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- Over the last several decades, market-driven needs created a vast assortment of products with micron-sized features. To achieve the necessary levels of precision and accuracy, a synergistic approach was undertaken, where both material addition and subtraction was employed in the creation of the desired parts. However, currently employed micromanufacturing processes...
- Keyword:
- self-assembly, electrophoretically-guided micro additive manufacturing, electrophoretic deposition, dielectrophoresis, and process control
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Pritchet, David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_720880 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15023
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- This dissertation is a wide-range study of the relationships between the three central elements of the production function: technology, capital and its financing, and labor. Chapter 1 analyzes the relationship between labor and recent wave of automation and digitization technologies, showing that while they typically substitute for workers, in several...
- Keyword:
- flexibility, labor supply, household debt, capital structure, automation and digitization, and labor scarcity
- Subject:
- Economics, Finance, and Labor economics
- Creator:
- Zator, Michal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_737737 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15059
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- Description:
- There has been significant growth in applying composite materials for various engineering applications in the past several decades. Composites allow engineers to tailor material microstructures and constituents for desired structural properties that usually outperform traditional engineering materials such as alloys. However, due to the heterogeneous nature of composites' microstructure, composite...
- Keyword:
- UD composite, woven composite, reduced order modeling, and structural performance prediction
- Subject:
- Engineering
- Creator:
- Gao, Jiaying
- 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:15053 and etdadmin_upload_735144
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- Uterine leiomyoma (LM), the most common tumor of women, causes severe morbidity. LM cells can be separated into three molecularly and functionally distinct cell populations based on the expression pattern of CD34 and CD49b: stem (LSC, CD34+/CD49b+), intermediate (LIC, CD34+/CD49b-), and differentiated cells (LDC, CD34-/CD49b-). Progesterone via progesterone receptor (PR/PGR)...
- Keyword:
- RANK/RANKL pathway, Progesterone signaling, Tumor stem cell, DNA methylation, and Uterine leiomyoma
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Liu, Shimeng
- 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:15024 and etdadmin_upload_722143
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- Description:
- This thesis explores questions in labor economics and applied microeconomics, with particular focus on issues that have implications for public policy. The first essay estimates the Frisch elasticity, sometimes known as the wage elasticity of labor supply in response to anticipated wage changes. Despite its importance in macroeconomic and public...
- Keyword:
- Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Labor Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Ong, Pinchuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_737671 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15058
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- Description:
- Over 6 million adults in the United States have heart failure, a serious public health problem. Differences in the progression of heart failure are in part due to variability in sex, age, and genetic variation background including ancestry. Medical biobanks provide a resource to study this variability as they include...
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics and Genetics
- Creator:
- Pottinger, Tess D
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_742461 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15091
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents research on the game theory of political power, both between and within nations. It first revisits a classical distinction between three different types of power or influence: information, rewards and threats. By presenting a binary-action Principal-Agent problem which incorporates the essential ingredients of all three types of...
- Keyword:
- Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and Political Economy
- Subject:
- Economics, Political science, and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Theisen, Alexander Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_742509 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15094
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- Description:
- The advent of sequencing technologies has generated a large amount of biological and medical data. These data such as genetic sequencing data and lab experimental evidence data can help understand critical biomedical problems. This dissertation makes contribution in three different but related applications in biomedical research. In Chapter 2, we...
- Keyword:
- Normalization, Metagenomics, Graph neural network, Clustering, and Differential abundance test
- Subject:
- Biostatistics, Statistics, and Bioinformatics
- Creator:
- Ma, Yuanjing
- 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:15057 and etdadmin_upload_736532
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- Description:
- Natural products from fungi have had an immeasurable societal impact as both friends and foes to human health. This includes numerous therapeutics that have had widespread clinical success, mycotoxins that are implicated in fungal pathogenicity, and various agrochemicals. Recent genome sequencing efforts have revealed that fungal genomes contain the capacity...
- Subject:
- Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Robey, Matthew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_731063 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15039
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the interaction of debt covenants and firms’ investment behaviors, especially the association between debt covenants and project-level operations. Although previous research has examined the association between contractual terms or gross measures of investment and covenants, there is little known about the ways that covenants influence the choice...
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Creator:
- Rigsby, Christopher
- 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:15083 and etdadmin_upload_741862