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- 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,...
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- Middle school education and Multicultural education
- Creator:
- Brown, Eric R
- 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:16424 and etdadmin_upload_962765
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- This dissertation comprises three essays in distinct areas of economic theory, yet all are related to experimentation and learning. In the first chapter, I study how organizations assign tasks to identify the best candidate to promote among a pool of workers. Task allocation and workers’ motivation interact through the organization’s...
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Durandard, Théo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985129 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16547
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- Systems of accountability for police who violate the U.S. Constitution are broken. Among other mechanisms of accountability, the judicial system should provide a path for victims to obtain a remedy when their constitutional rights are violated. Yet unless the law is clearly established beyond debate, the doctrine of qualified immunity...
- Keyword:
- constitutional law, qualified immunity, argumentation, rhetoric, excessive force, and civil rights
- Subject:
- Law, Rhetoric and Composition, and Communication
- Creator:
- Chanski, Sarah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985000 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16545
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- Bio-integrated electronics with advanced monitoring capabilities have garnered considerable interest as a means of expanding patient care beyond traditional hospital and clinic settings. These mechanically soft microsystems, many of which are bioresorbable and wireless, have the potential to replace bulky, rigid, and wired medical technologies by matching or exceeding their...
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- Mechanics, Skin-Integrated Electronics, Injectable Electronics, Bioresorbable Pacemakers, Engineering Modeling, and Electromagnetics
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering, Mechanical engineering, and Electromagnetics
- Creator:
- Avila, Raudel
- 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:16445 and etdadmin_upload_970258
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- This dissertation explores accounting information's role in forming R\&D alliances and subsequent innovation. Specifically, I utilize the effect of the recent revenue recognition rule change, Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) 606, on drug development firms. ASC 606 allows managers to change revenue recognition timing and increases disclosure requirements. I first document...
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Creator:
- Cetin, Furkan Mustafa
- 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:16546 and etdadmin_upload_985043
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- ``Hazy decisions: The effect of dementia on medical decision-making'' \\ I estimate the causal effect of having dementia on the course of treatment for unrelated diseases by leveraging differences in the relative time of onset of dementia and the other condition in a difference-in-differences event-study framework. To demonstrate this approach...
- Keyword:
- dementia, advance care planning, Alzheimer's disease, and medical procedure codes
- Subject:
- Economics, Health sciences, and Aging
- Creator:
- Paluszynska, Aleksandra Joanna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_982106 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16498
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- Lithium-ion battery technology is a critically important component of the emerging renewable energy infrastructure. Since battery technology was first commercialized in the 1990s, significant progress has been made in materials development, motivated by the prospect of higher energy and power densities, increased cycling longevity, and faster charging and discharging rates....
- Keyword:
- lithium-ion, graphene, degradation, nanomaterials, coating, and batteries
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Energy
- Creator:
- Luu, Norman Sean
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_949577 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16385
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- 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:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962518 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16417
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- SCN2A encodes the NaV1.2 voltage-gated sodium channel, which is thought to contribute to the development of the central nervous system. Pathogenic variants in SCN2A have been associated with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), including developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE), intellectual disability (ID), and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). These disorders represent a significant...
- Keyword:
- neurodevelopmental disorder, mouse model, SCN2A, ion selectivity, sex differences, and strain dependence
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Genetics, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Echevarria-Cooper, Dennis Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_966256 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16435
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- 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:
- 05/31/2023
- 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:
- Visual processing often requires the coordination of different neurophysiological regions in the visual system to independently represent and then re-integrate the different features of an object to gain an accurate and coherent representation of that object. Yet, under certain circumstances, this process can go awry and result in illusory misbindings,...
- Keyword:
- Visual attention, Binding, and Visual perception
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology
- Creator:
- Ceja, Cristina Renee
- 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:16517 and etdadmin_upload_983569
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- The basal ganglia operate largely in closed parallel loops, including an associative circuit for goal-directed behavior originating from the dorsomedial striatum (DMS) and a somatosensory circuit important for habit formation originating from the dorsolateral striatum (DLS). An exception to this parallel circuit organization was proposed to explain how information is...
- Keyword:
- Substantia nigra, Dorsal Striatum, Ascending Spiral, Dopamine, Striato-nigro-striatal, and Disinhibition
- Subject:
- Physiology, Psychobiology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Ambrosi, Priscilla
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984164 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16526
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three chapters on theoretical and empirical industrial organization. The first chapter highlights a previously unnoticed property of commonlyused discrete choice models, which is that they feature parallel demand curves. The second chapter studies how a behavioral consumer preference with “price reference effect” can overturn the standard...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Wang, Ting
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985596 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16562
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- This dissertation is a collection of three studies on topics in economic history and labor economics, in the United States. In the first chapter, I investigate the relationship between temporary paternal absence and long-term labor market outcomes. Specifically, I exploit the natural experiment of fathers’ WWII conscription, combined with longitudinal...
- Subject:
- Economic history and Labor economics
- Creator:
- Strada, Kelly Gail
- 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:16616 and etdadmin_upload_987427
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- 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:
- 05/31/2023
- 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:
- As more thermoelectric materials/devices make it into the market for various applications, severalaspects need to be explored and optimized, beyond simply targeting high conversion efficiency at the material levels. One critical aspect is the guarantee of mechanical stability at both the material and the device level, which demands deeper understanding...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Al Malki, Muath Mohammed
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_988614 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16622
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- The potential association between Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and the incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been a part of academic discourse for three decades. By considering the mixed reports on the association between FGM and HIV so far, this dissertation contributes to the current state of research by...
- Keyword:
- HIV, Female Genital Mutilation, and Medicalization
- Subject:
- Women's studies, Health sciences, and Public health
- Creator:
- Ibrahim Puri, Jessica
- 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:16540 and etdadmin_upload_984696
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- This dissertation considers how women’s spectatorship—how women are imagined as viewing subjects, and what are defined as feminine ways of watching—is transformed by digital technologies, and what it reveals about the shifting nature of privacy and visibility. It maps the contours of our current configuration of gendered looking relations by...
- Keyword:
- Spectatorship, Television, Media Studies, Surveillance, Women's Television, and Technology
- Subject:
- Gender studies, Film studies, and Communication
- Creator:
- Dickason, Cara Nash
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_972237 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16457
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- Description:
- Machine learning is seeping into every fabric in various practical domains such as autonomous driving, wearable computing, and smart buildings. However, in the actual development and integration, especially when the learning-based components are frequently included as components of large complex systems where the physical instances can be included as interactable...
- Keyword:
- Transfer Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Building HVAC Control, Image Classification, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Computer engineering and Computer science
- Creator:
- Xu, Shichao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_983783 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16519
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- Description:
- As polymer science has advanced as a field, so too have the uses for polymeric materials. We encounter polymers and plastics on a daily basis, and while their presence has greatly improved our quality of life, they have also had a profound and often negative impact on our environment. Plastic...
- Keyword:
- polyelectrolyte complex, random copolymer, enzymatic degradation, flocculation, nanoplastics, and chemical remediation
- Subject:
- Environmental science, Polymer chemistry, and Physics
- Creator:
- Wang, Jeremy
- 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:16429 and etdadmin_upload_963641
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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:
- 05/31/2023
- 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:
- Increasingly, governments contract with private firms to provide publicly funded or subsidized goods and services, ranging from defense contracts, social insurance programs to small business loans. In such publicly funded, privately provided markets, governments set specific rules and policies to allow efficient provision or allocation of goods and services. Given...
- Keyword:
- Health Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Industrial Organization
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Kim, Paul HyungSuk
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984537 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16535
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- Russia and Turkey occupy a significant portion of current global news as the rest of the world analyzes the trajectories of these countries. Most scholars focus on the socio-political landscapes of the two while disregarding cultural and literary studies. Such a top-down approach fails to consider the profound identity crises...
- Keyword:
- Eurasia, Pelevin, identity, Pamuk, and Westernization
- Subject:
- Middle Eastern literature, Slavic literature, and Slavic studies
- Creator:
- Lee, Daniel Taehun
- 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:16559 and etdadmin_upload_985505
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- Description:
- The physical structure of chromatin has recently emerged as a key contributor to genome regulation and cellular function. Chromatin packing dictates the conformation of the 2-meter-long DNA polymer within the ~10 μm cell nucleus. This conformation can influence gene function by regulating the accessibility of molecular regulators to DNA, altering...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Agrawal, Vasundhara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_981488 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16492
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- Pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGGs) are aggressive pediatric CNS tumors and an important subset are characterized by mutations in H3F3A, the gene that encodes Histone H3.3 (H3.3). Substitution of Glycine at position 34 of H3.3 with either Arginine or Valine (H3.3G34R/V), was recently described and characterized in a large cohort...
- Keyword:
- genetics, G34R, cancer, ATRX, glioma, and AVB500
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Biology, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Abdallah, Aalaa Sanad
- 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:16475 and etdadmin_upload_978815
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- In this thesis, we consider the categories of sheaves with singular support on certain Lagrangians and the categories of microlocal sheaves with support on certain Lagrangians obtained by microlocalization, and study properties of functors between these categories.First, we study one class of the microlocal restriction functor for open inclusions, namely...
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Li, Wenyuan
- 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:16549 and etdadmin_upload_985220
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- In my dissertation, I explore the connection between economic history and political economy in three ways.Chapter 1, studies the effects of a postal program in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century and its role in increasing access to higher education. Chapter 2, co-authored with Alexey Makaring and...
- Subject:
- Economic history
- Creator:
- Cannella, Mario
- 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:16536 and etdadmin_upload_984587
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- Description:
- Social networks play a crucial role in developing economies. One of their most important functions is facilitating the flow of information, particularly about the efficacy of new technologies. This dissertation explores three aspects of this research agenda. First, I study how economists can estimate the structure of a social network...
- Keyword:
- uncertainty, social networks, risk aversion, penalized regression, and technology adoption
- Subject:
- Agriculture economics, Information science, and Economics
- Creator:
- Alidaee, Hossein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986939 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16610
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- Description:
- In this paper, I analyze a piece of music that I wrote called The Health, a 90-minute musical ceremony that comprises speech, action, video projections, costumes, lights, chant, song, recomposed hold music, diagnostic exams, and renaissance magic. I wrote the piece for Mocrep and myself to perform, the initial run...
- Keyword:
- Collaboration, Music Composition, Assemblage, Ceremony, Chicago, and New Discipline
- Subject:
- Musical composition
- Creator:
- Scranton, Sam R
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_976119 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16464
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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Description:
- 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