ecuador. The EcoMinga Foundation began reforestation efforts in several abandoned pastures in the reserve in 2008, which have since... and This project would not have been possible without the support and kindness of the El Placer community. Thanks to Piedad Recalde for her constant care, humor, and enormous amounts of delicious food. Thanks to Jesús Recalde and Darwin Recalde for their companionship in the field and invaluable insights on the...
- Keyword:
- Ecuador, SIT Ecuador: Comparative Ecology and Conservation, and Americas
- Creator:
- Katie Braun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This study would not have been possible without the guidance, support, and advice from Clive Bruzas, Eliza Govender, and staff at the Blue Roof Life Space. As my initial advisor, Clive aided in my thought process of formulating a research question based on my personal interests and experience visiting Blue... and What prompts an individual who has had a positive HIV diagnosis to undergo the transition from a limiting life narrative to an empowering life narrative? With HIV positive individuals living longer lives, it is important that individuals are able to integrate the HIV/AIDS identity into their sense of self and...
- Keyword:
- SIT Study Abroad: Durban Community Health and Social Policy, South Africa, and Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Creator:
- Lakshmi Karuparthy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Stroke is the leading cause of death and long term disability in the industrialized world. With the current population aging, the number of individuals at risk of stroke along with the associated health care costs are anticipated to rise considerably in the coming years. Consequently, there is an unmet need...
- Keyword:
- Medical imaging
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Charles Grady Cantrell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The first chapter of this dissertation develops a two-stage inference method for structural parameters in the linear instrumental variables model. In the first stage, a new statistic is used to detect whether the correlation between the structural error and the reduced form error is small. In the second stage, a...
- Keyword:
- Inference and Econometrics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sun Yi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The behavior of type-II superconductors is modeled using the time-dependent Ginzburg Landau equations (TDGLE). Pinning centers (inclusions) and geometries which maximize the critical current that can be passed through a superconductor are numerically obtained. Previous analytical results are summarized and new results are obtained for the critical current in one...
- Keyword:
- Phase Slips, Magnetic Vortices, Dynamical Systems, Optimization, and Superconductivity
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Gregory Jonathan Kimmel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Refugees gain access to benefits and services in the United States through the bureaucratic birthdates recorded in the documents they carry when they first enter the country. Examining how and why chronometric age based on these documents was essential to resettlement was the starting point for my dissertation, which explores...
- Keyword:
- Refuge Resettlement, Retirement, Welfare, Later Life, Citizenship, and Aging
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Kimberly Seibel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Anisotropic semiconducting thin films have attracted attention in recent years for important applications such as electrical interconnects, electronic sensors, field-emission devices and thermoelectric devices. However, the characterization of the full conductivity tensor, especially the cross-plane conductivity, remains a great challenge for anisotropic thin films. In addition, the synthesis of large-area...
- Keyword:
- magnetotransport, anisotropic, graphene, transverse thermoelectrics, thin film, and 3D printing
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Yang Tang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Meeting the exploding demand for wireless data services will require access to new wireless spectrum. However, the traditional approach of clearing spectrum and reallocating is becoming increasingly difficult. This in turn has led to much interest in new approaches for sharing spectrum among different users, such as the those being...
- Keyword:
- Investment, Competition, Shared Spectrum, and Electrical Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Chang Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Pattern recognition-based myoelectric control of upper limb prostheses has been made clinically available to individuals with more proximal upper limb amputations and can restore intuitive control of a prosthetic hand. This control method has yet to be implemented for individuals with amputations distal to the wrist (i.e. partial-hand amputations) and...
- Keyword:
- Pattern Recognition, Partial hand amputee, Intrinsic hand muscle, and myoelectric control
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Adenike Adewuyi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We study analytic functions on the open unit p-adic poly-disk centered at the multiplicative identity and prove that such functions only vanish at finitely many n-tuples of roots of unity unless they vanish along a translate of the formal multiplicative group. (Note that a root of unity lies on the...
- Keyword:
- Manin-Mumford and p-adic
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Vlad Ioan Serban
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Using Eynard-Orantin topological recursion, we prove here a result concerning the equivariant Gromov-Witten invariants for the projective line equipped with the standard action of the 2-torus. Our result is that the genus g, n point Gromov-Witten potential with arbitrary primary insertions may be written as a sum over certain genus...
- Keyword:
- Gromov Witten Theory and Eynard Orantin Recursion
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Michael John Couch
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Plasmonic nanostructures can confine light at their surface in the form of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) or localized surface plasmons (LSPs) depending on their geometry. SPPs are excited on nano- and micropatterned surfaces, where the typical feature size is on the order of the wavelength of light. LSPs, on the...
- Keyword:
- Modelling, Nano structures,, Plasmonic, and Material Science
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Alexander John Hryn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Catalyzed by the invention of magnetic tape recording, audio production has transformed from technical to artistic, and the roles of producer, engineer, composer, and performer have merged for many forms of music. However, while these roles have changed, the way we interact with audio production tools has not and still...
- Keyword:
- human computer interaction, music, intelligent user interfaces, audio production, creativity support tools, and crowdsourcing
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Mark Brozier Cartwright
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Data mining for materials discovery is concerned with representing materials science problems into a statistical framework, and learning models that describe observations about the processing, structure, and property of materials. The type of materials includes metals, ceramics, glass, polymers, and composites which are mixtures of multiple types. Observations come from...
- Keyword:
- Material Science, Applications, and Computer Engineering
- Subject:
- Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Ruoqian Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Consent is at the center of feminist politics and theory; the importance of this concept is evident in the recent campus activism around sexual assault. Because consent has become so critically important, it is necessary for feminists to interrogate the concept of consent. In this dissertation, I argue that consent...
- Keyword:
- Feminist, Consent, and Critiques
- Subject:
- Philosphy
- Creator:
- Chelsea Egbert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Myocardial perfusion is an important marker of cardiovascular health that is routinely evaluated clinically. Perfusion is measured most often using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging, but magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has many advantages over SPECT. Measuring perfusion quantitatively in ml/min/g would theoretically allow for improved characterization of cardiac...
- Keyword:
- perfusion and MRI
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Neil Chatterjee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The growth of incarceration in the United States, a symptom of the concomitant broader institutionalization of a ‘carceral state’, is unquestionably one of the most significant developments in the nation's history. Despite this significance, the public response to the growth and deleterious consequences of incarceration has been notably restrained. This...
- Keyword:
- Political inequality, Political representation, Public opinion, Mass incarceration, Intersectionality, and Political communication
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Kevin E Levay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Pattern recognition algorithms have been proposed as a way to control powered lower limb prostheses, specifically for transitioning between the different pre-programmed locomotion modes of the prosthesis (e.g., level ground walking, stair ascent, etc.). However, these algorithms cannot track changes in the statistical characteristics of input signals, and do not...
- Keyword:
- Prosthetics, Adaptation, Rehabilitation, Engineering, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- John Andreou Spanias
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The purpose of the dissertation is to develop a framework for equilibration of activity-trip chain demand in an integrated system of activity scheduling and travel choices within a dynamic network equilibrium framework. Activity-based modeling systems generate detailed activity chain schedules for individuals, which have to be assigned to transportation networks....
- Keyword:
- Transport, Civil Engineering, Travel Choices, and Engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Hooram Halat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The microwave, optical, and electro-optic properties of epitaxial barium titanate thin films grown on (100) MgO substrates and photonic crystal electro-optic modulators fabricated on these films were investigated to demonstrate the applicability of these devices for telecommunication and data networks. The electrical and electro-optical properties were characterized up to modulation...
- Keyword:
- Photonic Crystal, Modulator, Integrated Photonics, and Ferroelectric
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Peter Girouard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation