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- By assessing infants’ movements, our research goal was to determine if particular movement characteristics are indicators for cerebral palsy (CP), a disorder caused by a brain injury to the fetus/infant that leads to impaired development of movement. Our research may contribute to developing an earlier diagnosis for CP, and therefore...
- Keyword:
- infant and Cerebral palsy
- Creator:
- Leah Gentner, Colleen Peyton, Isabelle Kang, Denise Kao, Theresa Moulton, Michelle Kee, and Semanti Naiken
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/08/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Examining fertility knowledge and identifying knowledge gaps in those who may need to delay childbearing is essential, especially for individuals who may be pursuing higher education. Educating these individuals is also critical as prior research has confirmed that fertility awareness may modify future reproductive choices and outcomes. The primary goals...
- Keyword:
- knowledge, education, career aspirations, undergraduate students, fertility, and infertility
- Creator:
- Eve C. Feinberg, Rachel Okine, Lia A. Bernardi, Grace Smith, and Marissa Luck
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- The revitalization of endangered languages is both deeply personal and political, as language subjugation is directly linked to intentional efforts by colonizing powers to suppress and eradicate indigenous culture and dismantle local collective identity. Many studies have been conducted on how to promote endangered languages, but few evaluate the effectiveness...
- Keyword:
- language revitalization, Irish, language, Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland
- Creator:
- Lally, Shannon
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Stories and fantasy represent an important aspect of consumer life and comprise a huge marketing enterprise within consumer entertainment. Each year, upwards of $82 billion is spent on books, games, and other fantasy industries in the United States alone. Likewise, fantasy has important implications for consumers’ sense of identity. In...
- Keyword:
- Similarity, Fantasy, Self, Motivation, Villains, and Stories
- Subject:
- Marketing and Psychology
- Creator:
- Krause-Galoni, Rebecca
- 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:15499 and etdadmin_upload_801395
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- Description:
- In my dissertation I explore several applications of collective household models with limited commitment to study the behavior of singles and couples in the modern US marriage markets in presence of endogenous risk of divorce. In the first chapter, I show that the model is capable of rationalizing the patterns...
- Keyword:
- household behavior, family economics, marriage and divorce, and macroeconomics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Kozlov, Egor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_820517 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15596
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- We prove the Rigidity Conjecture of Goette and Igusa, which states that, after rationalizing, there are no stable exotic smoothings of manifold bundles with closed even dimensional fibers. The key ingredients of the proof are fiberwise Poincaré–Hopf theorems generalizing earlier such results about the Becker–Gottlieb transfer. These theorems show how...
- Keyword:
- Exotic Smooth Structures, K-theory, Torsion, Morse Theory, and Manifolds
- Subject:
- Mathematics and Theoretical mathematics
- Creator:
- Jain, Yajit Kumar
- 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:15542 and etdadmin_upload_817174
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- This dissertation is divided into three chapters. Chapter one studies changes in market concentration and productivity growth in the United States from the 1990s to the 2010s. Chapter two measures the impact of a banking crisis, the British Panic of 1825, on non-financial firms. Chapter three examines how women's employment...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane
- 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:15575 and etdadmin_upload_819365
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- Earth’s mantle has a two-layer structure comprising an upper and a lower mantle, separated by a global seismic discontinuity at 660 km depth. The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which extends from the seismic discontinuity at 410 km depth to the base of the upper mantle plays a crucial role in...
- Subject:
- Geophysics
- Creator:
- Wang, Fei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_811541 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15513
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- Description:
- Miniaturized lasers are important for fundamental studies of light-matter interactions and applications in on-chip photonic integration. Plasmonic nanoparticle lattices supporting surface lattice resonances can provide optical feedback for directional lasing emission at room temperature. This thesis focuses on how the design of plasmon cavities can enable engineering of laser emission...
- Keyword:
- Nanolasers, Colloidal quantum dots, Surface lattice resonances, Brillouin zone, Plasmons, and Nanophotonics
- Subject:
- Applied physics
- Creator:
- Guan, Jun
- 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:15581 and etdadmin_upload_819603
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- Description:
- Quantum dots (QDs) are promising photocatalysts due to their large extinction coefficient, large surface area-to-volume ratio, and stability upon irradiation. QDs have been studied in photocatalytic hydrogen production, CO2 reduction, and reduction of small organic molecules such as nitrobenzene. This dissertation describes the application of QDs in two photocatalytic cross-coupling...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Zhang, Zhengyi
- 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:15493 and etdadmin_upload_798062