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- The aim of this dissertation is to make sense of nearly a century and a half's worth of observations concerning skin based electroadhesion phenomena. While this is a noble goal in and of itself, further motivation of this work is drawn from fact that the electroadhesive effect is increasingly being...
- Keyword:
- electroadhesion, haptics, bioimpedance, and frictio
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Craig D. Shultz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Spinal cord injury occurs with a worldwide incidence of 13-33 cases per million per year, and more than 2.5 million patients worldwide suffer from spinal cord injury (SCI)-related disability (1, 2). Different methods have been attempted to promote axonal regeneration, including neurotrophin injection, hydrogel injection, olfactory ensheathing cells implantation and...
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- Nanotechnology, Cord Injury, Fibrosis, and Therapeutics
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Suji Jeong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The unprecedented crimes of World War Two, especially those committed by the Nazi state, unleashed an equally unprecedented effort to hold perpetrators accountable and secure justice for millions of victims. This effort encompassed hundreds of trials of thousands of individuals in the immediate postwar period and continues to the present...
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- Holocaust, Nazis, War Crimes Trials, British Occupation, Royal Warrant, and World War Two
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Beth A. Healey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The anode and cathode are main components in a battery system. In this dissertation, Group IV inter-metallics and LiMn2O4 are studied as anode and cathode materials for Li-ion batteries respectively. Preliminary investigation of a multi-valent cathode material for next generation batteries is also introduced. Group IV inter-metallics electrochemically alloy with...
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- Multi-valent, Germanium, Cathode, X-ray, LiMn2O4, and Anode
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Xiao Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The studies presented in this dissertation combine radiogenic and stable strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr and 88/86Sr, respectively), radiogenic and stable carbon isotope ratios (Δ14C and 13C, respectively), and bulk ion geochemistry to trace the sources and cycling of C in three glaciated environments (New Zealand, Iceland, and Greenland). A primary...
- Keyword:
- Geochemistry
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Margaret Unterman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- One seismologist’s noise is another seismologist’s signal. What was once disregarded is now routinely processed as dense arrays of broadband seismometers continuously record small amplitude Earth motions, presenting an immense wealth of data. This dissertation presents three projects where ambient seismic noise, generated by ocean wave interactions with the solid...
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- Interferometry, Seismology, and Tomography
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Michael Witek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Greater interest in self-directed professions, like entrepreneurship, have led to a growth in informal workplace communities and social technologies that support new ways of working. However, we have little understanding of how these socio-technical environments support opportunities for professional skill development. The goal of this dissertation is to understand how...
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- Online communities, Social computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Makerspaces, Crowdfunding, and Online learning
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Julie Hui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Understanding electrical circuits can be difficult for novices of all ages (Grotzer & Sudbury, 2000; Osborne, 1983; Shipstone, 1984; Tarciso Borges, 1999). Research shows that novices tend to have inadequate understandings of what happens at the level of atoms and electrons, leading to difficulty predicting the outcomes of electrical circuits...
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- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Elham Beheshti Zavareh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy (XFM) is a useful technique for study of biological samples. XFM was used to map and quantify endogenous biological elements as well as exogenous materials in biological samples, such as the distribution of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles. TiO2 nanoparticles are produced for many different purposes, including development...
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- Nanotechnology, Xray Fluorescence Microscopy, Radiation Oncology, and Cancer Nanotechnology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Koshonna Brown
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 12/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Kezban Yagci Sokat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Totipotent cells have the highest developmental potential and can only be created by nuclear transfer into oocytes. Identities of maternal factors that can induce this reprogramming remain a mystery. In this report, we demonstrate induction of totipotency on mouse embryonic stem cells by introducing six factors, Hist1h2aa, H3f3b, H1foo, p-Npm2,...
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- Totipotent, Embryonic, Reprogramming, Stem Cells, Regenerative, and Pluripotent
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Sanders Oh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Metabolic engineering of microorganisms to produce useful compounds from renewable substrates is a promising means for sustainable, on-demand production of chemicals. However, efforts to design and engineer microbial cell factories are constrained by costly and slow “build” times in which each genetic variation requires re-engineering a new strain for each...
- Keyword:
- metabolic engineering, cell-free, synthetic biology, prototyping, and limonene
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Quentin Merle Dudley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The limits of miniaturization of electronic device components and the steady need for faster computation power have motivated the discovery and cultivation of low-dimensional materials. Among these, two-dimensional (2D) materials have exhibited a wide range of superlative optoelectronic, thermal and mechanical properties. The interest in 2D materials took-off with the...
- Keyword:
- mixed-dimensional heterostructures, two-dimensional materials, and van der Waals heterostructure
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Itamar Balla
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Mechanisms for sensing fluid flow are well studied in arthropods and in some aquatic mammals, but we know very little about how terrestrial mammals detect and localize airflow (Chapter 1). In this thesis, I will describe a series of studies in rodents that investigate the behavioral, mechanical, and neural basis...
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- Flow sensing, Anemotaxis, Wind, Trigeminal, Odor tracking, and Whisker
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Yan S.W. Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Wind pollination has evolved from animal pollination at least 65 times in flowering plants, but the reverse transition is rare. Wind pollination is usually accompanied by the loss of traits that attract pollinators, and re-evolving them may be difficult. This dissertation examines this rare transition using Artocarpus (ca. 70 spp.,...
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- Chemical ecology, Moraceae, Phylogenetics, underutilized crops, tropical biology, and Pollination
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Elliot M. Gardner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Literary critics typically oppose chronological and anachronistic historiographical schemes. In paired readings of early modern and contemporary poets, my dissertation, “The Shock of the Old: Periodization, Poetics, and Diachronic Exchange between the Renaissance and the Avant-Garde” investigates a series of poetic texts that defy this opposition. The poetic objects I...
- Keyword:
- diachronic, genre, Poetics, Queer, Periodization, and form
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Toby Altman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- What follows is a strictly post-genomic dissertation. Over the past five years, I have strived to leave the nucleus behind, and even the endoplasmic reticulum and golgi apparatus. The human genome was sequenced over 15 years before the submission of this document, and the world changed somewhat less than anticipated—besides...
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- Top-Down Proteomics, Proteomics, Transplantation, Immunology, Mass Spectrometry, and Proteoforms
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Tinothy Toby
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation develops a framework to approach musical hybridity by considering style and genre interactions as an analytical layer of combinations of identities. It engages with the structural, contextual, and perceptual aspects of music by mixing perspectives from music studies with postcolonial studies, situated cognition, and genre studies. Hybridity is...
- Keyword:
- Hybridity, Analysis, Style and Genre, Music Theory, and Mixture
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Bruno Moschini Alcalde
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- The rodent whisker system is a widely used model to study the sense of touch. Its neuroanatomy parallels that of the human, but its mechanics are vastly simplified compared to that of the human tactile system. Just like other modalities with complex sensor accessory structures, the geometry, mechanics, and material...
- Keyword:
- rat, mouse, vibrissa, and seal
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Hayley Belli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Many stroke survivors are left with residual movement impairments. Treating these impairments has proven difficult, because it is often unclear which mechanisms drive movement impairment. While the exact mechanisms are still uncertain, at present, evidence suggests that neuromuscular function is disrupted in two key domains following stroke: muscle biomechanics, and...
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- Motor Neurons, Stroke, Movement Disorders, Shear wave elastography, and Muscle
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Andrew Lai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Decentralized algorithms, Environmental estimation, Distributed algorithms, Environmental monitoring, and Swarm Robotics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Matthew L. Elwin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The expanding use of nanomaterials in consumer products challenges scientists to understand the impact of these materials before their inevitable release into the environment. In the same way that the widespread use of DDT and asbestos has caused unforeseen negative impacts on both the environment and on human health, the...
- Keyword:
- Nanomaterials, Sum Frequency Scattering, Sum Frequency Generation, Nano-Biointerface, and Nonlinear Optics
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Laura Olenick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Eosinophils are major effector cells in diseases including asthma, rhinitis, certain gastrointestinal disorders and atopic dermatitis. Current treatments include mediator antagonists and anti-inflammatory drugs that reduce allergic cell numbers and inhibit mediator release, but they are not fully effective or curative. On their surface, eosinophils selectively express Siglec-8 (sialic acid-binding...
- Keyword:
- Siglec-8, Eosinophils, Apoptosis, and Signaling
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Daniela Janevska Carroll
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Psychosocial stress is part of everyday life, and while ubiquitous, stress plays a huge role disease development and treatment. Though the stressor’s intensity, predictability, and frequency (acute vs chronic) are important determinants of disease development, interactions with one’s genetic and epigenetic make-up also play a causal role. Major Depressive Disorder...
- Keyword:
- coping, HCN, Hyperpolarization activated current, gastrointestinal motilit, stress, and mice
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Daniel W. Fisher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Many species have lost their natural habitat due to anthropogenic land use change. Ecologists are increasingly looking at habitat in cities to bolster efforts to conserve biodiversity. Green roofs are examples of urban habitats that are becoming more common globally. Green roofs can provide resources to support life in an...
- Keyword:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Kelly Ksiazek Mikenas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- The Bcl-2 family is considered the guardian of the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway. While there are numerous endogenous Bcl-2 antagonists that share similar homology, structure, topology, and expression pattern, only the loss of Bim in mice is sufficient to lead to the development of a systemic autoimmunity. Even loss of both...
- Keyword:
- Apoptosis
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- FuNien Tsai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Of the thousands of planetary candidates discovered by the Kepler mission, roughly a third are in known multiple transiting-planet systems. High-multiplicity Kepler systems (referred to as Kepler Multis) are often tightly packed and may be on the verge of instability. Many systems of this type could have experienced past instabilities,...
- Keyword:
- planets and satellites, dynamical evolution and stability, gaseous planets, and hydrodynamics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Jason Hwang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation asks how a dynamic of vengeance involving the United States and anti-imperialist political organizations in the Middle East emerged and persisted between the 1967 Middle East war and the battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in December 2001. It tracks the construction of channels—ideological, institutional, emotional, and personal—through...
- Keyword:
- chains, channels, vengeance, anti-imperialism, national security, and Middle East
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Alex Hobson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Most lubricants contain a series of additives that reduce friction and wear, and protect contacting surfaces. The design of these additives must be modernized to meet the challenges involved with high operating temperatures, extreme environmental conditions, and increasingly stringent environmental regulations. This research demonstrates three novel lubricant additive strategies that...
- Keyword:
- Additives, Wear, Lubrication, Friction, and Tribology
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Blake Johnson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system delivers effector proteins directly into target cells, allowing the bacterium to modulate host cell functions. ExoU is the most cytotoxic of the known effector proteins and has been associated with more severe infections in humans. Previous studies have shown that ExoU is a...
- Keyword:
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa, ExoU, and oligomerization
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Angelica Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Photovoltaic technology can help meet the exploding world energy demand in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way. Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are especially attractive because they can be constructed with low-cost organic content and are amenable to high-throughput large-scale fabrication techniques. Synthetic modification of organic semiconductors has paved way for the...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Amod Timalsina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- In the near future, self-driving or driverless vehicles will operate without human control, enabling passengers to use their time in new ways. This opens up avenues for designing new interactions and experiences for individuals or groups traveling in an automobile. For that scenario, automobile manufacturers propose developing bigger and better...
- Keyword:
- self-driving cars
- Subject:
- Computer science and Autonomous vehicles
- Creator:
- Amartya Banerjee
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The promise of next-generation electronics, which combines features such as mechanical flexibility, optical transparency, and relatively low-cost, has stimulated tremendous research efforts during the past few years. As perhaps the most fundamental component of an electronic circuit, the design and optimization of the thin film transistor (TFT) is of great...
- Keyword:
- Characterization, X-ray, Thin Film, Metal Oxides, and Dielectrics
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Li Zeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- In vivo, substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) dopaminergic neurons exhibit three spiking patterns – irregular, regular, and bursting. These distinct modes of activity are thought to underlie the different roles that dopamine (DA) plays in target structures within the basal ganglia. In particular, burst spiking in SNc DA neurons is...
- Keyword:
- burst firing, pedunculopontine nucleus, substantia nigra pars compacta, dopamine, and glutamate
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Daniel James Galtieri
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In his Nobel lecture Herbert Kroemer famously stated that “The interface is the device”. While he made this statement in the context of semiconducting heterostructures, it has proven to be just as relevant for more complex materials, such as the transition metal oxides. In particular, the 2-D conducting gas that...
- Keyword:
- Strongly Correlated Electrons, Low Temperature Physics, Electrical Anisotropy, Superconductivity, Electrical Transport, and Complex Oxides
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Samuel K. Davis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- My research interests, which span organic, inorganic, physical and biochemistry, have focused broadly on photo-, magneto- and redox-active molecules, especially those with potential applications in organic photovoltaics, spintronics and electronics. My research under the joint supervision of Professor Wasielewski and Professor Fraser Stoddart has concentrated upon understanding electronic and magnetic...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Yilei Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation explores a form of performance I call “ototheatre,” which is a mobile and participatory audience experience executed with portable sound technology. Ototheatre is an emergent artistic form that sits at a convergence of contemporary technologies and audience consumption habits. Case studies, including smartphone applications and new theatrical works...
- Keyword:
- audience participation, immersive theatre, mobile performance, augmented reality, soundwalk, and audio theatre
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Lauren Rachele Beck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- The study of tumor metabolism from the middle of the 20th century through the early 21st almost entirely ignored the mitochondria; instead, the field focused on cancer cells use of glycolysis even when oxygen was not limiting, termed aerobic glycolysis. Due to this observation, it was often speculated that malignant...
- Keyword:
- Outcomes and Biological
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Samuel Edward Weinberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation uses several interrelated methods derived from corpus linguistics, statistics, and machine learning to infer a number of historically significant voice-leading schemas in a corpus of eighteenth-century Neapolitan solfeggi (exercises for voice with bass accompaniment). The goal of this work is to gain insights not only into the characteristics...
- Keyword:
- Galant style, Temporal regularity, Music cognition, Schema theory, Machine learning, and Structure mapping theory
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- James Symons
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of three essays in applied microeconomics. In the first chapter, I introduce a new statistical test for identifying prejudice from empirical data. In the second chapter, I (joint with James Schummer) consider the revenue maximization problem for a two-sided, one-to-one matching platform. In the third chapter, I...
- Keyword:
- matching, two-sided markets, media bias, test for prejudice, and economics of discrimination
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Phillip Louis Marx
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Certain inducible genes show faster reactivation if they were recently expressed. This epigenetic phenomenon is called transcriptional memory and is inherited for several generations after the first round of induction. During this phase, genes show several conserved molecular features that are essential for faster reactivation: peripheral localization of the gene,...
- Keyword:
- Epigenetic memory, Adaptive fitness, Genome organization, Evolution, Gene regulation, and GAL genes
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Varun Sood
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The renewed scholarly interest in the connections between taxation, state building efforts, and long-term economic development has revitalized the study of historical tax systems. How did today’s states initially acquire ‘fiscal capacity’, and why was this process more successful in some places than in others? Since African tax systems are...
- Keyword:
- colonialism, Africa, forced labor, and taxation
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Marlous van Waijenburg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Starting materials for natural products, ideally synthesized using low-cost, highly active and selective catalysts, are of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry. Relevant reactions include the synthesis of 1,2-dihydropyridines, reduction of ketones/aldehydes, cleavage of esters, and reduction of amides to amines. Hydroelementation is an important catalytic process that involves H-E...
- Keyword:
- Carbonyl reduction, Catalysis, Pyridine dearomatization, Hydroboration, and Organolanthanide
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Victoria Lynn Weidner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The electronic spin state (S) of metal ions is fundamental to the performance of magnets, protein cofactors, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. The ability to manipulate the spin state of transition metals allows for the development of advanced materials with emergent properties. This following chapters will introduce two...
- Keyword:
- Spin Crossover, spin state, Magnetism, MRI, Double Exchange, and Iron
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Alexandra I. Gaudette
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Optical interferometry is a powerful technique which has been widely utilized for well over a century in making the world’s most precise measurements. By measuring how the interference between two waves is affected by a physical process, one can deduce the magnitude of this process. Because the wavelength of a...
- Keyword:
- Optics, Interferometry, Metrology, Lasers, and Dispersion
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Joshua Yablon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Electromagnetic metamaterials composed of colloidally synthesized plasmonic metal nanoparticles offer new opportunities to probe light-matter interactions. The properties of these structures largely depend on the spatial arrangement of nanoparticles within them. Therefore, new assembly strategies that afford a high level of structural control are expected to enable a broad range...
- Keyword:
- DNA-mediated assembly, reconfigurable metamaterials, plasmonic nanoparticles, multicomponent nanoparticle architectures, and electromagnetic metamaterials
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Qingyuan Lin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Small hydrocarbons and their oxygenated derivatives are critical to atmospheric organic aerosol formation and growth. Secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) constitute a significant portion of total atmospheric organic aerosols, and are often generated through the oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as isoprene, -pinene, and -caryophyllene. Interfaces of SOA...
- Keyword:
- aerosol, hydrocarbons, orientations, nonlinear optics, and computation
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hilary Marie Chase
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While synthesis and transformation processes to produce monodisperse nanoparticles are empirically well-developed, the pathways for these reactions as well as the exact role of synthetic agents and binding characteristics of surface moieties remain poorly understood. This lack of understanding is primarily due to the paucity of information about nanoparticle structural...
- Keyword:
- CTAB, in-situ, XAFS, nanocage, Galvanic exchange, and nanorods
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Liane Michelle Moreau
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation provides an account of the richest people in Glasgow and Liverpool at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. It focuses on those in shipping, trade, and shipbuilding, who had global interests and amassed large fortunes. It examines the transition away from family business...
- Keyword:
- Glasgow, Family, Britain, Business, and Liverpool
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Emma Elizabeth Goldsmith
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As a variety of social capital, scholars’ traditional understanding of a producer’s status is difficult to carry over from one market context to another. However, from organizations seeking to hire rainmakers away from competing organizations within the same markets to producers expanding their offerings into adjacent (and sometimes distant) markets,...
- Keyword:
- Status, Art market, and social signals
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Kangsan Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation looks at the consequences of three different government regulatory policies---the nondistribution constraint (which prohibits managers of nonprofit organizations from distributing profits generated by the nonprofit organization to themselves), the 100/0, 85/15, and 90/10 rules (which restrict the fraction of revenue for-profit colleges and universities can receive from Title...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Organization, Prohibition, Nonprofit Organizations, and Higher Education
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Brent Travis Howe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Technology has advanced rapidly, especially in the twenty-first century, influencing our day-to-day life on unprecedented levels. Most such advances in technology are closely linked to, and often driven by, the discovery and design of new materials. It follows that the discovery of new materials can not only improve existing technologies...
- Keyword:
- Materials Discovery, Density Functional Theory, Electrochemistry, Energy Materials, and Batteries
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Soo Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Methanobactins (Mbns) are a growing family of ribosomally produced, post-translationally modified natural products that exhibit a high affinity for copper. These compounds were initially identified in methanotrophic bacteria, which oxidize methane to methanol as their sole source of carbon. One of the key enzymes in this metabolic pathway, particulate methane...
- Keyword:
- Methanobactin, Biosynthesis, Copper homeostasis, Methanotrophy, Chalkophores, and Natural products
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Grace Eileen Kenney
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Contained in the following dissertation are detailed investigations regarding the thermodynamics of small molecule activation by metalloporphyrin complexes isolated within metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Chapter 1 provides a description of the role metalloporphyrin complexes play in biological systems and the challenges associated with studying small molecule activation by metalloporphryin sites in...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Audrey Theresa Gallagher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chemical probes are versatile and unique tools for biomedical research. A chemical probe is simply a selective small-molecule modulator of protein function that allows the user to ask mechanistic and phenotypic questions about its molecular target in biochemical, cell-based or animal studies. Experiments involving selective inhibitors can help delineate key...
- Keyword:
- small molecules, kinases, chemical biology, isoforms, and natural product
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Kristine Deibler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As neuroscience seeks to understand larger, more complicated systems and behaviors, we will require neural recording techniques that can monitor the activity of neurons across the whole brain. The unparalleled data-storage capabilities of DNA, combined with fast, genetically encodable DNA polymerase-based sensors, would allow for "ticker tape"-like recordings of neurons...
- Keyword:
- Next-generation sequencing, DNA Polymerase, Dynamic Time Warping, Molecular recording, and Brain activity mapping
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Thaddeus Rudas Cybulski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The work presented in this dissertation examines the interplay between electron transfer reactions and electron spin in photoactive organic molecules. Organic compounds that undergo electron transfer reactions after absorbing light are important in natural photosynthesis, photobiology, and synthetic photovoltaics. These electron transfer reactions depend on the spin states of the...
- Keyword:
- electron transfer, spin chemistry, photochemistry, spectroscopy, radical pair, and EPR
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Noah Elliott Horwitz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Microkinetic modeling is a powerful tool for creating dynamic and quantitative descriptions of complex systems. These detailed mechanistic models compliment experimental techniques and provide an ability to achieve deeper insights into chemical processes where numerous intermediates are highly reactive and difficult to quantify in the laboratory. This thesis discusses the...
- Keyword:
- volatiles, autoxidation, ethyl linoleate, microkinetic modeling, and oil-based paint
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Lindsay Oakley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Humans possess the ability to infer and track mental states, which allows for successful interaction in the social world. The collection of processes and representations that makes this possible is referred to as a theory-of-mind (ToM). A large body of work has examined how these abilities develop from infancy to...
- Keyword:
- learning, social cognition, cognitive development, comparison, analogical reasoning, and theory of mind
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Christian Hosos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ions dissolved in solution are known to interact in remarkable ways with charged Langmuir monolayers. The organic monolayer can be used as a molecular template for ordered nucleation of inorganic crystals (biomineralization) and functional nanoparticles. However, the clear majority of experiments demonstrating these behaviors have been performed with divalent ions....
- Keyword:
- John Ketterson
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Mitchell Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of science education is to prepare students to make decisions about the complicated socioscientific issues that are an inescapable part of modern life, from personal medical decisions to evaluating a political candidate's environmental platform. We cannot expect adults to maintain a deep conceptual understanding of the current state...
- Keyword:
- media literacy, epistemology, science journalism, science education, and assessment
- Subject:
- Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Brandy Liane Evans Buckingham
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Large projection neurons of the cerebellar nuclei (CbN cells), whose activity generates movement, are inhibited by Purkinje cells and excited by mossy fibers. The high convergence, firing rates, and strength of Purkinje inputs predict powerful suppression of CbN cell spiking, raising the question of what activity patterns favor excitation over...
- Keyword:
- deep cerebellar nuclei, cerebellum, dynamic clamp, Purkinje cell, rate coding, and temporal coding
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Yeechan Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This project examines how early modern writers mobilize race as a vehicle for investigating far-reaching epistemological questions about the limits and parameters of human knowledge. While dominant trends in early modern race studies have focused on racial knowledges or particular identifications or formulations of human difference, I break new ground...
- Keyword:
- epistemology, history of science, race, literature and science, and colonialism
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Meghan Daly Costa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores how the environment shapes energy expenditure and cardio-metabolic disease risk by investigating multiple timescales of adaptation to cold stress among the Yakut, an indigenous circumpolar population. This study pursues three main objectives. First, the adaptive and health significance of brown adipose tissue (BAT) is explored by examining...
- Keyword:
- Anthropology
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Stephanie B Levy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In fish, caudally propagating waves of neural activity produce muscle bending moments. These moments, coupled with forces due to the body's elastic properties and forces due to fluid-body interactions, determine the deformation kinematics for swimming. Fully resolved simulations of neurally-activated swimming can be used to decode activation patterns underlying observed...
- Keyword:
- biomechanics, fluid structure interaction, locomotion, neuromechanics, neuromechanical phase lag, and immersed boundary method
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Namrata Kartik Patel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Bacterial biofilms are aggregates of cells that adhere to nearly any solid-fluid interface. While many have harmful effects, such as industrial damage and nosocomial infections, certain biofilm species are now generating renewable energy as the fundamental components of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs). In an MFC, bacteria consume organic waste and,...
- Keyword:
- biharmonic
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Jared Allen Hicks
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation seeks to make sense of the recurring anachronism of aristocracy within early twentieth-century French culture, especially in literature and film. Most studies present the aristocrat as simply one among many examples of the nostalgia, reaction and fascination with the archaic that constituted an important intellectual and artistic tendency...
- Keyword:
- Georges Bataille, modernism, French, Jean Renoir, Marcel Proust, and aristocracy
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Genevieve Marie Amaral
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Victorian novels’ characteristic preoccupation with marriage and inheritance has led scholars to view the form as socially conservative in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet contemporary commentators feared what young women might conceive as a result of reading. The key to this dilemma, I argue, is the usual consequence of nineteenth-century marriage...
- Keyword:
- pregnancy, Victorian, reproduction, breastfeeding, childbirth, and novel
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Sarah Elizabeth Roth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that by examining the networks and advocacy of Americans interested in Lebanon and Lebanese with ties to the U.S., scholars can better understand how relationships cultivated away from the spotlight of policymaker attention have both guided and revealed the limitations of U.S. empire. Activists, both Lebanese and...
- Keyword:
- U.S. in the World, Lebanon, and 1980s
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Laila Ballout
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-12-21
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- “Quartering the Wind” explores the unorthodox, unstable, and seditious political values that undermined early modern English arguments for what is “natural” in human governance. I examine texts that expose a politically intricate natural world that serves no single model of orthodox politics. While ecocritical treatments of political analogies drawn from...
- Keyword:
- Politics, Ecocriticism, Analogy, and Early Modern Literature
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Seth Logan Swanner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Thin film oxidation is investigated using two modeling techniques in the interest of better understanding the roles of space charge and non-equilibrium effects. An electrochemical phase-field model of an oxide-metal interface is formulated in one dimension and studied at equilibrium and during growth. An analogous sharp interface model is developed...
- Keyword:
- Material Science
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Quentin Sherman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Algorithmic trading (AT) has grown dramatically in recent years and now makes up over half of all trades and orders in the market. I investigate whether and how AT affects voluntary disclosure by managers. I hypothesize that AT’s differential ability to process information and its speed of trading affects how...
- Keyword:
- Capital markets, Market microstructure, Voluntary disclosure, and Algorithmic trading
- Subject:
- Accounting Information and Management
- Creator:
- Andrew P. Stephan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Our visual system organizes lines, shapes, and colors into groups, objects, and scenes. This dissertation explores how these higher-level organizations arise, focusing on the contribution of feature-based attention, our ability to selectively enhance a color, shape, or orientation across our visual field. I will present evidence that feature-based attention enables...
- Keyword:
- Visual Perception, Gestalt Grouping, Attention, Ambiguity Perception, and Perceptual Organization
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Dian Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Humans have a remarkable ability to walk on a variety of surfaces. Compliant, uneven, or even slippery surfaces present little challenge to most people, yet are hazardous to individuals with locomotor impairments and even to bipedal robotic systems designed to mimic what we understand about human locomotion. Our ability to...
- Keyword:
- slippery surfaces, ankle impedance, electromyography, prosthetic limbs, and gait
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Mariah Weaver Whitmore
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The development of organic photovoltaic devices benefits from understanding the fundamental processes underlying charge generation in thin films of organic semiconductors. This dissertation exploits model systems of π-stacked chromophores such as perylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide) (PDI) and 3,6-bis(aryl)diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) to study these processes using ultrafast electronic and vibrational spectroscopy. In particular, the characterization...
- Keyword:
- excimers, diketopyrrolopyrrole, singlet fission, transient absorption spectroscopy, and vibrational spectroscopy
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Catherine McKay Mauck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Psychophysiological investigations of human sexuality have revealed more complexity than might be naively assumed. The sexual arousal patterns of heterosexual and homosexual men are relatively straightforward, with both groups showing substantial responses to erotic stimuli of their preferred sex and much smaller responses to their nonpreferred sex. Bisexual men, in...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Adam Safron
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This work is a collection of articles featuring applications of operations research primarily on solid organ transplantation. At the time of writing, 111,434 Americans were waiting for a liver or kidney transplant. Only 26,901 transplants were performed last year – a consequence of the scarcity of organ donors and the...
- Keyword:
- organ alllocation, geographic disparities, scale heterogeneity, and medical decision making
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Vikram Kilambi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Metallic nanowires have become functional elements in many electronic devices such as the latest fin-FET (field effect transistor) from Intel, which has metallization layers with pitch as small as 90nm, flexible electronics, touch screens and nanoelectromechanical systems. This wide applicability of nanowires warrants extensive characterization of their fundamental properties such...
- Keyword:
- Stress relaxation, Silver nanowires, Fatigue, Piezoactuation, High strain rate, and MEMS
- Subject:
- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Creator:
- Rajaprakash Ramachandramoorthy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- When granular materials with different properties (size, shape, density, etc.) flow, they tend to segregate. This research addresses a specific form of segregation (axial segregation) that occurs when size bidisperse granular mixtures flow inside a rotating cylindrical tumbler. Axial segregation is the formation of alternating bands of different particle species...
- Keyword:
- Particle Physics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Darius B. Wheeler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Penelopian Figures: Narratives of Work and Resistance in American Literature, 1840-1900” examines literary representations of workers who engage in covert opposition to their circumstances. In chapters on The Lowell Offering textile magazine, Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills, Louisa May Alcott’s “How I Went Out to Service” and...
- Keyword:
- Penelope, tactics, textile labor, workers, and gender
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Kara Arlene Johnson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation describes the fundamental studies of photoinduced charge-carrier transfer from colloidal metal chalcogenide quantum dots (QDs) to surface-adsorbed molecular redox partners. In addition, we also present the use of visible-light absorbing QDs in photocatalytic applications. CdS QDs are used as photocatalysts in a C-C coupling reaction, in which no...
- Keyword:
- Quantum Dots, Electron Transfer, Carrier Dynamics, and Photocatalysis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Kedy Edme
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Microprocessor Recruitment to RNA Polymerase II is Required for Differential Expression of MicroRNAs
- Description:
- The cellular abundance of mature microRNAs (miRNAs) is dictated by the efficiency of nuclear processing of primary miRNA transcripts (pri-miRNAs) into pre-miRNA intermediates. The Microprocessor complex, composed of Drosha and DGCR8 carries this out, but it has been unclear what controls Microprocessor's differential processing of various pri-miRNAs. Here, I show...
- Keyword:
- Molecular Biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Victoria Anne Church
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This work reports studies on the physical properties of collections of nanosheets. First, the configurations of graphene oxide sheets in solution are studied. Polarized optical microscopy reveals quickly and decisively that sheets remain flat and form lyotropic liquid crystals over a wide range of solvent conditions. When solvent conditions are...
- Keyword:
- exfoliated nanosheets, crumpling, ionic conductivity, nanofluidics, and graphene oxide
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Andrew Robert Koltonow
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- What are the origins of race-based affirmative action in college admissions? With only a few exceptions, there remain few evidence-based accounts of when and why such programs emerged among selective institutions of higher education; how heavily they weighed racial considerations; and how exactly race was taken into account. This paper...
- Keyword:
- open door and buffett
- Creator:
- Anthony Chen, Fiona Greenland, and Lisa Stulberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- 12-003
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- Description:
- This paper aims to understand how international legal harmonisation impacts legal certainty in countries where most of the economy is informal by examining how OHADA laws have been applied in Cameroon. It describes how the OHADA laws were developed internationally and applied locally and how the actors in two spheres...
- Keyword:
- legal certainty, OHADA, and buffett
- Creator:
- Gustav Kalm
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-005
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- Description:
- This article challenges the role that successive generations of EU scholars have granted to the transnational networks of European federalists in the process of European integration. Whereas a first wave of scholarship has claimed that they played a huge role in the process (1) by convincing states to change their...
- Keyword:
- buffett and European integration
- Creator:
- Martial Foucault and Gregoire Mallard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10-006
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- Description:
- The term Connected Vehicle (CV) is broadly used to identify any ‘smart vehicle’ with wireless connectivity to the roadside infrastructure and other vehicles. CVs that can be driven autonomously are called connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). With real-time communication and data transmission capability, CAVs have the potential to improve the transportation...
- Keyword:
- signal control, automated vehicles, travel time reliability, traffic flow theory, connected vehicles, and simulation
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering and Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Creator:
- Archak Mittal
- Owner:
- amz734
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The items in this publication are partially derived from presentations given at a symposium on Arabic Literature of Africa (ALA), at the Program of African Studies in November 2003. Also included is some detailed information on the contents of already published volumes (ALA I, II, IIIA, IV), and "Overviews" of...
- Keyword:
- Arabic and pas
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- John Hunwick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2005
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The discovery of efficient and accurate descriptions for the macroscopic constitutive behavior of heterogeneous materials with complex microstructure remains an outstanding challenge in mechanics. On the one hand, great accuracy can be achieved by modeling small domains of a material including all the details in the microstructure, however, at the...
- Keyword:
- Reduced-order homogenization, Data-driven methods, Nonlinear elasto-plasticity, Self-consistent clustering analysis, Material softening and damage, and Multiscale concurrent simulation
- Subject:
- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Creator:
- Zeliang Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Existing political science literature tells us that the common factors of political participation include factors such as civic skills, available free time, and income. However, few have expanded their studies to include to private politics, and to see what factors influence private political participation. Private political participation refers to “the...
- Keyword:
- Political Science
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Julia Valdes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates two different decision-making strategies, which I label “sub-dimensioning” versus “integration” that individuals employ to cope with feelings of ambivalence. “Sub-dimensioning” is defined as a strategy that involves lower-level construals where an ambivalent decision-maker represents and evaluates an attitude object in terms of its dimensions of evaluation, whereas...
- Keyword:
- Ambivalence, sub-dimensioning, dissonance, Coping strategy, Choice conflict, Need to decide, Consistency, and Integration
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Mi Jung Park
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- With the rapidly growing global demand in energy nowadays, innovation and technology become critical for a transition to renewable energy, high energy efficiency or low-carbon emission. Thin-film materials are especially favorable in energy management due to the easy integration into devices. The transport properties for heat and electrical conduction are...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Boya Cui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Rivers and streams are the corridors of material transport from land to sea. Solutes and particles experience a range of environments as they traverse the river network, many of which are highly reactive, and reaction rates are localized to specific regions. The interfacial region between the river and its underlying...
- Keyword:
- stochastic model, hyporheic exchange, bioturbation, sediment-water interface, and environmental transport
- Creator:
- Kevin R. Roche
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- first-price auctions, sample complexity, auctions, and revenue maximization
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Samuel Taggart
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In recent years, research has been conducted to develop Sequential, Multiple Assignment, Randomized Trial (SMART) designs. These experimental designs were created to aid in the construction of adaptive treatment strategies for individuals, particularly in medical contexts. Simultaneously, research has been done on developing the use of randomized trials to evaluate...
- Keyword:
- Statistics
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Rachel Ktsanes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Graphene and graphene oxide (GO), a highly oxidized form of graphene, are materials with incredibly interesting chemical and mechanical properties. These materials have high surface areas and electrical properties that can be tuned by reducing the amount of oxygenates on the surface. They have already demonstrated their importance in the...
- Keyword:
- Chemical Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- DelRae Haag
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Individuals commonly engage in collaborative behavior to more easily produce works of high societal impact. The effect of many individual characteristics such as age or gender on the effectiveness of a team is still unclear. Gender is especially pertinent because many professional settings are still far from gender parity, despite...
- Keyword:
- science of science, movie industry, gender diversity, bibliometrics, and scientific collaborations
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- João Amado Gomez Moreira
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Lewis acids are an important class of catalysts for chemical synthesis and manufacturing. Tris-(pentafluorophenyl)borane (FAB) catalyst has been discovered as an excellent Lewis acid catalyst for a great variety of reactions in organic and organometallic chemistry, particularly for alkoxylation reactions which is relevant to the industrial production of polyether alcohols....
- Keyword:
- Microkinetic modeling, Catalysis, Ring opening, DFT, Mechanism, and Lewis acid
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Ying Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) hybrid halide perovskites have emerged as front-runners in solar energy conversion applications with the potential to provide low-cost renewable energy. Being at the interface of chemistry, physics, materials science, and electrical engineering, the field of perovskite solar cells has become a top area of interest...
- Keyword:
- solar cells and perovskite
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Chan Myae Myae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While it is the ongoing growth in healthcare spending that has been making headlines, improving and maintaining healthcare quality is a critical goal of healthcare policy. In this dissertation I answer three questions relating to healthcare quality: does physician-hospital financial integration improves healthcare quality; how physician-hospital financial integration improves healthcare...
- Keyword:
- quality, healthcare, malpractice, and integration
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Amy Rebecca Wagner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation