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- Bimetallic polymerization catalysis represents a small, though active, area of research due largely to the interesting properties observed in the resulting product polymers, including higher molecular weight, increased comonomer incorporation, and enhanced tacticity. Current work is focused on furthering an understanding of the active catalytic species that give rise to...
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- Polymerization, Olefin, Catalysis, Polyolefin, Organotitanium, and Binuclear
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- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Anna Invergo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
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- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Nonlinear optical (NLO) effects are used universally in modern day telecommunication and form the foundation of emergent photonic technologies. Twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) chromophores, composed of a donor and acceptor fragment connected by a twisted bi-aryl bridge, combine large molecular NLO response with properties such as transparency in the...
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- hyperpolarizability, electro optics, Nonlinear optics, charge transfer, and aggregation
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Alexander Lou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- The use of biomass as a feedstock for fuels and chemicals has been a long-standing challenge and opportunity for the chemical and basic materials industries. In order to unlock the value of biomass, it is necessary to first deconstruct its structural polymers, cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, into low molecular weight...
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- Chemical engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Abraham Yanez-McKay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- When constructing buildings with basements in urban areas, the deformation levels during the excavation process must be carefully evaluated to prevent or minimize damage to adjacent structures. Because of uncertainties in predicting ground deformations during the design phase for a project, a robust monitoring program should be included in significant...
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- soil model, adaptive management, inverse analysis, and observed performance
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Sangrae Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Perovskite oxide materials for the wide array of properties that make them candidate materials for application ranging from catalysis, to electronics, to beyond-Moore computation. As many of these oxides share similar structures they can be combined in a seemingly-endless number of ways to produce the desired properties for a given...
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- surface structure, perovskites, oxide structure, SrTiO3, density functional theory, and hybrid molecular beam epitaxy
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Tassie K.1 Andersen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
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- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Currently, the only treatment for end stage liver disease is transplantation, of which there is a critical shortage of available donor tissue. Recent developments in 3D printing have greatly accelerated progress in the field of liver tissue engineering. A variety of 3D printing and additive manufacturing techniques show great promise...
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- Liver, 3D Printing, Tissue Engineering, Hydrogel, Bile Duct, and Extracellular Matrix
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Phillip Lorio Lewis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation develops computational models to study the optical coupling between plasmonic nanoparticles and quantum emitters. A large number of nanophotonic applications function by using either plasmon enhanced fields to enhance optical processes within quantum emitters or the sensitivity of plasmon resonances to their environment. Developing computational methods to fully...
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- Quantum Dots, Plexcitons, Metal Nanoparticles, Plasmonics, Chiral Imprinting, and FDTD
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Thomas Alexander Reichmanis Purcell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Carbon-based materials, such as graphene and carbon fibers, have good prospects for applications in reinforcements of polymers as advanced structural composites. Hence, the study of the mechanical properties of the constituents and the composites is becoming increasingly popular in both academia and industry.', 'Graphene has been shown to have a...
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- Multi-scale Modeling, Computational Mechanics, Nanocomposites, Graphene, Molecular Dyanmics, and Epoxy
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Zhaoxu Meng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This work presents a cognitive model of argument structure construction acquisition and application based on analogy. The claims of this model are that (1) constructions, pairings of form and meaning, are a productive unit of linguistic analysis that account for a broader range of phenomena than traditional approaches; (2) human...
- Keyword:
- Construction Grammar, Analogy, and Cognitive Modeling
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Clifton James McFate
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- The dissertation illuminates the centrality of communication to the way environmental policies and practices arise and unfold, and it shows how the living materiality of ecological phenomena are entangled with the social dynamics of communication. The work innovatively bridges insights from the field of political ecology with theory and method...
- Keyword:
- Tanzania, Conservation, Value, Participation, and Political Ecology
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Jessica Pouchet
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Like the majority of media studies, research on Latinx media is characterized by a focus on a single medium. As an alternative, this dissertation provides a media ecology of the city's Latinx mediascape between the years 1953 and 2012. This dissertation investigates four case studies: (1) Univision's former television affiliate,...
- Keyword:
- Latinx, Convergence, Latino, Intermedia, Ethnic, and Chicago
- Subject:
- Screen Cultures
- Creator:
- Roger Frank Almendarez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation seeks to investigate how social policy is made and implemented where established scripts and institutionalized schemas do not align with complex subjects and cases: how do policymakers classify subjects and cases when they cannot default to established categories, what are the implications of engagement in forms of evaluation...
- Keyword:
- evaluation, Asylum, institutionalism, moral deliberation, state theory, and decision-making
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Talia Shiff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) is a promising technology for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). However, while there has been much interest in PSA process development, the choice of adsorbent for the separation is just as important as the process configuration. Therefore, it is important to develop PSA processes in conjunction...
- Keyword:
- Chemical engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Karson Troy Leperi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Platyrrhines are an enigmatic and intriguing radiation of New World monkeys that currently inhabit the western hemisphere from Argentina to Mexico. Platyrrhini, a taxonomic parvorder within Primates, is their formal taxonomic designation, as they represent the sister group of the Catarrhini or all of the Old World monkeys and apes....
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- Primates, Platyrrhines, Hindlimb Suspension, Leaping, Hindlimb, and Primate Locomotion
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Michael S Mutehart
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation focuses on the topic of pseudowords and how speakers pseudoword processing relates to that of real words. Three main lines of inquiry are pursued with respect to pseudowords and real words: mechanisms of gradient well-formedness, theories of morphological decomposition, and indexical associations for morphemes in complex words. It...
- Keyword:
- pseudoword, gender, typicality, morphology, and indexicality
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Jeremy Michael Needle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Technology mediated experiences are becoming more common and creating new ways for us to work and learn together when separated by distance. However, these remote environments lack many of the rich non-verbal cues that we take for granted in co-located interactions, such as information about where your partner is looking....
- Keyword:
- Eye Tracking, Collaboration, Human Computer Interaction, and Gaze Visualization
- Subject:
- Technology and Social Behavior
- Creator:
- Sarah "D Angelo"
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this work, we explore the utility of the three main types of neural networks: feed forward, convolutional, and recurrent. While using these networks, we develop a new way to model multiagent trajectory data, explore the use of multiple activation functions for neurons at each layer of a neural network,...
- Keyword:
- Stock Prediction, Deep Learning, Basketball Trajectory, Activation Functions, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Mark Harmon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- In this thesis, I investigate how the disagreements among market participants can affect markets in various settings. In the first chapter, I study how market participants with heterogeneous beliefs and non-commitment can create and manage counterparty risk in a sequentially and bilaterally traded market. I find that the equilibrium price...
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- Counterparty Risk, Bubble, Asynchronized Trading, Central Clearing, Derivatives, and Heterogeneous Beliefs
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Hao Sun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
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- Dissertation
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- This mixed-method dissertation explores how companies manage competing tensions in their corporate social responsibility platforms, with an emphasis on the activity of corporate philanthropy. While existing literature has overwhelmingly focused on the post-grant financial effects of corporate philanthropy, I shift our attention to various internal contestations between social impact and...
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- organizational theory, institutional complexity, corporate philanthropy, nonmarket strategy, and impression management
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations and Sociology
- Creator:
- Vontrese Pamphile
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Understanding bridge performance and detecting structurally deficient components are of increasing concern to modern infrastructure owners and managers. Concerns over possible effects of increased truck weights led to the opportunity to monitor a highway bridge, regularly subjected to heavy traffic due to logging activities typical of its locale. A weigh-in-motion...
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- Bridge monitoring, structural health monitoring, weigh in motion, and data mining
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Fiorella Mete
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chromatin organization involves a hierarchy of length scales ranging from a few tens of nanometers in nucleosomes to hundreds of nanometers for chromosomal territories. This physical nanostructure is regulated by the genetic code, differential methylation and histone modifications that comprise the histone code, as well as non-molecular factors, such as...
- Keyword:
- Physicochemical, Nanoscale, Chromatin, and Transcription
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Greta Mary Wodarcyk
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Synaptic and spiking activity of cerebellar neurons during learning and swimming in larval zebrafish
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- The cerebellum contributes to movement initiation, execution, and adaptation. Primary cerebellar neurons receive synaptic inputs related to sensory stimuli and motor commands, leading to modulation of their firing. Furthermore, synaptic input differs substantially between cerebellum-dependent behaviors. I have made voltage- and current-clamp recordings from Purkinje and eurydendroid neurons in the...
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- zebrafish, cerebellum, Purkinje, sensorimotor integration, and learning
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Thomas Harmon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this dissertation, efforts are detailed to utilize semiquinoid bridging ligands to impart strong magnetic coupling between metal centers. Chapter 1 introduces the synthetic challenge of realizing molecule-based magnets with high operating temperatures due to weak magnetic coupling between spin centers through large, diamagnetic ligands. An alternative strategy is described...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jordan DeGayner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis studies three approaches for solving linear programs with complementarity constraints (LPCC). The focus of Chapter 2 lies on difference-of-convex (DC) penalty formulations and the associated difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA) for computing stationary solutions of LPCCs. We concentrate on three such formulations and establish connections between their stationary solutions and...
- Keyword:
- Algorithms, Bilevel programming, global optimization, stationary, difference of convex, and Complementarity constraints
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Francisco Ivan Jara Moroni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of three essays in Microeconomic Theory that study the interplay between mechanism and information design, provide insights into the design of efficient dispute resolution mechanisms for partnerships, and analyze the stability of fractional matchings in two-sided markets.', "In the first chapter, we study the optimal disclosure policy...
- Keyword:
- fractional matchings, matching, information design, partnership dissolution, mechanism design, and information disclosure
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Bela Szabadi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Small molecules such as indanes, chromanes, tetralins and their derivatives play a significant role in drug discovery due to their potent biological activity. This research herein presents a facile Brønsted acid-catalyzed allylsilane annulation methodology to generate fused ring systems such as indanes. The reaction goes through a homoallylic intermediate which...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Weiwei Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- In this dissertation thesis, I introduce three-dimensional (3D) image reconstruction algorithms for multi-focus microscopy (MFM). MFM provides a fast way to obtain 3D information of the sample by simultaneously capturing multiple focal planes on a single camera shot. However, stacking the sub-images from different focal planes does not provide a...
- Keyword:
- Image Restoration, 3D Image Reconstruction, Image Denoising, ADMM, Multi-Focus Microscopy, and Super-Resolution
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Seunghwan Yoo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Oxidation processes play an integral role in many industries, but questions still remain regarding the mechanisms of carbon-hydrogen bond activation and oxidation in free-radical and catalyzed processes. Microkinetic modeling is a powerful tool capable of examining oxidation processes at the mechanistic level to gain understanding and guide catalyst applications. This...
- Keyword:
- Microkinetic, Catalysis, Oxidation, and Modeling
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Robert R.O Brydon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Research shows that psychometrically-assessed spatial abilities (e.g., spatial visualization and spatial orientation) can be improved through training, and that some training yields improvements that are transferable to novel contexts and tasks (Uttal et al., 2013). While the training of these spatial abilities may be valuable for some forms of STEM...
- Keyword:
- geospatial technology in classrooms and spatial thinking
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Emily Nicole Hollenbeck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Maxwell equations are behind an incredible number of physical phenomena, explaining the behavior of light, electricity and magnetism, from Gamma rays to ultra-low frequency radio-waves. Since their inception in 1861, many approximations have been derived, many devices have been modelled and fabricated to manipulate the electromagnetic fields, and more recently...
- Keyword:
- Electromagnetics
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Francois Callewaert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Raytracing is a long-established means to simulate physically accurate light propagation. Increasing availability and power of highly-parallel computing, such as cloud-based clusters and dedicated graphics hardware, means that rendering algorithms can produce high resolution output very quickly. This means raytracing can now be used as a forward model in optimization...
- Keyword:
- Computer science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Nathan Seigo Matsuda
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- According to contemporary estimates, the 1933 Soviet famine killed six to eight million people, more than two million of them in Ukraine. This dissertation studies causes and consequences of this famine. ', 'Chapter one evaluates the causes of the 1933 famine offered by historians in Ukrainian context. Three main explanations...
- Keyword:
- multiple equilibria, Ukraine, genocide, collectivization, central planning, and famine
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Natalya Naumenko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Gene regulatory networks contain multiple components including microRNAs (miRNAs) that coordinate regulation of genes to produce higher level cell functions. miRNAs are small non-coding RNA molecules that modulate gene expression post-transcriptionally by binding to short target motifs on mRNA transcripts to down-regulate target genes. Because miRNA regulation of genes is...
- Keyword:
- Gene Regulation, Systems Biology, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Pathways, Cancer, and microRNAs
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Gary Wilk
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Communicating Contraception: Social Science and the Politics of Population Control in Cold War India
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- This dissertation analyzes archival materials to examine the relationship between reproductive governance in India and the political and scientific dynamics of the Cold War. In 1952, India became the first country to institute anti-natalist population control as a national policy goal, concentrating its efforts on female sterilization and the building...
- Keyword:
- Science and technology, Reproductive governance, Gender, Family planning, Population control, and India
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Savina Balasubramanian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The use of polymeric membranes have become ubiquitous in our daily lives. From simple chip bags to million-dollar cockpits, these membranes find diverse applications in packaging, protective coating, electronic device, gas and liquid separation, and medicine. The 2-dimentional geometry of the membranes offered unique mechanical and interfacial properties that often...
- Keyword:
- water treatment, polyelectrolyte, fracture mechanics, large-strain deformation, block ionomer, and structure-property relationship
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Shawn H Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ultrathin optical platform including two-dimensional materials and metasurfaces have emerged as potential candidates for novel nanophotonic applications. In this dissertation, I will present the possibility to achieve full active control of the electromagnetic waves with the platform in the flatland. We could achieve the amplitude control, which will be useful...
- Keyword:
- 2D Materials, Flatland Optics, Plasmonics, Metasurfaces, and Nanophotonics
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Zizhuo Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- 2018-1The human visual system has a remarkable ability for understanding material properties on the basis of texture appearance, such as', 'telling whether the food is fresh, the fabric is soft, the soil is wet, or the skin is dry. Such visual judgments of material properties mostly rely on the perception...
- Keyword:
- gloss perception, bandlimited statistics, selective comparison, color composition perception, and photometric transformation
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jing Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease characterized by the abnormal high blood glucose of patients. The defects in the hormonal regulation, including impaired insulin secretion, insulin action, or the combination of the two are usually the causes of such a disease. The elevated blood glucose also leads to a wide...
- Keyword:
- Diabetes, Antioxidant, Citric acid, Wound healing, Islet transplantation, and Biomaterial
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Yunxiao Zhu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation interrogates the relationship between affect and blackness, as it is intimated in the materiality of water and its attendant sensations. My methodology draws from black feminist theory and metaphors extracted from the natural and neurosciences. In so doing, I grapple with the following questions, as they relate to...
- Keyword:
- affect, black studies, visual studies, geophilosophy, black popular culture, and visuality
- Subject:
- African-American Studies
- Creator:
- Jared Christopher Brian Richardson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder that arises following the degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). Patients experience a host of limiting motor symptoms such as rigidity, tremor, and a paucity of controlled movement generation. These symptoms often correspond with a predominance of abnormally...
- Keyword:
- KATP channel, chemogenetics, basal ganglia, subthalamic nucleus, Parkinson's disease, and autonomous activity
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Eileen McIver
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Systems of colloids coated with high-information polymers are powerful tools for designing crystal lattice with tailorable properties or studying the fundamentals of crystallization. By changing the colloid-colloid interaction strength or colloid shape, different types of lattices can be assembled. In this thesis, I present novel coarse-grained models to describe high-information...
- Keyword:
- DNA, molecular dynamics, nanomaterials, and Colloidal crystallization
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Martin Girard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Reactive Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) pollution is responsible for a vast array of environmental problems, including eutrophication of nutrient limited water bodies, vast dead zones in the ocean margins, and ammonia toxicity to aquatic life. N pollution is also linked to the emission of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous...
- Keyword:
- Environmental engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Han Gao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation and Dataset
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- Description:
- This dissertation provides a study of local Black media development in Detroit in the decade following the 1967 Rebellion, as Detroit became a majority Black city. I argue that Black Detroiters not only produced documentaries that challenged local white discourse within what George Lipsitz terms “a Black spatial imaginary,†but...
- Keyword:
- film, Detroit, history, television, urbanism, and race
- Subject:
- Screen Cultures
- Creator:
- Annie Laurie Sullivan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation and Dataset
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- Description:
- This study is an examination of conservative Christian pronatalist discourse in the contemporary United States and the myriad ways it endangers American women and children. Insofar as conservative Christian pronatalism is part of broader religious and pollical movement, this study also examines related conservative Christian discourses asserting anti-intellectualism, libertarian economics,...
- Keyword:
- Conservative Christian, Motherhood, Pronatalism, Women, and Evangelical
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Myev Alexandra Rees
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Electrochemical energy storage devices have become increasingly relevant to the operation and sustainability of the modern world, as proliferation of mobile electronics, renewable electrical energy generators, electrical vehicles, and various high-tech bio-medical sensing device continues. The widespread need of easier to produce, better performing, and multifunctional energy storage materials in...
- Keyword:
- battery, graphene, carbon, supercapacitor, and energy storage
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Yue Yang Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies three topics in labor and public economics. The first chapter examines the local economic consequences of prisons using two complementary approaches. The first uses the openings of 230 prisons during the 1990s across the entire United States, and the second uses a quasi-experimental strategy that compares winning...
- Keyword:
- Local labor market, Prison, Mortality, House price, Volatility, and Heating price
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Janjala Chirakijja
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Meiosis is a specialized form of cell division where chromosomes are duplicated once and segregated twice, in order to reduce the chromosome number by half to generate haploid gametes. In contrast to mitosis, oocyte meiosis in many species occurs in the absence of centrosomes, the microtubule organizing centers that nucleate...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Amanda Cara Roca
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The phase-field crystal (PFC) model is an exciting new method for simulating crystalline materials with atomic resolution over diffusional time scales. Unfortunately, applications of the model have been severely limited by the requirement that novel free energies must be constructed for each new material of interest. This thesis describes three...
- Keyword:
- Phase-field crystal
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Eli Alster
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Precise assessment of long-term aging and deterioration play a major role in life-time predictions of concrete structures. One of the primary challenges in studies of cementitious materials such as concrete comes from the fact that multiple chemical reactions are happening in parallel. Environmental conditions present another challenge as they can...
- Keyword:
- CONCRETE, MULTI-PHYSICS, EXPERIMENTAL, and MODELING
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Faysal Bousikhane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recent years have witnessed success in using mathematical models to understand complex social phenomena. In this dissertation, we develop and apply two mathematical models in the area of urban productivity and political elections. ', 'First, we investigate the puzzling superlinear scaling behavior of many outputs in urban areas, such as...
- Keyword:
- Applied mathematics
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- V. Chuqiao Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The recent development of quantum biology results in various breakthroughs in exploring the role of quantum physics in biological systems, as well as in observing and controlling light-matter interactions in biological materials on a fundamental quantum level. We seek to combine the concept of quantum biology with quantum optics to...
- Keyword:
- Quantum physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Siyuan Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Composites of metal nanoparticles encapsulated by metal-organic frameworks (NP@MOFs) have recently emerged as intriguing heterogeneous catalysts for regioselective reactions. Sharing qualities of both zeolites and enzymes, these catalysts employ the pore system of a MOF to direct reactant access to the surface of nanoparticles. This dissertation seeks to better understand...
- Keyword:
- metal-organic frameworks, catalysis, spectroscopy, heterogeneous catalyst, and nanoparticles
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Cassandra Leigh Whitford
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Demands in the aerospace, automotive and biomedical sectors for low-volume sheet metal parts made from materials with high specific strength are growing due to the needs imposed by rapid product development cycles, and personalized products to mention a few. However, high strength-to-weight ratio materials, such as Ti6Al4V, are usually difficult...
- Keyword:
- Electrically-assisted process, Incremental sheet forming, Geometric accuracy, and Formability
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Zixuan Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Intermolecular charge transfer between electron-rich donor and electron-poor acceptor molecules offer great promise in the development of novel, low-cost electronic materials. It is hypothesized that control over the intermolecular interactions and supramolecular self-assembly of these systems could tune electronic properties and discover new functions. To that end, a series of...
- Keyword:
- self-assembly, semiconducting, charge transfer, ferroelectric, and supramolecular
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Ashwin Narayanan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- My dissertation is an autoethnography, tracking my experience creating the Great Chicago Fire Festival for and with the City of Chicago. The production was a nearly unprecedented collaboration between an arts organization and a major municipality. It involved 7 different city agencies and 3 federal departments; more than 6000 city...
- Keyword:
- Theater
- Creator:
- Jim Lasko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In college, high levels of student engagement, including the formation of relationships with faculty and staff, are positively associated with learning and development. Faculty and staff, known as institutional agents, can provide critical forms of institutional knowledge, resources, and services that can enhance the college experience and encourage student success....
- Keyword:
- Sociology
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Marisol Mastrangelo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the last decade, global mobile data traffic increased by more than a hundred fold times while maintaining essentially the same monthly charge to the average mobile user. Cisco predicts that overall mobile data traffic will continue to grow rapidly at a compound annual growth rate of 60 percent between...
- Keyword:
- Electrical engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Zhiyi Zhou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Biology is entering the exciting world of big data. Modern high-throughput experimental techniques often produce large datasets that aim to capture complex relationships often found in biological systems. While these larger data sets contain vast amounts of useful information, the answers are often locked behind a wall of numbers. As...
- Keyword:
- Machine learning and Data science
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Albert Xue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The dissertation consists of three separate essays that lie at the interface of social network analytics and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Essay 1 and Essay 2 cover completed research, while the research covered in Essay 3 is at a more preliminary stage.', 'Essay 1: Starting Cold: The Power of Social...
- Keyword:
- Cold-Start, Predictive Analytics, Peer-to-Peer Financial Networks, Social Networks, Customer Behavior, and CRM
- Subject:
- Operations Management
- Creator:
- Panteleimon Loupos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many phenomena that occur in the nanoscale, such as the self-assembly of charged amphiphiles, the metal extraction for recovering rare earth elements and nuclear waste as well as water purification, are driven by the electrostatic forces. Although current simulation techniques can handle the long-range Coulomb potential efficiently, the inhomogeneity in...
- Keyword:
- dielectric, polyelectrolyte, self assembly, first order transition, electrostatic, and monte carlo
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Honghao Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Stringent demands in the sheet forming industry related to rapid and customized part realization coupled with rigorous requirements on geometric accuracy and product properties have outpaced the capabilities of traditional forming processes. As an emerging novel technology, Double-Sided Incremental Forming (DSIF) offers much higher flexibility with the complete elimination of...
- Keyword:
- Incremental Forming, Springback, Control, Optimization, and Modeling
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Huaqing Ren
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Machine learning and symbolic reasoning have been two main approaches to build intelligent systems. Symbolic reasoning has been used in many applications by making use of expressive symbolic representations to encode prior knowledge, conduct complex reasoning and provide explanations. Recently, machine learning has enabled various successful applications by learning from...
- Keyword:
- Structural Alignment, Structured Prediction, Semantic Parsing, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Symbolic Reasoning
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Chen Liang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We tackle two important theoretical problems in macroeconomics and international economics. First, in macroeconomics, especially monetary economics, the models with a standard Taylor rule have multiple equilibria. This multiplicity is problematic since we do not have a theory to determine a price level. We propose a theory to pin down...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Yuta Takahashi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Visual Regression is a general task in the area of computer vision, with input visual data space and continuous output space. Most learning-based visual estimation tasks, where the output variables take values in continuous space, are related to visual regression. Examples of visual regression include many emerging but very difficult...
- Keyword:
- manifold learning, metric learning, gaze estimation, and visual regression
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Pei Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Heterogeneous materials have been emerging and playing essential roles in various engineering and scientific fields. They usually include multiple phases of materials to create unique properties that are not accessible to their homogeneous counterparts. The traditional design approach in the material science community is to use trial-and-error iteratively, which is...
- Keyword:
- Bayesian Optimization, Materials Design, Response Surface Model, Machine Learning, and Mixed Variable
- Creator:
- Yichi Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recently, there has been increasing interest in exploring nano-materials used as an additive to existing concrete materials. With respect to fiber-shaped nanomaterials such as carbon nanofibers (CNF), many studies have shown that mechanical strength properties of cementitious materials can be improved significantly. In this dissertation, the research has focused on...
- Keyword:
- Young's modulus, shrinkage cracking, flexural strength, autogenous shrinkage, carbon nanotube, and concrete
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Yuan Gao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recently, much public attention has been focused on racial inequalities in who is subjected to exclusionary school disciplinary policies, and consequently, forced to miss hours of instruction. Over the past two decades, researchers have documented the disparate impacts that zero-tolerance policies have had on students of color, low-income students, and...
- Keyword:
- mixed methods, School suspensions, and causal inference
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Ijun Lai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chip-based photonic devices are doing for optics what integrated circuits have done for electronics. By directly combining many individual components in a compact, scalable and robust way, photonic chips open the possibility for creating optical and electro-optical devices that could not be practical with discrete components. The applications for this...
- Keyword:
- integrated optics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, and photonics
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Vesselin Velev
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Herpesvirus virions consist of three layers: nucleocapsid, tegument, and envelope. The innermost layer, the nucleocapsid, initially assembles as an immature procapsid precursor built around viral scaffold proteins. The event that initiates procapsid maturation is unknown but it is dependent upon activation of the internal protease. Scaffold cleavage triggers angularization, or...
- Keyword:
- maturation, capsid, microscopy, procapsid, herpesvirus, and major capsid protein
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Laura Lee Ruhge
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Nanostructured semiconductors exhibit promising optoelectronic properties, such as high photoluminescence quantum yield and efficient charge separation, making them attractive materials for applications including photovoltaics, LEDs, and lasers. These superior properties are often due to improved crystallinity and reduced charge separation distance compared to bulk semiconductors. As a result, it is...
- Keyword:
- coaxial lithography, anodic aluminum oxide, electrodeposition, perovskite nanowires, nanotechnology, and core shell nanowires
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Michael Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The brains of humans and animals have the amazing capability of extracting abstract relationships between external stimuli efficiently. Knowing such regularities helps us compute and react to novel information flexibly without prior experience. The olfactory system is no exception. Animals need to infer commonalities across different odors sharing similar meaning,...
- Keyword:
- Neurosciences
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Xiaojun Bao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In support of a scientific foundation for the predictive design of composition and processing of quench and partition (Q&P) martensite/austenite TRIP steels, theory of coupled diffusional/displacive transformation is experimentally calibrated to control austenite carbon content and its associated mechanical stability. Under paraequilibrium constraint, the calibration quantifies an effective BCC stored...
- Keyword:
- austenite stability, quench and partition, steels, paraequilibrium, and carbon partitioning
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Amit Behera
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis focuses on ecological models of population dynamics and the traveling, migratory waves that can result when a stable state either displaces an unstable state, or displaces another stable state. We consider the effect of nonlocal interactions, where members of the species interact over a distance. This gives rise...
- Keyword:
- biological control, population dynamics, traveling waves, and nonlocality
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Eric Arthur Autry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/06/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Caenorhabditis elegans has been a highly productive model organism. However, most of the knowledge gained from the species has come a single strain isolated in Bristol, England in 1951. However, there exists significant potential in the natural variation present in the species to make discoveries. In this dissertation, I describe...
- Keyword:
- natural variation, pot-2, C. elegans, genomics, and telomeres
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Daniel Elwood Cook
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Understanding the role of heterogeneity across agents is crucial in predicting how the macroeconomic outcomes are affected by these differences. This dissertation presents three papers in which I study labor market outcomes of different segments of the population according to their choice of education and how labor market characteristics affect...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sena Coskun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Households in emerging markets hold significant amounts of dollar deposits while firms have significant amounts of dollar debt. Motivated by the perceived dangers, policymakers often develop regulations to limit dollarization. In this paper, I draw attention to an important benefit of dollarization, which should be taken into account when crafting...
- Keyword:
- Financial Dollarization and Emerging Markets
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Husnu C Dalgic
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Each movement we make represents the final output of complex processes in the nervous system. Studies of motor control often attempt to minimize further complication by using controlled environments to generate repeated movements. However, in natural situations, the motor system faces the much more complicated task of interacting with an...
- Keyword:
- Decision-making, Bayesian behavior, Motor cortex, Uncertainty, and Motor control
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Brian M Dekleva
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Stars, planets and massive black holes are ubiquitous in binary and multiple configurations. In stellar systems the binary components interact through various type of mass loss and mass transfer. Mass transfer interactions in eccentric systems are inprinciple phase-dependent and can occur in different ways. We formulate the understanding of mass...
- Keyword:
- supermassive black hole binaries, stellar dynamics, computational astrophysics, Exoplanet dynamics, Stellar/Binary evolution, and galaxy formation and evolution
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- FANI DOSOPOULOU
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Developing low-cost, scalable, high-efficiency photovoltaic materials is an important technological challenge because of the projected increase in global energy consumption in coming years, the environmental cost of carbon emissions, and the widespread availability of solar energy. This dissertation contains three studies on the development of novel hybrid materials as photovoltaic...
- Keyword:
- Hybrid materials, Perovskite, and Photovoltaic
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Daniel Joseph Fairfield
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this work we explore a connection between some high dimensional asymptotic problems and random matrix theory. In the first part, we establish a link between the Wishart ensemble and random critical points of holomorphic sections over complex projective space and use this to establish asymptotics on the average number...
- Keyword:
- High Dimensional, Complex Geometry, Differential Equations, and Probability Theory
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Xavier Eduardo Garcia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In 2015, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that 1 in 6 Americans fall ill with a foodborne infection annually, resulting in more than 3000 fatalities and an estimated $15 billion in economic burden due to combined medical costs, productivity loss, and death. On a per-case basis, infections...
- Keyword:
- bacteria, pathogenesis, vulnificus, toxin, Vibrio, and virulence
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Hannah Gavin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- To accelerate the implementation of technologies enabled by two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials, the human health and environmental implications of these materials need to be addressed. Fundamental studies which elucidate the mechanisms of toxicity and environmental fate will allow for the safer design of these materials and promote their widespread use. This...
- Keyword:
- environmental fate, toxicity, biomaterials, 3D printing, and two-dimensional nanomaterials
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Linda M Guiney
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Active traffic management systems aim to relieve recurring and non-recurring congestion by using estimated and predicted traffic conditions to guide trip makers before and after entering the network as well as to design control strategies to improve system performance. With external disruptions and interventions (e.g., weather, special events, and incidents),...
- Keyword:
- Data Mining, Performance Evaluation, Weather-Responsive Traffic Management, Active Transportation and Demand Management, Smart Mobility, and Network Modeling
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Zihan Hong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Desmoplakin (DP) is a component of desmosomes, critical adhesive complexes found in cardiac intercalated discs. DP is often mutated in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC), an inherited disorder that is a frequent cause of sudden cardiac death. The disease progression of AC is characterized by cardiomyocyte cell death and replacement of the...
- Keyword:
- Desmosome, Desmoplakin, Rho, Arrhythmogenic, Connexin, and Cardiocutaneous
- Creator:
- Chen Yuan Kam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis focuses on the role of upcoming neutrino oscillation experiments for the search for beyond-the-Standard-Model physics in the neutrino sector. Specically, I focus on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino experiment, and the experimental sensitivity to non-standard neutrino interactions, sterile neutrinos, incorrect signals of CP-violation, differences between...
- Keyword:
- Neutrinos and Particle Physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Kevin James Kelly
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the wake of Hurricane Katrinas dramatic demographic changes, scholars, journalists, and politicians have discussed Mexican migration to New Orleans as a new phenomenon and an unwelcome threat to the citys social order, rich culture, and tourist economy. This dissertation challenges these ideas and demonstrates some of the myriad ways...
- Keyword:
- Cultural Brokers, Borderlands, Music, Mexico, and New Orleans
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Valeria Priscilla Jimanez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The moduli stack of bundles on a smooth complete curve over a field, is an immensely rich geometric object and is of central importance to the Geometric Langlands program. This thesis represents a contribution towards a motivic, in the sense of Voevodsky and Morel-Voevodsky, understanding of this stack. Following the...
- Keyword:
- Space of rational maps, Ran space, Motivic homotopy theory, Motives, and Geometric Langlands
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Elden Elmanto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation aims to understand the ways that the social, specifically race, ethnicity, and neighborhood, intersects with the religious identity, beliefs, and practices of early-generation Americans in Chicago. This dissertation asks at the most general level: What is the relationship of race, ethnicity, and religion for early-generation Americans? More specifically,...
- Keyword:
- sociology, Catholic studies, race, religion, Chicago, and ethnicity
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Christopher R Carroll
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In 1964 the Second Vatican Council encouraged a switch from Latin Mass, celebrated by Roman Catholics across the globe in standardized form since the 16th century, to Mass in the languages spoken by the local people and with some adaptation to local circumstances. This event is familiar to scholars of...
- Keyword:
- Liturgical Reform, Religion and Culture, U.S. Catholicism, Ritual, Religion and Politics, and Chicago
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Jennifer Ann Callaghan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While scholarship over recent decades has complicated the traditional classification of the Bavlis texts into the field has still maintained a model of two separate, though fundamentally interrelated, discourses. According to this model, the Bavli consists of a normative, non-narrative, legal discourse alongside an antinomian, narrativized discourse of stories. Through...
- Keyword:
- Rabbinics, Scholasticism, Talmud, law and Literature, and Late Antiquity
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Sarah Wolf
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation approaches J. M. Coetzees work through the lens of critical animal studies. Puzzling out the frequent appearances of animals in his work, numerous scholars have attempted to answer the following question: What is Coetzee writing about when he writes about animals? But while many have engaged with the...
- Keyword:
- Allegory, Coetzee, Kafka, and Animal studies
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Sonia H. Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Parents play a crucial role in shaping the contexts within which young children develop, particularly in the early years of a childs life (Bornstein, 2002; Brooks-Gunn & Markman, 2005; Maccoby & Martin, 1983). Parenting is also one of the key pathways through which socioeconomic factors, such as maternal education, may...
- Keyword:
- poverty and inequality, social policy, maternal education, Head Start preschool, parenting, and child development
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Emily C. Ross
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- What does it mean for writing from the former French imperial territories of the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) to become Maghrebi literature? How does literature come to count as belonging to or appertaining to a particular place? Today, in the international spheres of the university and the literary market,...
- Keyword:
- Novel, Maghreb, Modernity, Territory, Nation, and Japan
- Subject:
- French and Italian
- Creator:
- Matthew Thomas Kerper Brauer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Synthetic organic chemistry continues to be a driver in the discovery and development of new molecules for applications in biology, medicine, crop science, polymer science, and materials science. Central to the continued development of this field is the pursuit of new strategies and methods for the efficient construction of molecules...
- Keyword:
- Radical Coupling, Umpolung, Brook Rearrangement, Silymarin, Photoredox, and Photocatalysis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Benjamin McDonald
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Techniques in atomic physics have delivered some of the most precise measurements ever made, with frequency measurements reaching fractional precisions of 10^18 . High precision measurements can be used to test fundamental physics, such as pursuing a variation in fundamental constants. A finite drift in measurable constants such as the...
- Keyword:
- Physics
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Mark Gabriel Kokish
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As monolinguals and bilinguals hear words unfold over time, they experience competition from words that share sounds within the same language (e.g., st- activates strict and stamp). Unique to bilinguals is that they are also prone to competition from similar sounding-words between their two languages. In the present dissertation, we...
- Keyword:
- speech perception, phonotactic constraints, bilingualism, and parallel language activation
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Creator:
- Max Ryan Freeman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- There has long been an interest in the idea of generativity the concern for and commitment towards promoting the well-being of future generations. In Western societies, generativity can be characterized through societal contributions and acts dedicated towards others. Since the early 1960s, when Erikson proposed generativity as the major developmental...
- Keyword:
- Agency, Life Story, Communion, Generativity, Well-being, and Narrative
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jen Guo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Hannah Arendt claimed that aœtotalitarianisma emerged as a new word to designate a new form of evil in politics. However, she added, the use of a new word does not imply that we understand what this novelty consists in. This dissertation is an attempt to understand the novelty of totalitarian...
- Keyword:
- Lyotard, Arendt, Kant, Evil, Judgment, and Action
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Javier Burdman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The rat whisker system has been a longstanding and fruitful model system for sensory neuroscience, because of its status as an œexpert active sensing system, and many open avenues of research still remain. One large-scale goal of the field is to œclose the loop from sensation to movement, modeling how...
- Keyword:
- sensorimotor, rat, whisker, Embodiment, sensory, and morphology
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Chris Shelley Bresee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Cultivating Citizens: Ecology and Nationality in U.S. Immigrant Literature explores how and why American ecosystems became objects of appreciation, intervention, and attachment within immigration literature published during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. Fictional and nonfictional stories about US-bound immigrants represented naturalization and nationality as materializing through interactions within human/nonhuman assemblageswhat we...
- Keyword:
- citizenship, climate, immigration, ecocriticism, United States, and naturalization
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Kellen Bolt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation