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- The measurement of weak adhesive energies has previously been difficult to obtain. To measure these energies, I designed a technique that uses the combined sensitivities of both a quartz crystal resonator and the inflation of an elastomeric polymer membrane. The surfaces of the quartz crystal and/or the membrane are modified...
- Keyword:
- surface acoustic waves, polymer brushes, membranes, adhesion, permeability, and quartz crystal microbalance
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- David Alan Brass
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The adhesive strategies of living creatures are diverse, ranging from temporary to permanent adhesions with various functions such as locomotion, self-defense, communication, colony formation, and so on. The classic example of temporary adhesion is the gecko, which is known for its ability to walk along vertical and even inverted surfaces;...
- Keyword:
- single-molecule, layer-by-layer, material-independent, Mussel, dopamine, and gecko
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Haeshin Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The "Z-width" of a haptic display is the dynamic range of impedances that can be passively rendered. Haptic displays with larger Z-width generally render more realistic feeling virtual environments. The maximum passive impedance a haptic display can render is directly related to the quantity of physical damping in the mechanism,...
- Keyword:
- active electrical damping, haptic display, Z-width, and passivity
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- David W Weir
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Initiation is a performative model that dictates the participation of individuals in the various traditions of Western occultism, locating that individual within a nexus of practices and discourses that facilitate the transmission of occult teachings to that individual. While the act of initiation may be represented by a single performed...
- Keyword:
- Religion
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Jason Winslade
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- My thesis focuses on the design and synthesis of lanthanide coordination complexes as Zn(II)-responsive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. These agents produce an increase in MR intensity upon binding of Zn(II) through water modulation to Gd(III) chelates. To this end, several Zn(II)-responsive contrast agents have been synthesized and studied...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jody L Major
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Science education reform emphasizes learning science through inquiry as a way to engage students in the processes of science at the same time that they learn scientific concepts. However, inquiry involves practices that are challenging for students because they have underlying norms with which students may be unfamiliar. We therefore...
- Keyword:
- Education
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Carrie Teh-Li Tzou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation develops and estimates a dynamic model of consumer choice behavior in markets for seasonal (short lifecycle) goods where products have a finite selling season, consumer valuations change over time and availability is limited. In these markets, retailers often use dynamic markdown policies in which an initial retail price...
- Keyword:
- Strategic Behavior, Fashion, Retailing, Seasonal Goods, Dynamic Pricing, and Markdown Pricing
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Gonca Pinar Soysal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Operations Management (OM) is concerned with the processes involved in delivering goods and services to customers (Hopp and Spearman 2000, Shim and Siegel 1999). While recent surge in service and professional white collar work has greatly changed the arena of OM practice, OM research has not yet well address the...
- Keyword:
- Collaboration, Operations, and Network
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Fang Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Classical conditioning has been well studied over the last century as a method for investigating learning and memory. The rabbit eyeblink response is commonly used as a basis for such studies, and combined with lesions or electrophysiological recordings has provided a well-controlled paradigm for investigating the neurobiological mechanisms underlying learning...
- Keyword:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Michael J Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation reconstructs a critical dialogue between British modernists and their Spanish contemporaries on their shared sense of the urgent tasks, in the wake of World War I, of reimagining the cultural heritage of Europe and cultivating cosmopolitan sensibilities. It assembles and analyzes a network of novels, essays, translations, reviews,...
- Keyword:
- Spanish vanguardism, Cosmopolitanism, Journalism and Circulation, British modernism, English literature, and Europe
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Gayle Bishop Rogers
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- his dissertation traces the presence of early Soviet satire in several major prose works. My project examines Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Yuri Olesha's Envy, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit, and Mikhail Zoshchenko's prose trilogy (Youth Restored, The Sky-Blue Book and Before Sunrise) as literary works that incorporated and...
- Keyword:
- Russian Popular Culture, Soviet Reader, Soviet Satire, Soviet Mass Culture, Russian Modernism, and Soviet Literature
- Subject:
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Creator:
- Maria Isabel Kisel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Senescence, permanent, irreversible replication arrest that occurs in all primary cells studied to date, is considered a cellular model of aging. Recently, senescence has gained attention as a potential tumor-suppressing mechanism. However, despite the obvious importance of senescence, its exact mechanisms remain unclear. One current hypothesis to explain senescence postulates...
- Keyword:
- aging, p53, hyperoxia, senescence, and reactive oxygen species
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Tatyana A Klimova
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common supraventricular tachyarrhythmia and its prevalence is expected to increase with the aging population. However, the mechanisms AF initiation, maintenance and termination are not completely understood. The surface electrocardiogram (ECG) characteristics are a direct reflection of pathophysiologic events in the atria and can be...
- Keyword:
- Biomedical and Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Simona Petrutiu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- As we move into deeper sub-micron technologies, the complexity of pushing the circuit performance further is becoming an important obstacle. To achieve better performance, there is an increasing need for collaboration of higher level (e.g. microarchitecture-level) and circuit level optimizations. Traditionally for a computer system, applications lie at the top...
- Keyword:
- Adaptive Computer Architecture, Microarchitecture, User-aware Computing, and Holistic Architecture
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Arindam Mallik
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Synapses in the central nervous system vary widely in how they transmit and store information. The properties of short-term and long-term plasticity, in particular, seem to be specific for each class of synapse studied. The types of plasticity expressed at a particular synapse determine how it processes, transmits and possibly...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jason Pugh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Between 1569 and 1582, the inquisitorial court of the Cardinal Archbishop of Naples undertook a series of trials against a powerful and wealthy group of Spanish immigrants in Naples for judaizing, the practice of Jewish rituals. The immense scale of this campaign and the many complications that resulted render it...
- Keyword:
- New Christians, Catholic Church, Inquisition, Naples, and Italy
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Peter Akawie Mazur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Natural tissues can have complex architectures characterized by the organization of multiple cells into structures, such as branching networks of the vascular or nervous systems. This cellular organization arises, in part, from spatial patterns in the expression of soluble factors, which create concentration gradients that direct cellular processes during morphogenesis....
- Keyword:
- Chemical Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Tiffany L Ray
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation explores the ways that Chinese popular media, including film, television, and magazines, reconstruct the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76), a traumatic historical event which tremendously affected Chinese people and society. Employing a combination of methods, including visual and narrative analysis of media and cultural forms, institutional analysis of...
- Keyword:
- Cultural Revolution, popular memory, and Chinese media
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Li Zeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation concentrates on problems of quotation, tradition, and translation in the poetry of Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam. While examining the nature of poetic inheritance, Celan often refers to Russian poetry and, in particular, to Osip Mandelstam, who, in his turn, understands poetry as an essentially dialogic process. Both...
- Keyword:
- Literature
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Anna Glazova
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Live streaming media will form a significant fraction of Internet traffic in the near future. YouTube clips, animations and other video applications already account for more than sixty percent of Internet traffic and, at its current acceptance rate, streaming media could quickly surpass television in terms of the size of...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Stefan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals on inhibitory control tasks that measure suppression of irrelevant information. However, no mechanism is established for development of this advantage. Since bilinguals activate their languages in parallel during comprehension, they may face higher processing demands. As a result, they may recruit more cognitive...
- Keyword:
- Eye-Tracking, Stroop Task, Bilingualism, Negative Priming, Comprehension, and Inhibition
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders - Speech and Language Pathology
- Creator:
- Katina Henrike Blumenfield
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses the problem of the development of cities in Upper Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C.E. I investigate these cities through their settlement patterns and urban plans. I argue that these cities were not planned or organic, but exhibited degrees of planning. I treat my reconstruction of the...
- Keyword:
- magnetometry, bronze age, cities, harran, storage, and urban planning
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Andrew Theodore Creekmore III
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation investigates how a child can acquire the grammar of genericity and what it is that a child actually needs to learn in order to accomplish this task. The first step is to reframe the question asked by the previous literature on the acquisition of generics through the lens...
- Keyword:
- Language acquisition, VP-internal subject hypothesis, Syntax-semantics interface, Child language, and Generics
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Elisa Sneed German
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Nanoscale materials are demonstrating new properties and promising applications with each passing day. The fabrication of ever more complex and precise nanomaterials represents a continuing drive in the fields of physics, chemistry, and biology. Template-based approaches provide an attractive method of producing new inaccessible materials by modifying and confining older...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoparticles, Nanowells, and Tantalum Oxide
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jeremy Barton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis is a description of the measurement of the W boson mass using the D0 Run II detector with 770 pb^-1 of proton-antiproton collision data. These collisions were produced by the Tevatron at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV between 2002 and 2006. We use a sample of W -> e...
- Keyword:
- Tevatron, Precision Measurement, W Boson, Particle Physics, W Mass, and Z Boson
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Timothy Andeen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This paper covers three main topics. The first is addressing the question of interpolating between disparate index theorems on noncommutative two-tori. The second is to compute Hochschild cohomology for quantum special linear and special unitary groups. The third is producing an orthonormal basis for the vector space of matrix corepresentations...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Gary Clark Alexander
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Consumers often base their decisions on impressions of the overall price level of a store. For example, decisions of where to shop, whether to buy an item or keep looking for a better price, and whether to buy a more or less expensive option can all be influenced by whether...
- Keyword:
- Pricing, Retail, Buying, Vertical Extensions, Price image, and Browsing
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Ryan Hamilton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Temporal Features of Speech in the Auditory System: Normal and Dyslexic Children and an Animal Model
- Description:
- An amazing characteristic of the speech signal is that it contains a variety of temporal features that occur simultaneously in the signal, and each of these features provides unique and essential information for speech perception. An equally astonishing fact is that, in most cases, the human auditory system is able...
- Keyword:
- speech, language impairment, dyslexia, cortex, and temporal processing
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders - Learning Disabilities
- Creator:
- Daniel Abrams
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- There is a growing interest in both marketing and economics in the dynamics of decision-making. Researchers have proposed richer behavioral models of consumers and firms with the purpose of learning behavioral primitives that static models cannot capture. In these studies, models move away from stylized views of decision-making by explicitly...
- Keyword:
- Marketing and Business Administration
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Federico Rossi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis encompasses the work on bid-price controls for network revenue management and a dynamic model of revenue management with strategic consumers. The first line of research studies the circumstances under which bid-price controls are optimal or near optimal with minimal assumptions on the network topology and the stochastic structure...
- Keyword:
- strategic consumers, revelation principle, Bid prices, revenue management, sequential screening, and forward backward SDEs
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Mustafa Akan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The finite element method is used to investigate failure mechanisms in pin-hanger connections in aging highway bridges. Bridge pins and hangers are typically considered as critical elements whose failure may result in partial or entire collapse of the structure. The primary function of a pin-hanger connection is to allow for...
- Keyword:
- Civil Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- David Houcque
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Mixed emotions, defined as the experience of having positive and negative emotions concurrently, can occur in a variety of consumer contexts, ranging from common consumption episodes to important life events. However, while there have been many studies demonstrating the occurrence of mixed emotions, little is known about the downstream consequences...
- Keyword:
- construal level, mixed emotions, variety seeking, affect regulation, and affect as information
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Jiewen Hong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) is a membrane-bound metalloenzyme that oxidizes methane to methanol in methanotrophic bacteria. The nature of the pMMO active site and the overall metal content are controversial, with spectroscopic and crystallographic data suggesting the presence of a mononuclear copper center, a dinuclear copper center, a trinuclear center,...
- Keyword:
- methanotroph, particulate methane monooxygenase, membrane protein, and methanobactin
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Amanda S. Hakemian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- There is a growing interest in both marketing and economics in the dynamics of decision-making. Researchers have proposed richer behavioral models of consumers and firms with the purpose of learning behavioral primitives that static models cannot capture. In these studies, models move away from stylized views of decision-making by explicitly...
- Keyword:
- Marketing and Business Administration
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Federico Rossi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The extensive amount of maintenance expenditures on transportation infrastructure systems and their broad impacts in terms of economic and social development has emerged the interests in maintenance management of transportation infrastructure systems. This dissertation contributes an optimization framework for management of transportation systems that comprise of interdependent facilities. Existing stochastic,...
- Keyword:
- Demand responsiveness, Quadratic programming, Infrastructure Management, Maintenance optimization, and Transportation systems
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Pattharin Sarutipand
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Hedge funds' existence and activity have a dramatic impact on both financial markets and the real economy. The first chapter of this thesis analyzes the tradeoff between access to financing and disclosure of valuable trading information hedge funds are facing when interacting with their brokers. The next two chapters model...
- Keyword:
- Prime Brokers, Credit Default Swap, Hedge Fund, Creditor Board, Voting, and Capital Structure Strategy
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Ioan Florian I. Olaru
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This study examines how Cape Verdean theatre artists construct transformative performances of race, gender, language, and colonial history at the Mindelact International Theatre Festival on the Cape Verde Islands. The aim is to understand how international theatre festivals participate in the production and shaping of new social imaginaries about nationhood....
- Keyword:
- circulation, theatre, national identity, cape verde, festival, and africa
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Christina S Mchanon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a highly heterogeneous and pervasive developmental disorder that affects nearly 1 in 150 children. A primary indicator of ASD is behavioral language impairment with respect to social communication, but the neurophysiology behind this impairment is not well understood. Both the perception and production of prosody...
- Keyword:
- speech, neurophysiology, language, autism, and evoked potentials
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Nicole Monique Russo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Process scaling has enabled the production of integrated circuits with millions of transistors. System-on-a-Chip becomes feasible as more functionalities can be packed into a single chip. As the human brain power is limited, the design process of such sophisticated systems should be automated in order to meet the stringent design...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jia Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The rat whisker (vibrissal) system provides rats with an exquisitely acute tactile sense that has helped allow them to thrive all over the world. By actively rotating their whiskers back-and-forth ("whisking") against objects, rats can extract a rich variety of information including position, size, shape, orientation and texture. Today, however,...
- Keyword:
- robotic whisker, neuromechanics, sensorimotor control, tactile sensors, vibrissae, and active sensing
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Joseph Hai Solomon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- I study the problem of choice between two treatments for a population of observationally identical individuals based on statistical evidence about average treatment effects that does not reveal the best treatment with certainty. I approach the problem from the perspective of statistical decision theory, derive treatment rules that minimize maximum...
- Keyword:
- statistical decision theory, treatment choice, minimax regret, partial identification, and ambiguity
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Aleksey Tetenov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In the last two decades the number of innovative applications for advanced materials has been rapidly increasing. Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are an exciting class of these materials which exhibit large reversible stresses and strains due to a thermoelastic phase transformation. SMAs have been employed in the biomedical field for...
- Keyword:
- Shape memory alloys, Constitutive behavior, Porous materials, Cyclic loading, Simulations, and Phase transformation
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Michele Panico
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Teasing is commonplace in our social interactions (Kowalski, 2007). Due to its paradoxical nature it can be employed to produce both positive and negative outcomes (Keltner et al., 1998) however, the ambiguity and subjectivity in teasing can make it susceptible to misinterpretation (Kowalski, 2000; 2007; Kruger et al., 2006). The...
- Keyword:
- teasing communication
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Courtney Wright
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the management of operations that match surplus inventory of one party to meet the need of another. The first part is concerned with the efficient and robust design of transshipment networks in a commercial environment. The second part is concerned with a sequential resource allocation problem in...
- Keyword:
- Sequential Resource Allocation, Transshipments, and Inventory Management
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Robert W Lien
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Generalized extreme value (GEV) models provide a convenient way to model choice behavior that is consistent with utility maximization theory, but the development of specific new models within the GEV family has been slow, due to the difficulty of ensuring new formulations comply with all the GEV rules. The network...
- Keyword:
- GEV, discrete choice modeling, and networked generalized extreme value models
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Jeffrey Newman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The work presented here describes investigations into the interaction of resonant molecules with metallic nanoparticles by localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectroscopy. The contents of this thesis include the study of the coupling mechanism between molecular resonance and plasmon resonance from experimental and theoretical perspectives and applications of this mechanism...
- Keyword:
- Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jing Zhao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Late twentieth-century architecture is increasingly charged with the task of constructing sites of meaning that generate awareness and understanding in the wake of catastrophic historical events. My dissertation explores the challenges of memorializing these events, in order to recover the importance of memory for politics. Insisting on the role of...
- Keyword:
- memory, Walter Benjamin, judgment, space, memorial, and Hannah Arendt
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Uri Jacob Matatyaou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three empirical essays on issues related to Internet-based firms entering the offline channel. Issues arising from offline entry include the potential spillovers in online revenue, online customer acquisition, and online customer activity. Over the past decade, there has been considerable research examining brick $\&$ mortar companies...
- Keyword:
- Internet
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Manish Tripathi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The world's aquatic food webs are currently in crisis due to the cumulative, interacting effects of anthropogenic pressures including non-indigenous species invasions, chemical contamination, overfishing, habitat disruption and global climate change. Efforts to restore or protect the integrity and sustainability of these systems are limited by a lack of knowledge...
- Keyword:
- Invasive Species, Global Change, Bioaccumulation, and Food Web
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Carla Aparecida Ng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Racial disparities in cardiovascular health constitute one of the most pressing current public health problems in the United States. This dissertation examines how individual's cultural experiences of stress become embodied and contribute to these racial health inequalities. Anthropologists have traditionally approached culture through narrative ethnographic methods that are difficult to...
- Keyword:
- Physical and Anthropology
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Sweet
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The growing technological industry is demanding the development of powerful and smaller devices. Dielectric thin-films can play an important role to help push towards achieving these goals. However, their advantage of high-quality material and low material costs compared to bulk can only be achieved with consideration of the technique, conditions,...
- Keyword:
- Infrared Lasers, Surface Passivation, Dielectrics, Infrared Detectors, Optical Coatings, and Ion-beam Sputtering Deposition
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jean Nguyen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Learning to play an instrument requires the progressive tuning almost all of a student's senses. He trains his ears to hear consonance and dissonance and eyes to read sheet music or read other musicians' body language, for example. The protracted training that is required to become a musician has been...
- Keyword:
- EEG, Plasticity, Language, Speech, Brainstem, and Music
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders - Speech and Language Pathology and Learning Disabilities
- Creator:
- Gabriella Musacchia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The average and local glass transition temperatures (Tgs) and physical aging behavior of various confined polymers were studied in order to gain an understanding of these surface/interface effects and their propagation into the polymer. Using a novel multilayer/fluorescence method, the Tgs of layers at the free surface, substrate-polymer interface, and...
- Keyword:
- Engineering and Chemical
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Perla Rittigstein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The early transition metal oxide fluoride molecular anions with the general formula [MOxF6-x]n- with x = 1 for M = V5+, Nb5+, Ta5+ (n = 2) and x = 2 for M = Mo6+, W6+ (n = 2) feature distorted octahedral coordinations, that arise from electronic dπ pπ metal oxide...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Michael Robert Marvel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Biological fouling of surfaces is problematic for many medical applications because proteins, cells and bacteria can impair the function of devices and lead to catastrophic complications. Numerous strategies exist for reducing fouling in physiological environments; the strategy described in this thesis focuses on the modification of substrates with poly-N-substituted glycine...
- Keyword:
- nonfouling, polypeptoids, surface modification, Antifouling, mussel adhesive proteins, and surface characterization
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Andrea Ruth Statz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Plants, animals, and yeast have the capacity to produce and accumulate neutral lipids, sterol esters and triacylglycerol (TAG). However, their accumulation and the genes underlying their synthesis in intracellular microorganisms are poorly understood. Plasmodium falciparum is a parasitic protozoan that causes the most virulent form of human malaria. During erythrocytic...
- Keyword:
- Plasmodium, Neutral Lipids, Cholestrol Esters, Salmonella, Triacylglycerol, and SseJ
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Parwez Nawabi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Novel materials and nanostructures with superior electro-mechanical properties are emerging in the development of novel devices. Engineering application of these materials requires accurate electro-mechanical characterization, which in turn requires development of novel experimental techniques. This dissertation outlines the investigation of the mechanical and electrical properties of one-dimensional nanomaterials. One-dimensional nanomaterials...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Thin Film, Nanomaterial, Mechanical Property, and MEMS
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Bei Peng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As Wilfrid Sellars put it, one of the principal aims of philosophy "is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term." In this I think Sellars is right: the discipline is charged with taking a "synoptic...
- Keyword:
- Idealism, Heidegger, Realism, Common Sense, and Pluralism
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Howard Michael Kaplan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the participation of tens of thousands of African-American servicemen in the occupation of Japan and the Korean war. It poses three questions: how were black servicemen incorporated into a postwar military empire; how did they help shape their nation's expanding Asian protectorate; and how did they understand...
- Keyword:
- History and United States
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Michael Cullen Green
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In Muslim West Africa, food-producing villages also produced literate scholars. This study examines how such unlikely intellectuals acquired and gave meaning to Islamic knowledge through one village's experience from 1900 to the 1960s. Unlike the colonial sources underlying conventional approaches to West African Islam, libraries and oral sources from Ruumde...
- Keyword:
- Islam, Literacy, and Mali
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Jeremy Brandt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The purpose of this mixed methods study was to learn about the ways that instrumental music teachers in Chicago navigate the urban landscape. The design of the study most closely resembles Creswell and Plano Clark's (2007) two-part Triangulation Convergence Mixed Methods Design, with the addition of an initial exploratory focus...
- Keyword:
- mixed methods, urban, music education, Chicago, music teaching, and instrumental music
- Subject:
- Music Education
- Creator:
- Kate R. Fitzpatrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We consider two problems in low Reynolds-number, interfacial fluid mechanics: the rupture of thin liquid films on chemically patterned solid substrates, and the engulfment of foreign particles by a solidification front progressing through a binary alloy. First we investigate the stability and rupture of thin liquid films on patterned sub-...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Justin Kao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation formulates, solves and estimates dynamic stochastic games to answer various questions that arise in Industrial Organization. First chapter is a "theoretic" investigation of learning-by-doing and organizational forgetting that shows them to be distinct economic forces whose interplay gives rise to aggressive pricing behavior, market dominance, and multiple equilibria....
- Keyword:
- dynamic, organization, game, industrial, stochastic, and MPE
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Yaroslav Kryukov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation we analyze the decision process of firms and individuals along two dimensions which are central to the field of asset pricing and macroeconomics. In the first chapter, we study the pricing decision of the firm in a framework where customer base matters. Surveys of managers show that...
- Keyword:
- Finance
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Yizhaq Kleshchelski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- B_s mixing studies provide a precision test of Charge-Parity violation in the Standard Model. A measurement of deltaMs constrains elements of the CKM quark rotation matrix, providing a probe of Standard Model Charge-Parity violation. This thesis describes a study of B_s mixing in the semileptonic decay B_s -> D_s mu...
- Keyword:
- Physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Meghan Anzelc
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study examines rhetorical practices through which disenfranchised women developed tenable political identities and integrated themselves into the public realm in the Pacific Northwest between 1868 and 1912. Through close analysis of rhetorical activities in which thousands of women participated--including club discourse, public commemoration, legal advocacy, petition work, and publication--it...
- Keyword:
- woman's rights, social movements, Washington, rhetoric, suffrage, and Oregon
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Cindy Koenig Richards
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Embryonic stem cells have the potential to differentiate into ectodermal, mesodermal and endodermal derivatives. This property makes them a valuable source of tissue specific progenitor and differentiated cells that can be used for cell replacement therapy. The first goal of this thesis is to test if cardiogenesis from embryonic stem...
- Keyword:
- Cardiomyocytes, Cellular Cardiomyoplasty, Myocardial Infraction, Techniques, Stem Cells, and Cardiac Lineage
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Achuta K Guddati
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Rare events are studied in an increasing number of areas, ranging from lightwave and optical communication systems, to industrial routing problems, to rogue ocean waves, to financial asset pricing, to the rare failure of something as common as Gaussian elimination, as well as numerous others. In optical communication systems, a...
- Keyword:
- solitons, NLS, rare events, cross entropy method, and SVD
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Graham Mauch Donovan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The homotopy groups of bo^tmf are shown to be isomorphic to the homotopy groups of a wedge of suspensions of spectra related to integral Brown-Gitler spectra. We will then restate Mahowald's proof of the topological splitting of bo^bo and subsequently apply similar techniques to construct a map that realizing the...
- Keyword:
- integral Brown Gitler spectra, tmf, and Tate spectrum
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Scott MIchael Bailey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The human brain shows great flexibility to adjust itself to dynamically ever-changing environment. Despite more than 100 years of cognitive brain research, the dynamical aspect of cognitive process has remained poorly understood compared to the static aspect of that. This dissertation concerns the dynamic character and functional significance of periodically...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Yee Joon Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Eukaryotic gene transcription is a coordinated process involving the participation of a large number of proteins. Sequence-specific DNA-binding transcription factors function as activators or repressors of transcription and frequently recruit transcriptional coregulators that lack specific DNA-binding activity. These multi-protein complexes with intrinsic chromatin-modifying and chromatin-remodeling activities have emerged as key...
- Keyword:
- Biophysics
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Yuan He
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We use transverse sound spectroscopy to probe excited states of the Cooper pairs in the B-phase of superfluid 3He. In particular we study those excited states with non-zero energy at zero momentum, the so called gapped, or exciton, modes. This includes precise measurements of the imaginary squashing mode energies as...
- Keyword:
- transverse sound, superfluid, excited state, helium, and collective mode
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- John Patrick Davis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Both individual and institutional investors face a number of constraints in their consumption and investment decisions. We look at well-motivated constraints on the consumption process as well as liquidity constraints and study their impact on optimal consumption and investment policies under a dynamic discrete time setting.
- Keyword:
- investment, optimization, liquidity, portfolio, consumption, and non-decreasing
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Amit Vijay Bhandari
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The use of composites is increasing as they afford scientists and engineers the ability to combine the advantageous properties of each constituent phase, e.g. metal ductility and ceramic stiffness. With respect to materials design, biomimetics is garnering increasing attention due to the complex, yet efficient, natural microstructures. One such biomimetic,...
- Keyword:
- silicon carbide, mechanical properties, composite, elastic behavior, fracture, and aluminum
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Thomas E Wilkes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- My primary interest is in markets as aggregators of information. To study this I create a benchmark market-microstructure model of sequential trading on posted prices. I have a competitive market maker and rational profit-maximizing traders with different tastes over a single asset and heterogeneous information over its value. The differences...
- Keyword:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Konstantinos E Zachariadis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A dynamic model of the rolling process that includes the material strain-hardening and work roll flattening effects was developed based on homogeneous deformation theory. By coupling this new dynamic rolling process model with a structural model for a mill stand, a single-stand chatter model expressed through a state-space representation was...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Huyue Zhao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Visual object tracking, i.e. consistently inferring the motion of a desired target from image sequences, is a must-have component to bridge low-level image processing techniques and high-level video content analysis. This has been an active and fruitful research topic in the computer vision community for decades due to both its...
- Keyword:
- Context-awareness, Visual Attention, Computer Vision, Multiple Target Tracking, Video Processing, and Visual Tracking
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Ming Ying
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation analyzes how individuals choose college majors. The choice of college major is treated as one made under uncertainty. Understanding any decision under uncertainty requires one to study how expectations and preferences are used to make the choice. However, since observed choices may be consistent with many combinations of...
- Keyword:
- expectations, education, and social interactions
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Basit Zafar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The automobile coating industry is undergoing reformation driven by environmental regulations that demand low content of volatile organic compounds. Traditional solvent-borne acrylic resins consisting of high molecular weight polymers that are produced at low temperatures (< 80 C) need high levels of organic solvent (70%) to be processed as coatings....
- Keyword:
- quantum, acrylate, modeling, polymerization, and kinetic
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Xinrui Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Copper serves as a cofactor for many proteins and enzymes involved in important biological processes, but at the same time, excessive copper is toxic to cell. Thus, the intracellular copper concentration must be tightly controlled such that copper is provided to essential enzymes but does not accumulate to toxic levels....
- Keyword:
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Yi Xue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-21
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Finite element methods for the simulation of dynamic fracture in plane and thin shell structures and their application to quasi-brittle fracture problems are presented. The method is based on the extended finite element method (XFEM) and is incorperated within an explicit time integration scheme. The method is implemented using 4-node...
- Keyword:
- extended finite element method, XFEM, shell, quasi-brittle, and dynamic fracture
- Subject:
- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Creator:
- Jeong-Hoon Song
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A current challenge to the civil/environmental engineering field is to assist full-scale wastewater treatment facilities through wider use of advances in modeling methods and analytical techniques. To address this challenge I applied modeling tools and, with assistance, the molecular biology analytical method of Fluorescent In-Situ Hybridization (FISH) to the high...
- Keyword:
- wastewater, modeling, and biological aerated filter
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- George Brian Sprouse
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Consumers' willingness-to-pay can change over time and can change differently for different consumers. Rational and forward-looking consumers incorporate this into their decision making. This dissertation examines the implication of such change in several dynamic IO settings. The first chapter looks at a durable goods monopoly setting where consumers' valuations decline...
- Keyword:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Zhiyun Xu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on the contribution of Joseph Addison and his London newspaper The Spectator to the modern "social imaginaries" (Charles Taylor) of public, market and nation. Addison's championing of perspicacity in prose and detachment in aesthetic judgment created protocols of "stranger sociality" (Michael Warner) that made participation in these...
- Keyword:
- social imaginaries, Joseph Addison, public sphere, spectatorship, history of rhetoric, and British public address
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Jon Leon Torn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-29
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How can political challengers avoid co-optation and other forms of moderation? This dissertation illuminates how institutional participation led to the co-optation of the Indigenous Australian movement and the factors which equipped the Ecuadorian Indígena movement to elude a similar fate. Most contestants in political struggles must at some point consider...
- Keyword:
- government social control, institutional versus extrainstitutional participation, political process theory, agency-structure debate, protest, and social movement theory
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Karen Dawn Smith Stegen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation analyzes the transformation of fantasy sports from a deviant, outside-the-mainstream fan culture to a billion-dollar industry that comprises almost 20 million North American participants. Fantasy sports are games in which participants adopt the simultaneous roles of owner, general manager, and coach of their own teams of real athletes...
- Keyword:
- sports, popular culture, audience studies, and fan culture
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Ben Shields
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A major challenge in the field of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of safety-critical structures is how to effectively and efficiently detect fatigue damage, especially before there is macrocrack initiation. In this dissertation, a local ultrasonic technique is developed to assess pre-crack fatigue damage in structures. The novel feature of this...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Sun Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-02-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Despite three decades of intense research into small diameter blood vessel tissue engineering, constructs developed to date lack the elastin necessary for long term patency and the prevention of aneurysms. The suboptimal biochemical composition suggests that new biochemical and mechanical culture methods must be developed. In addition, current biomaterials for...
- Keyword:
- elastomer, biomaterials, vascular graft, tissue engineering, and bioreactor
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Antonio Roy Webb
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- PilD is an enzyme that processes prepilins that are part of the type II protein secretion apparatus and the type IV piliation machinery. Using a <em>Legionella pneumophila pilDlacZ</em> fusion strain to measure transcription, we observed a 20% increase in beta-galactosidase levels at 30°C vs. 37°C. At 25°C and 17°C vs....
- Keyword:
- Microbiology and Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Maria Soderberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses the structure of the group of interval exchange transformations. The two primary topics considered are: a) the classification of interval exchange actions for certain groups; and b) properties of the interval exchange group which are reflected in the dynamics of interval exchange maps. In Chapter 3 a...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Christopher Novak
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines performance and textual techniques used by American and British artists to provoke discussion about the politics of viewing. I theorize a model of spectatorship which exposes the race and gender symbolism of actors' and spectators' bodies and its effects on meaning-making in the performer-spectator encounter. In contrast...
- Keyword:
- Theatre and Drama
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Stefka Georgieva Mihaylova
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Although anxiety and depression are clearly distinct from a phenomenological perspective, discriminating these constructs empirically has often been difficult (Clark & Watson, 1991). Both the tripartite model of psychopathology (Clark & Watson, 1991) and the cognitive content-specificity hypothesis (Beck, 1976; Beck & Clark, 1988) were forwarded in an effort to...
- Keyword:
- psychopathology, tripartite, Children, and cognitive
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jesse Klein Benjamin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation constitutes a re-evaluation of the popular and critical understanding of eighteenth-century libertinage. In particular, I contest the distinction between sentimentalism and libertinage, which are typically seen as two, irreconcilable approaches to emotional expression. As sentimentalism became prominent in the second half of the eighteenth century, I argue, it...
- Keyword:
- libertinage, eighteenth-century literature, Casanova, Vivant Denon, France, and Mirabeau
- Subject:
- French and Italian
- Creator:
- Bradley Reichek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Researchers have long recognized that schools are powerful environments for shaping students' worldview and identity. The structured content, activities, and resultant culture of schools profoundly impact the way in which students learn to make sense of the world around them. In the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community this function of schooling is...
- Keyword:
- worldview, Jewish Studies, socialization, activity, and cognition
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Moshe Krakowski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This project argues that displays of humanist learning in diplomacy served to demonstrate the extraordinary good will of the Florentine regime towards a host ruler. I call this act of surpassing previous oratorical gestures a "cultural gift". Although the singular goal of humanism in diplomacy remained offering cultural gifts in...
- Keyword:
- Oratory, Gift, Florence, Diplomacy, Renaissance, and Humanism
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Brian Maxson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The use of cluster randomized experiments to study the effects of treatments on groups of subjects has increased in recent years. Many of these experiments lack the necessary statistical power to detect practically meaningful effects of treatment. One method for improving power in cluster randomized experiments that has been advanced...
- Keyword:
- intracluster correlation coefficient, external information, and cluster randomized experiments
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Christopher H Rhodes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We present several multiscale quantum mechanical (QM), molecular mechanical (MM), and continuum mechanical (CM) schemes to study the strength properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene sheets. A bridging domain method based on overlapping domain-decomposition schemes using the Lagrange multipliers field is developed to couple an atomistic domain with a...
- Keyword:
- Engineering and Mechanical
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Roopam Khare
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The current trend of ceramic nanotechnology has motivated an ever-increasing need to achieve exquisite control over size, shape, and spatial confinement for functional oxide architectures, in an equivalent manner demonstrated for semiconductors. However, the unique nature of ceramics has posed major challenges for most traditional nanofabrication technologies, putting the development...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Zixiao Pan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The proper distribution of cellular organelles and protein complexes is important for maintaining cellular organization and function. Transport in eukaryotic cells requires three motor proteins, kinesin, dynein, and myosin, attached to specific cargoes mostly by adaptor proteins. This work focuses on the mechanism of microtubule-dependent organelle transport in vivo. This...
- Keyword:
- Cell Biology
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Hwajin Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Integrated circuits have been continuously scaled to increase speed and integration density as a means to improve the performance or pack more functionality. However, an extremely enormous amount of effort is needed to further scale the dimensions in deep submicron technologies. As technology scaling is slowing down and design complexity...
- Keyword:
- Caches, Global Interconnect Link, Many-Core Microprocessors, 3D Integrated Circuits, Dynamic Stability, and TSV Model
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- DiaaEldin Khalil
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- Many-Core Microprocessors
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation