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- The investigation of ceria-related materials has a long history since 1920s. The first publication on web of science traces back to 1928. Ever since that, more studies come out and surge starting from 1987. This material has attracted extensive attention due to its wide applications in electrochemical devices, catalysis, and...
- Keyword:
- zirconium, thermochemical fuel production, catalysis, ceria, redox kinetics, and oxygen vacancy
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Yuan, Weizi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15180 and etdadmin_upload_753575
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- In Chapter 1, we construct a test for hypotheses about the effect of a recent policy change, when a single unit is treated and there are several control units, with time series observations of each available before and after the policy change. The goal is to incorporate information provided by...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Hardwick, Joseph William George
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_772906 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15343
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- During the antebellum and post-Reconstruction periods, Black authors were concerned with white antipathy towards the political aspirations of African Americans. For many of these authors, sonic figures of resonance, vibration, and musicality served as the key sensory modalities through which the nexus of American anti-Blackness and civil politics could be...
- Keyword:
- Frederick Douglass, Pauline Hopkins, sound studies, and Harriet Jacobs
- Subject:
- African American studies and English literature
- Creator:
- Papanikolas, Antonio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_775582 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15361
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- Evolutionary theory predicts that reproduction entails energetic costs that detract from somatic maintenance, accelerating biological aging. In women, such ‘costs of reproduction’ (CoR) are thought to arise predominantly during pregnancy and lactation, while in men the physiological effects of the steroid hormone testosterone (T) are believed to be a major...
- Keyword:
- Epigenetic clocks, Tradeoffs, Disposable soma theory, Costs of reproduction, Aging, and DNA methylation
- Subject:
- Genetics, Evolution & development, and Biology
- Creator:
- Ryan, Calen Patrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780539 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15395
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- Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in the past decade on tasks that were out of reach prior to the era of deep learning. Amongst the myriad reasons for these successes are powerful computational resources, large datasets, new optimization algorithms, and modern architecture designs. Most of the reasons are...
- Keyword:
- Statistical Physics, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Statistical physics
- Creator:
- Wei, Mingwei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_777448 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15367
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- The product of hexokinase (HK) enzymes, glucose-6-phosphate, can be metabolized through glycolysis or directed to alternative pathways, such as the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) to generate anabolic intermediates. HK1 contains an N-terminal domain that permits mitochondrial binding, but its physiologic significance remains unclear. We generated mice lacking the HK1 mitochondrial-binding...
- Keyword:
- Inflammation, Hexokinase, Macrophage, Subcellular localization, Metabolism, and Mitochondria
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- De Jesus, Adam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_773389 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15348
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- The language Esterel has found success in many safety-critical applications, from aircraft landing gear to digital signal processors. Its unique combination of powerful control operations, deterministic concurrency, and real time execution bounds are indispensable to programmer in these kinds of safety-critical domains. However these features lead to an interesting facet...
- Keyword:
- Programming Languages, Semantics, Calculus, and Esterel
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Florence, Spencer P
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_754043 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15182
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- Biological organisms have the extraordinary ability to form mineral structures with unparalleled control. From curved single crystals to hierarchically structured skeletal parts, biomineralization processes produce materials with properties that are highly optimized for their intended applications. These processing techniques occur at ambient conditions using materials abundant in the environment, and...
- Keyword:
- Enamel, Atom Probe Tomography, and Biominerals
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- DeRocher, Karen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15281 and etdadmin_upload_764846
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- This dissertation traces the intellectual and social history of slavery in the Lower Congo over the Longue Durée. It examines how Bantu-speaking groups of the Lower Congo inherited, constructed, reconstructed, and passed on to younger generations a vocabulary that framed their shifting slaving practices from their arrival in the region...
- Keyword:
- Atlantic World, Slavery, and African History
- Subject:
- African history
- Creator:
- Abreu Lelitão de Almeida, Marcos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_760202 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15214
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- Simulation studies are virtually all motivated by decision making. Because simulation output is stochastic and input models are never perfect, all decisions should include an accounting for risks. Input model risk refers to the exposure due to imperfect simulation input models that are estimated from real-world data, involving both the...
- Keyword:
- model averaging, input modeling, input model risk, local sensitivity measures, sensitivity analysis, and input uncertainty
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- JIANG, XI
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763007 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15233