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- This thesis investigates various aspects of productivity. In the first chapter I investigate the role of consumer demand in generating productivity dispersion. In particular, I study how differences in consumer preferences across the household income distribution generate dispersion in markups across the Indian manufacturing sector. I find that this consumer...
- Keyword:
- Productivity, Financial Technology, India, Consumer Demand, Information Frictions, and Misallocation
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Gupta, Apoorv
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15092 and etdadmin_upload_742465
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- The high-temperature oxidation/reduction behaviors of iron and its oxides are important to a variety of energy conversion and storage technologies, such as the solid-oxide iron-air battery and chemical looping combustion. The useful lifetime of iron redox materials is limited, however, by structural degradation arising from (i) sintering, accelerated by phase...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Wilke, Stephen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15073 and etdadmin_upload_741055
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- Description:
- Abstract Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is the most common cancer associated with human immunodeficiency virus/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) infection worldwide and it is the most prevalent cancer in some countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART), led to dramatic declines in KS morbidity and mortality,...
- Keyword:
- HIV, Kaposi Sarcoma, opportunistic infections, antiretroviral therapy, Nigeria, and sub-Saharan Africa
- Subject:
- Health sciences
- Creator:
- Akanbi, Maxwell Oluwole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_742578 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15096
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- Description:
- The effect of Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) on concrete mechanical behavior and the multi-physics considerations that come along are highly complex. Hydration and other chemical reactions occur at the micrometer scale. Hygro-thermal phenomena and concrete cracks due to ASR are typically studied at the meso-scale, i.e. at the aggregate level. At...
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Materials Science, and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Pathirage, Madura
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15090 and etdadmin_upload_742317
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- Description:
- Biological systems comprise diverse collections of cellular and non-cellular components with intricate relationships and dynamic interactions. To gain system-level understanding, we must be able to accurately model these systems, both experimentally and computationally. Agent-based models (ABMs) in particular are a uniquely intuitive, modular, and flexible framework capable of supporting multi-scale,...
- Keyword:
- emergent behavior, systems biology, and agent-based modeling
- Subject:
- Biology, Chemical engineering, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Yu, Jessica
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_743010 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15106
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I examine issues related to uncertainty and robustness in game theory. In Chapter 1 a strategic setting is analyzed where players face Knightian uncertainty about the strategic choices of their opponents. That is, in contrast to the usual Bayesian framework and in line with experimental evidence, players...
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Ziegler, Gabriel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15108 and etdadmin_upload_743149
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- Description:
- The ever growing desire for accurate estimation and efficient learning necessitates the efforts to quantitatively characterize uncertainties for models. In this thesis, four problems pertaining to uncertainty quantification are discussed: A sequential stopping framework of constructing fixed-precision confidence regions is proposed for a class of multivariate simulation problems where variance...
- Keyword:
- Ranking and Selection, Reinforcement Learning, Statistical Learning, Stochastic Gradient Descent, and Uncertainty Quantification
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics, Statistics, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Zhu, Yi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15080 and etdadmin_upload_741745
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- Description:
- As conventional electronic materials approach the device scaling limits, new types of materials and structures have been examined for potential use in future electronic and optoelectronic applications including transistors, light emitting diodes, and solar cells. In recent years, atomically thin or two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials have emerged...
- Keyword:
- electron microscopy, heterostructures, electronic properties, grain boundaries, 2d materials, and interfaces
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- MURTHY, AKSHAY ARUN
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_730816 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15038
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- Description:
- Periodic exposure to light and dark as a result of rotation of the Earth have served as a major evolutionary pressure to partition divergent biological processes to different phases of the day. Mammals display periods of activity/inactivity, wake/sleep, and feeding/fasting during distinct portions of the day. In mammals, these activities...
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Medicine, and Endocrinology
- Creator:
- Levine, Daniel C
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15034 and etdadmin_upload_727063
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- Description:
- Technological innovation is a key determinant of economic growth, and my dissertation is to understand the links between the investment of technological innovation and financial markets, with a focus on how the macroeconomic environment interacts with and is influenced by the financial constraints facing firms. Chapter one investigates the links...
- Keyword:
- Macroeconomic, Innovation, Debt, Technology, Economic Growth, and Finance
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Huang, Qiushi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15047 and etdadmin_upload_732371