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- This dissertation investigates how US Americans in the nineteenth century began to apply the category of religious fanaticism to individuals and communities deemed dangerous. Contributing to scholarship on secularism, racial governance, and American religious history, this dissertation argues that fanaticism is not a neutral category of description. It tracks how...
- Keyword:
- religion and violence, secularism, Christianity, colonialism, american religious history, and racial governance
- Subject:
- American history, Religion, and Religious history
- Creator:
- Wheatley, Jeffrey Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_758378 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15204
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- We study plurisubharmonic functions and their applications to K\"ahler geometry. We begin by studying regularity of envelopes of plurisubharmonic functions, particularly when the reference form is degenerate. This is then applied to show regularity of geodesic of K\"ahler metrics on singular varieties, as well as regularity of certain geodesic rays....
- Keyword:
- Kahler Geometry and Plurisubharmonic Functions
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- McCleerey, Nicholas James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763826 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15252
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- This dissertation examines how one pervasive state institution¬—schools—shapes the political behavior of young people along the lines of race and ethnicity. I make four primary claims. First, I show that the content of traditional civic education courses privileges the political experiences of white political actors. Second, I argue that this...
- Keyword:
- Race, Ethnicity, Critical Pedagogy, Socialization, Civic Education, and Politics, Education Policy, and Youth Political Engagement
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Nelsen, Matthew D
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_759277 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15208
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- Description:
- The task of classification has been increasingly attracting attention from researchers in recent years. The objective is to assign labels given attributes of samples. The classification task is practical in real-world applications and is widely explored in fields such as computer vision, natural language processing and information retrieval. The recent...
- Keyword:
- neural networks, classification, machine learning, and deep learning
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence
- Creator:
- Xu, Yiming
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15370 and etdadmin_upload_778963
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- This dissertation investigates a number of models and algorithms in the context of optimization under uncertainty. The focus is on risk-averse optimization, where risk aversion is modeled via stochastic dominance, utility theory, and distributionally robust optimization. We first investigate an investment model with fixed contribution rates, optimize asset-allocation decisions in...
- Keyword:
- Stochastic Programming, Wasserstein distance, and Distributionally robust optimization
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Duque Villarreal, Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763341 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15241
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- The three dimensional structure of a protein determines its biological function. How a protein folds, however, has been the central research problem for decades. The intermediates on the folding paths, which the protein can assume transiently, are of particular interest as they not only reveal the structural dynamics of a...
- Keyword:
- Molecular dynamics, X-ray scattering, X-ray absorption, Protein folding, Time-resolved, and Pure sciences
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry, Computational chemistry, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Hsu, Darren Jason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15359 and etdadmin_upload_774800
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- The transportation infrastructure privatization is an essential solution to the public fund's shortage of transportation investments. In the privatization practices, the private firms build, operate, and own the transportation infrastructure under a limited term. Due to the private sector's involvement, the efficiency of the transportation service is determined not only...
- Keyword:
- Tolling and capacity decision, Pareto efficiency analysis, Mechanism design, Transportation infrastructure, Network analysis, and Public-private partnership
- Subject:
- Transportation and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Shu, Hang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764914 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15283
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- Description:
- Raman spectroscopy is an analytical technique that utilizes inelastic scattering of light to obtain structural information of analyte molecules. The weak intrinsic process of Raman scattering, however, can be greatly enhanced when molecules are placed on or near a surface of noble metal with nanostructures. Discovered over 40 years, surface-enhanced...
- Keyword:
- nanopipette, biosensing, Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, and microneedle arrays
- Subject:
- Analytical chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Park, Ji Eun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15215 and etdadmin_upload_760462
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- Description:
- The recently increasing precision in experimental measurements of observables in collider physics has demanded for a matching precision in the theoretical expectations for such observables. In Quantum ChromoDynamics, the fundamental underlying theory for collider physics, theoretical predictions are expressed under the form of perturbative series, where the expansion parameter is...
- Subject:
- Theoretical physics
- Creator:
- Isgro, Andrea
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15151 and etdadmin_upload_746893
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- Fluid injection is one of the major triggering factors of infrastructure collapse and geo-hazards, among which some of the most recurrent ones are rainfall-induced landslides. Such events exhibit complicated spatiotemporal patterns, spanning from slow deformation to extremely rapid movements influencing large regions. To prevent the occurrence of catastrophic failures and...
- Keyword:
- instability criteria, viscoplasticity, constitutive model, wetting-induced failure, unsaturated soil, and solid-fluid transition
- Subject:
- Civil engineering
- Creator:
- chen, yanni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15183 and etdadmin_upload_754611