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- This dissertation is an ethnographic study of politics of youth culturing in contemporary Turkey. More specifically, it analyzes the politics of temporality that characterized the youth culturing program of the ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi/AKP) over the decade of 2010s. On the one hand, it focuses...
- Subject:
- Middle Eastern studies
- Creator:
- Ozipek, Aydin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15594 and etdadmin_upload_820250
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- Policymakers and public entities work to make decisions that benefit society. Their choices, though, do not go into effect in a vacuum. Instead, the benefit they provide relies on the underlying consumer behavior that drives responses to those choices. This dissertation studies three different settings in which either policy is...
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Bhatia, Natasha Bhagwan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15583 and etdadmin_upload_819653
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- Ordered arrays of metallic nanoparticles (NPs) are a promising platform for technological applications and fundamental investigations due to their ability to excite surface lattice resonances (SLRs). SLRs can support extremely high local electric fields that have been used to realize exotic physical phenomena. The open cavity architecture lends itself to...
- Keyword:
- Photonics, Protein Hydrogel, Plasmonics, Titanium Nitride, Nanofabrication, and Surface Lattice Resonance
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Optics, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Reese, Thaddeus Allen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15496 and etdadmin_upload_799920
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- Guided by under-studied archival documents, including public-health and pharmaceutical advertisements, as well as contemporaneous visual art and performance pieces by queer artists of color, this dissertation analyses the critical and evolving role that aesthetics have played in combatting HIV/AIDS since the early days of the pandemic. Drawing on methods and...
- Keyword:
- Queer of Color Critique, Visual Cultures, HIV Prevention, HIV/AIDS, Performance, and Appropriation of Aesthetics
- Subject:
- Sexuality, American studies, and Aesthetics
- Creator:
- Bujan, Ivan Ivan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15591 and etdadmin_upload_819909
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- The last decade has witnessed a rapid transformation in our understanding of the structure of chromatin, the nuclear complex of DNA and its structural proteins. While, barring mutations, the DNA sequence in each cell of the human body is the same, it is the structure of the chromatin complex that...
- Keyword:
- crowding, nucleus, and dynamics
- Subject:
- Biology, Biophysics, and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Shim, Anne Rosati
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15565 and etdadmin_upload_818662
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- On 14 January 2017, President Donald J. Trump described the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as obsolete. During the first six months of his administration, President Trump discussed not honoring Article 5 commitments for NATO members who had not met the financial responsibilities outlined in the 2014 Wales Summit. His...
- Keyword:
- 21st Century, Collective Action, Mixed-Methods, Theory, and NATO
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Dial, Nathan E
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_817491 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15545
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- Regulatory RNAs are found throughout nature controlling critical cellular processes and enabling cells to sense and respond to their environment. In order to provide genetic regulation, these RNAs can selectively bind to target molecules, proteins, and invading pathogens, all while modulating gene expression on both the transcriptional and translational level....
- Keyword:
- Synthetic Biology, Regulatory RNA , Diagnostics, Transcription Regulation, and Intrinsic Termination
- Subject:
- Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Verosloff, Matthew Stuart
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15425 and etdadmin_upload_782101
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- This dissertation consists of three essays on spatially differentiated markets. Generally, I explore how firms and consumers behave in such markets using structural modeling, causal inference and machine learning techniques, as well as high-resolution spatial data. In the first chapter, I study the efficiency of firm location configurations in the...
- Keyword:
- spatial competition, stadiums, applied econometrics, industrial organization, spatial spillovers, and food service
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sedov, Dmitry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15552 and etdadmin_upload_817827
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- Recent discoveries in vitamin D research indicate that vitamin D is a necessary component to several organs and tissues that extends beyond bone formation Furthermore, recent research indicates that vitamin D deficiency is rampant across the globe. Historically, anthropological research has focused on the adaptive significance of skin color to...
- Keyword:
- Philippines, developmental biology, Vitamin D, biological anthropology & human biology, gender & sex, and epigenetics
- Subject:
- Physical anthropology, Public health, and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Perez, Julianna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15568 and etdadmin_upload_818816
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- From cyber theft of personal financial information to Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks, nowadays endpoint devices suffer from various intrusions which cause inestimable property and privacy loss. To protect the security on endpoints, endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems have been developed to serve as the powerful solution against those...
- Keyword:
- Computer System, System Security, Graph-based Low-level Event Analysis, and Endpoint Detection and Response
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Chen, Xutong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_817664 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15548