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- Phase separation in segmented polymers provides distinct challenges in regard to their chemical reaction kinetics and characterization. Well studied, it has been shown that structure, phase separation and non-covalent interactions are key factors in the design of elastomeric polyurethanes. Specifically, this dissertation is focused on two areas: the synthesis of...
- Keyword:
- Fluorescence, Phase Separation, Hybrid, Aromatic Interactions, Non-Isocyanate Polyurethanes, and Polyurethane
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Dhulst
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- 3D integration of integrated circuits is becoming a prominent solution in the design of high performance chips. Multiple dies can be stacked in a single 3D structure and utilizes Through Silicon Vias (TSV) for die to die communications. While this feature significantly decrease the latency of data transfer, multi-tier stacking...
- Keyword:
- SRAM, Power Modeling, DRAM, TSV, CAM, and 3D IC
- Subject:
- Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Dawei Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Algorithms which are efficient and robust are essential to meet the increasing computational demands in the world today. In this thesis, we consider the analysis and design of both distributed algorithms for dynamic average consensus and centralized algorithms for convex optimization. Dynamic average consensus consists of a group of agents,...
- Keyword:
- algorithm design
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Bryan Richard Van Scoy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), spinal motoneurons degenerate in the order of large motoneurons that innervate fast and fatigable muscle fibers to small motoneurons that innervate slow muscle fibers (Pun et al. 2006). This order of degeneration is peculiar in that it is in direct opposition to the normal order...
- Keyword:
- motoneurons, persistent inward currents, animal model, neurodegeneration, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and electrophysiology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Seoan Huh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of this thesis is to design practical algorithms for nonlinear optimization in the case when the objective function is stochastic or nonsmooth. The thesis is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 describes an active-set method for the minimization of an objective function that is structurally nonsmooth, viz., it...
- Keyword:
- machine learning, optimization, deep learning, Newton, nonsmooth, and quasi-Newton
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Nitish Shirish Keskar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates the evolution of national identification and assimilative trends among Germans who remained behind in the Czech lands from the end of the postwar expulsions in 1946 through the Czech Republic’s entry to the European Union in 2004. My primary lens of analysis is associational life, or formal...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Payson B Croy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Traditionally, research on perception and sensory systems has considered the senses as independent and modular functions that only converge after sufficient processing in unisensory areas. Recently, however, that view has been called into question with a number of demonstrations of multisensory interactions that may occur as early as primary cortex....
- Keyword:
- Cognitive psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- L. Jacob Zweig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While literature indicates that fewer than half of older adults aged 65 years or older receive high quality end-of-life care, less is known about the quality of end-of-life care experienced by the segment of that population with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). Drawing upon the Teno Model of high quality end-of-life...
- Keyword:
- Multiple chronic conditions, Quality, End-of-life, and Aging
- Subject:
- Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program
- Creator:
- Gayle Kricke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ultrafast spectroscopy offers an unprecedented view on the dynamic nature of chemical reactions. From charge transfer in semiconductors to folding and isomerization of proteins, these all important processes can now be monitored and in some instances even controlled on real, physical timescales. One of the biggest challenges of ultrafast science...
- Keyword:
- Microscopy, Perovskite, Spectroscopy, Compressed Sensing, and Interferometry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Boris Spokoyny
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The hormone prolactin (PRL) contributes to breast cancer pathogenesis through various signaling pathways, one of the most notable being the JAK2/signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5) pathway. PRL-induced activation of the transcription factor STAT5 results in the upregulation of numerous genes implicated in breast cancer pathogenesis. However, the...
- Keyword:
- Transcription factor, HMGN, Histone H1, Chromatin, STAT5, and Prolactin
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Suzanne Marie Schauwecker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Metabolite biosensors are powerful tools for basic biological research, medical diagnostics, and biotechnological applications. However, a generalizable strategy for developing new metabolite biosensors when an existing sensor cannot be found in nature, is a persistent challenge. Furthermore, while transcription factor biosensors have the broadest range of applications, the pool of...
- Keyword:
- Bioengineering, Transcription factor, Synthetic biology, Promoter engineering, Protein engineering, and Metabolic engineering
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Andrew Younger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In today's rapidly changing world, there is constant demand for the development of new, high performance materials. Fire resistant steels can provide greater safety in the event of a building fire, creep resistant stainless steels can allow for higher power plant efficiency, and cobalt based superalloys have potential for use...
- Keyword:
- Ferritic Steels, CALPHAD, Stainless Steel, Fire Resistance, Combinatorial Synthesis, and Atom Probe Tomography
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Cameron Thomas Gross
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the small dispersion asymptotics in highly stratified models. My goal is to show that accurate inferences are possible even if s, the number of strata, is large while m, the number of observations within each stratum, is small, provided that the model ”fit well” in the term...
- Keyword:
- modified profile likelihood, Inverse Gaussian, effective sample size, exponential dispersion model, MapReduce, and high order expansion
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Xuan Mei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents a program of research on cultural cognition of the natural world, involving long-term research with indigenous Ngöbe partner communities (Panama) and selected comparisons to Western samples (US). In two series of experiments focused on agency concepts, we show that cultural frameworks recruit distinct principles for inferring agency...
- Keyword:
- Indigenous, folk psychology, folk communication, culture, agency concepts, and folk ecology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Bethany L. Ojalehto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- During the eighteenth century, European trade with Asia was characterized by the importation of sophisticated manufactured goods in exchange for silver. The features of Euro-Asian trade testify to the vitality of the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese economies in the period before the Great Divergence. Many European observers, however, mistook them...
- Keyword:
- France, India, Great Divergence, Orientalism, and eighteenth-century
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Blake Smith
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Heterogeneous catalysts play a prominent role in our society, used in applications that range from the production of plastics to the catalytic cracking of crude oil. Industrial catalysts are typically made of mixed metal oxides or nanosized metal particles deposited on high surface area supports. Industrially relevant catalytic materials are...
- Keyword:
- Atomic Layer Deposition, Catalysis, Spectroscopy, and Catalyst Design
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Cassandra Marie George
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In eukaryotic organisms, genomic DNA is organized and condensed into repeating arrays of nucleosomes. The histone protein octamer of each nucleosome wraps 147 base pairs of DNA, effectively restricting access by transcription factors and other regulatory proteins to that region. An additional histone, histone H1, binds the DNA outside the...
- Keyword:
- histone h1, mnase, genome, nucleosome, and drosophila
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Rebecca Martin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Depression in children and adolescents is a prevalent, recurrent, and frequently chronic disorder, representing a considerable public health burden (Birmaher, Ryan, Williamson, Brent, & Kaufman, 2005; Costello et al., 2002). Consequently, an understanding of the disorder is critical for future intervention and prevention efforts. Previous research attempting to clarify family...
- Keyword:
- Inflammation, Empathy, Families, Consistency, and Depression
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Erika Manczak
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The advent of next-generation sequencing has made it increasingly feasible to survey microbes in situ, including inside buildings where many people spend extended periods of time. Microbes in buildings, and specifically in dust, are linked to various health outcomes, and the amount of antimicrobial chemicals in dust is associated to...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Sarah Ben Maamar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- The sexual network topology of individuals and their communities may affect the spread of infectious disease both within and across specific populations. To better understand this process, we collected ego-centric data on the personal sexual networks of 175 young men who have sex with men. Respondents were asked to nominate...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Subject:
- Medical Social Sciences
- Creator:
- Balint Neray
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Background: The tripartite model (Clark & Watson, 1991) has been used to represent the substrates of general distress in both depression and anxiety (Negative affectivity [NA]), while also characterizing specific features of decreased positive affectivity (PA) in depression and increased physiological hyperarousal (PH) in anxiety. Core affect characterizes affect by...
- Keyword:
- affective reactivity, tripartite model, comorbidity, depression, and anxiety
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Laina Emily Rosebrock
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2015-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The National Institute of Mental Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality convened an expert panel to identify the top research priorities in the field of behavioral intervention technology (BIT) research. The panel determined that if BIT research is to evolve in an effective way to reach and...
- Keyword:
- Barriers, Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Mobile, Apps, Depression, and Learning
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Colleen Stiles-Shields
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Differences in Neuropsychological Functioning between Homicidal and Nonviolent Schizophrenia Samples
- Description:
- Neurocognitive dysfunction, while common among those with schizophrenia, is thought to be exacerbated in violent individuals with schizophrenia and contribute to the commission of violent acts. Few studies have compared performance on neurocognitive measures between violent and nonviolent schizophrenia samples. Better understanding neurocognitive dysfunction in violent individuals with schizophrenia could...
- Keyword:
- Homicide, Schizophrenia, Violence, and Neuropsychology
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- John Stratton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis analyzes the role segregation and white flight played in the development of New York City’s suburban Westchester County, particularly in regards to how white flight from (and within) New Rochelle during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s was presaged by the racial reification of the suburb’s communal boundaries during...
- Keyword:
- New York Westchester & Boston Railroad, Urban Renewal, Westchester County, Segregation, Housing, White Flight, Scarsdale, and Suburban Development
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Kevin M. Slack
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- One of the most dynamic in South Asia, Pakistan’s vibrant and outspoken media is de facto credited to the media liberalization policies of 2002 by President Pervez Musharraf. Yet, the country’s media landscape, particularly the private news channels, are known to be sensational for their exaggerated reporting style. Using Pakistan’s...
- Keyword:
- BOL TV, Musharraf, Pakistan, media liberalization, Geo News, Sensationalism, and Pakistani media
- Subject:
- Journalism
- Creator:
- Shakeeb Asrar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Description:
- Drill rap, a subgenre of hip-hop intimately connected to Chicago street life and brought into the nation’s musical mainstream by Chicago rapper Chief Keef, sounds and means differently than traditional forms of hip-hop. Unlike most hip hop, drill is outwardly unconcerned with mobility. This project explores drill’s departure from hip-hop’s...
- Keyword:
- Chicago, Hyper-Containment, Containment, Drill Rap, Gang Fragmentation, and the Plan for Transformation
- Creator:
- Benjamin M. Levey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Alternate Identifier:
- American Studies
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- Description:
- Affective science has long been interested in the coherence between different emotion response systems (e.g., subjective emotional experience, behavior, physiology). Although evolutionary functionalist accounts of emotion hold that emotional coherence should be related to greater adaptation, few studies have analyzed links between emotional coherence and wellbeing. Thus, in this laboratory-based...
- Keyword:
- Emotional coherence, facial expressions, age, well-being, physiology, and sadness
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Katherine K. Bae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-04-24
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Description:
- With 80% of US hospitals seeing limited English proficient patients on a regular basis, language assistance services are a pivotal component of ensuring equal access to health care. State and federal civil rights policies guarantee the provision of language assistance services to limited English proficient hospital patients. However, local civil...
- Keyword:
- language assistance services, principal agent theory, Public policy, LEP, implementation, health care, and civil rights
- Subject:
- Social Policy
- Creator:
- Meredith Greene
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Description:
- Each successive wave of immigrants to America has faced prejudice founded in fear and uncertainty. Immigrants from Italy were particularly discriminated against in the early years of their arrival, from 1880 through 1920. They faced violence, racial slurs, and media attacks based on an unsubstantiated stereotype of criminality. This project...
- Keyword:
- race, immigration, ethnicity, Cleveland, Italian, Italian-American, whiteness, industrial, and Midwest
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Isabel Robertson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-02
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The purpose of this project is to investigate the lack of significant reform regarding women’s issues during the perestroika period. Part one establishes the foundational ideology by analyzing Marxist and Leninist ideas on women and comparing them to official Soviet doctrine as established by government officials and leading scholars. Also...
- Keyword:
- Russia, glasnost, feminism, Soviet government, Soviet women's history, Russian women, Soviet women, women's rights, Soviet Union, Russian women's history, women's history, socialist feminism, contraceptives, condoms, population control, contraception, Soviet society, and birth control
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Bailey Sutton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Project
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- Description:
- Marital emotional functioning is one of the most important predictors of marital outcomes (e.g., marital satisfaction), which in turn has important consequences for wellbeing and health factors for both spouses and their children. Thus far, negative emotions (e.g., anger) have been the central focus in distinguishing dissatisfied from satisfied couples...
- Keyword:
- duchenne smiles, non-duchenne smiles, marriage, and positive emotion
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Katherine K. Bae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-04-04
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Approximately 1 in 3 deaths in the US is caused by cardiovascular diseases, among them atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis occurs through excessive cholesterol deposition (hyperlipidemia) along the inner layer of the artery called the intima, resulting in plaque formation that blocks arterial blood flow and could lead to heart attacks and strokes....
- Keyword:
- Atherosclerosis, LDLrko, Group 1 CD1-restricted T cells, CD1d, and HJ1-T cells
- Subject:
- Biological Sciences
- Creator:
- Shon Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- The High Energy Density Sciences group at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory studies materials in extreme conditions such as very high temperatures and pressures. We use shock waves produced by the Linac Coherent Light Source to compress polycrystalline diamond samples. Compressing these samples allows us to use x-ray diffraction to study...
- Keyword:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, grain size, diamond, high energy density, SLAC, physics, and polycrystalline diamond
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Lauren Barmore
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- According to Lisjak, Lee, and Gardner (2012), a threat to a brand can elicit the same response as a threat to the self. The current research examined whether people react differently to brand threats as a function of East Asian versus North American culture and as a function of whether...
- Keyword:
- defense, self-brand connection, brand, Culture, identification, and East Asian
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jiaqi Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-06
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- A survey of adults (n = 706) found low levels of awareness of two social movements aimed at decreasing weight stigma: the Fat Acceptance Movement and Health at Every Size movement. For HAES, providing a brief story of an overweight person who endorses HAES improved perceptions of the movement.
- Keyword:
- attitudes, anti-fat, body size, weight stigma, weight, and stigma
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Vilte Baliutaviciute
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-20
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Welcome to the inaugural issue of Politica Northwestern . Politica Northwestern is the academic journal of Politics & Policy ( P&P ), a student publication at Northwestern University. P&P looks at the world in terms of what impact events will have. Political events happen all the time, but their impacts...
- Keyword:
- volume 1
- Creator:
- Wooyoung Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- Innovative companies such as Uber and Airbnb have pioneered a new mode of business: the sharing economy. Uber, a car-sharing service, allows individual car owners to act as taxi drivers, connecting individuals seeking rides with those with cars willing to drive them, through a mobile app. Airbnb is a similar...
- Keyword:
- volume 1
- Creator:
- Mohamad Akef, Sam Ide, and Monika Hur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- As the world continues to grapple with dramatically lower oil prices, economic and political implications for certain major oil producers are beginning to materialize. Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest petroleum exporter, were more prepared for the global downturn than others. Unlike many oil producers, the Saudis are...
- Keyword:
- volume 1
- Creator:
- Liam Conway-Pearson, Ben Mandel, and Monika Hur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- On December 17th, Turkish police detained around 50 individuals accused of corruption and bribery. The scandal , which implicated Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was that the arrested ranged from sons of government ministers to political allies in Turkey's financial sector. Thus began a new chapter in Mr Erdoğan’s battle...
- Keyword:
- volume 1
- Creator:
- Alexi Stocker, Tom Cui, and Monika Hur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- For the better part of 2014, anti-government protests have been raging in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. These protests received international attention when three people were killed on February 12th. Since then violence on the street has claimed 17 lives and injured hundreds of people. The protests, ostensibly anti-government in...
- Keyword:
- volume 1
- Creator:
- Sam Houskeeper, Alexi Stocker, and Ben Mandel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a new international financial institution created by China, recently gained media attention following the induction of several new high-profile members. The bank was initially proposed by China and then launched last October with 20 other countries. Since then, many more nations – including some...
- Keyword:
- volume 1
- Creator:
- Arkar Hein and Wooyoung Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- On February 13th, US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away, radically altering the makeup of the America’s highest court and raising the stakes for the 2016 presidential election. Mr Scalia leaves behind a Court that would be almost unrecognizable as the one he joined when he was appointed by...
- Keyword:
- volume 1
- Creator:
- Liam Conway-Pearson, Jose Trejos, and David Gernon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- The recent military-style assault on the office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , followed by a separate hostage standoff at a Kosher supermarket traumatized Paris and sent shock waves across Europe. The three-day terror spree in Paris ended with the deaths of 17 victims and three gunmen. The...
- Keyword:
- volume 1
- Creator:
- Arkar Hein, Liam Conway-Pearson, and Alexi Stocker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- In February, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that Britain would vote on the continuation of their membership within the EU. This has led to ministers quickly splitting into factions either in support or opposition to British exit from the EU, now often referred to as “Brexit”. Positions have been...
- Keyword:
- volume 1
- Creator:
- Sophie Chen and Jose Trejos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- Most people imagine hacking to be an exceedingly complex crime, requiring an understanding of computing systems that goes far beyond that of average, functionally literate PC users. While there are sophisticated hacking techniques which do fit this description, many forms of hacking require little more than the ability to install...
- Keyword:
- volume 1
- Creator:
- Jose Trejos and Max Rowe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- DNA methylation in repetitive elements (RE) suppresses their mobility and maintains genomic stability, and decreases in it are frequently observed in tumor and/or surrogate tissues. Averaging methylation across RE in the genome is widely used to quantify global methylation. Methylation of RE in humans is considered a surrogate for global...
- Keyword:
- Repetitive elements, Cancer, Machine learning, and DNA methylation
- Subject:
- Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program
- Creator:
- Yinan Zheng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The patent system seeks to strike the ideal balance between competition and the rate of innovation – not to maximize innovation unconditionally. Clearly there must be limits on the manner and degree to which patents are used to diminish competition. A critical complication, however, is that this boundary is often...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Erik Nikolaas Hovenkamp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the last twenty years, memory entrepreneurs have proliferated memories of Communism from Central and Eastern Europe transnationally across Europe, but for some an invisible Iron Curtain persists. How has the European memory field changed in the last two decades, and more broadly, what determines which mnemonic actors are successful...
- Keyword:
- Law, Central and Eastern Europe, European Union, Culture, and Public Policy
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Iga Kozlowska
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Using cross-sectional and 90-day discharge follow-up data from child welfare residential treatment, this study investigates gender differences in characteristics, needs, and strengths at entry to residential treatment. Specifically, this analysis examines trauma experiences, trauma-related symptoms, internalizing and externalizing behaviors, and strengths, in relation to length of stay and discharge status...
- Keyword:
- Gender differences, Length of stay, Residential treatment, Child welfare, Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS), and Child trauma
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Torgersen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The over-a-decade quantitative study of the flexion synergy has provided concrete evidence that the stereotypical movement coupling of shoulder abduction with elbow flexion and wrist/finger flexion (i.e. flexion synergy) significantly affects the ability to perform functional upper extremity movements that are essential for activities of daily living (e.g. reach-to-grasp an...
- Keyword:
- Neurosciences
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Yiyun Lan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Woodstock—the word is shorthand for the spirit of the 1960s counterculture. Yet the assumption that the 1960s dawned a “New Age” neglects contributions made by earlier generations of Woodstock artists in advancing a utopian vision of emancipated art, life, and labor. From 1902 onwards, Woodstock—a small Dutch hamlet in upstate...
- Keyword:
- Byrdcliffe, utopian communities, counterculture, Woodstock, The Maverick, and artists colonies
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- John Paul Murphy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Climate change may be one of the most important puzzles the world has attempted to solve and one of the greatest challenges in this area is to improve our understanding of how atmospheric aerosol particles impact climate processes. We seek to overcome this challenge by focusing on the chemistry and...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Mary Alice Upshur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation describes the relationship between the surface chemistry of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots, QDs) and their optoelectronic properties, such as photoluminescence and degree of quantum confinement. We primarily focus our efforts on one particular subset of ligands known to couple strongly to the inorganic core of the QD...
- Keyword:
- exciton delocalization, nuclear magnetic resonance, quantum dot, ligand-ligand coupling, and dithiocabamate
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Rachel Dory Harris
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae is the causative agent of the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea and is adapted to survive in humans, its only host. The N. gonorrhoeae cell wall is critical for maintaining envelope integrity, resisting immune cell killing, and production of cytotoxic peptidoglycan (PG) fragments. Deletion of the N. gonorrhoeae genes...
- Keyword:
- DNA
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kyle Patrick Obergfell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Understanding the nature of quantum effects in dense biological systems is of great interestto many scientists today. It seems that the question is not does quantum mechanics dictatebiological processes, but rather by how much and to what extent. A big challenge though in thisfield is how to properly test and...
- Keyword:
- Photosystem I, Stochastic Surrogate Hamiltonian, Redfield, Biology, and Quantum Mechanics
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Daniel Douglas Powell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Nucleosome organization influences gene activity by controlling DNA accessibility to transcription machinery. In this thesis, we have developed a chemical biology approach to determine mammalian nucleosome positions genome-wide. Using this strategy, we uncover surprising new features of nucleosome organization in mouse embryonic stem cells. In contrast to the prevailing model,...
- Keyword:
- histones, nucleosomes, epigenetics, chromatin, and transcription regulation
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Lilien Voong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Across all levels of education, persistent academic achievement gaps exist between students from higher and lower socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. Despite these daunting odds, many students from lower-SES backgrounds manage to maintain high levels of academic motivation and persist in the face of difficulty. One factor that has been shown...
- Keyword:
- Socioeconomic mobility, Academic performance, Academic motivation, and Socioeconomic status
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Alexander S. Browman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Individuals with severe motor impairments often have a difficult time performing daily activities, and thus rely heavily on assistive devices to restore some functional independence. The two main limitations of the current controllers for assistive devices are: 1) controllers that do not require coordinated hand movement provide a limited vocabulary...
- Keyword:
- Human machine interface, Redundancy, Motor learning, Power wheelchair, Rehabilitation, and Motor Noise
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Elias Thorp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines various means by which the profit motives of media firms can directly result in biased information transmission. In the first two chapters, I analyze to what extent conflicts of interest in expert review industries may result in artificially inflated reviews, with a particular application to the video...
- Keyword:
- News Slant, Media Bias, Political Polarization, Network Effects, Information Transmission, and Product Reviews
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Tomer Hamami
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Metabolic abnormalities of cancers provide opportunities for novel tumor-specific therapies. Isocitrate dehydrogenases (IDHs) catalyze the oxidative decarboxylation of isocitrate to α-ketoglutarate (αKG) and the reduction of NAD(P)+ to NAD(P)H. Oncogenic mutations in two IDH-encoding genes (IDH1 and IDH2) have been identified in acute myelogenous leukemia, low-grade glioma, and secondary glioblastoma...
- Keyword:
- lipids, Glioblastoma (GBM), targeted therapy, wild-type IDH1, NADPH, and metabolism
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Andrea Calvert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I use the current accounting rules for earnouts and the previous changes in the accounting rules for earnouts to examine three research questions. My first research question is whether accounting regulation has real effects on the use of earnouts. My second research question is whether the earnout liability represents the...
- Keyword:
- Merger, Earnings Management, Acquisition, Earnings Smoothing, Earnout, and Fair Value
- Subject:
- Accounting Information and Management
- Creator:
- Rita Nevada Gunn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Organizations comprise of groups who share and compete for resources. During organizational change, resources are often redistributed. Although change messages highlight overarching benefits for the organization, recipients of the message are interested in knowing how they will be affected at the group level, and this affects the way the message...
- Keyword:
- framing in organizational change, competition for resources during organizational change, group dynamics in organizational change, organizational change communication, resource interdependence in change management, and organizational change
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Mrittika Sen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Education researchers have recently highlighted income achievement and behavior gaps – differences between children from high versus low income families in achievement scores and teacher-rated behavior. To date, scholars in this research stream have not considered the possibility that, compared to white students, non-white students may receive differential returns to...
- Keyword:
- Educational inequality, Income achievement gaps, Racial inequality, and Racial achievement gaps
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Jordan A. Conwell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- AIMS: This study investigated the longitudinal effects of internal and external housing quality problems on child mental health outcomes, as measured by child internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. The study also aimed to elucidate the mechanisms through which housing quality problems affect child mental health by testing the mediating effects...
- Keyword:
- Housing Quality and Child Mental Health
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Yoo Ree (Yuri) Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies fictionalized diasporic subalternity, how it is represented by the authors (of the same social status or a cosmopolitan writer), and how different types of agency layered onto the characters influence each other. The choice of texts includes Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011), Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of...
- Keyword:
- diaspora, Gujarati, subaltern, Dalit, and pidgin
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Tanushree Vachharajani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Graphene offers promising opportunities for applications in printed and flexible electronic devices due to its high electrical and thermal conductivity, mechanical flexibility and strength, and chemical and environmental stability. However, scalable production and processing of graphene presents a critical technological challenge preventing the application of graphene for flexible electronic interconnects,...
- Keyword:
- carbon nanomaterials,, graphene, conductive inks, inkjet printing, and printed electronics
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Ethan Benjamin Secor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Early Modern Matters of Life and Death” argues that the political ecology of living, dead, and (in)animate beings in early modernity elucidates the claims of humanism and human exceptionalism that evolved in the period and that still inform present-day anthropogenesis
- Keyword:
- Anthropogenesis, Sovereignty, Life, Shakespeare, Renaissance, and Death
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Aaron Lee Greenberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2020
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A number of nonclassical MHC Ib molecules recognizing distinct microbial antigens have been implicated in the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Due to the low polymorphism of MHC Ib molecules within the human population, these molecules and Mtb antigens are attractive targets for better vaccine development. Among these, HLA-E...
- Keyword:
- T cells and Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Yao Bian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- genre, children's poetry, Childhood Songs, poetry, Lucy Larcom, and children's literature
- Creator:
- Megan Beach
- Owner:
- Megan Elizabeth Beach
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
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- Description:
- The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between descending motor pathway reorganization and abnormal coordination, defined as a reduced set of muscle coactivation patterns between shoulder and elbow muscles in hemiparetic chronic stroke subjects, using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Specifically, we wanted to 1) determine the relationship...
- Keyword:
- reorganization, muscle, transcranial magnetic stimulation, proximal, cortex, and TMS
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Susan Schwerin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Analytical lower and upper bounds for the average error probability in M-ary quantum detection are derived. The upper bound is valid when the state ensemble, which can consist of pure or mixed states, satisfies a certain linear independence condition. The lower bound is generally valid and also has a classical...
- Keyword:
- Random Cipher, Quantum M-ary Hypothesis Testing, Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Detection Theory, and Y-00 protocol
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Ranjith Nair
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In Chapter 1, a series of "constrained geometry" organoactinide complexes, (CGC)An(NMe)2 (CGC = Me2Si(h5-Me4C5)(tBuN); An = Th, 1; U, 2), prepared via efficient in situ, two-step protodeamination routes in good yields and high purity, is presented. Both 1 and 2 are quantitatively converted to the neutrally charged, solvent-free dihalides (1-Cl2,...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry and Inorganic (0488)
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Bryan D Stubbert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The dissertation analyzes five well-known “Bildungsromane” published roughly between 1785 and 1914 (Karl Philipp Moritz’s Anton Reiser (1785), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795), Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich (1879), Franz Kafka’s Der Verschollene (1914), Thomas Mann’s Die Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1913/1955)) and investigates the ways...
- Keyword:
- Bildungsroman
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Christopher William Reid
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Four series of doped CdO thin films have been grown on both amorphous glass and single-crystal MgO(100) substrates by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), and their phase structure, microstructure, electrical, and optical properties investigated. Epitaxial films grown on single-crystal MgO(100) exhibit biaxial, highly textured microstructures. These as-deposited doped CdO thin...
- Keyword:
- epitaxial, doping, CdO, TCO, MOCVD, and Thin films
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Shu Jin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-06-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation is an ethnography that uses semi-structured interviews, field notes, and participant observation to explore how two religious congregations respond to survivors of domestic violence. I interviewed twenty-two parishioners including domestic violence survivors, clergy and bystanders. I transcribed these interviews verbatim using Agar's method of transcript handling. I used...
- Keyword:
- Domestic Violence, Feminist, Ethics, Religion, Relational Psychology, and Jung
- Subject:
- Garrett/NU Joint Program
- Creator:
- Dorothy Ann Valin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-10-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The polymerization of the microtubule-associated protein, tau, into insoluble filaments is common to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in a variety of dementias. The conformational change required for tau to transition from soluble monomers to filamentous AD pathology involves the extreme N-terminus of tau coming into contact with other regions of...
- Keyword:
- Alzheimer's disease, tangle, N-terminus, frontotemporal dementia, and tau
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Peleg Moshe Horowitz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-11-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The formation of neuronal inclusions is one of the hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases. These structures are composed of aggregated proteins, molecular chaperones, and components of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). Co-localization of aggregated proteins with cell-homeostasis maintaining machinery indicates that the cell may be failing in an attempt to clear these...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Kwame Nyanten Mensah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-11-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the process of development of a multicellular organism, cells must make stable, binary fate decisions in response to intercellular signaling. A critical question is how weak or transient activation of signaling pathways achieves a robust and long-term switch in gene expression, and thus determines cell fate. I report that...
- Keyword:
- Biology and Genetics
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Xin Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Research shows that the most effective way to teach learners targeted skills is to put them in the kinds of situations in which they need to use them and to provide experts who are able to advise learners when necessary (Schank & Cleary, 1995). Through this process, learners come to...
- Keyword:
- role play, simulation, case-based, Goal-Based Scenario, and instructional design
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Kimberli Aiko Macpherson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-06-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Image creation is an attempt to record a scene for presentation to a viewer. However, there is a precarious mapping between how a scene would be perceived and how an image is perceived. For example, although the human visual system does not have a strong absolute sense of color or...
- Keyword:
- rendering, computer graphics, and image processing; perception
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Amy Ashurt Gooch
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Nostalgia, Songs Of Yesterday, Gift Book, and Benjamin F. Taylor
- Creator:
- Daniella Martino
- Owner:
- Daniella Francis Martino
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
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- Keyword:
- Civil War, Confederacy, Cult of the Lost Cause, Margaret Junkin Preston, nineteenth-century American poetry, Beechenbrook, and epic
- Creator:
- Pascale Carrel
- Owner:
- Pascale Ines Dombrowski Carrel
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/08/2018
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- Keyword:
- Ouabi , Native American, American literature, civilized versus uncivilized or savage, republic, colonial, nineteenth century American poetry, marital laws and social constructs , American publication history, scandal , Sarah Apthorp Wentworth Morton, female literature, western frontier, and American literary canon
- Creator:
- Erin Leary
- Owner:
- Erin Linn Leary
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
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- Keyword:
- Second edition, Truth, a gift for scribblers , 1832, and William Joseph Snelling
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/26/2019
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- Keyword:
- Martha, World's, Fair, Lowe, Perry, Olive, Femina , Pine, and Biblioteca
- Creator:
- Nicole Amiridis
- Owner:
- Nicole Rebecca Amiridis
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/08/2018
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- Description:
- Arsenic trioxide exhibits potent antitumor effects in vitro and in vivo, and is widely used in the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) in humans. In addition to APL, arsenic is of potential therapeutic value for the treatment of other hematologic malignancies, including chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). There is evidence...
- Keyword:
- Signal Transduction In Malignant Cells
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Nick Giafis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study examines contemporary theatrical, filmic, and pictorial representations of Heinrich von Kleist's 1807 novella, "The Marquise of O--." It particularly focuses on the development of a solo music theatre production by a team of German/American, independent theatre artists, of which I was one, in the auditorium of the German...
- Keyword:
- Music theater, solo performance, movement theater, feminist theater, and physical theater
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Lisa Tatiana Parkins
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Counteranion effects on the rate and stereochemistry of propylene polymerization mediated by ion-pair complexes derived from dimethylzirconocene precatalysts activated with strongly Lewis-acidic perfluoroarylmetalloid cocatalyst/activators are shown to arise from the strength of the cation-anion interaction. This is quantified using CS-symmetric Me2C(Cp)(Flu)ZrMe2 (Cp = C5H4, η5 cyclopentadienyl; Flu = C13H8, η5...
- Keyword:
- cocatalyst, polyolefin, microstructure, ion pair, metallocene, and polymerization
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- John Andrew Stevens Roberts
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-11-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Regulation of cell cycle and cell death are critical for normal cellular proliferation, tissue homeostasis, animal development, and the pathogenesis of human diseases such as cancer. Irregularities in cell cycle and cell death may result in tumorigenesis. In this dissertation, I describe my studies of a novel gene C53, which...
- Keyword:
- Mitosis, Cell Cycle, G2/M checkpoint, Cell Death, and C53
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Hai Jiang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A Socratic ASK System: Helping educators provide a Web-based Socratic mentor for learners. An important role an educator can play in a learning environment is making learners aware of issues, nuances, and problems through Socratic questioning. Prior research has shown the potential of Socratic dialogue for increasing reflection and learning....
- Keyword:
- educational software, intelligent tutoring systems, reflection, computer assisted instruction, metacognition, and mentoring
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Baba Kofi Adam Cooper Puryear Adam Cooper Puryear
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Wnt signalling pathway is used multiple times throughout the development of an organism. Early in embryonic development this path is known to be involved in the induction of the ectodermally derived neural crest. The Wnt pathway is also thought to function in other ectodermal cell types. How the same...
- Keyword:
- Xenopus, Tcf3, ectoderm, Wnt, neural, and Lef1
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Yvette Truesdell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the legal, sociological and strategic dimensions of the illegitimate organizational field of cocaine from 1880 to 1930. Volume I includes a comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of the concepts of legitimacy and illegitimacy. Building on existing theories, I also suggest a modest perspective for bringing consumer demand more fully...
- Keyword:
- Management and Organizations
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- James Judson Gillespie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- CD4-positive T cells express ligands for E- and P-selectins, carbohydrate-binding adhesion molecules that are induced on inflamed endothelium. The interaction between selectins and the selectin ligands facilitates the migration of T cells to sites of inflammation. The fucosyltransferase FucT-VII is essential for selectin ligand formation but the signaling and transcriptional...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Dimitrios G. Zisoulis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While the rumors of "worship wars" dividing North American Protestantism are not news, ongoing questions remain concerning the effectiveness of trading in traditional organs for electric guitars and hymnals for PowerPoint. The recent availability of the largest, inter-faith-group, congregational-level data set (n=14,021) and theory development concerning the evolving attractive power...
- Keyword:
- contemporary worship service, strictness, and church marketing
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Ronda Oosterhoff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis interprets and critiques what is termed the 'myth of oneness' within the western philosophical and theological tradition, seeking to help transform South Korean Christianity, especially its perspective on other religions, and its attitude toward the reunification of Korea. Whitehead's process philosophy and its resulting theology, and the yin-yang...
- Keyword:
- theology, Whitehead, Korean Christianity, inter-religious dialogue, Yin-Yang, and theism
- Subject:
- Garrett/NU Joint Program
- Creator:
- Young Min Paik
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many methods have been proposed for estimating the number, $m_0$ (or the proportion, $\pi_0$), of the true null hypotheses for adaptively controlling a type I error rate (e.g., the false discovery rate or FDR) using a multiple test procedure. Most of these methods eliminate ``significantly" non-null $p$-values. Then $m_0$ is...
- Keyword:
- False discovery rate (FDR), Long-run FDR ($l$-FDR), Mixture model, Bias-correction, $p$-values, and EM algorithm
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Jiaxiao Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-10-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Gram-negative bacterium <em> Vibrio cholerae </em> elicits disease through the export of enterotoxins. The <em> V. cholerae </em> RTX toxin was identified due its ability to cause cell rounding. Characterization of the RTX toxin demonstrated that this cell rounding was due to the depolymerization of the actin cytoskeleton through...
- Keyword:
- Cysteine Protease, RTX Toxin, <em>Vibrio cholerae </em>, Actin Cross-linking, and Rho GTPases
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kerri-Lynn Sheahan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Effective and reliable material and structure as bone implant have been a continuing challenge for scientists from bioengineering, material science and mechanical engineering. Porous titanium has reduced stiffness comparable to bone and open pores to allow complete bone infiltration, thus making it attractive for bone-replacement implants in biomedical engineering. To...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Huanlong Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-21
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Reactivation of latent human cytomegalovirus is of significant concern in immunocompromised transplant patients. However, the mechanisms controlling reactivation of latent CMV have not been understood. It is likely that reactivation is initiated by induction of IE gene expression. In this thesis, I studied molecular mechanisms leading to transcriptional activation of...
- Keyword:
- Microbiology and Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Soo Jung Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Following dopaminergic denervation in Parkinson's Disease, firing patterns in several basal ganglia neuron populations are pathologically altered. In the globus pallidus (GP), this manifests as a loss of autonomous, rhythmic, high-frequency pacemaking and an appearance of correlated, oscillatory bursting. This oscillatory bursting is best disrupted through high-frequency stimulation of affected...
- Keyword:
- Parkinson's Disease, sodium channels, globus pallidus, pacemaking, deep brain stimulation, and basal ganglia
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jeff Mercer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation