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- Simple sensorimotor tasks, such as lifting a cup or balancing a tray, requires not only controlled motor output, but also the ability to accurately perceive sensory information. After a hemiparetic stroke, individuals often experience sensory deficits in addition to motor impairments. However, research on the extent of changes in sensory...
- Subject:
- Physical therapy, Robotics, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Cai, Ninghe May
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16418 and etdadmin_upload_962539
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- As more thermoelectric materials/devices make it into the market for various applications, severalaspects need to be explored and optimized, beyond simply targeting high conversion efficiency at the material levels. One critical aspect is the guarantee of mechanical stability at both the material and the device level, which demands deeper understanding...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Al Malki, Muath Mohammed
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_988614 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16622
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- The potential association between Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and the incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been a part of academic discourse for three decades. By considering the mixed reports on the association between FGM and HIV so far, this dissertation contributes to the current state of research by...
- Keyword:
- HIV, Female Genital Mutilation, and Medicalization
- Subject:
- Women's studies, Health sciences, and Public health
- Creator:
- Ibrahim Puri, Jessica
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16540 and etdadmin_upload_984696
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- This dissertation considers how women’s spectatorship—how women are imagined as viewing subjects, and what are defined as feminine ways of watching—is transformed by digital technologies, and what it reveals about the shifting nature of privacy and visibility. It maps the contours of our current configuration of gendered looking relations by...
- Keyword:
- Spectatorship, Television, Media Studies, Surveillance, Women's Television, and Technology
- Subject:
- Gender studies, Film studies, and Communication
- Creator:
- Dickason, Cara Nash
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_972237 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16457
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- Machine learning is seeping into every fabric in various practical domains such as autonomous driving, wearable computing, and smart buildings. However, in the actual development and integration, especially when the learning-based components are frequently included as components of large complex systems where the physical instances can be included as interactable...
- Keyword:
- Transfer Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Building HVAC Control, Image Classification, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Computer engineering and Computer science
- Creator:
- Xu, Shichao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_983783 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16519
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- Description:
- As polymer science has advanced as a field, so too have the uses for polymeric materials. We encounter polymers and plastics on a daily basis, and while their presence has greatly improved our quality of life, they have also had a profound and often negative impact on our environment. Plastic...
- Keyword:
- polyelectrolyte complex, random copolymer, enzymatic degradation, flocculation, nanoplastics, and chemical remediation
- Subject:
- Environmental science, Polymer chemistry, and Physics
- Creator:
- Wang, Jeremy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16429 and etdadmin_upload_963641
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- Task-oriented conversational systems are becoming increasingly popular, as shown by the rise of conversational recommendation systems across multiple platforms (e.g., Google Home, Alexa, and Siri) and domains (e.g., local establishments, e-commerce, books, music, and movies). However, users are still largely limited in what preferences they can express and how, as...
- Keyword:
- conversational search, critiquing-based systems, language models, natural language processing, conversational systems, and conversational recommendation
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence and Computer science
- Creator:
- S. Bursztyn, Victor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16403 and etdadmin_upload_961447
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- Description:
- Increasingly, governments contract with private firms to provide publicly funded or subsidized goods and services, ranging from defense contracts, social insurance programs to small business loans. In such publicly funded, privately provided markets, governments set specific rules and policies to allow efficient provision or allocation of goods and services. Given...
- Keyword:
- Health Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Industrial Organization
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Kim, Paul HyungSuk
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984537 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16535
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- Russia and Turkey occupy a significant portion of current global news as the rest of the world analyzes the trajectories of these countries. Most scholars focus on the socio-political landscapes of the two while disregarding cultural and literary studies. Such a top-down approach fails to consider the profound identity crises...
- Keyword:
- Eurasia, Pelevin, identity, Pamuk, and Westernization
- Subject:
- Middle Eastern literature, Slavic literature, and Slavic studies
- Creator:
- Lee, Daniel Taehun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16559 and etdadmin_upload_985505
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- The physical structure of chromatin has recently emerged as a key contributor to genome regulation and cellular function. Chromatin packing dictates the conformation of the 2-meter-long DNA polymer within the ~10 μm cell nucleus. This conformation can influence gene function by regulating the accessibility of molecular regulators to DNA, altering...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Agrawal, Vasundhara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_981488 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16492