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- The distribution of tsunami amplitudes in the open ocean is controlled by fault geometry and ocean depth -- or, bathymetry.Forecasting tsunami amplitudes at the coastlines by means of simulation of propagation -- especially in large grids -- is time-consuming. Therefore, on one hand, it is of interest to eliminate unnecessary...
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- crd2018
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- Earth & Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Amir Salaree
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
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- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- Milgram’s small-world experiments provided evidence for six degrees of separation, only a chain of five contacts separates any two random people. In theory, this small-world phenomenon is prevalent from a network structure perspective. However, empirical evidence shows that successful message chains are occasional, and the length of message chains are...
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- crd2018
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- Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- Creator:
- Matt Nicholson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- manual and water insecurity
- Creator:
- Gershim Asiki and Amber Pearson
- Depositor:
- Shalean Marie Collins
- Owner:
- Sera Young
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
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- 04/03/2018
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- Phylogenetic analysis of HIV is a useful tool in determining factors that may contribute to transmission cluster growth. To better target HIV prevention, it is necessary to understand how research and surveillance data can be combined in a meaningful way.HIV genetic sequences were collected in the RADAR cohort of YMSM...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Medical Social Sciences
- Creator:
- Ethan Morgan
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
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- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- Developmental dyslexia cannot currently be diagnosed until a child has failed to learn to read as expected. Researchers have sought to find neural measures that may help predict a child’s later reading ability. One of these measures is the mismatch negativity (MMN), an event-related potential (ERP) component elicited by an...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Communication Science and Disorders
- Creator:
- Sean McWeeny
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- Three-dimensional imaging techniques have been widely used in both industry and academia. Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors offer a promising method of 3D imaging due to compact size and low complexity. However, state-of-the-art ToF sensors only have depth resolutions of centimeters due to limitations in the modulation frequencies that can be used....
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Creator:
- Fengqiang Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- ESA and NASA are moving forward with plans to launch LISA around 2030. With data from the Illustris large-scale cosmological simulation, we provide analysis of LISA detection rates accompanied by characterization of the merging massive black holes and their host galaxies. Massive black holes of total mass $\sim10^6-10^9 M_\odot$ are...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Michael Katz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- It is well documented that an individual’s ability to know who knows whom in their network has positive benefits in various facets of professional life. But people vary in their network acuity - that is, their ability to accurately assess who knows whom in their network. This poster seeks to...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Sidhartha Jha
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- Hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation have proven to be incredibly useful tools in understanding the nature of star formation. Many modern simulations have identified the importance of and implemented new and powerful schemes for including the stellar feedback processes that regulate star formation, such as the FIRE simulations. The FIRE...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Physics & Astronomy
- Creator:
- Alex Gurvich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- A medical prescription is a set of health care instructions that govern the plan of care for an individual patient; it includes orders for drug therapy, diet, clinical assessment, laboratory testing, and more. Clinicians have long used algorithmic thinking to describe and implement these prescriptions but without the benefit of...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- Creator:
- Spencer P Florence
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- Genetic instability is one of the hallmarks of cancer. Neoplastic cells accumulate somatic mutations in their genomes, resulting in aberrant homeostasis, cancer cell survival, and proliferation. Different genetic instability processes result in distinct non-random patterns of DNA mutations, also known as mutational signatures. The interest in the identification of mutational...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Urology
- Creator:
- Damiano Fantini
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- In an environment with limited time and resources, why do some legislators repeatedly sponsoring the same bills that never pass? Are they only appealing to constituents or lobbyists, or do they reintroduce legislation for strategic purposes? Bachrach and Baratz (1962) characterize the second-face of power as having control over agenda-setting....
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Amanda Durso
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- Keyword:
- manual and water insecurity
- Creator:
- Hala Ghattas, Zeina Jamaluddine, and Joanne Khabsa
- Depositor:
- Shalean Marie Collins
- Owner:
- Sera Young
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
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- The ribosome, a 2.5-MDa molecular machine that polymerizes α-amino acids into proteins, is the catalytic workhorse of the translation apparatus. The catalytic capacity of the translation machinery has attracted extensive efforts to repurpose it for novel functions. One key idea is that the natural translation machinery can be harnessed to...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- IBiS
- Creator:
- Anne d'Aquino
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex genetic disorder characterized by hyperandrogenism, chronic anovulation, and polycystic ovarian morphology. PCOS affects up to 15% of premenopausal women worldwide, is the leading cause of anovulatory infertility, and is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes. A number of susceptibility loci have...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Medicine
- Creator:
- Matthew Dapas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- Contagion processes arise broadly in the social and biological sciences, manifested as, for example the spread of infectious and the diffusion of innovations. Depending on the network structure, the transmission dynamics can have different. However, when the structure is too complex (e.g. multipartite networks), understanding the properties of the network...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Hyojun Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- Poor air quality causes 2 to 4 million premature deaths per year globally. Individual high-impact events, like Beijing’s January 2013 “airpocalypse,” have drawn significant attention, as they have demonstrated that short-lived air quality events can have outsized effects on public health and economic vitality. Poor air quality events are the...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Program in Environmental Sciences
- Creator:
- Christopher Callahan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- Building design and operation impact the accumulation and survival of microorganisms in indoor spaces. These microorganisms, together referred to as the indoor microbiome, have implications for human health and well being. However, the relative importance of factors like architecture compared to, e.g., human occupancy, remains unclear. This study aimed to...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Ryan Blaustein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
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- Poster
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- Regardless of how it may seem at times, the President of the United States is not in charge of all the major decisions made by the government. The laws that we must adhere to are made, formed, and passed by Congress which is composed of the House of Representatives and...
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- crd2018
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Kiran Bhattacharyya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-20
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- Poster
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- Ecological restoration is vital to the conservation of biodiversity and provision of ecosystem services in a changing world. Biodiversity is often a goal of restoration, and species to be planted for restoration are often selected based on diversity objectives. But species are not independent; they are related to one another...
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- Plant Biology
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Rebecca Samantha Barak
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Halide perovskites, AMX3 (A = monocation, B = Ge, Sn, or Pb, and X = halogen), present a versatile class of solution-processable semiconductors made from earth abundant materials with outstanding electrical and optical properties. Their solar cell efficiencies have dramatically increased from ~9% to ~22% in less than five years...
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- solar cells, semiconductors, halide perovskites, and two-dimensional
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Duyen Hanh Cao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Circling the Cosmograms marks the first full-length study of second-generation feminist and/or queer art and performance in the Haitian Dyaspora (Haitian Kreyòl spelling) following the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Through archival research, visual and performance art analysis, and in-depth interviews, I document the ways feminist and/or queer Haitian-American...
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- Haiti, Gender, Diaspora, Religion, Vodou, and Performance Studies
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Kantara Souffrant
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Accurate thermodynamic databases are the foundation of predictive microstructure and property models. An initial assessment of the commercially available Thermo-Calc TCAL2 database and the proprietary aluminum database of QuesTek demonstrated a large degree of deviation with respect to equilibrium precipitate phase prediction in the compositional region of interest when compared...
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- Atom-probe tomography (APT), CALPHAD, Aluminum alloys, and Q-phase precipitates
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Andrew Clay Bobel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This project elaborates an aesthetic politics that treats the possible as the site of a transformative exhaustion. It examines the aberrant temporal movements that are produced by exhaustive procedures, arguing that by disrupting the habitual structure of time, what I refer to as stereoscopic time, they render the present susceptible...
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- Proust, Possible, Film, Politics, Aesthetics, and Time
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Caitlyn Doyle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Recent scholarship in critical urban theory, urban political ecology, and related fields has emphasized the "hybridity" of urban-environmental systems. This argument is contrasted with the socially constructed "binary" relationship between "city" and "nature" that dominated historical understandings of urban-environmental connections. Despite wide agreement on these issues, the trajectories that precipitated...
- Keyword:
- park, city, chicago, race, nature, and space
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Kevin Loughran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Free radical polymerization has a wide range of applications and continues to attract research interest as the demand for tailored specialty polymers grows. Sequence distribution, tacticity and composition of copolymers play a key role in understanding the reaction kinetics and the properties of the polymers 1. One of the chief...
- Keyword:
- Polymerization, Process Optimization, and Kinetic Monte Carlo
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Hanyu Gao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Thermal overheating is a serious concern in modern supercomputing systems. Elevated temperature levels reduce the reliability and the lifetime of the underlying hardware and increase their power consumption. Previous studies on mitigating thermal hotspots at the hardware and run-time system levels have typically used approaches that trade off performance for...
- Keyword:
- thermal modeling, machine learning, task scheduling, and high performance computing
- Subject:
- Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Kaicheng Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spatial-temporal data mining, with data driven model and machine learning techniques, significantly benefit the traditional transportation research. This dissertation focus on three problems related to uncertain location data, lane-level traffic speed clustering and anomalous traffic speed prediction. We take a first step towards combining the uncertain location data i.e., fusing...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Bing Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Our capacity to share ideas through content is the paramount feature of the human brain. All of our species’ advanced communication and coordination fundamentally relies on our ability to “think alike,” yet the parallels between our brains are grossly understudied, especially regarding engagement with dynamic audiovisual stimuli. Therefore, we present...
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- visual attention, neural similarity, cross-brain correlation (CBC), electroencephalography (EEG), content engagement, and alpha suppression
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Samuel B. Barnett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- digital scholarship, africa, and open access
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-10-24
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Plenary Address to the African Economic Conference of the African Development Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa Addis Ababa, December 4-6, 2017
- Keyword:
- African Governance
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This dissertation analyzes theater performances that use narratives of U.S. military veterans in the post 9/11 era in order to cross the military-civilian divide. Engaging theories of performance, embodiment, and affect, this project investigates the depiction of military bodies onstage, the public perception of military identities, and the lived experience...
- Keyword:
- Performing arts and Theatre
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Margaret Lebron
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the relationship between dance cultures and media cultures in the United States between the 1940s and the 1960s, when both were experiencing a period of multiplicity and flux in their forms. Bringing together theories and methodologies from dance studies, media studies, and cultural history, it considers how...
- Keyword:
- film, dance, television, masculinity, and race
- Subject:
- Screen Cultures
- Creator:
- Pamela Grenelle Krayenbuhl
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this thesis, we advocate for the use of slice spheres, a common generalization of representation spheres and induced spheres, in parameterized homotopy theory. First, we give an algebraic characterization of the layers of the Hill-Hopkins-Ravenel slice filtration. Next, we explore the homology of parameterized symmetric powers from this point...
- Keyword:
- equivariant, chromatic, and homotopy theory
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Dylan Wilson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The floor plate (FP) is a ventral midline organizing structure of the developing neural tube that provides positional information using morphogen concentration gradients towards the production of diverse neuron types. In caudal regions the FP is non-neurogenic unlike the mesodiencephalic region of the FP that is highly neurogenic, and is...
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- boundary, Premammillary, Engrailed, Floor plate, Subthalamic, and dopamine
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Navid Nouri
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Traditionally, simulation analysis has focused on designing a computationally efficient algorithm assuming a correct simulation model is given. As computation becomes cheaper, we are now able to perform more sophisticated simulation analyses involving extensive computation and consider all sources of errors in the simulation model and their effects to the...
- Keyword:
- Global sensitivity analysis, Model risk, Uncertainty quantification, Simulation optimization, and Input uncertainty
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Hunhye Song
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation, “Altered Belonging: The Transnational Modern Dance of Itō Michio,” argues that Itō forged an artistic and social identity out of the very categories of racial and national difference typically used to exclude Japanese from Euro-American society. The strategies he employed provide a paradigm for how performing bodies marked...
- Keyword:
- modernism, Asian American, transnationalism, performance, cosmpolitanism, and Japan
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Tara Rodman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains three results related to modular forms and Galois representations of low weight. In chapter 1, we prove that the Galois pseudo-representation valued in a Hecke algebra which acts faithfully on a space of weight one Katz modular forms of level prime to p is unramified at p....
- Keyword:
- Mathematics and Crystallinity
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Joel Specter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- With the advances in electronics and communication devices over the last several decades, radio-frequency antennas have miniaturized from externally mounted “rabbit ears” on our grandma’s televisions to devices small enough to be concealed within the body of the cellphone itself, corresponding to the carrier frequencies used from on the order...
- Keyword:
- ultrafast, opto-mechanical, nanoantenna, plasmonic, a-NSOM, and NMRs
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Xiang Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation comprises three essays on industrial organization. In Chapter 1 I study the productivity effects of corporate diversification, where productivity is understood as a measure of sales per input at the productive unit level, and diversified firms are defined as firms that operate in different industries. I develop and...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Carlos German Bet
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Knot invariants can be defined using Legendrian isotopy invariants of the knot conormal. There are two types of invariants raised in this way: one is the knot contact differential graded algebra together with augmentations associated to this dga, and the other one is the category of simple sheaves microsupported along...
- Keyword:
- knot invariant, symplectic topology, contact topology, microlocal sheaf theory, and knot contact homology
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Honghao Gao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The U.S. Department of Education’s Ready To Learn (RTL) initiative funds (a) mass media and related community outreach intended to promote school readiness among all children—especially at-risk populations—, and (b) formative and summative research by third party evaluators (Michael Cohen Group, 2012). Today, the majority of American preschoolers have consumed...
- Keyword:
- Longitudinal, Intervention, Educational Media, Ready To Learn, Early Learning Hypothesis, and Individual Differences
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Lisa B. Hurwitz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 to confront the crisis of anti-black police violence in the Bay Area, the Black Panthers advocated armed struggle against the violences and aggressions of racist American imperialism domestically and internationally. Against interpretations that would deem their image-making to be secondary to their professed political...
- Keyword:
- Art History
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Erin E. Reitz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Languages provide expressions that allow its users to indicate their source of information for a given claim, which can have an effect of attenuating how committed they appear to be to the truth of their claims (e.g., ame-ga futteiru-sooda ‘It is raining, I hear’). This linguistic notion has been termed...
- Keyword:
- semantics, pragmatics, experimental, Japanese, context, and evidentiality
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Julie Matsubara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In March 1977 an exceptionally strong earthquake struck Romania ruled by the communist president and dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his regime. The policies and actions implemented and undertaken in the days, weeks, and year that followed were forms of aftershocks. The Ceauşescu regime modeled the 1977 earthquake recovery on previous...
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- Nicolae Ceauşescu, Disaster Response, Urban History, Romania, 1977 Earthquake, and Communism
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Karin Steinbrueck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Significant deviations in the glass transition temperature (Tg) of nanoconfined polymer films from the bulk have been studied for over twenty years with the focus on high molecular weight (MW), linear polymers. This thesis explores low MW polymers, which represent an important class of materials widely used as coatings, detergents,...
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- Low Molecular Weight Polymer, Wetting/Dewetting, Glass Transition Temperature, Fragility, Nanoscale Confinement, and Cyclic/Ring Polymer
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Lanhe Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, I discuss the role of neutrino masses and fermion flavor in modern particle physics and present several efforts aimed at exploiting these properties in searches for new physics. In particular, I discuss (1) the effects of neutrino decays on neutrino propagation; (2) the sensitivity of the Deep...
- Keyword:
- Particle Physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Jeffrey Michael Berryman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- "Migration Forms” centers on the place where migration and Morocco meet to tell two stories. One argues for the centrality of migration to the projects of local, contemporary art making and postcolonial nation building, while the other examines the codification, circulation, and contestation through visual form of this North African...
- Keyword:
- Morocco, Maghreb, national identity, migration, contemporary art, and minorities
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Emma Imbrie Chubb
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei is a single-celled eukaryotic protozoan parasite with a single cilium/flagellum. It cycles between its mammalian host (bloodstream cell), in which it scavenges cholesterol, and its tsetse fly host (procyclic cell), in which it both scavenges cholesterol and synthesizes ergosterol. For the first part of the...
- Keyword:
- Lipid rafts, Sterols, Trypanosome, and Palmitoylation
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Aabha Sharma
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- People today increasingly first meet others in mediated spaces, undergoing impression formation processes where they view information, gain impressions, and make decisions about others. Previous research examines profile information (e.g. name, photo, about me) that people provide about themselves within this process, finding that people try to craft profiles for...
- Keyword:
- location-based social application, human computer interaction, impression formation, cues, and computer mediated communication
- Subject:
- Technology and Social Behavior
- Creator:
- Colin Fitzpatrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Metal and bimetallic nanoparticles are of interest and are widely used in various applications because of their unique optical, electronic, and catalytic properties, which differ from those of their bulk counterparts. Better understanding of the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of nanoparticles and their underlying growth mechanisms can serve as a...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Electron Microscopy, and Materials Chemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Lingxuan Peng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Both chapters of this dissertation relate to the aggregate value of corporations in an economy. In particular, they relate to the ratio of the aggregate total market value of corporations over the replacement cost of their recorded capital. The first chapter introduces a model that can explain why this ratio...
- Keyword:
- Capital, Investment, and Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Andreas Kropf
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- An important question in religious and theological ethics concerns the human capacity for moral action, but contemporary Christian theological anthropologies largely theorize the human person in terms of the imago Dei, not moral subjectivity. The following study contributes to this challenge an investigation of human moral agency in the theological...
- Keyword:
- Religious Studies
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Candace L. Kohli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Mobile traffic is expected to grow tenfold by 2019, topping 24 exabytes of monthly traffic and accounting for nearly half of all Internet traffic. This growth is driven by the increasing number of smart phones and tablets, and the data demands of high bandwidth services enabled by next-generation cellular networks...
- Keyword:
- Mobile Network Measurement, Content Delivery Networks, and Cellular Networks
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- John Paul Rula
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The concept of deportation has become increasingly important in recent years, as states more and more turn to removal as a technique of control over population and territory. But within the field of political theory the concept of deportation has not yet received the attention it deserves. This dissertation helps...
- Keyword:
- immigration, constitutional law, removal, sovereignty, plenary, and deportation
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Charles Clarke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Achievement gaps between students from different SES and racial/ethnic backgrounds stubbornly persist despite decades of policy interventions. My dissertation focuses on several unexpected sources of stress and disruption that may be related to the achievement gap: sunlight exposure, a sister’s teen childbearing, and nearby violent crime. I demonstrate that these...
- Keyword:
- sleep, education, policy, stress, academic, and K-12
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Jennifer Ann Heissel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- After 9/11 there was a shift in the rhetoric surrounding counter-terrorism. Suddenly, the language of risk, security and prevention was being utilized to justify a new set of global financial regulations headed up by international organizations such as the United Nations, The Financial Action Task Force, and the IMF/World Bank....
- Keyword:
- Risk, Transparency, Counter-Terrorism Financing, and Anti-Money Laundering
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Anna Rose Hanson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Changing economic activities bring significant cultural, epidemiological, and nutritional transitions. These transitions have important and lifelong effects on the health of populations experiencing them. Infancy represents a critical period when rapid growth and metabolic programming occur, making infants particularly vulnerable to long-lasting biological changes due to such transitions. The objective...
- Keyword:
- Growth, Infancy, Nutrition, Inequality, and Economic Transition
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Morgan Hoke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains two studies. In Chapter 1, I implement a randomized intervention to measure the effect of reminders for timely payment of credit cards. While I find an 13% reduction in the cost of late payment fees paid, 31% of the users that avoid credit card late payments, incur...
- Keyword:
- Behavioral Economics and Household Finance
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Paolina Medina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Freeze casting is a technique for processing porous materials that has drawn significant attention for its effectiveness in producing a variety of tailorable pore structures for ceramics, metals, and polymers. With freeze casting, pores are generated based on a solidification process where ice crystals act as a sacrificial template which...
- Keyword:
- processing, preceramic polymers, freeze casting, ice templating, ceramics, and porous
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Maninpat Naviroj
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This work is concerned with the Laudau-Ginzburg $A$-model, or the Fukaya-Seidel category, associated with a Laurent polynomial $f: (\C^*)^n \ o \C$. We use constructible sheaves on a real $n$-dimensional torus to describe the Lagrangian thimbles associated to $f$. Then we discuss the application to Homological Mirror Symmetry for smooth...
- Keyword:
- Lagrangian Thimble, Laurent Polynomial, Constructible Sheaf, and Tropical Geometry
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Peng Zhou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We often criticize others for beliefs that are dogmatic, biased, or wishful. What, exactly, are we criticizing? Many epistemologists accept that such believing is problematic because it is not appropriately responsive to epistemic reasons. But why care about that? Or, to put it another way, why are epistemic norms authoritative...
- Keyword:
- Practical Reason, Agency, Epistemic Normativity, Normativity, and Epistemology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- A. K. Flowerree
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the relationship between institutions of political participation and environmental protection. What is the relationship and how is it constituted? How are participatory institutions put into motion, and how do they operate? What are the effects of these institutions? Are participatory institutions desirable from an environmental perspective and...
- Keyword:
- Development, Prior consultations, Popular consultations, Institutions, Mining, and Latin America
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Diana Rodriguez-Franco
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The scope of this thesis extends to the study of surface structures and electronic properties in a number of complex oxides. The c(6x2) surface reconstruction on SrTiO3 (001) was solved using a combination of plan view transmission electron microscopy imaging, atomic resolution secondary electron imaging, and density functional theory calculations....
- Keyword:
- electron microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, surface science, and lanthanide scandates
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Pratik Koirala
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We define multi-indexed Deligne extensions and multi-indexed log-variations of Hodge structures in the category of (filtered) logarithmic D-modules, via the idea of Bernstein– Sato polynomials and Kashiwara–Malgrange filtrations, generalizing the Deligne canonical extensions of flat vector bundles. We also obtain many comparison results with perverse sheaves via the logarithmic de...
- Keyword:
- Birational Geometry, Hodge theory, Algebraic Geometry, and D-modules
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Lei Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- FOXA1 is a FKHD family protein that plays pioneering roles in lineage-specific enhancer activation and gene transcription. Through genome-wide location analyses, here we show that FOXA1 expression and occupancy are, in turn, required for the maintenance of these epigenetic signatures, namely DNA hypomethylation and histone 3 lysine 4 methylation. Mechanistically,...
- Keyword:
- Prostate cancer, TET1, Epigenetics, and FOXA1
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Yeqing (Angela) Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Analytic jurisprudence is the field organized around the “What is law?” question. When most scholars approach the “What is law?” question, they suppose that the goal of such inquiry is to discover, or to accurately represent, the true nature of law. Consequently, these scholars reject the notion that the goal...
- Keyword:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Raff Donelson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the renewed historical significance of the (geo)political demand to redraft national constitutions in the Americas. Building on previous work, my dissertation constructs a transnational lens to underline the intersectionality of the social struggles that catalyzed the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly process begun in 1999 and the Ecuadorian experience...
- Keyword:
- Venezuela, revolution, Ecuador, postcolonial constitutionalism, constituent power, and democratization
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Ricardo Daniel Sánchez Cárdenas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How can gatekeeping theory in the circulation of cultural objects, including knowledge production, inform the way cultural sociology investigates the role of the producer and the cultural object as “gated” entities? Using the case of producers working under the rubric of “Contemporary African art” to investigate opportunities and restrictions to...
- Keyword:
- trading chip, boundary object, Contemporary African art, and Africanness
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Sakhile Kaone Matlhare
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta are richly innervated by GABAergic neurons. The postsynaptic effects of GABA on SNc DA neurons are mediated by a mixture of GABAA and GABAB receptors. Although activation of GABAA receptors inhibits spike generation, the consequences of GABAB receptor activation are less well...
- Keyword:
- gabab, pka, substantia nigra, dopamine, and sk channel
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Chad Michael Estep
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) study of a novel anisotropic superconductor, HgBa$_{2}$CuO$_{4+\delta}$ (Hg1201) and unconventional strain dependence of the mean free path of silica aerogel. Hg1201 is one of the most structurally simple cuprates known. Therefore, it is an ideal compound in investigation of various phases in...
- Keyword:
- Cuprates, Hg1201, NMR, Diffusion, Aerogel, and Superconductivity
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Jeongseop A. Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Increasing energy demand due to rapid growth in population and industrialization along with environmental crisis has led to the search for cheap, environmentally friendly, and nontoxic methods for generation of energy. However, most alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic, biofuels, hydraulic power, wind power, and geothermal energy, are characterized by...
- Keyword:
- Sustainable, Biomass, Supercapacitors, Energy storage, and Hydrothermal carbonization
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Deepti Krishnan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Age-related cognitive deficits are observed in both humans and animals. Yet, the molecular mechanisms underlying these deficits are not yet fully elucidated. In aged animals, a decrease in intrinsic excitability of pyramidal neurons from the CA1 sub-region of hippocampus is believed to contribute to age-related cognitive impairments, but the molecular...
- Keyword:
- CREB, Memory, Hippocampus, and Aging
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Xiao Wen Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The impacts of many important technologies are limited by the availability of better-performing materials. One factor limiting the ability of engineers to develop better materials is the speed at which they can search through possible formulations and processing schemes. Recently, machine learning algorithms have emerged as a possible route to...
- Keyword:
- Materials Science, Crystal Structure Solution, Metallic Glasses, Density Functional Theory, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Logan Timothy Ward
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Loss of inhibitory control from descending serotonergic (5-HT) fibers deregulates the excitability of spinal motoneurons and interneurons following spinal cord injury (SCI). Exaggerated synaptic activity triggers long-lasting excitatory postsynaptic potentials (long EPSPs) in hyperexcitable motoneurons to ultimately drive muscle spasms at the chronic stage of SCI. Deep dorsal horn (DDH)...
- Keyword:
- muscle spasms, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), serotonin (5-HT), spinal cord injury (SCI), deep dorsal horn (DDH) neurons, and zolmitriptan
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Theeradej Thaweerattanasinp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The polypeptide hormone prolactin (PRL) is increasingly recognized as contributing to the development and progression of human breast cancer. This is supported by epidemiologic studies that found women with high levels of serum PRL are at an increased risk for developing breast cancer. Activation of the prolactin receptor (PRLR) by...
- Keyword:
- Focal Adhesion, Prolactin, Breast Cancer, Cell Migration, and Phosphorylation
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Katherine Marie Schulhaus
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Natural products provide a renewable resource of novel chemical structures with relevance to the pharmaceutical, agricultural and materials industries. Genome sequencing has revealed that these industries currently rely on only a fraction of the number of natural products that exist in nature. Based on the impact that known natural products...
- Keyword:
- Biosynthesis, Streptomyces, Natural Products, Mass Spectrometry, Cell-Free Protein Synthesis, and Secondary Metabolism
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Anthony Whitney Goering
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The genetic code, a set of rules by which mRNA codons are translated into the twenty standard amino acids used in protein synthesis, was once thought to be immutable. As we expanded our understanding of molecular biology more variations in this genetic code have been found across the animal kingdom....
- Keyword:
- genomically recoded organisms, non-standard amino acid, orthogonal translation system, and protein synthesis
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Jessica Gabrielle Perez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As the title suggests, this dissertation is composed of three major topics. The first two are optimization problems focusing on developing effective solution methodologies, while for the last topic we present a large-scale information retrieval system in the domain of sports. With the algorithms and frameworks developed in this dissertation,...
- Keyword:
- Operational research and Industrial Engineering
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Mingyang Di
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The development of metal-based probes has provided major benefits to understanding basic biological process and clinical outcomes. Metals offer access to geometries that carbon alone cannot attain, along with valuable magnetic, optical, and binding properties. Metals have proven to be particularly useful in advancing molecular imaging, a field that seeks...
- Keyword:
- Biochemistry
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Luke Vistain
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Scholars have noted that food marketing significantly impacts the lives of children, influencing what foods they request and consume. However, the impact of food marketing on low-income children has only been explored minimally. This project explores both media-based and in-store food marketing to low-income families, along with potential outcomes of...
- Keyword:
- Marketing, Public Health, and Communication
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Heather Montague
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Advancements in nanotechnology have led to the production of devices with components with sub-100 nm size scales. Studies have investigated how properties of polymers change when confined to nanoscale dimensions. However, stiffness-confinement studies have reported increases, decreases, and invariance with confinement for different polymer/substrate pairs, making it difficult to obtain...
- Keyword:
- Fluorescence, Modulus, Stiffness, Thin Film, Stress, and Polymer
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Shadid Askar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We studied the nonlocal effects of intraspecific prey competition on the stability of the critical points of the Rosenzweig-MacArthur model and the Holling-Tanner model, respectively, using linear stability analysis. In particular we focused on the study of the stability of the coexistence state influenced by the nonlocality for both models....
- Keyword:
- Applied Mathematics
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Jiang Zhuo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Algebras and their bimodules form a 2-category in which 2-morphisms are certain zero-th Hochschild cohomology groups. When we derive this structure (i.e., use Hochschild cochains instead of HH^0 for 2-morphisms), we find that algebras form a category in dg cocategories. The Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg theorem and non-commutative calculus give a rich algebraic...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics and Algebra
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Ann Rebecca Wei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- With the dual challenges of meeting global energy demand and mitigating anthropogenic climate change, significant effort is being applied to generating power from renewable sources. The dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) is a photovoltaic technology capable of generating electricity from sunlight, but suffers losses in efficiency due to deleterious electron transfer...
- Keyword:
- Alternative Energy, Material Science, and Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- William L. Hoffeditz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Patients born with severe heart defects need regular monitoring of the complex hemodynamics in their heart and vasculature. 4D flow MRI has emerged as the state-of-the-art technique for comprehensively evaluating cardiovascular hemodynamics. This imaging technique allows for the dynamic visualization of 3D blood through the cardiac cycle and the quantification...
- Keyword:
- Biomedical Engineering and Medical imaging
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Kelly Jarvis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Radiation is a ubiquitous health risk. Contemporary populations are exposed to several hundred milliSieverts per person over their lifetimes from both natural and human made sources such as radon, cosmic rays, CT-scans, etc. Risk estimates based on studies of atomic bomb survivors suggest that these exposures induce excess cancer mortality...
- Keyword:
- radiation, DDREF, and protraction
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Benjamin McGee Haley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Kainate receptors (KARs) are expressed throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems. One of three subfamilies of ionotropic glutamate receptors, KARs are localized both pre- and post-synaptically and exert important modulatory control over neural circuits. This modulatory role in circuit function makes them a potential actor in wide variety of...
- Keyword:
- Neurosciences
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Claire Vernon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Nano-structured mixed ionic and electronic conducting (MIEC) materials have garnered intense interest in electrode development for solid oxide fuel cells due to their high surface areas which allow for effective catalytic activity and low polarization resistances. In particular, composite solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) cathodes consisting of ionic conducting scaffolds...
- Keyword:
- Degradation, Nanoparticles, Cathodes, SOFC, Infiltration, and Electrochemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Ann Virginia Call
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), the result of fetal alcohol exposure (FAE), affects 2-11% of children worldwide with no treatments in sight. In my thesis work, I aimed to identify underlying biological mechanisms of the FAE-induced hippocampus-based cognitive deficits that would lead to identify potential treatment targets to reverse the...
- Keyword:
- Neurosciences
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Elif Tunc-Ozcan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Musicians have a responsibility to assess and perform new or extant music in order to present a larger body of repertoire to audiences. The purpose of this study is to introduce the euphonium music of the contemporary Belgian composer Frangois Glorieux to the tubaeuphonium community. With numerous works written for...
- Keyword:
- Orchestra, Euphonium Music, and Symphony
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Christopher James Dickey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2013-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Classic mechanism design studies the implementation of optimal systems or processes in the presence of multiple selfish and fully rational agents. The theory of mechanism design has been one of the most celebrated advances in the economics discipline, especially with regards to auctions Myerson (1981),Vickrey (1961), Clarke (1971), Groves (1973)....
- Keyword:
- Algorithmic Game Theory, Algorithmic Mechanism Design, Algorithms, and Auction Theory
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Emmanouil Pountourakis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most prevalent primary central nervous system malignancy. Due to the aggressive nature of these tumors and our inability to adequately treat them, only 3-5% of patients survive longer than 3 years post-diagnosis. The standard of care for newly diagnosed GBM is surgical resection followed by...
- Keyword:
- siRNA, Ribozyme, Glioblastoma, Spherical nucleic acids, Gold nanoparticles, and MGMT
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Timothy L. Sita
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In December 1928, Ernst Jünger wrote to his brother Friedrich Georg: “Wir müssen uns […] bemühen, die literarische Tätigkeit als Kriegsmittel zu betrachten.” This project analyzes the result of said activity: viz. text understood as a means of war. That is to say, it does not aim at answering questions...
- Keyword:
- Subversion, Jünger, Nationalism, Planetary, Weimar, and Breakthrough
- Subject:
- German Literature and Critical Thought
- Creator:
- Clemens Börries Ackermann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- X-ray reflectivity (XRR) versatile technique that characterize the surface structures. However, due to the lack of phase information of X-ray data, the reconstruction of electron density profile (EDP) from XRR data is an ill-posed inverse problem that requires extra attention. In Chapter 1, several key concepts in XRR data analysis...
- Keyword:
- Ionic liquids, in-situ, X-ray, Dynamics, charged surfaces, and Ordering
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Miaoqi Chu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A Dialogue on Nation-Building took place in Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on January 14-16, 2018. I was one of a dozen individuals invited to serve as resource persons for this meeting of over a hundred representatives from the government, civil society, political and faith-based organizations. The aim of the gathering was to...
- Keyword:
- africa and Ethiopia
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-14
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Plenary Lecture delivered at the Black History Month Symposium at New College, Florida.
- Keyword:
- Ken Saro Wiwa and Nigeria
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-02-18
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Perhaps better suited for the mosh pit than the orchestra pit, David Lang’s 1991 tour-de-force for solo bass clarinet, Press Release, is a minimalist marvel. Comprised of seven “groove sections” that evolve in seemingly unpredictable ways, Lang cleverly employs monophony to tell a robust story of motivic and harmonic development....
- Keyword:
- Eric Mandat, Roberto Sierra, David Lang, Libby Larsen, Music Analysis, Music, Bass Clarinet, and Music Performance
- Subject:
- David Lang, Music Theory, Music Analysis, Bass Clarinet, and Music Performance
- Creator:
- Andrew Hudson
- Owner:
- Andrew Douglas Hudson
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-05
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- Description:
- This dissertation provides the first in-depth comparative study in any language of the female figurations made, viewed, and interpreted in the realm of refashioning modern Chinese painting during the war period of Republican China (1930s-1940s) in the Nationalist government-controlled southwestern inner frontier, with projects by Pang Xunqin (1906–85) and Fu...
- Keyword:
- National Imagination, Chinese painting, Nationalism, Social Critique, Fu Baoshi, and Pang Xunqin
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Xiao Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Polyurethane (PU) is an important commodity polymer with a broad range of applications. Increasing regulations on isocyanates have prompted investigations into alternative routes to PU. Cyclic carbonate aminolysis leading to polyhydroxyurethane (PHU) is a promising alternative. This dissertation describes the first fundamental investigation of the synthesis and properties of segmented,...
- Keyword:
- Thermoplastic Elastomer, Structure-Property-Relationship, Non-Isocyanate, Polyhydroxyurethane, Cyclic Carbonate Aminolysis, and Polyurethane
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Goliath Beniah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation